Daily Motivations - NO EXCUSES, GET IT DONE

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

NO EXCUSES, GET IT DONE! In this powerful motivational speech by Jocko Willink, he talks about the importance of extreme ownership, and discipline and how going after your dreams isn't an easy task to be taken lightly. Are you ready to take on the work to achieve your goals? 

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So if you lack the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up being a slave to disease. If you lack the discipline to work hard, save your money, you will end up a slave to finances. If you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly, you will end up with no free time. If you have self-discipline, if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly, if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time,

if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, will end up with freedom if you want freedom in your life you have to have discipline because if you're a kid right now and you're eating dirt eaters off your belly I know they taste good and there's some immediate gratification and I get that but I'm gonna tell you it starts right now throw that bag of Doritos away. Get rid of it. Go do some pushups. Go spend $12 at the hardware store and hang up a pull-up bar in your room

and start doing pull-ups. And if you can't do one pull-up, hang on that bar. And you're gonna start to get a little bit stronger. You're gonna start to get a little bit healthier. You're gonna start to get more focused. You're gonna start to become more resilient. And you're gonna start to to get more focused. You're going to start to become more resilient. And you're going to start to understand the world better. And you're going to start to progress in every aspect of your life.

And you'll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now, you're going to end up with freedom. Because you're sad, now you're going to make a bunch of bad decisions because you're sad. No, no, it doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that. You're sad, okay.

You get emotional sometimes, okay. Got it. Now, get control of your emotions and carry on with your life. And sometimes you're going to get hit with those waves, and that's okay. No, at a certain point, you say, okay, my emotions are now leading me down the wrong path. I'm in control.

I'm not going to allow my emotions to make my decisions. They're in the calculus. I'm not saying take your emotions out of the calculus. But they have to be one component of your calculus, not the whole equation. You can't pull them out of there or they'll bite you, but you can't make them the overwhelming denominator of everything that you do, or it's going to be problematic. You have to start moving forward. You have to start taking steps in order to improve your vision,

improve your perspective, change your perspective, make some kind of progress. And worst case scenario, you figure out that you walked the wrong direction. Okay, now you can go walk in the other direction. And that's going to be fine. But standing there lost and not doing anything

is just waiting to die, waiting to starve to death. Don't let that happen. I had to condition people to take action, even in the SEAL teams. Even a young SEAL leader who you would think would be by nature aggressive and an action taker, you put them in a pressure situation where there's not a ton of information and they need to make a decision, they don't want to act either. So one of the things that I would teach was that their default mode was to be aggressive. Their default mode was to take action. I would teach that. Same thing we just discussed. I wouldn't say, hey, look, that means you have to take action, but your default setting should be,

I'm going to do something. Because I'd have a young SEAL officer and there'd be some training mission and there'd be a problem in a building and there'd be some training mission and there'd be a problem in a building and there'd be a bunch of paintball flying around in there and he wouldn't want to go solve that problem. He'd back away from that problem and I would have to go like push him in the back and say, you see that problem over there?

You got to go solve that problem. It's not going to go away. You got to be aggressive. That's got to be your default mode is to take action and make things happen because most human instinct is to take action and make things happen Because most human instinct Is to wait Most human instinct is to hesitate

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blame and all of those things, is there anything that you could do or you would advise them to do to kind of walk back from there, to get over the other side? Because I think we can all think of people in our lives and maybe even ourselves at times who have gotten into a chronic pattern of using excuses and blame as a form of self-defense. Well, unfortunately, what happens a lot, and you may or may not have seen this, but I would assume you've seen this at some point in your life. People, and this is a term,

there's a term, it's rock bottom, right? This is a term that we hear for someone that's addicted, someone that's an alcoholic, someone that's physically let themselves go, someone that's put themselves into a situation with their finances or their work or whatever, where they reach rock bottom. But when the excuses all go away

and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me, and this is, it hurts, but it's also unbelievably empowering because if these problems are because of me, then I'm capable of fixing these problems. So even though extreme ownership hurts and is painful, it's also liberating because now you have control

over your fate and over your destiny, and that is a glorious thing. Are excuses the opposite? Excuses and blame, is that the opposite of extreme ownership? That is the opposite of extreme ownership. Extreme ownership is this went wrong, this failed, didn't accomplish this, and it's not the fault of my boss, it's not the fault of my girlfriend, it's not the fault of my parents, it's not the fault of my boss.

It's not the fault of my girlfriend. It's not the fault of my parents. It's not the fault of the weather. It's my fault. And I'm gonna take ownership of it and I'm gonna fix it. That's what extreme ownership is. And this is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts. Because when you look around at your life

and you look around at your job and you look around at your job and your financial situation and your relationship and your physical health, and when you look at all those things and all the problems that you may have with those things and you say, the reason I have all those problems is because of me, that can hurt.

That can sting. And a lot of times our ego rejects that and makes excuses and lies. And then we don't have to change anything. And then nothing changes. What you learn to do is, okay, I'm going to go forward. There's no, I can't get out of this. I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit. So I'm going to go forward, bring it on. If I'm in the woods, which is where you are right now, you're in the woods and you don't know where to go because the wife's not there anymore. The job's not there anymore.

You don't know where to go right now. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go, start walking. What you learn to do is, okay, I'm going to go forward. There's no, I can't get out of this. I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit. So I'm going to go forward, bring it on.

And I think if there's anything that you learn, it's to keep pushing through things that suck. Can you teach that? That, let's go. We're going to jump back in the water. Let's go. I think that's one of the few things that you learn in basic SEAL training is to shrug your shoulders and go forward. This is just something that's going to suck

and you're going to have to push through it.