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It feels good.

It feels good to talk about that.

It actually makes you feel good.

It makes you feel proud.

All that.

But guess what happens?

That alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m to train.

I don't want to be a seal today.

I don't want to be whatever today.

I'll start tomorrow.

And that's the usual pattern of people's lives.

Until you really want to do something, you're always going to be a talker.

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 like I said, I'm always examining myself every day.

What is it?

Well, there's only one thing you haven't examined yet, and it's going back to the beast, going back to the demon.

So when I went back to him, I realized that that was the unsolved mystery.

At the end of the day, I asked 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.

So a lot of people can take one more step if they choose not to.

I don't know if you can take two steps.

You got to answer that question after you take the first step.

But I can always take one more step if I choose not to.

That's on me.

I got to live with that.

But all the times that I was like, this is, I'm not going back.

And I went back.

I'm not going back.

And I went back.

I'm not going back.

And I went back.

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.

So for me, this was the new level.

Let's not quit yet, guys.

Let's think about your options.

Where are you going to end up if you quit this?

Where are you going to go?

What's amazing about the human mind is that it becomes your new norm.

Like to think that I can run 200 miles, 240 miles and that becomes like running 50.

I never thought that was possible.

This is why I'm always pushing that limit, because I know that within pushing these limits, there's always more.

But what it did was it showed me what is possible.

And that's what set the new stage for me.

That's when I realized, oh man, I've really been underachieving my entire life.

But it taught me what is possible.

Because we all think about quitting is hard.

It's hard to process information during pain.

Because that pain takes over and you can't think rationally.

You're thinking about fight or flight, save yourself.

That's not a rational thought.

It's not a thought that's going to get you through hard times.

But there's a lot of thought behind a person being a born loser becoming who I am today.

You know just wake up and just rocky just You gotta wake up and think about you know, there's a process to getting better and

That process is never finished 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 your brain is the most powerful

weapon in the world Once you put away your phones and your computers and all that we have nowadays.

That's great.

We're up to date You know you but 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 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, pull you in these different pockets.

If you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you, you're f*ing.

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.

That's how you have to live your life.

When that alarm clock goes off at four or five in the morning, your mind says no. All I knew back then was hard work.

The only way anything gets accomplished, you got to work hard.

You got to work hard.

I can't get this paragraph.

I can't remember what the in this paragraph to pass this test to get in the military.

Read it again.

Still not getting it.

Read it again.

But if you're not getting it, write it out.

And that's how I started learning.

Okay, well I can't, I gotta write out everything I do and then write it out again and write it out again.

And guess what happened?

I got it.

I can't swim.

I'm negative buoyant.

Go back again.

I can't swim.

Go back again.

I got it.

I realize if I keep going back and going back

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and going back until it just becomes your mind was safe

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okay we're gonna figure it out it'll find a way

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because he is not going to stop it's like I'm gonna

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try one more time no I'm gonna it's just like one

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clock goes off boop we're going back I can't read right we're going back I gave myself no way out

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and my mind realized that it's okay we're gonna adapt and overcome now.

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That was my mindset and that's how you get through things.

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You put yourself, you immerse yourself wherever it is, you become that.

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You become that and give yourself no way out.

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And but people don't want to go through the process of focus, of teaching yourself how to truly focus.

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I am literally, I was the lowest form on earth,

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no talent, no ability to learn and I literally know what it is to be rock bottom and to build that up.

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It's like, whether you believe in God or not, I do.

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He put this lab rat, which is me, on this planet and said, let me...

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Like, running is running.

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It sucks, but you have a choice to make.

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Do you want to sit down and go back to that guy you once were?

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No. So this is what it takes.

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It seems like, especially with confidence, right, or self-esteem, there's a relationship between confidence and competence.

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So what you're looking to do is try and have what you believe

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that you can do be ahead of what you can do

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Now you're not looking for it to be delusional You don't want it to be able to believe

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that you can do something like fly, right?

