the right perspective makes the impossible possible instead of the path of least resistance I started choosing the path of most resistance to prepare myself for the journey that was coming my way and you realize through hard work you can outwork anybody matter how badass they are it starts with yourself man you got to start diving into those things that you are afraid of you don't gain confidence by going to the spot that makes you feel good it's could be a false reality in the second life gives you that challenge all you want to do is
go back to what gave you confidence is that happy spot no what gave me confidence was spending years at a kitchen table trying to learn how to read and write on my own realizing I can't learn the way you learn I can't but I can learn what gives you confidence not being afraid it's overcoming the [Music] fear that's what gets me confidence is facing these things overcoming them and maybe not overcoming them every day but facing them and fac them and face them pretty soon like this you know what man this is where it's at
it's not in that comfort zone it's in the discomfort Zone is where my confidence is getting built MH that's where it's getting built happiness peace Enlightenment it's all up here man it's all up here it's all up here you just got to want to go and face it and that's the hard part the physical standard is not what they need to meet it's a mental standard you must need in life that's how I live my life I now know that there is no cap on the human mind there's no cap we cap it ourselves the
most people quit I just and you take that mindset and you going to flip that around that's what made me powerful and my body fall and so I said I'm going to do this I'm going to give myself a challenge every single day until the fear goes away right and I feel like that's what more of us should be doing I'm hearing that that's what you how you live your life that's all it is man and it helps me feel so much more confident when you overcome that fear of saying this doesn't have control over
me anymore that's right it's like you can be at such more peace a lot of us speak in Hollywoods I used to speak in Hollow wordss I don't do anymore everything that comes out M has substance is real we all have these feelings in our bodies in our minds and our souls I act on M A lot of us who are afraid of something we allow our minds to choose the path that least resistance so we go a different route I'm afraid of something is telling me you must you must do that life is one
big mind game and you're playing it with yourself you cannot lose perspective of where you coming [Music] life I'm trying to give people a different thought process of life where failure hell disappointment discomfort is a great learning tool and many people don't understand that but it's these few moments in life that you have like for me I always talk about it Rocky one round 14 that one two minute in 13 second clip of Rocky getting up when Apollo knocked him down that one clip and I was going through a very bad time in my life
I saw what I wanted to be it wasn't a guy that won it wasn't a guy that won everything he did it was a guy that kept getting up after being knocked down so I realized if that too many minutes and 13 seconds changed my life saw was I saw something that I needed to be in the world I was living in maybe my story will give someone the 2 minutes and 13 seconds they need to change their life everybody's got a story we don't share it on social media we share our nice life on
social media we have we all have a dungeon I'm just willing to talk about mine mental toughness isn't something that you sample it's something that you live in every day whenever hardness comes and you don't know what it is it may be different for you than it is for me but you go back to your insecurities and then when you go back to insecurities you didn't look for Comfort within those insecurities and we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad when you were sick we look for
our wife or our husband we look for comfort it's in those moments you must retrain your mind to think differently in help the mental standard is you must know how far you've come I walk in the room now and I know the hours and years and decades I put in the day of godess that's something it's not on the wall it's not a trophy on the wall it's not a m around your neck I don't care how you perceive David Goin because through my journey I figured out the one piece I was missing I thought
it was Cars I thought it was women I thought it was money I thought it was everything the one piece I was missing was me Having the courage to face myself where I got my work ethic from was the hours I had to SC learning this when you sit down and you're not smart and you have a disability yeah and you still want to be in the top of your class I didn't want to get by when I realized that I can learn through hard work and I can beat the V Victorian in the school
but I got put in 10 hours more a day than he does you know what kind of strength comes from that when you're sitting down that guy that that Valor for an hour and you know I caught you I have the work ethic to catch you that's where David gagas got really invented yeah was at a kitchen table with 20 spiral notebooks that were empty and then they were full and when you can go through that I still have in my storage unit you go through these spiral notebooks of your life and you realize this
is how I learned this is unbelievable it wasn't until I got real sick and my life got real quiet I I went from running 205 miles in 39 hours to I couldn't get out of bed my life was taken from me and that's when I realized I hadn't taken time to think about what I done in my life I done all these things but there was no Finish Line I finished a race of life and I would even receive my metal I go on I get in the car and I go when I started figuring
out life that I was I was leaving so much in the 10 once I realiz my God man I was this dumb fat kid being bullied and nama 180 lb person lost 106 lb in less than 3 months learn to read learn to do this learn to do that I was like I need more I was fueling my mind with everything I never took time to say my God you came from this hell and you're here I had come 8,000 miles from where I started but if you never know that you're still in the $7
a month place so it's that quiet place is that place by yourself it's those hours and years and decades by yourself in the grip of life when life has you by the throat and choking you out and you're sitting there calm because you're trying to figure it out you're not panicking you're not quitting you're not throwing in the towel you're saying there's a way around this and when you figure it out when life has you gripped in aice and you can figure that out that's when you overcome that's when you overcome the journey getting there
was harder than going through it yeah you know so that's the whole thing about life man it's it's that Journey that that makes you who you are when I was working with my professional athletes it required me to do a lot of traveling and this story gets me every time so when people say it didn't hurt it still hurts I was packing for a trip my daughter walks into a room she saids dad why do you travel so much [Music] this is sweetheart this is how I provide for the family this is how I take
care of you and Mom this is how I put food on the table she looks at me says daddy if I eat less can you stay home more not people would think in a fairy tale or most people would that I unpack my suitcase I'm not going to take this trip I let's go grab some ice cream or let's go out I kept hacking her why I had to set an example for her early of what it meant to live and what you have to leave behind sometimes in order to pursue what's unique to you
and I wanted her to understand this is who I am and I want to set an example for I had a conversation with her later on to tell her why I did all those things and in the middle of the conversation she stopped She Goes I get it I understand she saw the results she saw how it brought us closer together she [Music] understood my dad dedication to my craft and what it took to Excel and what it took to be different and what it took to stand by unpopular decisions knowing that every successful person
that I've met every successful person that I know had to make those decisions over and over again there are things that are going to have to take a back seat you you're going to have to leave a lot of things behind the hardest thing with Kobe was getting him to stop yeah okay take a break rest yes take the day off that was the most challenging thing with him because over all the years that he had his success it was about go go go and then when I came on I was the complete icle I
got to get you to stop his 3:00 a.m. workouts they're crazy crazy you know having to keep the Staple Center open later because he wasn't happy the way he performed at that game and I would not leave till he would leave really yeah so we would be we would be in the arena sometimes 2 3:00 in the morning shut up all the lights are turned off except on the court and we just keep going we just keep going what is the mindset of winning they both had that so I look at it I look at
it three ways so you have individuals that compete you know a lot of people that compete yeah you know every we all know how to compete everybody knows how to how to you don't forget how to compete we just decide not to anymore but a lot of people compete just to finish then there's individuals that win but they only win one time it's easy to win and then never win wi again and then there's people that win at winning you can come back the same cannot come back the same you have to come back different
you have to come back better winning wants you to be different winning requires you to do different things winning requires you to think in a different way winning speaks its own language winning has its own way of recognizing you winning wants you to write your own story stop looking for steps those steps are infinite find your own path to winning because as the late great Kobe Bryan said Winning is Everything
