EP 24: 2 types of people will emerge from the quarantine. Which one are you?

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There's two types of people that are going to come out of the coronavirus. Which one are you going to be with? That said, let's get started.

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Hey there, it's your host, Mark Evans. Dm, the deal maker and dream maker. Hope you guys are doing amazing over there. As I'm recording this, I'm hanging out in Parkland, Florida, under quarantine. I think we're in week three. Ish. And I want to share some real stuff with you today as I try to always do that and not try. I do that. And we'll probably bounce around a little bit because I have some insights and things I see going on. And I'll share with you openly and candidly what's going on internally on my side and go from there. So as I'm sitting here, a couple thoughts come to mind. Number one is, holy shit, you have a lot of time on your hands. You know, it's funny. I've been in business for over 23 years, since 96. 06-21-96 is when I started my first company. I bought Seamless Gutter Company. I talked about that on show number one. But I'm sitting here and I remember throughout all these years, the reason people couldn't work out and get in shape, they didn't have enough time. The reason the person couldn't work on that side project, they didn't have time. The reason their person's life, personal life, is all fucked up is because they didn't have time to connect. The reason they're not where they want to be financially free and they don't have time. Well, that excuse has been tossed out the window at a massive level. It's actually been forced out the window and you're not able to do anything about it. So now what's going on is I'm seeing a wave of other excuses. Mark. I don't know where to start, Mark. I'm overwhelmed. See, it's amazing to me how people create excuses to suffice their bullshit and they believe them. That's what's crazy, is that you actually believe your bullshit excuses. Behind the scenes at my house. The truth is I'm in heaven. It's true. I love the fucking tough work. I love it. I'm built for it. I'm a hillbilly Ohio boy, straight up mule at the highest level. I know it, it's real. And I'm getting punched in the face. And the more I get punched, the more I like it. The taste of blood is happening. See, the only time. The truth is I've been virtual since 05. I've talked about this all the time, but virtual. Since the December 31, 2005, my business has been virtual. People called me crazy. There's no way that could ever work. No one would ever do business with you if they can't see you and meet you and shake your hand. Then people, as the world progressed a little bit, people started realizing virtual assistants. And this could happen and that could happen. And then I'm telling everyone, why are you going to closings and title companies in the real estate space? It's not needed. It's a waste of your time. Focus on building a business. Stop acting like you're in business. But you don't understand, man. I get to connect and I get to do it. Okay, great. Why can't you do it in a different way? And now you can't go to title companies. You can't. Like all this stuff has been forced. And now everyone's like, oh, wow, this is amazing. Well, no shit. I've been telling you this for years. Truth is, I wrote a book about this in 2007 called virtual investing Made Easy. And the coronavirus is actually very interesting to me. A lot of the world, as we know, in the norm will forever be changed. Normal will not be normal like it used to be, if you will. See, as I'm sitting here talking to you, like I said, people are like starting to realize literally right now, three, four weeks into this coronavirus thing, that you've been sold a bill of lies. You've been sold. Go to work. Actually, it's go to school, graduate, run up a crazy amount of debt for shit job you don't want anyways. But you think you should get it because mommy and daddy, you don't want to let them down. You get this shit job that you hate. You have all these degrees, you have $150,000 in student debt. And you might be broke, you might be jobless right now. And. Or maybe you still have your job, but you're starting to realize the big lie that we've been told for years. This word is so important to me, and when I hear people say it, I cringe because when I hear the people say it, I know what it really means. And most people think it means the total opposite. And I promise you right now, and I'm not pulling any punches with any of you guys, but this word is the death to anybody that cares about growth in their life. You know what that word is? It's retirement. People retire to expire. You see, why the fuck would you go to work every single day hating something you hate thinking that at 65, I'm going to be good. I'm going to be able to have some money saved up. I'm going to have a 401k with $12 or $1200, who knows how much saved up in it, and then I can go travel with my loved ones. Well, dude, by the time you're 65, you'll be lucky to have a decent amount of money in the bank or the 401. You hope you're healthy enough to actually do this. See, I kind of think life is reversed. I know when my wife and I, we traveled the world for seven years, we were traveling all over the world and we'd be in all these amazing places of the world and we'd see