Mark Bell's Power Project - Power Project EP. 103 - Digging For Goals The Episode

Episode Date: August 29, 2018

Following up on our Prequel to Digging for Goals, we're going live today to talk about an awesome question that came in. We're diving into will power, setting goals, obtaining goals, setting new ones and the power of consistency. Rewatch the live stream: https://youtu.be/ULb1xH8OC10 ➢SHOP NOW: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots ➢Subscribe Rate & Review on iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-bells-power-project/id1341346059?mt=2 ➢Listen on Stitcher Here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mark-bells-power-project?refid=stpr ➢Listen on Google Play here: https://play.google.com/music/m/Izf6a3gudzyn66kf364qx34cctq?t=Mark_Bells_Power_Project ➢Listen on SoundCloud Here: https://soundcloud.com/markbellspowerproject FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell Follow The Power Project Podcast ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MarkBellsPowerProject Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz

Hello? What's going on, Mark? Hey, what's up, man? Are we live and shit? We are live and shit. Oh my god. This is kind of fun for me today because I got my family is here. I got a bunch of people from out of town

because it's my dad's 70th birthday coming up. So that's all the people with all these accents. Yep. I know they talk weird. Everyone's short and stubby. Everybody kind of looks like a power lifter or they want to look like a power lifter or not. Especially my cousin, Steven. I don't know. He claims he never works out, but it looks like all he does all day is squats and shrugs. He's thick. He's bottom heavy. I've been looking at him for a

while. You've been sizing up those calves. Yeah. All calves. All of you are all calves. I don't know. I don't know what calves. I don't know. I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened to some of us. But yeah, it's awesome to have everybody here. And this will be cool to share this podcast with them. And we'll have some great times. Come here to the gym, kill ourselves a little bit for those that want to get involved and

see what we do here at Super Training. Be kind of cool. Absolutely. for those that want to get involved and see what we do here at super training be kind of cool absolutely today we're going to talk about uh we're going to talk about some goals and we had a question just on the last podcast about how to even set goals and i don't know certain things that i've never even thought about just because uh i think i've been busy doing shit. So I never kind of sat around to really think about how these things came to be, or I never sat down and tried to necessarily plan anything out. It just, shit just unfolded. I lifted for a really long time, and lifting was the only thing I was ever good at.

It was the only thing that ever fulfilled me. It was the only thing that really ever made me feel special, ever really separated me out from other things. I played baseball. I played football. I did track. I was pretty good at a lot of different things. Uh, lifting was, uh, you know, like some, like some kid at four years old, five years old plays the piano. And, uh, it's clear that he's better than everybody else. Uh, when it came to lifting, um, I started out a little bit ahead of everybody and it just always felt right. And anytime I veered away from it, it felt wrong. Um, even just, even sometimes just for days at a time, just to even take a break from it, uh, never felt right. So I always just kind of kept doing it. And, uh, it took me a really

long time to identify what I was actually really doing. Uh, but when I look back on it now, I can clearly see that I was, uh, I'll use the word sacrifice and hopefully that's not too extreme of a word for people to understand because I realized that me lifting weights is not an actual sacrifice. You know, I understand that people make much larger sacrifices in their life, but I'll just use the word sacrifice at a convenience. Uh, I was sacrificing for the unknown. I was suffering for the unknown. I was building myself up for, was to come. And what was to come was where we're at now inside this 23,000 square foot facility where we have a free gym and we pump out, quote unquote, free content that probably cost me upwards of a quarter million dollars a year. words of a quarter million dollars a year just a random rough number but it's probably on the low end uh if i'm really being serious about it because of how many people we employ uh and how much time and effort actually goes into giving out this information uh this podcast is not monetized

the podcast used to be monetized we were headed uh into making about two hundred thousand dollars a year through advertising. And I got rid of all that, threw all that away because it didn't feel right. And I wanted to get back to the roots of this thing that was sharing information, having it be fun, and communicating with people without there being advertising everywhere. Even though you can see some of my products are right here. And my theory on all that is it just all comes back around, whether it's direct, indirect, however you want to look at it. Um, and, uh, you know, maybe I'm not correct. I don't know. And if somebody came in and looked at the numbers, they would be like, what do you, what are we doing here?

You know, but, uh, a lot of these things just, they, it's just kind of a natural progression. Um, the resistance that I've faced in the gym, I didn't really realize was going to be, uh, a huge part of my success later on. I didn't really realize that, uh, when I did a set of 10, I didn't really realize that was going to transfer over into having repetition after repetition after repetition of telling of people telling me I was dumb, people telling me I wasn't good enough, people telling me that I wasn't smart enough or wasn't good enough to do this job or wasn't good enough to do that job. Or I fit into a very specific role that they maybe had set out for me to do or set out for me to be.

I didn't realize that all the lifting all these years was setting me up to be my own person and to not subscribe to what other people had in their head of what they thought I should do. And so when we're talking about goals, a lot of this gets really confusing because, uh, I never really had, I had dreams, but I didn't really have goals. Um, I always wanted to be wealthy from the time I was a kid. I don't know why I was attracted to it, but I remember being like seven, eight years old. And I told my dad, I want to live in a castle and I don't have a castle yet, but I'm still working on it. Um, I don't know why I just always thought that would be cool.

And I guess that was a dream that later kind of turned into a goal. Um, when you were younger, did you have like the, uh, like, um, what's, I can't think of the word, but like right now my daughter, like if I tell her like oh, you have like $100, she doesn't understand that it's $100 or a million dollars. Yeah. Like, did you have that like in your head that you knew like the value of money when you were a kid? So here's where shit gets to be really cool, especially having my family right here is, and especially my cousin wearing the shirt that he's wearing right now, is that I grew up around marketing and I had no idea. I had no clue. I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know that was such a big part of my life.

