How To Start Your Day Like David Goggins

what does a morning look like for you at the moment if you've got a routine of some kind yes I run every single morning so that's time you up when are you waking up I'm up about 5 5 30. so every morning it starts with the run and that's because that's the one thing I hate to do more than anything in the world so that's like my cup of coffee and I'm all about armoring yourself so the second you leave your house and you second you open your phone the second you do any of that

you are now letting in poison in cancer so I make sure a lot of things you can't avoid so as I get up I start to armor plate my mind and body like a person's going to war you put your body armor on that's what I'm doing on that run I'm waking up and I'm giving myself all this armor so when I come out in the world now look at that phone I'm ready I'm not waking up late I'm not rushing around I'm not disorganized because I know I'm gonna get hit in the mouth there's

a there's an art to getting hit in the [ __ ] mouth and that is why these things are important you have to wake up and you have to give yourself belief you have to give yourself confidence so that it starts with that run so after the run I come home I eat something small how long's the Run typically at the moment nowhere Under 12 miles so 12 miles is the minimum I'm already getting that done in how long it depends right now I'm running a heart rate so I'm doing it like 8 15s 8

30s because I'm retraining right now because it's not zone two for you zone two yeah because of the leg surgery I had so I'm going back starting from scratch so anywhere from about an hour 30 to two hours I run every day so so you're fasted on the morning oops straight out straight out 90 minutes to two hours of running back eat and I'm in the gym so and then after that um to whatever's on the plan for the day that's how that works every day are you still doing your stretching because you've got two

hours of every night two hours of meditation 90 minutes to two hours of running how long is the gym session depends 45 to an hour and a half okay stretching meditation run eat mm-hmm Jim [Music] what is that my mission Jennifer oh yeah yeah forget about that you cycle as well yeah how long are you cycling it just depends I do stationary bike right now a lot what are you using is it like a what bike or something similar yeah something similar so I put my bike on a uh like trainer and I cycle yep

at least three or four days a week I'll do that so that's your day there's no there's there is no room for anything else yeah there is a lot of room so there's 24 hours and I use it all pretty pretty well how's your sleep what's your sleep like it's really good okay eight hours something like that seven eight hours yeah but you need to with this sort of volume seven eight hours and you're still doing your stretching stuff every night so you've got a four hour block basically of stretching and meditation you combine the

two right yeah that's all in one block cool yep that's one hell of a day it is and it's been like that for seven years but going back to what you said before about needing to cap success you wouldn't be able to fit well even one tenth of that in exactly if you were chasing down exactly yep that's exactly it so if all that's [ __ ] up that's why I got a cap success because I can't put that in do and and that's my growth factor so you know that's that's my human growth factor

you said before about um how you build up self-esteem and confidence and stuff and there's this quote from one of my friends Alex homozy that says you don't become Confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are outwork yourself doubt yes that's that's nailed nailed completely nailed yes because a lot of people will in some of these motivational people out here is the funniest thing in the world to me they'll go and say when you wake up in the morning pound your

chest you know [ __ ] look at yourself in the mirror and do all this [ __ ] [ __ ] I hope it works what works for me is that everyday resume the things I know of accomplished the 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 the you don't need to pound your chest in the mirror to [ __ ] anymore if you have that 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 right you're not looking for it to be delusional you don't want it to 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 that or without having even been competent to 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 where you are constantly like for me I came from a bad place How I build belief is through the 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 [ __ ] kid I once thought I was don't believe 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 [ __ ] 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 be like hey um I'm Gonna Knock that [ __ ] out you gotta look over here and say I can knock that [ __ ] out is belief and it's built on what you put in to yourself another friend sent me a message this morning knowing that we had

this this big thing that we've been working toward for a long time today he said uh Nietzsche said I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible the fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it that's exactly what makes it worth pursuing where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk the only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges you know that one also two for two no that one also man yeah it's that um it's

not dealing with laziness and self-doubt thing I think uh and I do wonder how many people use the look in the mirror pound the chest stare into your eyes say your affirmations don't get the results and then lose confidence well that's part of it a lot of it is limited Horizons limited Horizons are like I use me as an example always 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 and like you know what I wanna 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 of only what we've seen our mind works in such a small compartment and one thing I was able to do was to dream many people but don't make dreams your [ __ ] master but I was able to dream outside those [ __ ] Four Walls of that small

town and 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 what you mean don't make dreams your master 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 astronaut and all it is is a [ __ ] dream they don't put the work behind the dream that dream has become their [ __ ] master when you become the master of your [ __ ] dream

is when you say I want to go be a Navy SEAL and you say okay I'm gonna lose 106 pounds in less than three [ __ ] months the dream was the one thing I thought about and the dream was now gone now what comes in the dream goes away and the [ __ ] laundry list the [ __ ] details and tasks come up gotta do this God do this God do this God do this that's when you become the master of your dream so a lot of people out there dreaming Ryan holiday 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 [ __ ] man it actually makes you feel good makes you feel proud all that [ __

] but guess what happens that alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m to train um I want to be a seal today but 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're always going to be a talker you always get run your [ __ ] mouth this episode is brought to you by element element is a tasty electrolyte drink mix with everything that you need and nothing that you don't I've

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