Daily Motivations - If It Was Easy, Everyone Would Do It

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

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drive safely. Limited inventory available. But guess what happens when that alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m. to train? I don't want to be a seal today. I don't want to be whatever today. I'll start tomorrow. And that's the usual pattern of people's lives. That's why until you really want to do something, you're always going to be a talker. You write in the book, there is no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient. What do you say to those viewers that don't pursue their dreams and are locked in their careers because they are too afraid to take risks and

pursue something meaningful. Well, the first thing I would say is well, you should be afraid of taking risks and pursuing something meaningful. But you should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable. I'm gonna say something to you. You're smart, you're talented, you know a few things, but talent means nothing in this game if you don't make the right choices. There's plenty of talented people out there who never see the light of day anymore. Last thing, takes discipline. Because this whole game is one big long shot and if you don't have the discipline to stay away from the flyers or from the gambles or whatever else you want to call a stupid wolf, then my friend I'm

afraid to say one day you will go down. It's inevitable. You want my advice? Make a list of everything you want now. And then plan on spending the next 25 years of your life getting it. Slowly, piece by piece. Don't rely on social media. Put it down, turn it off, shut up, Be quiet. Learn. Read. Relax.

Get better. First part of your life you learn. Second part of your life you earn. There are days you're not going to want to do it. Sure. And everybody has those days. But it's what you do on those days that help you move forward. Fierce debate has overtaken the country as to whether America's work ethic is dying.

Most people who claim to be perfectionists are not perfectionists. They're actually procrastinating because they're not doing anything. And so it just is a socially acceptable label because the real perfectionists feel this sickness where they want to itch their skin off until the things done But they are trying to get it done promise yourself that you will never you'll always give it everything you got We put limitations on ourselves as humans. We think that 10 or 15 is enough. There's more in you. There's always more in you There's always five more reps squatting is very religious life offers you opportunities

Squatting is one opportunity. You can either stay afraid of the opportunity or you can take it. I want to be an actor man. I want to be an actor just like you. You know usually people say stuff to me like that. I'm like yeah man you know you do this give them an encouraging word but I was just sitting here thinking and it dawned on me 99 percent of people that say stuff like that are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true. The Marines have a saying, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die and that's just real. At the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline. It's not about your

body as much as it is about your mind. It's getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest. How you gain mental toughness, how you become the person you want to be, is constantly facing the things that you don't want to face. If you constantly run away from things that you don't want to face. If you constantly run away from things that you don't want to face, how is their growth? Everything about discipline. Everything about discipline and every day and every day every day like you know train, sleep, eat, repeat, you know everything about mental. You know it's like when you become

champion what you feel like and I said in my mind, I was always champion. You're paying a price by sitting there being miserable. You might say, well, the devil I know is better than the one I don't. It's like, don't be so sure of that. The clock is ticking. And if you're miserable in your job now and you change nothing in five years,

you'll be much more miserable and you'll be a lot older. The most important question to ask is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Anything worthwhile is going to require some degree of pain and struggle. So if you're oriented toward the pain and the struggle, you're probably going to be more aligned with what you're capable of accomplishing rather than if you just orient toward the pleasures. rather than if you just orient toward the pleasures. Earn this.

I've never met a person who was not successful, that didn't have a great amount of self-discipline within their life. Self-discipline and being able to perform and being able to keep your life on schedule and being able to keep commitments and promises and meet deadlines Is essential to success? You should push yourself beyond your limits of tolerance in your 20s to find out where it is

How much can you work? How disciplined can you become? Like can you work 12 hours a day? Can you work eight hours a day? Can you work three hours a day like flat out? Like, can you work 12 hours a day? Can you work 8 hours a day? Can you work 3 hours a day? Like, flat out. Where's your limit? You should find out. Push yourself past, and then back off to that point where it's optimally sustainable.

Importantly, we understand, though, that it's not easy. But that if you discipline yourself to do the things you need to do, when you need to do them, the day's gonna come when you can do the things you want to do When you want to do them Most people don't have that kind of self-control and discipline All most people have to do is when the alarm goes off Get up wash yourself brush your teeth eat something go to work do whatever minimal amount you have to do to keep

that job and then and the bathroom breaks and whenever no one's looking look through your phone be distracted come home watch Netflix go to sleep repeat that's most people you have to control your mind you have to be able like if your mind starts getting anxious okay i know we know we're getting weird, it's time to work out. Okay I know maybe we should meditate, maybe we should do this, maybe we should do that. Don't just keep scrolling. Every day is a battle because your mind wants to choose the path of least resistance. Every day. But you don't become better by by ever doing that. You become normal and I don't want to be normal. Get yourself disciplined. Well why? Well not so you're a slave but so that you could be a master. The road

to sustained happiness is through disciplining your behavior. You almost have to be insane a little bit to have such blind faith in something that you can't see. Did you know that only 1% of people are naturally extraordinarily gifted at something? Think genius, think savant. Do you know what that means for us, the other 99 plus percent of people? If we're going to do anything great in this life, it is going to require

discipline. So when you're obsessed with something, it doesn't require discipline because you can't wait to do it again. Mike Tyson said best, he said, discipline is doing something you hate, but doing it like you love it. To get anywhere in life, you have to work extremely hard and you have to be disciplined. If you wanted to be a great piano player, there's no drug you can take, there's no self-help book, there's no guru. You got to spend five years, ten years learning it until it becomes something the second nature. There are no shortcuts. But if you learn that from an early age, like ten years old or whatever,

you see after a few years that an incredible pleasure happens, where now you have mastery of this piano and you can play things you could never play before. Suddenly the whole thing opens up, this whole new universe. And that's the paradigm for everything meaningful in life. If you learn something well, if you learn a craft and you master it, it can bring you a far greater pleasure than any kind of drug or any kind of going out to a party or socializing, but you have to be patient and you have to not be afraid of boredom and you have to not be afraid of the effort. See before I understood when

it was winter I used to wish it was summer. I didn't understand. When it was winter, I used to wish it was summer. I didn't understand. When it was hard, I used to wish it was easy. I didn't know. Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better. Now here's the key to discipline. Start with the little disciplines. Get excited over the little disciplines.

And get right on those because those will lead to the big ones. You can't handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones. Make a list of all the things you can do, get right on those, discipline yourself for those. Both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice. So that when life hands you some big challenges, you'll be ready, you'll have the muscle. But see, if you don't handle the small ones, you can't take care of the big ones. That 90% of our graduating seniors wish that their parents and their teachers loved them enough to discipline them to do the things they need to do and expected them to do more.

Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn't matter whether it's there or not. Discipline is infinitely more important. So no matter how you feel, get up and do what you're supposed to do. That's it. And that's discipline. It's not motivation. If you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it, that's leaving it to chance. But if you're disciplined, you go to what you're supposed to do. The hardest things bring the greatest rewards. You go do what you're supposed to do. The hardest things bring the greatest rewards.

Sometimes the easiest path isn't the one we're meant to take. Deep down you know it, don't you? The things that are hard, the real sacrifices, they carry a weight, a feeling you can't shake. Choosing the harder path, the one nobody else wants, is where the journey toward greatness begins. Now ask yourself, how many times have you turned away because something felt too tough? How often have you chosen comfort over challenge? Avoided discomfort because the other path demanded more. But here's a truth few accept.

The best things in life come at a price, and it's not paid in money or possessions. The cost is sweat, time and sometimes tears. Greatness asks, what are you willing to sacrifice? Are you ready to step out of the ordinary and pay the price that greatness demands? Because this isn't about someone else's path, this is about blazing your own trail. It's hard, it feels like nobody understands, then you're probably doing something right. The hardest choices, the sacrifices that hurt the most, those are the ones that truly matter. So, are you ready to choose the path less taken?

Are you willing to be more than what's expected? When you face the hard choice and push forward, you're building resilience. You're conditioning yourself to handle adversity. Each time you choose what's hard over what's easy, you're choosing growth over stagnation. And that's how you get stronger. That's how you prove to yourself

that you're capable of more than anyone thought, including yourself. But why is it so tempting to avoid the hard road? Because comfort is seductive. Sacrifice is the fire that shapes you. And though it may burn, it transforms you into the person you need to become. True sacrifice means understanding

that what you're giving up today is paving the way for something better tomorrow. It's an act of self-respect, an acknowledgment that your goals deserve nothing less than everything you have. When you're willing to sacrifice, to truly embrace discomfort. That's when you become unstoppable. That's when your potential is unlocked.

Now let's bring it closer to home. Think about your own life, your dreams, your goals. Are you really ready to sacrifice? Are you prepared to give up comfort? Let go of the things that hold you back and face the unknown to reach your potential. This isn't a question with an easy answer. Sacrifice isn't something you decide to do just once. It's a choice you make every day. It's waking up and choosing discipline over excuses. It's staying on your path, even when others turn back. So ask yourself, what are you willing to give up to reach your goals?