old couples pushing each other in wheelchairs. I'm thinking, man, this is fucked up. They're traveling. This is a very. One, it's very inconvenient. But two, you know, it's awesome that they at least didn't get out, but like. And they're still alive, I guess, right? But at the end of the day, I'm thinking I'm able to walk and hang out and go to the cafes and relax and go to the Eiffel Tower, you know, all this shit. Why do we think 65 is the golden nugget, the timeline? Why do you buy into this bullshit? See, I never have ever. And I'm not patting myself on the back. I just never understood the concept. It's never made sense to me. You're starting to get a taste of what retirement might be like. You wake up aimlessly, you have no fucking clue what you're going to do all day. You turn on the news, you wake up later than you normally should. You veg out for the day. You're picking fights with your loved ones because you don't know what else to do. And you go to bed and repeat process. That's what retirement is for. Most people then, unfortunately, they end up in the nursing home. A lot of these folks, and then their kids don't visit because they got their own life. Going on. See, when you actually love what you do, why the fuck would you ever stop it? Why would you want to retire? Dude, at 65, I'm just hitting my prime. I'm just getting going. 72, I'm in the game. See, success leaves clues. Why is Warren Buffett still working? Why is Bill Gates still pursuing big shit? Why is Trump trying to run the country? Why is all these people, older people older than 65, still fucking plugging away and still in the media and still relevant, still growing, still doing great shit? It's like telling your spouse, like, hey, honey, 65, I'm done, I'm retiring you, I love you, but I'm out. I know it makes no sense, right? If you love what you do, why would you ever stop doing it? I don't care what it is. If you love doing it and you've turned it into a career, by the way, pretty much any bullshit you do could be turned into a profit generating career. Anything. You just have to see what the path is, what the product, what the marketplace is, and what the path is to get that money. But if you're truly passionate about it, why would you stop? See, as I'm sitting here, my businesses are growing. Over the last two weeks, we've hired nine people. We've been giving raises to different people. They're years up, they're two years up, they're five years up, et cetera. We're kind of in that cycle right now. Everyone's getting raises 3 to 5% minimum, not counting all the bonus structures we're doing. I've increased my life insurance policies by millions of dollars. My wife and I were hanging out more because she's not out running around doing her stuff, which again, she does stuff throughout the day, typically go to the mall, hang out with their friends or whatever. But now we're at the house. So she's up in a room and she's doing her yoga, she's reading and growing and all that while I'm down in my office doing my work around the garage, smoking cigars, writing and texting and call, whatever I'm up to. My businesses are growing. I'm more excited now. I know I said this earlier, but I really am more excited now because I know this is when people become complacent. I know this is when people use what's going on in the world as an excuse. You see, there's two types of people in this world. The people who use this as an excuse to fail and the people who use this as an excuse to succeed. It's interesting to me. Like I said, I've always been in the real estate space or just in business in general. Right. Back in 2006-2009, a lot of shit went down. A lot of people lost a lot of stuff. Foreclosure rate went out the roof, et cetera. A year ago, if not less. You still talk to people? Oh yeah, man. I still haven't recovered from 2006. It's like, what the fuck are you waiting on? What are you waiting on? See, how does it take 14 years? This is. But again, people are looking for the gold nugget. Here's the gold nugget. It's mindset in my brain. I'm like, dude, what did you learn? Oh man, you know, I gotta do. What it really comes down to is so many people have no clue what they really want. I'm realizing this more and more as I get older. They have no clue what they really want. Like, have you ever asked yourself, I hate this, have you ever asked yourself this, why the fuck do I keep doing it? And wait for the answer. Now listen, I hate working out sometimes. But then the follow up question, why did I keep doing it? Because I love the results. Cool, I'm going to keep doing it. We just hired a girl in one of our companies. She drove three hours a day, round trip to a job, a $50,000 a year job. Three hours a day, round trip, folks. That's 15 hours a day, 15 hours a week on the road. That's a lot of driving in shitty traffic. And these are on normal days, by the way. This doesn't count if there's a wreck and all this shit on the road. But three hours a day. When she come to work with us, she can work from home. Literally, she bought three hours of her life back. It's priceless. Because she asked the question, why am I doing this? Listen, I gotta take care of my mom, I gotta take care of my kid, whatever. Great. Very smart. The next question is, what can I do to change it? What does it look like? Who do I have to become? You start asking different questions, you start