And then people later on are like, how'd you come up with these concepts and ideas? And I'm like, I don't know. They just hit me. And then it was literally about a year or two ago where I sat down and actually thought about it more. I'm like, where did this stuff come from? Cause I had a college student interview me and they're like, where do you think some of this creativity came from? And where do you think some of these things stem from? And I was like, you know, I, I think I have to go back to my childhood where, uh, a life was provided for me where I didn't have to worry about where my next meal was coming

from. A lot of comfort, a lot of love, a lot of really amazing times spent with my cousins, spent with my relatives, and it was at my grandparents' house. And I remember those days being like, there'd be a couple of kids playing wiffle ball. There'd be a couple of kids playing basketball. Somebody would always be doing something that they're not supposed to be doing. Somebody might randomly have like a sledgehammer. Somebody might randomly have a screwdriver and they might be, you know, digging into the concrete or doing something weird, but it all just worked out. And there, there wasn't a ton of, um, the parents were involved. I mean, our, our aunts and

uncles, they were there. A lot of times they were orchestrating the games and different things that we did, but a lot of times they would go inside, maybe they would eat and we would still be out there just doing whatever. And so we had the opportunity to just think and dream and to do whatever. And a lot of times I was by myself, just chucking a football up in the air for the longest time in the family. I was the youngest person in the entire family for a really long time. And so I was just kind of always off on the side doing something until my cousin Kyle later came along. And that was part of the reason why when Kyle came along that I ended up playing with him so much, because I remember, you know, as everybody else got older, you know, I was just like out

there throwing the football to myself. And so I was like, I'm just going to play with him until he gives up. And I didn't realize how hard that was to deal with someone that's three or four or five. They want to be out there forever. So a lot of that stuff is stuff that I grew up around. My grandfather, he built his own, you know, people, I think they always think that we're moving forward. And I think that we're actually moving backwards. My grandfather, you know, people, I think they always think that we're moving forward. And I think that we're actually moving backwards. My grandfather, you know, built a car. He built a car that still runs to this day, uh, which is incredible. Like from scratch though, right?

Like, I don't know exactly how, how he did it. These guys probably have some insight in how and how he did it and everything. But, uh, to paint a picture of it for you it has a it has a keg as its gas tank you know that's awesome but he also built his own house and then when it comes to uh when it comes to my dad my dad's pretty handy he knows how to do a lot of things um he would probably be able to figure out how to like build his own house but then me and my brothers we wouldn't have any clue on how to even where to start and i was probably the least handy out of everybody i i just i don't know what the hell's going on with my car if something breaks

in my car just buy a new one because i'm like i don't know i'm not gonna bother trying to figure this out and somebody might say oh you just need a new battery you know i just have no idea when it when it comes to those things but i was already around people that were creative and people who had um you know a grandfather in some way i guess was like a genius because he sold used cars and he had to figure out how do i make this car look better how do i make this boat look better whatever it was he was selling he had to figure out how uh it can run better and how it can look good enough for him to get it off his lot.

So he kind of keep moving forward. My dad worked for IBM for 20 plus years and was released from that job after putting in a lot of time and a lot of effort, worked his way up the corporate ladder, did everything like bled for that company. And then when it was time for them to make a business decision, boom, he was gone. And so that was a huge lesson that I also kind of didn't realize unfolded in front of my eyes. I mean, we went from having a lot of money to living in a house. We had a, like a basketball court. We had a pool. We had all the weights that

you can possibly imagine to being all the way kicked down to live in a trailer, you know? So we, we kind of went full circle with, uh, with finances, but what was always remaining and was always standing there the entire time was my grandfather was always marketing his business. When I got a little older, he, you know, he stopped doing that cause he just wasn't as active with that. And then my dad with his own business, every time my dad would, you know, name the company something Bell financial services, he would make a hat. He'd make a shirt and he'd give it to his friends. He would, he would, uh, put money into the booster club at our high, at our local high school or local local whatever school. And then he would put his logo on it.

He did it with everything all the time. His license plate said, buy a house. And then everyone knew he was a real estate person. Our mailbox was this giant, embarrassing thing that said like bell on it and huge letters. He had it like welded that way. And then underneath it, it said like real estate and taxes or something like that. And I was always just like, Oh my God, this is, this is, this is, uh, so like gaudy and, uh, ridiculous, but our home, uh, my dad worked from home. People didn't work from home back then. That was, that was different. Uh, you didn't really see that,

but he did tax after tax after tax after tax. The other thing I remember as a kid, and this was just really cool for me to, like, I don't know, talk to my dad about. And you were asking a question about, you know, the hundred bucks and 80 bucks and how exciting that is when you're a kid. Yeah. I remember my dad, he would like knock on the door of like our weight room, which was connected to, uh, where he did his taxes. So he's working on one end and I'm working on the other. Yeah. And he'd come over and he would knock and he would be like, okay.

He's like, you've been in here for 45 minutes. He's like, I just made 150 bucks, you know? And then he would, he would like, you know, leave and he'd come back and he's like, I made another 150 bucks, you know? So you tell me how much money he made or he would like, give me the money at the end of the day. And like, I'd add it up and I'd be all excited. I'd be like, oh, this is cool. Then I remember one day in particular, I'm looking at like where these checks are coming from and they all say bell on them. And I'm like, dad, this is like our own family i was like this you know and a lot of it

was like either either family or friends and i'm like you make money off of our own family and our own friends he goes yeah isn't it great he's like he's like this is amazing so some of that like marketing stuff and some of those things they were were kind of always there. And the reason why I'm bringing up so much of that backstory is so that people understand. You always need to understand where people's starting point is. So for me to make some of the jumps that I made, maybe they weren't as big of courageous, crazy leaps as you may think. Maybe there was things previously set up that allowed me to be more comfortable with making those jumps because I had maybe a skill set that didn't just fall out of the sky, but was around me and surrounded me from the time I was a kid. When it comes to actually trying to figure out how to set goals, I'm not a huge fan of setting goals. I'm more of

a fan of, uh, making a checklist because a checklist is an easier thing to accomplish. A goal can sometimes be daunting and it can sometimes give you a lot of, uh, anxiety. The things that give us anxiety are things that, uh, happened yet right a lot of times it's just it's uh the unknown it's the unknown it's tomorrow it's like uh you know it might happen what could happen right a checklist is a lot more foolproof and if you said even if you're even if your checklist looks a little bit like a goal uh let's just say you uh are a personal trainer and you want to just, you're like, I just want to figure out how to make a little bit more money.

Well, why not just take that dialogue, write it down and say, I want to pick up one more client this month. Just start with that. Start with something small. Start with something easy. Just start with that. Start with something small. Start with something easy. I learned those lessons in the gym. I tell people all the time in seminars, you're not going to get thrown in jail for doing things the right way. But the way that people lift, you would think that they are going to get thrown in jail.