What comfort, what distraction, what safety net are you ready to leave behind? The question isn't about what you want. It's about what you're willing to give up to make it happen. The path to greatness is long, and the cost is high. It's going to take everything you've got. Be honest with yourself. Success isn't reserved for the lucky or the privileged. It's for the resilient.

The ones willing to push through the pain, face their fears, and go after what they want with everything they have and if that's you if you're truly ready to make sacrifices and start today start trading what's easy for what's meaningful remember success is built on daily choices it's not a single moment of bravery when you're in the fuck game great things happen and really bad things happen. And you gotta take it all in stride.

You gotta pick yourself up the next day, strap your shoes back on and get out there and go to fucking war again. Sometimes a big part of success is just not being fucking easy and just doing it. Just get, that's like 90% of it is just showing up. Get there and start working. Like, you're not gonna feel perfect every day. If I felt, if I only worked out when I felt good, I'd be a fat because there's a lot of days I don't want to

do it. It's pretty much the same with everybody that actually gets good at something. There's got to be those days you push through. There's no more time for bullshit, no more time for sleeping in late, no more time for that snooze butt. We gotta move now. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Go for the discipline because it weighs ounces. The regret weighs tons because it can accumulate. You don't need talent. You need discipline.

Hard work, dedication, sacrifice. I can do that. I can do that all day long. I can get up at 3 o'clock in the morning. I can outwork you. I can outwork everybody, if that's what it takes. Don't complain. Don't murmur.

Don't talk negative. Average people talk normal. Average people talk problem. Average people talk problem. The greats talk solutions. I'm taking ownership. Most people are weak. So if you have any mental toughness, any ability, if you have any fraction of self-discipline,

the ability to not want to do it but still do it. Five or six years I went every single day without missing a single day. I never got sick. I was in the water on Christmas, birthdays, holidays, everything. It didn't matter. And the thought process behind that was when you take a day off in the sport of swimming it takes you two days to get back to where you were. So when somebody is taking off on a Sunday they're not back till Tuesday from where they were on Saturday. So I have that many days ahead of them. Who are you on those days you don't want to do things? It's easy to conquer when it's good weather, you got good sleep, work's going good, the family's good, you feel great, your body's not injured.

Those are the easy days of cotton, but who are you on those f****** days when all hell is broke loose, your body's fucked up. You're sore. You're depressed. You're miserable. You're not the favorite person at school. You might be getting bullied. You might be falling behind in life.

Who are you on those days? Where's your mouth fucked up? That's the great divide. Those people who get up on those days when everything's f**ked up and still grind, that's the separator right there. And I'm obsessed with being the best version of myself. And that's a daily thing, you know. And some days are better than others. I'm obsessed with finding myself now after, and not having to prove anything to anybody other than myself and my family, you know?

Words a mother says, hey, I'm here again today. I'm here again tomorrow. I'm gonna be here the next day. I'm 50 years old. I'm still after it. It's a person that puts no limit on what's possible If you're prepared to give up comfort for something more Then you're already closer to achieving your dreams than you realize

Embracing sacrifice doesn't happen overnight. It's a habit a mindset that takes time to build You have to train yourself to see discomfort as part of the journey like Like an athlete trains their body, you have to train your mind to push through obstacles. Each time you push yourself a little further, each time you choose discipline over convenience, you're building resilience. Think of sacrifice as a muscle. The more you work it, the stronger it gets. Just like an athlete trains their body to handle physical stress, you need to train your mind to welcome challenges.

It's choosing the path that feels hard, because that's where growth happens. It's committing to your goals on the days you'd rather quit. Discipline is the foundation of sacrifice. Without it, the journey becomes scattered and the vision fades. But with discipline, each small action builds on the last. Every day you stay on track. You're investing in the person you want to become. Create routines that challenge you.

Routines that push you beyond what's comfortable. Whether it's training, work or learning something new. Each small choice builds a foundation of sacrifice. And here's the truth. The pain doesn't necessarily get easier, but your ability to handle it grows. Sacrifice isn't about erasing pain, it's about training yourself to endure it. With each day you'll find strength you didn't know you had. Each challenge you face, each decision you make to keep pushing forward, brings you closer to becoming the person capable of achieving greatness. The more you practice, the stronger you become.

Because sacrifice, discipline, and resilience are the keys to unlocking the potential you have within. And each time you choose what's hard, you are moving one step closer to becoming who you're meant to be. When it's all said and done, the hardest things in life are what define us. The sacrifices, the struggles, the sleepless nights. They're all building something within you that no easy path ever could. When you embrace the pain of sacrifice, you're creating a future you'll be proud of.

You're proving to yourself that you're capable of anything. But remember, this isn't about anyone else. This journey, this path. It's yours. It's about becoming the best version of yourself. And the only way to reach that version is through sacrifice. So ask yourself again. What are you willing to give up?

What are you ready to let go of in order to gain something greater? Because in the end, the rewards aren't just about success or achievements. They're about knowing that you gave everything you had, that you didn't settle, and that you chose the path of growth over comfort. Embrace the hard road, chase the challenge, and let every sacrifice bring you closer to the greatness you know you're capable of. Why do you think that you're the only one going through things? Because you're not. So that excuse that times is tough and I don't have I don't want to hear that because when the greats are called on they come through

and so it's either one thing either you're great or you're not. Simple. I was trying to figure out why there's some areas in my life where I'm disciplined and other areas of my life where I seem to lack discipline. And I came up with this discipline equation that I'd love to interrogate with you. Discipline equals the importance of the goal. How much does that goal matter to you?

Plus the psychological enjoyment you get in the pursuit of the goal, right? So as you pursue the goal, how psychologically enjoyable and reinforcing is that for you, minus the psychological cost of the pursuit of the goal. If the idea of discipline, of consistently doing an action, is only associated with pain, with tedium, being by yourself in a room, doing one thing over and over and over again. You're never going to get over the mountain because it's associated

with too much pain and the brain naturally shrinks from anything that's painful. So there has to be pleasure involved. Discipline has to have an element of pleasure. Consistently doing your work has to have rewards. Reward is the key word here. So if you never feel direct pleasurable sensation from what discipline is giving you, then it's never going to work. Get up. You don't want to go run, you go run.

You don't want to go swim, you go swim. You don't want to make your bed, you make your bed. That's how you start to callous your mind. If you say you're going to wake up at four o'clock in the morning to go run, wake up at four o'clock and it's going to suck. It's not going to be fun. Do something that sucks every single day of your life.

That's how you grow. Just doing it, just doing it makes you do more. Like do more hard makes you do more hard. Understand that you want it bad, so you're willing to put in the work and do things you don't wanna do. It's what makes you have that confidence that you know how to push through.

And the mentality that I'm the type of dude who gets done. Like I'm gonna show I'm not gonna waste my day just sitting around no I'm gonna go to work. Just take action keep doing it keep doing what you're doing keep moving forward. You can't let conditions dictate your outcome. You better train within every conditions they give you. Self-discipline seems to be the foundation habit that makes everything else possible. You see anybody can do it if they feel like it. It's when you don't feel like it and you do it anyway

that you eventually develop the self-discipline that makes everything else possible. You want to know where discipline comes from? It comes from telling yourself the truth about where you are, about what is going on in your life. You can lie to yourself and then you don't need discipline. You can tell yourself everything's okay and then you don't need discipline. You can tell yourself, you can lie to yourself and say that you're winning and then you don't need discipline. But if you tell yourself the truth, if you tell yourself the truth If you tell yourself the truth that you know, you could be better, you know, you could do more

If you tell yourself the truth, you won't have to find discipline discipline will find you Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel imagine if you could use the pain as a passport You could use pain as a fuel. Imagine if you could use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you could use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on.

What if the pain can make you better? What if the pain could build muscle? What if the pain could cause you to reach higher, to leap farther, to run faster? What if the pain could cause you to reach higher, to leap farther, to run faster? What if the pain could help you? What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help? A very interesting point with regard to the time log is that self-discipline is critical. You've got to discipline yourself and you've got to measure and analyze your time every

single day or you slip off it again. The human body and the human mind and the human spirit and human emotions are developed stronger, more resilient, more capable each time you deal with stress, trauma, adversity, setbacks, failure, loss, sadness. And so if you can actually develop this muscle of embracing adversity, loss, sadness. And so if you can actually develop this muscle of embracing adversity, hardship, sadness, and realizing that it serves as a purpose, it serves as resistance to build

your mental, emotional muscles, then you go, holy hell, this is an opportunity for me. I have good news. Nothing hard lasts forever. There's only three things that can happen. You either quit, it gets easier, or you get better. So no matter what, it always ends. You only lose when you quit before you see it all the way through. And I think that's incredibly encouraging. So no matter how hard whatever it is that you're doing is,

which by the way just means that your expectation doesn't match reality, but no matter how hard it is, you either quit, it gets easier because something changes externally, or you get harder, something changes internally. But no matter what, it will end. Let's talk about a truth that a lot of people ignore. Everyone wants to be better. Everyone has goals, dreams, things they'd love to accomplish. But for most people, those dreams stay just that dreams. And it's not because they are unachievable, it's not because of a lack of talent or opportunity. It's because they're waiting to feel ready. They're waiting for some magical moment of motivation.

