i'm gonna give you about 10 seconds to get up and get out of bed
one two three four five six seven eight nine
ten get out of bed go splash some water on your face so let's go now get up and get after it
so i wake up early i wake up at 4 45 i like to have that psychological win over the enemy if
you pan it down here you see it's about three o'clock in the morning and there's not a car
or a person inside if you pan over here it's the same thing not a car or a person in sight
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 dreading that it's a monday
hey this 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 to push up to sit-ups it's about what those things
do for your mentality you don't get better on the daggone couch you get better by coming out here
and getting after every daggone day i believe in winning the battle against yourself people
say why do you say that because there's a lot of things you can control when you wake up it's
about making your bed make your bed make sure your house is clean make sure you get your breakfast
make sure you shower shave whatever you're doing control that don't hit the snooze button
all these things are very important that's been told a lot of times why don't you hit this news
button because you wake up already failing what happens when you hit this news button
you may not make your bed you may not do your hair the way you want it you may not pick the
right clothes out in the morning time and i go back to this real quick remember how you had a
job interview for a job we've had several of them in our lives what did you do the night before that
job weeks before the job interview we knew you had it you prepared your you know you had a bowl
out for your oatmeal your cereal whatever you had in the morning time your coffee cup was out your
clothes were laid out you studied you rehearsed you were ready you brought your best self
you're going to ward yourself because you wanted that interviewer to see your best self
you won you got the job after a few months in that job you look around i got the job
you start to back off the clothes aren't out you're not ready hit this news button you don't
get up on time anymore you realize that you can still have this job and not be your best self
the interview you is gone your job is gone you have your job but the interview is gone
so winning the battle in the morning time is just that is that you wake up in the morning
time and you own all this stuff because once you leave your house the world then gets at
you once you win that battle in the morning time then once you go out now you've won
you go outside your house you may lose your job you may have a bad hit but you won something so
so you're going into battle having already won something having already won so then if you hit
this news button you go out you're just defeated already you're behind the power curve now you've
won something you feel better about yourself so now you're able to take these hits along the way
so that's the mindset that i think it's important to bring with you every day you go
everywhere you go in life win what you can this is the time where you have to
gain control back of your mind if you can get through to doing things that you hate to do
on the other side is greatness i had to run this morning before i talk to you because why
that's all about i have 24 hours and they're mine this 24 hours belongs to me and in that 24 hour
period i can either break my life or make my life if you're grinding six seven days a week for for
a span of five or six years something's gotta come out of that what should i be doing and that's why
i wake up every morning at three o'clock because for me it's okay monday do this tuesday do this
wednesday do that and if i do those things i'm guaranteed to be successful i believe in taking
days off i think days often really important for recovery and all that stuff but i don't believe
in taking days off because your mentality is just feeling sorry for yourself uh i deserve this or
i've earned that mentality we all have one voice and that one voice is very powerful that says hey
you've earned this you deserve this take time off all that stuff start developing the other voice
the other voice that fights that voice when it's not a designated day off
our characters running swimming biking studying if it's not a day off don't take a day off and start
developing that voice that fights the weaker voice so remember that we all have one voice
working the other voice also we have to find our new norm a new norm is something like this
when i was going through seal training it's only supposed to be six months i was there for 18
months kept on getting set back and set back and set back you got to change your mindset to know
my whole job now is at four o'clock 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 be proud of yourself at the very end of it all
your mind is already in this [ __ ] mode the [ __ ] mode is i have to get the hell out of here
it's your fight or flight and usually it's flight the one second decision is what gets most of us
is they get in this situation where so the first step of trying to find more of that forty percent
to try to get to that hundred percent is you have to be in control of that very thought process
that thought process is how can i stay here just a little bit longer because you're never going
to get to 100 if you're constantly ringing that mental bell of get the hell out of here
you have to be able to stay in the fight longer so how you do that is control that one second and how
we do that is we have to control our minds get control back when our mind starting to spaz out
find a way to not think about whatever your task may be your brain would say this is this is stupid
what are you doing you're you you this is this is crazy so you have to be able to live in that
moment you cannot allow your mind to get away from you you can't allow it to start thinking
about the pain the suffering worry about that it is coming and this isn't just about working
i'm not saying run towards you in five miles let's say go through hell with i am saying be your best
if your best is your are our computer person whatever it is be your best means you have to
be in that moment don't allow your mind to start going away from that moment because when it does
your mind is the most powerful thing that we have it will win it will get away from you it will
trick you into thinking you're not good enough you shouldn't be here this is too long of a journey
blah blah blah but if you can stay in the moment control the moment control your thought process
control what you're saying to yourself you can slowly inch forward
they have no idea how much we all want to quit i mean you know i think that's the thing about
it man i even today at 43 years old man every day i wake up man i want to quit
i want to retire every day of my life so that's the thing about man like you don't
you don't get to this some some higher place in your mind set where it's just set in
stone and you're good to go it's pretty easy sometimes to to feel beaten that doesn't mean
give up in fact it means the opposite it means it's time for you to fight harder
to dig in means it's time for you to go on the war path you're gonna get after it
and i'm gonna tell you right now it won't be easy it will be hard because life is hard that's what
life is and these challenges these challenges that you face they're gonna do their best
to take you down do not let them stand up dig in let those challenges
raise you up let them elevate you let their demands and their trials make you stronger
let the adversity you face today turn you into a better person tomorrow so so in the future
you look back at these struggles and you say to them thank you you made me