Because they want to always add weight. And it's like, why are we adding resistance to something that you haven't performed properly in the first place? Why don't we go back and make sure we do this the right way before we start talking about you, you know, lifting 300 pounds, 400 pounds, 500 pounds. You do things the right way and you end up in a spot a lot faster than you ever anticipated or that you ever saw when you did your 205 pound bench the other day you had no idea of your strength level but that was like a 20 pound bench pr which kind of seems like it came out of nowhere but yeah but it didn't because we've been doing the reps the right way we we actually abandoned like we we abandoned strength a little bit we we went after just doing it the right way we focused in and honed in on other things and as a result you got stronger

because we weren't chasing you don't chase goals you don't chase um this is said to me in a seminar one time i'll never forget it was uh uh by mikhail Kokylev, who is a seven-time Russian champion in Olympic weightlifting, one of the strongest men to ever walk the face of the earth, a strongman competitor, a powerlifter, just an absolute animal. And he took a ring that was hanging from the ceiling that the CrossFitters use for gymnastics moves. And he took the ring and he grabbed it and he pulled it towards him. And he says, ring, this ring represents pretty woman. He goes, take pretty woman, pull her towards you and watch what happens.

And he let it go. And the ring, sure enough enough swung away from him and he goes pull pretty woman towards you she go away he goes push pretty woman away and she comes towards you so these things can't be forced right these things can't be they can't you can't like you can't uh force trying to be great right you can't you can't force trying to be great, right? You can't force these things. They have to be a progression over a period of time of your actions and your thoughts aligning with the goals that you set out to do. And the thing to remember about goals, these are the things that you said that you wanted to do. So when you're thinking, oh my God, this sucks.

Well, remember who set that up in the first place? It was you. It was you that set it up. When I'm doing my cardio in the morning and I'm on the freaking Stairmaster for 45 minutes, I'm the one who set up that goal. So even if it's something that I don't necessarily want to do, I got to talk myself to get through it. This whole thing, everything when it comes to success always comes down to this one simple fact of you have to force yourself to do the things that you don't want to

do when you normally don't want to do them. And you're going to have to abandon things that are fun. You're going to have to abandon, uh, loved ones. You're going to have to abandon fun, food, drinking. Like there's going to be stuff that you have to be like, you know what? I, I gotta go. And if you think about that, you do that in your everyday life anyway. So it's really just a matter of stepping it up a notch. It's a matter of making a priority. When it comes to some of these things, when it comes to these goals, things can be spread out over a period of time. So it's not like you have to try to get to that goal that day. So you don't want to be a maniac about it to the point where you shut everybody else out

there's going to have to be some there's going to have to be some uh give and take and then plus you can't have which some which is the most important piece of this puzzle is consistency if you're going to go after it like a maniac you can't have any consistency if now you're getting resistance from your wife who's supposed to be like kind of your biggest supporter but you're neglecting that relationship or you're neglecting your children you're neglecting your dad or your mom or some of these other people well now you got everything just really really pulling you down and now now you really have a problem because now you're going to be stressed out you're kind of turning into a different person.

The reason why I know about these kinds of things is I've been trapped by them before. You know, I had a goal to squat 1,100 pounds. I had a goal to bench press 600 pounds. I've had these huge goals that are, you know, in some way like irrational, right. But, and it takes an irrational mindset to try to hang on to those goals in the face of adversity, in the face of, uh, many injuries, many torn pecs and this and that. Um, but you, you, you have to have, there has to be a point where we go back and we look at trying to balance things out. Well watch like a NASCAR race or something, right? They have to keep, they got to keep changing the tires out, right? The car is going to become unbalanced at certain points, but so will you. You will be on balance.

If you go from making $30,000 a year to making $60,000 a year, you will be more on balance in that year than you were the year before. You'll be with your family less. You'll be around your wife less. Right. But where's your goal at? And also, can you get back on track? Can you recalibrate?

Can you change your tires? Yeah, you sure can. Can you have a conversation with your wife? Can you have a conversation with the family and say, hey, guys, you know what? For the next couple of weeks, I got to be a dick because I got to work a lot because I have to do this a lot. But as soon as August hits, you know where we're going? We're all going to Hawaii for a week and we're all going to have some fun. These are things that you can always get back. Being a parent doesn't happen in a day. Being a parent is a crazy lifelong commitment.

And it's not always going to be easy. It's not always going to be good. But how many times have you seen on TV or even just we know we have had friends here on the podcast. Like, yeah, my dad walked out on me when I was 10. And you're like, well, shit, man, that sounds awful. Like, what's your relationship with your dad now? They're like, oh, it's great. And you're like well shit man that sounds that sounds awful yeah like what's your relationship with your dad now they're like oh it's great and you're like what they're like yeah that's my dad so i'm not saying to walk out on your kids and walk out on your family but i'm saying it doesn't

have to happen it doesn't have to all happen in one day and there's different circumstances that happen for different people and as soon as that dad comes back around and he says, you know what? I, I really screwed up. I made a lot of mistakes. I would love to be part of your life. It's really rare for someone to be like, no, you know what? You weren't around. I'll see you later.

I don't want you, you know, near me or near my, every once in a while you'll see that, um, that does happen, but it just goes to show you that it's a lifelong process and nobody wants to be without someone loving them, really, right? And so they usually allow someone to come back in. Yeah. What about, so just starting out setting goals, are you yelling it at the top of your lungs on the top buildings, telling everybody what you're going to do? buildings telling everybody what you're going to do? Uh, no. Um, you know, sometimes it's good to, to put things out in the universe a little bit. Um, but I would, I would suggest that people, uh, do what, uh, my buddy John Cena does. And John Cena has a great way of saying, if John Cena tells you that he learned

how to speak Chinese, that means he's eight, he's already eight weeks in to speaking Chinese. He already knows how to speak Chinese. And the next thing out of his mouth is, you know, could be a three minute rap song that's in Cantonese or some shit. Right. Yeah. So, you know, cowards are people in my opinion that talk about things that they're never going to do they're going to be people that consistently say yeah you know i'm going to do this you know i want to do this and they just talk about it all the time and it's like do i have to really listen to this guy's story one more time about how he wants to open up a freaking coffee shop and how he wants to quit his job i just can't handle it anymore just just give

me a gun let me just blow my brains out right here. I can't hear this story one more time. Do I really got to listen to this girl? Tell me that she wants to lose 20 pounds. I just, I can't, you know, can't, you can't handle it anymore. Just do what needs to be done to lose 20 pounds and just get it over with. And so when you're starting to set these goals and I made the analogy in the past about, um, playing Mario brothers when you're a kid and you're trying to jump on top of that flag to get the most amount of points as you can you have to make sure you're the closest to the edge right which is a little risky because you can fall down to the bottom and not end up with that many points but you want to try to get close to your goal

first before you make any sort of jump before you're going to make this running diving crazy leap towards it uh you better make sure there's some momentum going on you better make sure that you have uh that that you have at least at least attempted to go towards it first uh if you're going to start talking about walking more it would be just easier if you just woke up tomorrow and just started walking more and then five days down the road you tell your buddy like yeah i've been walking every day this is great my dad has been training every day for the last 10 days and my cousin steven's like man he he looks he looks great you know and he's excited about it um but he's not going around telling everybody he's got this crazy fitness goal. He just kind of just, I invited him in and he just started.

