not one of you can out real me you may
have been born but more genetic powers
than I have but you can now out
determine me you came out really you
came out won’t me you came out work me
you came out desired me no one will
outwork me no one I love and I respect
you guys your motherfuckers won’t that
work me I suggest to you that if you are
facing a challenge
don’t stop stay busy work your plan
continue to do those things that you
know that work for you after you have
evaluated yourself in the situation
continue to move stay busy stay busy
stay busy you can’t just say you want it
you can’t watch the video and say I
wanted as bad as I want to breathe its
to to say it but when it’s Showtime when
the Sun comes up everybody wants to be a
beast in turns time to do what bees do
if you don’t believe in yourself
it won’t happen for you this top spot
this number one that’s mine
when the nose is coming down with us the
effort nobody can judge chef Stephan is
between you and you everything I’m gonna
do it nobody else not gonna let this
opportunity go by without giving it my
all you got to get up and make me happy
don’t fuck the opportunity out if you
want to be the best if you want to reach
greatness in any field greatness because
every day is a new day every moment is a
new law
so now you got the boy let’s show them
that I’m a different creature
because on this off for greatness
it’s a dream Fitness let me go okay with
video and no man is yogig bitch’s face
you made a choice to be average lack of
the people around you I have to an
average school or you work for an
average company and so you decided you
decided to go against who you are never
say never because limits like fears are
often just an illusion so how do you
make it how do you overcome the odds
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I don’t know what to say really three
minutes to the biggest battle of our
professional lives all comes down to
we’re in Hell right now
believe me and we can stay here get the
shit kicked out of us or we can fight
our way back into the light we can climb
out of hell or you could be like me
dream a pro football get hurt dream over
find yourself with just seven bucks in
your pocket so how did I get here by
while worthy and you’re able to do
something special that no one else in
the world can do are you ready to go out
there and take what’s yours all of us in
life have things we want we don’t get
we all get what we tolerate in ourselves
and other people but when you’re no
longer willing to tolerate something
that’s when your life changes everyone
in the world has a list of things they
think they should do I should lose
weight I should work out I should spend
more time with my kids I should work
harder I should make more calls I should
I should I should I should and then you
know what people don’t do their shirts
and they get mad at themselves they beat
what changes people is when you should
becomes a bust
when suddenly the thing you said should
happen has to happen that’s when you
redeems change it’s like if you want to
take the island and you’re the head of
the army if you want to take the island
the most powerful way to take the island
is burn the boats cuz if there’s no way
to go back it’s amazing what happens
when it’s a must to be something first
as a should that’s what makes you a baby
ego is the success inhibitor you have to
do your best not to make decisions based
off of ego for sure success and failure
are generally slow processes either
slowly building things up or gradually
and that’s why I say you’ve got to pay
attention
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you have to watch you have to watch
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because those seconds they turn into
minutes
then minutes turn into hours and hours
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and so that second that second that just
until the backside and so did that one
and even those precious seconds
you’re either building
or you are decaying
so
second
the dreams shattered sent home with
seven bucks in my pocket I was like wait
no I gotta play in the NFL eventually
those are my big goals that’s my dream
you realize that that playing in the NFL
was the best thing that never happened
because it got me here so my point is
look you’re gonna get your ass kicked
we’re gonna get the shit kicked out of
us you got to get up you got to have
faith that the one thing you want it to
happen oftentimes is the best thing that
never happened so have faith just keep
that in mind and keep plugging away
I’m gonna do this shit until they throw
fucking dirt on top of my eggs until
they bury me pain is temporary it may
last for a minute or an hour or a day or
even a year but eventually it will
subside and something else will take its
place if I quit however it will last
forever
there’s two sides of pain that I don’t
think a lot of people really understand
Frank there’s there’s one side of pain
that’s the suffering and the discomfort
side of pain you remember what that felt
like
but then there’s another side of pain
that’s called effort
it’s called glory it’s called if you can
find a way to push through pain there’s
I’m gonna prove to you that I can come
back that I will come back because I got
this motherfucker right here I am
determined
it’s my motherfucking magnificent
but let me tell you when they split me
open and I passed away three times now
you talk about bro Dan goddamn but this
thing that we do with my motherfucking
magnificent obsession that’s obsessed
with this shit I’m gonna do this shit
until they grow fucking dirt on top of
my eggs until they bury me the greatest
pain of my fight is the reason I’m
I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill
right
I would not be outworked right period
let me tell you something you already
know the world ain’t all sunshine and
rainbows it’s a very mean and nasty
place and I don’t care how tough you are
it will beat you to your knees and keep
you there permanently if you let it you
me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as
