Your family is looking for that one guy right now they're looking for that one guy who's strong who's that pillar for the family in hard times make sure when they look around they look around and find you these are the times right now for you to step up be that guy that can take anything one of my friends Alex has got this quote which I love and he says the heaviest things in life aren't iron and gold but unmade decisions the reason You are stressed is that you have decisions to make and you're not making
them how I'm able to just extract dopamine the good dopamine whenever I want man I've trained 99% of my life alone no one packed me on the back I did all of the work alone and while I'm still hard on myself I know what I did so whenever times get bad for me people all this who's going to carry the boats and that's real I Hate that people know me for that guy cuz that guy is not every day like when they see me they want that energy that's not me every day I can extract
it immediately when I need to because when you train alone and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you're able to get out of it by yourself I can take myself to such a level of real real passion and purpose and like the feeling I get is something I can't even explain by I don't need anyone one that's why That's why people come to me to motivate them no one can motivate me people only root for people who don't need it like the amount of times when I was on my lonely
path where I was too different from the friends that I had but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be friends with that's when that's when you want people to root for you that's when you want people to support you once you've Already won people are like he's amazing he's so good but like that's the time when you need it the least and so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does and it's usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very
long period of time it is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you um and that visual I think is one that you can kind of take because it is people struggle to do things Alone and the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception which means that you are not with other people and rather than fighting that or boning it see it as an indicator that you're on the right path because if everyone else were cheering you on then it means you're not in the right place because it means you're just
like everyone else and that's not where you want want to be damn man what the hell are you doing this guy will knock you on your Ass come on Rock it's not a game you want to L up in the hospital for 5 weeks this time you thought I was St this jump will kill you he's trying to hurt you rock he's trying to hurt you okay here he comes jab he's jabing he's de he's hooking he's hooking damn Run come on what's the matter with you tomorrow let's do it tomorrow there is no tomorrow
there is no Tomorrow there is no tomorrow look in the mirror and look at themselves the problems in your life for your own dang fault and so the answer into fixing the problems in your life are in your own dang hands the responsibility for the well-being of your family your wife your husband your children are yours you know some of y'all are motivated by Broke I'm broke I'm stuck I'm up I can't do nothing some of y'all are motivated by just wanting to accomplish the things that you want to accomplish other folks are motivated by
materialistic things it's a very simple concept if you want it you got to go get it you think when you're young that you have all this time you have no time there's there there's no time I mean one of the one of the quotes on the wall in The gym in there is there is no tomorrow from Rocky 3 you know there is no tomorrow that let's let's let's get all this done today so whenever gets nasty David gogas Goes you had nobody anyway mother so see I'm talking myself right now that's me that sh
fires me the up that makes me nuts you had nobody anyway mother look around you there is no team it was you there was no weight loss program or Mom and Dad waking you up saying you can do It you can be better trying to build belief you built belief when you had nothing Rock Bottom it's easy to give up you know easy it's the easiest thing in the world to do I I'm I'm done I ain't going I ain't going to keep going feel like going work it's easy it's very easy but what's hard
is going yo yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could nothing happened from that I'm going to do the same thing again today but I'm going to try to go Harder that's the hardest thing in the world to get up every day and give 100% And and be in the same position that you were each day but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying that's that's a real that's a real grind the bottom line is no one's coming no one no one's coming to push you no one's coming to tell
you to turn the TV off no one's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise nobody's coming to Tell you to apply for that job that you've always dreamt about nobody's coming to write the business plan for you it's up to you and because you're only ever going to do the things that you feel like doing right now or that feel good right now unless you understand that you've got to parent yourself you got to push yourself you're not going to make your dreams come true you're just not we're not wired that
way you weren't born that way you weren't That way when you were growing up and you're certainly not that way as an adult at some point everything's going to go south on you everything's going to go south and you're going to say this is it this is how I end now you can either accept that or you can get to work be the hero of your own movie if your life was a movie and it started now forget about whatever financial disasters you've had personal failures Relationship failures what would the hero of your life's movie
do right now do that you cannot live in that normal mindset you must be your best on your worst day and how you do that is you cannot think of a normal mindset you cannot have a normal mindset and I promise you every single person who wants to do something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're going through and it's the lonely Chapter it's the chapter where you you're you don't fit in with your own friends but you don't have the outcomes yet to fit
into a new group of friends and you're doing this thing you're consuming content on the internet you're you're doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing and then and and and you're going through this and you're like am I is this even worth it because you have no Sign of success right but if there's anything that you can take away from what we're saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get along the way and
what you can't do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the Conformity because it's comfortable and it's warm because like in The Matrix when Trinity opens the door when when Neo's about to go take the red pill and he wants to get out of the car she says Neo you've been down That road and you know exactly where it leads and I know that's not where you want to be and then he closes the door like right now this moment that you're going through is Trinity opening the door and being like