getting different answers. And listen, if you're happy with where you're at and you're happy with your results, keep doing what you're doing. But if you're like me, I'm never fucking happy. I'm trying to always grow. I'm trying to always be, you know, like learning, always be learning, how do I grow, how do I, what am I missing? Where are the opportunities? Who Can I connect with to help me see a lot of people hunker down and try to do everything themselves? True story. Right before this podcast show, I shot a message to my fiduciary and said, yo, I got approached with this thing. It's for insurance stuff and I'd like your take on it because I have no fucking clue. It's a million dollar policy. It's cost me a million dollars to get involved in it. And I'm interested, but I don't know what I'm. I don't know. Can you guide me? I collect data. I connect the dots with different people that I know and trust because I've built relationships through relationship capital, which I talk about on a podcast show a couple prior to this. And I pay these people to help me. And they give me good insight, they give me good direction, they give me good structure, they give me good guidance. And I just don't know what I don't know. But have you ever asked, why do you do something you don't like? I know this lady, she's a divorce attorney and she hates her life. She truly hates her life. From outside looking in, everyone's like, oh my God, she's so cool. She has so much money, she has a nice car, nice house, takes amazing vacations, has amazing clothes. But dude, she hates her life. She's about 52 ish. Let's say she lives to 82. Is that. I mean, do you want to live a life that you hate? The biggest thing is, is once you realize what I'm talking about is a real thing and you have some, you can do something about it. Like you get freed from the world. And the biggest thing is, is what happened is she built a lifestyle. You know, again, she wanted to do it initially, which is cool. We all start like that, right? And then it just became such a big thing. And then she built a lifestyle around that, making a lot of money. And now all of a sudden she's like, oh, I have this big ass lifestyle. I need big ass money. I know I can't make a big ass decision now. Even though it's killing her, it's literally stealing her soul from her. And as we are in this coronavirus situation, I'm excited because we are literally in the front side of history in the making, literally, you and I right now. Like history is happening. You understand that this will be in the history books for the rest of time. You know that, right? Pre coronis, post coronus, et cetera, corona, coronas, corona, right? You realize that are you going to be a casualty or are you going to make this turn us into the biggest opportunity of your life? It's kind of like a reset button that's happened as I'm talking to you. Earlier, I told you about this retirement myth that we've been lied about. Not me. I'm telling you. You can ask anybody that's known me for my whole life. I've never understood retirement. When I hear someone say, oh, man, I can't wait till I retire, that means you hate your fucking life. That's what that means, by the way. That's like going to the number one athlete and him saying, dude, I can't wait to retire. It will never come out of their fucking mouth because they love what they do. Anybody that's performing and creating massive results and moving forward to their goals in their life never want to retire. It's one step closer to death to me. I'd rather be dead than to retire. And that's a fucking fact. An idle mind for me. I forget who said this, but this is a quote. Something about, an idle mind is a devil's playground. Why would you want to be sitting around knowing that you could do more? Seriously, think about this. If you're healthy at 65, why would you sit around and wait? If you're 45 right now and you're like, 20 more years, man, I'm really gonna hit it. That's a fucking excuse. That's not a reality. That's an excuse. Well, you don't understand, Mark. I got a family. Yeah, I do understand. That's why you need to fucking do it now. Well, Mark, you don't understand, man. I was picked on as a kid. Get over it. No one cares about your excuses but you. And they're either hurting you or serving you. But the workforce is going to be forever changed as well. Like I said, I've been virtual and my whole team has since December 31, 2005. And as I'm sitting here, people are like, dude, that's crazy. If this could never work, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right, cool, Whatever. Well, now people are hitting me up all the time. Should have thought about that before, but in the corporate world. Let's talk about that, because that's where it's really going to hit. It's going to be changing drastically in the corporate world. Pandora box has been opened. Millions of people across the country are being productive, sitting at the comfort of their home or their lake house or their cottage or their farm, wherever they can wake up their commute is like 1.2 seconds from the bedroom to the kitchen table to the bedroom to the in home office. They fire up the laptop, they get on the interweb, they type in a couple buttons and voila, they're in a meeting or they're making moves. They can take lunch with their loved ones, they can take a dip in the pool at 11:00am, they can go work