He's doing all these weird movements that I don't know what he's doing half the time, but I just encourage it and let it go on from there. But what I think, you know, people are always looking for these kind of cheat codes people are always looking for a secret um and the most boring thing in the world is uh is just heavy doses every day of consistency and hammering the hell out of people with being consistent um if you do something for 10 years and you work hard at it, even if you sucked in the beginning, you're going to be pretty damn good at it. Whether it's martial arts, uh, whether it's tennis, whether it's a soccer lifting, it doesn't really matter what it is. I mean, your,

your talent might not have started out being that great to begin with. Your starting point might not have been awesome, but if you keep doing it and other keep other people stop, then you're going to be ahead of them. When I go to Gold's gym, you know, I started training at Gold's gym over 20 years ago. Uh, I got a lot of friends there, a lot of people that I really care about a lot, but I'm not afraid to tell you that they, a lot of friends there, a lot of people that I really care about a lot, but I'm not afraid to tell you that they, a lot of them are spinning their wheels. A lot of them are in the same spot when I was 20 years old. And I met a lot of these guys are in the exact same spot 20 years later as they were before. Am I better than them at anything? I don't think so.

Better than them at anything. I don't think so. They're all in good shape. They're all strong. They all. You know. Train. Some celebrity.

You know. Celebrities. Or athletes. Or. They all do a lot of great things. But what they didn't work on. Is they never worked on personal development. They never worked on trying to make themselves better. They're.

They're trapped inside their own better they're they're trapped inside their own gym they're trapped inside that own their own spot their own space they created their own world and they're very comfortable that's why a lot of them won't even come up here to sacramento they won't take an hour flight to come up here to sacramento because this this scares and these are friends of mine i don't have any problem saying i would say that they were right here they're they're scared they don't want to see this they don't want to walk in here and go holy fuck what have you what have i been doing for the last yeah years yeah what did you what did you build remember we talked about it my friend came in here the other day right

and he was just full of compliments it's because he's strong and he's successful himself. He's, he's, um, he's not the same guy when I met him, when I met him 15 years ago, he's, he's, he's a lot different. He's improved his skillset. He is a better person than he was when I met him 15 years ago. He's got three children to care for, and that changes a lot of things really quickly as well. But personal development is, I mean, it could, it could come in so many different forms. Um, but too many people work on their job. It's plain and simple. They work on their job and

they don't, they don't work on themselves. You have to work on yourself. You have to be with yourself to be by yourself. Those are all things that are actually really hard to execute on when you're a dad and when you're a husband and you're trying to be good at those things and you actually care about those things. You want to participate in your kid's life. But you could really be missing out on some, on some outstanding opportunities. Yeah. And I think people, they, they, they have a sense of guilt if they, you know, if they're not at work or if they're not with their family. Yeah. You know, it's like, yeah, you should take that time to go train or go do whatever to go work on yourself. But a lot of people are like, no, I can't be selfish that way.

I have a family or I have this and that to do and whatnot. But those are the things that are those are the things that really get to be hard. Yeah. Yeah. They really get to be really, really tough. But I think that those things, a lot of times are an excuse. I think they're, I think they're, I think they're thrown out there to be a little excuse. I think if you really wanted to make it work, you'd make it a priority and you figure out how to get it in there because you still got times for net Netflix and chill. Right.

You still have time to be on Instagram right you still have time to be on instagram you still have time to be on facebook there's still other places there's other corners in the in the in the day that you're cutting for some reason and it ends up at the end of the day kind of biting in your ass and you're like i gotta go to my son's basketball game well of course you gotta go to your son's basketball game that That is, that is the most important thing. Go to his basketball game, wake up at 4 a.m. and train or whatever that is, whatever that goal is that you got. Start running, whatever it is. Yeah. No, I think that that's, that's so huge.

People are, they're, they're essentially trapped. They, well, they feel trapped, but because how often do we hear, I don't have time for this or that. But no, you have time. You do have time. Yeah. And that goes back to just kind of setting those goals and, uh, keeping the, keeping the goal. People set their goals way too high. A lot of times, you know, I never talked about bench pressing 600 pounds until, uh, I bench pressed

five 51 and I was like, okay, I benched five 51 and actually moved pretty good. I know I can at least do another 20 or 30 pounds. What is it going to look like? You know, what is it going to look like if I really trained and I really paid attention to my diet and my sleep and everything? What's that going to look like if I put everything I can into it? Now, here's another part that makes all this really hard. There's going to have to be a point in time where you abandon things.

There's going to be a time where you have to say, you know what? I got punched in the face too many times. I can't fight this person anymore. Yeah. Uh, you know, this person's jabbing me in the face too hard, too many times. I got to move my head or put my hands up or like something different. I got to tell the, the, uh, the ref to call the fight or something. I mean, there's going to be times where you have to do that. And I had to do that with a 600 pound

bench. I had to do that with an 1100 pound squat. There's going to be times where you're going to have to figure out that you're, you're going to have to retreat and you have to have the strength to do that. That's a, it's not a weakness. That's a, that's a strength to be bold enough to say, you know what? I tried that. And I, I really actually tried it multiple times. And I, for whatever reason, I, I was not able to make it. And that happens in life. I mean, sometimes you're going to go against someone that's smarter than you.

