Motivation Daily by Motiversity - PERSISTENCE - Best David Goggins, Jocko Willink, and Eric Thomas Motivational Compilation Ever

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

PERSISTENCE IS EVERYTHING. Best Motivational Speech Compilation featuring Jocko Willink, Eric Thomas, and David Goggins. Edited by Motiversityhttps://bit.ly/MotivationDaily_Mindset 👈 Download Minds...et app for free and listen to all the world's best motivational speeches.Special thanks to:DOAC: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDiaryOfACEOLondon Real TV: https://www.youtube.com/@LondonRealTVChris Williamson: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillxSpeakersDavid GogginsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamdavidgoggins/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidgoggins/Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgogginsWebsite: http://www.davidgoggins.com/Jocko Willink:YouTube: http://bit.ly/2v5XxuKInstagram: http://bit.ly/2M7oLdwFacebook: http://bit.ly/2JVVaRxTwitter: http://bit.ly/2O9ARVPWebsite: http://bit.ly/2Z5CYLpEric Thomashttps://www.youtube.com/user/etthehiphoppreacherhttps://twitter.com/Ericthomasbtchttps://www.instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher/https://www.facebook.com/etthehiphoppreacherhttp://etinspires.com/MusicReally Slow MotionBuy their music:Amazon : http://amzn.to/1lTltY5iTunes: http://bit.ly/1ee3l8KSpotify: http://bit.ly/1r3lPvNBandcamp: http://bit.ly/1DqtZSoAudiojungleSecession Studios - To Boldy Go, Bound by Lighthttps://www.youtube.com/@SecessionStudios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. Where are you going to end up if you quit this shit? Where are you going to go? I can't get out of this. I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit. So I'm going to go forward. Bring it on.
Starting point is 00:00:47 Don't go to sleep until you succeed. Your mind takes control of you. You have to say, you, I run this motherfucker. Keep pushing through things that suck. As long as you don't quit, then you haven't failed. I'm telling you don't give up. Play to the clock goes out. And if you lose, at least you can say you went down fighting.
Starting point is 00:01:11 When I got my head on my ass and realized that we have more left, we can still push harder. We're not there yet. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go, start walking. You've got to start walking because the perspective is not going to change. You have to start moving forward. I can always take one more steps if I choose not to. That's on me. Unless you're dead, you are not defeated and you have not failed.
Starting point is 00:01:35 This is why I'm always pushing that limit because I know that there's always more. And you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and then you're going to win. And that's life. Life without those challenges. It's existence. Don't just exist. Eventually, inaction will cost you. But your default setting should be, I'm going to do something.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Just get up, move towards that challenge, and go attack it. Go do something that's hard. Struggle sucks. Depends on how you frame it. If you want freedom in your life, you have to have discipline. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is. And you may be successful, and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you can be more prepared for.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Because we're going to have wins. we're going to have losses. We're going to have successes. We're going to have failures. We're going to have good nights. We're going to have bad nights. We're going to have good relationships. We're going to have bad relationships. We're going to have good ideas and bad ideas. We're going to make money. We're going to lose money. All these things are going to happen. And if you oscillate emotionally, up and down drastically, it's going to be problematic. Embrace those emotions, but don't let those emotions embrace you. Keep pushing through things that suck. This is, a very difficult thing to do because it hurts.
Starting point is 00:03:22 I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit, so I'm going to go forward. Bring it on. Don't complain. Don't murmur. Don't talk negative. Average people talk normal. Average people use their time to whine and complain. Average people talk problems.
Starting point is 00:03:39 The greats talk solutions. I'm taking ownership. Michael Joyne, when he was a kid, dreamed about making the last shot. Kobe dreamed about making the last shot. And the greats, they just don't put up the first, the second, the third. But what I've learned about the greats is that they understand it's a sense of urgency that once the clock goes out, it's a W or L. There is no middle ground.
Starting point is 00:04:02 You either win or you lose. It's a different mentality. And the greats are the greats because they have a different mentality. The greats don't play for themselves. The greats understand that they play as a team. When they ask Michael George, who's the best, MJ? You are LeBron. Who's the best? You're a coach.
Starting point is 00:04:20 He says, no, no, y'all got it twisted. It's not who's the greatest player. It's who's the greatest team. Stop being average. Average people can't forgive. Average people can't let go. The greats, we do whatever it takes. We do whatever it takes to be happy.