Some mythical right time, when everything will just fall into place. But here's the truth. That moment doesn't exist. Self-improvement, real change. It's not about waiting for that feeling. It's about silencing that part of you that wants to stay comfortable. That part of you that wants to hit snooze

and take the easy route. That part of you that is all too willing to make excuses. Every time you let your feelings dictate your actions, you are making a choice to stay the same. You are choosing comfort over growth, safety over success. Guess what? Every single person who has achieved something great had days when they didn't feel like it, days when they wanted to quit. But they showed up anyway. The reality is, feelings are your biggest obstacle. They make everything more complicated than it needs to be.

Let's be real for a moment. How many times have you told yourself you're too tired, too busy, too stressed to do something that you know will push you forward? How many times have you decided to skip a workout, avoid a hard conversation, or put off a project just because you didn't feel like it? Feelings are the biggest excuse creators in your mind. But here's the powerful thing, the moment you realize that feelings are just temporary reactions. Things you can ignore is the moment you unlock real freedom.

Because that's when you can step back, recognize the excuses for what they are, and decide not to let them control you. Think of feelings as noise, just background noise, trying to pull you away from what you truly want. And the stronger your goal, the quieter those feelings become. You don't need to feel ready. You don't need to be in the right mood. The only thing that matters is that you show up and put in the work. But those who've built discipline? They don't rely on how they feel. They've trained themselves to act, no matter what. And this is a skill, a practice.

Discipline isn't something you're born with. It's something you build. Every time you choose to do what's hard instead of what's easy. Every time you push yourself instead of giving in, you're building that muscle. And the more you build it, the less you'll need motivation. You'll stop depending on those rare moments of inspiration because you'll have something far more reliable, a habit of discipline. A foundation of resilience.

Discipline doesn't care if you're tired. Discipline doesn't care if you're having a bad day. Discipline is there to remind you of the commitment you made to yourself, long after motivation has left the room. Discipline is the answer. And if you're serious about becoming your best self, it's time to start building it. Don't wait for motivation. Don't wait for the right time.

Start today. Start by doing what's hard. That's the foundation of true greatness. Let's be honest here, you know what to do. You know the steps you need to take to be better, to grow, to achieve your goals, but something's holding you back. It's not lack of knowledge, not lack of resources. It's laziness. You are going to pay a price. Now, whether you pay that price now or whether you pay that price now, or whether you pay that price later, that price is going to be paid. Paying the price now means doing what you need to do

right now to build that version of yourself that's going to create the life that you desire in the future. And there's a reward for paying that price up front. And then there's people who choose to pay it later. Those are people who say, I'm in my 20s, my 20s should be spent having fun, and those people pay a price choose to pay it later. Those are people who say I'm in my 20s My 20s should be spent having fun and those people pay a price that they pay it later right now They're having fun right now

They're carefree, but they're destroying their future by the time they get to be 35 or 40 or 50 years old They're going to be pinned into an existence that they cannot Tolerate and that's the price that they're going to have to pay. It does take a lot of failures, defeats and adversity and suffering to get to the success. The road to success is paved with dead squirrels, potholes and detours. It always has been for me. I've got multiple businesses and not a single one of those businesses was a straight line from start to multimillions. It was literally a squiggly line that went up and down, sometimes back, sometimes underground,

sometimes up and then over. And it always took longer in time and more in money and energy investment than I thought. That's just a human condition. Think about it like you're mining for gold, right? You're chiseling away underground and you've got this pile of gold. You don't know how far away it is,

but it's underground and you're digging towards it. This difficulty of swinging the pickaxe can end when one, you walk out of the mine and say, you know what, marketing doesn't work. Sure. The second is that all of a sudden you hit a soft patch and then you're like, oh my God, I'm digging so much faster now, this is great.

And then you get to the gold. Or you just start swinging the axe harder because you get more muscle, you get more efficient with your movements and you just keep chiseling away even if it goes from dirt to rock. You just keep chiseling away at a slower pace but you eventually break through and get there. But in all three of those scenarios, hard doesn't last forever. To create something big and lasting it's going to take time.. It's gonna entail some pain, some sacrifice. And what you need to do is you need to change

your whole assessment of what is pleasurable. What is pleasurable is actually accomplishing something that you set out to actually reach your goals, to actually take the time to make something that's meaningful to you. I can tell you personally, the fulfillment that I get from writing a book, even though it takes a lot of painstaking and tedious hours of work,

is a feeling that is so superior in pleasure to anything else in life. It's like I could die tomorrow and it's okay. I did what I wanted to do. I said what I wanted to do. I felt like I helped people and I worked on it and I gave it everything I had. That is a much deeper form of pleasure. And I want you to read or get your sense of pleasure

to these longer term goals and not to these shorter term goals. Laziness will tell you that you're too tired, that you deserve a rest, that there's always tomorrow. But guess what? Tomorrow turns into next week, next month, next year. And before you know it, the opportunity is gone. There's no magic to getting rid of laziness. There's no shortcut, no trick, no hack.

The only way to beat laziness is to face it head on. To decide that you're done letting it control you. You have to make the choice, every single day, to show up. It doesn't matter if you don't feel like it. It doesn't matter if there's an easier option. If you're serious about this, if you want to be someone who lives up to their potential, then you have to start treating laziness as the enemy. Think about what it would mean if you decided to show up every single day, no matter what.

Every day in small choices, in little decisions, you're either moving closer to your goals or further away. And laziness, it's the thing pulling you back. But here's the beauty of it. Every time you push through, every time you show up, even when you don't want to, you're breaking down that laziness. You're making it weaker, quieter. Until one day it barely even has a voice. So today, make a commitment. Decide that from this moment forward, laziness doesn't get a say in your life. If there's one thing you remember from this, let it be this. Achieving greatness isn't about being inspired.

It's about being disciplined. It's about looking at the obstacles, the excuses, the distractions and saying, I'm bigger than this. I'm stronger than this. I'm committed to becoming the person I know I'm capable of being. Your feelings, they're going to try and get in the way. They'll make you question your goals, make you second-guess your commitment. But when you learn to silence those feelings, when you put discipline above everything else, you're unstoppable. You're no longer waiting for life to be easy, for motivation to strike.

You're actively building the life you want, piece by piece, day by day. There are people who dream, and there are people who do. If you're listening to this, there's something inside of you that knows you're capable of more. That voice, that feeling. That's the real you, the part of you that wants to be great, the part of you that refuses to settle for average. And to honor that part, you've got to show up every day. You've got to put aside the excuses, the distractions, the laziness. You've got to silence that voice that tells you it's okay to quit because the truth is no one is going to do this for you. No one is

going to drag you out of bed, make you do the work or push you to become better. This is your life, your journey and it's on you to make it what you want it to be. So starting today, turn off your feelings, choose discipline, commit to the journey, the struggle, the growth, let go of the excuses, the comfort, the desire for the easy way out. The best version of you is waiting, but it's only going to appear if you do. So make the choice, not once, not twice, but every single day. The journey to greatness starts now. There's got to be some type of discipline attached to whatever you want deliverance in. And too many people are so caught up in what it looks like to other people

that they will not be disciplined for their deliverance I'm telling you you're gonna be asking God to change something next year that you could change with a discipline now You're gonna be next April to go will you please change relationship? You need to be disciplined at not answering their phone call. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. You thought I was going somewhere else. You need to put distraction in your phone. Every time they call you, it needs to pop up with they face,

the devil next to it, and distraction. Because what you are gonna be asking God to deliver you from next year, you could cut off right now. Ask me all the time, no, I lack discipline, how can I get discipline in my life? And no one wants to hear this answer, no one wants to hear it.

One of the first steps you can take to impose discipline in your life is to wake up early in the morning. Let's face it, when the alarm goes off, you got your head on that soft pillow, you do not feel like getting up. Call that snooze alarm, the dream killer. When you press that snooze button,

you're killing your dreams. So when do you rest? When do you recover? And I don't want to scare people, but the truth answer is, I don't take any days off. No one's good at everything. I mean, that's just not the way life works.