you could go back but then you'd have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with is because you listen to this podcast and you consume this content you're like I can do more than this like because you are starting To live in some of that hell where you look in the mirror and you're like I can do more and you start to see the person that you could be and you're like this does start to feel like hell it's all in your mind whatever you hold in
your mind will tend to occur in your life if you continue to to believe as you have always believed you will continue to act as you have always acted you will continue to get what you have always gotten if you want different results in Your life or your work all you have to do is change your mind there's no passion there's no motivation there's no oh my God man I this is no it's every day of your life just doing no passion no discipline no motivation yeah all these words I hate people I hate that
so many people use these words now cuz it's watered it's where's passion when you're 300 lb where's the motivation when you can't Read and write where is it so how did this happen I just did there's a great Chinese a great old proverb the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago the second best time is now it was life and death either you live or you die which one do you want Tom that was the decision in the corporate life and in the gym but if you want something bad enough if you
want something bad enough you can't let anybody tell you you can't do Something I'll repeat that if you want something bad enough you can't let anybody tell you can't do something not even yourself a lot of days I'm like oh you can't do this Tom bull let me show you I I would have arguments with myself I could do it we Define ourselves far too often Often by our past failures we look at our past and we say well that's me that's not you you are this person right now you're the person who's learn from
Those failures and you can choose to be the hero of your own movie right now write down your goals write down things you want to improve write down things you won't tolerate from yourself write down things you've done in the past that you never want to see yourself do again and go forth from here as the hero of your own movie if you think the price of winning is too high wait till you get the bill from regret everybody just wants to be Comfortable everybody wants to sit in the I don't want to go outside
it's cold I don't want to do this it's hot like you've got to do things that you don't want to do cuz you show your body that your mind is the boss your mind is telling your body what to do and then you have control every morning when you get up say over and over to yourself do it now do it now do it now I do it now do it now whenever you have this tendency to Procrastinate program your subconscious mind with this automatic conditioned command do it now do it now do it now
I don't care how good you are and anything you don't have discipline you ain't nobody right nothing about discipline cuz you give up under the slightest struggle without discipline I mean discipline is doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it is that when it feels scary to jump Ian that is exactly when you Jump otherwise you end up staying in the the same place your whole life and that I can't do how bad do you want this if it's as bad as you want to live or breathe or sleep whatever
the hell it may be I can work with you but a lot of people most people don't want it that badly which why they always ask the question man how did you get to where you are you know how to do it you know exactly how to be you or how to be me you don't want to do it so I can't make You do it nor do I have the time or anything to force you into that place that I know you have to be to do it there's no luck in this game man
it may be a little bit of luck but the luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation luck doesn't happen you put yourself in that situation where luck might happen be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable Um be the guy who Embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of sacrificing some blood is that hard times create Hard Men Hard Men create soft times soft times create soft men soft men create hard times we are now around soft men and hard
times you know there comes a day man everyone's going to have this day it comes a day where being average being mediocre is just sick me to you it's a sickening it makes you want to throw up Because you've seen people with far less Talent than you as you're growing up with them their childhood buddies whatever else they didn't have what you had yet now they're become something that you haven't there comes that day it's either when you're young you know and and it strikes you on the baseball field cuz you're sick of striking out
or it's it's when you get fired from your fifth job you know and your wife and kids are on your ass cuz they don't know How to support anymore there Comes a Day where push comes to shove where being mediocre being like average and just burns it sucks so much you can't deal with it one more day and you get off youring ass and you create something that's always been there it's always been inside of you trying to come out but you've never wanted to unwrap it because it's too muching pain and commitment you were
scared you're going to fail you're scared if you started you Never finish it you didn't want to tell anyone about it you knew it was there but you never never wanted to embark on it until something hits you get fired or somebody else gets successed remind you what you could have been and then the spark is born and no matter what happens I'm never going to be in this boat again and you get up and you go you gets knocked in you keep going keep going you're a wild man and life has never been so
sweet that can happen at an Early age it can happen at a later age it's going to happen to somebody every you know no matter what it's going to happen to you and when it does happen until you think you're lucky stars and finally you're alive it's time to unwrap the potential you can be superior man it's within you it's within every single one of us and the people that have that have have risen to that level were no different than any one of us it's just they believe it and they're willing to Work their
ass off to get it the easiest thing in the world to do is to complain blame and quit and settle that's the easiest thing in the world to do but it takes real work to deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an individual when they're trying to change something that's why I always say to people what's more important what we acquire or who we become everybody has a turn back moment you have a moment where you could go Forward or you can give up but the thing you have to keep in
