Jocko Podcast - Commitments Scare People. And This is a Commitment.

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

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Deaf reset 2025. This is a commitment. So a commitment. Commitment scare people. They make people scared. But this is a commitment that's going to make you better. Now, I was thinking about the commitments I've made in my life. One of them when I was pretty young,

I wanted to join the Navy. I wanted to be a seal. And you go and talk, I went and talk to the recruiter. and you get presented. Okay, here's what it's going to take. You want to be a seal? Cool. Yeah, no problem.

And the recruiter, of course, they're saying, oh, you're going to make a great seal. They have no idea. They don't think you're going to make it, but they're not going to say that. Hey, you're going to make a great seal. Here's all it's going to take. Sign this piece of paper.

Six-year commitment of your life. Six-year commitment. By the way, I'm 18. So this is a third of my life. Six years is a long time. time when you're 18. By the way, 80% attrition rate. By the way, people get injured and don't make it.

Or you go to war, you get wounded, you get killed, you're going on deployments. You don't have any idea what's going to happen. But I knew that that's what I had to do to get where I wanted to be. I had to make that commitment. Now, what's nice is when you're in the military and you sign that line, guess what? You raise your hand. You make the commitment. you literally swear an oath that is a commitment.

So it can be nerve-wracking when people get asked to make a commitment. There are a lot of things like this, right? Where, look, you ever known someone's getting married? Yes. You ever seen someone get nervous about it? Yes, I have. Yeah. So that happens.

Why? Because it's a huge commitment. Some people back away from the whole thing. Leave people at the altar. The altar, yeah. Hey, I'm out. Yeah. It just wasn't going to have.

happened. So that's because there's a commitment there and people are scared of commitment, even with something like the death reset, which is a commitment for the month of January, it's a commitment. And sometimes people get scared of that, even a 30-day commitment. Look, not a six-year commitment like joining the Navy, not a lifetime commitment, like getting married, but a 30-day commitment, people are scared of that. I'm kind of glad that they're a little bit scared of it because if they were just throwing the commitment out there and not being worried about breaking the commitment then they don't care about it doesn't really matter but people also put little qualifiers in there around trying to get better like maybe I'll go to the gym

tomorrow you know what I'm saying maybe that maybe can be pretty big or uh I might go to jitzoo in the morning yeah you ever had someone say that to you yeah sure I might be there bro tell me you might be somewhere. You either show up or don't show up. Hey, look, if you got a flight that you're landing at 930 in the morning and open mat is at 11 and any delay is going to cause you to get jammed up and you say, hey, look, I got a flight. I might make it. Okay. I'll give you an exception. But if you're just going home on a Friday and I'm asking you, are you going to open Matt on Saturday? And you say, I might be there. I got a problem with you. I'll try to make that practice. What is this? Right. So people build in these little excuses.

And with the death reset, we don't want to let that happen. This is something that's going to improve every aspect of your life. It's going to make you stronger. It's going to make you healthier. It's going to make you smarter. It's going to make you better. It's going to make you better. But in order to get there, you have to commit to it.

You have to sign the line. You have to tell your friends, hey, you don't bring freaking Doritos to my house because I'm not eating them. You have to get the app. Download the app, get it. Put it on the front page of your phone. You got to get rid of the junk food in your house. Do that tonight, by the way, get rid of it.

Hey, it's kind of a waste of money. Shut up. Get it out of there. If you don't have an alarm clock, get one. Get one. Now you got 14 alarm clocks on your phone, by the way. Yeah. But get a manual one.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Get me I'm gonna get up when this thing goes off I'm gonna get up Get a set of dumbbells I told you I got those 25 pound dumbbells you did the right thing They're just in my they're just in my office yeah bro I can just knock out some curls some tricept extensions Yeah some thrusters yeah I'm I got a whole new thing I'm contemplating I haven't fully designed it yet But NSW no sweat workout no sweat workout no sweat workout which is

seems very contrary because you know I sweat and I sweat quite a bit. And there's also a thing from Colonel David Hackworth don't try and find the sweatless solution. But let me tell you something. The no sweat, the NSW, no sweat workout. What does that mean?

Well, let's face it. If you can do some work and not break into a sweat because you've got a meeting or you got a, you won't have time to take a shower or any of that, so you're going to do 15 thrusters. Just boom. And then you're going to wait half an hour. You're going to do another Zoom call.

You're going to do 20 thrusters. You didn't even break a sweat, but you got working. You will feel those. Now throughout the day, you did 100. Yeah. Think about that. That's the way I had somebody asked me on Twitter, you know, wouldn't it be better if people were just like out swinging an axe

or plowing the field or digging trenches? Wouldn't that be better than working out? Yes. It would be. I would love to do that. Most people would love to be doing that. But you don't get it. get to do that. You got to sit around. You got to sit in an office. Hey, if you're out working

construction, you need to do less lifting than someone that's working in an office for sure. Because you're, if you work at a moving company, when you're working at a moving company, tell me about it. As far as, did you, did you de-escalate some of your workouts because you were tired? Yeah. Yeah. A little bit. But, yeah, it does take the place of working us. Physical activity. Yeah. Face it. And that's really what a workout is. It's like a manufactured physical activity have you ever done the things where you count your steps yeah I do that now oh you do that now so that's a real thing right yep well people used to just walk around all day right yeah now they don't do that yeah now they take an elevator yeah just the elevator because

