Daily Motivations - To Grow You Must Suffer

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

Success is not handed to you but forged through challenges and perseverance. Speakers: David Goggins Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please Kindly support this show  Support Us

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Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BidMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. I've been suffering all my life. I'm sorry. It's not enough. But you can't change what you really are. You and me, we don't even have a choice. See, we're born with a killing instinct that you can't just turn off and on like some radio.

You know what it's like to be poor and you know what it's like to work hard. Now you're going to learn what it's like to sweep floors and bust your ass and accomplish twice as much as all the kids around you. And it won't mean anything because they will still look down on you. I'm sorry, but you don't get the easy path. The only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey, you have to suffer to grow. To grow, you must suffer. You have to make that a tattoo on your brain. So when that hard time comes again, you don't forget it. We have to

be right in the middle of the action because we're the warriors and without some some challenge without some damn war to fight then the warrior may as well be dead stallion welcome to the first day of your new life a life where you decide every moment of every day to better yourself. To make those uncomfortable choices. To get you where you want to be. Without pain, without sacrifice, you would have nothing. I tried not to think of the word searing or flesh. Stop it!

This is your pain. This is your burning hand. It's right here. And I realized that life isn't fair. It's not fair. And you better figure out some tools and some ways to stop feeling sorry for yourself because no one is coming to rescue you. No one feels sorry for you.

So the amount of suffering that you understand, the amount of pain that you've gone through makes you appreciate the happiness and the beautiful moments with much more intensity but i didn't get here doing everything that i love i did a close that i hate and i did it for a very long period of time and i did not have anyone to root me on and in fact i had many people who were actively trying to destroy my path and tell me why it was a terrible idea my biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world and there's a final judgment and you talk. That's how I live my life. I now know that there is no cap on the human mind.

There's no cap. We cap it ourselves. I got to get stronger. I got to get stronger. I got to train differently. The weight training program that I'm doing, I got to tailor it for an 82-game season so that when the playoffs come around, my legs are stronger and that ball gets there.

So I look at it with rationale and say, okay, well, the reason why I shot air balls is because my legs aren't there. I got to make sure they'll be there. That was it. Must test your resolve, man. Yes, he does. Must test your ability to go the distance.

I guess it's going to happen. He's going to find out where his world ends and yours begins. Several people live to be 100 years old and they have great lives and they have great kids. Their kids go to college and all sorts of stuff. But somewhere in their life,

there was a point where they had a decision to make. They can go left or right on this path. Left was the easy route. Right was the hard route. A lot of people take the easy route. And they had a good life that way, but the better life was going to the right side. And you may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it, but a lot of us die never truly starting our journey.

So what you waiting on what do you dream elliot you screaming so hard like you never asked yourself this before i said do you want to be here right now and I don't mean like here here I mean here in a cosmic sense bro like existence could be beautiful or it could be ugly but that's on you dream you gotta find out the future you're fighting for sometimes you gotta close your eyes and really envision that bro how can i deal with the fact that this is painful for me and the answer is the fact that it is painful is the reason that it's working. Yeah. If it wasn't you stepping out,

everybody else that has to try and step out into this new life faces this same thing too. Every single person does. That's why most people don't do it. Yeah. This is what hard feels like, and this is why most people don't win. So continuing to push through

and almost seeing that level of discomfort as a signal, it's like a way marker that's been planted in the ground Yes more this way Because if it was all just super easy Well, how are you going to get anything different to what everybody else has got if you do the same thing that everybody else does? Yeah, I'm one of the best selectors for people not doing a thing is discomfort So the route that has a lot of discomfort down it usually on the other side of that ends up with something which is valuable and you see this guy just fighting i love the guy who just fights and so i put these things in as reminders that you're gonna have to suffer man man you're gonna have to suffer

to to to go from this fat motherfucker to one of the best guys on the planet earth this journey is gonna take something that is gonna be incomprehensible to most people that's why losing in life is so important whether it's getting dumped getting fired losing a game loss those feelings where things didn't work out your way that's important because it lets you know this is the bad feeling that comes when it goes wrong and you improve and then it makes the good feelings of victory all the better those feelings of failure are really critical for your motivation a lot of us speak in hollow words i used to speak in hollow words i don't do anymore everything that

comes out of my mouth has substance it's real and we all have these feelings in our bodies in our minds and our souls i act on mine a lot of us who are afraid of something we allow our minds to choose the path of least resistance so we go a different route i'm afraid of something is telling me you must do that. You must do that. You have to go that way. And most of us don't understand that mentality. Wake up! Stop sleeping on yourself. The biggest problem that you have had is not that you don't have resources.

It's not that you don't have supporters. It's not that somebody doesn't believe in you. It's that you have not believed in you. Stop sleeping on yourself. Step into your authenticity. Step into your intelligence and your brilliance. Release your guilt. God has given you something great.

Release it. People don't get it. There's great joy in the grind. Great joy in the suffering. It totally cleanses your body out, man, of any kind of hate. Makes you grow up. And so, like, if you want to do something that most people can't do, literally just extend the time horizon on the things that most people can't weather.

Like, there's so much opportunity on the other side of being willing to persist for an extended period of time on the correct path without getting positive reinforcement from your environment. And the longer you can stick with something without that positive feedback loop in terms of the big external thing, the easier the opportunities are because so few people can pursue them. And the only way to see who the baddest mother****er is

is to suffer. Because why? What I found out through my life was I thought of myself as some weak little **** kid. Once you change one thing, your mindset, you can attack everything your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression when you're going through hard times you're going through death real life you can't google that man but there's 24 hours in

the day where you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways You can't Google that, man. But there's 24 hours in a day where you're alone in this brain, and your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways, and it wants to control you, pull you in these different pockets. If you can't control your own brain, and your brain controls you, you're fucked. You gotta tell your brain where you wanna go

and how you wanna go and how you wanna get there. You gotta control it. If not, it's over. You need discipline. You need personal discipline. There's times when you don't, you don't feel like doing what needs to be done to get this. Um, and, but you got to say feelings has nothing to do with it. Um, this is my dream. This is what I'm going to do. And I'm going to do the things that I don't feel like doing. I'm going to do the things I don't want to do.

I'm going to do the things that don't come easy to me that do not come natural to me. I'm going to get up and do it. You can't live your life on feelings you cannot let your feelings dictate what you are or are not going to do I want to see that guy who immersed himself in hell and he thought about quitting and leaving and his wife and his kids and why am I here? Is it worth it? All this crazy shit is still said and found out a way to get through it. We all want to read about how we can quickly get somewhere. That's why there's six-minute abs and all sorts of stuff so powerful.

You may get some results from it, but they're not permanent. Imagine if 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 help you? What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help? My name is David Goggins. I created Goggins. Goggins is the guy that can take anything you put in front of him.

You want to break my mother's legs? So be it. What I wanted you to go home that night after you beat the living shit out of me and I smiled in your face. I want you to think about me knowing that I'm comfortable being very uncomfortable. You can't just go through life just showing up, eating, sleeping, and going to sleep. You're going to get depressed. Like your organism, the human organism, needs problem solving.

It needs complex problems. It needs stress. It needs some sort of difficult thing that you have to overcome. And through that, you relax. You can't just have happiness all day you have these tools your life was basically the perfect the perfect grounds for training for where you need to go in your life all the beatings all the all the bullying all that you know you going

through learning disabilities all the struggles it was the absolute perfect training ground for you to go to we need to go and that's how I started looking at my life. If you have a sufficiently noble purpose, the suffering will justify itself. And I think that's empirically testable. And I do believe it's the case because I've watched people do very difficult things. And what that shows is that if you turn around and you confront the suffering voluntarily, you find out that you are way tougher than you think. It's not that life is better Than you think life is as harsh as you think it might even be worse But you are way tougher than you think if you turn around and confront it and so then what you discover

Is that there's a spirit within you that pursues that can pursue something meaningful that has the resilience and the strength to contend? properly with the catastrophe of existence without becoming bitter his life is relentless you better keep coming back from all your failures all your doubts all your shit you better keep fighting keep getting up never lay down that's one thing we should all agree on. If you've been broken once, you know how that shit feels. That means, try and break me again. One thing in life, suffering has no expiration date. It don't give a shit if you're black, white, poor, rich, where you come from, how you were raised.

It will keep coming after you. We need adversity, we need difficulty, we need struggle. You need a weight to carry. And if you don't have any of this, you do not get your character tested. You do not advance in your own perception of who you are in this world and how you engage with all the other people other people around you yeah well there's a difference between something missing and am i satisfied right because i'm not satisfied i mean i always want to go like i never get done with the end of the day and go cool mission accomplished like it's like you gotta be close yeah mine's gonna always guide you in a spot that wants to make you feel comfortable and nice and secure and it's in

those spots that there's no growth. Without friction, there's no growth. Tell me all the time, it's hard to get wealthy. It's hard to grind. It's hard to be focused. It's hard to stay motivated. It's hard to stay broke. It's hard to stay depressed.

It's hard to stay governed by anxiety. It's hard to be inconsistent. It's hard not to have daily disciplines. It's hard not to believe in yourself. It's hard to be broke. It's hard to be poor. It's hard. It's all hard. So choose your heart. You either go work for it or sit there and let life knock you down and dare you to get back up. I still find myself with this sense that success has to be earned and the only way to earn it is to inflict pain

on yourself. And if you're not in pain, you didn't try hard enough. And it would have been better if you'd suffered more. Life isn't a constant party. Life is a battle, a relentless struggle against mediocrity and excuses. Want to know the secret ingredient that separates winners from dreamers? It's discipline. Discipline isn't pretty or elegant. It isn't a luxurious spa where you relax and feel good about yourself. Discipline is a trench where you face your inner demons, where you decide if you control your destiny or let life dominate you. How many times have you looked in the mirror

and told yourself you could do more? How many times have you let the chance to change your life slip by because you felt comfortable in your safety zone? It's time to break those mental shackles and unleash your inner beast. This whole thing about suffering, yeah, it sucks. Really bad.

Really, really bad But we all live on this side of suffering On this side This nice box that's very comfortable That we know when everything's going to happen We're in it, it's good We know how everything's going to turn out It's those few people who are willing to go on this side of suffering

And once they get through that Ask ask him how he feels now. His mind. How far he grew. In that short period of time, he grew so much more than a normal person. Because he was willing to go outside himself. Because on the other end of suffering is greatness. Embrace the pain. pain is good for you it's great for you this is no fun but when you finish and you go through weeks and months you feel some you the value that you get is much

greater than the pain that pain That resistance is good for you. You need to love. Pain. However. Mentally. Physically. Love it. You need to love it.