Sometimes you're going to go against someone that's faster than you. No matter how much you train or no matter how much you work on your speed, that other person is just faster or they just jump higher. And you're like, damn, I can't figure this. Maybe if you keep working on running for the next 30 years and that guy decides he's not going to run anymore. I mean, maybe you can hang on, but you might be missing out on a lot of opportunities, other opportunities in life, uh, while you're pursuing that, that goal. And so for me, I got hurt too many times, uh, trying to bench 600 pounds, um, tore my pack. I tore my tricep. Um, you know, I'm lucky that I can still do what I do,

you know, trying to try and squat 1100 pounds too. I fell with a thousand 85 and, uh, you know, some lessons are learned faster than others. When I fell with thousand 85, I was like, I'm out, I'm done. Drop the microphone, never squatted in a competition again after that point. Um, actually I'm sorry. I did one time because I wanted to come back and kind of prove to myself that I wasn't going to go out that way. And so I did it one time, but, um, it, it quickly, it quickly told me, Hey man, you know what? You got to really slow down. I didn't learn as, as well as I should have because, uh, then I ended up going for that 600 pound bench, not too long after that. Um, but all that you can do has to be enough. So when you're setting these goals and when you're working towards these things, if, if you set, sit there and, uh,

all that you can do doesn't mean a hundred percent by the way, either. It's all that you can do for the time. It's all that you can do for the given days that you're given with the time and other commitments that you have have to be factored in there. So if somebody said, could you put more work into it? I probably could have, but at the cost of what, right? It's, it's, it's my own goal. It matters. And it means a lot to me. And it means a lot to the people that were trying, that were following the journey. Um, but my son who's sitting in the room right now, he's not going to be like, Hey dad, I wanted to thank you for all the times you weren't around and you chased after that 600 pound bench. That was awesome. Right. And it's not going to be a

memorable, memorable thing for him. He's going to be like, shit, man, all he's going to know is that I wasn't there. Right. And so you're a hundred percent probably isn't realistically a hundred percent. Sometimes some of the people that we follow or some of the people that we're watching, when somebody's watching someone like myself or some of these professional bodybuilders, you got to kind of also keep in mind, okay, they can set up their entire day to the way that they want. And maybe I can't. So maybe my days have to look different. I'm not going to use the day as an excuse. I have, do you have a nine to five job or you work 50 hours a week or 60 hours a week? I ran into an Uberber driver which i don't cannot believe that they don't like regulate this but the guy showed me physically showed me on his

phone that he worked a hundred hour week i was like i was wasn't even aware there's that many yeah i wasn't even aware there's that many hours in a week it was like i don't know it was insane it was insane but it's gonna have to match up with the other things that you have going on in your life. And if you're trying to have a career while you're chasing down a fitness goal, then maybe things need to be spread out a little bit more. I'll also say this too. If you, if there's not room in your life to audible, if there's not room in your life, when you go home and you have a plan and you're like you know okay it's a long day but i still gotta go train and your wife is like hey i i made uh

your favorite dish and maybe you had something else in mind food wise because you because you're on a special plan or whatever i made your favorite dish and we're gonna go to a movie you know when you're done eating dinner. It's like, come on, you don't have, you don't have any flexibility. Maybe there's times where you don't have that flexibility. That makes some sense. Maybe there's time, but that would be a discussion that you'd have saying, Hey, I don't want to eat like that next couple of weeks. I'm doing this, uh, kind of the thing that I'm stuck in right now at this, uh, bodybuilding show, but you should have the flexibility, uh, when someone says, Hey, you know what? Uh, haven't seen it in, in a couple

of years, it would be amazing to go, uh, grab some pizza with you and have a beer or something like that. Right. That's going to be where you're going to have to be able to make a compromise, but your training and everything should be intact enough to where that's not going to throw you off. Right. That's not going to like, you know, that's not going to make you look any different really. It's just going to push that goal out a couple more days or whatever. It's not the end of that goal. That's 100%. Yeah.

So, yeah, I always like to kind of make sure that those goals are, you know, kind of more in line with like a checklist. You know, a favorite quote of mine is from a book called Iron Will. And it says that which dazzles mortal eyes is often just perseverance in disguise. It's not, you can take the same word and say consistency. Like people are like, oh my God, this guy is great. He, okay, he is great. But what made him great was just being good for a really long period of time.

That's all it really is. Mark. You're so jacked. What happened? Yeah. I wish I knew. I wish I knew. Yeah.

But no, yeah. How long you got? Exactly. Yeah. But no, it's because like, uh,

how, how many months ago now has it been or whatever? I lost track of when honey was in here. Oh yeah. Well he, so he was here. Yeah, he was here June, like June 3rd. And I started the diet June 10th and it's August 16th or something. Yeah.

But it's like every time you meet someone new, it's like everyone's so shocked. Right. But and I'm not saying that I'm not either, but like I'm watching every step of the way. And it's like, well, he's putting in a lot of work a lot of consistency so it's not just a magic something you know like it's uh the stuff that people aren't seeing yeah and yeah and it also started you know 30 years ago right right yeah yeah you know it's it's been that long it's been it's been 30 you know it's been 30 years and uh you know it it's the consistency is what always baffles people because when they when they try to keep asking you questions about your diet they try to keep asking you questions about um how you balance you know if you if you

drive a nice car you have a nice home how do you balance it all man you got you know beautiful wife you got kids i see it all these balance it all man you got you know a beautiful wife you got kids i see it all these baseball games and these tournaments and you're all over the place how are you how are you balancing it and the truth is is there's gonna be times where you're just out of balance for a little while it just has to be my dad was out of balance for a long time when he was working for ibm and i remember um i remember, um, I remember like, I don't remember the conversation. I don't remember like a fight between my parents. I just remember that he wasn't around that much. And then he was. And so I always assume that my parents had some sort of

conversation somewhere along the line. I didn't think about it for years. And then my mom told me like, um, maybe like two years ago she goes yeah you know told your dad one time i was like you're not around and my dad was like what and she's like yeah you're getting obsessed with your work and you're you know you it's great because we have more money but you're not here and he was like oh my god like he almost didn't even he didn't know you know because yeah it's like, yeah, go make more money. All right. We'll all make more money.

And then you put all your effort into that. And then you realize, oh shit, you can't chase after, uh, too many different things at one time. Right. Right. Yeah. Um, going back to your, your checklist and people thinking that they don't have enough time. Um, my favorite quote of yours, I don't know if it's your original quote or if you got it

from somebody but about the more you do the more you can handle i i look at what i've been able to do training with you with the podcast with photography with everything we do here and if you were to rewind back like a year and a half and tell me that i would have to do all this i'd i'd tell you you're crazy and there's no possible way that that's going to happen but every day I'm tripping away at something else and by watching you do everything I'm like oh shit this is possible so I think when people

look at like whatever their goal is they want to lose 10 pounds lose whatever be jacked whatever it is they look at the end game and they don't see the steps that is in between there so like I think making a checklist would be kind of awesome. Whether it even be just like, you know, starting with the 10 minute walks or getting a gym membership, whatever it is, coming to super training.