mind before you give up is that if you give up the guarantee is it will never happen wait when things go completely to Pieces when things are the worst when your very best deal falls apart and your rent is late and you're tired and you're sick and everybody is mad at you and your car doesn't work then it's the person that picks thems up and says nothing is going to stop me you know you know the best Quality in the world that you can develop and I give it to you because I made it my
life's Habit to develop this quality I hope I've got it I don't know for sure but the quality is to develop the quality of being Unstoppable on all those bad days on all those days you don't want to do you have to be your own motivator your own coach your own your own trainer your own everything so to do that you have to come into work and work is whatever your Work may be ready to go and what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday but you come to work like people like man
you just lost everything how the hell are you just damn m at cuz this is what it takes this is what the it takes and you got to get it from wherever you can whether you make up this illusion of your life or this false reality that gets you motivated Whatever Gets You motivated it's got to be here at the tip Of your brain at all times cuz in those dark moments you got to you got to pull it out so that's the big thing for me man I was always fired up at all times
matter how rough it gets I will never quit and nothing will ever stop me make the decision that you can be tired you can be worn out but nothing is ever going to stop you don't settle make sure that whatever life that you want you strive for that you make sure you go for that don't let anyone tell you it's not Possible don't let anyone tell you that's it's not practical you make sure that you go for it you hungry you want it then get it get that I went to a homeless shelter to get
what I have now I went through a homeless shelter I struggled I went hungry three nights in a row every week to get what I have you don't let no one stop you no one tell you what the do you make sure you get it don't let no one stop you all right you're driven the energy that you need The drive you need to get it you pull that from yourself cuz when you pull it from yourself no one can influence it just you what would have had to have happened in a week for you
to look back on that week with pride okay maybe stop breaking promises yourself when you say I'm going to wake up tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. and when the option comes to hit the snooze button don't do it there's one win that you've got for The day that's action the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception which means that you are not with other people and rather than fighting that or boning it see it as an indicator that you're on the right path because if everyone else were cheering you on then it means
you're not in the right place because it means you're just like everyone else and that's not where you want to be the thing is with me is I Don't give up I don't give a don't give a [ __ ] what anybody says or what anybody thinks I have this mindset I know exactly who the I am I have my circle of people that I hang around with who know me and know what I'm about and whatever and uh anybody else who doesn't like it or doesn't want it looking bad and you know you learn
from those mistakes those those failures that you have are so consequential and then you don't want that to happen again so you got to be Either quit or get way better and then the next day comes and you're back playing again you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it's you know what you do on Monday is fantastic but then Tuesday is a bad day but guess what there's Wednesday so are we just supposed to live our lives like this the whole time you know versus just stand like this and understanding that it's really
just a journey of evolution every day it's just constant Improvement Constant curiosity constantly getting better the results don't really matter uh it's the figuring out that matters yeah and we all get obsessed about the results like we get obsessed about like the output not the input of not figuring it out and not like changing things what you said trial and error like the experiment and for people that see someone who's a beast who's done great things you just assume that they're different than you but then you hear About your insecurities and your pitfalls and all
the things that went wrong with you and you realize well God those are the same things that go wrong with me like maybe I have that inside of me and I've just never summoned it right and I I'll tell you this I started really realizing that when I started overcoming myself I started getting around these real alpha males and I always put people way above me when I was growing up like my God they had to Have a lot more than me to get to where they're at and a lot of them did but once
you get around the the best of the best of the best people you can kind of start breaking them down and realizing man you you're just as fued up as me there's a great feeling in these overcoming these difficult things cuz life is never this just constant state of I'm at a nine all day and when I'm with my wife I hit 10 yay and I stay like that that's not real when it when It comes down to how long can you stay in that pool when it comes down to how far can you run
when it comes down to how much can you push yourself past the part where you want to quit how far can you keep going there's a purity in that that it dissolves social order all that all the what people think about you goes out the window it's what who who are you right now that's right who are you right now that's a true statement man and I look at as Psy as psychological Warfare and that's where I started learning that that life is one big psychological warfare that you play on yourself you play on yourself
man the most important conversation I ever had myself with is is with myself and the I was telling myself was so tough it was so wrong it was so misguided and other people start to write that dialog for you also and it starts to be what you say to yourself every single day and I started creating a whole another Warfare A whole another battle started coming I was like oh hang on a second ckins you have these tools the human organism the animal that we are needs constant stimulation because it evolved trying to find food
and Escape enemies you have these tools your life was basically the perfect the perfect grounds for training for where you need to go in your life and find shelter Escape nature escape the elements try to survive and this is the great joy that you have in taking Care of your children that you can protect your children from the elements and the enemies and feed them and and it's also the great sadness that you see in losers all the beatings all the all the bullying all the you know you going through uh learn disabilities all struggles