Starting point is 00:04:38 It's our time. I can. I will my way through every situation, every trial, every triple A. I will my way through it. You're not finished. You're alive. You're not finished. No, no, you got another gear in you. You get to face a lot of shit, young man. You got a long journey ahead of you because you're going to find out that while your dad did a lot of shit to you, you're going to have to make it on your own. Because this world we live in is tough. It's tough. It will beat you down. The world in the life that we live in is the ultimate competitor.
Starting point is 00:05:21 The world's tough. The world's tough. It will try to take you out. It will find your weakness. and it will just hammer you. So it's time to get back to work. Get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk. Get off the podcast. Don't be on social media too much. Cut out all the fucking noise.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Get back to the fucking mental lab. Because that's where the knowledge came from. You need to get to a point in your life where there's nothing can hurt you because you know exactly who you are. You've faced your demons. You were able to hear all your past traumas. You were able to live.
Starting point is 00:06:01 listen to them. You're able to say, okay, now I can now talk to people about what I went to. I'm no longer embarrassed. I'm no longer ashamed. Being ashamed is one of the biggest things that kill people nowadays in their minds. Kill them from moving forward. I'm ashamed of myself. Don't ever be ashamed of anything you've done in your life. Face it, fix it, make it better. Everything I need is in my mental lab. Everything, because I'm in constant study of myself. and I know what needs to be conquered because I'm constantly going through what I don't like
Starting point is 00:06:35 when I'm not comfortable with I know and only I can fix these problems because I have to face these problems Unchosen suffering is going to happen, right? So the only thing that you can do is have some chosen suffering to prepare for it. It's the only thing you can do. That's the only thing you can practice
Starting point is 00:06:55 for the unchosen suffering is have chosen suffering. Do something that sucks every day. I'm not trying to send a message of run 200 miles. Be the baddest motherfuckin' world. But be tough. You better have a part about you that's tough, a part about you that can break down situations and get better.
Starting point is 00:07:17 And break down situations very quickly within some trauma in your life, some devastation in your life, because it's going to come. The devastation, the trauma is going to come, and you can't allow that to become a Jersey person. barrier. It can't be a Jersey barrier. It has to be something that you can maneuver through very quickly and move forward. That takes a lot of toughness. To a lot of people, when you die, they figure out why you die, they figure out how you die. It's in the autopsy. But we never do a live autopsy to figure out why we're dying while we are alive. And I was dying. I was living
Starting point is 00:07:54 every day, but I was really dead. And so I figured it out. And once I figured it out, I was able to reborn. I was able to be reborn. You must take this knowledge that you learn from all this shit is knowledge. So I'm just trying to give people that strength to go in the archives of your life. Because while you're probably fucked up, it's probably something happened to you in your life. Go through the archives, dig it up, study it, and then use it for yourself. That's the main purpose for me right now. You need to be better here.
Starting point is 00:08:28 You need to be better here. You need to overcome this. come to that and I you know people need to have purpose to get up they need purpose to perform you need to a point in your life where there's nothing on the docket there's no 5k there's no i'm going to get into school to be this or that and still perform to the highest level because what people don't get is one day that thing's going to come up and if you're not constantly performing without purpose you're not going to be ready when the time comes. It's this magical thing, purpose that we're all looking for. But what's funny about it all is that we need these things to perform. But we don't
Starting point is 00:09:08 take a second to realize the purpose is always there. The purpose never leaves us. Because the very purpose is you. You are always the purpose. There may be another purpose, like being a seal or going to college or whatever, but the main purpose in life is you. 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, why am I not doing this for myself? Because 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, there's no school, there's
Starting point is 00:09:50 nothing in front of me, is because I have pride in myself. I was born David Gagans. David Gagons wasn't good enough. he was a scared, bullied, abused kid who struggled in life. And that kid, whenever something got tough, you matter how hard I trained, remember how ready I was, whenever something got tough for me,
Starting point is 00:10:15 David Gagons, the real David Gagons, would come out and he would quit. So I realized this over a period of time. So I had to build Gagons. And in that process, that's where I get better. I get better when I'm digging holes in the ground. When I'm waking up early, knowing I don't have to do these things. That's where I get better. So it's important to stay hungry?
