self-discipline is everything if you don't have it I I don't look
at you right because I know you're capable of more
it's not discipline so much for me it's all on you it's all on you the self part is what's big
where you're gonna fail and you're gonna be in your head you could be saying I'm not good enough
and it's how you get through that it's how you get through that on a daily basis when that thing is
saying man I'm 43 I've done so much you start to become civilized the refrigerator gets full you
start getting making money and you start I'm not getting cold anymore I'm retired what's in at 40
people shouldn't be playing basketball or football or being you start to believe this [ __ ] and it
becomes in your [ __ ] mind like there's people who are retiring you know at 40 something years
old or 30 something years old at 43 I'm still putting 100 mile weeks still doing thousands of
push-ups because I'm not allowing myself to become civilized the worst thing that could happen to a
man is become civilized you lose that [ __ ] fight you you you lose that why the [ __ ] am I doing
this [ __ ] I'm good you ain't good man you ain't never [ __ ] abroad and that's just my mentality
you may have more but you never [ __ ] arrive you want to be uncommon amongst uncommon people period
brain is the most powerful weapon in the world once you put away your phones and your computers
and all that we have nowadays that's great we're up to date you know you but your brain is the
only thing you have when you're going through depression when you when you're going through
hard times 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 kinds 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 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
that's the scariest thing in the world I thought then 297 pound working for ecolabs
praying for cockroaches making a thousand dollars a month I thought that was me at my 100 potential
come to find out a few years later I wasn't anywhere near that 106 pounds less graduate Navy
still training we don't do all these other things looking back on that that was me trying hard
that's why people gotta understand what is in us we have no idea until we start trying hard and
I mean really trying hard where you're obsessed with hey this is my new Norm my new Norm is that
wow this isn't always fun it's not always meant to be fun and that's when you know you're trying hard
you start making promises to ourselves about hey I'm gonna lose some weight I'm gonna do better in
school I'm gonna be better here be better there but guess what happens when all of that noise
is gone it's quiet and it's you against you and now all those endorphins are gone and I promise
you may about getting up early and getting after to go lose weight study harder guess what it's
a lot [ __ ] harder now that repetition becomes a lot harder now so a lot of us can't do things
on our own so find somebody in your life so when you throw that cow in and throw that
[ __ ] back at you and say you're not [ __ ] done yet stay true to yourself stay hard what
existed for me was okay man how am I gonna make this work and all I knew back then was hard work
the only way anything gets accomplished that's all I heard back in those days you got to work
hard you gotta work hard I'm not getting how to I can't get this paragraph I can't
remember what the fix in this paragraph to pass this test to get the military read again
still not getting it read again but if you're not getting it write it out and that's how I started
learning okay well I can't I gotta write out everything I do and then write it out again and
write out again and guess what happened I got it I got it I can't swim I'm negative buoyant go back
again I can't swim go back again go back again go back again I got it I realize if I keep going back
and going back and going back until this [ __ ] just becomes your mind was safe okay we're gonna
figure it out because he is not going to stop it's not like I'm gonna try one more time no I'm gonna
it's just like alarm clock goes off Boop 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 gonna adapt and overcome now
you sleep one third of our [ __ ] lives let me think we can take [ __ ] days off you think
we have the right to sit back and give ourselves [ __ ] options so which way we're gonna go in life
I'm not gonna run a day like a workout today was Christmas it's New Year it's my birthday
you think time gives a [ __ ] that it's Christmas that is New Year's that's your birthday you give
yourself too many [ __ ] options let me tell you one thing kindly put it out keep on sitting around
wondering what the [ __ ] you want to do you have to run out of time so make sure you do one thing
stop falling a [ __ ] crowd can they take time off but you can't afford to stay off like a lot
of people say trying hard they your mind knows man you know this guy's bull for me man this
guy's lying there's no truth behind it when I was a Navy still training people go how are you there
for 18 months the program is only six months long you were in three hell weeks in one year no one's
ever done that how did you do that I talk about the new Norm but I lived in a seven dollar a month
place and I was growing up for a short period of time I loved it I know you I I know any different
that was my Norm once we moved out of that place we moved to 236 a month place I was like I never
want to go back to that little piece but if you go back to a seven dollar a month place
and you realize this is where I live that's all I got your mind says Roger that this is home
so when I was going to Navy SEAL training for 18 months and going back to all the hard Parts over
it over again I told myself after the first time I knew it was gonna be a long journey there my body
was breaking down it was it was just how it was going on I said you know what this is my new Norm
so my mind said it's like going to work like you go to work you put your suit and tie on I
go into suffering every day every day suffering being broke and duct taping my feet up stress
fracture shin splints being broken this is my new norm and your mind says if we're not broken
this ain't normal we got to be broken so then your mind starts to get tougher and tougher and
more accountable how how did you run on broken feet broken broken Shins my mind knew this is
how we operate we're we're a Navy SEAL training this is what we are I became hell and that became
our new Norm I gave myself no way out there was nothing outside these walls of Hell nothing I
became I loved God but for a short period of time I became the devil because that was hell I became
I became the boss the owner the CEO of Navy SEAL training that was my mindset and that's how you
get through things you put yourself you immerse yourself in wherever it is and you become that
I didn't love myself but I knew a lot of us want to find peace first
some people say man you always talk about this suffering and pain
I'm at peace right now because I went through that you don't find peace first if you do Merry
Christmas more power to you more power to you I found peace on the opposite end
finding myself and no one really finds himself 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 it's hard foreign