If not. Stay where you are. Tell me one thing. One thing. In your life. That is great. That came as a result of being comfortable because everywhere i look and everywhere i i see in today's society everybody's doing everything they can to be more comfortable right they're looking for the more convenience they're looking

for the quicker they're looking for the. All the great things in my life, all the great things in other high achievers lives, all the reasons that these successful people that you look up to, that you aspire to be like are the way they are, have all come from a place of being uncomfortable. Okay. So understand that when you're trying to avoid the pain, when you're trying to avoid the struggle, when you're trying to avoid the hard things in life, you are actively choosing to be average. You are actively choosing to be mediocre and you're actively choosing to move further away from what you want in life. Because that hardship and that pain and that struggle and that frustration, they give you the skills that will forge you into a champion.

But every day I do something to strengthen the mind. We're all looking for this great mythical mental toughness. Mental toughness doesn't come from sitting on the couch it doesn't come from wishing it would come true it comes from putting in the work and you have to start developing your mindset mindset is not developed by wishing mindset is developed by doing and actually putting into practice hustle is putting it all on the line. Hustle is waking up one day, the day before you die, and realizing you gave it your all into the parenting of your children,

the building of your businesses, the philanthropy that you wanted to do. Whatever you define, it's just all in. Every single person who has ever done anything worthwhile or exceptional or difficult or extraordinary, anyone, whether it's great artists or authors or mathematicians or whatever the f*** it is, everyone encounters difficulties. There is no easy road.

It does not exist. It is impossible. Everyone has issues do the thing that your heart is asking you to do regardless of the external circumstances you just fucking do it and the reason why i say that is not because of what you might get by taking action in the direction of your dreams because the goal the prize on the other end of it is not nearly as powerful as who you become when you do the damn thing so what I want to invite you to do what I want you to consider is that every single time you go and do

something hard a lot of people their excuses are it's easier said than done it's too hard right this is really basically what your your story is that's the story you've told yourself that it's easier said than done you know it's it's kind of hard to do that well it's supposed to be hard look if growing stronger and building muscle were easy there would be no growth if there was no challenge and that's my invitation to you is to realize that it's supposed to be hard it's supposed to be difficult if it wasn't difficult there would be no resistance there'd be nothing to force you to grow stronger with

and that's why i say the most important reason the most important thing the most important gift that you receive by taking action in the direction of your dreams is not attaining your dream. It's you growing stronger and becoming a stronger version of yourself through the challenges, through the resistance, and because it's hard. 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. The amount of pleasure that you will eventually experience is directly related to how much pain you experience. A good life, we could say, is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. And even better, a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work. And understanding this pain-pleasure balance

whereby if you experience pain and you can continue to be in that friction and exert effort, the rewards are that much greater when they arrive. It's like a knife driving through it. It's painful as s***, guys. But you know, in a weird way, maybe I'm sick in the head, but when I know that knife's coming in there, then I know my muscles are going to a point down a path that's not beaten. They're going down a path that no one's been on, especially them, pushing their means of what they're used to. That knife represents growth. Every success in life, guys, is masked by temporary pain.

Everything in life that's worthwhile, every prison you want to unwrap, that you want to get in the inside of that prison to get it, because you want that prison so bad, every prison that's worthwhile to you in life is wrapped in pain. Welcome the pain. Unwrap the pain. Welcome to pain. Unwrap the pain. Find life.

What I found is that winning doesn't happen on show day. It happens in early mornings, painful workouts, long cardio sessions, and hungry nights. It happens in those moments of fear we all have when faced with a difficult goal, and then more so in what you make of that fear. It happens in every second of every day before you win. If you can take every opportunity you have to bring yourself closer to your goal, win every one of those opportunities, all while becoming more resilient in the process, how can you lose?

That is an exciting opportunity. How bad do you want it That is an exciting opportunity. How bad do you want it? There's two options. To continue forward, pushing upward. And if you do, that dream is given birth. And forever you will live in the reality of it. If you stop, quit, throw in the towel,

I promise you there's no distance you can travel far enough to find that dream again. For it is dead. And it is death. It's replaced by regret. And literally, I started feeling victory just by putting myself in the battle. It wasn't about going to Navy SEAL training. It wasn't about being the 23rd guy in that chair i started realizing man just by going to war with myself every day and putting these challenges and

these goals and these obstacles these insurmountable obstacles so it wasn't about losing 106 pounds me losing five pounds was an accomplishment. The more I did this, the more I gained confidence. 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 is 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. Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever. Behind that pain is an understanding that I don't have this skill. Or is an understanding of I didn't try hard enough.

Come on, can you believe again? Can you see it again? Can you write again? Can you make this thing personal? That it doesn't start with the people connected to you. It starts with you. It doesn't even start with your past. It starts with where you are and where you're going. Can you look ahead?

Can you stretch forth? Can you condition yourself? Can you prepare yourself for the next thing? Come on, make it personal. It doesn't start with everybody. It starts with me because people will leave you for dead. And then what's your why? What did God put in you?

Release it to the world. If it's going to be personal, make it personal. Don't just be great in public. Be great in private. What you do in dark, if I pulled up your search history, what would I find? Would you still be an example to the world? If I went through your closet, if I went through your basement, if I went through your attic, if I went through your center console, if I went through your house. How personal is your purpose? You are able to get up

every morning, have no passion, no drive, no motivation, no shit, and still get up with that kind of fire. You will be successful in life. I guarantee you that. you don't have to feel good about it you just have to keep going the feeling will pass but you will remain you are greater than your feelings going to bed late and waking up early to work for a few days won't kill you you're not going to burn out you're doing what it takes if you're one of those people that push work-life balance just remember the people who like working a lot don't care i've never regretted trying harder at anything ever hard times last long but an epic story

feels like a lifetime your motivation motivation you need discipline because motivation's not there every day motivate i'm missing motivation most days. Through this, through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, through tons of repetition of the same thing that you don't want to do, that's the key thing. Through repetition of things you don't want to do, you develop like an armor for your mind. You start to armor your mind because your mind is like,

okay, we suffer, we suffer every day. It's what we do we do stuff that sucks every day so then when the suck stuff comes you're ready for it that's because that's the that's part of the unforgiving part is the losing part that part is unforgiving it's what's really inside of them so what they're seeing when they look in the mirror they're just trying to see what's on the surface. But winning and losing wants to know what's inside of you. It wants to know what makes you tick. It wants to know what your desires are. It wants to know what your ego is. It wants to know what your limitations are. It wants to know what your mindset is. It wants to know everything

about you because winning does not lie. When you look in the mirror, you can lie and see what's on the surface. You cannot lie what's going on inside. And that's what people are not willing to see. The lies that are truly going on inside of them that are not allowing them to win over and over sometimes even win once your mind has to be stronger than your feelings your mind has to be stronger than your feelings think about every poor decision you've made in your life gosh there was more emotion that was involved in it than there was mine.

Every single one of them. Think about it. It really was. Your feelings keep you in bed. Your mind tells you, get up. Whenever I get to a low point where I think, why do I even bother? I just remind myself, this is where most people stop. And this is why they don't win.

And this relates to another one, which is a reminder for the gladiators in the arena who feel beat up and scarred with no hope in sight building a business is hard hard feels shitty this is what hard feels like and this is why most people can't do it but you can maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles

quit don't quit. Noodles. Don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.

But today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. Because if I just think, well, tomorrow I'm just going to coast and eat Twinkies and watch TV. Oh, hello, sadness, my old friend. Hello, depression. Because when you're not doing anything, you feel like shit. And that's just a part of being a human being. And we can pretend that we're something other than what we really are. And we can pretend, nah, me, man, I'm just cool, just chilling, doing nothing.

Bullshit. You're a human. You're a human being. You evolved from the hundreds of thousands of years of hunters and gatherers and people that were struggling. Those human reward systems are carved deeply into your DNA. And if you don't respect that, if you don't respect the mechanism of happiness and fulfillment and what you really need to do in order to feel satisfied in life, camaraderie, struggle, testing yourself, learning, all those things are imperative. They're all a giant part of being a person.

What's the biggest mistake that you've made in your life that you can share with people? Same mistake that all followers make. Trust. It's a fact. Trust. Every morning I get up in the mirror and I say to myself, and I'm brushing my teeth, I say, you know what? The only person I can trust is that person right there.

Because we all know we can trust ourselves. But we all always know somebody else is always going to let us down. It's 1 a.m. I'm going for my third workout. Do I want to go to the gym? Absolutely not. I'd rather, you know, lay in my house and sit in the movie theater and watch movies. But, you know, to be the the best you got to work overtime to be the best you got to work overtime listen looks like the winds are changing ah change is good yeah but it's not easy i know what i have to do but going back means I'll have to face my past. I've been running from it for so long.

Ow! Geez! What was that for? It doesn't matter! It's in the past! Yeah, but it still hurts. Oh yes, the past can't hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Ah! you see? At some point in your life, after many breakups, after you realize we all pay taxes, after you realize you're not always going to be the one chosen for a promotion, you're going to be passed up on promotion sometimes. A guy that's lazier just because they're related to the mother of the business or the CEO of the business is going to get the promotion over you, and that pisses you off because you stayed up every night till 10 o'clock and that schmuck gets the promotion over you just because his last name is Johnson and yours is not and you can never compete with that

kid then you start realizing saying listen man this fashion stuff I'm sorry I work a lot harder than the other guy what does he deserve it you start kind of getting a little bit of this and about 30 to 40 years old you sit there and say maybe I need to start making some logical decisions as well I think to myself man I'm afraid of doing this. I think to myself, man, I'm afraid of doing this. And I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm afraid of what this person's going to think about me. Because if I were to be able to fail in quiet, in complete isolation, then I wouldn't care. And then I think, well, what if I don't succeed in public?

What do they think then? Nothing. They don't think about me at all. And so obviously that comes from the perspective of, uh, seeking to gain approval and attention from others anyway. So it's like, listen, if you're insecure, which everybody is, let's be real. Um, you might as well use the insecurity to get something out of it. And so a lot of people think that they need to fix their conditions in order to get like the perfect conditions before they start. But the perfect condition is whatever one you're in, because it gives you whatever assets you have.

That's the cards that you're dealt. And so you just play the hand. And a lot of people have great cards. It's like, man, I'm so afraid. It's like, use it. It's like, I have nothing. It makes you very dangerous because you have nothing to lose, right?