We're all talented at certain things but we can really continue to improve our weaknesses if we're humble enough to identify them and we can build on our strengths and I think we're all trying to find a more well-rounded aspect to ourselves but a lot of that has to come with this understanding about yourself that what you know is very limited and what you don't know is limitless. The thing about self discipline is that it is necessary for everything you do in your life. You have to be self disciplined. You're going to have pain one way or the other.

Which pain would you like? Because sometimes in life there's no pain for your options. You've got to begin to think about the things you want to materialize in your life on a regular basis and think about it repetitiously. Literally the things that we obsess about become the things that we possess in our lives. Most people those variable nine percent of the thoughts is the new thing they're worried about, the new fear they have, the new response to an email they have to make and they never dictate the terms. Remember this, your mind is a weapon and you got to be able to use it and pick that weapon up and control it. Most people are out of control with their mind,

they don't point it at something, they let the world point it and they misfire all the time. Our whole life is set up that way. Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that. So for me, I realized that.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face. And I also realized when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable. So I realized for me to find growth, I had to face all these different things that made me very, very uncomfortable. One thing I faced was running.

I absolutely hated running. But I knew for me to grow, I wanted, I had to do this thing every single day. I wanted to start callous in my mind. I wanted to start becoming a better person. And how you become a better person, how you become a better person how you gain mental toughness How you become the person you want to be is constantly facing the things that you don't want to face People have talent people have a lot of talent and This is going beyond your talent. So when talent when there's no more talent

What happens to you? most people quit So when talent, when there's no more talent, what happens to you? Most people quit. People only go to their talent level. And once your talent level is gone, it becomes a mental game that the whole mental game sets in then, and most people can only perform to their talent. And they realize, man, why am I always messing up right here? Why, why, why is this like my big hurdle? It's because you're performing to your talent.

And then after that, your mind has nothing for you. So soon, so you've started something new. Maybe it's working out. Maybe it's trying to eat healthier. Maybe it's a side hustle you're hoping will change your life. You've been at it. What, two days? Maybe a week? And you're already wondering where the results are.

You're feeling frustrated, discouraged, and this voice in the back of your head is whispering, maybe this just isn't for you. Sound familiar? Here's the hard truth. And that mindset, that expectation that things should just happen without grit, without setbacks. That's what's killing your dreams. Think about it. We're programmed to crave quick wins, the high of instant success. But what happens when you start something that requires actual slow burn work? When you put in a full week of the gym, sweat pouring down your face, and step on the scale just to see it hasn't budged.

When you launch a business and no one cares, that high you're so used to. It isn't there, and it's in that exact moment that most people quit. Let's be real. Nobody posts about the weeks, months, or years of silence before the applause. No one tells you about the early mornings where they questioned everything. You only see the before and after photos, the victory moments, the celebrations. But here's the truth, that success isn't built on those highs.

It's built on a million quiet moments of discipline and doubt. And if you are constantly jumping from one thing to the next, chasing that high, you're never going to reach what you actually want. The people who succeed, they understand that delayed gratification is part of the game. They've trained themselves to see the journey, the grind, the failures as stepping stones. And when you are patient, you start to realize that every single step matters, even the ones that feel like they're getting

you nowhere If you're serious about growth, here's what you need to understand. The process isn't glamorous There's no quick fix every single day isn't going to feel like progress In fact a lot of the time it's going to feel like you're hitting a wall like you're running in circles Like you're never going to break through that's normal The path to anything worthwhile isn't straight. It's full of curves, dead ends, and long stretches that look like you're standing still. If you want real change, you have to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. You have to learn to love the struggle, not the results, not the reward, but the day-to-day work

that no one else sees. It's waking up early when you'd rather sleep in. It's hitting the gym when your body is telling you to stay on the couch. It's saving money when you'd rather splurge. The magic is in those unremarkable, thankless moments when you choose to keep going. Here's what they don't tell you. Patience isn't just waiting. Patience is doing the work and believing that the results will come, even when you can't see them yet. It's learning to trust that every tiny action, every effort, every drop of sweat and sacrifice is building something incredible inside you.

Because if you tell yourself the truth, if you tell yourself the truth, and the truth is, I'm not happy with where I'm at. That's the truth. The truth is I can do more. The truth is I can be in better shape. The truth is I can work harder than I'm working right now. The truth is I can't do more for my family. The truth is I can do much better than I'm doing right now and if that's the real truth, if that's what you believe, if you believe that to be the truth, you won't have to find more discipline. Discipline will find you. It will wake you up in the morning.

The younger generation quits, not everybody. So I gotta put it, people get their butt hurt. So not everybody. Most of this generation quits the second they get talked to. You did this wrong, you did this wrong, or they get yelled at. It's so easy to be great nowadays, because everybody else is, most people are weak.

This is a softened generation. So if you have any mental toughness, any ability, if you have any fraction of self-discipline, the ability to not want to do it, but still do it. People have a hard thing, understand, I hate to run. And what makes me so crazy, it doesn't anymore, is people go, well, why do you run if you hate it? What are you talking about?

I don't wanna take showers and eat either. I hate that too. Yeah, the whole that's a life man That and it wasn't until I changed that mentality that I became somebody I hate it going to school So guess what I was dumb as shit That's what what was one is two But if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness. That's what people understand. By me running, I am callous in my mind.

I'm not training for a race. I'm training for life. I'm training for the time when I get that two o'clock in the morning call, that my mom is dead or something happens Tragic in life. I don't fall apart I'm training my mind and my body my spirit So it's all one so I can handle what life is gonna throw at me because the life I've lived It throws a whole bunch at you. And if you're not physically and mentally prepared for that

You're just gonna crumble and you're good for nobody. And this thing that people do where they avoid discomfort, it sounds ridiculous, but then it just creates more discomfort. You don't realize that in embracing discomfort and forcing yourself to do something very uncomfortable that you can control, like an ice bath, like a sauna, like a run, like a run,

like a workout, you are eliminating another form of discomfort. I torture myself physically. I'm always working out, I'm always exhausted, I'm always taking ice baths. I was in the sauna before I got here today. I'm always doing something, always. I never have a day where there's not some kind of struggle.

If I have a day where I just lay around, I'm like, something, always. I never have a day where there's not some kind of struggle. If I have a day where I just lay around, I'm like, this is weird. Like, it's one of the things that I have to do on vacation. When I get up in the morning, whenever I'm on vacation, the first thing I do is workout. I'm like, I gotta do this, otherwise I'm not gonna be able to enjoy this time off with my family.

I gotta get up before everybody else, and I gotta workout hard. Because growth doesn't always look like progress. It often feels like frustration, like pushing against something that won't budge. And when you reach that point, that's the signal most people miss. It's the sign that you're close.

Every journey has a plateau. That infuriating, gut-wrenching period where it feels like all your work is going nowhere. And if you're not prepared for it, if you don't expect it, you're going to hit that wall and turn back. You'll tell yourself it's impossible, that you've reached your limit. But let me tell you something about plateaus. They're not the end of the journey. They're a test. When you hit a plateau, that's the moment your body, your mind and your spirit are asking you, how bad do you really want this? Are you willing to push harder? Are you willing

to be patient with the process, even when it seems like the needle isn't moving? Because if you can push past that wall, if you can outlast the plateau, that's where the magic happens. That's where real growth begins. Think about the people who inspire you. The athletes, the artists, the entrepreneurs. Do you think they never hit walls? Of course they did.

But they didn't stop there. They kept going, sometimes with nothing but faith that things would eventually pay off. They understood that hitting a plateau wasn't a sign they should quit. It was proof they were moving in the right direction. And guess what? When you push past that plateau, not only will you feel stronger, but you'll become someone who can handle so much more. The next challenge? The next wall? It won't look half as daunting because you've been through it before. And each time you refuse to quit, you're proving to yourself that you can handle whatever life throws at you. If there's one thing you take away from

this, let it be this. Results don't come to the people who start. They come to the people who keep going. The people who understand that every journey has setbacks, frustrations, and moments that feel like you're wasting your time. But each day, you choose not to quit. You're putting yourself miles ahead of the person who never even started. You're building the resilience, the grit, and the patience that most people lack. So next time you feel like quitting, remember this, the fact that it's hard, the fact that it's taking time, the fact that you're not seeing results immediately.

That's exactly what makes it worth it, because if it was easy, everyone would do it. But you're not everyone. You're someone who's willing to stay the course, to ride out the struggles, and to prove to yourself that you are capable of more than you ever thought possible. And one day, whether it's a month from now, a year from now, or a decade, you'll look back on these moments and realize this is where your story began. This is where you learned what you're made of. So don't give up. Don't stop.

The only thing standing between you and success is time and patience and your willingness to keep going. In this lifetime you don't have to prove nothing to nobody except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Two forms of pain. Pain that breaks you and the pain that changes you. That's the pain of a change right there. That's the pain of progress. The pain that destroys you. Isn't this sh**. It's later in life knowing you could have been more and all that's left is you and the f**king mirror of tears of a possibility left.