Starting point is 00:10:45 It's important to stay hungry, but it's important more to stay humble within that hunger. So while you're hungry, a lot of people are hungry, but humility is everything. What was that story about William Crawford, the janitor? Yeah. So this guy won the Medal of Honor. So he won the Medal of Honor, which is the highest award in the military. And this guy went to the Air Force Academy, and he was a janitor. And no one knew who this man was.
Starting point is 00:11:19 He had the highest award in all the military for heroics, for heroics, saving lives, putting his life in a line, you know, could have been killed. And he is now basically, you know, cleaning shatters for young kids. And we can all imagine how that probably went. You know, there's probably some, you know, a little bit of taunting here and there. He just sat there and clean the shudder. So that's why he's in my trained humility part, because for this man to be at the level he was and had that kind of humility to go, I'm a middle of honor winner, but I'm going to put that in my closet, and I'm going to pick up my broom and dustpan,
Starting point is 00:11:59 and I'm going to pick up, you know, this rag and clean this shit for these young men. That right there is amazing for me, man. That's where you grow. That's growth, huge growth. And also it shows that he was doing his job. He was a servant. He didn't look at himself any better than anybody else.
Starting point is 00:12:17 The second you do that, you totally lost. You cannot look at yourself. Like people with me even, I always look at people. I know where you are. I know where, because I've been there. That's why I help so many people out. I've never been above you.
Starting point is 00:12:33 I've always pretty much been beneath you and that's where my knowledge came from so I know how to reach those people who are in the dungeon because I've been there so many times. You have to be your best self and your least motivated. And that's the tricky part about all that.
Starting point is 00:12:51 Motivation is just a word. You have to have these different things in your mind on where you want to go and know that motivation is not going to get me there. Because I'm not going to always be motivated. Jocko said the exact same thing. You said that discipline eats motivation for breakfast. And discipline is good too. But without a clear headspace, there's no discipline.
Starting point is 00:13:11 What do you mean? So let's say we have a circuit breaker. Okay? And I'm loading everything up to one fucking circuit. Just load it up. It's going to fucking blow. And once that thing blows, man, the circus all fucked up. You got to have each thing plugged into the right spot, like a crowded garage.
Starting point is 00:13:35 You can't put anything in it. Once your brain is crowded, discipline is great. Motivation is great. But if you can't fit it in your brain because it's all fucking cluttered with shit, there's no discipline. You may have it sometimes when it fits in that. that crowded garage of your mind, but you don't have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline.
Starting point is 00:13:59 I call it mental zones, is you're organized in your mind so you can put that discipline. So a lot of people talk about discipline. Okay, great. Why do you fall off the wagon? Why can I continue with this routine going to the gym, being better, waking up early, eating the right foods? It's because maybe it's your kids, maybe it's your wife, maybe it's your job. job and it's all just stuffed in your fucking brain. You don't have it compartmentalized and organized
Starting point is 00:14:28 in these nice shelves. A lot of people whose brain, hey, where's my dentist? Let me look. They're throwing shit. They're looking through toes. It's all f***ed up. So where am I going to put discipline in that mind if I can't find others? You got to be able to find all these different things in your mind. Oh, I can put discipline right there. If your life is not organized and your life everything around you because it takes one little deep piece of an outside interference to cutter your whole mind. Your mind has to always be clear. That's why I meditate two hours every single night because I refresh, I reorganize the garage, which is my mind, every night. So then disciplines in there, organization, everything is in this right spot. I'm waking
Starting point is 00:15:22 and I'm giving myself all this armor. So when I come out in the world, I'm ready. I'm not waking up late. I'm not rushing around. I'm not disorganized. So if I wake up, I'm ready to go. Every day when I wake up, I got all kind of demands. You got all kind of demands.
Starting point is 00:15:40 And the reason why you're not where you want to be is not because you're not great, but you're taking all other people's stuff before you spend enough time with yourself to get to know you and get to know what you want and what you should do. And so please raise your hand with me. If you're saying, E, from this day,
Starting point is 00:15:54 I make a commitment to myself in a way I've never made a commitment to myself before. Let me see your hands. I said I'm going to grind. I'm going to fight. I'm going to work. I'm going to press toward. I'm going to learn. I'm going to do everything in my power.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Every single day, I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. I didn't get here making excuses. You got to get to the point where it hurts. I got sick and tired of it. being sick and tired. But I'm not going to cry about it. No, I'm not a part of the country club. No, I'm not. I don't hang out with them, but I'm still going to be successful. I'm still going to get to where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me. You will not destroy us. You will not defeat us to the day I die. It's your mental toughness,
Starting point is 00:16:55 your mental strength. We can, we will, and we must get through this. This is what's so sweet about success, that as long as you stay in failure, that like, you know, you get satisfied with that when you actually come over to success. It's the same thing. Like, you've got to have more and more and more of it. Just like when you're in poverty, you can keep doing it. When you become successful, so I went with the master degree. Then when I went with the PhD, I just kept, we came out with an album.