out at 12:30. See, once you realize no one the true, this is true. As a leader, if we have a goal to do X and you make X happen, I don't care if it took you a minute or 100 minutes or a thousand minutes, all I cares is X got done. See, in the corporate world, the reason they want you in the office is because they want to micromanage you. Half the corporations would be dismissed because half the people are managing the other half. The motto in the system is going to change. Mark my word. I think, I believe, I'm pretty sure that we're going to see an upheaval. We're going to see people rioting in corporations when we have to go back to work, when they actually have to get up and go to the office. What's interesting about when you work from home, and I know this is true because I do it every day, is that production seems to be a little different instead of an office. When I'm in an office, I'm unproductive. True story. I'm talking to too many people. I'm listening to the radio, I'm hanging out by the water cooler. You know, I'm not focused. We're talking about 18 things instead of focused on one thing. I'm just not getting anything done. I'm busy talking about a lot of cool stuff but shit ain't getting done. And all I care about is getting shit done. That's what drives me. And you're going to figure out I may be talking to you, actually, you're figuring out you can get your shit done in three hours. And no one knows. No one knows if it took you three or 30 hours to get that done. What they're going to look at is the reports. Did you succeed or fail? What's interesting too is I think the micromanagers, they literally got to be hyperventilating. They know their time is up. See, they're doing reports on reports and the reports are on you. Not progress, not production. They're reporting on individuals. And I know this is true because I see this happen with my mother. She has some dipshit lady in her office that's her boss, so to speak, and tries to make my mom's life a living hell. And unfortunately, my mom's not like me. She goes with it where I'm like, I just could never do that. But her time's up. So I think what's going to happen is these companies that have a thousand employees or whatever, and if production's staying stable, if not growing, I believe it will increase because people's quality of life get better, and they're like, dude, I don't want to go back to shitty office. I'm going to work harder. Not only am I going to work harder, this is a big takeaway. I'm going to work smarter. They're going to realize they can value the company in a different way to make their job better, make their job more profitable. If their job's more profitable, the company makes more money. Do you think if I'm letting someone work from home and they're making me more money than if they're in the office, I'm going to say, hey, we can't do this shit anymore. I need you in the office? Pretty stupid, right? It doesn't even make sense. And I think real companies that are paying attention to this and if they're not, they're going to get wiped out. I believe individuals from afar, sitting at their house or in their garage, office space, wherever they're the most productive away from the office is they're going to be crank. Like, they literally are going to change the way business is done. I think it's normal now. If I called a call center and I heard a dog barking in the background, I wouldn't be turned off by that. I'd never have been because I'm kind of in that world. But I wouldn't be turned off with someone in the background, a kid crying or whatever. I'm not turned off by it. I actually like it. That means they're not just focused on business, they're focused on their life and everything around them. Like they, they, they care about shit. And I'm not saying if you're at an office you don't care about, but like, if you're at an office and you don't like your job, that's going to reflect on our conversations. If I'm calling in as a client, you're going to be short with me, you're going to be quick, you're not going to want to serve me, and it becomes all about you. And because you're trying to hit your numbers, because that's what the Boss told you you got to do because they're looking over your shoulder. See, I've bought and sold many, many, many millions of dollars of real estate. And if you want some real fucking talk, I've been sitting on the shitter and I've done deals and made millions of dollars texting people from the shitter. That's real talk. And I'm not the only one. Everyone I know in my little world has done deals sitting on the toilet because we talk about it. Do I care where you're really at, if you're being productive? Not only that, I think you bring creativity to a different level. See, everyone talks about, hey, man, my best ideas come in the shower. Cool. Why aren't you taking showers all day long then? Dude, ideals are just one part of the pie. Someone has to implement these ideas, right? So what's going to happen is unique abilities are going to get heightened. From virtual standpoint, let's say if I'm great at connecting people, you're great at technology, you're great at visual representation, this and that. All four of us come together. Here's my part, this, your part, Boom. Now we're team collaborating online, virtually, and we put together an amazing piece. I did my best, you did your best, they did their best, etc. Times