Daily Motivations - GET UP AND GET IT DONE IN 2025

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND GET IT DONE IN 2025! Advice from the hardest man alive. Speakers: David Goggins Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Kindly support us Supp...ort Us

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Starting point is 00:01:19 Get 25% off at ritual.com slash clinical. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration this product is not intended to diagnose treat cure or prevent any disease there's a lot of thought behind a person being a born loser becoming who I am today you know this wake up and just rocky you gotta wake up and think about you know there's a process to getting better and that process is never finished. Like a lot of times if your back is hurting it may not be your back. It may be something else in your bias making your back hurt. For me I'm like
Starting point is 00:02:04 man why can't I get past this hurdle? It's like I said, I'm always examining myself every day. What is it, what is it? Well, there's only one thing you haven't examined yet, and it's going back to the beast, going back to the demon. All the fucking times that I was like, I'm not going back, and I went back, I'm not going back, and I went back, I'm not going back, and I went back, I'm not going back, and I went back.
Starting point is 00:02:28 It showed me even more of what we have as humans. If we're willing to go there, and we're willing to push that extra step. I'll be like, man, how do you do what you do? At the end of the day, I ask myself one question, can I take one more step? And usually the answer is yes so if you can answer that question and not take another step that
Starting point is 00:02:51 is real failure that is real quitting so a lot of people can take one more step but they choose not to I don't know if you can take two steps you get to answer that question after you take the first step. But I can always take one more step, so if I choose not to, that's on me. I gotta live with that. I had just climbed a mental wall that was amazing. And I didn't want anybody to take that pain away from me at that point, because that was all confirmation. So for me, this was the new level.
Starting point is 00:03:28 You don't need a lot of things. Sometimes, only thing that kept me with that one step forward was one thing. Let's not quit yet, God, because let's think about your options. Where are you gonna end up if you quit this shit? Where are you gonna go? And when I got done with that race, it's the worst pain. Where are you going to go?
Starting point is 00:03:45 And when I got done with that race, it's the worst pain. I can't even describe the pain of that last 30 miles to anybody. No one, it's very hard. So when it ended and I'm laying there in the worst pain of my entire life. I'm shaking, I'm jacked up, and all I could think about was I can't believe what I had just done. To me it was humanly impossible to even think about going 30 more miles in that shape. And once you do it, what came over me when that shower hit me and the reality hit that I spent 101 miles and that last 31 miles was something that I can't even describe to people and what's amazing
Starting point is 00:04:31 about the human mind is that it becomes your new norm. Like to think that I can run 200 miles 240 miles and that becomes like running 50 I never thought that was possible. This is why I'm always pushing that limit because I know that within pushing these limits, there's always more. Did that set the tone or the rhythm for what you wanted to try and achieve and feel again
Starting point is 00:05:00 each time that you're pushing further? I never wanted to feel it again. I never want to feel it again. I never want to feel it again. But what it did was it showed me what is possible. And that's what set the new stage for me. That's when I realized, oh man, I've really been underachieving my entire life. But it taught me what is possible.
Starting point is 00:05:24 It taught me like, okay okay I got it. Check. I'm about action and action means less talking and more doing. So that's where I've been. It only takes one second for you to lose the whole thing. So the one second decision is just that. You're in a situation where life is sucking. Let's say you're in extreme cold water and your life is flashing before your eyes. Every time that wave goes over your head, your thought process is, I gotta get the fuck out of this water.