Starting point is 00:17:24 I wrote three books. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? Now I'm at a point where I have this sensationalism. desire for more success. So after I finish with the degree, now I start working out, I'm ready to hit this marathon. Now I got another book coming. Now I'm trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Now we're trying to do a reality show.
Starting point is 00:17:46 Telling you a gift from the dark side, you get from being a loser, low self-esteem, doubt, and fear that you can find your way on this side, guys, is sweeter on this side. Many of you have not activated who you are because you don't know what you want. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. You get away with a lot of stuff
Starting point is 00:18:14 when you start executing. And I'm telling you, if you execute, you're going to be on the whole other level. What you want? And there are those of you in this room. You are great. You are phenomenal. And you're not walking in it.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Acceptance. And now let's walk in it. The dream is yours. But you're saying, I'm not worthy of the dream. You're probably not, but it's been given to you anyway. I really don't know what I want. I am not walking in my greatness. My esteem is not where it should be.
Starting point is 00:18:57 I am accepting things that I probably shouldn't accept. And when I leave today, I'm ready to embrace the true me. Listen to me, as you're trying to get to that next level of success, you legitimately have to know what that is. is if somebody's going to be able to help you out. Listen to what I'm saying. I knew what I wanted. And the first thing some of you in this room have to do,
Starting point is 00:19:22 you've got to get to the place where you know what you want. Then once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it. That's what I do. I wake up every single day and I go after what I want. But if you don't know what you want, what are you even waking up for? E.T. Why am I not fired up? E.T. Why am I sleeping in?
Starting point is 00:19:46 Because you don't have a reason to get up. You don't have a reason to wake up early in the morning. You don't have a reason to work out. But you better stop making excuses and find a way to win. Because once you start winning, I'm telling you, I can't explain it to you. But doors start opening. Opportunity start happening. But what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process.
Starting point is 00:20:06 You cannot give up because it ain't what you see. You cannot give up. And when you become a winner, they start seeing you with winners. And so I need you to create a culture of winning and do me a favor. You don't have to win at a whole bunch of stuff. Just win one day at a time. You cannot give up. What you got to do is you heard it, you heard it.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank. That's the difference between the greats. That's what separates them. When they don't have no more, when it's over, when they're tired, when they're frustrated, when they're ready to give up, when they spent their last dime, that's when they get started. How you hear me? It's when you have nothing left. It's when you depleted all your money. When all your energy gone, when you have nothing left, that's when it's showtime. When you find the way out of no way, when you find breath that you don't have, when you find energy that did not
Starting point is 00:21:00 exist, when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. I wish I could tell you you, you're tired, go take a break. I wish I could tell you it's going get easier. I wish I could tell you that if you just keep going, it's going to get lighter. The weight is going to get lighter. I wish I could tell you that, but that's not the truth. The truth is, you got to find something within. So I need you to be a favor, guys. I need you to win. Until you know what you want, you will not get good rest. If you don't know what you want, then you've not begun to live yet.
Starting point is 00:21:41 To find something within and that's got to push you and that's got to elevate you. and that's got to drive you and that's got to move you and when you find out what your why is and your why got to be deeper than you when you find your why you don't hit snooze no more when you find your why you find a way to make it happen there's no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential no excuse and i can't explain it but you better feel me winners win and losers lose i can't explain it any better than that. What changed? I change and I stopped being a victim. I stopped saying I've got to wait for good things to happen to me and I said I'm going to grind. I'm going to fight. I'm going to work. I'm going to press toward. I'm going to learn. I'm going to do everything in my power. Every
Starting point is 00:22:43 single day I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. Do not say this is going to be a part of my life because somebody told you was going to be a part of your life. You need to start rejecting some of the stuff people telling you. You need to stop embracing it. Just because they said it, it doesn't mean it's true for you. Just because you don't believe, just because you're going to be in poverty, just because your marriage ain't going to work out, just because your kids aren't going to be successful.
