Latest / Motivational Podcast / This Is What It Takes to Be Great – The Relentless Journey to Success
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept
- 0:02Speaker 1: failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself
- 0:05Speaker 1: how to fail right. And what that means is when
- 0:08Speaker 1: I fail, I can't spend much time in that fail zone.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I have to be able to get up and get
- 0:14Speaker 1: after the next day just as fast because my goals
- 0:17Speaker 1: to be a Navy seal. I don't have time to
- 0:19Speaker 1: stay here and feel back for myself for weeks and
- 0:22Speaker 1: months and years because I'll lose that time. So the
- 0:25Speaker 1: big thing is to know that if you have big
- 0:27Speaker 1: goals and big dreams along the way, failure is going
- 0:31Speaker 1: to happen. So how fast do you get up from that?
- 0:35Speaker 1: And you got to teach yourself that. But the biggest
- 0:38Speaker 1: key to success in anything you do is you got
- 0:42Speaker 1: to have an unlimited supply, a fucking fuck you, this
- 0:47Speaker 1: drive and passion and it may come from nothing like
- 0:51Speaker 1: for me, there was no passion, no driv no nothing,
- 0:55Speaker 1: but I had this fire that I'm going to be somebody,
- 1:00Speaker 1: and it has to be there because on all those
- 1:02Speaker 1: bad days and all those days you don't want to
- 1:04Speaker 1: do shit, you have to be your own motivator, your
- 1:07Speaker 1: own coach, your own your own trainer, your own everything.
- 1:10Speaker 1: So to do that, you have to come into work,
- 1:13Speaker 1: and work is whatever your work may be ready to go.
- 1:17Speaker 1: And what that means is you may have failed miserably yesterday,
- 1:21Speaker 1: but you come to work like people like man, you
- 1:24Speaker 1: just lost everything. How the hell are you just fucking
- 1:28Speaker 1: damn motivator? Because this is what it takes. This is
- 1:32Speaker 1: what the fuck it takes, and you got to get
- 1:35Speaker 1: it from wherever you can. Whether you make up this
- 1:38Speaker 1: illusion of your life or this false reality that gets
- 1:42Speaker 1: you motivated, whatever gets you motivated, it's going to be
- 1:46Speaker 1: here at the tip of your brain at all times
- 1:49Speaker 1: because in those dark moments, you gotta you gotta pull
- 1:52Speaker 1: it out. So that's the big thing for me, Man,
- 1:54Speaker 1: I was always fired up at all times. So every
- 1:58Speaker 1: single day, I'm literally going with your mind and I'm painting.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I'm creating this masterpiece, and a masterpiece is always myself.
- 2:08Speaker 1: But to do that, you cannot have any distractions, because
- 2:12Speaker 1: if you're talking to an artist and he's trying to
- 2:14Speaker 1: think about the next painting, he can't. It's impossible to
- 2:18Speaker 1: listen to you and listen to what your mind and
- 2:21Speaker 1: body are telling you. We must do people don't do
- 2:24Speaker 1: enough of they don't do any of it. You're they
- 2:28Speaker 1: don't have passion. That they lack passion drive in termination
- 2:31Speaker 1: because you haven't spent time with yourself. Your mind will
- 2:35Speaker 1: tell you what is next, but you haven't spent the
- 2:39Speaker 1: time to go. There's billions of people in this world,
- 2:45Speaker 1: and they're all supposed to be individuals. We have a
- 2:48Speaker 1: pack mentality. That's where you're so fucking lost. And I
- 2:53Speaker 1: have thirty miles to go, and I end up finding
- 2:57Speaker 1: a way to get through that thirty miles, and when
- 3:01Speaker 1: I got done with that race, it's the worst pain
- 3:06Speaker 1: I can ever even I can't even describe the pain
- 3:09Speaker 1: of that last thirty miles to anybody, no one. It's
- 3:12Speaker 1: very hard whole body. So when it ended, I'm literally dizzy.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Going up my stairs to get to my house, I'm
- 3:22Speaker 1: literally I have my arms wrapped around her going up
- 3:24Speaker 1: the stairs, and every flight of stairs I have to
- 3:27Speaker 1: lay down because I can't stay upright for too long.