have changed. It's been forced upon us. It will be forever different. I hope. If you're listening to me, if you are working virtually, you need to work harder than you ever have. You need to let the company know that you're valuable from afar. You need to get your shit done. You need to become a problem solver, not a problem creator. This goes if you're a business owner and or an employee, by the way. The bigger the problem I solve, the more money I make. Solve big problems for people, create solutions. Be thinking about inefficiencies, think about the technology loops like, hey, Steve, you know, if we used XYZ.com, we could communicate so much quicker and get this job done 30% faster. Not only would it be faster, but it also would be better. If you get a product out quicker and it's producing monthly revenue, guess what? The company makes quicker money, the company makes more money and you produce that. That's what's exciting about these times, folks. It's now. So the question is, what type of person are you going to be? And a person is like using this as an excuse. You don't understand, Mark, I'm going to lose it all. Okay? You didn't lose your brain. You didn't lose your experience. You need to wipe the dust off and get back on the saddle and get rolling back. It's your time again. Back to the real estate store. People are still talking shit about 06-0789- etc. Man, it really wiped me out. Get over it. Fuck. It's like that 50 year old guy talking about the winning touchdown in high school. No one gives a shit. You're £300, you can't even bend over, tie your shoes and you're fucking talking about a throw, a winning touchdown. Get a life. We all fuck up, we all have like, and I'm not painting the picture like I have everything figured out. The truth is I don't have shit figured out and that's the biggest thing I know. But I have people that I, that I call upon to help me. I'm building business. Like not only did we hire nine people, I created four, wait, five new partnerships that will produce six figures a month net to me, not counting what it produced to them. And it feeds other stuff that we're working on that's in the last three weeks. Two, three weeks. Plus I have two other prospect prospective deals on the pipeline that could produce seven figures a year for me if I even decide to take them. I'm kind of iffy. That's why they're on the table. And the truth is I'm trying to see what this person, these two people are up to and how they're reacting to what's going on because they should be more profitable right now. This is real talk. I'm just telling you straight, like what's going on here. See, the only real thing that's different for me is I'm not going to the gym, which is interesting because I love leaving, I love my trainer Christian. But like what's interesting at the house, I'm actually working out harder. My body's getting tighter. If you guys don't follow me on Instagram, I'm showing you daily stuff going on over there. What I'm up to, showing you at the home gym, doing the jump ropes, the curls, the kettlebells, you know, all that fun shit, the push ups, et cetera and doing some quick talks there. But like at the end of the day, what's happening is I'm really excelling. Like, I like, I like the struggle, I like the hard. I'm working out twice a day. I haven't had alcohol at all in the last 69 days, 66 days, something like that. Haven't even thought about, I don't Even want it. We were hanging out at the pool a couple days ago because we're quarantined here. We're hanging out the house, me, Dina, Drea and Marco, my son Mark. And instead of drinking rose alcohol, I got a rose bang drink because I need more energy. That's all I need, right? Just to make, maybe to take the edge off. I don't know what it was, but, like, it made me feel like I was hanging out. And not that I need alcohol to hang out, but, you know, it's kind of a social thing, right? And I feel amazing. Like I said, I'm growing my businesses, I'm seeing where we can add to, I'm seeing what we can clean up. I have a new book coming out in like two or three weeks. Stay tuned for that, by the way. I'm super excited to share that with you guys. I have new websites working on. We have new podcast shows we're working on. I'm on a huge podcast show in two days from now, which would be huge because it's got. It's. It's going to be a big show. I'll share with that. More of that later. But like, there's some really neat things happening right now. And what it all comes down to is gratitude. I'm just grateful one to be alive. And by the way, if I lost everything today, I didn't lose everything, because I still have my brain, I still have my heart, I still have my soul. I still have my family. I didn't lose everything. I lost pieces. I lost possessions, but I didn't lose them. I knew exactly where they went. And I learned from it. And I want to learn how to get better, stronger, tighter, how to come back bigger, how to come back meaner. Meaning. Meaning meaner, like in a positive way. I want to. I want to succeed. Think of like Rocky, right when he was down, he had to fight the Russian. You gotta dig deep, gotta grow. My question to you is, what are you learning from this? Because a lot of you have your insecurities starting to sprout up. It's three weeks in. You're starting to see where you're weak. You're starting to see what's causing issues, what's caused