Like one of the really interesting things about, I think about from a business perspective, but it probably applies to everything, is that there's always an advantage and a disadvantage from every position. I was like, there's always a position and there's from every position. I was like, there's always a position and there's always an advantage. I was like, you just have to play the one you've got.

And most people just look at what everyone else's advantage is and don't think, which one do I have? My body was breaking down. It was just how it was going on. I said, you know what? This is my new norm. So my mind said, it's like going to work.

Like, you go to work, you put your suit and tie on, I go into suffering every day every day suffering being broken duct taping my feet up stress fractures shin splints being broken this is my new norm and your mind says if we're not broken this ain't normal we got to be broken so then your mind starts to get tougher and tougher and more callous. People, how did you run on broken feet? Broken shins? My mind knew this is how we operate. We're in Navy SEAL training.

This is what we are. I became hell. And that became my new norm. I gave myself no way out. There was nothing outside these walls of hell. Nothing. I became, I love God, but for a short period of time, I became the devil. Because that was hell.

I became the boss, the owner, the CEO of Navy SEAL Training. That was my mindset. And that's how you get through things. You put yourself, you immerse yourself wherever it is, and you become that. You become that and give yourself no way out. What's that like in the moment? Is it hell or do you get some kind of a weird neutral point where you're just in the moment being this guy,

breathing and feeling the pain? What is that like? The scariest thing in the world about that, no pain, no gain. I can only give the pain to others that I have received already the bones can only be as hard as I have hit whatever was hard like that and so that means take it as a challenge everything that you, find a way to overcome it. Everything that you feel is difficult for you, find a way to still do it. The discipline can seem like it's your worst enemy.

But the reality is discipline is your best friend. It will take care of you like nothing else can. And it'll put you on that path. The path to strength and health

and intelligence and happiness. I'm trying to get to where i'm going and you read a bunch of books and you think that you know how the fucking mind works i had gone through hell i had lived hell and when you put yourself in hell that's the only time you can figure out how to get through that mother you can't you can't read somebody else's book about some theory on how to do some guy who set up in a nice warm office and wrote some book with a nice cup

of coffee in the hand oh I want to see that guy who immersed himself in hell and he thought about quitting and leaving and is it worth it all this crazy the permanent result comes from you i say it all the time you have to suffer chosen and unchosen suffering so

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 you have no control over and the only way that you can prepare yourself for unchosen suffering is with chosen suffering right 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 going to suck but think about how much more fragile you would be if you hadn't overcome all of this stuff i've been in three hell weeks ranger school overcome so many

obstacles in my life this last 30 miles of this race is when I realized a human being is not so human anymore. We have the ability to go in such a space if you're willing to suffer and I mean suffer your brain and your body once connected together can do anything and this 30 miles was the life-changing moment I was out of it I was in the worst pain in my entire life I was to me on the brink of death ain't nobody gonna stop me or whatever going on the talking and the captions or whatever the memes it can't stop me because it's a vision that I have and it's goals that I have to set out for myself that I got to get there no matter what. The suffering before your mind starts saying we need self-talk. So what I tell myself is I go back to the months and years of preparation to get to that day.

And I'm telling myself the 3.30 in the morning and I'm looking at shoes, and I want to go out there and run 30 miles. I have to, in that second, in that moment of this self-talk, my mind says, you got to find more, you got to find more. I once again calm down, go back into my mind, in my cookie jar, I call it, and I have to reflect back on the shit I did to get here. And that becomes my self-talk. Self-talk does not work unless it is real most of us lie to ourselves in this self-talk it doesn't work it has to be real it has to be something that you've done to make it really work i'm doing something i don't want to do every time i start doing things i don't want to do i grow and if you earn it you'll keep it that's the thing about it man like we like to take these very quick fixes in life. We want the six-minute abs approach to life.

Yeah. Nah, man. There's no permanent in that. Yeah. There's no permanent in that, man. There's no scarring. There must be scarring. People are terrified of this thing that you're saying, that there's no end, that there's

no finish line, that every day is a new thing, that you have to earn it still after all the shit you've done. Every day you get up and you have to earn it yes and i was really big into visualization and um i always equated working out to struggle i struggled my whole life but i ran from it so i started realizing that i gotta start facing the struggle and i gotta be mentally strong for the struggle so that's why i started coming up with like, I'm training for life. Mentally, I'm training for life. I'm not training for like, to lift 400 pounds. And I found out on my own pretty much, is that through this, through discipline, through self-discipline, through repetition, through tons of repetition, the same thing that you don't want to do. And that's the

key thing. Through repetition of things you don't want to do, you develop mental, like an armor for your mind. Start to armor your mind. Because your mind's like, okay, we suffer. We suffer every day. It's what we do. We do stuff that sucks every day. So then when the suck stuff comes, you're ready for it. With slaves, we're going to act like we're free.

And one day, our children will be free. If the slaves would have just said, we quit, we give up, we would have died in the middle passage but some slaves said i don't care what we go through we're gonna survive this 400 years of slavery we're gonna get through this and you can't get through an 1825 you can't get through a writing class and you got tutor after tutor resource after resource the problem is you ain't never felt no pain before you're soft it's a soft generation you quit on everything my nose is not going to quit and this is what i found out it's my 40 rule when your mind knows it's not going to quit your body will adapt to whatever is in front of it. I ended up running 20 more miles.

I did 101 miles in 19 hours and 6 minutes. And that one day changed. That one 19 hours. It wasn't SEAL training. It wasn't Ranger School. It wasn't Delta Force. It wasn't any of that crap I went through. It was this 19 hours and 6 minutes that forever changed my life.

To know that we as human beings are capable of anything and we don't need any special kind of parents or tools to get there so i hit you with this don't stop when you're tired stop when you're done thank you and i don't blame them but don't be mad when you're laying there in your bed and you're in the hospital and you're 70 80 90 years old you're thinking yeah i feel like i didn't do something because you did you didn't do it you didn't do shit you may live the great life man but you always get empty inside i was honest look at yourself Look at yourself. And it was that day I just got real with myself. And every day I came home, I called the accountability mirror. What am I going to do today to change what I see in this mirror? Get control. Stop scrolling. Stop clicking, and start living.

And today I'm no longer being a loser. Today I'm going to change my path. I'm going to get on the path of success. I don't care how long that road is. I'm going to see it through no matter what. Because you know what? I've been living enough years in this shithole. I don't want to be here anymore. A simple truth in life is things are not going to go your way.

Things are not going to work out the way you planned. Things are not going to be the way that you wanted them to be. I would recommend you use the resources you have to create the life you want. And so the cards that you have dealt right now are anger and fear and disappointment. Then you can either wallow in those or you can turn something good out of it. And so, I mean, I love the saying, you can either let life beat the strength out of you, or you can let it beat it into you. And so it's just a decision of whether these circumstances are going to serve me or I'm going to serve them. And so I think that

whatever your raw materials are, a lot of people lament what cards they're dealt, but you don't have control over those cards you only have control of how you play the hand and so i think everyone just needs to move past that and you know stop the pissing contest on who had a sadder upbringing you cannot take any more time for granted you don't know how much longer you're gonna be here you can do great things it's all just a matter of will you choose to blossom into the greatness that is within you. Create a life that you can't wait to wake up to. I saw that. I live that life. I literally, I hate to sleep. I love every minute of my life.

What would you say the most consistent straight amongst successful people you've been doing consistent like consistency doesn't guarantee that you're successful but if you're not consistent you can guarantee that you won't reach success i want every single fucking time so you there's a thousand ways to say this but listen because i'm only going to say it once i fought for it because no one gave it to me because i it was just me me alone in the gym me alone in the mirror me alone in my head no one did it for me i worked for it and i'm never going to let someone else take that from me everybody just wants to be comfortable everybody wants to sit in the car i don't want to go outside it's cold i don't want to do this it's hot like you've got to do things that you don't want to do

because you show your body that your mind is the boss your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control keep repeat the consistence is the most difficult thing just doing it every day yes every day do you ever wake up and you say, I don't want to do it today? I fight against that. You know, it's the big challenge. It's when you're not willing to do something, but you have to do it. This is the main point. This is why I say our mind, it's a box of surprises and you have to challenge yourself to be consistent. I repeat, sometimes it's hard. It's what many people say. You like to go to the gym every day. Of course, no, it's not true. Nobody likes to go to the gym every day, but you have to do it.

If I'm running on a treadmill and I get to mile nine and I get complete cramp in one of my legs, and I know I've told myself I'm going to run 10 kilometers today he goes I will have to limp the last mile even if no one's watching because I can't let the demons in and if I let the demons in they'll show up in the 11th round of a championship fight when there's 50,000 people watching me in the audience and I know deep in myself story that I'm the type of person that quits when things get hard because I got off that treadmill at mile nine when no one was watching. It would modify my self-story. The commitments we keep to ourself and what we do when no one's watching is the most persuasive evidence that governs everything we then do every day thereafter.

The problem is you ain't never felt no pain before. You're soft. It's a soft generation. You quit on everything. Our people did not quit. Harriet Tubman not only made it, she went back and got some more. She said, you know what, I made it, but I'm going to walk all the way. Listen to me, shh. Not ride the bus. I'm going to walk all the way back down to the south to get some more. Life is suffering.

Right. Indisputable what do you do about that you you voluntarily accept it and then strive to overcome the suffering that's a consequence of that and you do that for, and you do that in a way that makes it better for other people. And then that works. No one can tell you how it will work for you. It's the thing that your destiny is to discover that. And you have to make the decisions to begin with. It's like, because you can't do this without commitment. You have to commit to it first. That's the act of faith that Kierkegaard was so insistent upon. You have to say, I'm going to act as if being is good. I'm going to act as if truth is the pathway to enlightenment.

I'm going to act as if I should pursue the deepest meaning possible in my life. And there's reasons to do none of those. They're real reasons. So it's really a decision. But you can't find out what the consequence of the decision is unless you make the decision. Because sometimes we don't understand, like, what is this? What is my purpose? Why am I here?

Why do I have to go through this pain? Why do I have to go through this fear all the time? Why can't it just be peaceful all the time? Then there wouldn't be life. the time then there wouldn't be life you know it wouldn't be life we have to we have to take life at its term life on life term not life on our terms chances it's important that i stand up here tonight and represent those that are looking for second chances you can be this guy. You can change. You can turn it around. I promise you can, baby. I once heard a man say that you don't change until the pain to remain the same is

greater than the pain it takes to change. And that's what it takes. I love you, Texas. Don't underestimate the hole your absence would leave you know each of us were remarkable creatures and we have something to offer to the world to our people we love to the world at large it's our responsibility to make that manifest and we move a little farther away from paradise every time that doesn't happen see the thing about life we're gonna die right eventually we're gonna die but our legacy can live on the impact can be non-perishable forever but it's gotta be built right they're gonna speak we don't live forever our legacy does we're gonna make sure that's solid again Again, you only live once.

