be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable um be the guy who Embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of a shacking fast to some blood it's the moments in life the decisions you make on a on on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy tonight I did something you know that I feel more a guy for me who I am my guy make the hard decisions make the sacrifices make the unpopular decisions and become comfortable in your own
skin and if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with that is the one person in this universe that you have full power full right and full responsibility to change if you had to create a human what would you put them through to make them tough it probably wouldn't be a really chill life what would you put them through to make them patient you probably wouldn't give them things immediately and so it's like we want these traits but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it and it's just
like do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing and so I think if if people reframe the the period of life that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet but the wallet is their time is the seconds of life that they're trading for it then I think more people will be willing to make the trade because at least when I look at myself like when I I'm 80 something years old I'm looking back on my life I want to have these traits but in order to
have those traits I know I have to go through these things and I think for me that's given me a lot of comfort in hard times right now in life your family is looking for that one guy right now they're looking for that one guy who's strong who's that pillar for the family in hard times make sure they look around they look around and find you these are the times right now for you to step up be that guy that can take anything stay hard the next time you want to just give in that desire
for Comfort remember that your future self is going to be the one to suffer the consequences so easy to just put it off and act like it doesn't exist but that future self that you're passing all these burdens to will one day be yourself of the present and you'll wish you chose to do otherwise everything that you do counts the biggest mistake that people make is they think that only what they want to count counts no when you read a book when you listen to an audio program when you go to a course when you
go to bed early and get up early and you work it all counts never [ __ ] apologize for being yourself if people don't like how you act how you look how you speak that just means those aren't your [ __ ] people don't change who you are to match your surroundings pick bettering surroundings and be yourself I don't know most men would understand that when a man cries and he's whimpering he's hurting you know cuz I've been there here and there's no shame in crying gentlemen men it's okay to cry we can still be
a man but you're also human and it does show a little bit of your vulnerability do it for your loved ones do it for your wife do it for your husband do it for your children do it for generations to come come on after you're dead and gone what will they say about what you did yes there's so many people depending on you but it's got to start with you and the man upstairs if you want to be great oh man prepare to get up off that mat you're going to get knocked down over and
over and over and even when you feel like no nobody I can't be hit this hard or if you're down there thinking there's no way I can get up from this that's when you're just starting for some strange reason this world wants to see you water down the reality of Who You Are our society wants to see you think like everyone else and feel just like those around you maybe for somebody who's so distracted from their true desires as a person that doesn't sound so bad but the pain of seeing through limitation and full absence
of distractions is almost unbearable you see it hurts because because the resistance wants you to give in and mold to what's expected of you and if I can provide some advice don't I don't know where you are in your game of life you may be in your third quarter you may be in your fourth quarter come on you're not going to live forever not in this world come on you may be in your first quarter your your second half and this time it's got to be personal see last time you were just running through the
plays last time you were just running the songs that you rehearsed in rehearsal last time you were just going through the motions and you got numb come on and you got tired and weary and now you're broken and bitter and angry cuz you lost and I'm just wondering if you're courageous enough bold enough if you have enough Faith come on if you have enough inside of you resilience to come back to the SC this life is Relentless you better keep coming back from all you your failures all your doubts all your [ __ ] you
better keep fighting keep getting up never [ __ ] lay down for [ __ ] that's one thing we should all agree on if you've been broken once you know how that [ __ ] feels that means [ __ ] try and break me again well I think workingclass guys the whole bloody World rests on their shoulders it really matters if they do a good job and so a lot of workingclass guys come to my shows and they say look I've been listening to your lectures while I'm I'm doing Long Haul Trucking or while I'm
working in my forklift whatever I think great man get the hell out it do your job properly you bet and do it right support your family man the hell up live a responsible life and and what you're doing is valuable I don't care what anyone else has to say about it you got a lot of people playing their hard ear money to come watch you perform perform perform it's your job to be in shape it's your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night and as a competitor I'm I'm not
