NO DAYS OFF, NO EXCUSES | Best Motivational Speech (Featuring Jocko Willink)

[Music] if you have discipline you will attain freedom train study work practice train study work practice train study work practice standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die waiting to starve to death don't let that happen your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you if you let them when your excuses make you feel a little bit better about the fact that you didn't execute on what you needed to execute on then they can make you feel better but they're not helping you if you want freedom

in your life you have to have discipline start now go do something that's hard go try and accomplish something that's hard you may win you may lose L you may succeed you may fail I'll tell you what you'll be better if you don't accept that challenge if you don't step up and step into that cold water this is not a good move don't do that don't do that just get up move towards that challenge whatever that challenge is move towards that challenge and go attack it you have to start moving forward you have to start

start taking steps in order to improve your vision improve your perspective change your perspective make some kind of progress and worst case scenario you figure out that you walk the wrong direction okay now you can walk in the other direction what you learn to do is okay I'm going to go forward I'm not going to quit so I'm going to go forward bring it on and I think if there's anything that you learn it's to keep pushing through things that suck so if you lack the discipline to exercise and eat healthy you will end up

being a slave to disease if you lack the discipline to work hard save your money you will end up a slave to finances if you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly you will end up with no free time if you have self-discipline if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy you will end up with freedom you've got to be

aggressive to make things happen I mean if you don't if you're not aggressive with things they don't happen they don't move so you're always learning and growing and I was always learning until the day I retired and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me and this is it hurts but is also unbelievably empowering because if these problems are because of me then I'm capable of fixing these problems so even though extreme ownership hurts and is painful it's also liberating because now you have control over your fate and over your

destiny and that is a glorious thing I'm not saying take your emotions out of the calculus but they have to be one component of your Calculus not the whole equation the equation has to include emotions yes logic yes future yes goals yes family yes work yes finances yes all those things have to be in the calculus emotions has to be a part of the that calculus you can't pull them out of there or they'll bite you but you can't make them the overwhel in denominator of everything that you do or it's going to be problematic

extreme ownership is this went wrong this failed didn't accomplish this and it's not the fault of my boss it's not the fault of my girlfriend it's not the fault of my parents it's not the fault of the weather it's my fault and I'm going to take ownership of it and I'm going to fix it that's what extreme ownership is and this is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts because when you look around at your life and you look around at your job and your financial situation and your relationship and your physical health

when you look at all those things and all the problems that you may have with those things and you say the reason I have all those problems is because of me that can hurt that can sting and a lot of times our ego rejects that and makes excuses and lies and and then we don't have to change anything and then nothing changes so again I would love to be able to you know give you this profound anchor that people need to have but it's like oh do you want to do this or not which is

what I think a lot of it boils down to do you actually want to do this or not do you actually want to do this or not cuz if you actually want to do it what's going to stop you nothing and if you don't really want to do it what's going to stop you just about anything that comes up just about any obstacle that gets in your way becomes an excuse it becomes a reason it comes a rationale for not proceeding down that path if I want to have influence over you what do I have

to do I actually have to allow you to influence me how do I get you to trust me I have to put trust in you the one of the worst situations you can be in in is when you think that the little moves that you're making no one can see them MH and it's so obvious to everybody else everybody else that's watching can see exactly what you're doing you think oh they can't they can't see the Maneuvers that I'm making to take care of myself no they see everybody sees and it ends up destroying you

I have to open my mind up and allow you to influence me if I just stick with my own ideas you're you're you close your mind as well if I have a closed mind you're going to close my mind um if I want you to care about me what do I have to do I have to care about you and by the way in my opinion these are the components of a relationship yes yes definitely if we listen to each other we have if we don't listen to each other we don't have a relationship yeah

if we don't respect each other we don't have a relationship if we're not influenced by each other we don't have a relationship so if we don't care about each other obviously we don't have a relationship so when you want to build a relationship what do you have to do you have to listen to the other person by the way this applies to your employees it applies to your kids it applies to your your spouse appes to everyone if you want them to listen to you you have to listen to them and you you can't just

you know I'll stop talking as I prepare my counter for what you're saying right now it's like I'm literally going to listen to what you have to say and try and open up my mind and open up my perspective so that I understand your world as as well as I possibly can I'm going to integrate that into what my thoughts are and we're going to come to an understanding we're going to move forward with a better solution so the idea of barking orders the military or any organization can be run through through authoritarian dictatorship look

you can make it work for a little while but it's not a long-term solution and that's what got to watch out for [Music]