chuckle your podcast listeners and Twitter followers know your before five
daily meaning your up before five work out essentially every day and are
devoted devoted student of jiu-jitsu what relationship do you see between
physical fitness and empowering the mind slash will when a man commits really
commits to changing his fitness what else changes well you heard Bob Hoffman
talk about this a bunch tonight in his book Bob Hoffman wrote the book the I
remember the last war and he wrote the book how to be strong healthy and happy
and there's no doubt that physical fitness is gonna help you in every facet
of life especially in terms of what you're
talking about empowering the mind and the will working
out is a test of will right I mean it is gonna see can you push yourself harder
can you get the last rep can you shave another second off the sprint can you
lift a little bit heavier that's that's what working out is it's a test of will
and that tester will and you've heard me say this before starts before the
workout starts it starts when the alarm goes off can you get out of bed in the
morning these are all little tests of discipline and of will and as we've
talked about before discipline begets more discipline the stronger you get the
stronger you get in physical will that it takes to get through these workouts
that it takes to get out of bed in the morning that carries over to mental will
so you can eat better food so you can get work done so you can control your
temper so you can create things and improve things and you can be better now
I remember a while ago speaking of Twitter I posted a picture of early
morning workout got done and then I posted a picture of a little T post surf
session and then I posted a picture of post
jujitsu session and you know so these were all like three posts in a row and
someone made some kind of a comment that was kind of along the lines of oh must
be rough right must be a rough life you know you're getting up you're de surfing
and doing jujitsu and and honestly when I saw that when someone wrote that I
kind of felt bad I kind of felt guilty in a way because Here I am I'm going
surfing and working out I'm training jiu-jitsu I'm kind of living the dream
or in fact in my mind I actually am living my dream doing what I want to do
when I want to do it and and then there's other people out
there that are grinding that are either overseas that are in combat that are
working that are doing jobs that they don't like they're working with people
that they can't stand in a cubicle somewhere or whatever is they're doing
in here I was almost I felt like damn I'm rubbing this in people's faces and I
actually felt bad I was like a bag I can't be doing that again in someone
else on Twitter came on the same thread or whatever and said discipline equals
freedom they they quoted me and they were right they made a great point
the reason I'm able to go surfing and do jujitsu and workout and do whatever is
because of discipline throughout my life and again I'm not making no claims right
now to be the ultimate success story I'm certainly not and I will tell you this
you know I live in a great place right now there was a time where my wife and I
wanted to live down by the beach we bought a house down by the beach a dump
that was barely livable and it was 850 square feet and we had three kids in
there and my wife and I our bedroom our bed when you open the front door to the
house and walked into the living room our bed was
the floor right there for a few years we swear we just lived there and now we
live in a great house but I have to remind people like you know what there
was a time where I just was sucking it up and living on Navy pay and we
squeezed into this house and borrowed a bunch of money and lived on the floor in
the living room but we had that discipline back then and then the
discipline eventually becomes a form of freedom and so it wasn't always like
this where I was just chillin and surfing and doing jiu-jitsu and playing
guitar and whatever you know there was a lot of blood sweat and tears along the
way and I and and by the way the blood sweat and tears along the way I actually
enjoyed I enjoyed I wouldn't trade it I'm glad that I was put in those
situations to do those things and most importantly this is available to anybody
that life that you want is out there and it might be a few years in the future
but it's there and you can get to it and the path the path getting there it
starts early in the morning and it ends late at night and it requires sacrifice
and discipline and it requires force of will and that comes at 4:30 in the
morning when the alarm goes off that's when it comes so get up and go get it
and that's why I think that the idea of physical fitness empowering the mind and
the will I think that's what happens when you commit to those things I think
the rest of your life will reflect positively on what you've done and go
guess what I've been real lucky too you know I've been very lucky along the way
and I won't I won't say that uh you know I made
everything happen myself I got lucky I was blessed in a lot of situations it
had good things happened I mean for instance the housing market
and I was in the Navy it didn't matter to me I mean I had a couple houses and I
was like ah no problem I'd even noticed there was a housing market crash until I
was buying more houses and they were cheaper you know it but it wasn't that
was luck didn't plan that it was might have been a long-term strategy hey I
want to buy houses but you know a lot of people got caught upside down and some
rough situations in the housing market and I was lucky in the fact that I
hadn't overextended myself again maybe that's partial luck partial strategy but
that's a situation again I'm just trying to point out that I know I've been lucky
in in in some of it but let's make our luck with some hard work for sure yeah
just you pointing that out that you got lucky you know and you're recognizing it
some people a lot of people they don't like they don't want to recognize all
the factors you know they'd it's just easy to blame something else for what
didn't happen and then blame not playing but take credit yourself for something
that does happen good you know yeah so you're you're over here