But if you work it right, once is enough, my friends. You know, if your time, your time comes when your time comes. You know, you can't control that. And your brain is the most powerful weapon. I talk about that in one of these chapters. Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world.

Once you put away your phones and your computers and all that sh** you have nowadays, that's great. We're up to date. Your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression, when you're going through hard times, you're going through death. Real life, you can't google that sh**, man. You're alone. You're alone. You may have a shrink you're going to. You may have a best friend you're going to. But there's 24 hours in a day where you're alone in this brain. And your brain is talking to you in all kind of ways. And it wants to control you and pull you in these different pockets. If you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you, you're f***ed.

You got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there. You got to control it. If not, it's over. It makes me think about when it says, don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. You're not going to score on every shot. Right.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't take the shots. Doesn't mean you shouldn't try to hit the goal. But part of being able to continue to take shots is to have the strength of character to tolerate the fact that that in that instance you weren't on top i know why you hate me you hate me because you're probably in the bed right now you're probably an underachiever you're probably somebody who doesn't want to do anything with your life? So I make you Question everything about yourself. So I'm going to continue making you question yourself By coming out here and being even more successful

So about four months ago had a major leg surgery. I got placing screws in my leg That's the edema that's in it. These are my fingers So a lot of you know I like to run that got taken away from you for a few months but who cares life will not always be 70 and 70 life is the ultimate competitor

it's relentless it will continue to attack you when you least expect it We must learn to adapt And overcome to any and all obstacles that are in front of us We have to evolve And the way I evolved When the obstacle gets in front of you

Don't let it stop you Don't let it deter you Not get around that motherfucker. Every morning, every day of our lives, we have choices to make. You have a choice to stay in bed, to say, forget it. I'm not going to work out today or forget it. I'm not going to work hard today. You always have a choice every single day of your life.

And I look at it as like a Like a rock and you find this rock and that rock is you and every day you Fight not wanting to get up and you do anyway You chip another piece off that rock and every day you eat the right foods and every day you go to train you train Hard and harder and harder and harder and you get up. And all these things you do to start forming yourself. You're chipping another piece of that rock up. Before you know it, you have this beautiful piece of artwork that you built. You've got to do something to get control of your brain, of your mind.

You've got to check yourself. I don't care how you do it. I don't care if you, if you set an alarm every 45 minutes so you can audit your thoughts so you can audit what is influencing you so you can control what's influencing you control the things you think about. You can actually control how you feel. You can control what you think and you can definitely control what you do do not be a slave to influence you gotta be the master of your mind you got friends that like to party right they like to go out they like to drink and go out to the clubs you're on those people

all of a sudden you start feeling that little urge and you got other friends that are disciplined they are going to go to the gym early in the morning they make you want to work out if you aren't careful you can slide down the path of least resistance, the path, path to weakness. Telling you as I leave, I was homeless for two and a half years. And the problem with most of you, you never felt no pain before.

Y'all spoiled. Y'all spoiled. Some of y'all spoiled. Just bottom line. Your parents have done everything for you. You never had to do nothing for yourself. You're spoiled. We're going to keep it real tonight.

Some of you are spoiled brats. Every time you ever got in trouble, somebody in your house got you out of it every time you've done something you're not supposed to do people say eric your mother's a tyrant you're right she kicked me out you're right she's mean but she developed a man because she put me out there and said you're gonna have to grow up and some of you have never learned to grow up and so every time something get hard you quit you call mama i dare you to take a little pain you ain't gonna die at the end of pain and success i want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people i wanted to be the guy i don't care if you like me i don't care if you don't understand me i didn't give a once i went through this journey this path of life you ain't got a whole bunch of guys that don't like me i'll give you understand me i didn't give once i went through this journey this path of life

you ain't got a whole bunch of guys that don't like me i don't give a i'm a warrior a warrior's a mother who 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 getting after it it's a person that puts no limit on what's possible every day I wake up And I don't want to do some I'm like okay man do you want to be a Today do you want to feel like a little You want to walk around all day knowing that you could

But you didn't Life is one big tug of war And you don't win that tug of war by pushing the Rope you have to pull that And a lot of times you have to pull yourself Through life this morning I did not want to get up so you have to pull yourself through life this morning i did not want to get up so i had to pull my out of bed but guess what the more and more i got into that run

each step into that run i'm trying to gain more and more confidence but to gain that confidence you have to be willing to pull yourself out of bed pull yourself out of bed, pull yourself out of a funk, pull yourself out of whatever life is throwing at you to gain that confidence. By the time the run was over, I was like, you mother. I once again beat you. You gotta be willing to find the confidence, stay in the fight, stay in the war, stay in the battle, armor your mind. 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 took us 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 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 work out 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 work out hard you know it's like when someone says well today i just need to sleep in i said right bullshit yeah you don't need to sleep in this country was not built on sleeping in so let's get up in the morning and let's get on that bike and let's do some exercise and don't even think about it don't look at your email or anything like this let's just get going boom boom boom let's get going and let's start building and so that's the idea is just not to be overly soft and overly

kind of like sensitive and everyone is in the victim kind of a thing I just don't buy into that a lot of this me so when you're waking up every morning by yourself and you're fucking getting after it by yourself and and It's the hidden work People see one minute video of me running this shit and like these fighters, you know They they see during the fight or after the fight they don't see these motherfuckers man what they deal with every fucking day i'm not good enough i'm not good enough i shouldn't be here i shouldn't be here

because every day even though they're fucking the best in the world that little mother seven or eight years old is still in there saying oh man we don't don't have something. We're not good enough. It's not even real. All those mornings that you don't want to get up and I look at it as like a rock and you find this rock and that rock is you. And every day you fight

not wanting to get up and you do anyway. You chip another piece off that rock and every day you eat the right foods and every day you go to train and you train harder and harder and harder and harder. And you get up earlier. And all these things you do to start forming yourself.

You're chipping another f***ing piece of that rock off. Before you know it, you have this beautiful f***ing piece of artwork that you built. This society is too weak. And why? Because of all the technology which is available right now, so you don't need to use your body anymore. I always think about in the Stone Ages.

Do you think somebody in the Stone Ages had depression? Or even a more modern variation, the Spartans. Do you think they had depression? But nowadays, how does the time look? You can sit if you want from morning till evening just in front of the screen. And nothing's going to happen anymore. Look, when you're a kid, you're all potential. It's chaotic potential.

It can manifest itself in any number of ways. And maybe you don't want to give that up. So you're like Peter Pan. You want to be a kid forever because you don't want to give up the potential. And you look out in the world and all you see are Captain Hooks, you know, who've lost a hand, who were chased by death because that's the clock in the crocodile. It's already got a taste of him. He's terrified by death and he's a tyrant. But I don't want to grow up to be that so I won't be disciplined at all well that's no good because the way the

potential transforms itself into actuality is through discipline and I think psychologically the advantage that that gives me over over a lot of people that have been in competition with in different situations is it's difficult to take the first step when you look how big the task is the task is never huge to me it's always one brick i i believe uh and i learned very young that you you don't try to build a wall you don't set out to build a wall. You don't say, I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.

You don't start there. You say, I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. There will not be one brick on the face of the earth that's going to be laid better than this brick that I'm going to lay in this next 10 minutes. And you do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.

And then the next day comes and you're back playing again. And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it's, you know, what you do on Monday, it's fantastic. But then Tuesday is a bad day. But guess what? There's Wednesday. So are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time? You know, versus just staying like this and understanding that it's really just a journey of evolution every day it's just constant improvement constant curiosity constantly

getting better the results don't really matter uh it's the figuring out that matters yeah and we all get obsessed about the results like we get obsessed about the output, not the input, of not figuring it out and not changing things. What you said, trial and error, like the experimenting. I can see my kid, they have 12 years old. The mentality are not the same. They are not suffer that. What's the difference?

The anger. I think the anger. I think that they have the things more easily. Everything is easily. They don't suffer. And I think they they have the things more easily. Everything is easily. They don't suffer. And I think they don't care. If there's potential inside of you, which you know it's there, but you're too scared to tell anyone else about it,

and you go on and on, get older and older and older and older, and the windows of our dreams have to close, and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it, I promise you, it will haunt you. It'll be more It's a living nightmare dude That fact that you have the ability to do something And you're too weak to turn the key

And start the engine on it Is a greater disappointment And a greater burden to carry Than any of this Physical sweat equity Or pain in the gym Or sacrifice All that is just nothing compared to a

life where you're burdened by regret guys i don't know what to do it's like that's okay nobody does go do something do the best thing that you can think of put the best plan you have into practice it's not going to be perfect and it will change along the way. But it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path. And as you become disciplined, you become wiser. And as you become wiser, you become able to formulate better and better plans. I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

You know, while the other guy's sleeping, I'm working. While the other guy's eating, I'm working. Hey, what are we doing today? Well, we're going to engage now. And once we engage, we commit. There's no half commitment. There's no quarter commitment. There's no third quarter.

It's full commitment. Once we engage, it's every day we engage. Because that's the half commitment. There's no quarter commitment. There's no third quarter. It's full commitment. Once we engage, it's every day we engage. Because that's the better life. And the people you surround yourself are like-minded. And they're better friends. Friends and family for life, man. They have your back. They're solid individuals doing solid tasks,

leaving a solid impact of legacy for other people. That's a solid life, man. It's your option, though. What are you going to do there's no easy way around it no matter how talented you are your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled you know if you don't study if you don't work uh really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day hope ain't you shit. Because it's not in your hands. Hope is not in your hands. You can't control hope, man.

You can't. You get belief. Until you callous over the victim's mentality that the world is out to get you because of you are the only, you got to change that, man. Yeah, but you don't understand my life, David. Yeah, I do.

That's the thing about it. And that's why I can talk about it. But yeah, I get what you're saying. A lot of folks don't under, I get that mentality. I once had that mentality, that no one understands what I'm going through. And if you keep that mentality, you're gonna stay in the same exact spot that you're in.

It might be April where you are. And you're expecting nice weather. But it's 20 degrees. So? You might be somewhere where it's too fucking hot. So? You might have sore legs. Sore back.

Sore shoulder. So? The struggle is real. It never gets any easier. You gotta get harder. I was out yesterday getting after it. Had one of the best runs I've had in a long time.

