Level Up Your Life

Are you living your life to the fullest? Are you truly "leveling up" your life? If you are, you will realize that your life will always be stunted as long as you live it only for yourself. In this episode, Mark shares strategies for finding ways to make a bigger impact by dedicating your life to a bigger purpose. When we serve others we widen our impact and simultaneously make ourselves happier in the process.

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Two-time transplant survivor, four-time marathon runner, speaker, and coach Mark Black welcomes you to the Level Up Your Life Podcast. If you're here that means you are ready to take some necessary steps to change your life. One of the wonderful things about this podcast is Mark doesn't focus on just your work or just your relationships. He encompasses your entire life: work, finance, relationships, fitness, emotional & mental wellbeing. He wants you to join him on the next level and with his advice, you surely will. Take a deep cleansing breath, grab a notebook and a pen, and get ready to make the changes you've been thinking about making!

In this episode, Mark talks about simplicity. We live in a complicated world of technology and many options on how to do things, but when we make things simpler we de-stress. We live multi-faceted lives and it's very easy for life to get complicated. Why would we want to make things simpler?

• Better execution
• • Mark gives an example of being on a specific diet for 5 years. People don't typically stay on diets because they're complicated: points, counting calories, weighing food . . . etc. He has been able to stay on this diet because it's a black and white - eat this, don't eat this and requires very little effort on his part.
• Allows us to be consistent - easier to automate
• • Doing something once is great (and better than not ever doing it at all), but it won't change your bottom line. Doing something consistently helps us make the changes we want to make in our lives.
• Allows ideas and strategies to expand
• • Mark gives an example of charity walks: sign up, put on shoes, go and walk.
  • Popular best selling toys of all time: yo-yo and silly putty (SIMPLE).
• Reduces stress
• • Expanding on exercise example: get up, go to the gym, come home shower, and go back to work/home. You can get the same amount of exercise at home.
  • Pre-prepared meals
• Allows you to focus at a greater level
• •  is a key element in getting results
  • • Focusing the suns rays can burn a hole in a paper
    • Time, energy, desire
  • Mark discusses the financial structure his family has been using.
  • One thing at a time

Practical ways you can simplify your life:

• You must buy into the idea that simpler is better
• Take all of your bills and set them to autopay
• • Automate everything in your life that you can
• Simplify your wardrobe
• • Narrow it down to the core of what you wear
  • • A row of t-shirts, a row of jeans, a row of skirts, a row of suites
    • Decision fatigue
• Meal prep
• Utilizing your calendar/task manager

Challenge: simplify your thinking

"If you can't explain something at a fifth-grade level, you don't understand it."

"Multitasking is perhaps the greatest lie perpetrated on working people in the last couple of decades."

"When we simplify what we're doing it allows us to have a deeper level of focus."

"If a process is not difficult or complex it allows easy execution and encourages consistency."

"Focused effort creates better results."

"Decision fatigue - make   a non-decision."

"Anything you do more than one time warrants trying to make things simpler"

"We tend to think we get complex and sophisticated."

"It takes true genius to take things down and make it simple."

"Don't live every day like it's your last day. Just be alive every day."

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Everyone wants to achieve success. The question is: what does "success" really mean and, more importantly, how do you get it?

Most of us have taught about success in the wrong way. We have been taught to set goals, create actions to pursue those goals, and then enjoy the rewards. The problem with this model is that it makes your happiness contingent on your results. To HAVE what you want, you have to DO what it takes, and then you can BE happy. Have-Do-Be is a broken model. In this episode, Mark suggests flipping that model on its head: Be-Do-Have. Focus first on your identity and who you want to become; then discern the actions that kind of person would take; so that you can have the things that kind of person would have.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why the Have, Do, Be model of success is broken
• Where real happiness comes from and how to achieve it (did you know lottery winners are no happier than you are?
• Why you have to get "right with yourself" first before you can ever hope to have what you want
• How to think about your goals in a different way that are based in IDENTITY rather than in RESULTS

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Are you chasing the right things? Have you pursued goals only to find out that they weren't what you really wanted?

Have you reached a peak and found out that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be?

In this week's episode, Mark talks about the dangers of blindly pursuing goals purely for the sake of racking up achievements and building a good resume.  Instead, Mark proposes getting clear about your priorities and values and pursuing the things that matter most first.