life but it ain’t about how hard you hit
it’s about how hard you can get hit and
keep moving forward how much you can
take they keep moving forward that’s how
you know what you’re worth
get what you’re worth but you gotta be
willing to take Dex and not pointing
fingers saying you ain’t where you want
to be because I
bloody cowards do that in that a Jew
you’re better than that I’m fragile I
feel pain I heard I opened my eyes I
create that conquer I hold the power
I’m a thinker I crave victory I do not
give up
I feel no fear I fear no man I’m an
athlete
a warrior an artist the only thing I
need every day of my life
is 86,400 seconds we’re going your focus
perspective is everything probably most
of you is that you see difficult as
something negative should I want you to
see difficult differently are you
hearing me I need you to see difficult
differently
it’s amazing than one excuse not to get
can you be committed to the process of
what you do without being emotionally
attached to the result of what you do
because a lot of people can be committed
to the process of what they do if the
results don’t change but the moment the
result or the outcome changes of what
they’re chasing they shut it down or
they quit simply because the result
changed so can we be committed to the
process of what we do but not
emotionally to the result of what we do
understanding every day I get up and
give everything I got to everything I’m
apart of simply because this is a way I
stop saying I’ve gotta wait for good
things to happen to me and I said I’m
gonna cry I’m going to fight I’m going
to work I’m going to press toward I’m
going to learn I’m going to do
everything in my power to become a
Victor not a victim winners win and
losers lose what show to the dream if
the last time that was the time when
we’re getting think about it so you know
wherever you wet way making no excuses
got no fear I feel I can’t explain it
any better than that I don’t know how it
happens but winners win and if you
create a culture of losing if you keep
being a victim if you keep letting
losing happen to you if you keep letting
people do you and treat you any kind of
way it’s gonna become a culture there’s
nothing you can’t accomplish you’re
gonna go on you’re gonna become world
champion see it should drive you it
should work for me it should drive you
you get all the talent the world it’s
all here it’s all here everybody’s next
best thing
everybody’s the thing everybody’s the
best it’s all here I think this fear is
not that we are inadequate
our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure I never feared about my
skills you know because I put into work
work Catholic eliminates fear yes you
know so if you put forth there to work
then what are you fearing you know you
what you came for doing what you’re not
never say never because limits like
fears just an illusion when I want to
smile you what motivate you what a make
it hard for you to sleep to get up early
and start early go to sleep late
the world might say you are not allowed
to yet I waited a long time out in the
world before I gave myself permission to
fail please don’t even bother asking
don’t bother telling the world you are
ready show it do it there are a lot of
sharks in the world if you hope to
complete the swim you will have to deal
with them so if you want to change the
if I have learned anything in my time
traveling the world it is the power of
hope the power of one person the
Washington a Lincoln King Mandela one
person can change the world by giving
people hope so if you want to change the
world start singing when you’re up to
your neck in mud don’t wait until they
tell you you are ready get in there
sing if you want to be successful you
must be willing to do the things a day
others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have what
did Beckett say ever tried ever failed
no matter try again and fail again fail
better
finally a SEAL training there’s a bell a
brass bell that hangs in the center of
the compound for all the students to see
all you have to do quit all you have to
do to quit is ring the bell ring the
bell and you no longer have to wake up
at 5 o’clock ring the bell and you no
longer have to be in the freezing cold
swims ring the bell and you no longer
have to do the runs the obstacle course
the PT and you no longer have to endure
the hardships of training
all you have to do is ring the bell to
get out if you want to change the world
don’t ever ever ring the bell if you do
what is easy your life will be hard
complain important your circumstances
give up your power to blame the
government blame the economy if you do
what is easy your life will be hard
start each day with a task completed
find someone to help you through life
respect everyone know that life is not
fair that you will fail often but if you
take some risks step up on the time
through the toughest face down the
bullies lift up the downtrodden
and never ever give up if you do these
things the next generation and the
generations that follow will live in a
world far better than the one we have
today and what started here will indeed
have changed the world for the better
but if you do what is hard
your life will be easy
it’s hard to make a radical change in
your behavior it’s hard to take
ownership it’s hard to swallow the
bitter pill that wherever you find
yourself at some point in time you made
an appointment to be there as hard
the world is yours treat everyone kindly
and light up the night to everybody
who’s has somebody tell them they can’t
do what they want to do family members
even tell them they can’t do what they
want to do the people who look in the
mirror and when you look in the mirror
all you got is that one person that
believes that you I’m here to tell you
that’s all you need when you crawl out
from underneath the covers every morning
and you sit on the edge of the bed you
have a choice before you we’re wired
differently we have to set a goal that
if we hit that goal we’re guaranteed to
make sure all that other stuff in the
minute was going on why three o’clock in