it was the absolute perfect training ground for you to go to where you need to go when I see a loser I see some guy who's 43 years old lives in his parents' basement hates the world I'm Like that was a baby man this is a baby that somebody just gave nutrients to whether it's nutrients in the forms of food or in the form of thoughts and ideas and examples and this kid developed these horrible self-defeating patterns of behavior that have led them to this point where there this this middle-aged person with no future and
no idea of how to get out of this rut and probably never will escape it and might just wind up sucking on a gun you know I Mean this is this is the world that we live in today and I think part of that world is because we have been fed this line of hor that you're supposed to seek comfort and I don't think you are and that's how I start looking at my life versus whato was me Poopy Pants kick a rock down the street mentality it was no God just hooked you right the
up he hooked you right up man with the perfect place you were training for the first 18 19 20s you were training for this stuff Man you have the advantage of everybody else versus my God they're so above me they came from a great family Mom and Dad love them they didn't have a learn they didn't start they didn't Struggle No Man your struggle is what made you who you are now through that struggle I will now have a better day and I better do it again tomorrow or do something else because if I just
think well tomorrow I'm just going to coast and eat Twinkies and watch TV oh hello sadness My old friend hello depression because when you're not doing anything you feel like sh so I started flipping this into a whole different I started being a master of what I was scared of I was scared of my mind and I became a literally a master of that mind and that's what now from now on it sets me apart from most people I started diving into that and that's just part of being a human being and we can pretend
that we're something other than what we Really are and we could pretend n me man I'm just cool just chilling doing nothing [ __ ] you're a human you're a human being you you evolved from the hundreds of thousands of years of hunters and gatherers and people that were struggling those were human reward systems are carved deeply into your DNA and if you don't respect that if you don't respect the mechanism of happiness and fulfillment and what you really need to do in order to feel satisfied in life Camaraderie love family friendship struggle testing yourself
learning all those things are imperative they're all giant part of being a person I watched these movies I you know I talked about Rocky last time I was on here I always equated training to mental toughening like it always look brutal people waking up early and doing all these things it look it look horrible I was like wow I got to start doing that not to get better bigger and stronger but that is What's going to build me that looks uncomfortable that looks brutal and getting up early I don't want to do that so I
made this long list of things I don't want to do and through that I found myself I started get like I'm like you guys aren't doing this [ __ ] in high school you guys aren't getting up at 5:00 in the morning running over here in this golf course so I started seeing myself very differently than the average human being I was like hang on a second I have something they don't have and that's when I started to develop these things through working out it was this great NeverEnding work ethic and through work ethic I
develop self-esteem emotions come and go the important thing is to accept them all to embrace them all and then you can choose to do with them what you want versus being controlled by emotion you know a lot of times I've seen players even myself you know when I was younger being consumed By a particular fear um and to the point where you're saying okay no it's it's not good to feel fear I shouldn't be nervous in the situation right not and it does nothing but grow versus just stepping back and saying yeah I I am
nervous about the situation yeah I am fearful about the situation what am I afraid of and then you kind of unpack it and then it gives you ability to look at it for really what it is which is nothing more than your imagination Running its course yeah absolutely yeah I love that cuz what you're saying is that when you're dealing with something it's almost like how can I get to the root of it yeah because sometimes what we're dealing with like you're saying it's an imagination and illusion it's not really it's a thing next time
you're facing a fear next time you're going against something do that like literally unpack it don't just settle for your first answer because the first answer is Really the right one don't hide from it you know you got to be able to look at it and you know and and and deal with it head on yeah I love that man you the best footballer in the world right now I think so yes in my mind I'm always the best I don't care what the people thinking what they say in my mind not just this year
but always I'm always the best I'm always going to say that because you I think we have to thinking we are the best in our area so in my Area I think I'm the best what's the least amount of sleep you play the game on is there a story where it's like you know no one knows about where you went and played the game and it was so insane for whatever reasons no sleep you played the game S zero sleep zero sleep it's like you know um kids IIA had a certain you know Health situation
what have you and you staying up all night and then uh you got to go out and perform because fans don't Know teammates don't know nor do they care nor should they that you've been up all night you got to perform right and so um you just got just got to go to work man respect respect be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable um be the guy who Embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of sacrificing some blood My ultimate goal is to become a $100 million
fighter I seen guys like when Mike Tyson and I seen it myself With my own eyes when I seen that Bentley at the boxing gym and I seen that diamond Rolex I said I want that and I knew what it took so I know when my opponent isleep I'm out there at 4:00 or 5: in the morning chopping trees working to this day cuz I can retire today I'm well off very comfortable but I got the will to win discipline discipline is doing what you hate to do but doing it like you love it What
was that discipline is doing what you hate to do but doing it like you love it I love that quote yeah and that's what you have to do to be the best yeah if you have any problem if you had a problem I if you if it's just because just you don't even have to just because you eat too much ice cream I don't want to eat it no more no you that's what this just something take something out of your life or put something in your life it's going to Improve you m and that's
what discipline is yeah I'm not going to eat ice cream for 6 months I'm not going to throw it out my life I'm just going to take 6 months off MH you know and that's what discipline is not not just taking things away from you but letting you know you can live with without anything mhm you don't need anything if you pan it down here you see it's about 3:00 in the morning and there's not a car or a person inside if you pan over here it's The same thing that a car or a person