That you allow to die. Own your f**king life, guys. You have every opportunity. There's no excuse not to be the hardest motherf**king worker in the room. This quote hit me in my chest. Usain Bolt said, I trained four years to run nine seconds. A world record's gone.

And people give up when they don't see results in two months. You talk about talent and hard work? Yeah, no, most of the talent people, they're lazy. Most of them. I meet a lot of talent people, but they all like, I don't wanna say 100, but 99% they're lazy. Even when you don't have talent, you have to work so hard.

When you work so hard and sacrifice your time, dedicate like sacrifice, you become more disciplined. Like you read the quote once more. We don't rise to the standards we have when others are watching. We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching. The only work that really matters is the work that no one sees. It shows you who you really are rather than who you say you are. The hardest choices require the strongest wills. I fly

home tomorrow. Is that what you want to do? You come all this way, have one bad day and you're ready to back down? So everything that you do is habit forming. And that includes hitting the snooze button. That includes sitting on the couch. That includes eating donuts. It's all habit forming. You know what else is habit forming? Discipline. Setting the alarm and getting up. Going and working out. Eating steak. That stuff is all habit forming too.

I recommend you form some discipline habits. There's always someone out there who's working harder than you. I'm haunted by that motherf*****. Knowing that that someone out there is willing to forego personal desires and comforts. Forego sleep. Forego whatever it takes to be better, to be the best. In life, a lot of times, we'll always have that person out there. There may not be a name or a face to him, but he exists. You make sure in life to think about that person, you make sure they put a name and a face to it.

If you make sure a name and a face is yours. Then there's the athletes who train to win. They train every day, every session, so that they win on match night. And then there are just those very few players who train to dominate. They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night. At the end of the day, you've got to feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable?

Why not feel untruthful? Why not feel like the best to ever do it? It's like I love the, I love thinking about the quote, every guy essentially has two lives, right? And the second one starts once you realize you only have one. That's, I like that a lot because it's so f***ing true man, you know, you've only got one shot at this. So you may as well at least make it kind of cool.

Success is this. And training and struggling and suffer and sacrifice. And then success is this. But this tastes so much more than this. But I'm not sure that people today are 100% aware what it means. There's some internal drive that you either have or you don't have.

And if you have it, you won't quit. And if you don't have it, you're gonna quit. You gotta fight. Shit's hard. You're gonna have days where you don't wanna do anything. You're gonna have days where getting out of bed is the hardest motherfucking thing you ever did in your life You got to get the up and you got to get in the fight That's reality the minute you lay down is the minute that all those demons and all that anxiety and all that stress and all that fear

Gets you you have to keep fighting you have to wake up and do your job If even if you have to wake up and do your job if even if you have to crawl through it you've got to get up and do it because the minute you lay down that shit about you forever bro and you can't get out of it you have to want to be better and it starts off with you have to have pride in yourself you know where you can do better than can't hurt me Roger Roger that. We'll f*** see you. Find the gap. Don't complain. Don't murmur. Don't talk negative. That's average people talk normal. Average people talk problem. The greats talk solutions.

Average people use their time to whine and complain. Average people say it's their boss fault. It's their mother's fault, it's their co- average people, I used to be average I used to say, when is my daddy coming to get me? me, I focus on me I became bulletproof I became invincible here in my body

nothing can stop me, you can throw anything at me there's nothing that can break my mindset. Nothing. I'm bulletproof. So a strong mind is not just one that can do calculus. A strong mind is not just one that can write books. A strong mind is one that controls the body. And all of its inherent weaknesses and all of its urges to be lazy and sedentary and self-destructive. That's a strong moment. That right there is my fuel. I know that there's really no one out there

grinding like me and if they are so be it. If I know about you I'll make sure that up my gang. Where they reach rock bottom when the excuses all go away and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me, it hurts, but is also unbelievably empowering. Because if these problems are because of me, then I'm capable of fixing these problems. The hardest things are usually the best. If it's easy, leave it to somebody else. Waiting to begin never got anyone anywhere. So many

of us come from these small places in our mind that we're not willing to think outside of only what we've seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. Many people, but don't make dreams your master. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. And until you're able to really put yourself into

that dream but don't make dreams your master that's where you truly become what you're destined to become. Do you fear anybody? No, no. Zero zero. Want to fight me? We can fight no problem. Come and try me, anyone. You are not going to get anywhere in this world. You're not going to get anywhere financially, spiritually, socially, or otherwise, until you get to that point where you don't give a damn about what other people think about you.

Everyone does a few reps when the burn starts and they stop. No one goes the extra mile and keeps going. Like no one's in here right now. Why? Because it's Saturday evening and everyone's going to party and no one's in here. It's me. Wake up to reality. Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live the more you will realize that the only things that truly Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you will realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. I don't have time to be angry. You know how much time it takes to hold an attitude and a grudge?

That's time and energy. I don't have that time. The time that it takes you to go, I don't like that person, and keep that in you over a period of time, that's a lot of time that can be devoted to something positive. The easiest thing I've done was to get out from under the labels and to live the life that I live. The most difficult thing I've done was to get out from under the labels and to live the life that I live.

The most difficult thing I've ever done was to believe that I can do it. You will find the strength to do what needs to be done. Kill the boy and let the man be born. You are one decision away from changing your life. And you have to accept that. You're one new meeting, one new relationship, one new contact, one new action, one new decision away from shifting your life

from where it is right now to a totally different place. There's something you've been hesitating on. There's a contact you need to make, isn't there? There's a job you need to quit. I don't know what it is, but I know there There's a contact you need to make isn't there there's a job you need to quit I don't know what it is But I know there's a decision that you need to make to take you to the next level just like I know that's true for me Because decisions shape our destiny when they're backed up by some massive action My whole thing is a mentality thing like I told you the last time I was on the show I

Viewed myself as the weakest person on the planet Earth. My goal in life was to, in my mind, believe I'm the hardest man alive. That's what it's about. It's about whatever you think you are, you have to make that dream a reality. But that's where the hard part is, is making that dream a reality. That's where the hard work comes. That's where people know, how, is making that dream a reality. That's where the hard work comes in. That's where people know how do you keep grinding every day. You have to make those insecurities, those fears. Like when I was 30 years of pounds, I didn't have any drive. But people who are running toward their dreams, life has a special kind of meaning.

And here's what I will share with you. That in the process of working on your dreams you are going to incur a lot of disappointment, a lot of failure, a lot of pain, a lot of setbacks, a lot of defeats, but in the process of doing that you will discover some things about yourself that you don't know right now. What you will realize is that you have greatness within you. What you will realize is that you are more powerful than you can ever begin to imagine. What you will realize is that you are greater than your circumstances.

That you don't have to go through life being a victim. Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Right. But I would say, bring it on. If you gaze into the abyss long enough, you see the light, not the darkness. Are you sure about that?

I'm betting my life on it. Life is a crazy roller coaster, especially this life, you know, so we've ups, we've downs, but I find I'm at my best when I must do something and I know I must do it and I do it. I execute it and that's what I'm doing right now and that's what I have done. Unchosen suffering is going to happen in life. Your parents are going to pass away, loved ones are going to die, your relationships are going to break down, your body is going to fail you, you're going to become ill or

sick or destitute. Things are going to happen that you have no control over. And the only way that you can prepare yourself for unchosen suffering is with chosen suffering. You can elect to put yourself into a position to become a stronger alloy of whatever the metal is that you're made of and by purposefully choosing difficult things you will army yourself against that situation it's still gonna suck but think about how much more fragile you would be if you hadn't overcome all of this stuff this conversation with this guy the other day he was he make a lot of good points it seemed he was saying that you don't need to get up

early in the morning. And that working out early in the morning isn't that big of a deal. And it's better to do it later in the day. And you know, I said, well, what if, what if I, something comes up and I missed the workout that day? And he's like, told me that it's not that.

It's nothing major, you don't need to worry about it. And he cited some scientific sources and whatnot whatnot the guy was making a lot of good points and I was almost gonna listen to him but then I realized the guy that I was talking with was myself and he was a liar don't let your weak voice run things step up do what you got to do being attacked is a sign that you were important enough to be a target. You should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself. When it's raining, it's 40 degrees, raining, rainy, nasty. You can't let conditions dictate

your outcome. The party I might smile at tonight, the laughter I might be had tonight, is a huge distant second to the pride one feels of accomplishing their goals. And here, even though it's painful, it's joyful, because I can taste it, I see it clear, I'm closer to it. A year will come with great honor, not great regrets. You're out running on the track, working out, and you start talking to yourself saying, man, my knee is really sore right now. Maybe I'm maybe I'm doing too much. I need to back off. You know, man, my lungs are burning.