Starting point is 00:05:59 And you're in hell week. And you're hour one of 130 fucking hours. It's cold I can't be cold this long and then this is where that one second decision comes in. You forgot every reason why you wanted to be there. You don't care about seals, you don't care about any of this, you don't care about fighting for your country. All you want to do is go back home. You want the warmth, you may want something to eat. All those things of comfort are there in that one second. And this is where people lose. So what I do in that one second, because we
Starting point is 00:06:31 all think about quitting when it's hard. But what you have to do in that one second is hard to process information during pain. Because that pain takes over and you can't think rationally. You're thinking about fight or flight, save yourself. That's not a rational thought. It's not a thought that's gonna get you through hard times. Most people fail that one second. So what happens, what I do, I start thinking logically. I calm my brain down because your brain just wants to get the fuck out. It's about gaining control of your mind, putting things back in the proper perspective, and then saying, I really do want to be here. I'm going to have a bunch of these one seconds and I have to learn to control these because
Starting point is 00:07:22 if I fail one of these one seconds, I will not a seal I will not be a doctor I will not be a lawyer I will not be whatever the it is so that's how important that one second decision is it's all about your mind takes control of you you have to say you I run this mother there's no other way to make it out here. I mean you can't just always be, you know, head down in the sand. You have to learn to pick yourself up on your own. A lot of times these fights and these battles, you got to be your own coach, you got to be your own motivator. Because there's a lot of people in this world who don't want to see you make it because
Starting point is 00:08:01 they think you could take a piece of their pie. But I've learned to study people before I react. Because there's no successful person in the world who's in a good head space that's going to ever attack anyone in that kind of manner. There's always going to be something wrong with them. So you got to always dive a little deeper before you get your feelings hurt. Take time. Take that one second to pull back and study
Starting point is 00:08:26 them because most people who are in good places they don't they don't care about what you're doing they don't care about what you're doing they don't try to destroy you they actually will try to build you up versus destroy who you are as a person so that's where I'm at now in life is most people who do that do it in a very dark, dark place. As you get bigger, as you get more successful, you open the door for people to critique every f**king thing you do. And most of the people who are critiquing you usually aren't where you are. And all their critiquing comes from people who are really at a low level of life, which is sad. But what we do, people who are on the upper level hearing the
Starting point is 00:09:13 haters at the lower level, like I said, you'll never meet a hater doing better than you. True statement. So I started making these mixtapes with all of these hate messages about people talking sh-t and it became such a source of fuel that it was amazing because I know why you hate me. You hate me because you're probably in the bed right now, you're probably an underachiever, you're probably somebody who doesn't want to do anything with your life. So I make you question everything about yourself. So I'm going to continue making you question yourself by coming out here and being even more successful.
Starting point is 00:09:58 So what happens is there's days where I'm like, you know what? I really don't want to do this today. I'm like, oh, hang on. really don't want to do this today. And I'm like, oh hang on. So I listen to that while I run. I sometimes play it in the house. It's half comical, it's half inspiring. I'm actually inspired by it. Because I know I'm going to get hit in the f***ing mouth.
Starting point is 00:10:21 There's an art to getting hit in the f***ing mouth. And that is why these things are important you have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief you have to give yourself confidence that it starts with that run belief is like there's an after-school special belief where the mom says believe in yourself and that's all great, but there's also a built belief. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put myself through. So that's proof positive that I can.
Starting point is 00:10:57 You don't become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. Outwork your self-doubt. Yes. But by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are out work yourself doubt Yes, because a lot of people is if you wake up in the morning pound your chest Look at yourself in the mirror and do all this I hope it works. What works for me is that everyday resume? The things I know of accomplices things I know I've done, real hard work, the real calluses on my mind, the real calluses on my hands, that's it.
Starting point is 00:11:31 You must build belief. You must build confidence and say, I can knock that shit out. Instead of the path of least resistance, I started choosing the path of most resistance to prepare myself for the journey that was coming my way. And you realize through hard work, you can outwork anybody. You know how badass they are? It starts with yourself, man. Man, how badass they are. It starts with yourself, man.
Starting point is 00:12:06 You gotta start diving into those things that you're afraid of. You don't gain confidence by going to a spot that makes you feel good. It's gonna be a false reality. In the second life, it gives you that challenge. All you wanna do is go back to what gave you confidence. Is that happy spot? No. What gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write all my own.
Starting point is 00:12:34 Realizing I can't learn the way you learn. I can't. But I can learn. What gives you confidence not being afraid is overcoming the fear. That's what gives you confidence not being afraid is overcoming the fear. That's what gives me confidence is facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them and facing them and facing them pretty soon like this.
Starting point is 00:12:57 You know what man, this is where it's at. It's not in that comfort zone. It's in the discomfort zone is where my confidence is getting built. That's where it's getting built. Happiness, peace, enlightenment, it's all up here man. It's all up here. It's all up here. You just gotta be willing to go and face it and that's the hard part. The physical standard is not what they need to meet. It's a mental standard you must meet in life.
Starting point is 00:13:34 That's how I live my life. I now know that there is no cap on the human mind. There's no cap. We cap it ourselves. When most people quit, I had just started. And when you take that mindset and you're going to flip that around, that's what made me powerful and my body followed. And so I said, I want to do this.