issues. You're starting to see why, you know, And I'm talking to people that want to be better. You're starting to say, wow, man, I really am fucking up over. I need to set my game up. Hey, I need to work on this. Hey, I need to hire a person to help me here. All of you guys should be reading more books. All of you should be hiring specialized coaches to help you. All of you should be thinking about smarter retirement revenue money. And when I say retirement money, I'm talking parking money in environments that allow you, when you hit a certain age, to have a lot more money. And I'm not talking a 401 and all that shit. But there's different paths, there's different things depending on what your financial situation is today. If you have a little bit of money or a lot of money. The more I learn about money, the more money I make, go figure, the more money I keep as well. And it's not what I just know, it's also what my team knows, the people I'm surrounding myself around. So if this is something you guys want to learn more about, just let me know over on Instagram, just shoot me a message arkevansdm on Instagram and maybe I'll bring on one of my fiduciaries. I got several Bryce and Jim and maybe my insurance lady, Julie. Like I got people helping me, you know, grow, protect, preserve, expand, and you know, just really dominate my life. And it's not about you or anybody, it's about me. Right? And I think that's what we're realizing is, dude, these Jordan sneakers don't matter. I fucking have a hundred bucks in the bank, but I'm wearing $300 shoes. I have 500 bucks in the bank and I got a thousand dollar Gucci belt. I got 1500 bucks in the bank and I'm driving a fucking Beamer I can't even afford. Like what the fuck are you thinking? You're starting to realize that. You're starting to realize no one gives two shits except you. You don't believe me? At the last event you were at, what was everyone wearing? No one knows because no one cares except the person putting it on. See, I don't worry about that shit. I'm serious. You can watch any of my videos I'm probably wearing. Well, first of all, I wear the same flip flops or the same Lacoste shoes or a pair of white shorts and a black pol pretty much all the time. And I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but maybe you like to be fashion it, but like do it in a different way. Maybe it's time to expand your brain. It's time to expand you. You don't expand the pocketbooks of Gucci and Prada and all this that you don't need while you live in a hundred thousand Dollar house. Like, you gotta get your priorities straight, man. Like, we're on. We're. You're at war with yourself. You're literally stealing from your future every time you do that. And I'm not saying enjoy shit. I enjoy all kinds of shit. But when I had no money. And by the way, even now, I could buy 10,000 more things than I have. But it's not like once you can have it, you really don't even care if you even have it. I'm not chasing it for the thing. I'm chasing it like, wow, shit. True story. I've talked about this and kind of get a little sidetracked here. But, dude, I've done where, you know, something on my vision board might be, you know, my new AP skeleton, that's $120,000 watch or whatever. As soon as I get it, I'm like, cool. I'm on the next thing. It's not like, oh, man, let's look at a cool dude, like, hey, check me out how cool I am. No, it's nothing like that. It's actually the opposite. I get a new car. I've done forgot I bought it three minutes after I bought it. It's more just like a sense of accomplishment. But, like, when you see the watches, when you see the cars and you see the houses, that's like a micro percentage of my wealth. But what's interesting, if I see someone wearing a Gucci belt and brand new shoes and a Beamer, it's like 95% of their wealth that they have on them. And it's not much. It's a problem. I've been pissed, Poor, broken. And I was wearing the same jeans, I was wearing the same T shirts. And I wasn't out buying anything because I didn't have any money to buy anything with. And I wasn't trying to get credit cards to keep up with the Joneses, if you will. But this Corona stuff going on is creating realization at the highest level. And I'm excited for you. I was talking with my buddy Jeremy today, and I'm like, dude, like, nothing's really changed. Like I told you, me going to the gym hasn't changed. That changed. But, like, I'm getting a better workout. I'm seeing the best in it. And then me going up to the clubhouse, hanging out during lunch. Other than that, I'm at home doing the fucking work. I could be sitting out back. You might see me out back smoking a cigar. But who says I can't work sitting out back smoking a cigar? While my kids run around. Who says I can't be working out sitting in the garage typing on the computer at two o' clock in the afternoon? Truth is, as soon as I get done with this podcast show, I'm going to go work out for my second workout. By 4 o' clock in the afternoon, have two workouts done. Have a podcast show done. Have three videos done. Have multiple emails and texts done. And I'm fucking moving forward. And I'll be having dinner with my family. So it's like, what do you want? I think that again, the coronavirus is creating an opportunity to ask yourself, what do you want your fucking life to look like? Not mine, not this guy, not this girl, not that