Motivation Daily by Motiversity - KILL THAT WEAK VERSION OF YOURSELF IN 2026 - Powerful Motivational Speech | David Goggins

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

NO EXCUSES, GET IT DONE! Advice from the hardest man alive. One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever Featuring David Goggins. Edited by Motiversity.https://bit.ly/MotivationDaily_Mindset 👈 Don’t snooze on success. Download Mindset free for the motivational alarm clock, original short videos, and world-class speeches. Special thanks to:Tom BilyeuChris WilliamsonSpeakerDavid GogginsYou need to be following David on social media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamdavidgoggins/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidgoggins/Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgogginsWebsite: http://www.davidgoggins.com/Music:AudiojungleArn AnderssonPaul Elhart Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. I was not always this strong guy, you see. I went through a lot of hard times in my life to get here today. All I wanted to be was an uncommon man. In my whole life, I was not that. I was 6'1 and 300 pounds. I walked in the recruiter's office and he looked at me and he said, you're fat and you're black.

He said, I basically had to lose 106 pounds in less than three months. I came back three months later, 106 pounds lighter. Thank you. You have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief. It's about gaining control of your mind, putting things back in the proper perspective, and then saying, I really do want to be here. With every obstacle, I look at it as friction now.

Without friction, there is no growth. You have to have friction your life to grow. So I start looking at all these different things versus the woe was me mentality. Like, oh my God, look at my life. My life's so f***ed up. I come from this family. I'm being beaten. I'm being abused mentally, physically.

I started looking at it as a perfect trial ground. Try to flip it upside down. It's okay, I'm suffering tremendously, mentally. Use this to your advantage versus your disadvantage. So that's what I did. Versus looking at it as like, oh my God, what was me? I'm never going to get out of here. I looked at it as, okay, hang on a second.

If I can overcome this, if I can find some power in this, some way to get through this, that right there would be the fuel for the rest of my life. And so I found great strength in suffering. It showed me even more of what we have as humans if we're willing to go there and we're willing to push that extra step. A lot of people, man, how do you do what you do? At the end of the day, I ask myself one question, can I take one more step?

And usually the answer is yes. So if you can answer that question and not take another step, that is real failure. That is real quitting. A lot of people can take one more step but they choose not to. I don't know if you can take two steps.

You've got to answer that question after you take the first step. But I can always take one more steps So if I choose not to, that's on me. And I got to live with that. There's a lot of people in graves who have lived 100 years and have never started their real journey. Your real journey starts when you go outside that box

and you start climbing mountains and start climbing mountains. And it goes on and it goes on. And just when you're getting ready to quit, you crest that final mountain. You get down and you look and there you are. But you cannot find your peace you're looking for in yourself until you've overcome yourself. It seems like, especially with confidence, right, or self-esteem,

there's a relationship between confidence and competence. So what you're looking to do is try and have what you believe that you can do, be ahead of what you can do. Now you're not looking for it to be delusional. You don't want it to be able to believe that you can do something like fly, right? But you need to have a relationship between the two. But what people are asking for is for their confidence to be so far ahead of their competence without having even being competent at anything in the beginning.

And that's just delusion, that's fantasy. Right. Well, I believe that you have to build belief. Belief is like, there's an after-school special belief where the mom says, believe in yourself, and that's all great. But there's also a built belief. And the built belief is one, like for me, I came from a bad place. How I build belief is through the daunting tasks I put myself through.

So that's proof positive. that I can. So it correlates. And that's how this piece of shit kid that I once thought I was built belief by saying, hmm, I was in three hell weeks. I went to Ranger School. I tried out for Delta Selection. Undeniable stack of proof. That is proof, mother. So whenever you think, whenever you think you can't, confidence comes from the thing that you built. You must build belief. You must build confidence. It can't be like, hey, I'm going to knock that shit out. You got to look over here and say, I can knock that shit out. Because a lot of people will say, when you wake up in the morning, pounds your chest, you know, and look at yourself in the mirror

and do all this bullshit. I hope it works. What works for me is that everyday resume, the things I know of accomplices, things I know I've done real hard work, the real calluses on my mind, the real calluses on my hands. That's, that's it. You don't need to pound your chest in the mirror of fuck anymore if you have that. It's belief and it's built on what you put in to yourself. I came from a small town in Indiana where there was a handful of black families. And a lot of people in that town, when you come from a town of 8,000 people, it's like we had a local plant, Great Dane. You're like, you know what? I want to work at Great Dane and get a house next to my mom. That's what you know. So many of us come from these small places in our mind that we're not

willing to think outside only what we've seen. Our mind works in such a small compartment. And one thing I was able to do was to dream. But I was able to dream outside those four walls of that small town. Until you're able to really put yourself into that dream, but don't make dreams your master, that's where you truly become what you're destined to become. A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure or dream about being a seal or dream about being an asthmus.

or dream about being an astronaut and all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don't put the work behind the dream. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL and you say, okay, I'm going to lose 106 pounds in less than three months. The dream was the one thing I thought about

and the dream was now gone. The dream goes away and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. That's when you become the master of your dream. Ryan Holliday says, talking about the thing and doing the thing, vie for the same resources, allocate yours appropriately. That's it.