And maybe I can just slow down here. I'll do like an extra two sets tomorrow. You know, it'll be okay. Yeah. Right, that sort of stuff. Yes. Like that stuff's dangerous. Yes.

And that's when you just gotta say, you know what? I'm not negotiating with myself. Yeah. The deal was already made. The deal was made when I set out at the beginning of the summer and said, this is the training plan I'm doing. I signed that contract with myself.

I'm doing it. You know, throughout the, that process, you'll start talking to yourself like, man, I gotta, I think I need to maybe if we know, no, this is not negotiable. I have never understood why some people are lucky enough to be born with the chance that I had to have this path in life And why across the world? There's a woman just like me with the same abilities and the same desires Same work ethic and love for her family who would most likely make better films and better speeches who would most likely make better films and better speeches.

Only she sits in a refugee camp and she has no voice. She worries about what her children will eat, how to keep them safe, and if they'll ever be allowed to return home. I don't know why this is my life and that's hers. I don't understand that but I will do as my mother asked and I will do the best I can with this life to be of use. Stop analyzing, stop criticizing both yourself and others and

go fail at some sh-. Go give someone a good job for sucking at something because at least they're trying. Maybe we'll even give yourself permission to do the same. We find meaning in trying difficult things, not just in succeeding at them. Our biggest fear never happened. Whatever we're afraid of in life, our biggest fear never happens. We go to our great thing, well this shit's never happened. We were waiting for this shit to never came, you know? It's just, it motivates us.

Problems are a feature of life, not a bug. There will never come a time when you have no problems. What, did you think that you would just wake up one day and you're going to cease having problems? Like completing a video game and leveling up to a map where there's nothing there that is never going to happen I had to look in my insecurities and in my fear and find drive in that we're all looking for passion passions all around you you have a whole a whole sack of it all around you see insecurities all insecurities, all that shit.

All the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself. It's all there. You got a lot of stuff to do to overcome. And you know, that's where I found it. I found it right there in my own insecurities. I found drive in my own insecurities. And that's the most powerful thing in the world. When you can find drive in your own doubt, fear, insecurities, you become very unstoppable. I want to talk about this thing called improvement. I came

across a quote it says if you think you have room to grow you do and you will. If you think you're as good as you can be, you right, you won't get any better. Everybody has room to improve. So I wanna say this, if I could put a term on it, the term would be humility. Because when you humble,

you always feel as if you can become better at whatever it is that you're doing. Right, no matter how great you are, no matter how good things have went, when you're humble, you always feel as how great you are, no matter how good things have went, when you're humble, you always feel as if I can do this a little bit better. Or you show up with the mentality that you're open to doing things in a better way. You don't never show up and speak in terms of, oh, we did that already, right?

Already accomplished that, right? Day one mentality and energy. When I show up, I'm trying to improve every single day. That doesn't mean errors, that doesn't mean opposition, that doesn't mean perfection. Right? That means every single day I'm showing up and I'm trying to pursue the quest of becoming better. If you want to retract what you actually want, you've got to see yourself now, already with it. And know it's only a period of time, until you're moving toward it, and it moving toward you, and you become one with it.

But in the final analysis, it's also an additive issue. If I'm smart and hardworking, and I can crank out for 70 hours a week, and you do it for 30, it's like, in two years, I'm so far ahead of you, you will never ever catch up. Don't listen to anyone. Everybody's full of s***. Nobody knows you or what you're capable of doing. And here's the reality. The hardest thing in life is figuring out who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life. It's a big decision. I'm very blessed and lucky. I always knew who I was and exactly what I wanted to do. And once you figure that out,

you wake up every day and you work toward it. That's what you do. It's impossible for you to fail. If you know who you are, what you wanna do, and you wake up every day and work toward it. Don't be scared to bet on yourself. You're going to be scared anyway, because it is scary.

But at the same time, betting on yourself isn't always leaving. Betting on yourself is believing in you. Knowing who you are, what you're worth. Having an idea about it anyway, and willing to work towards that, to validate that reality. That's betting on yourself. Whatever decision emanates from that is based off of you looking at you and saying I'm going for it.

Yeah. This guy stopped me in a stoplight. He was like, I gotgins, why am I not getting better? I'm a big time goal setter. I run half Ironmans, I run half marathons, I go for that new promotion at work. Why am I not getting better? I asked him a question. Do you have fear of not reaching those goals he said no but that's your problem you're setting goals you know you can reach and when you do that that fear that insecurity that doubt that's where you grow he's not

getting that you must always set goals that you think you cannot achieve. And then there you get better. If you know that there is something that you're meant to do, if you know that there's something that you're meant to change, you will have to let certain groups, friends, routines, places, activities, recreations that you do, you're going to have to let those go. And there is this, you know, the rocky cut scene lasts for 90 seconds in the movie, but it can last for five years in your life. And you have no idea whether or not it's even going to work. And that's the bit that always got to me. The bit that always got to me was I didn't even know if it was there was going to be

any glory on the other side. It's like ordering an Uber and never knowing if it's going to arrive or not. You think well, I'm just stood here doing the thing, but I don't know if it's going to come out on the other side and I can promise you anybody that has done anything moved from any place they were to any place that they want to be has gone through this lonely chapter. And a year from now it's gonna happen like that. who is your future self one year from now who isn't Just like everyone's out of here. Go party Saturday night. They're not willing to sacrifice. I'm like the lone survivor in here You know tonight will be over with two tomorrow. I'll be stronger for it Another day will go by three or six to five of them happen so fast

Who are you gonna be in the year from now and in a year from now does that future person hold regret or pride we know that day's coming we can't go backwards we're gonna go forward we know that days come what we do right now we're sure it goes our way. We'll ensure there is no regret. That's something you can't ever f***ing fix. It's a debate inside your head that never stops. We can learn from past regrets. We'll ensure we don't re-regret them. We'll ensure we meet me when we don't go out tonight. That we stay in here, even if no one else is here. And they'll push you a little bit further. There's still work to be done. I got something to tell you can compete with the top minds in the world if you're willing

to armor and callous your mind and outwork them motherf**kers and dig deep. When most people see four walls, I see a massive empty space that deserves all kind of creativity to make it look beautiful. You don't get what you want, you get what you are. You've got to become what you want. You've got to realize that the minute you hold your mind in harmony with the good you want, then you've already got it. It's only a period of time till it manifests in physical form. Never let success get to your head and never let your failures get to your heart.

It's all about keeping a balance and moving forward and that's the mindset that I have to keep. It's tough, you know, when you lose sometimes, you know, it feels like it rips away a part of you, but for me, as I said, I'm never going to switch up and change on anyone. I'm still the same me, still ambitious. And I'm still gonna walk on my head, high like a champion because I'm a champion at heart. Never ever take yourself out of something because you feel insecure or that you're doubting yourself.

Never do that, bro. If something isn't gonna work out, if it's not gonna go your way, then allow it to be because something else. It cannot be because you didn't want to try or you started doubting yourself or you didn't do the things that you were supposed to. If you're not doing that, that's why when you fail that you go into this little thing like, oh, I'm so upset, I'm depressed.

Yeah, because you know, you could have did more, but you didn't. I think it's how you handle your sufferings. You know, when you're going through something really challenging, how do you show up within it? Do you choose to become a victim of complaining and misery and shitty, or do you find meaning in how you show up in the suffering? The structure that you use to orient yourself in your life is dependent on your values

And you might say well if you don't value human life, let's say above all Well, then you don't value yourself above all you value something else above that You're gonna pay for that in one way or another now You might say well, that's a price that I think is worth, or I don't think that human beings should be put on the top. You know, that's your prerogative. But you pay for you will absolutely 100% pay in full for everything that you've done and for everything that you haven't done. I mean, how could it be otherwise? Yeah, you know, it's like, what are you going to do? You're going to reality isn't going to make itself manifest because of your whim. That's not going to happen. And, you know, you can think about that religiously or not. It's there's no escaping from what is. To get anything of value, you have to sacrifice.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing. Nothing that has meaning is easy. Easy doesn't enter into grown-up life. And I think about personal growth like the velocity of a rocket that's taking off. So you've got people moving and as you start to take off you can begin to move a little bit more quickly and as you start to take off, you can begin to move a little bit more quickly. And as you start to pull away from people, there's a tension between the two of you because sometimes your behavior, especially if it's positive, and you're moving yourself in a more developed direction can throw into harsh contrast, the behavior of the people who maybe aren't doing that.