I'm not ducking like it's not oh my God my back hurts I'm sore we got to play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight pick your mountain m whatever that mountain is and each journey of the mountain is a million steps and each day you have to take that step yeah each day you take that step you look up at the mountain you say that's where I want to go and then each next day you take your step over and over and over again let yourself go fall free into it step into it you are worthy
you are an unrepeatable miracle and there is none like you in all the Earth there will never be another you your DNA your fingerprint come on your gate your presence your authenticity come on you're special you're special and you're necessary everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player everything everything and so when you have that point of view then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft I'm realizing that I have to Daily Show up for my myself if I want my life
to be what I want it to be right it is a battle and not only that but it's like you have to um you have to have some sort of a plan when I used to be a little bit more aimless I was just like oh I want things to be good it wasn't enough I was not always this strong guy you see um I went through a lot of hard times in my life to get here today all I wanted to be was an uncommon man in my whole life I was not that much
worse than that I know what it takes to be a combat Soldier and I used to look for courage I thought courage was a man who won the Medal of Honor it is but courage is a man who's willing to put those boots on every single day of his life to go out there and fight for this country where nobody even knows what the hell they're doing or where the hell they're at there is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning new artists of the year I don't know where you're at in your life or
what you're going through but I want to tell you to keep going baby I want to tell you success is on the other side of it I want to tell you it's going to be okay I want to tell you that the windshield and fingers in the rear view mirror for a reason because what's in front of you is so much more important than what's behind you let's party nille if you want to be great oh man prepare to get up off that mat you're going to get knocked down over and over and over and
even when you feel like no I can't be hit this hard or if you're down there thinking it's no way I can get up from this that's when you're just starting you cannot change your life unless you change something if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got at some point everything's going to go south on you everything's going to go south and you're going to say this is it this is how I end now you can either accept that or you can get to work that's all it is
you just begin and you are either going to evolve or expire you are either dying or you are either living stop depending on other people stop waiting for someone to change your life you have to change your life well I haven't worked this hard to not do what I truly want like I haven't got this far by being someone else I've got this far by being true to myself you've got your own damn malevolence and ignorance right all coming at you plus the incredible complicated indeterminate potential of the future that's all coming at you and
it's all your responsibility and you can cringe away from it and be afraid of it and be victimized by it and be bitter and cynical about it and and no wonder cuz it can be painful or you can turn around and you can say man Bring It On on the 10 words that will ruin your life are what will other people say and what will other people think so whoever you are wherever you are do you one of the most important potents to anything that you want out of success is discipline that means no excuses
that means no lay around that means all of this I can or I cannot do or I won't do or I don't know how to do it we're going to show you how to figure it out but it starts with you discipline discipline yourself stop making excuses stop saying I don't like to get up in the morning at least you got up stop saying what you can't do and start doing the right things to get what you need to do right that means get up and focus on what's going to make you a better individual
all across the board it's not going to work unless I change and nothing changes in my life until I change how can you ever change yourself you think that you're a God but how can you be be a Gandhi if you won't like look at yourself and change yourself right the only way you can become good or or kind of overcome some of these qualities is by looking at it seeing the reality and then confronting it and then trying to change it who the hell are you you know you think you're a miracle of some
bloody bizarre sort we've been around for 3 and a half billion years you know every single one of your relatives propagated successfully and here here you are against all possible odds in this in this world of Hell in some sense and and and and bitterness and and tyranny and malevolence and yet God only knows what's inside you this capacity for Consciousness the capacity to confront potential and to turn it into something good you know better but you're not doing better that's some scary [ __ ] for you to decide here's limitations but I'm so used