recognizing everything kind of the good which is part of your discipline way of
being um back to your Twitter post situation that was that was good that
was hey that was good right there I thought and I know thinking about that
someone who posted must be must be rough right like a sarcastic yeah yeah yeah
obviously that was just the fun yeah yeah they were being a jerk I don't
think they were um so soul is buddy is that out of the way yeah and it heat you
actually in a in a good way some people might be like hey I work for this stuff
don't say that you know take it the wrong way or whatever what you didn't
you took it in the opposite way which it says yet again more about you and your
approach so that being said let me add this little part to it where when you
look at those Twitter posts like that Twitter post right you have your you
know the aftermath of your workout you you know go look at or Instagram
whatever you look at every single day of your post every single day you'll see
434 wake up you know workout for three every single day and then step one step
back and look at all of them while at once
that's just the clear picture of your discipline of your you know doing it
every single day cuz like okay I understand I can wake up at 4:30 for
tomorrow if I want to and I'll get a workout in and I'll be like look at me
I'm Jocko and then go surfing go do jiu-jitsu eat flank steak but if you
expect me to do that every single day and I'm not used to it and and I do it
that same a lot more and you do that so there's your picture that's what it is
of course don't focus on just that little narrow view of how cool it was
that he got to do Jiu Jitsu surf all day cruise look at the big picture and that
big just like I said discipline equals freedom there it is there's a picture
right there right there on Twitter yeah that was cool that uh that was cool that
somebody actually had to point that out to me when I read it I was like damn
they they're making a very good point yeah yeah that's like the perfect
example in my opinion that discipline equals freedom it's like within that
picture of freedom all you see is discipline all over it I'm starting with
the 434 in the morning and you know I tell you I if I would have had more
discipline throughout my life I'd be in the even better situation than I am
right now like I look back and say man what did I do this for what I do that
for and that's one thing that as now when people talk to me and ask me
questions I'm trying to tell them what mistakes I made things that I did wrong
things that I did that was stupid so that they can say oh okay cuz the
opportunities are out there you know the opportunities are out there to make good
things happen in your life but you're gonna have they're not gonna they're not
gonna show up at your doorstep they're not coming to your doorstep
I'm gonna go ahead and tell everybody that right now you have to go out and
make of them happen yeah you have to go out and take them because they're not
gonna come knocking on your door the good deal is not coming your door not
happening so crazy how obvious that sounds you know that other like you
saying that I'm not gonna be like hey I never realized that I thought they were
gonna come to my doorstep but it's almost like most people I don't
say most people but it's almost like people don't really understand that
that's true because you have like people who watch
this TV like if you want you okay remember lost remember that life I never
watched it okay yeah yeah I watched a few episodes but I remember people were
just really into that and they're like talking about loss and the characters
because that was a confusing show is why I use that and they're talking about
this like they know all the details and they're trying to figure this out and
over like seasons upon seasons of lost and they know that like Brad you know
what you could have been doing with all that mental energy and and the time that
it takes to watch all this you could have been doing a lot and that loss
example is just one of many examples of what we all do I think well it's very
fitting it's called it lost because you lost a bunch of time and a bunch of
opportunities in your life unless I mean there's things that could be so
inspiring I guess some artwork there were some art form or some film or movie
or show that could be so inspiring to you but if it's not inspiring to you
it's not it's not forcing you to get out and make something more of yourself or
create something more than it's probably not worth your while to be quite honest
with it right and again the whole you know lost
situation I mean if that everyone's different I know but when you're
watching TV which is just I think a huge one that people waste their time on I
mean I can get some inspiration from TV with cinema stuff because I'm in video
but I think that I would argue that that's not why most people watch TV
that's not why they're watching of Keeping Up with the Kardashians I'll
tell you that so I'm not familiar with this nonetheless people don't act like
that that's true that opportunity's not gonna just come knocking on your door
well it goes back to we're talking about earlier today are you gonna let are you
gonna you only have so much time you only have so much time in if you miss a
workout if you miss a moment with your family if you whatever you're missing is
it worth it yeah you're letting it go away you only got that day is only gonna
go by one time you know you only got one shot at today what do you do with it you
know do something good yeah interesting how
again this is like nothing new you know but I feel like work a lot of us act
like that that's simply not true I mean that weird though yeah it is cuz it's
such a big you know you have a lot long time on this earth if you if you just
sit back and go day to day then waste in a few hours watching a TV program maybe
doesn't seem like a big deal when you add all those hours up and you subtract
them from the actual time that you got here man
don't let it go to waste
don't do it one of the guys unlost was named mr. Eko by the way hmm
I wish you wouldn't have given me that information from my head you've wasted
space man I like Eko actual stick with that