think if you didn't take the elevator and you had to go up eight stories to go to your job and you walk down eight stories to go to lunch you walk back up after lunch you walk back down you see just all day you're doing eight stories that's a lot of little of lunches yeah fully in the the the counting steps thing is exactly what you're saying where now our life if you think of like a normal life I don't mean I'm in a real generic way you're kind of made to be doing stuff yeah not crazy stuff necessarily necessarily but just doing stuff might have that capacity yeah every once in really when you formulate like a full protocol it's gonna have

kind of everything but the really the baseline is gonna be like like this kind stuff how many steps are you taking you know it's like even like you know you talk to a lot of the expert again this is general really general because with every workout there's like a goal that people have and everyone's goal is different right so I know that but it's like what are what are you doing just daily what's your daily activity yeah so it's like steps yeah usually a normal person be walking around working doing stuff going here going there going up the stairs coming back down like just kind of sort of all day but nowadays you know especially you know you sit in an office job work at home Bray, you're not going nowhere.

You're taking 10 steps and that's kind of it, you know? And it creates this like really unhealthy scenario, you know? So yeah, yeah, if you can replicate that essentially, yeah, I get it. Manufacture it. That's what lifting weights is. It's manufacturing like doing like strenuous. So, so yeah, and it helps a lot. I'm going to be doing in the app like challenges basically.

Not challenges, but tasks. Yeah, right? Tasks. Like, hey. Do this right now. Do this within the next hour. And most of those, my plan, it's going to do no sweat workouts, right?

Where you're not going to break a sweat, but you're going to get a little something, something, right? Some of them I'm thinking is even, you know, like stretching. So these are the kind of things. We're trying to get movement into our lives and get thought into our lives. Some of those times are going to be thought experiments or relationship building maneuvers, right? All kinds of good stuff. Bro, that's like, I mean, to say that's deeper than you probably know, maybe, maybe not.

But to put, to reintroduce thought like into your, because really, that's really what it is. The reason you let your body slip because freaking you stop thinking about it as much. Or the reason like the relationship is you stop being conscious of certain parts of that relationship. Like the thought, the element of thought has gone a little bit. So yes. And it is also very important to remember. So I had this concept of squeezing your brain. You heard me talking about it.

Oh, yeah. So you got to squeeze your brain sometimes. You got to squeeze your brain because if you don't squeeze your brain, nothing's going to come out of it. You've got to sometimes sit down and think about something. I did this the other day. I was working on a story. Well, I had a story like the most, like the seed of a story,

nothing else. And I had it for a few months. And I went, so the day after Thanksgiving, What's everyone doing on the day after Thanksgiving? Look, we lifted, we rolled. All good. We're happy. But we also, there's no calls.

There's no clients. So I didn't have work. So guess what I did? Squeeze the brain. Took that little seed of a story, turned it into a whole, a whole story, right? And then a couple days later presented it. And the funny, the guys I presented to, like, when did you do this? And I said, Thanksgiving after, or day after Thanksgiving afternoon.

And they're like, you did all this then? I'm like, yeah, because I sat down for the first time in six months and had the opportunity. and had the opportunity to think, to force myself to think. So we're going to do some of that too in Def Reset. There's little ideas, there's little seeds that you have. You've got to water those things. You've got to plow the field.

You've got to give them nutrients. So you're going to have to think during Def Reset. Get a notebook for that. Get a notebook so you can write down your daily task. Get a notebooks so you can write down your schedules. You can put aside some time to think about the things you're supposed to be thinking about. Not just about the thoughts that get put.

into your head. But the thoughts you create. So get that. Get a pull-up bar, by the way. If you can get one thing, get a pull-up bar. And by the way, a pull-up bar is $12 at Home Depot because all it is is a freaking piece of pipe, an inch and a half or a two-inch piece of pipe

and some string, some 550 cord, hanging up on the beams in your garage, hanging up between two trees in your yard, hanging up on the fence post, that's a little bit tall. There's a hanging up in the parking, garage in the condo that you, the apartment that you live at. You can find a little place to mount a pole apart and you can get every workout that you need. And you're going to do all these things, but all these things, you're going to commit to doing them.

You're going to commit to the daily disciplines waking up early. Commit to getting after it in the morning. Commit to it. Commit to it. I know you're scared of it. Commit to it. I was scared 18 years old signing a piece of paper for six years of my freaking life. Let's go.

Let's go. Commit to it. Commit to prioritize and execute. Commit to hydration. Commit to clean fuel. Commit to no sugar-coded lies. Commit to the reading and writing back to the book. And commit to remembering.

And also commit to 100 burpees or 10 minutes worth of burpees. That's what we're doing. And here's the thing. Everyone. Everyone knows. with 100% certainty, 100% certainty that this will make you better in every aspect of your life,

every aspect of your life. But it takes discipline, it takes will, and it takes commitment. Everyone is scared of commitment. Overcome that fear. Put the stake in the ground, join me and the rest of these troopers on the path.

That's what we're doing. So go to the, Defreset.com. This is free. This is free. This is free. This is just freedom is what it is. Free guided workouts from Jason Kalipa at Train Hard.

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In fact, it's not just free. but it will give you more freedom than you ever thought possible. I guess there is a price. The price is discipline and the price is commitment. So let's take control and let's commit for 20, 25. The deaf reset.com. We'll see you there.