inside people want to know where I find my strength at where I get my strength I get it from a lot of places but right now this morning I'm getting it from there's not a [ __ ] that's up there's not a car there's not a person everybody's in their bed sleep drink reading that it's a Monday hate it's a Monday and I'm loving it I'm loving that where everybody's getting weaker I'm getting stronger it's not about the Running the swimming the push-ups the sit-ups it's about what those things do for your mentality you don't
get better on the dad gone couch you get better by coming out here and getting the [ __ ] after every dad gone day stay hard so whenever sick get nasty David Goggins goes we had nobody anywhere [ __ ] so see how I'm talking myself right now that's me that [ __ ] fires me the [ __ ] up that [ __ ] makes me [ __ ] nuts you had Nobody anyway [ __ ] look around you there was no [ __ ] team it was you there was no weight loss program or
Mom and Dad waking you up saying you can do it you can be better trying to build belief you built belief when you had nothing Rock Bottom you did that so as times get hard for me the truth comes out and my truth is powerful as [ __ ] it's real it's tangible feel it it comes out of my brain as I speak about it I'm reliving every single Dark moment of my life to be here so that is what people don't get that is what motivates David Goggins is the Unseen work but everybody needs
that P on the back they need that training partner they they need that accountability coach I don't need that [ __ ] and neither do they but it's what we've trained ourselves to believe that we need if they can do it I can do it and that's the mentality if somebody else can do it you can do it and I said To myself I will do it and I will do it better when I do something want to be the best I will not be happy being the second third or the fourth my inspiration is
that above everybody else everybody else says is not important so if they tell you you're best it's not important the important is that you say you're the best it's only delusional until it works so is it really delusional and then once the world see it there's Nothing delusional about it now your delusion becomes oh he was a [ __ ] genius if you don't have the mindset that you are the best reporter ever then you already failed my philosophy is why be normal when you can be the best I don't want to be normal I
want to make the difference so everything I do I want to make the difference because when I make the difference I'm the best and that is not arrogance that is confidence for me I Truly believe we are all equal as human beings if we are obsessed with something and we truly pursue our passion with everything we have regardless of any anything else if you are obsessed uh work hard put in the time you will succeed and and that is uh philosophy that I carry my coaches carry and I'm able to just extract dopamine the good
dopamine whenever I want man I've trained 99% of my life Alone no one had me on the back I did all of the work alone and while I'm still hard on myself I know what I did so whenever times get bad for me people all this who's going to carry the boats and that's real I hate that people know me for that guy cuz that guy is not every [ __ ] day like when they see me they want that energy that's not me every day I can extract it immediately when I need to because
when you train alone and I lived Alone for so many years in this misery and you're able to get out of by yourself I can take myself to such a level of real real passion and purpose and like the feeling I get is something I can't even exp by myself I don't need anyone that's why that's why people come to me to motivate them no one can motivate me sun don't stop for nobody man Sun don't stop Sun going to be up in the morning regardless that Sun is going to be up in the morning
regard Regardless of how I feel and how depressed I am the Sun is going to shine in the morning and at night time the moon going to be there and you going to look up these days going to keep going by so do you let days go by and look up and you done wasted a year doing what or do you just pick it up all right got to figure it out made some mistakes life goes on let me figure out life from this point you want to become best you want to become champion and
now you want to Say like you tired who cares you're tired or not nobody car about you he was tired he have personal problem family nobody cares we're all writing a book what's your book look like M what is does youring book look like like your your life is a book you got a bunch of chapters in your book but when they close that book how good was the book how good was your book what was the ending to your book yeah what was really Your work ethic like and for how long did you stay
disciplined um well I mean I mean every day I mean since you know 20 years it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses for example jumping ability man my vertical was a 40 wasn't a 46 or 40 45 um my hands are big but they're not massive right so you got to figure out ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to Palm a Ball and do the things that you need to do uh quickness I was quick but not insanely quick I was fast but
not ridiculously fast right so I had to rely on skill a lot more I had to rely on angles a lot more I had to study the game a lot more and it just never changed what I found is that winning doesn't happen on show day it happens know with early mornings painful workouts long cardio sessions and hungry nights happens in those moments of fear We all have when faced with a difficult goal and then more so in what you make of that fear it happens in every second of every day before you win if
you can take every opportunity you have to bring yourself closer to your goal when every one of those opportunities all while becoming more resilient in the process how can you lose that is an exciting opportunity I became obsessed With being the baddest that God ever created am I that I don't care I believe it and I was trying to tell them once you become obsessed with something obsessed it's okay to be unbalanced for a while it's okay don't be all this stuff people say you got to be balanced to be the best in the world
at what you do it's not about being a Navy SEAL people the best at what you do you have to be in Balance to find every bit of energy and strength that you have To pull it off how bad do you want it there's two options to continue forward pushing upward and if you do that dream is given birth and forever you will live in the reality of it if you stop quit throwing the tow I promise you there's no distance you can travel far enough to find that dream again for it's dead and in
