Jocko Podcast - "Now" Is an Important Word. And it Starts NOW.

Episode Date: January 1, 2025

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January 1st, 2025. This is the first day of death reset. It starts now. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're about to find out. It starts now. And here's what I was thinking about. Now is an important word.

And let me tell you, I'm going to give you a different angle on this that you may or may not have thought of before in your life. Echo Charles. How long is now? How long the duration? I don't know, instantaneous. It's immeasurably short, basically. Yeah.

Right? Now it's already gone. So, I'm not asking you for very much. I'm not asking you for very much at all. I'm just asking you to be disciplined now. You ever heard that thing when somebody says, you've got to do something that sucks, like, but it's going to be a short amount of time.

Like when someone's in an MMA fight in the corner, It's like it's five minutes you can stand on your head for five minutes. Yeah, yeah. They put that emphasis on it. Yeah, yeah, fully. Or we'd be doing something in seal training. Something that was going to. They'd say, all right, we're going to put you back in the water.

10 more minutes. 10 minutes out of your miserable life. Meaning it's like that, not that much time. And hey, you can suck it up for 10. You can kind of do anything for 10 minutes, right? So think about that. This time is going to pass. Have you ever had something pass you by?

and you look at it later in your life and you know it kind of would have changed the trajectory of your life. Not off the top of it. It's like maybe you should have taken that job or maybe you should have invested in that company. Yeah, yeah. You know, maybe you should have bought Bitcoin

when your brother told you about it and it was $4 a coin. Yeah. Right? Or maybe you should have finished that class or maybe you should have started playing an instrument. You know, you picked up that ukule. Do you ever buy an ukulele?

Yeah, yeah, about two of them. Okay. So good. But imagine if you did that when you were 19 or 13. You see what I'm saying? And I'm sure you were on the island. It's not like there wasn't ukulele's available to a brother. You know what I'm saying?

No shortage for sure. And right now, you know, who knows? That could have changed the trajectory of your life. Maybe, you know, I'm sure there's people that I wish I would have stuck with that workout program. I wish I would have stuck with jujitsu. I wish I would have stayed on the team. You see what I'm saying.

There's just things that you do that you let them pass and you can't really get them back. So I think it's very important to keep that in mind, right? Because in most cases, what made you walk away was just the short-term pleasure or at a minimum, the short-term avoidance of pain. Yeah. One of those two instead of the long-term strategic win. The short-term avoidance of pain or seeking of pleasure, those two are related, but they're not the same. thing. I can see you nodding your head. You know that that's a good little little nuance to me. Yes, sir. But the avoidance of pain or the seeking of pleasure leads to a short-term win,

but a long-term loss. So what I'm saying is don't let that happen. Do not let that happen. Do not avoid the short-term pain. Do not avoid the short-term pleasure to disrupt your long-term strategic goals. That's what discipline is, by the way. Discipline is you absorb the short-term pain, you avoid the short-term pleasure, and you know that discipline in the long run is going to make you better.

You know that the unmedigated daily disciplines that we follow, for the deaf reset for sure, you know that these things in the long run, they're going to give you freedom. You're going to wake up early, you're going to get after it, You're going to prioritize next year.

You're going to hydrate. You're going to clean fuel. No sugar-coded lies. You're going to read, write, and you're going to remember. And also, you're going to do 100 burpees or 10 minutes worth of burpees every day. That's kind of a necessary thing. And by the way, that's going to change you. That will change you mentally.

I promise you that when you do your first 10 minutes or 100 burpees, it's going to suck. And what you're going to learn how to do is you're going to learn how to shut off your mind and do something that sucks for 10 minutes, and you're not going to think about it. It's just going to be you're going to turn into a machine, a little bit at a time. I promise you that. I felt that.

Last deaf reset, I felt that. First freaking 100 burpees, I was like, dude, this sucks. This just sucks. And I'm thinking about how much it sucks. It's one thing you learn, like, when you're going through basic skill training, you learn how to just be like, yeah, I'm doing this thing, whatever this terrible thing is,

with no emotion, just like, that's what we're doing. Yeah. Oh, we just jumped out of an airplane, landed in the ocean 12 miles off the coast of San Diego we wrote a boat a little tiny zodiac boat for three and a half hours freezing cold you're wet when it started by the way it's January it's 53 degrees and then you get to your destination now okay now put on your dive right get in the water for four hours it's like it just sucks just the whole thing sucks yeah laif was saying something the other day it was like hey everything in the seal team's cool for like 20

minutes because you're like oh yeah we're on a zodiac and 20 minutes that's cool and then 21 minutes between 21 minutes and nine hours though that all sucks get her idiot so you're going to learn that you're going to do burpees and over time you're going to learn that you're going to go do things that suck and that short-term pain is going to be worth it those daily disciplines are going to give you the long-term strategic success i want you to think about that every day long-term strategic success. That's how we think. We think long-term strategic success

and then we act tactically. What does that mean? We do the thing right now. We just do it. We're not thinking about it. We're just doing it. And when you have that little voice in your head that starts rationalizing

and starts debating with your discipline and starts making excuses, think about where you're going to be in a week. Think about where you're going to be in a month. Think about where you're going to be in a year and then get disciplined right now. Right now.

Just decide to be disciplined right now. By the way, now is already gone and just be disciplined for that second, for that moment. Be disciplined long enough to get away from the freaking donuts. That's how long you need to be disciplined for. Are you going to walk around

with like a donut dangling in front of your face? No, you don't need to do that. You just need to walk away from that thing. The 10 minutes that the burpees are, you're being executed, or they're being executed, you just need to be disciplined for those 10 minutes. That's it.

Actually, just one burpee at a time. Just shut up and do one burpee. And then shut up and do another burpee. And tell that voice in your head to shut up because you're busy doing burpees. You don't have time to listen. Be disciplined right now. Alarm goes off.

Get out of bed. How long does that take? You have to be disciplined for one second to get out of your freaking bed. Go to the gym. You have to be disciplined for one second to go to the gym. Start walking to the gym and now you're going to be in the gym.

Once you're in the gym, you're freaking in the gym. Do the stupid workout. Get the task done. You wrote down a task that you said you were going to do yesterday. Freaking do it. Be disciplined right now. Read. You said you're going to read.

You said you were going to write. Do that thing. You write 10 words. Be disciplined for freaking 10 words. That's what we're doing. We're being disciplined now. Not forever. Not for two hours.

You're being disciplined right now. Right now you're going to do the. the right thing and when you start waiving you're going to think about we're going to be in a month think about where you're going to be in a year you're going to be a different person you're going to be a better person that's what we're doing discipline discipline equals freedom reset 2025 we start today we start now join us at the deaf reset dot com get the app when a thousand dollar home gym that'll change your freaking life it's all free and it's actually not just free it's freedom this discipline will give you freedom because discipline

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