person, not that person. Because first of all, none of these fuckers have it figured out, including me. But what do you want? What does it look like when you wake up? What does it look like when you look in the mirror? What does it look like when you're progressing? Because it's different right now. I have an 11 month old and a 4 and a half year old. My life looks different now than when the kids get out of the house, right? And I don't give a fuck what you think about. Doesn't matter to me. And that's not to be a dick. That's meant to be because I care. Too many of you are worried about what everyone else thinks about you. Listen, if someone's worried about you, that means they're more worried about themselves than you. Don't let them think their bullshit is about. Like even everyone talks about haters. Haters aren't haters. I don't even hear the word haters. They're so excited about us, they're talking about me like you understand. If they're hating on you, they're pissed off at you because they're not you. You got their brain time. They're stealing from themselves and they don't even know it. So why put any attention to it? I can't do anything about it. The only person, the only thing I can control is me. The me economy. Mark Evans, by the way, my initials. But the me economy, it's all about you. And it may sound selfish, and you know what? It is selfish. But dude, if you're not healthy, if you're not financially stable, if you're not expanding your brain to build up a financial empire around your family to take care of not just you, but other people, none of this shit matters anyways. If you're 400 pounds overweight, diabetes out the roof, your Blood pressure's going to. Your heart's going to pop any second. You can't tie your shoes, you can barely move with your kids. Kind of fucking person are you? And I'm saying this because I care. If I didn't care, I'd just sweep it under the rug and move on. But the coronavirus is giving you the. Literally, the world has given you an opportunity that's never been handed to anybody before in our life time. Slow the fuck down. Sit at the house and think and plot and dig and dream. Get vulnerable. Get sincere with yourself. Dig deep into your brain and understand. I need to get better here. I will succeed there. I'm weak there. I need to fill this hole. I need to eliminate this. I need to add to this. And when we do that, we create confidence. Everyone's asking me about confidence and how to get start. Dude, just set a time to get started. I see people, literally, they think they're on fucking vacation, dude. Oh man, I'm waking up so much later. Yeah, man, I'm drinking by 10am too. Ha ha ha. Well, I don't think that's fucking funny. I think it's pretty goddamn stupid, to be honest. You're better than that. It's not serving anybody. Set a time to wake up. 5am Boom. Wake up. Set a time to work out in the morning. Boom. Work out. Set a time to send an email to your team. Boom. Set a time to work on your brain. Boom. Set a time to work out again. Set a time to eat. Right? Set up a meal plan and eat and execute with intention. And every time you do that, inch by inch, hour by hour, your confidence start rising. You start believing your bullshit, which is a good thing. Good bullshit, by the way. This is good confidence. Got up at 5. Keep score for the next 30 days, next 60 days, next 90 days, etc. Got up. Didn't eat sweets. Got up. Didn't check my cell phone. Got up. Worked on my brain. Got up on time. Keep score. This is the perfect opportunity to expand into the person that you're capable of becoming. It's now or never. I don't know what else to tell you. If you can't turn this into gold, I don't know what else you could do. Unfollow me, that's for sure. I can't help you. Fuck sakes. You can't help yourself if you're not willing to dig and understand. Like, listen, I'm not saying you're not going to get scared. I'm not saying you're not going to get anxiety. I'm not saying you're not going to be dry heaving. I'm not saying this isn't going to. This isn't going. This is going to be easy. I'm not saying this isn't going to disrupt people. I'm not going to say that this is. This might hurt some people's feelings. But listen, that's on them, not you. They got to deal with their own shit. Let them sort that shit out. You focus on you. Work on your plan, work on your goals, work on your strengths. Find some help to work on your weaknesses. Now's the time to stack up. Now's the time to get tighter with your diet. Not sloppier. Now's the time to get up earlier, not later. Now's the time to invest in yourself more, not less. Now's the time to go all in. Not lollygag around. You were meant to be so much more. And the world literally is saying, hey, you can't go out of the fucking house. Let's slow it down. That's how I see this. I think we got another three to six, ten weeks left, minimum. And the normal will not be normal. It's going to take a long time for people to want to get into big crowds. It's going to take a decent amount of time for the flights to be back up to par. I think a year and a half, two years maybe. People are scared, people are confused, people are overwhelmed. They're not really paying attention to real science. They're looking at fake science to make decisions. That's a whole nother story, a whole nother topic. But, like, all I can say is I'm super honored to be here. I'm so fucking