NO EXCUSES, GET IT DONE - Powerful Motivational Speech | Jocko Willink

and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and you're going to fail and then you're going to win and that's life life without those challenges it's existence don't just exist go live eventually in action will cost you but your default setting should be I'm going to do something just get up move towards that challenge and go attack it go do something that's hard struggle sucks depends on how you frame it if you want freedom in your life you have to have discipline move towards that challenge whatever that challenge

is and you may be successful and you may not be successful but you will be better and the next challenge you're going to be more prepared for because we're going to have wins we're going to have losses we're going to have successes we're going to have failures we're going to have good nights we're going to have bad nights we're going to have good relationships we're going to have bad relationships we're going to have good ideas and bad ideas we're going to make money we're going to lose money all these things are going to happen and

if you oscillate emotionally up and down drastically it's going to be problematic Embrace those emotions but don't let those emotions embrace you keep pushing through things that suck this is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts I'm going to go forward I'm not going to quit so I'm going to go forward bring it [Music] on when you talk to people that went to Seal training that didn't make it most of the time it's some reason there's a medical reason there's a family problem there's very few people that look at you and say oh

I quit cuz it sucked which is what happens to the vast majority of people the vast majority of people that don't make it through SEAL training they didn't make it through because they quit 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 they're not helping you at all 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 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 then we don't have to change anything and then nothing changes when the excuses all go away way and people can actually confront the fact that this is all because of me it hurts but is also unbelievably empowering because the more discipline you have in your life the more freedom you will end up with 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

and you're going to start to progress in every aspect of your life and you'll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now you're going to end up with freedom if you have discipline you will attain freedom go try and accomplish something that's hard you may win you may lose you may succeed you may fail I'll tell you what you'll be better and if you don't have that kind of discipline and you don't work hard and you don't exercise and you don't apply yourself you're going to end up Shackled so if you're in

the woods and you don't know where to go start walking you got to start walking cuz the perspective is not going to change you have to start moving forward but standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die waiting to starve to death don't let that happen I think it's really important because as men we we don't we get conflicting messages about emotion and how to express it and what that looks like and there's a lot of men struggling right now every human faces challenges and you don't know what they've been through

suppressing them isn't going to help and nor is letting them run your life because you're sad now you're going to make a bunch of bad decisions cuz you're sad no no it doesn't doesn't work like that doesn't work like that you're sad okay you get emotional sometimes okay got it now get control of your emotions and carry on with your life and sometimes you're going to get hit with those waves and that's okay oh I'm having an emotional moment right now there's something wrong with me no there's nothing wrong with you there nothing wrong with

you the other extreme is oh I'm letting my emotions run my life and I'm making a bunch of bad decisions and my excuse is well you know I lost some friends or I had this traumatic experience happen to me that's why I'm doing that's just an excuse and it's a very easy excuse guess what it's time to carry on remember don't dwell I'm in control this is my life if you are in the problem you won't see the solution to the problem take a step back detach from the chaos detach from the Mayhem detach from

your emotions detach from your ego and be able to assess the best way to execute that is the job of a leader if you take any trait of a human being and you take it to an extreme masculine or feminine or otherwise you take it to an extreme it's it's going to be a problem is it good to have no emotions whatsoever no that's called a sociopath is it good to let your emotions run your life and make your decisions based on your emotions no that's not good either what do we want to be as

a as a human as a man want to be balanced it's it's much easier to be extreme it's it's it's much easier to say oh no emotions cool and turn them off that's easier or or a total emotion Mayhem that's easier it's harder to find balance it's harder to find balance in business it's harder find balance in life is hard to find balance but you have to be [Music] balanced because what I want is for the team to win so be balanced you're going to be okay [Music] [Music]