to doing wrong and being dysfunctional I know better but I don't want to do better without that work ethic you know greatness cannot be achieved you know anytime I hit a big shot I mean you know everyone would be so surprised and just like wow I would be surprised if I didn't make it you know I put the work into this like every day all day and then when I'm done with it guess what I do I dream about it I visualize it I see myself being successful and then I'll do it again there's a
million excuses I could make to rationalize not getting up early doing the ice bath and going for a run but there comes a time when all these potential excuses turn into fuel that motivates you to keep going when I wake up in the morning and I look out the window and see that it's pouring rain I don't question if I'll be out there running I just get excited at the fact that I'll be out there and I wonder what it's going to feel like to face that discomfort and overcome it some people are going to
call you a loser some people are going to make fun of you for failing some people are going to count you out call you weak say you will never amount to anything what you going to do are you going to prove them right or are you going to prove them wrong see how good we could make things and maybe that would be the purpose of your damn life right so I learned because I looked at dark things that I learned that the light was more powerful than the darkness as far as that I was concerned
and that people were re capable each of us of remarkable things and that we need to know that that's what we are we're this Consciousness that confronts potential with all its catastrophe that's what we are success isn't about greatness it's about consistency no one's born great greatness is something that is earned through consistency if you show up day after day and work hard if you give your full effort if you leave nothing on the table then greatness and success will come what it really comes down to is people just don't want it bad enough because
I've seen countless examples of people that will say they don't have time that say they don't know how but when something becomes important enough for them they figure it up one of the things you have to understand about life is everything changes and everything ends and that kind of sounds heavy on the front end but it's a truth if everything changes and everything ends number one it should make you appreciate appreciate what you have right now and then my view is what's next is always better I want to be up then anybody in the world
wants me to be down and it's all about like I said before self-belief my whole success um is from belief something I can feel but not actually see and having these setbacks where I can't even run a mile but I'm thinking about running 135 I can't run one mile and what if I can win it wake up stop sleeping on yourself the biggest problem that you have had is not that you don't have resources it's not that you don't have supporters it's not that somebody doesn't believe in you it's that you have not believed in
you stop sleeping on yourself step into your authenticity step into your intelligence and your Brilliance release your gift go God is giving you something great release it it's a mental standard you must meet in life motivation has an expiration date and when motivation dies discipline must take it Place pick something rather than nothing or pick something rather than all things and then set yourself to master that you need to have a primary discipline it's absolutely necessary to succeed in life once you have a primary discipline then you can Branch out and and become a multiplicity
in your disciplined approach and then you're absolutely bloody Unstoppable but you really need that initial disciplinary routine it's that having a discipline every day to say for me to learn this one math problem it's going to take me 10 hours how bad do you want to get to that next level what are you willing to do what are you willing to sacrifice what are you willing to give up who are you willing to let go to get where it is that you want to be there is a bridge from what you see in your head
to what you hold in your hand and that bridge is called discipline what people understand is that they live for themselves not knowing that you have the power within yourself to change millions of lives Yeah by facing Life by facing yourself nobody wants to put in the work nobody want want to let go of every single distraction here is my question can you learn how to say no to what's hurting you no to what's stopping you no to what's hindering you no to the people that don't believe in you I now know that there is
no cap on the human mind there's no cap we cap it ourselves life is one big mind game and you're playing it with yourself you you are the issue it's you your issue is you nobody has lied to you more than you my biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world and there's a final judgment and you talk to something much bigger than you I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone with something that says you're in heaven this is what you should have been
on Earth and are you really in heaven now or are you in hell it also makes you disciplined and once you're disciplined like you're you're like a sharpened sword man like a well-tempered blade and then you can go out there and operate in the world so and if you haven't found your passion then I would say well don't wait around till you find the damn thing because you may never find it is pick something and focus on it you know and if you move strongly and forthrightly towards it for a number of months at least