PR'd that bitch. So, no one cares what you did yesterday. No one matters what you're doing today. Those who take me literally. So? I'm a cheerleader for those who want to be better. Not for those who want to stay the same.

Stay hard. What does losing feel like to you? It's exciting. Why is it exciting? Because it means you have different ways to get better. There are certain things that you can figure out, that you can take advantage of. Certain weaknesses that were exposed, that you need to shore up. So it was exciting.

It sucks to lose. But at the same time, their answer was there. Because we forget we are in control of our mind. We believe it's the other way around. No. We put in our minds what we should do. But we believe our mind is telling us,

it's giving us all this feedback we have to reprogram it it tells no no no we're good we're good we got this this sucks but it's okay the easiest thing in the world to do is to complain blame and quit and settle that's the easiest thing in the world to do but it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an individual when they're trying to change something. That's why I always say to people, what's more important, what we acquire or who we become? You're not where you want to be. You feel like you're supposed to be somewhere else. You said it well. Say you could snap your fingers and be wherever you supposed to be somewhere else. You said it.

Well, say you could snap your fingers and be wherever you wanted to be. I bet you'd still feel this way, not in the right place. The point is you can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget how to make the most of where you are. What are you telling me?

Take a break from worrying about what you can't control. Live a little. Live a little. Live a little. You got 24 hours in a day. Eight hours you sleep, right? And most people work a nine to five. So eight hours you're working.

16 hours. Okay, so we have 16 hours. We got breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So we're at night. That's 19. You take your hour to get ready. So we have 20 hours. So I cannot spend.

You guys cannot spend four hours going to my arm. They lying. Oh, I like this photo. Oh, they faking. Sending photos to to other people y'all got to get focused. I'm where I'm at cuz I'm focused Tunnel fish, I'm focused on what I got to do Y'all gonna have a game plan you feel I feel right now as bad as it feels It's a hell of a lot better feeling than a life where you throw the towel in. That's something you never recover from.

Tomorrow morning, I'll wake up stronger. I'll feel alive. And I'll have the belief and confidence backing me up. After a good night's rest, I can only get better. When the towel's down in life, there is no more rounds, man, you throw it in. I feel like shit right now, but I can put the towel back up, and I'm going to be stronger tomorrow than the next round. Life, guys, is a plan of action. If you don't have the plan, I guarantee you someone's going to use you as part of their fucking plan.

Stop going about the day as a servant. Become the master. Run your day and stop having it run you. Believe in yourself. Be that one of a hundred that has a belief instead of just jaw-jerk talk of intent. Huge differential there. Differential is somebody just breathing life and the other one taking the most of the opportunity of time of life remembrance otherwise forgotten what do you think is the biggest stumbling block that most people face with this kind of journey honestly is they have the woe is me mentality. It's too hard. Life isn't fair.

These things in life are not easy for me. You look to your left, you look to your right, and you start to judge yourself off other people. Like if you're a female, well, she's skinny. She doesn't work out as hard as I do. And everything starts to corrupt your mind. You start to look around too much at other people and what they're doing. And that starts to corrupt your own dialogue.

We are judging ourselves against too many people. You have to judge yourself against yourself. And that's the one thing I started learning. This race against David Goggins and David Goggins alone. And once you can silence all that bullshit, all the outside interference and things that are attracting your mind to everything, you can then start to grow and realizing I'm stressed out for no reason. This is my own little race. This is my own timeline and this is how I'm gonna run it. It's all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed,

you will continue to act as you have always acted. You will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. You ever had a gut feeling that maybe you were meant for more, but you weren't really sure what the next best steps were to achieve it? Me too. So what's your more? What's your destination? And I'm not talking about just more money or more things. I'm also talking about more love, more joy, more choice, more balance, more trust. What's your more? It would line up to be perfect for them.

And because they're waiting for this and because it's never coming, they never go. And when they never go, they never become anything. And that's what leads to a wasted life so you have to realize conditions are never going to be perfect things are always going to be hard so he's like i gained 20 pounds i can't find my why i can't find my purpose i can't find motivation can't find a gym he went on and on so I said hey okay relax just relax can you find your balls once you locate those I need you to grab them after you grab them I need you to go find some shoes if you got some shoes you can go walk you can go run as far as the gym you can't find do you have a floor where you live

do some fucking push-ups do some sit-ups we're waiting to find purpose waiting to find why waiting to find all this before we start the thing about is this start now so when you find your purpose you find your why you can get after it stay hard Seneca famously said that the mind focused on future events is miserable I see so many people focusing on the things that they cannot control they want to make a million dollars but obviously you can't dictate the specific day that you're gonna become a millionaire they want to develop a better physique but you can't specifically dictate the day where you'll be proud of the body that you

have if you're overweight or if you're too skinny. You need to understand that you can't be focused on the future. What you need to be focused is on the present moment. What you can control today, the habits that you input today, the amount of work ethic and good attitude that you've portrayed today, these are the things that matter. The Stoics used to speak about these things because it's so easy to either reminisce in the past or to be conjuring imaginary scenarios of the future, oftentimes negative, that lead a present moment of stress and a state of being miserable. So if you want to be in a life that

is full of equanimity, equanimity means the calmness of the soul, and a life that is full of peace, you need to be here now focusing on what you can control if you want to make more money perfect clock in if you want to become more financially literate you're gonna have to pick up the books and get educated if you want a better physique you're gonna have to eat healthier food and you're gonna have to exercise not focused on the future but focus on what you can do today and by natural law for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction the universe will give you exactly what you can do today and by natural law for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction the universe will give you exactly what you deserve don't live a life of misery by living in the past or living in the future but live a life of peace and equanimity by being here right now

what was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined um well i mean i mean every day i mean, since 20 years, it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses. For example, jumping ability. Now my vertical was a 40, it wasn't a 46 or 45. My hands are big, but they're not massive, right? So you got to figure out ways to strengthen them. So your hands are strong enough to be able to palm a ball and do the things that you need to do. Quickness. I was quick, but not insanely quick. I was fast, but not ridiculously fast.

So I had to rely on skill a lot more. I had to rely on angles a lot more. I had to study the game a lot more. And it just never changed. The struggle is real. It never gets any easier. you got to get harder i have to ask this guy i have to understand like why he works like that right so after the answer i'm like hey cove like why why were you in the gym for so long he's like because i saw you come in and i wanted you to know that it doesn't matter how hard you work, that I'm willing to work harder than you.

I know every mother ain't going to do what I'm going to do. That's how you level up. For me, I was more miserable trying to make everyone else happy than I am now with everyone else unhappy with me. Because when nobody's looking, that's the time that really counts. That's the time that really counts. That's the time that really matters. The working out at 5, 6 a.m. and then all the practices and all the extra conditioning, that work that you do every single day is key

because that's what you're going to be able to fall back on and that's what you're going to be able to rely on when push comes to shove. A life without pain is a life without challenge. A life without challenge is a life without challenge. And a life without challenge is a life without growth. We're built for struggle. We're built to contend with the world. We're built to contend with reality. You want a challenge.

And the best way that you can take on a challenge, because a challenge fortifies you. So you don't want to be secure, you want to be strong. And you get strong by taking on optimal challenges. And so you lay out your destiny in the world and you take the slings and arrows of fate and you make yourself stronger while you're doing so and you might fail and fortune might do you in but it's your best bet so this young man he's working with his counselor trying to find his why. So he emails me. He wants my opinion. Well here it is.

Trying to find your why. Is another way. Of procrastinating. Taking fucking action. So. The question does not end with why. It starts with why. Why the fuck.

Don't you want to be in better shape. Why the fuck. Don't you want to be in better shape why the don't you want to be a better student why don't you want to be more successful stay hard getting up at four o'clock in the morning every day before anybody else and grounding my thought process is in the no one will outwork me. No one. Motherfucker will not work me. It all starts with this. Two hands.

Putting it to work. I'm already working all of the hours that I'm awake, and I've already given up Saturdays. So the only thing that I have left is like Sundays and evenings. I am no longer going to be watching any football and I'm no longer going to have Netflix at all. That's what I'm sacrificing. And I think a lot of people create these to-do lists when in my experience, it's been so much more useful to write down all the things that I'm willing to sacrifice. Because if you sacrifice everything, there's been so much more useful to write down all the things that I'm willing to sacrifice.

Because if you sacrifice everything, there's nothing left than to do the one thing that matters. I discovered work ethic and how far I could push myself. And I discovered one immutable truth. I could get so good that people would be terrified to lose me. There you go. And in fact, Kobe has a quote that's even better, which is booze don't block dunks. You can get so good people can't stop you. I can go back to that moment and just not be afraid, just recognize that, look, whatever could be out there, I could have it. So what's the great divide of human beings?

Who are you on those days you don't want to do things? It's easy to conquer when it's good weather, you have good sleep, work's going good, the family's good. You feel great. Those are the easy days to come. But who are you on those fucking days? When all hell broke loose. Your body's fucked up. You're sore.

You're depressed. You're miserable. That's the favorite person at school. Might be getting bullied. Might be getting bullied. Might be falling behind in life. Who are you on those days? When shit all fucked up.

That's the great divide. Those people who get up on those days. When everything's fucked up and still crying. That's the separator right there. Stay hard. The hope that you have is to become someone who can push through that hard regardless of what the is going on and if you can build that level of discipline that level of mental toughness to execute when things are not ideal when things are extremely hard nothing can stop you on your journey to becoming whatever it is

you're trying to become nothing absolutely nothing like life is very difficult and in order to thrive with this difficult life if an opportunity is presented to you be you shouldn't be so arrogant that you dismiss it and it's really easy to be arrogant especially if you're smart because you think well i'm smarter than everybody else it's like actually no there's lots of people that are a lot smarter than you you just haven't met them yet i want to inspire i want to motivate i want to show people that there is a way out that there is a way to do more to get more to obtain more but i personally don't want to lose all that i've been able to get

so i need to make sure that i do everything to keep it so i can't be content so there is an understanding but i refuse to click on the switch of how so even if you like even if you have more money than you'll ever spend for the rest of your life that's not what it's about no it's about the inspiring people and the influence and constantly giving back and moving forward in a positive way the only way you can do that is to stay active it's the story man hey dog you do realize that this could be the year that you change your life you just lock in all 365 days ago day in and day out towards your goals with no distractions we're hearing the excuses no more your future is tired of that 2024 should be an apology tour to all the bids that you did last year lock in and change your life like your life depends on it.