Starting point is 00:23:11 I'm not owning that. That's not my life. And the reason why I say is my fault, even when it's not my fault, because when I say it's your fault, I give you power, I give you control over my life. And I will never give another human, control over my life. It's my thought. It's my problem. I'm coming up with a solution for it. Can we try? Are you hearing what I'm saying some of y'all? You're not even trying.
Starting point is 00:23:40 You don't even try to do it. You've given up before you even try. I'm taking ownership. You get to determine how you live. You live life on your turn. Go again, will your way through. Some things you can skill yourself through, some stuff you've got to wheel you. your way through. And where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress. I will. Come on, I will. Come on, I will. Come on, I will. I must. 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. The only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where you're just out of sorts. When you can't swim and
Starting point is 00:24:47 you're drowning, when you're drowning. When you say, you know what, man, once you come face to face with who you are, you have a starting point. It's in our head saying, you know what, man, Dude, you're not doing shit. You're wasting a bunch of percentage here. In this other 80% is suffering, pain, failure, failure, failure, self-doubt, darkness. And then a whole bunch of light. But to get to this light, you got to go through all of this shit. You're not succeeding and you're not achieving.
Starting point is 00:25:34 it's because you're afraid to go in that dark place to find yourself. You're setting goals. You know you can reach. And when you do that, that fear, that insecurity, you quote, you must always set goals that you think you cannot achieve. And in there you get better. When that long clock goes off at four or five in the morning, your mind says no.
Starting point is 00:26:03 You just say, this is what we do. is what we do now. Because to get to where you want to go, the amount of pain involved, the amount of mental pain, of how many times you're going to have to do something that you don't want to do to get to where you want to go.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Every day, you must ask yourself, did I do enough? And then once you do this over and over and over again, it becomes like breathing. I don't want to live this lifestyle, but to get to the other side of this, I have to. So if you really want it, you realize what trying is and what trying is not.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world. Once you put away your phones and your computers and all that shit we have nowadays, 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 shit. You can't Google that shit, 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.
Starting point is 00:27:24 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. 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 fucked. 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. So all I knew back then was hard work. You got to work hard.
Starting point is 00:27:56 You got to work hard. I can't get this paragraph. I can't remember what the fuck's in this paragraph to pass this test to get in the military. Read again. Still not getting it. Read again. But if you're not getting it, write it out. And that's how I started learning.
Starting point is 00:28:09 I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back until the shit just becomes, your mind was safe. Fuck. Okay. We're going to figure it out. It'll find a way. Because he is not going to stop. It's not like, I'm going to try one more time.
Starting point is 00:28:28 No, wrong clock goes on. Boop. We're going back. I can't read right. We're going back. I gave myself no way out. And my mind realized that. It's okay.
Starting point is 00:28:40 We're going to adapt and overcome now. 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. I became hell. And that became my new norm. I gave myself no way out. There was nothing outside these walls of hell.
Starting point is 00:29:01 Nothing. I watched this segment on TV about these guys going through Navy Steel Training. And I couldn't even, I wasn't a great swimmer. I was afraid of the water. All this crap, man. I saw these guys just quitting. But at the very end, it says 22 guys. There's command officers up there and it gives this great speech.
Starting point is 00:29:28 So I started visualizing me being the 23rd guy. Sitting there with these guys. I said, man, if I could feel that, that would change my life. And what was that feeling you wanted so bad? Respect, accomplishment. Victory. I wanted to win. Not like beat somebody else. It wasn't about that. I just wanted to go the distance. Everything in my life was something got hard. I quit. I had to work harder than you. So I quit. Like man if I could just go that distance that extra mile to just go it's just to finish I want to finish I want to feel victory and victory for me wasn't winning it was just finishing so I said you know what if I could feel like these guys feel it would change my life
Starting point is 00:30:21 and literally I started feeling victory just by putting myself in the battle 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 now we can move from there if you look at it as man i'm broken and i'm still here and i'm fighting and i'm going to find a way to get through this because i have no other place to go it gives you a lot of power and no one really finds themselves without going through trials, tribulations, suffering, accountability. And accountability is suffering. Being accountable every fucking day for doing right for yourself, for the people next to you.
Starting point is 00:31:20 It's miserable. The more I did this, the more I gain confidence. And then the more I gained confidence, the more I realize, fuck these Navy SEALs, man. These guys can't do what I'm doing right now. I had no coach, had no trainer, had no money. I didn't know how to lose weight. I had no knowledge of what I was doing. I was just working.