or even a number of years and then you find well that wasn't the thing for you it isn't going to be a waste anyways because most of the time the pursuit of any disciplined knowledge pays off even if it doesn't pay off in the way that you initially expect mental toughness isn't something that you sample it's something that you live in every day so when something hard would happen to these kids like in hell week it would draw on something that made them very insecure and they look for Comfort whenever hard comes and you don't
know what it is it may be different for you than it is for me but you go back to your insecurities and then when you go back to insecurities you then look for Comfort within those insecurities and we all look for that cookie that your mom used to give you when you were sad when you were sick we look for our wife or our husband we look for Comfort it's in those moments you must retrain your mind to think differently in hell discipline is found in our daily routine our daily rituals you may use discipline
on occasion but you're not disciplined and there's a difference between having discipline and being disciplined when you have discipline you're selective when you have discipline you're conditional it depends on how you feel when you are discipline how you do anything is how you do everything and everything you do you show up at 1,000% everything you do you execute with a spirit of Excellence that's what discipline looks like I used to speak in Hollow words I don't do anymore everything that comes in my mouth has substance is real and we all have these feelings in our
bodies in our minds and our souls I act on mine a lot of us who are afraid of something we our minds to choose the path that least resistance so we go a different route I'm afraid of something is telling me you must conquer that you must do that yeah you have to go that way and most of us don't understand that mentality we go left and we wonder why we haven't fulfilled something in our lives people tell me all the time it's hard to get wealthy it's hard to grind it's hard to be focused
it's hard to stay motivated it's hard to stay broke it's hard to stay depressed stress it's hard to stay governed by anxiety it's hard to be inconsistent it's hard not to have daily disciplines it's hard not to believe in yourself it's hard to be broke it's hard to be poor it's hard it's all hard so choose your heart you either go work for it you going to sit there and let life knock you down and dare you to get back up and no one saved me it wasn't like someone came down here and guided me
through life when you figure this out on on your own the amount of pride and dignity and self-respect you have that's why I walk around the streets with a backpack and just like I don't need anything else yeah you figure it out by going inside yourself by callousing over the victim's mentality you're always a victim even if you have everything in life until you realize what you've achieved one thing I got to tell all of you listening is you got to kill the blame game stop blaming it on the person that walked out on you
stop blaming it on the person that overlooked you stop blaming it on the person that undervalued you stop blaming it on the person that did not promote you that did not see it that did not believe it stop blaming everybody and look yourself in the mirror and the thing you got to ask yourself is am I going to repeat my history or will I blaze a new Trail we live in a box and we don't want to go outside that box at all ever outside that box is all these possibilities of Life what we do
is we shackle our mind we are a prisoner in our own mind that this is all I can do this is all I'm good at and we we we take away the possibility of you could be this you can be that you can be all these things and I never thought at 300 lb I could be na seal wow so if my mind was Shackled me and you would never me there be no book right there be no book right there be nothing if I were to give you one last piece of advice in order
to understand discipline discipline is revealed in our daily routines and rituals discipline unfolds if you want your future you have to cross the bridge of discipline if you want to get out of the room of ordinary you have to go through the door of discipline if you want to dig yourself out of murky muddy water if you want to claw your way to the top you are going to have to climb the wall of discipline there is no other way I need you to tell yourself right now there is no other way there is no
other way there is no other way the future belongs to the discipline the only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow to grow you must suffer and some people will get it and some people won't but they have to see what their journey is to start their Journey several people live to be hundred years old and they have great lives but somewhere in their life there was a point where they had a decision to make they can go left or right on
this path left was the easy route right was the hard route a lot of people take the easy route and they had a good life that way but the better life was going to the right side and and you may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it but a lot of us die never truly starting our journey be the guy who Embraces the ugly the miserable be the guy who Embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of a seconding fast in some blood imagine if
you could use pain as a fuel imagine if you could use the pain as a passport imagine if you could use the pain to push you to condition you to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you got to walk into and the tables You' got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on what if the pain can make you better what if the pain could build muscle what if the pain could cause you to reach higher to LEAP farther to run faster what if the pain could help you what if