Because it do. Can you admit something in your life that you don't feel like you deserve or have earned? Can you admit a goal or a dream that you want to chase but you're feeling like nah i can't fly that high i'm not equipped i don't i don't really have the ability i'm not qualified can you admit something in your life that guilt is keeping you from getting?

Can you admit something that you don't want to start, continue, or finish because you're afraid to? Say it aloud to yourself. Write it down confess admit it everybody judges by success of money or

business accomplishments or games you won and things like that, the true measure of success is how happy are you. If you get up every day and you're really happy and you really do enjoy and love your life and you're surrounded by people you love doing it with, you could not be more successful. Look, I think failure has to be quantified. If you fail that you never can get up from it again, you know, that's not a good failure.

I think failure and adversity are the two things I think about. For me, as an entrepreneur, and very entrepreneurial, and always in my own stuff, all the failures along the way, even going back to like the baseball card show when I was 13 and I paid $400 for a table

and nobody showed up to that baseball card show. That was a learning lesson. Those micro failures were super, super important. I think, you know, it depends on your stomach, right? Like if you really feel like go out of business, I think people take one of two ways, right? They're like just finished and they're never able to get off the mat and they go in a different direction. So to

me, I think quantifying the failure is important to me. My mom is 84 years old and she's at home watching. Mom, I just won an Oscar. My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow, I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it's happening to me. This, this is the American dream! Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on

mine. To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive. they're not looking for her she's in the past the past is not my concern there's this thing about people and they talk about manifesting it's real man manifesting is real when you figure out who you are

and what you want to do and you devote your life to it like like a maniac like you're all in on this thing and you manifest most of these people end up you know doing what they say they're going to do and being who they say they're going to become and there's no excuses there's no excuses. There's no days off. There's no, you know, not willing to grind. And, you know, everybody's against me. And this didn't happen for me because of this and that and all this whining, put that's bullshit that a lot of people do these days. It's these people who dive in and they're hardcore and they're focused and they know what they want. They know who they are and And they lay out these short-term goals and this roadmap on how to get there. Most of those people make it.

It haunted me. Okay. The voice in my head said, you know what, man? You're going to die never even trying to reach your full potential. And how's that going to feel? I'm going to be haunted by the mere fact that I literally just that's what I was wasted that life that's what I was and you look back and here lies David Goggins a punk that's it and I get to live so whatever heaven or hell is you're in

hell the rest of your life so if you lose and you jump right back up and you haven't really changed I mean, really changed from that loss. You're never going to learn from it and you're never going to really, truly know the unforgiving race to greatness. Life is life. It's tough sometimes. It gets tough every day, but we got to make it no matter what it is, no matter what you're going through. Don't be so complacent with yourself. Don't get so relaxed with yourself. Don't be so comfortable with yourself. Be uncomfortable.

Get yourself in a situation where you feel a little bit about a challenge. You're feeling something about being challenged. You're understanding that challenges are good for you. Challenges are going to make you better, going to make you stronger, going to push you through any adversity that you may face in life because these things are intended for all of us to endure. But a lot of people don't understand that. A lot of people don't know how to go through it. A lot of people don't know how to weather the storm. But you, my friend, can do it. You have to do it. You must do it. Just think about that for a moment. It can get worse every day for you. It can get much, much worse tomorrow for you. It doesn't matter.

But as long as there's breath in your body, as long as you're breathing, as long as you're moving, you're grooving. And that's important. So don't get so relaxed. Don't get so complacent. Don't suffer in a way where you feel like the suffering that you're going through that it means it's over for you. Sometimes we got to go through something to get something more out of life. Pick up your damn suffering. And bear it.

And try to be a good person so you don't make it worse. So I got an email the other day. This guy's talking about he's struggling to get up. Wants to go to the gym and start grinding early in the morning. I said when I crazy conclusion. I'm just being a bitch. I say bitch. It's not gender specific. It's a mindset. In godness, it means weak, soft, feel sorry for yourself. Get your ass up and raise him up.

Stay hard. A warrior's not always that A warrior's a motherfucker who 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 and I'm still fucking getting after it It's a person that puts no fucking limit on what's possible There is no excuse for not being the hardest worker

Yeah, someone might be bigger, stronger, faster Quicker, younger, whatever else But there is no excuse for not being the hardest worker. Yeah, someone might be bigger, stronger, faster, quicker, younger, whatever else. But there is no excuse to not be the hardest fucking worker there. And when you believe that you have the ability to do something, that the life that you're living right now is going down this direction, you fucking hate where it is. There is nothing else to do but to change direction. A belief that I cannot go that way anymore. I've got to go this way.

And what do you have to lose? You know the outcome if you continue the same shit. Why not just commit one time in your life to something? See what happens. There are no losers in the world of passion and commitment to something.

No one loses there. The losers are the people that sit the starting line and never initiate. It's the belief that supremacy exists. There's so many examples in the Olympics, and every day we see the common man with the odds against them, overcoming what people thought could never happen.

And probably he'd even think it. But there he stands, victorious, and a role model to all of us. Like, oh my God, we want to be him. But before he was him, he was us. What got him there was an undying belief. And every drop of sweat that came out and every pain and ache and everything else was just a telltale sign of being closer and closer to that dream that we were when we were kids of being reality.

Why not believe in it? What's the other option? There is no other option. It's a life forgotten, man. Why are you out running before 35 o'clock in the morning and not later in the day? Why do fighters do that? Because I don't want to do it. You have the discipline to do things that you don't want to do.

They don't want to get a four-run. I realized, man, if I want to be good, I got to wake up in the morning and I got to do the extra work. And I got to show up when other guys aren't. And I've got to learn. I've got to continue to be open to learning. Focus on what you can control. Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting. Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of it.

You treat it like it's the Super Bowl bowl you treat it like it's game day go out there and treat practice like no one else does you have no idea how great you really are because you are using such minimal minimal of what you have so in this job you look you're looking for cockroaches looking for rodents and stuff like that and this next morning or this next night I went to work and I hit the I don't like cockroaches too much. I hit the mother load of cockroaches and This restaurant got full of cockroaches and rodents and everything else and I sat there and said this is my life. I Said this is my life. You are exactly who the This is it and I said this ain't gonna be it for me so in that restaurant i quit my job left my canister

in that restaurant my my spray canister got back in my eco lab truck and i went home and i started working out like somebody i was i became the most obsessed person on the planet Earth. Life is difficult. It really is. What makes life difficult for a lot of people is they don't think life should be difficult. And so therefore, they're looking for a quick way, a quick answer, an easy way. There are none. It truly is uphill all the way. And to go uphill, you have to be

intentional. Nobody ever accidentally climbed a mountain. Nobody ever accidentally got up to a new level. If you climb higher, you're intentional. You're putting forth energy, effort, time, muscle to make that happen. We have uphill hopes, but we have downhill habits So if you want to go uphill Get rid of the downhill habits No matter the circumstances no matter how hard it may be seeming right now in life We all got to go through something to get something that we want in life Things may not always go the way you want it to go

But I promise you if you continue to focus on the positive rather than the negatives you will be all right because when you start thinking you start making things up and you start thinking about luxury and all those things that you could be doing instead yeah whatever and so i just just stop all that just get up and just do what you're supposed to do but from a day-to-day basis, I mean, you know, the fact that I've got friends, a lot of friends that aren't here that don't get to live their lives anymore that were killed, and I want to make sure that I'm taking advantage of every minute and every second that I have and live in a life that if they're watching me right now, they're thinking,

all right, all right, good, Jocko's gettingck was getting after it come on come on anything we can do not unless you can change the past you gotta put your past behind you look kid bad things happen and you can't do anything about it right right wrong when the world turns its back on you you turn your back on the world. Life is not a perfection game. Life is an adjustment game. It's not about getting it right. It's about when you inevitably get it wrong, how you handle it, your ability to adapt. What's the answer you would give them if they're like, how do I gain more confidence? It starts with yourself, man.

You got to start diving into those things that you are afraid of You don't gain confidence by going to a spot that makes you feel good It's to be a false reality in the second life gives you that challenge All you want to do is go back to work or what gave you confidence is that happy spot? What gives you confidence not being afraid? It's overcoming the fear. I used to stutter severely bad. So right now, I don't know how many people are going to watch this.

You know what gives me confidence? It's knowing I no longer care if I sit and start stuttering to you. That's what gives me confidence. It's facing these things, overcoming them. And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them. And facing them, facing them pretty soon like this. You know what, man? This is where it's at. It's not in that comfort zone.

It's in the discomfort zone is where my confidence is getting built. Negativity, you can protect yourself from negativity. And that's what stops most people, negative thoughts. You know, I get tired sometimes. That's different from being negative. Because I get mentally drained from my job at times. But to coat your mind from negativity, the way you can put a coating around your mind is with one simple thing. Gratitude.

Gratitude erases negativity. I'm going to show you how this works. If you wake up in the morning and you start having negative thoughts, man, this ain't my day. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm tripping. I just don't feel myself. Every time you feel, in the middle of the day, if you feel yourself doing that, stop. Just stop for a second. And start going over in your mind everything you have to be grateful for.

Not everything you want, everything you already have, because what you have is substantial. You want to know why our grandparents stayed together? Because they weren't looking at ass cheeks all day on Instagram and refreshing it. Don't take today off. Not today. Wait until tomorrow. Don't give in to the immediate gratification that is whispering in your ear. Shut that down. Do not listen to that little voice.

Instead, go through the motions. Lift the weights. Sprint sprint the hill work on the project get out of bed you need to get things done when tomorrow comes you still feel like you need to rest or you need to take a break, then okay. But the chances are you won't. You won't need that rest. Chances are you will realize that the desire to rest was just weakness. It was just the desire to take the path of least resistance, the downhill path, the easy path.

And by simply going through the motions, you overcame that path. And you stayed on the righteous path, the disciplined path. You stayed on the war path. Which is right where you know that you belong. The majority of success that I have had have come on the back end of pain. Pain has pushed me to levels unknown for me at the time. All I know that that was pain, but on the other side of it,

all of a sudden, I became better in an area. So when we go through those situations in our lives, pain helps you develop those things that is going to take you to the next level of whatever it is. Believe that. I'm a living testimony of that.

See, there's a purpose for my pain. As you've been listening all, and you probably read all this week, I suffer from depression. I went through it mightily my rookie year. I've suffered through suicidal thoughts. And I wasn't just suffering through suicidal thoughts. I was actually planning the way that I would kill myself so my wife would get the money.

