FOCUS ON YOURSELF AND GET IT DONE - David Goggins Motivation

You don't just wake up and just rocky this year.

You got to wake up and think about, you know,

there's a process to getting better and that process is never finished.

So, one of the things I've been thinking about is the danger of success

making you soft and this must be something

that you've battled with over the last few years. more money,

more attention, more fame,

more free things if you wanted more opportunities to go places

and do stuff with people.

How have you dealt with this battle of success not making you soft?

>> You have to cap it.

You have to learn to cap success.

And what I mean by capping success, I believe everybody should live their life.

So everything that someone says in life,

take it with a grain of salt. take what they give

and don't be like,

"Oh, David Gogggin said this or whoever said this."

No, do not take what I say and do exactly what I say.

So, for me, what makes me who I am

because my mission is very different than yours

or anybody else's.

I have to go into a situation, okay,

I'm a guy who wants to make people better.

For people to get better, I have to continuously get better myself.

For me to do that, I can't just say I have this resume.

The resume is there forever.

I'm good.

I have to cap my success because for me to help people out,

I can't just say I did it once and I'm good.

I have to continue to reinvent the wheel of the mind.

And that is evolution.

You must continue to evolve.

And you don't evolve for me in my job unless I cap myself somewhere

and say,

"Okay, you made this much money.

Get back to work.

It's time to get back to work.

Stop hearing yourself talk.

Get off the podcast.

Don't be on social media too much.

Cut out all the noise.

Get back to the mental lab cuz that's where the knowledge came from."

>> But where do you go to?

You wake up on a morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark.

>> Keep talking.

You've got these problems.

It's warm on the couch.

Your MS says stay in bed.

It's comfy.

It's cozy.

>> You've got work later on.

You had an argument last night.

You're slightly hung over.

>> This is how you level up.

That's how you level up.

I know there's a whole bunch of people,

but that right there that fires me up.

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 gained the advantage.

It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, cuz most people are weak.

Most people don't want to go to that extra mile.

Most people don't want to find that extra cuz it sucks.

It's miserable.

It's lonely.

So that's the only purpose I need.

So the reason I get up every day even though there's no races,

there's no school or there's nothing in front of me is

because I have pride in myself.

Everybody else feels or to me it always seems like everyone else has got

it together.

>> Mhm. because I get to see only what you choose to say,

only what I'm around you doing that I get to see.

Whereas I get to observe my own inefficiency

and foibless 10,000 times a second.

Right?

I get to watch the texture of my own mind be completely unresponsive

and useless.

I see every single prideful decision, every single lie that I tell myself,

every single time I make a promise and don't keep it.

>> Mhm.

>> But I don't get to see that from everyone.

So, I'd always presumed

because of this asymmetry

that everybody else had it sorted

and I didn't.

And it also made me think that everybody else's opinion was this perfectly balanced,

wellressearched, beautifully it was it was they had they had me nailed down to

a tea.

What they were telling me was the truth.

>> They could see something in me that I couldn't.

>> And after a little bit of time

and a good bit of building up of self-confidence,

I realized that that's not the case.

>> No.

Before you get your feelings hurt by

that bully at school

or that boss at work,

take time.

Take that one second to pull back

and study them because most people who are in good places,

they don't care about what you're doing.

They don't try to destroy you. for you to be this person who comes

on and lies and tries to literally tear down everything I've worked for,

you are in a very, very bad place.

I've learned to study people before I react

because there's no successful person in the world who's in a good headsp space

that's going to ever attack anyone in

that kind of manner.

There's always going to be something wrong with them.

I think if you got to see the inner texture of the people who

don't like you's existence,

you'd feel more pity than anger.

>> 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.

Maybe you can't find your why because you're lazy.

Maybe you can't find your why because you have zero ambition.

What's your biggest fear?

My biggest fear was dying that 300 lb man,

never knowing I could be who I am today.

A lot of us are wasteful, but we're wasteful who we are in life.

You got to change your mindset to know my whole job now is at

4:00 in the morning I get the kicked out of me for 18 months.

You got to create that new norm.

That has to be your lifestyle.

You are the master of your own mind.

Create that masterpiece.

Who's going to carry the boats and the logs?

That's you, buddy.

Some of you just don't understand.

Some of you been average for so damn long,

you don't know what it is to do hard work,

but there's a lot of you out there who want to be much more

than average,

but just don't know how to do it every single day.

The grind.

The struggle is real.

It never gets any easier.

You got to get harder.

No one cares what you did yesterday.

It only matters doing today.

>> They don't know me, son.

>> Get it.

A >> They don't know me, son.

Get it. 19, son.

>> Yeah.

>> How you doing?

>> I'm back, I'm back.

>> All of this is all confirmation.

Got me back.

I get better when I'm digging holes in the ground,

when I'm waking up early knowing I don't have to do these things.

That's where I get better.

>> So, it's important to stay hungry.

>> It's important to stay hungry,

but it's important more to stay humble within that hunger.

So, while you're hungry, a lot of people are hungry, but humility is everything.

What was that story about William Crawford, the janitor?

>> Yeah.

So, this guy won the Medal of Honor.

So, he won the Medal of Honor

and which is the highest award in the military

and this guy went to the Air Force Academy

and he was a janitor

and no one knew who the this man was.

He had the highest award in all the military for heroics.

For heroics.