- 3:31Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass out. So I finally get in the house,
- 3:34Speaker 1: and I get in the house, I'm once again on
- 3:37Speaker 1: the floor. I'm in the kitchen on the floor, just
- 3:39Speaker 1: laying there. I finally make it to the bathroom into
- 3:43Speaker 1: the tub. I get rolled in the tub and she
- 3:46Speaker 1: puts the water on me. I'm just laying there with
- 3:48Speaker 1: the water coming on me, and what I pee out
- 3:52Speaker 1: looks like coca cola. And I'm laying there in the
- 3:55Speaker 1: worst pain of my entire life. I'm shaking, jacked up,
- 4:01Speaker 1: and all I could think about was I can't believe it.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I'd just done it. Because when you get to seventy
- 4:09Speaker 1: miles of a race and you felt the way I
- 4:11Speaker 1: did it, to me, it was humanly impossible to even
- 4:17Speaker 1: think about going thirty more miles in that shape, and
- 4:20Speaker 1: once you do, it came over me when that shower
- 4:23Speaker 1: hit me and the reality hit that I just went
- 4:26Speaker 1: one hundred and one miles and that last thirty one
- 4:29Speaker 1: miles was something that I can't even describe to people.
- 4:33Speaker 1: And she's like, we got to get you to the hospital.
- 4:36Speaker 1: So at the time, my mom was seeing this doctor
- 4:39Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, so she's describing to
- 4:41Speaker 1: my mom I'm going through. He's like, you gott get
- 4:44Speaker 1: in the hospital now, and I just said, just just
- 4:47Speaker 1: shut up and let me enjoy this pain. I don't
- 4:51Speaker 1: want anything to numb it. I don't want anything right now,
- 4:55Speaker 1: because what I had done was I just in my mind,
- 4:58Speaker 1: and people will take this wrong and take it as
- 5:00Speaker 1: wrong as you want to, don't really care. I had
- 5:03Speaker 1: just climbed a mental wall that was amazing, and I
- 5:09Speaker 1: didn't want anybody to take that pain away from me
- 5:11Speaker 1: at that point, because that was all confirmation. Why am
- 5:16Speaker 1: I so unique? I'm being exactly what the funk I
- 5:18Speaker 1: was supposed to be. I ain't fallow shit, And when
- 5:22Speaker 1: I did follow shit, I was like everybody else. The
- 5:25Speaker 1: second I said, okay, man, hang on, dude, you don't
- 5:28Speaker 1: like this, you don't like this, you don't like this.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Who are you? David Goggins? Who are you supposed to be? Miraculously?
- 5:37Speaker 1: All these things just I couldn't even the list of
- 5:42Speaker 1: shit I had to do, Just why am It's like, fuck, okay, wow,
- 5:47Speaker 1: Once you sit down with yourself and say, okay, I
- 5:49Speaker 1: don't want to be like Michael Jordan or Jim Brown
- 5:52Speaker 1: both be on my birthday. So I looked at their
- 5:53Speaker 1: birthdays like, maybe can be one. I can't. I'm gonna
- 5:57Speaker 1: be David fucking Goggins, and that looks like this. It
- 6:04Speaker 1: just came everything flooded. So every single day in my
- 6:08Speaker 1: life there's a different thing that comes up that have
- 6:12Speaker 1: to do, but no one knows what to do because
- 6:15Speaker 1: everybody else is following steps. And I went to the
- 6:19Speaker 1: mirror and the reflection in it revealed a lot of
- 6:24Speaker 1: bad things, a lot of things that I was hiding
- 6:27Speaker 1: behind the saggy pants. And I'm looking at myself in
- 6:30Speaker 1: the mirror going like, god, dog, dude, you got you
- 6:32Speaker 1: are something else, man, like you have created a character.
- 6:36Speaker 1: I want to beat the cool guy table. And whatever
- 6:39Speaker 1: I could do to get attention I did. It wasn't me,
- 6:44Speaker 1: it wasn't who I was inside, but I was scared
- 6:47Speaker 1: for anybody to know who I was inside. So in
- 6:50Speaker 1: that kindability mirror I call it, I got rid of myself.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I said, you have a third grade reading level, which
- 6:58Speaker 1: is hard to admit when you're a you're in high school,
- 7:01Speaker 1: that you copied on every single thing you did because
- 7:04Speaker 1: a fear they're gonna put me in a special school.