That's it. That's the way it works as well. That's the way that the brain works. You can actually get these kicks of dopamine by telling your friends about, I'm going to be a Navy SEAL. I'm going to start my training next week. It's going to be great. I'm going to feel like this.

Feels good. It feels good to talk about that shit, man. It actually makes you feel good, makes you feel proud, all that shit. But guess what happens? That alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m. to train. I don't want to be. a seal today or I don't want to be whatever today. I'll start tomorrow. And that's the usual pattern of people's lives. That's why I talk about clearing out the mind. Until you really want to do

something, you always get to be a talker. You always get run your f***um out. So if you wake up in the morning and you don't want to do something, you don't care enough about yourself. And that's what you need to really research is, man, why am I not doing this for myself? That is the number one purpose in life is to better oneself. So that's the only purpose I fucking need. So the reason I get up every day, even though there's no race or there's no school, there's nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself. But where do you go to? You wake up on a morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark, you've got no cartilage in your knee, you've got shitty shorts, is that's the issue today. Keep talking. You've got these problems, right? I need you to keep talking

about what you were just saying. It's warm on the couch. Your Mrs. says stay in bed. It's comfy. It's cozy. You've got work later on. You had an argument last night. You're slightly hung over. I know every motherfucker ain't going to do what I'm going to do. So this is how you level up. That's how you level up. I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. that makes me happy what you just said that brings joy to my life right there because I know there's so many people

that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch refuse to study a few more hours refuse to go deeper to go further and that's where I gain the advantage it's so easy to be great

nowadays my friend because most people are weak most people don't want to go to that extra mile Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely. A lot of people wonder, how did you become this? How do you become so vulnerable?

How are you doing a podcast now when you were this kid? You overcame things. You fought them. And now this is what happens. This is on the other side of overcoming. You become very, very powerful when you overcome yourself. All those things you once coward from, you're afraid of. when you face them eye to eye every day,

you now become exactly who you are. You've faced your demons. You were able to hear all your past traumas. When you go to war with yourself, you find a lot of peace because you know exactly who you are. And that is where the peace is really found for me. Talk to me about what it takes

to be on one side of a door in Iraq or anywhere, knowing on the other side of the door people who are not afraid of you, they're ready for you to come in and you still have, and they have guns, and you still have to breach that door. That's a great question. That's a very scary situation when you are on one side of the door and your mind is racing because on the other side of that door, it could be no one. It could be four guys with four AK-47s. That door you're about to open could be booby-trapped.

So once you open it, boom, your legs are gone. So there's a thousand things you think about when you're the first guy, second guy, third guy, getting ready to go in a room and flood it. And that's why I talk about the warrior mentality. And that's why so many people are lost when I start talking. You have the right. You're lucky that you don't have to think like warriors think. You're very privileged.

I chose this world to be a warrior. And I would choose it again if I came back to this world. But the mentality of a warrior is very different than normal mentality. You must be that person on that door, get ready to open it, thinking to yourself, if I die, so be it. The only way you can go in that door is knowing there's a great chance you're going to die. It's like being a seal, you train with live ammo. You jump out of airplane.

Everything you do, you could die. So to be a warrior, why people don't understand me, I'm glad you don't understand me. Merry Christmas, good on you. Because being a warrior takes a whole different mindset. A whole different mindset to know that there's a great chance. I may not be in, though, like I was in for 21 years. I'm lucky. I'm very lucky that I'm alive.

Able to talk to you, able to still run. But when you sign up on that dial line to be like a seal, your mentality changes. I may not live. you got to accept that and that's the mentality you have and that's what makes you a warrior if you're scared to die you're a bad warrior I'm also looking at the guys to my left and to my right realizing that we're here together man and I have to have to be strong for them and they got to be strong for me a lot of people either you like me or don't even in the seal teams but when you get to that door or you get on that mission or you get that ah

All that shit's out the door, man. You know, you do it honestly. I mean, people say all the time in these movies. You really out there fighting for that guy besides you. And you can't be a coward. Because you know what, and this I look at everything I do now in life, and this sums it up. I hate it jumping out of airplanes.

I hate it shooting guns. I hated the job as a Navy SEAL. But I did it because I wanted to change myself. Everything I do I'm not really comfortable doing. But if you choose to go that route, to go be a Navy SEAL, you might as well go be the hardest motherfucker in the world. Because if you're choosing to do something, you have two routes. You can go there and be a little weak person and get through barely,

and that's your reputation. Or you can go through the hardest guy you can possibly be, and that's your reputation. So my whole thing is if you're going to choose to open that door in Iraq, Afghanistan, open them up. You go in hard. Because they're going to remember you by slowly opening it

and peeking in. So if you're going to open it and you made the mind to open it, don't crack it open. Open the door to go in. That's what life. If you choose to do, if you're choosing to do something, attack it. Because they're going to remember you as not

attacking it. So I want to be remembered. You can hate me. There's one thing you can't say about me. I didn't attack it. So that's the mentality you have. If you're going to do something, you might as well attack it because you can do it anyway. Right. Who on this earth would still be going right now?

You are. You are.