Eric Thomas: The reason why you are so lazy is not because you don’t have the ability.
You so lazy because your dream so small.
Mel Robbins: Your feelings! Your feelings are screwing you! I don't care how you feel!
I care about what you want! And if you listen to how you feel, when it comes to what you
want – you will not get it. Because you will never feel like it. And you need to get
outside your comfort zone. It's not about taking risks; it's about getting
outside your comfort zone. Those first three seconds when you push yourself out of bed,
they blow. But once you're up, it's great.
Jocko Willink: When that alarm clock goes off there's at least 50% of the time where
you just met that soft little pillow is just caressing your head and you want to stay there
and it takes discipline to go “nope, I'm gonna get up out of this bed.” I'm gonna
do what I'm supposed to do. And that discipline that you have at that moment you win that
fight that's a big victory. And then that pattern will carry out throughout the day
because once you're up well now and I'm up I might as well go
work out because I'm already up and I feel good that I got up out of bed and I won that
battle. Let me go win another battle I'm gonna go get it done.
This is the last time I let laziness get me.
The last time I will hit the snooze button and go back to sleep.
The last time the first thing I’ll do in the morning is scroll through social media.
Today things will be DIFFERENT.
I have a clear picture in my mind.
I know why I’m doing this.
I’m going to become THE BEST.
My dreams are too big for me to be lazy.
I know getting up early will be tough. But I also know the feeling when I do will be
GREAT.
Nothing will stop me.
Not my insecurities.
Not how tired I am.
Not the longing to do nothing.
I will keep at it.
Stronger!
Harder!
And when I feel like I hit my limits, I will go at it once again.
Because what I think are my limits, are only my beginning.
I can do so much more.
Be so much more.
If I commit to action.
I WILL GET IT DONE!
Jocko Willink: I think is very important to know the difference between being lazy and
being over-trained. And it's very easy to make that excuse for yourself. And that's
why I always air on the side of I'm working out. I'm training.
Jocko Willink: If I feel exhausted today, I won’t take the day off. But I will take
the next day. But I work out today just to make sure that I’m not being lazy. So I’ll
do another workout. Get another training session in or whatever the case may be. So I make
sure that's not just that moment. Because sometimes the next thing like I'm not that
bad, right? I'm gonna get him back in the game.
The Rock: I work out twice before everyone wakes up.
The Rock: It started off four o'clock in the morning, when I’d started, might start with
my cardio then I had breakfast and then I would go to the gym and then I go to work.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: It drives me crazy when people say they don't have enough time
to go to the gym for 45 minutes a day and work out or to do something for 45 minutes
to an hour a day to improve, if it is physically improve or if it is mentally to improve. Imagine
you read one hour a day about history. How much you will learn after 365 hours in one
year? Think about if you study about the history of musicians, of composers. How much you would
know? Imagine if you would work on the business and some business that you want to develop
every day for an hour. Imagine how further along you will go and get. So it drives me
nuts because we have, when people say it, we don't have the time we have 24 hours a
day, we sleep six hours a day so that gives you still 18 hours. Now there's someone shaking
the head out here in front, they say probably “I don't sleep 6 hours, I sleep eight hours.”
Right? Just sleep faster.
I make the time for whatever is my priority. And my priority is to get things done!
I wake up when everyone else is dreaming. So I can make my dreams into reality.
When that voice whispers inside my head. “Rest a little. What is the harm in that?”
I will scream “NO” and keep my focus. That is the only way forward.
I don’t have time for slouching! I don’t have time for Netflix!
I don’t have time to keep up appearances! I don’t have time for bullshit!
I don’t have time to waste! I only have time to succeed.
To become better and put my plans into practice. I am the only one who is going to do it for
me. I am the only one who will push myself to
the limits. There is no stopping me now.
There will be temptation to succumb and be like everyone else.
But I’ll remember what my goal is and keep walking through the road.
I know the wish to procrastinate is the disguise of the fear of failing.
But failure doesn’t scare me. Failure is an old friend, and we have hung
out many times. It can’t stop me because I know that there
is no victory without failure. The only way to really lose is if I stop.
But I won’t. I won’t let laziness kill my dreams!
Jocko Willink: The idea isn't going to execute itself and the book isn't going to write itself
and the weights out in the gym. They're not going to move themselves. You have to do it
and you have to do it now. And that means you got to stop thinking about it and stop
dreaming about it and stop researching every aspect of it, and reading all about it and
debating the pros and cons of it, just start doing it. Take that first step. And make it
happen. Get after it and get after it here and now.
David Goggins: What changed me was I had to be hard on myself. And I have to continue
to grind myself into a fine dust period. That's where I feel good. I like I accomplished something.
If things come easy, it's not fun. I must fail at something repeatedly. It has to haunt
me and then once I complete it I feel I accomplished something.
I was born lazy like we all are.
And my only hope of survival was to change.
I had to be hard on myself so I could become better.
So I could go further than I ever thought possible.
The first step is the hardest!
You will come up with excuses not to do it.
Your mind will try to reason with you to make you stop.
But you will be stronger.
I am stronger.
There is no excuse greater than my will.
No obstacle greater than my power.
No pain able to hold me back.
I am in control of me.
Eric Thomas: I made my last excuse yesterday and I'm talking to somebody. The reason why
you have not become successful. The reason why you are not like a locomotive. The reason
why you're not having success in your life is because every single day you got an excuse.
I need you to do me a favor. I made my last excuse yesterday. My last reason. I came over
my last reason, yesterday for why I can't do what I'm supposed to do. And so I need
you to do me a huge favor. All your excuses. All your good reasons. Everything. Everything
that’s keeping you from doing what you're supposed to do. I need you to put it behind.
Yesterday was the last day for that foolishness. Yesterday was the last day to say, I don’t
have enough money to do this. I don’t have enough money to go to school. I don’t have
enough money to get a computer. I don’t have what it takes. I’m not smart enough.
I don’ write well enough. I don’t sing well enough. That is why I didn’t do my
cd. I didn’t write my book because I’m not on that level. Listen to me. You better
hear what I’m saying. Yesterday was the last day that I want to hear an excuse. It
is over with.
Eric Thomas: What do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you want? What
do you do when you're not the only one that wants to make a million dollars a year company,
you're not the only one that wants to be the president, you're not the only one that wants
to be a CEO? What if you're not the only one that wants what you want? One of their thousands
of other people who want what you want, you have to outwork them. You got to out crying
them, you got to get up earlier, you got to stay up later you've got to execute and you've
got to go from 70 to 120.