Right. And then eventually people will find out that, okay, last month I could barely do that 10 minute walk and still show up at work. This month they're able to do that. plus go to the gym three times a week. Next month, it's going to be even better. That's why that's one of my favorite quotes of yours because it's so, like, damn accurate. Yeah, I always say do more, become more, you know, and you think about the opposite of that, right? It's like if you're doing less, the less you do, the easier it is to do less and less.

We've all had times where we're depressed, we're down in dumps about whatever. And then there's so many people out there saying that they're depressed, saying they have anxiety. Well, yeah, you're depressed and you have anxiety about being depressed and having anxiety because you're not doing anything. You need to really force it. And I think everyone, I don't want to downplay depression because it could be a brutal thing. And there's some people that just they they just they need help. And so I'm not going to downplay mental illness, especially having, you know, a brother basically pass away from from that. But I even think with him and his position, I think he could have done more positive things for himself, uh, that would have made himself feel better about himself. And that, uh, potentially could have, uh, had some life altering, uh, changes, but the more that you do, the more that you can end up handling. And if you

think about some of these people that were looking up to the rock or whoever, whoever it is on social media that you're a fan of these celebrities or whoever it might be. Um, if you were to ask them if they could get better, they would say Tom Brady, they would say, yes. Yeah. Could you do more? Yeah. Yeah. They, they would say, you know, they, they can, they know that they can. Um, and they're already able to handle so much, but when you, when you're somebody that is handling a lot, you're handling a lot of different things in a given day, and someone comes at you with something real negative, it's so easy to stiff arm that problem and just be like, irrelevant, don't even care. Sometimes in some of the meetings that we have here, I'll bring something up and then people bring up all these little tiny things. And it makes my head almost explode off my shoulders because I'm like, logistics, who the hell cares about that?

Let's not worry about that. This is a cool idea. Let's just run with it, okay? But it's their job to kind of think of some of those smaller things. And for me, if I think of those smaller things and it's um and and for me if i think of those smaller things then it kills any sort of creativity i can't uh think the right way but yeah i mean with you you know you were doing uh videos and doing some photos and then it started to progress from there and as you became more comfortable you're able to move a

lot faster on everything yeah the more that you worked on photos the faster you got with them the more you worked on videos the faster that you got with them the more you put into it the more you were able to turn out and then if i said hey can you do this project and then i'm not even thinking because that's i don't think a lot and i pass three other things on to you. You don't, you're not like, oh, well, you know, there's those other things and this one's going to come out this time. And this one's going to, you're just like, yeah, got it. And then I know that I got to give some leeway on timing because just there's other things going on in your life. Uh, but a lot,

a lot of times when we do a photo shoot, the photos come back to me the same day. You know, we do a whole entire photo shoot and photos come back to me the same day. Remember the other day we did, um, we had a bunch of meetings. We, we, uh, we lifted, we did a photo shoot. We did tons of stuff. We were coming off something the previous day too, or we were pretty, we were pretty dead. And, uh too we were we were pretty we were pretty dead and uh you were like man it's it's hard to even take photos i don't understand you're like i kind of don't understand how you how you're uh continuing to yeah to go you know yeah because i i was beat from yeah like mark said that we trained i think earlier i it was already a long day and it was

barely like 10 o'clock and we wanted to get some photos done of some apparel and some gear and whatnot. And I'm just sitting there trying to get the camera going and just start moving my lights around. And I look up, Mark's still flexing. He's doing this. He's doing that. He's looking jacked. And I'm just like, I'm kind of gassed. And I'm just like, dude, I don't know how you're still going.

And I'm just like, I'm kind of gassed. And I'm just like, dude, I don't know how you're still going. Like, and I'm just taking the pictures. But, you know, you're there, like you're posing and, you know, you're doing everything. I was faking it, man. I was dying. I was right. I just know I was beat.

But, I mean, we got through it. Pictures came out awesome. Yeah. Because we ended up going to Davis. And that's where you took your shirt off inside of Phil's Coffee. Maybe we were a little delirious. Yeah, that was a fun day. That was really cool. But I think just to kind of bring it home here is you have to kind of fuel yourself for all these

things too. So if you're going to have these goals, goal number one is to make sure that you sleep goal number two in general is just to make just generally take care of yourself whatever that whatever that means for you yeah just make sure that you're you're okay mentally physically if that means you have to exercise a bunch of times a week then that's what it means if it means that you have to eat healthier than eat i mean i, I'm going to recommend that to everybody, but if you don't have the sleep, you're not going to be able to get anything else done. You're not going to be able to, any of these things we talked about, they're all going to go flying out the window.

If you're trying to ride with five hours of sleep every night, it's not, it's just, it will not work. And at some point it will catch up to you. Your diet doesn't even work properly when you're not sleeping correctly. Your decision-making is everything, everything is screwed. So, you know, I, I'm not going to sit here and just say, you know, everyone always says you need eight hours, just whatever amount of sleep you're getting, you know, just take inventory of how you feel. You know, if you probably just need more though, I mean, most people usually do need seven or eight hours of sleep. It's kind of a minimum requirement of human beings. That's, that's what you need to kind of sustain each and every day. So sleep is a huge thing. Make sure that you're feeling good mentally, physically, and things like that. And then

you're going to be able to execute on whatever the hell else it is that you, you need to work on, but you can kind of look at different categories of your life and say, you know, where I'm, where am I with my family? Where am I with my lifting? Where am I with my job? Where am I with these different things? As you start to go down that checklist, you still are going to need to remember the fact that you have to make time for yourself and your, your own personal development. There's a, you know, when you're on the plane and they say, in case of emergency, you know, make sure you put on the oxygen mask and then help, you know, your child or the elderly or whoever you can help. Well, they do that. that you don't die. Because if you die or you're incapacitated,

you can't help anybody else. And it's the same thing with just your everyday life. If you're not okay, you can't do anything for anybody else. You can't help anybody else. So you have to make sure that you have the strength to do that. In order to have the strength to do that, you got to fuel yourself with food and you have to make sure that you're sleeping. Otherwise you're not going to be able to do all these fun things that we're talking about right here. Yeah. You wanted to talk a little bit about willpower today. Yeah. Um, before I mentioned that, just try, like, just try, just try some, just try some little things. You know, you hear about these no carb diets or you hear about these certain plans. Uh, there plan called Whole30 where you basically eat whole foods for 30 days.