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But you need to have a relationship between the two

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But what people are asking for is for their confidence to be so far ahead of their competence

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That without having even being competent at anything in the beginning

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and that's just delusion that's fantasy Build belief belief is like there's an after-school special belief

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where the mom says believe in yourself and that's all great

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but there's also a built belief like for me I came

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from a bad place how I build belief is through the the daunting tasks I put myself through

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so that's proof positive that I can so it correlates and that's how this piece of kid I once thought I was

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built belief by saying hmm I was in three hell weeks

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I went to Ranger school I tried out for Delta selection undeniable stack of proof

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that is proof mother

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so whenever you think whenever you think you can't the confidence comes from the thing

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that you built you must build belief you must build confidence it You can't be like, hey, I'm gonna go knock that out.

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You gotta look over here and say, I can knock that out.

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It's belief and it's built on what you put in to yourself.

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It starts with yourself, man.

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You gotta start diving into those things that you're afraid of.

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You don't gain confidence by going to a spot that makes you feel good.

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It could be a false reality.

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And the second life gives you that challenge, All you want to do is go back to what made you confidence or what gave you confidence.

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Is that happy spot?

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No. What gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read

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and write on my own.

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Realizing I can't learn the way you learn.

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I can't.

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But I can learn.

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What gives you confidence is not being afraid.

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It's overcoming the fear.

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That's what gives me confidence facing these things, overcoming them.

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And maybe not overcoming them every day, but facing them.

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And facing them and facing them.

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Pretty soon like this, you know what man, this is where it's at.

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It's not in that comfort zone.

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It's in the discomfort zone is where my confidence is getting built.

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That's where it's getting built.

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But people want an easier answer.

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There has to be an easier way.

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There's not.

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I'm sorry.

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I searched for my entire life.

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I did.

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I lied.

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I did everything and I still felt empty.

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You never examine this.

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Happiness, peace, enlightenment.

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It's all up here man.

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It's all up here.

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It's all up here.

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You just gotta be going to go and face it.

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And that's the hard part.

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When most people quit, I had just started.

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And when you take that mindset and you learn to flip that around, That's what made me powerful and my body followed.

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Failure, hell, disappointment, discomfort is a great learning tool.

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And many people don't understand that.

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It's these few moments in life that you have.

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Like for me, I always talk about it.

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Rocky won round 14.

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That one two minute and 13 second clip of Rocky getting up when Apollo knocked him down.

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That one clip when I was going through a very bad time in my life I saw what I wanted to be.

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It wasn't a guy that won.

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It wasn't a guy that won everything he did.

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It was a guy that kept getting up after being knocked down

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so I realized if that two minutes and 13 seconds changed my life

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so I was I saw something

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that I needed to be in the world I was living

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in maybe my story will give someone to two minutes

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and 13 seconds they need to change their life everybody's got

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a story we don't share it on social media we share

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our nice life on social media we have we all have a dungeon I'm just willing to talk about mine.

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I don't care how you perceive David Goggins because through my journey I figured out the one piece I was missing.

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I thought it was cars I thought it was women I

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thought it was money I thought it was everything the one

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piece I was missing was me having the courage to face myself.

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Where I got my work ethic from was the hours I had to spend learning this.

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When you sit down and you're not smart, and you have a disability, and you still want to be in the top of your class.

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I didn't want to just get by.

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When I realized that I can learn through hard work, and I can beat the valedictorian in school,

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if I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does.

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You know what kind of strength comes from that?

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When you're sitting down and that guy that valedictorian studied for an hour, and you know I caught you I caught you

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and I am dumb

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but I have the work ethic to catch you that's where

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David Gagas got really invented was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks

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that were empty and then three months later they were full

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and when you can go through

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that I still have me in my storage unit you go through these spiral notebooks of your life

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and you realize this is how I learned.

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This is unbelievable.

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Why is the truth so important?

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You have to have the truth to have a starting point

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and your true self is found honestly in that very uncomfortable zone.

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We all look for toughness.