And then you start to sort of become friends with some of the suburbia. And then the worst or one of the really difficult sensations is if you then do that and you got past somebody who previously You were with and there's this sort of sense Well, I'm on the journey too But maybe I'm not moving in the same kind of way that you are and I came up with this idea of personal growth guilt like survivor guilt You know somebody comes back from war and they were sat in the back of the Humvee and the piece of shrapnel that was supposed To kill them and killed all of their buddies hit the engine block and they come back and they feel like they should still be back

there. So the big thing is know that if you have big goals and big dreams along the way failure is going to happen. So how fast do you get anything you do is you got to have an unlimited supply of drive and passion and it may come from nothing. Destruction comes from within. That means that you are the person that can stop the destruction. A reminder that the life that can stop the destruction. A reminder that the life that I'm living today is a result of the work that I did six and 12 months ago. And so if you were to look at my calendar six and 12 months ago, then you might extrapolate

out to what I'm doing today. But just like people want the immediate reward, they also see their current condition as a result of the behavior they're doing today. It's not at all. And so that's why I think having in some ways a very vivid imagination of, like this is where I think the benefit of quote visualization comes into play. I don't see it as much as a benefit for like, oh, I have to imagine this thing to happen. But I think it's more powerful to think I'm doing this thing today, and I'm imagining it happening. So it's an approximation of the feedback loop that you want to have.

And so it helps you substitute and get through the period where nothing's actually happening. This is, look at your circle, right? And in your circle, if the conversation is all about what we hate, I can't stand that song. You see the new car came out, that's his ass, I can't stand that car. Yo man, I can't stand this city. Why the fuck are we even in this city? What are we eating? I hate that place.

It's so easy. If you, people don't even listen to it. It's so easy, it can be the smallest shit in the world. The smallest shit, but if it's always hate, you ping pong hate even listen to it. It's so easy to be the smallest in the world the smallest But if it's always hate you ping pong hate off of one another So there's a lot of pockets of weakness nowadays And we try to fill his pockets with lies I did it for many years

So now go to the gym and this trainer calls me over to talk to this group of people. He's training He says hey, man We do not hear so I tell him he, hey man, what are you doing out here? So I tell him, he says, what kind of workouts are you doing? I said, one workout I'm doing, I'm climbing up this mountain, 3,000 feet, three miles. Cause I do that every day. So the next day I'm out looking for him.

Didn't see him. Couple days later, looking for him. Didn't see him. So here we are on the mountain again, climbing it. And there's a gondola that takes you up, takes you down. again, climbing it. And there's a gondola that takes you up, takes you down. I'm going up it. I see a gondola. I'm about five minutes from the top. I look up at the gondola. I see him, face pressed up against the window, looking at me, her eyes meet. It's called the look. When you take a motherf***** soul,

don't talk about it. Be about it, practice what you preach. You know, the person who loves walking walks further than the person who loves the destination. So many people want to project their idea of what they think your life should be like onto you. And a lot of times someone would go through a traumatic experience and they'd have bad feelings about her, they'd have regrets about about it they'd have things that they wish they would have done differently and one of the main themes I was telling people during this tour was that's totally normal and it's okay it's okay to think oh I lost some friends and sometimes I

feel sad about it well yeah of course who of course. Mm-hmm. Like that's normal. That's fine. In fact, if you weren't sad about it, there may be something wrong. Because I think that people have been told for a while that, oh, if you're feeling sad, there's something wrong with you. When I actually don't think there's anything wrong with when you feel sad. You feel sad? Yeah, you lost friends. You're going to feel sad. Oh, you were in combat. You had to do some horrible things. You did some things that you regret. There's nothing wrong with that. People make mistakes. People think don't turn out the way that they wanted them to. We made decisions and there was a bad result at the end of that decision. And instead of thinking, Oh, I'm a terrible person. No, it's like you made a mistake and that's okay. And you got to move on. Be a dangerous

man. Now being dangerous is not being a threat. There are two different things. All right. And it's not about going out and lifting weights and getting a bunch of tattoos and wearing leather jackets and walking around with your chest and shoulders up hulking around saying I'm dangerous. That's very rarely is that a dangerous man Often the most dangerous man in the room is the quietest man in the room I Have to think what things are they deprived of because I have a much stronger

Predictive power than trying to say how do I motivate this person? Look at what they lack Body free your mind get up early and go get after it and you'll become the person you want to be and you become that person through one small decision at a time as a man think it so is he yeah if you think it that's the reality of your life. So if you think you're a failure, if you think you're a loser,

if you think you are designed to live in a cubicle, then that will be the reality of your life. But if you realize that you can be whatever you want to be, and nothing's holding you back, and nothing's stopping you except you, then once you get out of your own way, the game begins. In order to achieve strong character you have to go through hard things.

And so it's kind of interesting that like we want to have, all of us want to have really good character except none of us want to go through hard things. And so it's like you can't have one without the other. And so if I had to pick I'd rather have the character and the scars to show it rather than none of the character and had a soft life. What are you waiting for? In all honesty, what are you freaking waiting for? You know, there's not just gonna be a day

where for no reason, you're gonna just wake up and say, I'm gonna go to the gym every day in perpetuity. I'm just gonna pick up my routine, do my cardio, start tracking my macros, boom, I'm gonna do it. Now it doesn't really happen. Whatever negativity is consuming your thoughts probably won't matter in three months time. But all of that time that you spent worrying

will have still passed. So you are sacrificing your joy and presence in the moment for a problem which you won't even be able to recall in the future. There's times where you're going to have to do it alone. There's not going to be any team support. There's not going to be any family support. There's not going to be a friend support. There's going to be times where you've got to go and do it yourself and you got to do it alone. And those are the times that make a difference.

Those are the times that count. Those are the times where you have to dig deep yourself to get the job done. And if you can make that happen, you will win. Well, to use what's given to you, and we are unfortunately given way more negative than we are positive. So how are you going to use it? Are you going to use it by letting it, you know, getting shy and sitting in the basement

and you know, say, man, I'm not really, I'm not ready to play this game. Or are you going to use it like, hey, you, I deserve this. I'm going to show you, I'm gonna prove you wrong. And that's the most powerful thing that you can have, your own belief in yourself, proving yourself right, proving that you do have what it takes and nobody can take that from you once you've built that. Many pack you out, you're not on my level.

Many pack you out, you will never be on my level, period. Simple and plain. So you didn't feel like getting up and getting after it this morning? Neither did I! But I'm here. Where you at? Life isn't fair. At all.

At all. So what are you gonna do about it? I knew that no one was coming back to help me. No one was gonna miracle me to be somebody special. Everybody that called me n****, my dad, my mom, all my situations were on me now. It's solely on me. If you tell yourself the truth, and the truth is, I'm not happy with where I'm at. That's the truth. The truth is, I can do more. The truth is, I can be in the truth. The truth is, I can do more. The truth is, I can be in better shape.

The truth is, I can work harder than I'm working right now. The truth is, I can do more for my family. The truth is, I can do much better than I'm doing right now. And if that's the real truth, if that's what you believe, if you believe that to be the truth, you won't have to find more discipline.

Discipline will find you. It will wake you up in the morning. Imagine if I could put this kind of focus into something in real life and just make that seem a little bit like a video game. Imagine the results I could get then. It was never about running. Why do you think I run? It's the worst thing. get then. hate the most to do and I do it like I love it. You know, when you're kind of addicted to it,

you can play at any time, right? It doesn't really matter if you're hungry or if you're somewhere else away from home. When you're hooked on a video game, you can play at any time, any place. And again, so it was just like, imagine if I could feel like that, but in real life, turn life into a video game.

You once wanted the life you have, and if you don't like the life you have, you probably won't like the one you want, but don't have either. You know what you need to do. You know what you need to do. It's in your mind right now. But you don't feel like doing it. You don't feel like getting up. You don't feel like getting up. You don't feel like doing the work.

You don't feel like working hard. And if you don't feel like working hard, if you don't feel like getting up, then you better feel like losing. You better feel like getting weaker. Because that's what's going to happen if you don't do what you're supposed to do So get up go get it done The pathway success is through the door of your fear You find your fear you

You beat it down. Otherwise, they'll beat you down Life should all always be about you know, hunting your fears, man. That's the path to success. It doesn't mean that's the path you're gonna go on for success. By facing those fears, the transfer of energy comes back into higher levels of confidence in who you are. I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests and if you have a dream and you commit to it, it will come to pass. You know what's one of the most fucked up things that I've learned over time is that almost all

Like truly exceptional and mentally strong people have been through hell It's it's very few that put themselves through hell when life is great There's a thing that happened and it happened out of hell and I don't think it ever happens Without that it's like you had to go through that in order to empower all these other people And I don't think it ever happens without that. It's like you had to go through that in order to empower all these other people. You have to condition yourself to take action. You have to program yourself to take action.