Starting point is 00:31:45 I was just sacrificing. But I would have never found these tools if I didn't put myself in a very uncomfortable place. And your true self is found in that very uncomfortable zone. When you talk to people that went to seal training that didn't make it, most of the time, it's some reason. There's a medical reason. There's a family problem.
Starting point is 00:32:13 There's very few people that look at you and say, oh, I quit because it sucked, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don't make it through seal training, they didn't make it through because they quit. Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you if you let them.
Starting point is 00:32:36 When your excuses make you feel a little bit better about the fact that you didn't execute on what you needed to execute on, then they can make you feel better. But they're not helping you. They're not helping you at all. This went wrong. This failed.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Didn't accomplish this. And it's not the fault of my boss. It's not the fault of my girlfriend. It's not the fault of my parents. It's not the fault of the weather. It's my fault. And I'm going to take ownership of it and I'm going to fix it.
Starting point is 00:33:05 That's what extreme ownership is. Because when you look around at your life and you look around at your job and your financial situation and your relationship and your physical health. And when you look at all those things and all the problems that you may have with those things and you say the reason I have all those problems is because of me, that can hurt. That can sting. And a lot of times our ego rejects that and makes excuses and lies.
Starting point is 00:33:35 And then we don't have to change anything. And then nothing changes. when the excuses all go away and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me it hurts but is also unbelievably empowering because the more discipline you have in your life
Starting point is 00:33:55 the more freedom you will end up with so if you lack the discipline to exercise and eat healthy you will end up being a slave to disease if you lack the discipline to work hard, save your money, you will end up a slave to finances. If you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly, you will end up with no free time. If you have self-discipline, if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly,
Starting point is 00:34:35 if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time, if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up with freedom. And you're going to start to progress in every aspect of your life. And you'll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now, you're going to end up with freedom. If you have discipline, you will attain freedom. Go try and accomplish something that's hard. You may win. You may lose.
Starting point is 00:35:07 You may succeed, you may fail. I'll tell you what, you'll be better. And if you don't have that kind of discipline, and you don't work hard, and you don't exercise, and you don't apply yourself, you're going to end up shackled. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go,
Starting point is 00:35:29 start walking. You've got to start walking, because the perspective is not going to change. You have to start moving forward. But standing there, lost, and not doing anything is just waiting to die, waiting to starve to death.
Starting point is 00:35:44 Don't let that happen. I think it's really important because as men, we don't, we get conflicting messages about emotion and how to express it and what that looks like and there's a lot of men struggling right now. Every human faces challenges,
Starting point is 00:36:05 and you don't know what they've been through. Suppressing them isn't going to help and nor is letting them run your life because you're sad, now you're going to make a bunch of bad decisions because you're sad. No, no, it doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that. You're sad. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:21 You get emotional sometimes? Okay. Got it. Now, get control of your emotions and carry on with your life. And sometimes you're going to get hate with those waves. And that's okay. Oh, I'm having an emotional moment right now. There's something wrong with me.
Starting point is 00:36:41 No, there's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. The other extreme is, oh, I'm letting me. my emotions run my life and I'm making a bunch of bad decisions and my excuses, well, you know, I lost from friends or I had this traumatic experience happen to me. That's why I'm doing, that's just an excuse. And it's a very easy excuse. Guess what? It's time to carry on. Remember, don't dwell. I'm in control. This is my life. If you are in the problem, you won't see the solution to the problem. Take a step back, detach from the chaos, detach from the mayhem, detach from your emotions,
Starting point is 00:37:20 detach from your ego, and be able to assess the best way to execute that is the job of a leader. If you take any trait of a human being and you take it to an extreme, masculine or feminine or otherwise, you take it to an extreme, it's going to be a problem. Is it good to have no emotions whatsoever? No, that's called a sociopath. Is it good to let your emotions run your life and make your decisions based on your emotions? No, that's not good either. What do we want to be as a human, as a man? I want to be balanced. It's much easier to be extreme. It's much easier to say, oh, no emotions, cool, and turn them off. That's easier. Or total emotion, mayhem, that's easier. It's harder to find balance. It's harder to find balance.
Starting point is 00:38:10 It's harder to find balance in business. It's hard to find balance in life. It's hard to find balance. but you have to be balanced because what I want is for the team to win so be balanced

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