We all have two people We all have two people and Iโm not saying you're crazy. We have the easy voice that's that voice that we all love. Thatโs that very comfortable voice that thatโs that mommy Holding you saying, "Itโs gonna be okay" Doesnโt care how good you are just loves you.
Just loves you, no matter how messed up you are in life. So that's that one voice. This other voice that we walk very far away from is the voice saying, "hey, man, you ainโt doing sh**" So we try to get this voice out of our head completely and we live over here in this land.
So what you have to do first is turn up this voice over here. The voice saying things to you that arenโt nice. That it's in our head saying, "You know what man?
dude youโre not. . youโre not doing sh**" I'm not saying to put yourself down I'm saying listen to the truth.
And the truth isnโt in the 20%. The truth is in this other part of your brain saying, "look man youโre wasting a bunch of percentages here. " We have 80 more percent that weโre not tapping into because 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. So a lot of us know that I can get over here but over here man this is much better because I gotta go through this journey that is not fun. This- this from 20 to 100% This sh** in between is not fun.
So we decide to live over here So everybody goes, how do we do that? You know exactly how to do that. You know exactly- itโs not a magic trick Thereโs nothing I talk about thatโs a magic trick.
Itโs all back down to a very primitive mindset of we just have to do. Itโs like breathing. Breathing becomes normal, like we don't know that- that- that weโre doing it.
Thatโs how you have to live your life. When that alarm clock goes off at 4 or 5 in the morning your mind says no, you just say, this is what we do it's what we do now because to get to where you want to go the amount of pain involved, I'm not saying physical Iโm not saying you got to break yourself off the amount of mental pain of how many times youโre gonna have to do something that you donโt want to do to get to where you want to go. When I was 297 pounds and I was fat as hell, trying to be a Navy Seal The scariest thing in the world to me even to this day Was that that could have been the rest of my life I thought then I was trying hard.
Thatโs the scariest thing in the world. I thought then, 297 pounds working for Ecolabs spraying for cockroaches, making $1,000 a month. I thought that was me at my 100% potential.
Come to find out a few years later, I wasnโt anywhere near that. 106 pounds less, Graduate Navy Seal training, went on to do all these other things. Looking back on that that was me trying hard.
Thatโs why people gotta understand What is in us we have no idea until we start trying hard. And I mean really trying hard when youโre obsessed with Hey, this is my new norm My new norm is that- wow, this isnโt always fun, itโs not always meant to be fun and thatโs when you know youโre trying hard. Is that- and so people listening to us that maybe are at 20% or 30% you know about, yeah, I'm going hard, I'm going max and yet they're not seeing the results like how do they actually shake themselves out of that?
We're all in the battle with our own brains That's life, that's all life is. It's the most powerful thing in the world is your own brain. It can work for you or against you.
And as opposed to focusing on all those bad things that have happened, and all the things you didn't have, the people that called you names, all the stuff you deserve in the end, and you start thinking wait a second I just visualized this and now I can take it to the next level, next level because the visualization got you through the Seal training. It did and I was able to visualize the end. So before, when I was 297 and I was all fat and out of shape and I couldn't run a quarter mile and I was drinking milkshakes and eating boxes of donuts I visualized, man how would it feel?
For a brief moment I was so. . there was 22 guys that graduated I watched this segment on TV about these guys going through Navy Seal training and I couldnโt even.
. . I.
. I wasn't a great swimmer, I was afraid of the water all this crap man. But at the very end, it's these 22 guys and this commanding officer is up there and he gives this great speech.
I was like man I wonder. . .
so I started visualizing me being the 23rd guy in these dress whites sitting there with these guys getting that Navy Seal, you know, graduating this Navy Seal training. I was like God so I put myself there. I was like man, that's an amazing feeling I put myself there at 297 not even able to do anything that these great men were doing I said man, if I could feel that that would change my life.
If I could just feel that one, it lasts for one second you get that certificate, you walk across the stage and what's next? But I didn't know that then my mind was that, I thought Iโd live in that moment forever so, I said wow man, if I could just feel like them. If I could feel like them.
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, when something got hard, I quit. If it was reading- that's where you know I wasn't great at reading, I wasn't great at writing, so I just quit. I couldn't catch on as fast as you I didn't work harder than you so I quit.
You know, I wasn't great at things so I quit. You know Iโm- Iโm not good at this. Like man, if I could just go that distance, that extra mile to just go, 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. But what I realized the best feeling I had was when I was by myself trying to lose this weight.
I had to lose it in literally less than three months. 106 pounds in less than three months and literally, I started feeling victory just by putting myself in the battle. It wasn't about going to Navy Seal training, it wasn't about being the 23rd guy in that chair 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 so it wasn't about losing 106 pounds me losing 5 pounds was an accomplishment.
Me losing 10 pounds and then 50 pounds and then- the more I did this, the more I gained confidence and then the more I gained confidence, the more I realized these guys can't do what Iโm doing right now. I had no coach, had no trainer, had no money. I ain't know how to lose weight I had no knowledge of what I was doing, I was just working.
I was just sacrificing and then through that all these different tools started coming up but I would have never found these tools if I didn't put myself in a very uncomfortable place. 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 whoever hears this you will not find it.