There's a moment where you can either take action or you can let it pass. And if you don't take action that moment grows and it grows and it fills itself with all kinds of instability and concern and wandering and more hesitation and it doesn't work you fall apart if your default mode is to pause is to hesitate is to wait you're gonna miss out and you're gonna miss out a lot and in the end if you hesitate you're gonna miss out. And you're gonna miss out a lot. And in the end, if you hesitate, you're gonna lose. When we were young, we were told we can be anything.

Now we realize it's a lie. And then we realize we're telling ourselves it's a lie because we actually just realized how much work it's gonna take. And we'd rather believe it's a lie than we're not willing to work hard enough to achieve these things. And then it's kind of like this back and forth of like,

can I, or is it just too hard or am I just too weak? I'm just going to drop out of school and I'm going to travel and I'm going to try and get sponsors. I'm going to try and win shows. I'm going to do all this and I'm going to take every risk I can. And I didn't even think about it, you know, when you're young, luckily, you're in, you're at the greatest opportunity in your life to take risk and to fail. I think people focus too much on the past and focus too much on

regret. We get too caught up in the past and what everyone's saying and what everyone's tweeting and sometimes you just have to be fearless enough to break the simulation. But one of the main reasons that people don't get what they want is because they don't actually figure out what it is. And the probability that you're going to get what would be good for you let's say which would even be better than what you want right because you know you might be wrong about what you want easily but maybe you could get what would really be good for you well why don't you well because you don't try you don't think okay here's what I would like if I

could have it. And I don't mean, I don't mean in a way that you manipulate the world to force it to deliver you goods for status or something like that. That isn't what I mean. I mean something like, imagine that you were taking care of yourself like you were someone you actually cared for. And then you thought, okay, I'm caring for this person. I would like things to go as well for them as possible. What would their life have to be like in order for that to be the case? Well, people don't do that. They don't sit down and think, all right, you know, let's let's figure it out.

You've got a life. It's hard. Obviously, it's like three years from now, you can have what you need in the short term your success depends on your intensity in the long term Your success depends on your consistency do not sacrifice the latter for the former procrastination is a killer It's a killer it kills Plans it kills goals It kills ideas

It kills dreams. Procrastination is a killer. And what you have to do is fight against procrastination. You have to do that with violence of action. And yes, that's a military term. Violence of action. Go on the attack. You start feeling that procrastination set in, attack it. With violence of action go on the attack you start feeling that procrastination set in attack it

with violence of action and start doing what you're supposed to do no hesitation go the little details in life have to be the moments the, the seconds we need to be successful. When you give it your all, and you're willing, you give up that, put all your will, all your effort and look past the temporary pain of it, to what that pain will dry and solidify into later. As this being the down payment for the future investment to come, we want to sacrifice this now for the belief of what tomorrow can be. You must hope and believe in yourself if you ever want to see what that hope can turn into,

that belief can turn into. By doing this every day, repetitively, those are the measures that lead to the big moments of success that everyone sees in life. No one sees the struggle in here. No one sees the hardship the early mornings you get up. No one sees any of that. They don't see if your hands raised or not. And if it is, oh what a great guy, oh I wish I could beat that guy, I wish I could beat

that guy. But they're not clapping, wishing they could beat you at five in the morning when you get out of bed, when it's pissing rain outside to come and train for that hand to be raised. They don't want to be that guy. They just want the glory. And that's the differential of a champion. You know, in adversity, guys, is where you find character. It's not about the opportunities given to you.

It's about the opportunities you create. You have that potential. It's just you're not putting the effort into it. You are lazy. You want to fit into the group. You want to conform because it's easy. But your oddness, what makes you weird, what makes you different, that little strange quirk in how you want to dress yourself, that little strange quirk in your musical taste, that little quirk in the food that you like to eat, that is who you are. Those are signs from deep within, from your core, from your soul, that this is who you are. And if you lose that, not only are you not going to be successful in life,

you will also lose yourself and you will be unhappy, you'll be unfeeling, you'll be alienated from who you are and you can get away with that when you're young because you're happy, you look good, you've got energy, things are going right. You get into your 30s and you're like everybody else, you don't know who you are and you don't know what you like anymore, you're just following the trends, you start to get depressed. Get the last rep. You will get tougher.

Every time you push through, you build strength. Not just physical strength, mental strength, tenacity, will. Not just born with will, you create it, you develop it through effort. And every time you put forth effort, your will, your discipline becomes stronger. And every time you quit, your will and your discipline gets weaker. Do not allow that.

You cannot allow that. Every rep counts. Not just in the weight room, but in life. Every rep counts not just in the weight room but in life every rep counts the idea that many people want to be exceptional but they're afraid of being an exception I think is such a it's it's wanting it's wanting an outcome without the requirement that the outcome has that most people the reason that the outcome has. That most people, the reason that they lack success in their life, especially from a financial aspect, is that they lack the courage to make the decisions that need to be made to put them in the position that they want to be in.

I never really thought about it until I watched everybody DM me and email me and text me and say, I'm so proud of you for speaking up and then watch them not do s***. And then when I took inventory of who those people are, all of them were struggling. So I started correlating it together. Whoa! They don't have courage and they suffer in life. And so I think the courage to make the decisions that you already know need to be made, that your anxiety is telling you need to be made, is one of the biggest things that has to happen for you to be successful.

And most people are just not courageous enough to make the decision that they know they need to be made. And because of that, they f***ing don't get anything. They're pissed off at the world, they think the world's screwing them over, when in reality, it's their inaction and their lack of courage that's screwing them over. Sadness is a perceived lack of options.

It's why it feels like hopelessness, because you don't know what to do. Courage is screwing them all. Sadness is a perceived lack of options. It's why it feels like hopelessness, because you don't know what to do. You don't know what options are available. You see none, which is why it feels like there's no way out. Anxiety is many options, but no priorities, which is why you feel scattered, but you can't decide. They feel very different, but fundamentally,

those are the difference in the conditions that make people feel like they're anxious or they feel like they're sad and so when we're working through what you were just talking about with okay I want to be gym guy and I also want to be work guy we have many options but a lack of priorities and so we have anxiety over the fact that we're not making progress on any of them because we have not been able to say this comes first. And so if we think about what priority means, it means prior, it comes before everything else.

And what I think a lot of people have a hard time doing is being okay with saying no and saying, okay, I will allow myself to just not get fatter rather than get fitter during this period and what's interesting about most skills is that the amount of effort that it takes to maintain a skill versus the amount of effort it takes to grow a skill is like one-tenth the amount of effort. I can tell you the rest people tell you. I can tell you how it's hard to get off the couch and take that one step towards

greatness. I tell you how hard that is. I also tell you how it's hard to get off the couch and take that one step towards greatness I tell you how hard that is I also tell you how hard it is ten times harder looking back on your life this time expires When you could have been great when you get up the couch, but it's too much time You can't do anything about it I can tell you how the worst failure in life isn't the person that fell down the person that never got out to try There's a million examples on how failure is made success Is written every single day.

And it starts during the gym and small endeavors. Planning it out, having everything in line to ensure success. Thinking before acting. Right now, when it's hurting, do we go on or not? Do we give it much and give it that much? Will we lighten up as the pain is saying hello too much? Will we welcome it? Where do we run from?

These little tests the little tiny details of life makes that dream a possibility It's right here. You're being tested every single day in the gym to weather those storms out there So you're going through adversity at your job when your relationship or any other endeavor in life that you've already seen it once You see what push us through that is facing it, meeting it head on that fear, that pain, whatever else. How you can be it back. You've done it here day in day out. So out there when you do it, when it does rise, you do it again and you don't fall down. If you fall down, you get back up. You keep getting back up. Don't follow what most people do because you don't want the results that most people get. The average person is obese, likely to be divorced and has less than 1k in the bank. It feels safe

to do what everyone else is doing, but it's actually a terrible decision. What I do right now, I take one step forward. I turn around in exhaustion, salute my former self that was right there. Proud of that motha**a Yeah, I'm tired. That mother f***er gave it his all to ensure that right now I got the most out of it. That mother f***er made the scene. It's rarely the information or the intensity that makes things hard. It's the sticking with it that makes it hard. And so the desire that we have to quit is simply breaking the consistency. And so that's why consistency has always been the hardest thing for most people to achieve. But the intensity of what you have to do to be successful is much lower than most people expect. And so, oftentimes they suffer significantly more in a short period of time than is required to be successful

over a much longer period of time with a much lower intensity. Fear is my friend. I love fear. Fear allows me to reach my highest potential. The fear of failing is an illusion. Yeah. Fear is an illusion, but we have to have desire. We have to have something

that pushes us. Fear pushes us. You don't understand that living prepares us for death, our life. It prepares us for death. Even if we die young, it prepares us. Just the fact that we're losing, guys like Kobe lose. We get to move with people in our family. People die around us all every day day so we prepare for it. We understand that but we avoid it. Whatever we do in the sports life, when you don't have that feeling no more, it's over.