There's a lot of different diet plans out there. But what if you just try to do the diet on a scale of 1 to 10? What if you did the diet for one day and you can honestly at the end of that day give yourself a 10? You got a 10 out of 10 you're 100 you did everything that was asked of you and you did that for that one day that would be a that would be a great goal to set you know i want to see if i okay i did that one day and i actually felt pretty good or you know it really hurt my stomach well maybe it hurt your stomach because maybe it's so foreign to you because you never ate that way before and you had too many vegetables or you ate way more protein than is normal for you so you might have to kind of try it again and kind of feel it out

but what's wrong with doing something just doing something the right way trying something for a few hours or trying something for a day um Um, I don't know. It could, it could be anything. It could be anything. You can apply it to just about anything, but you're just going to have to try it and then see if you can string together a few days. I mean, think about how pathetic this is. There's people that are listening to this right now. And if I said, don't eat any carbs for the next two weeks, and there's people that are listening right now that could probably use it. They won't actually it 14 just go 14 days what's wrong with it it's not it's not that bad or even just read every day for 14 days read three pages from from any book that you want to

read for the next 14 days just apply yourself to it try it you know maybe it's a maybe it's a habit that starts to stay with you for a long period know, maybe it's a, maybe it's a habit that starts to stay with you for a long period of time. Maybe it's something you can carry over. Maybe you try it and you're like, you know what? That sucked. I hated it. That's okay. You don't do it again. You find something else that you want to try to move into. At least you can say you tried it though. Instead of, I don't read, I'm not good at it. A hundred percent. The willpower ends up being a, a big part of all this stuff because, um, you know, people kind of, they'll say, if you're relying on willpower, it's not going to work. Well, yeah, initially. Um, but your willpower can be educated. Your willpower can,

uh, be enhanced. Your willpower can become stronger. Your will, a lot of times these things end up being, you have your goals, and then from your goals, you have your thoughts, and you also have your actions. Here's where people get in trouble is your thoughts can, and usually will and do become part of your actions. So you have to be careful with where you spend your time. What are you looking at? You know, what are you, what are you doing with your time? Are you zooming in on girls butts on Instagram and you're married?

Probably not the best usage of your time. Look, everyone's guilty of looking at sexy and appealing things, right? I mean, that's just, that's life, right? That's where we're at. But is it going to get you towards the things that you want to get to? Is it really fulfilling the commitments that you want to get to? Is it, is it, is it, uh, is it really fulfilling the commitments that you currently have in your life? Or is it kind of a, an offshoot of all those things? Um, there's always going to be, there's always going to be a little good and bad to

everything. I'm not saying that you can walk around and be perfect, but maybe it's not a great, uh, usage of your time. Um, and there's going to be And there's going to be some time that you do need just down time. You need to watch a TV show and just have your brain go numb for a little while and almost not pay attention to something because sometimes you just kind of need to power down. But your thoughts and your actions, they run side by side. And if you're going to tell yourself that you're going to get in better shape and you wake up the next day and you do your cardio, boom, check, put a little check in there. Bing. You get to check that off. If you are having

conversation with yourself, you're like, you know what? I'm tired of people calling me dumb. I'm not standing for this shit anymore. I'm going to start reading. I'm going to start going to seminars. I'm going to start, I'm going to become the smartest person in the fitness space anybody's ever seen. And I'm going to create products. I'm going to kick the shit out of everybody. And I'm going to remind them of it every single day. If your actions are matching up with some of those goals that you have over a period

of time, that ends up becoming your character. Your character is going to be something you're going to be able to rely on the rest of your life. Your character is something that your other employees or employer is going to be able to rely on. Your willpower, however, it can waver a lot, but your willpower can be strengthened. However, it can waver a lot, but your willpower can be strengthened. Anything that we do can be strengthened and anything that we do, you can add some resistance to it. You can make things a little bit harder. So if you are, if you're running, let's say you, you run and you're, you're trying to

challenge yourself and you want to run a six minute mile. Well, maybe, maybe you get off the track. Maybe you don't run on the track for a few weeks and maybe you run some hills. You just add a resistance. You increase the variable. What if you went to the beach and you sprinted in the sand? That's a way different type of running. What if you stopped doing a mile run and started to run further? Or what if you started to run shorter but faster with higher intensity? We do all these things in the gym. We take the reps, we take the sets, we continue to try to add and make it progressively harder. Your goals can progressively change as you keep moving forward. If you wanted to make a hundred thousand

dollars in a year, um, no one ever stops at that and puts their hands up and they're like, that's it, did it cashing that in. And, and that's, I made it. It doesn't really, it doesn't really work that way. And that's why you see, um, that's why you see guys like Jeff Bezos who owns Amazon, um that's why you see guys like jeff bezos who owns amazon elon musk or any of these guys you're like why why don't they just like don't they have enough why don't they just stop there's uh bill burr the comedian he's like you ever see the jacked guy in the gym he's like the guy's shredded he's all pumped up and you just want to go up to him pat him on the shoulder and be like dude just go home like you won did it. Whatever you're trying to do. Like you, you're doing a great job.

Take a day off and go eat a cupcake or whatever. Right. And it's because people just, they always want to get better. And they, they're always, they're continuing to work on themselves. They're continuing to challenge themselves. How they got there in the first place. And so while your willpower will waver here and there, and you're going to eat a cookie when you're not supposed to eat a there and you're going to eat a cookie when you're not supposed to eat a cookie and you're going to do a bunch you're going to sleep in when you didn't

want to sleep in there's going to be all these different things that you do it can be built try doing something for two days in a row try doing something for three days in a row try doing something for three weeks in a row talk to a a friend and say, you know what, man, Monday through Friday, I want to meet you at the gym at 5 a.m. for the next two weeks, just during the week or whatever, right? It's 10 days out of your life. It could be life-altering. That might be a pattern that you end up, you might embrace that for a long period of time. Or, you know, I hear some people say they don't have time to lift or they don't have time to get to the gym. Then I'll ask them about their schedule. And turns out there's always some times that you can slip in there somewhere. And, uh, I'll say, well, what's your work look like? And I'll say, yeah, I usually work like Monday through Friday.