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We all want it but we look for it in a comfortable environment.

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You will not find toughness in a comfortable environment.

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Those of you who are listening to this, whoever hear this, you will not find it.

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I was trying to look for it everywhere.

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The only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where you're just out of sorts.

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But you say you know what ma'am?

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Dad.

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Once you come face to face with who you are, you have a starting point.

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I was born David Goggins.

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David Goggins wasn't good enough.

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He was a scared, bullied, abused kid who struggled in life.

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And that kid, whenever something got tough, no matter how hard I I trained, no matter how ready I was, whenever something got tough for me,

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David Goggins, the real David Goggins would come out and he would quit.

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So I realized this over a period of time.

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So I had to build Goggins.

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And in that process, that's where I get better.

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You have to be your best self and your least motivated.

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And that's the tricky part about all that.

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Motivation is just a word.

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You have to have these different things in your mind on where you want to go

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and know that motivation is not going to get me there.

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Okay, I'm not going to always be motivated.

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Jocko said the exact same thing.

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You said that discipline eats motivation for breakfast.

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And discipline is good too.

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But without a clear headspace, there's no discipline.

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What do you mean?

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So let's say we have a circuit breaker, okay?

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And I'm loading everything up to one circuit.

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Just load it up.

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It's going to blow.

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Once that thing blows man the circus all up you're gonna have

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Each thing plugged into the right spot like a crowded garage.

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You can't put anything in it once your brain is crowded Discipline is great Motivation is great,

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but if you can't fit in your brain because it's all cluttered There's no discipline.

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So a lot of people talk about discipline.

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Okay, great.

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Why do you fall off the wagon?

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Why can't I continue with this routine?

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Going to the gym, being better, waking up early, eating the right foods.

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It's because maybe it's your kids, maybe it's your wife, maybe it's your job.

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And it's all just stuffed in your brain.

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You don't have it compartmentalized and organized in these nice shelves.

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So where am I going to put discipline in that mind if I can't find other .

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You got to be able to find all these different things in your mind.

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Oh, I can put discipline right there.

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I can put consistency right there.

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I can put all these things right there in that spot.

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If your life is not organized, and your life being everything around you,

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because it takes one little piece of outside interference to clutter your whole mind.

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That was the biggest thing.

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I had to stop caring what people thought about me.

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I realized that everybody's up.

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That's the one thing I realized.

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I walked around and I put these people on a pedestal.

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Everybody was better than me.

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So I can't tell you anything about me because you're gonna judge me

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and I'm gonna feel even worse than what I am.

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What I realized, once I calmed my mind down and sat back and looked at how jacked up this world is.

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Once you realize that you are not alone.

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Everybody that's talking to you about how jacked up you are, only thing they've done better than you,

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is they've hidden their world better than you have.

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That's all they've done.

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Most of us fail in life because we're afraid of what everyone around you is thinking.

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That's 100% truth.

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So we live by the narrative of other people.

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When I first called a recruiter to be a Navy SEAL, I was 297 pounds.

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The first recruiter looked at me and said, you're not going to be able to make this, man.

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So what he was doing was he was projecting his energy on me.

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He knew he couldn't be a Navy Seal.

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So God helped this black guy because I was only the 36th African-American to make it through in over 70 years.

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How's this black fat guy gonna make it through in my ass?

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He wasn't even willing to try.

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So he's projecting it.

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So a lot of us who are negative people, all we do is project how we feel on other people.

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So what happens is there's a lot of negative people walking around the planet Earth who are afraid to try.

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because everybody a lot of people are very negative in this world

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so we are afraid to fail why I told you man

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shouldn't even try it dude just chill out relax why are you

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so crazy why are you so obsessed so all

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that stuff drives the the quitting mind I call it the

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mind wants to quit the mind is tired the mind is

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tired the mind is deserving the mind thinks it's very deserving

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so yes the The biggest problem in this world is other people, not yourself.

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It's other people in your head.

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They are puppet mastering you pretty much on your life.

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