all pain isn't hurt but it's help we're built to walk uphill and when you reach the nickle of the Hill you want to stop and appreciate the vision but the next thing you want is a higher Hill in the distance because it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value and I mean this technically so almost all the positive emotion we feel that's experienced in relationship to a goal and so in some sense you want a goal that you can never attain right so you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as
you move towards it you think well that's frustrating it's like cifas pushing the rock uphill but it's not because as you pursue that goal you put yourself together and your life does get better and richer and more abundant we're running from the truth man so the only way I became successful was going towards the truth as painful and as brutal as it is it changed me it it allowed me to become in my own right who I am today all the pain and suffering that they put on top of me in hell week I will
reverse that pain and suffering and I will take your soul so every instructor that put me through buds my job what drove me was I wanted you to go home that night after you beat the living [ __ ] out of me and I smiled in your face I wanted you to feel worse than I did and you were going home to a nice warm bed with your wife or your kids in a nice meal and I was still out there in the grip suffering for another 100 hours I wanted you think about me knowing
that I'm comfortable being very [Music] Sprints nobody cared if you want to transform you have to do the work if nobody cares there's only one person who has to care and that's you you've got to care you've got to want it and the reason I think is different for everybody to want it some comes out of pain uh some comes out of you know I want to prove somebody wrong and then I think some people people just have that switch inside let them all talk [ __ ] let them all make their noise because at
the end of the day you are the only one who has the guts we have the guts to go to work and show up every single [ __ ] day day in and day out putting in the work you fight through the noise you fight through the fatigue you fight through it all you stay extremely intensely focused on the goal and once you fight through that fatigue you fight through the noise on the other side of that is your goals on the other side of that is the accomplishment on the other side of that is
your greatness if you have a sufficiently noble purpose the suffering will justify itself and I think I think that's empirically testable and I do believe it's the case because I've watched people do very difficult things and what that shows is that if you turn around and you confront the suffering voluntarily you find out that you are way tougher than you think it's not that life is better than you think life is as harsh as you think it might even be worse but you are way tougher than you think if you turn around and confront it
and so then what you discover is that there's a spirit within you that pursues that can pursue something meaningful that has the resilience and the strength to contend properly with the catastrophe of existence without becoming bitter if you're feeling pain keep going if your lungs are working keep going you hurt you grow you go and from the bottom of my heart keep it moving and conduct your business my biggest fear in life is if there is a final resting place in this world and there's a final judgment and you talk to something much bigger than
you I don't want to sit down and have a conversation with someone with something that says you're in heaven this is what you should have been on Earth and are you really in heaven now or are you in hell a lot of us speak in Hollow words I used to speak in Hollow words I don't do anymore everything that comes on has substance is real and we all have these feelings in our bodies in our minds and our souls I act on M A lot of us who are afraid of something we allow our minds
to choose the path that least resistance so we go a different route I'm afraid of something is telling me you must kind that you must do that yeah you have to go that way and most of us don't understand that mentality we go left and we wonder why we hav't and fulfilled something in their lives you've just gone through a breakup and it's the worst thing you've ever been through because you haven't had the time and the experience yet to develop worse and to turn around and look at that in relation to the realities of
a long life well- lived and one day you're going to try and look back and you're going to say that really wasn't such a disaster and in fact that was probably the best thing ever happened to me I get it the pain is unbearable you keep playing it back in your head the situation is on repeat over and over and over you keep trying to see where you went wrong and you feel like you can't take the pain anymore what you going to do are you going to prove them right or are you going to
prove them wrong are you going to show them that failure doesn't Define who you are are you going to show them that failure is a necessary lesson on the path to success are you going to show them that you're a beast in this game you got to get hungry you got to get ready get up it's time to get to work and show them all when you're getting ready in the morning then you're exercising or when you just need a little boost download mindset and listen to your favorite motivational speeches while getting ready ready for
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