Starting point is 00:14:04 I'm going to give myself a challenge every single day until the fear goes away. That's right. And I feel like that's what more of us should be doing I'm hearing that that's what you how you live your life. It's all it is man. And it helps me feel so much more confident when you overcome that fear of saying this doesn't have control over me anymore. It's like you can get such more peace. It's like you can get something from our peace. A lot of us speak in hollow words.
Starting point is 00:14:29 I used to speak in hollow words. I don't do it anymore. Everything that comes out of my mouth has substance. It's real. We all have these feelings in our bodies, in our minds, in our souls. I act on mine. A lot of us who are afraid of something, we allow our minds to choose the path that leads resistance so we go a different route. I'm afraid of something that's telling me you must do that.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Life is one big mind game and you're playing it with yourself. You cannot lose perspective of where you've come in life. I'm trying to give people a different thought process of life where failure, hell, disappointment, discomfort is a great learning tool. And many people don't understand that, but it's these few moments in life that you have like for me I always talk about it Rocky won round 14 that one two minute in 13 second clip of Rocky getting up
Starting point is 00:15:39 when Apollo knocked him down when Apollo knocked him down. That one clip when I was going through a very bad time in my life, I saw what I wanted to be. There wasn't a guy that won. There wasn't a guy that won everything he did. It was a guy that kept getting up after being knocked down. So I realized that that two minutes and 13 seconds changed my life
Starting point is 00:16:05 it's all what's I saw something that I needed to be in the world I was living in. Maybe my story will give someone to two minutes and 13 seconds they need to change their life. Everybody's got a story. We don't share it on social media. We share our nice life on social media. We all have a dungeon. I'm just willing to talk about mine. Mental toughness isn't something that you sample. It's something that you live in every day.
Starting point is 00:16:40 Whenever hardness comes, and you know what it is, it may be different for you than it is for me, but you go back to your insecurities, and then when you go back to your insecurities, you then look for comfort within those insecurities, and we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad, when you were sick. We look for our wife or our husband. We look for comfort. It's in those moments you must retrain your mind to think differently in hell. The mental standard is you must know how far you've come. I walk in the room now and I know the hours and years and decades I put into David Goggins. That's something, it's not on the wall. It's not a trophy on the wall.
Starting point is 00:17:32 It's not a medal around your neck. I don't care how you perceive David Goggins because through my journey I figured out the one piece I was missing. I thought it was cars. I thought it was women. I thought it was money. I thought it was women, I thought it was money, I thought it was everything. The one piece I was missing was me having the courage
Starting point is 00:17:49 to face myself. Where I got my work ethic from was the hours I had to spend learning this. When you sit down and you're not smart, you have a disability, and you still want to be at the top of your class, I didn't want to just get by. When I realized that I can learn, do hard work, and I can beat the valedictorian in school, but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does.
Starting point is 00:18:19 You know what kind of strength comes from that? When you're sitting down and that valedictorian is waiting for an hour, and you know I caught you. I have the work ethic to catch you. That's where David Gaga's got really invented. Was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty, and then they were full. And when you can go through that, I still have them in my storage unit.
Starting point is 00:18:42 You go through these spiral notebooks of your life life and you realize this is how I learned. This is unbelievable. It wasn't until I got real sick and my life got real quiet. I went from running 205 miles in 39 hours to I couldn't get out of bed. My life was taken from me And that's when I realized I hadn't taken time think about what I've done in my life I've done all these things, but there was no finish line. I finished a race of life Now we need to receive my medal I go on I
Starting point is 00:19:21 Get in the car and I go when I started figuring out life That I was I was leaving so much so much that it was my god, man I was just dumb fat kid being bullied and now I'm a hundred eighty pound person lost 106 pounds in less than three months Learn to read learn to do this learn to do that. I was like I need more I was fueling my mind with everything. I never took time to say my god you came from this hell and you're here I come 8,000 miles from where I started but if you never know that you're still in the seven dollar a month place So it's that quiet place
Starting point is 00:20:03 It's that place by yourself. It's those hours and years and decades by yourself in the grip of life. When life has you by the throat and choking you out and you're sitting there calm because you're trying to figure it out. You're not panicking. You're not quitting. You're not throwing the towel. You're saying there's a way around this. And when you figure it out, when life has you gripped in advice and you can figure that out, that's when you overcome. That's when you overcome. The journey getting there was harder than going through it. You know? So that's the whole thing about life, man. It's that journey that makes you who you are.

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