excited for what's about to happen in this world. Because they need entrepreneurs. We will hire the people. We will bring this country fucking back. Stronger, bigger, tighter, more resilient than ever. But we have to unite. But it all starts with us as an individual. First, learn, expand. Dig deep. Really, really dig deep. And I don't care if you go and sit in your garage or outside or wherever your place is for 24 hours to come up with one thing that will make you a better person. You owe it to yourself, you owe it to your future self to really ask and start questioning this shit. Why are they selling me retirement? Because that's what you keep people. Why are they selling me this? What's the angle? Why are they thinking like that? What are they telling me that for? Why are they. Why are they doing the old 401k held hostage piece. Why like, and I'll say this and then we'll move on here in a second, but like, they're allowing people, and this is a big fucking problem by the way. They're allowing people to take $100,000 out of their 401k without tax penalties. Well, Mark, there's a lot of people hurting and they really need the money. Listen, I get it, but you got to remember money is not always the problem. If you don't have money and you need Money this quick, 100 G's in the first three weeks. Your problem is you don't know how to handle money. I promise. Listen, you don't have to take anything I say at all for whatever. Pay attention. When people start getting these refund checks and all this other shit, they're handing out money like water. I promise you, Nike sales goes up. Amazon sales goes up. Apple iPhones go up. Because people don't know how to manage their money. They think things make them important. They think things make them significant. See, money is not the problem. When I was broke, I was the problem. When I have money, I'm the problem. It's all about me as an individual. We have to learn about this stuff. We have to come to grips with reality. And I'm telling you, it's very scary because what happens, and you guys should be pissed off because what happens is us once in 20, 30 years from now. Let's say if you're 40 years old and you pull out 100 grand and you have 125 sitting in there now for the last 20 years, you put it saved 125 grand. Why do you think in the next 25 years before you retire, if you will, why do you think you're going like that? 100 grand could compound and become worth so much more. What if you're sick? What if something happens at 62 or 52? Like, there's so many problems with it. Like, it's okay to struggle. It's okay to dig deep. It's okay to fucking eat dog shit for a while. Eat dirt. It's okay. Have some humility. Say, guys, I'm a fuck up, I messed this shit up, but it ain't happening again. That gives you strength. That's not weakness. That gives you strength, by the way. And if someone thinks it's weak, it's they're weak. That says more about them than you. You're better than that. I truly believe you have to minimize. You have to really tighten up you have to really get real with yourself and come to grips with reality that this shit, you're in control of it 100%, come hell or high water. It's all about you. It's your life. And I want you to have the best life in the world. I want you to be the best provider, the best leader, the best individual that you can be. I can't do it for you. I'm still working on my shit every day. And I will continue till I die. And what's cool about this stuff that we're talking about is once you start realizing this reflection that we're doing, you're getting with yourself and having real conversations, like real personal conversations with yourself, you're coming clean. It's almost like confession to yourself. Like, dude, you're so full of shit. You can't do that. You're all talk, man. You don't need that car. Sell that piece of shit anyways. It's in the shop more than you drive. It costs you $1,100 a month. Get it off your books. I mean, I could go on and on and on, but this is a great time to like, capture this time with yourself. Capture this time with your loved ones and set a plan to implement and crush it. Don't just talk about it, do something about it. It's your time. It's now or never. I'm thinking about you guys. I appreciate all the comments. Thank you for following me over on Instagram, follow me, going to my website and opting in. I have a lot of cool free resources over@markevansdm.com plus, if you're not following me on Instagram, ar Evans, DM, you're missing the boat. Truly are doing some cool stuff over there on the daily videos and all that stuff. A lot of stories, really sharing some powerful content. A lot of amazing people over there. So thank you guys for that. I'm here for you. I'm rooting for you. We're in the fucking midst of it, though, and I'm telling you, I'm more excited than I've ever been. I swear to you. Me and the guys we're talking to every day, we're excited. We're seeing great opportunities. We're seeing huge momentum. Don't let the news and media drive your emotions. Shut that shit off. Get focused on you and focus on what you can control. And when you do that, you will be freed from all the bullshit. It's time that we take charge. It's now or never, baby. Thinking about you guys have an amazing day. If you need anything, hit me up with that. Said, make today count.

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