its death it's replaced by regret what's the least amount of sleep you play the game On is there a story where it's like you know no one knows about where you went and played a game and it was so insane for whatever reasons no sleep you played a gameo s zero sleep zero sleep it's like you know um kids you know Natalia had a certain you know Health situation what have you and you staying up all night and then uh you got to go out and perform because fans don't know you know teammates don't know
nor do they care nor should they that you've Been up all night you got to perform like I see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends and they'll just take vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out like I I'm not I never did that not why why why didn't you do that well because when I retired I didn't want to have to say I wish I would have done more all week he was work hard M end of the week if you don't Tire
it this is Good question you have to worry about yourself but this is Saturday your sixth day you work so hard of course you're going to tired M tomorrow rest and Monday we're going to begin one more training if you with your mom she going to give you every day good break first you don't do nothing stay there but if you come here don't complain you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you're tired who cares you tired or not nobody Car about you he was tired
he have personal problem family nobody cares a lot of people live their entire lives not fulfilling their purpose one time in my life I felt that what was my purpose till you find the center of your being you will continue to walk going through the motions the one companion that's always going to be with you is yourself yourself is what you have and you need to encourage yourself you need To look around and you need to be able to say look I'm not stuck here unless I choose to stay here if you don't have somebody
who's going to do that become that somebody what something difficult you're going through that people don't often see I mean my mind is a storm I don't think most people would want to be me they may think they would want to be me but they don't they don't know they don't understand 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 you got to tell your brain where you want
to go and how you want to get there if you can't control your own brain it's over every when you get out of bed life standing right there to kick you in the F face man life is going to throw all kinds of crazy sh you and you have to be ready for it and you got to deal with it You can't curl up into a ball you can't run away from it you can't hide you have to take all this head on great things happen and really bad things happen and you got to take
it all in stride and you got to pick yourself up the next day strap your shoes back on and get out there and go toing War again it's that mentality it's the mentality bring it all mother I can take it you can't break this [ __ ] I'm stronger than you think I am And everything you throw at me and all the hardships you throw at me you might knock me down but I get back up and I'll be stronger for it it's that mentality that builds an iconic status that centuries from now people still
talk about nobody cares you know at the end of the day nobody cares what we're going through how your body feels nobody cares we got to we got to do our job and uh we we emphasize that to each other again today you know hey I got your back You got mine nobody cares man we got to go is it fair no life is tough sometimes and it's not fair and it doesn't care sometimes um but you're going to hold true to what you believe and you're going to hold true to who you are and
you're going to be that person whether it's easier or it's not I go to such places in my mind and I study the darkness there is no team it was you there was no weight loss program or Mom and Dad waking you up saying you Can do it you can be better trying to build belief you built belief when you had nothing Rock Bottom I lived alone for so many years in this misery I can take myself to such a level of real real passion and purpose I've trained 99% of my life alone I did
all of the work alone and I never ran from anything cuz I had nobody to go to I've always had that where I'm going going home to get Me ain't nobody there you know what I'm saying like so it's I've always been a situation where I'm forced to deal with it myself you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does and it's usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time it is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you the path of the
exceptional person is one of an exception which means that you are not with other people the superpower of Learning to be alone and enjoying it these times where you just think about things just be alone and think about things are so rare these days during those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don't believe it's a lonely Journey you're isolated those who used to keep Pace with you will fall off they'll see what their Ro ends and yours begins your ability to suffer endure out work must Be greater
you must be willing to extend yourself to the Limit with no guarantee of success every day you must ask yourself did I do enough there's a moment when every boy realizes no one's coming to save him and that's when he becomes a man and some boys never get there and stay children forever no one's effing coming to save you no one no one's coming to push you no one's coming to tell you to turn the TV off no One's coming to tell you to get out the door and exercise nobody's coming to write the business
plan for you it's up to you unless you understand that you've got to push yourself you're not going to make your dreams come true logically everyone needs to go through the same challenges that you're going through every single difficult thing that you do is kind of like a massive wall that you need to get over and you go wow I'm so glad that I've got over that wall and Think about how many other people are going to fall that wall what I've learned is to to to always keep going always I've come to find out
is that you know no matter what happens the storm eventually ends and when the storm does end you want to make sure that you're ready and so I've really learned to put one foot in front of the other uh good bad or different cuz eventually that storm passes if you don't show up guys you know the Outcome you never get the the job never get the part never get the girl if you don't show up if you show up you're putting yourself in situation to create those opportunities and when you show up how hard do
you go that's a faster that opportunity will come to life for you it's up to you guys small down payment that you're willing to pay every day through the large investment of a greater life you only got one life guys you you're right you only need One I told myself I couldn't quit I told myself this was going to happen this is Destiny whatever is really burning in your heart you got to really believe in yourself even when nobody else won't you got to believe in yourself and say I'm not stopping and I told myself