Saving lives. is putting his life on the line, you know,

could have been killed and he is now basically, you know,

cleaning shares for young kids and we can all imagine how that probably went.

You know, there's probably some, you know,

little bit of taunting here

and there and he just sat there

and cleaned the chair.

So that's why he's in my trained humility part

because for this man to be at the level he was

and have that kind of humility to go,

I'm a Medal of Honor winner,

but I'm going to put

that in my closet

and I'm going to pick up my broom

and dustpan and I'm going to pick up,

you know, this rag and clean this for these young men.

That right there is amazing for me, man.

That's that's where you grow.

That's that's growth.

Huge growth.

And also it shows that he was doing his job.

He was a servant.

He didn't look at himself any better than anybody else.

The second you do that, you totally lost.

You cannot look at yourself like people with me even.

I always look at people.

I I know where you are.

I know where cuz I've been there.

That's why I help so many people out.

I've I've never been above you.

I've always pretty much been beneath you.

And that's where my knowledge came from.

So I know how to reach those people who are in the dungeon

because I've been there

so many times.

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

And that's the tricky part about all that.

Motivation is just a word.

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

to go and know

that motivation is not going to get me there cuz I'm not going to

always be motivated.

>> Jo said the exact same thing.

You said that discipline eats motivation for breakfast.

>> And discipline is good, too, but without a clear headsp space, there's no discipline.

>> What do you mean?

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

And I'm loading everything up to oneing circuit.

Just load it up.

It's going to blow.

And once that thing blows, man, the circuit's all up.

You got to have each thing plugged into the right spot,

like aing crowded garage.

You can't put anything in it.

Once your brain is crowded, discipline is great.

Motivation is great, but

if you can't fit in your brain

because it's alling cluttered with there's no discipline.

You may have it sometimes

when it fits in

that crowded garage of your mind,

but you don't have the consistency that you need to have with that discipline.

I call it mental zones is you're organizing your mind

so you can put

that discipline.

So, a lot of people talk about discipline.

Okay, great.

Why do you fall off the wagon?

Why can't I continue with this routine?

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

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

and it's all just stuffed in your brain.

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

A lot of people whose brain, hey, where's my demos?

Uh, let me look.

They're throwing.

They're looking through to all up.

So where am I going to put discipline in

that mind if I can't find other?

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

Oh, I can put discipline right there.

If your life is not organized

and your life being everything around you

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

Your mind has to always be clear.

That's why I meditate two hours every single night because I refresh,

I reorganize the garage, which is my mind, every night.

So then discipline's in there, organization, everything is in this right spot.

I'm waking up and I'm giving myself all this armor.

So when I come out in the world, I'm ready.

I'm not waking up late.

I'm not rushing around.

I'm not disorganized.

So when I wake up, I'm ready to go.

Once you put away your phones

and your computers and all

that we have nowadays,

your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression,

when you when you're going through hard times, when you're going through death,

real life You can't Google that man.

You're alone.

You're alone.

You may have a shrink you're going to.

You may have a best friend you're going to,

but 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.

If you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you,

you're You got to tell your brain where you want to go

and how you want to go

and how you want to get there.

You got to control it.

If not, it's over.

It's over.

All I knew back then was hard work.

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 again.

If you're not getting it, read again.

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

And that's how I started learning.

I realized if I keep going back

and going back and going back until the just becomes your mind will say

Okay,

we're going to figure it out.

It'll find a way because he is not going to stop.

It's not like I'm going to try one more time.

No, alarm clock goes off.

We're going back.

I can't read right.

We're going back.

I gave myself no way out.

And my mind realized that.

They said, "Okay, we're going to adapt and overcome now."

That was my mindset.

And that's how you get through things.

You put yourself, you immerse yourself wherever it is.

You become that.

I became hell.

And that became my new norm.

I gave myself no way out.

There was nothing outside these walls of hell.

Nothing.

I watched this segment on TV about these guys going through Navy Seal training

and I couldn't even I I wasn't a great swimmer.

I was afraid of the water.

All this crap, man.

I saw these guys just quitting.

But at the very end, it says 22 guys,

this commanding officer's up there and he gives this great speech.

So I started visualizing me being the 23rd guy sitting there with these guys.

I said, "Man, if I could feel that, that would change my life."

>> 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 I I just wanted to go the distance.

Everything in my life, when something got hard, I quit.

I had to work harder than you.

So I quit 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.

And literally I started feeling victory just by putting myself in the battle.

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, now we can move from there.

But if you look at it as, man,

I'm broken and I'm still here

and I'm fighting and I'm going to find a way to get through this

cuz I have no other place to go.

It gives you a lot of power.

And no one really finds themsself without going through trials, tribulations, suffering, accountability.

And accountability is suffering.

Being accountable every day for doing right for yourself,

for the people next to you, it's miserable.

The more I did this, the more I gained confidence.

And then the more I gained confidence, the more I realized, these Navy Seals,

man.

The these guys can't do what I'm doing right now.

I had no coach, had no trainer, had no money.

I didn't know how to lose weight.

I had no knowledge of what I was doing.

I was just working.

I was just sacrificing.

But I would have never found these tools

if I didn't put myself in a very uncomfortable place.

And your true self is found in that very uncomfortable zone.

That's where he came from.

He came from all these up obstacles and now he's there.

So everybody goes, "How do you do that?"

You know exactly how to do that.