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Because The Real CEO Sits Between Your Ears

July 19, 20253 min read

Before you master the world, master your mind.

True power does not come from external control but from internal mastery. A disciplined mind can navigate challenges, overcome fear, and remain resilient in adversity. When you gain control over your thoughts, emotions, and reactions, you naturally influence the world around you.

Lamont D. Bell

🔥 Real Talk: Most People Build Backwards

They start with logos, business names, Instagram handles, and shiny ideas. But here’s the truth nobody’s teaching in underserved communities: If you don’t run your mind, your mind will run your business — into the ground.

Before you talk strategy, money, or marketing, you need to become the CEO of your thoughts, your discipline, your vision.

Why? Because every part of your business — decisions, momentum, execution — flows from your mental operating system. If that system is still stuck in survival mode, nothing you build will last.

YOU VS. YOU

📜 My Story: Proof from the Pavement

I didn’t grow up with access. I didn’t get a financial literacy course or a rich uncle. I came out of a decade-long prison sentence with nothing but a GED and a temp job paying $8.50 an hour.

Fast forward: I worked my way up to a $75K management role, got fired, and built two businesses with my wife from scratch — one to six figures, the other thriving in five. Not because I knew how to scale… but because I knew how to shift.

The biggest move I ever made? Learning to control my mind before trying to control outcomes.

💡 What’s a “Relentless Mindset” Anyway?

It’s the belief that nothing outside of you is bigger than what’s inside you.

It’s learning how to:

✅Break mental habits that keep you in fear or failure

✅Create structure in a life that never had any

✅Move with purpose even when doubt creeps in

✅Choose long-term growth over short-term comfort

It’s not hype. It’s not “just be positive.” It’s mental leadership.

✍️ 3 Core Shifts That Changed Everything for Me

1. Intentionality Over Impulse

I stopped reacting to life and started leading it. Every move became strategic — from how I spent my mornings to how I approached money.

2. Vision Before Hustle

I had to SEE where I was going before I ran there. Hustle without vision is just motion.

3. Habits Over Hype

It wasn’t a $10K coach. It wasn’t a mastermind. It was waking up, making the right choices, and doing it again — until it became who I was.

🛠️ Your Action Step: Start With the Inner Work

Before you build the Corporation's, buy the domain, or drop your next logo — stop and ask yourself:

Am I showing up like the leader I want to become?

Are my daily habits aligned with long-term freedom?

Am I mentally equipped to lead others… or just surviving?

If the answer isn’t a hard yes — start with your mindset.

🚀 Ready to Build From the Inside Out?

That’s why I built Relentless Mindset — not to give you fluff, but to hand you the blueprint I wish I had when I came home.

📌 Want to shift your mindset and start building from real foundation?

👉 Book a 1-on-1 Mindset Mastery Intensive

👉 Learn about the CEO From Within Program

Your past doesn’t disqualify you. It just means you’ve got more to prove.

Let’s build something that lasts — starting with you.

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