Not yet, not yet. But what that pain did for me, it increased my faith exponentially. I have grown leaps and bounds because of the things that I've gone through and that's one of those things that I went through. And when I say went through, that means I came on the other side of it so for those who are going through right now there's hope you do have hope there is something on

the other side of this don't get caught up where you are don't stay where you are keep moving Keep pushing through. You always have to be the person who roots for you before everybody else does. And it's usually a single clap. So the other day I went out for a run. I see this young man. He passes me. He comes back, catches me.

Gets beside me. Starts giving me his resume about his life. He's going through talking about everything he's done. He gets to the point where he says, I just graduated college with a 3.8 GPA. I ask him, what's next? He gives me a look like he's bewildered. I say, congratulations. I say, what's next? Because basically, if you have a long, long list of shit you want to accomplish in life,

you sit back and you're very happy. You sit back on your accomplishments and say, wow, it's like a nice warm blanket. It's nice and comfortable. You don't want to do it anymore. A lot of us have these I love me balls, certificates, trophies, plaques. I put all that shit in storage as a reminder I have more to do. Greatness is something you learn every day. Hey a reminder, I have more to do. Greatness is something you learn every f***ing day. Hey, King, I'm proud of you.

Stay hard, but keep on f***ing working. My legs are all beat down. What was me tired for like s***? But guess what? I know. How about days off? One day, but not today. Hang on a second, man.

You can f***ing achieve the absolute impossible you don't need great parents you don't need like a private school you don't need to have this humongous gpa and all sorts what you need is the one thing i talked about my book which is straight up brutal work ethic you have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world For the next two years, all I'm going to do is get good grades I didn't date, I didn't party, I didn't drink I literally didn't leave my dorm room I worked, I put my head down for two years and I just worked

So today, I decided to try to PR my long run So the first half of the run, I'm feeling great My mind is clear, nothing going on Thinking about nothing but just my running pace What I'm doing, my breathing, everything like that. Get to mile 15, I turn around, and the demons start to creep in. That inevitable wall is creeping up on me. When you push so hard, something's about to give, and I start to give. My mind started to break down.

I started to feel my legs starting to hurt. I started feeling dehydrated. I started feeling sorry for myself down I started to feel my legs starting to hurt I started feeling dehydrated Started feeling sorry for myself Started looking around No one knows I'm f***ing out here running Why don't you go ahead and just stop Call your girl and have her pick you up And that's when I feel like a little

And this is when your mind has to f***ing change You gotta start thinking I'm the grittiest mother f***er in the world Your dehydration Your f***ing legs are all sore You feel, you got shin splits and stress fractures. No you don't. You got sore legs. Get out of your head and stay hard. I call it the Rocky cutscene and almost every successful person that I have ever encountered

has gone through not a month or a year but many years of doing work without reward, where they have to do things that other people find boring. And they have to sacrifice things that everyone finds interesting that most people want to do during that entire season of their life. And they basically sacrifice a season of other things that they would prefer to do to do stuff that they would not prefer to do because of the one thing they want most and that's the rocky cut scene and instead of lasting five minutes it just usually lasts five or ten years never seen myself as particularly talented where i excel is i'm willing to die in the process of acquiring skill. There is no perfect time to start. You got to start now with changing your life. We're all being tested in life.

And guess what? This is one test you can't cheat on. We all have our own test. Some of us are obese. Some of us are depressed. Some of us are insecure. In the military, we have this big old rucksack on the back. Have batteries, water, extra gear.

Your extra gear is just dealing with the life. And the only way to overcome it is for you or you alone to face it. You got to do your best work when you're least motivated. So those days you don't want to do it, guess what you got to do? You got to second the f*** up and do it. And you're talking about, it's not you that's afraid of failing. Yeah. You're afraid of other people's opinions about why you're going to fail.

There's going to be things in your life that you don't have control over. You know, like for instance, someone gets a terrible disease. And, or their kids gets a terrible disease. And no, there's nothing you can do about that. What you can take ownership of is how you respond to that situation. And so that's what you have to do. There's things that you can control. There's things you can't control.

Now, I will tell you that human beings can control a lot more than they think they can. And oftentimes, it's pretty easy just to say, oh, that's not me. That's not on me. And I think that's the whole genesis of the idea of extreme ownership is most of the time, or much of the time, people say, that's not my fault. There's nothing I can do about that. And more often than people think, there is something you can do about it.

And it is your fault. So when I win, it's awesome. It's always great to win. Winning is a great feeling. In business, in sports, in life, there's going to be wins and there's going to be losses. And you have to take them both in stride. And you have to be able to, you know what I mean?

These are all part of being in the game. When you're in the game, great things happen and really bad things happen. And you got to take it all in stride. and you got to pick yourself up the next day, strap your shoes back on and get out there and go to war again. Your tired body, that unmotivated mind and get out there and do it anyway. You know, you better fight yourself because you're not only winning when things are going your way. You got to figure out how to win when things aren't going your way. You've got to figure out when your body's fighting you,

when your mind's fighting you, how do you still just say, I'm going to beat my mind today. Or do you just give in your mind and say, I'm tired today. I'm lazy. I don't want to do it. It's too hard.

No one else is doing it. It's a weekend. It's too late. These are already off hours. Oh, exactly what I want isn't happening right now. Like now like okay great. You know who that's great for your competition You want that attitude to permeate the people that you're competing against you want them to give in to their mind You want them to say oh, it's too hard. I can't do it But you want to be the one that says fuck i'm gonna do it

anyway, I know I don't feel good today, but I'm gonna go out there and i'm gonna prove to myself that even on days that it doesn't feel right i push myself the only way to gain confidence in yourself is to build something it's not to wait for it to happen hey vick your life just happened in front of you just show up today and make it happen tom no you had to do a lot of shit today to get to this day that no one really knows except you. So that's why you appreciate it because you had to go through a lot of stuff to get to this day. Not only you know what it took to get here and that's why you value it. Hey, look, I hold new year. I hold 365 days to make this joint right. Me and you both know you didn't stick to the script last year, but it's okay though, because this year we're coming for everything that we lost and more. This is going to be your year if you act right. You're the only one that can make it right,

but you're also the only person that can mess it up. The pressure on your shoulders, but you got to embrace it. And if you lock in at the end of the year, you can look yourself in the mirror and say, I'm proud. That's real emotion. But is it so bad that a person has millions of dollars in the bank? Is it so bad that a person has two of the top books in the world on the list of all time? Is it bad that a person has broke all kinds of records? Is it bad that a person has been to Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, gone to Delta Force training, gone to Air Force, smoke jumper? Is that bad?

Is that bad that by 47 years old, you're trying to find what to do next? Is that so bad? Because you've done everything in the world because the second you thought about it, you did it? If that's bad, I don't want to see what good is. So why is it bad to most people?

Because it looks exhausting and it is exhausting. And that's why it's bad to most people? Because it looks exhausting and it is exhausting. And that's why it's bad to most people. Most things that are bad to people is because they can project what the f*** it takes to get there. The whole world is in chess. Any move can be the death of you. Do anything except remain where you started

and you can't be sure of your end none of us know our end really or what hand will guide us there remember that howsoever you are played or by whom your soul is in your keeping alone life is not easy it is not don't try to make it that way. Life's not fair. It never was. It isn't now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap of feeling like you're a victim. You are not. Get over it and get on with it. And yes, most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get them. Best advice you ever received? A man named Rich told me once in Dining Bar, we're in a meeting and we're looking at everybody

and we're in this backyard and I'm in the corner, I'm looking at everybody. Everybody's having dinner and they're at these tables and I pull Rich aside. I said, Rich, give me the one best advice. And he starts, I said, no, I said, I want one above everything He said look at everybody here

They're all gonna read just a few books and learn a few quotes Few titles few stories to tell from the books they read and once they make a hundred quarter million They're gonna slow down. He said if you keep out improving these guys consistently Eventually, none of these guys will be your competitors and And he was absolutely right. So I came back. I took self-improvement to a whole different level, somebody told me. And it became an obsession. And I noticed, you know what? He was right. You can't drive your car looking in the rearview mirror. You can't. If you keep looking in the rearview mirror, you're going to keep crashing your car. There's a reason why the rearview mirror is this big and the windshield is this big.

That's a reason for it. Because all the rearview mirror does is allows you to see what you've passed. And to prevent what you've passed from coming up on you again. That's all the rearview mirror is for. The windshield is your future. It's where you're going. It's where you're heading. When you wake up in the morning, don't think about anything.

Don't sit there and start thinking about rationalized words. Just get up and do what you're supposed to do. Just turn off your brain and go and execute and just don't think. You will have good days and you'll have bad days, but you will always learn something more or something new and you will learn more overall on bad days than good days you will learn more about yourself you'll learn more about relationships you'll learn about life and principles and it'll build your character you ain't

going to grow in patience until you put in a place to wait if you didn't go what you've gone through you wouldn't be who you are today challenge yourself you know your strengths you know your dreams you know your heart so why don't you sit down and reflect for a moment and ask yourself what do I really want to accomplish that I haven't accomplished yet. I mean get on your agenda. Get in your area, in your space and say I need to challenge me. When you challenge yourself you're challenging yourself in an area that is close to your heart and it's who you are. I'd rather you hate me and get better than like me and stay the same.

A lot of us are full of s***. I was one of those people back in the f***ing day. And sometimes I'm still full of s***. We think that we're working our a** off, working hard. You know, we've been working out hard in the gym for a month. But we haven't seen any results. So we get all f***ing down and poopy pants and s***. You study for 30 minutes for a f***ing test.

And you didn't do as well as you thought. What the f*** do you expect? You're not putting in the work. You have to do more. You gotta stop telling yourself that you're doing enough. In life, it's never enough until you feel this overwhelming feeling of shit man I'm out working the crowd I'm not working everybody I'm doing more it's not until then once you get there that's when you know you've done enough stay home so what's the

great divide of human beings 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 easy days to come but who are you on those fucking days when all hell's broke loose your body's dumb

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? When it's all f***ed up. That's the great divide. Those people who get up on those days when everything's f***ed up and still crying. That's the separator right there. Stay hard. up and still grind that's the separator right there stay hard we're here to get stronger in order to get stronger we must fail accept that know that that who we are right now is not what

who we are but where we are and we're going forward with the belief our belief guys drives us workouts believe in the difference you can be. Stop being average when your potential is trying to come outside and be more than that. 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. It's later in life knowing you could have been more and all that's left is you and the mirror and tears of a possibility left that you allow to die own your life guys you have every opportunity there's no excuse not to be the hardest worker in the room and all your endeavors school work the gym your career your relationship your needs attached to it it's got to mean more than anything. Worked on my gift. I realized that all of us are born with a gift, but you got to hone it.

