Hey, what's up, beautiful bell cast listeners. Welcome to another episode. I'm Geo and I'm part and I'm excited like crazy for you because this is your first week in your entire life in my whole little 37 years on this little planet of doing my 3736 jujitsu. You are going to be 38.

No, yeah, 38 this year. I'm gonna be 30 motherfucking eight. You're pretty much starting to jiu jitsu when you're almost 40. That's awesome. I don't think about the age at all. Yeah, I think more about the mindset and I feel like entering it at the perfect time.

Really? Why?

Why the mindset not the age? Yeah. Like, why would you start a sport when you're about to be put in a retirement home?

Because I mean, age is nothing but a number, you know, like Alia once saying if you want to make yourself feel better. Yes. Yes, well, it is age is literally nothing but a number. This is the best shape I've ever felt that I've been in. This is the best I feel like I've ever looked. Yeah.

My mind is just so full of fucking endless possibilities that I'm just on like on this really cool life tip, I guess.

What's this life tip all about?

About really loving myself, loving myself and wanting to see the best for myself. I think we had this conversation maybe like a few weeks back.

Are you saying that you wanted to do jiu jitsu before, but you just were in the right mind, right?

I never wanted to do jiu jitsu. I never wanted to do any contact sports. I never wanted. Yeah, I did. I just don't like it. I like watching it. I'm a big UFC fan, but me partaking in that shit.

Fuck no, because I'm a big pussy. What does that all have to, how does that tie in then like having the right mindset now to now wanted your jiu jitsu?

Like was something holding you back from wanting to do jiu jitsu? You didn't even want to do it before.

Well, a lot of things changed in my life over the few years that we've talked about on this podcast. We've talked about on other people's podcasts, like in our videos and stuff.

And this year, I really want to push my limits. I really want to push my body to its physical limits. I want to push my mind to its, you know, there's no physical limits in your mind.

But like the mind limits, I just really want to force myself to do things that the voices in my head say like, nast, straight away from that shit.

Like don't do that. Like, yeah, like, because now I understand that that's all like the ego, right? Like that's the ego kind of trying to protect itself and and wanting to feel comfortable in a safe space.

So any time I hear that voice say like, nah, don't do that. I'm more like, ah, fuck, I got to do that now.

Shit, you know, like if I'm having like a conversation with like a loved one and it's like, well, don't say that.

But if it's, I know it's coming from a right, a good place. And I'm like, ah, fuck, I have to say that now or I have to do these actions or whatever.

So that's what the mindset has to do with it. And I'm, it's crazy to me because I'm like, I'm terrified of, of confined spaces like

claustrophobia my whole life. There's lots of things that the thing that made me like super, because you already took two privates in the matter of one week.

Yeah. And the part that's the most surprising for me is you're not really baby stepping because right after this podcast, you're going to take another private class.

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