I'd die before I stopped when you feel like giving up don't when you thinking about giving up don't when it look like you ain't going to make it keep going when they tell you you can't come on man who Are they you got to be relentless I got to thank the man up top God cuz I'm nothing without him last but not least I want to thank me I want to thank me for believing in me I want to thank me for doing all this hard work I want to thank me for having no days
off I want to thank me for for never quitting Snoop Dog you a bad do you be yourself and make sure That you love being yourself it's going to be roadblocks it's going to be tribulations but always remember this is a life experience accept the experience appreciate the experience find your journey respect your journey I love it you're going to realize it one day that happiness was never about your job or your degree or being in a relationship it was never about being like the others that happiness was always about the discovery The hope the
listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go happiness was always about being kinder to yourself it was always about embracing the person you were becoming under you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself that your happiness was never in the hands of others it was always about you it was always about you Just shut up and let me enjoy this pain I don't want anything to numb it I don't want anything right now those times when you get up early and you work hard those times
when you stay up late and you work hard those times when you don't feel like working you're too tired you don't want to push yourself but you do it anyway um that is actually the dream when they saw me in the gym in the Pumping Iron days they said why is it that you working out so hard 5 hours a Day 6 hours a day and you have always a smile on your face the others are working out just as hard as you do and they look sour in the face and they told people all
the time I said because to me I'm shooting for a goal in front of me is the Mr Universe title so every rep that I do gets me closer to accomplishing that goal to make this goal this Vision turn into reality every single set that I do every repetition every weight that I live will Get me a step closer to turn this goal into reality so I couldn't wait to do another 500 lb squat I couldn't wait to do another 500 lb bench press I couldn't wait to do another 2,000 reps of situps I couldn't
wait for the next exercise but where do you go to you wake up on a morning it's cold it's wet it's dark you've got no cartilage in your knee you've got shitty shorts whatever it is that's the issue today I know every [ __ ] ain't going to do what I'm going to do I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there that fires me up that makes me [ __ ] happy what you just said that brings joy to my life right there why cuz I know there's so many people that
have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch refuse to study a few more hours refuse to go deeper to go further and that's where I gain the advantage it's so so easy to be Great nowadays my friend cuz most people are weak I get happier about the harder it is because I know that no one else will follow it's a selection effect and I think if you can if you can shift from this is hard to no one else will be able to do this then it it's it flips from being this
thing that you're like oh poor me to oh poor everyone else who's going to have to [ __ ] try be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable be the Guy who Embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of a sacrificing some blood there was probably a 100 days where I didn't want to do anything I wanted to stay in the pool or stay in my in my bed and not get out um but those were the days where you have to you have to get up and
do something because I think that's really what separates the good from the great the greats do things when they don't always want to do Them rich people don't sleep 8 hours a day that's a third of your life I had 130 days in game just sitting looking at a screen playing one character in one game if you think ordinary's cool ain't no problem but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations then you going to have to do extra imagine if I could put this kind of focus into something in real
life and just make that seem a little bit like a video game imagine the results I could Get then you have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category you know when you're kind of addicted to it uh you can you can play at any time you cannot be sleep 8 hours a day you can't live in there late and wake up at 8:00 in the morning it's 11:00 on the East Coast the stock market been open 2 hours they already making decisions about your life and your
ass was sleep and again so I was just like imagine if I could feel like that but in Real life turn life into a video game the Bible says he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and test and if you have a dream and you commit to it it will come
to pass a blade a blade does not become Strong it does not become tempered until it's been through the fire until it's been through the fire nobody cares you know at the end of the day nobody cares what we're going through how your body feels nobody cares we got to we got to do our job what one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail if you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that you could not fail what one thing would you set as a goal for yourself what
if you Only had 6 months to live what would you stop doing what would you do more of who would you spend time with what is really important to you 75 years that's how much time you get if you're lucky 75 years 75 Winters 75 springtime 75 Summers and 75 autums when you look at it like that there not a lot of time is don't waste them get your head out of the Rat Race and forget about the superficial things that preoccupy Your Existence and get back to what's Important now right now this very second
you know if every time someone ask you a question you try to say the right answer your entire life is a test and when did you have the most anxiety in grammar school and high school question on test day so your entire life become this test I ain't trying try to say the right answer I am just doing what I feel my mama said trying is failing there is no ifs woulds coulds should it just is and we just are I would say ask her out no Matter who she is whether she's a job or
a new city an opportunity or a fear or a actual person whatever she is man ask her out go out there and make something of yourself for God's sake be an honest person and work and get to the top of whatever it is that you want to get to the top of stand up for yourself like a respectable human being and be a bit of a light on the world instead of a blight that might make life worth living it's like yeah it might so why don't you Go do it the time is now the
time is now to express and for people to believe in themselves the time is now for it to be okay to be great people in this world shun people for being great for being a bright color for standing out but the time is now to be okay to be the greatest you you and I are capable of doing whatever we can see we can hold it in our head we can hold it in our hand don't waste your life set your goals high quit thinking about what's wrong Start thinking what's right love a little more