You know, it's just not you're not going to become great. You know, greatness is upon you. And I realized that my gift wasn't going to create itself. My gift wasn't going to nurture itself. My gift wasn't going to perfect itself. That was something I had to do with you know very few people bet on the underdog but if you would have you're the one big and that happened to be we us we bet on on ourselves sometimes you have to let other people's dreams for your life die for yours to live and for me it was like when i when i continued to every day not want to wake up that was my wake up call where i was like either i continue to live this way day not want to wake up. That was my wake up call where I was like, either I continue to live this way and not want to be alive

or I just risked the fact that I'll die to everybody else. And I think that that like, it was the hardest decision of my entire life by far. All this, all the hard stuff I went through, still the hardest decision of my life. If you make all the right decisions, but you have like, you absolutely think that it's impossible for you, but you still do the right things, you will win.

So what keeps me going? I've quit several things. I know what's on the back end of quitting. It's a lifetime of thinking about why the did I do that? And I ain't doing that no more. You made it through because you're here. You made it through. And the things that you made it through is preparing you for what's meant for you. Everything that you went through, it made it through. I'm sure you can think right now all the times you felt like, man, my life is over. My story is done. But you made it through it.

Everything that you went through and made it through is preparing you, was preparing you for what's meant for you. I know you might be in a bad chapter. You might be in a bad season. You might be in a hard time, but your story is not done. I know you might be in the biggest storm of your life, but your story is not done. I know you might be in the biggest struggle of your life. Your story is not done. Your dreams, I don't care how old you are they are far from finished and i know sometimes seasons can be tough but always remember this my friends seasons change everything that you're going through is preparing you for what's meant for you pain is a beautiful thing challenge is what life is about a life without challenge a life without pain is a life without growth. And where there is no growth, there's stale, stagnant energy.

And that's where most people live. Because most people's lives are designed around treading a path that is void of challenge. The minute they recognize challenge or pain, they move the other way. This is a primal instinct and normal and natural, but a weak perspective. Your likeness is found in your pain. Embrace it, love it, and grow from it. Nothing lasts forever except quitting. Nothing lasts forever except giving up nothing lasts forever except throwing in the towel in your life all the great things in my life all the great things in other high achievers lives all the reasons that these successful people that you look up to, that you aspire to be like,

are the way they are, have all come from a place of being uncomfortable. When you're trying to avoid the pain, when you're trying to avoid the struggle, when you're trying to avoid the hard things in life, you are actively choosing to be average. You are actively choosing to be mediocre. You are actively choosing to move further away from what you want in life because that hardship and that pain and that struggle and that frustration, they give you the skills that will forge you into a motherfucking champion.

The easy route never pays well. The only route in life that pays well is the hard route. The struggle, the pain, the frustration, and the overcoming of those things. And not only do they pay, they fulfill you as well. Because it shows the people around you. It shows your kids. It shows your brothers, your sisters, your friends, your community. What is possible? And there's nobility in that. Everybody believes that at some point in time, they're going to turn it on. Or some point in time, they're going to catch momentum. or some point in time they're going to catch momentum or some point

in time they're going to become what it is they want to become just by circumstance or by default or by breathing the air. That's not what it takes bro. People who think that get to the end of their life and they're like, I wasted my life. Okay that's what they end up thinking and there's really nothing worse than that. There's nothing worse than getting to the end of your life and saying damn dude i didn't even really try you don't have forever right so what is important to you because you only have 24 hours in a day so what's important to you find out what that is and do more of that and try to figure out like how to

how to make enough money so that you're not starving that you're doing well but don't just chase that chase what you're trying to do a person's strengths are often their biggest weaknesses and so that also means that their weaknesses can be their strengths So, me, I am weak, but I don't accept that. I don't accept that I am what I am and that that is what I'm doomed to be. No, I don't accept that. I'm fighting. I'm always fighting. I'm struggling and I'm scrapping.

And I'm kicking and clawing at those weaknesses. To change them. To stop them. Some days I win. Some days I don't. But each and every day I get back up and I move forward

with my fist clenched toward the battle toward the struggle and I fight with everything I've got to overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws as I strive to be I've got to overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws.

As I strive to be just a little bit better today than I was yesterday. Where is the wealthiest place in the world? Do you know? It's not China. It's not Dubai. It's the graveyard graveyard Because in the graveyard You will find inventions never invented Businesses never erected

Songs never sung, books never written Ideas never nurtured, people never realized Because they were scared To take a risk Scared like you But you want to know something else you're not in the graveyard yet that's the thing success and failure are generally slow processes either slowly building things up or gradually tearing them down.

And that's why I say you've got to pay attention. You have to watch. You have to watch every single second because those seconds they turn into minutes and minutes turn into years. And so, that second, that second that just went by, that counted. And so did that second. And so did that one. And in those precious seconds, you were either building or you were decaying.

You were either gaining ground or you were losing ground. In that second. And in every second. Every second counts. So, make every second count. If somebody ever told you you only live once, they a damn lie. You only die once. You live every day.

Get up and get it. Helen Keller was once asked, what on earth would be worse than being born blind? She said, it would be so much worse to be born with sight, but no vision. Why can't we have cures for every disease known to man? Why can't we have clean water, food, education for every person on this planet? Why can't we have peace on this planet? Why do we have to die to go to heaven? The earth is already in space.

We can have heaven right here, now just a shift in this why not it tests you it tests you and see how much you this you can take before you say let's just just be finished with this you know i mean it wants to show you something it wants to see how much you can take how much you can handle, how much you can handle with life. You say you love life, you want to live life. I'm going to show you life. Life is beautiful, but you have to accept the good and the bad as being beautiful. We lose somewhere, our life sucks. Life is beautiful because life gave us the ability to just know them in our journey in life.

We met them. We loved them. They cared about us. That's the purpose of life, just to enjoy what we had, what we journeyed through it. People don't care about you as much as you think they do. Massive amounts of people leave greatness inside of them out of fear of what others will think. And I did that for a very long time. It took me a while to get to the point where I would put myself out there. All out of fear of what people think. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person that walked into it.

That's what the storm is all about. When you can't control what's happening to you, control how you respond to it. That's where your power is. I come from hell, and a lot of it I created. We could be our worst enemy. Why is the truth so important? It gives you a starting point. You have to have the truth to have a starting point.

Once you come face to face with who you are, you have a starting point. And your true self is found, honestly, in that very uncomfortable zone. We all look for toughness. We all want it, but we look for it in a comfortable environment. You will not find toughness in a comfortable environment. Those of you who are listening to this, you will not find it. I was trying to look for it everywhere. The only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where you're just out of sorts.

Where you can't swim and you're drowning. Where you're drowning. You're drowning in life. But you say, you know what, man? F*** that. Life.

What is life? What the f*** is your life? Are you happy with it? And if so, is just the intake and outtake of breath that makes you put a smile on your face? That's something your f***ing mother gave you. You even earned that. What have you done with your life to make it something else besides the normality of everybody else? The intake and the outtake of what you call life is nothing more than time.

And unless done something with, it's forgotten about. There's no footprint of your existence left for anyone else to follow. Life is time. And a life that's remembered, where a footprint is followed behind in footsteps of inspiration and motivation, is when time is met with opportunity and action. They collide to be a life of remembrance. The problem is, most people don't have a plan. And without a plan of your own life, you become the plan of someone else's life.

You're not running the day. The day is running you. The differential between those people is belief. One person with belief overrides a hundred people with just intent. Intent is thought process, thinking, war gaming, and never putting a foot forward, never putting their face or their name to the fire. Belief is going after and figuring it out along the way. This workout is going to bring that belief back in your life.

It's a back workout. And at this workout, not only will you have a stronger back, you have belief and confidence put into action. Life. No longer is your life filled with stop signs, yield signs, and halts and this shit. Life begins now. If it doesn't begin now,

your life is over. And you don't need reminded of it, but I'm going to remind you, anyhow, life is hard. Okay, fellas, life is hard. It's always been hard from the beginning and it will always be hard no no you have to hit rock bottom that's the way up yeah rock bottom is beautiful the struggle of the struggle of coming back is It's beautiful, that struggle.

It doesn't appear like it's beautiful while you're going through it, but it's just being tested. And without a test, there's no testimony. Life tests you. Sometimes life annihilates you. But it's only up to you if you want to take some more. It's going to dish it out.

But eventually, if you don't quit, it'll be merciful to you. Stop waiting for life to be easy. Stop hoping for somebody to save you. You don't need another person lying to you. Things don't all add up. But you are resilient. Face some hard facts and you could have an incredible life.

You guys don't start believing in yourselves. Your life will be nothing for anyone to ever follow or want. You have to believe what you're doing is making a difference. Because it fucking is. Here's the deal. No complacency. No complacency. No backing off. No slack whatsoever. Fight. Fight that ticking

clock with everything you've got so like the end of a hard day you can put your head down with ease satisfied that you've given your best failure is not the opposite of success it's a part of it right failure is not the opposite of success it's a part of it And the reason that I'm saying that is because when it says don't be pushed by your problems Problems are part of the journey Opposition are part of the journey, right adversity is a part of the journey like it's all a part of Development and growth as a person and so when you got dreams and you got problems I look at it as it's interconnected

Right, you got your dream, you got your goal, you got your aspirations. Problems are going to happen along the way. Conflict is going to happen along the way. Uncertainty is going to happen along the way. But the thing that's important is putting things in place to fight it. But you know what I discovered? When you're working at your dream, somebody said the heart of the battle, the sweet of the victory. Oh, it's sweet to you. It's good to you. Why? See, when you, when it's hard and there's a struggle, see what you become in the process is you develop, the faith that you're manifesting. Oh, it's something that you get up in the morning, you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit. And people know that you know what life is, that you have embraced life. You know it was hard, but you did it hard. In the auditorium, for a very long period of time, it is a slow clap that's just you, rooting for you. And that visual, I think, is one that you can kind of take because it is.

People struggle to do things alone. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Make your life your own movie. Actually, make it better than a movie.

Make it better because it's real. It's real, so it is better. And you know what? Real comes with some downsides. Real comes with some darkness. Yeah, that's my love. real comes with some darkness but that's okay I feel like people are just trying to rush and trying to hurry up and do this and this knowing that that's gonna take years they want to go viral on that they're gonna go so fast Like it's like bro Like you have to wait

I just say I just say play the back until it's time to play the front And when it's your time to play the front you go full throttle like today like now is the time