Okay. Saturday, Sunday, boom, two days a week done. You already, you already have two days available where it sounds like you could work out. Yeah, but I spend a lot of time with my family. Oh, really? You spend a lot of time with your family at five in the morning on Saturday, Sunday? Is that true? Okay, cool. There's always somewhere that she can make it work. My uncle, who's on his way here right now, was a coach for a long time and a

teacher for a long time. And he had a nine to five job for a million years. He ran the gamut of doing all kinds of different things, but he would wake up at what, 4.30, five o'clock every morning and run. He's one of the few in the family that's been able able to hang on and have some level of uh fitness but he's done that for the last 30 years and that's in new york weather's not great weather is the opposite of that i mean it's i mean i i'm dedicated and i love doing what i do but i don't know about i don't know if i'm waking up and getting into uh 10 degree weather to go for a run that's nuts it is pretty nuts um you've said it before on the podcast about uh you know like yeah waking up at 4 a.m or 5 a.m whatever it may be to go work out you might actually get something more

than that you might show up at gold's and oh shit there's mark bell training and you might have a camera on you and you might start filming Mark Bell. And Mark Bell might ask you if you want to have a job. You know, like, just weird things happen when you're trying to better yourself. Yeah, when you're on the ball. Yeah, yeah, just weird things like that can happen. And people don't understand that either. The more you do, the more you feel.

I mean, you were scared to come to the gym kind of, right? You were, like, nervous about it scared to come to the gym kind of, right? You were like nervous about it. You came to the gym. Yeah. And, uh, Andrew took some photos at a seminar that we had and he was like, Hey,

you know, hopefully it's okay. I take some pictures today and I just want to get permission before I do any of that. I was like permission. I'm like, I need a freaking photographer. Like you got a card or something.

Yeah. Yeah. That was sick. That was it. Of course he had a card on him because he was prepared. He was ready to go. Day changed my life. Just met Mark Bell.

Changed it forever. Yeah. It's always funny when people ask her, how did you get here? I shook Mark Bell's hand one day and that was it. And there you go. I just like to leave him at that. That's all I did. And they're, and they're confused.

Yeah. My, my cousin who's sitting right here, she actually told me that she would sleep in her workout clothes a lot of times because she's like you know what in the morning i'm just disoriented it's freezing she's like the second that i i go to get out of bed and it's cold it's like i just want to go back to bed yeah do whatever you got to do to set shit up and that's that's a huge factor as well if the i've talked the entire time about resistance but you want to make your resistance uh you want to make things smoother you want to make things easier that's why i invented the slingshot and that's why we have knee sleeves and belts and stuff it's to make everything easier to make the lifting uh so it's not so damn painful all the

time um you want to set your days up that way to make the day less painful. If you know what you're going to eat in the morning, why not just cook it the night before or have it like as ready as you can, uh, get your coffee and just, just so you could all, all you got to do when you wake up, you don't have to change anything out or do anything. You literally just push a button and boom, there it comes out and whatever supplements or whatever routine you normally have in the morning, just try to have everything as set as you can. The shoes you're going to wear, your socks. I mean, you get these things out because you know if you're waking up early, it's going to be dark as hell.

You're going to wake up everybody else if you've got to pop all the lights on and everything. But it's this extra 10 minutes, those extra 15 minutes that really throw you off and really screw you up. Yeah, set yourself up for an easy win. Get yourself that victory. Yep. Yeah. A lot of people were asking you like, uh, how Andy took it when, you know, you're trying to balance everything. You're spending a lot of time chasing 600 and the, uh, thousand squat and all that. Um, how was she on, uh, with everything at home? She's been amazing. You know, she's been amazing, but she'll be the first one too, to tell me like, Hey, like, you know what I mean?

Like what's, what's going on? What are you doing? Yeah. You know what? Because to her, it's not, she loves it. Cause she knows that it's like ingrained into my system, but she doesn't love it to think it's cool. You know?

Like that's for like the fans, the fans think it's cool. Yeah. She's kind of more like like i understand what you're doing but let me look you in the eye and ask you what are you trying to do like that's a different conversation and then i'll say you know i better have a good i better have a good reason to her on why on why some of these things are and i explained the bodybuilding thing to people before but those who haven't heard it is i'm trying to prove to people that you don't have to be uh the thoughts and perceptions that you have made up of yourself or that other people have made up for you you don't have to be that way you can be whatever way that you want to be you can change

if you work on doing things differently today you can make a change we had a guy the other day uh wrote in and said he was on heroin for 10 years yeah and he's gone on a keto diet and he's doing all these he's working out and he's he has he's been sober for four years or whatever i mean it just, it was an unbelievable, uh, unbelievable story, but you can start making some changes today that end up being huge later on. And if you look at, if you look at like a picture of me from when I was three 30 versus now, there's been some huge changes as a person. I'm a completely different person when it comes to where I was, um, you know, comes to where I was, um, you know, 10 years ago, where I was five years ago, I continue to work on and, and I feel like, I feel like I'm getting better at every single thing that I do. And a lot of that is because of, uh, people like Andy and because of people like my parents who

are still heavily involved in my life. And they're still, um, they're always in support of everything that's going on. Um, but at the same time, they're level headed enough to kind of say, Oh, what is this all about? You know, and whatever this is, uh, of, uh, like social media fame or whatever, it does take a toll. You know, there's a price. There's a price to pay for everything. I tell people all the time, you know, they think that Instagram is free or they thought that their phone cost a thousand bucks or whatever, however much phones cost nowadays, but it doesn't cost a thousand bucks. It costs a lot more than that. Try multiplying that by about a hundred and that might be around the price that you pay

every day when you're messing around on there too much because that time could go into something much more effective you're really going to look at your friend on facebook that you really don't like that much and rip their life apart i mean that's fun yeah i do it all the time you know i used to do it all the time too take a screen capture somebody be like look at this dick this guy's such an ass right and then you laugh about it you know or or it could be a family member right that you're throwing under the bus look at these guys what are they doing um or it could just be something funny but i don't feel like i got time for shit like that i feel like i i need to keep moving forward that's

what fulfills me the best that's what makes me feel the best and that's why i wake up every day like i'm launched out of a cannon anything else that's all i got man strength is never a weakness weakness is never a strength see you guys later