hate a little less you have no idea what you're capable of doing make up your mind today you're going to figure it out when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much uh uh try to have a nice family life have fun save a little money but life that's a very limited life life can be much broader Once you discover one simple fact and that is everything
around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you is to shake off this uh th this uh erroneous notion that life is is there and you're just going to live in it versus embrace it change it improve it make your mark upon it what do you really really want from your life if you had no limitations if you had all the money and all the time and all the talents and all the abilities if You could do or be or have anything what would you really want in
your life you know there comes a day man everyone's going to have this day there comes a day where being average being mediocre is just sickening to you it's just sickening it makes you want to throw up because you've seen people with far less Talent than you as you're growing up with them their childhood buddies whatever else they didn't have what you had yet now they're [ __ ] become Something that you haven't there comes that day it's either when you're young you know and and it strikes you on the baseball field cuz you're sick
of striking out or it's it's when you get fired from your fifth job you know and your wife and kids are on your ass cuz you don't know how support anymore there comes a [ __ ] day where push comes to shove where being mediocre being like average and [ __ ] just [ __ ] Burns it sucks so much you can't deal with it one More day and you get off your [ __ ] ass and you create something it's always been there it's always been inside of you trying to come out but you've
never wanted to unwrap it cuz it's too much [ __ ] pain and commitment you were scared you're going to fail you were scared if you started you never finish it you want to tell anyone about it you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it get success remind you what you could have been and then the [ __ ] spark is born get success remind you what you could have been and then the [ __ ] spark is born and no matter what happens I'm never going to be in this
boat again and you get up and you go even it gets knocked down you keep going keep going you're a wild man and life has never been so sweet that can happen at an early age it can happen at a later age it's going to happen to somebody every you know no matter what it's going to happen to you and when it Does happen to you thank your lucky stars that finally you're alive don't give up if times are hard good things nor bad things last forever but most generally we are in control of Our
Own Destiny is that you're all in no matter what you do you're all in this is good going to kill you so I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while You're waiting because do you have anything better to do really why not pick the best thing possible that you could do why not do that maybe you could justify your wretched existence to yourself that way I think you could because you're more powerful than you think way more powerful than you think I mean God only knows what you are in
the final analysis you're blind to your own weaknesses but You're also blind to your own strengths it's like how far could you take that if you stopped wasting time and if you stopped lying and if you oriented yourself to to the highest possible good that you could conceive of and you committed to that how much good could you do well I would say why don't you find out it's time to unwrap the potential you can be superior man it's within you it's Within every single one of us and the people that have that have have
risen to that level were no different than any one of us it's just they believed it and they're willing to work their [ __ ] ass off to get it it wasn't about the potential it wasn't about the genetics it was about the perseverance and it was about being the hardest [ __ ] worker in the room that's what got them there and it didn't Happen overnight they got knocked down more than they ever stood up but they kept going and kept going and kept going and kept going cuz what else is the alternative to
be average again that sucks man I had a difficult childhood but there's no excuse for people not being able to do what they want to do you can do anything that you want to do what do you really really want from your life if you had no limitations if you had all the Money and all the time and all the talents and all the abilities if you could do or be or have anything what would you really want in your life I'm going to have setbacks I know but if I'm feeling bad that doesn't mean
I'm doing bad that doesn't mean I am bad that doesn't mean that I can't still take some action because yeah nothing changes and nothing changes man you're the backbone of this country You're the backbone of the world I don't care if you're in Asia Africa Korea Japan I don't care where you are the United States you are the leaders of future leaders of this world happen in life folks you cannot change your life unless you change something if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got the the unfulfilled potential
is the Story of most people's lives it is it is it and it could have been the story of mine and I tell a lot of people people go what's your biggest fear in life and my biggest fear honestly was let's say this let's say uh I don't care if you believe in God or not I don't care so this let's just play a game with me let's say let's say you're God and we have a big [ __ ] long line of people and I made to Heaven 75 years old I'm 300 lb I
made to Heaven I worked for Eolab my entire life spraying for cockroaches that's what I did but I'm dead I'm in heaven now and you are at you're you're judging us all now so we're in line we're all sitting there in line you have Adam Brown he has a big board up and you're talking to Adam Brown about his life and you rip it down and I'm next in line David Goggins I see my name and I see all this [ __ ] and God goes hey you say read this man and I'm reading this
list and I'm seeing 182 lbs Navy SEAL Ranger school motivational speaker changing lives okay man pullup record all this [ __ ] and I'm like that's not me man and God looks at me and says that's who you were supposed to be I'm always waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life I'm always waiting for everything to be perfect before I live my life as soon as these things line up I'm going to live my life [Music] man I'm so guilty of that it's not all going to I'm never going to get
to that where everything's okay where everything looks a certain way and in the meantime I'm burning the best time I do have available I'm burning that candle up I'm burning this candle down and I'm saying as soon as it gets bright enough [Music] I'mma show Up but the candle's getting smaller [Music]