- 7:07Speaker 1: We all know what special means. I'm gonna have a
- 7:09Speaker 1: title on myself the rest of my life, and being cool,
- 7:12Speaker 1: you want to have a title on yourself. So I
- 7:13Speaker 1: started cheating. I was dumb and people say, oh, you know,
- 7:16Speaker 1: you have learned this ability. I don't learned this disability.
- 7:18Speaker 1: But I realized I was lazy. So I called myself
- 7:23Speaker 1: out there. I called myself out every reach way possible.
- 7:26Speaker 1: I didn't call myself out. I was just honest. I
- 7:29Speaker 1: was honest. Look at yourself, man, look at yourself. And
- 7:34Speaker 1: it was that day. In a couple of days after that,
- 7:38Speaker 1: I just got real up myself, and every day I
- 7:39Speaker 1: came home, I called the accountability mirror. What am I
- 7:42Speaker 1: gonna do today to change what I see in this mirror?
- 7:47Speaker 1: What am I gonna do today? And a lot of it?
- 7:48Speaker 1: What was? I stopped sitting with the cool guys. I
- 7:51Speaker 1: actually tucked my shirt in went the school looking like,
- 7:53Speaker 1: hey man, this time I'm gonna look. If you don't
- 7:55Speaker 1: like it, so be it. I had to really wear this,
- 7:58Speaker 1: this this leg skin. I had to develop a really
- 8:02Speaker 1: callous skin on me to take whatever you're gonna call me.
- 8:06Speaker 1: You're gonna call me whatever I'm gonna be. You know,
- 8:07Speaker 1: I want a geek. But whoever I am, you're gonna
- 8:10Speaker 1: see me. You're gonna see me for who I am.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Because I need to change who I'm not, and that
- 8:16Speaker 1: accounty billionaire just became raw. And when I became fat
- 8:19Speaker 1: over the years, I fell back in the hole. I
- 8:21Speaker 1: called myself fat because I was fat, and people don't
- 8:25Speaker 1: want to do that. They want to say, Oh, don't
- 8:27Speaker 1: call yourself fat, don't call yourself dumb. If you're not
- 8:31Speaker 1: real and raw with who the fuck you are, nothing's
- 8:35Speaker 1: gonna change. You're not even a human fucking being. Bro,
- 8:39Speaker 1: No way, All you fuckers agree with all the same
- 8:41Speaker 1: fucking shit, and I know I don't. So once you
- 8:45Speaker 1: figure out yourself and who you are, all the answers come.
- 8:50Speaker 1: So every night a different painting is being painted, and
- 8:54Speaker 1: it's a beautiful painting for myself, and like, okay, that's
- 8:57Speaker 1: that's it. It may look the same to most motherfuckers,
- 9:00Speaker 1: but the end result is very fucking different. That's why
- 9:04Speaker 1: my launch. If you look at what I've done in
- 9:06Speaker 1: forty nine years, it's more than most people ever doing
- 9:10Speaker 1: their life. Because they were a race car driver and
- 9:13Speaker 1: that's what they did. They drove a fucking car. It's great.
- 9:19Speaker 1: I was all kind of shit because that's exactly what
- 9:23Speaker 1: the painting was saying. To do, what the mind was
- 9:25Speaker 1: saying to do. When I'm saying this, drive a car
- 9:27Speaker 1: to them, that race car driven to know what to do.
- 9:29Speaker 1: He retires from being a race car driver, and they're lost.
- 9:34Speaker 1: How are you still? I don't get it, dude. You're
- 9:38Speaker 1: never gonna fill your list. But you never found your
- 9:41Speaker 1: list because it never was presented in front of you,
- 9:44Speaker 1: because your head was cluttered with shit, because you never
- 9:49Speaker 1: just stopped for lots of minutes, lots of years and
- 9:53Speaker 1: this said all right, it's me, and you let it go,
- 9:57Speaker 1: and it just damn, it's right there, right there,