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Welcome to Level Up Your Life with Mark Black.  In this week's episode, we're talking about happiness; what it is and how to have more of it.  Want to learn how to be happier? Would you like to know the simple strategies to make yourself happier?  Tune in to this episode and adopt a new outlook!

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Everyone wants to be more productive. After all, who wants to waste time? In this episode, we talk about some simple, but powerful strategies that you can implement into your life and your work, to help you get the most from your efforts.

It isn't about working more, it's about getting more done in the same amount of time.

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Welcome back to another episode of Level Up Your Life! On this week's episode, Mark Black is talking all about routines and why we need them! From waking up in the morning, to doing our job, to going to bed at night, the day is full of opportunities to put things on autopilot so that we just don't have to think about them anymore! Mark shares a ton of real, day to day examples of where a routine would help, and even goes a step further and teaches us how to create a routine for ourselves that we can stick to! Ready to create a routine that supports your success? Click play and get ready to Level Up!

• Why bother setting up a routine?

• The real story behind decision fatigue: how it works and how a routine helps to diminish the impact of it.

• Routines lead to habits, and habits lead to successfully achieving your goals!

• Beware of the trap that can come with routines: being too comfortable to experience new things.

• No two routines are created equal, the best routine is the one you can stick to!

• A framework to build the best routine for you.

"Having a routine and implementing it and sticking to it consistently helps me to be more effective in a number of ways"

"Routines can help us not have to think about certain things"

"There is not one right way to do this"

"Any time you have something in your life that you need to execute well, it can be helpful to have a routine around it"

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Are you looking to have a breakout year next year? The kind of year that sets you apart from the person you've routinely been, and catapults your life into a place that you can truly feel proud and accomplished? The kind of year where you cast of the shackles of fear and go after something huge or make a significant change that lasts? If that's the case and this sounds like you, then you're going to need a framework in place to help you get there. In this week's episode of Level Up Your Life, Mark Black talks us through the processes and framework he uses year after year to ensure that his impact is as big as it possibly can be. He also shares some tips and insights on how to plan, set goals, and what to do when you find yourself losing steam! This is a great one, so click play, tune in and share the message!

• Is your purpose clearly defined?
• What does success look like for you as a person?
• What do you want the next year to look like?
• What do you want to create?
• How many steps are between Point A and Point B?
• The secret may just be a little less conversation and a little more action.

"No great thing happens haphazardly"

"We need to know the why before we get into the what's and the how's"

"How do you want to feel?"

"The more intentional you are about what you really want, the better the odds of achieving those things"

"Do you need to set aside time for yourself?"

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Why look back at all? What's the point? In Today's episode of Level Up Your Life, our for-the-most-part fearless host Mark Back talks about why looking back is often necessary in order to move forward. If all you ever do is plow ahead, accomplishing the things you set out to accomplish without reflection, you may find yourself burned out, tired, or even getting nowhere. It's possible that simply looking back at the things you've done well, or things that haven't worked could provide answers that you may have missed! Hindsight is pretty amazing when you allow it to work for you! Wondering how to make reflection just as productive as moving forward? Click play and tune in!

• What is the biggest mistake that people make at the end of every year?
• Why does looking back matter?
• Appreciate how far you have actually come.
• An exercise for stopping, starting and continuing habits.
• You're either learning or succeeding, which are you doing?

"A meaningful, purposeful life does not happen by accident"

"In order to move forward and get the most out of the experience, you first have to know where you've been"

"If you've been making an effort, you've made progress"

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This week on the podcast, our guest is Dr. Greg Wells! Dr. Wells is a health and performance expert, scientist and physiologist. He has dedicated his career to making the science of human limits understandable and actionable.

For over 25 years, Dr. Wells has worked with some of the highest-performing individuals on the planet, including Olympic and World champions, and with organizations ranging from General Electric to BMO, Deloitte, KPMG, BMW, Audi, Sysco Foods, YPO and Air Canada.

A veteran endurance athlete, Dr. Wells has participated in the grueling Nanisivik Marathon 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Ironman Canada and the Tour D'Afrique, an 11,000 km cycling race that is the longest in the world. 

Dr. Wells is author of three best-selling books: Superbodies (Get it here: https://amzn.to/2Ss7xZr) The Ripple Effect (Get it here: https://amzn.to/2YkSKF7 Focus Effect (Get it here: https://amzn.to/2St9PHy)

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Wells about his advice on how to level up our lives. He gave many great insights! Don't miss them.