the morning why don’t you sleep my
appetite my appetite I said ET I want
more I can do more if I complet this
without a father what I’ve accomplished
is with my mom being a teenage mom if I
if I can accomplish these things from
this start now that I’m at this place
knowing what I know now what can I count
and I want you to think about that I
want you to think about more than jets
what you’re going to do financially more
than what you’re gonna do in this
industry in the next three years right
more than that what’s your appetite what
do you what are you going to do that
will ensure that when the alarm clock
goes off that you are already up 10 20
minutes before your alarm clock blows up
why do the word do the fucking work
you’ve heard me say it before no alarm
clock needed my passion wakes me up
sometimes the only way to go about doing
the work is get fucking raw and get
fucking intense get angry and aggressive
and make it fucking happen for yourself
you start today I don’t care really your
life clock started ticking you can start
fucking right now today if it’s 4:15
a.m. in my world you’re on the East
Coast and it’s 6:15 a.m. and you’re
already up and you’re already dragging
ass by six sixteen you can change your
fucking perspective of the world love
fucking do it dig fuck dig deep and get
no long I’ve been using a long clock and
over 20 years
what is it internally here I wanna be
successful I want to execute I wanna
make all my dreams become a reality I
want to do everything I said I’m going
to do so my appetite increases it gets
stronger every year I want more every I
want to do more every I want to help
more every I want to be bolder I’m gonna
be better I want to be stronger every
single year every single year your
appetite to go up you should never get
saddled you should never get settled you
should never get content every single
year when you get content when you
settle some
somebody’s coming for me ah and somebody
time take your spot and so every single
day you wake up you gotta set new goals
new benchmarks you got raised it higher
and higher come about your box and box
he’s wired differently that has same
makeup mr. Dubey what makes a gazelle a
let me explain to you when a lion sees a
gazelle and the gazelle she’s the lion
see Jenna the exact same time when the
gazelle sees the line because of how
he’s wired he automatically fear takes
over
the Showtime the hunt is on this is what
I was made for do the work do the
when I was in high school I early on
about 16 years old as I want to become
fuzzy United States because I how can I
contribute most of society and I went to
a seminar my man named Jim really stole
some of our speaker
I took a week’s pay as working 40 hours
a week as a janitor and it was 35
dollars to the evening seminar so his
big decision I listened to him speak
I came I’m so inspired as most of me
said I already believed Mao was an
authority figure saying you really could
be this way well I paid the price
why work this hard why go this far why
try to learn this much why try to do it
all
why try to see it all why try to have it
all
why do it why I learn it why study why
put yourself out why try to take on this
puts responsibility why develop yourself
to the full why try to become all that
you can possibly become why try to earn
as much as you can earn share as much as
you can share develop every skill you
possibly can
see every human you possibly can go to
every class you possibly can touch
everybody you possibly can do I do that
much if I go that far
why share that much why give that much
away why try to see everything why try
to do everything why try to become
everything that’s a good question why
and you’re the only one personally that
can answer that question for yourself
work on your list of wives if the Y is
powerful the how is easy if you want to
think that enough to go out and fight
for to work day and night for it to give
up your time your peace in your sleep if
all that you dream and scheme is about
it life seems useless and worthless
without it and if you’re going to sweat
for it and fret water to plan for and
lose all your terror of the opposition
for that if you simply go after that
thing that you want with all of your
capacity strengthens of gastly Faith
Hope and confidence and stern
pertinacity if neither cold poverty
famish a god sickness a pain of body and
brain can keep you away from the thing
that you want dogged and grim you can
see gender senate the hope of god if
your goals are powerful
if the vision isn’t clear the old
prophet said without a vision we die
without a vision we perish without a
dream we’re nothing and because he spoke
how people live their lives as a result
of the story they believed about
themselves he interrupted the story that
I believed about myself work on your
list of why make no small plans or they
have no magic to stir men’s blood make
large plans for they do have magic
determined but impossible is not a fact
it’s an opinion it’s your opinion they
don’t say no science shows and I say
yeah I know how many times the science
shows something’s impossible now science
shows it’s possible things are
impossible till somebody does it divorce
the story of your limitation and marry
the truth of your unlimited capacity
than the whole game changes success is
born out of luck its awareness of mind
you will all be confronted with
opportunity you must take advantage of
it
so you don’t take advantage of your
opportunity you’ll never realize your
dreams whether you want them or not is
the relevance you don’t know that until
you achieve it but most people have
strategies available or they could get
them or you could create them but the
problem is you got a story and your
story is why does it work and the story
is I’ve tried everything if you tried
everything you’d be fit you try
everything you’d be profitable if you
tried everything you’d be there but
I was going to a council estate
getting a job at the hotel st. George
was my passport to escape the world that
do I have what it takes
I said to myself yes so I started
pushing and push you push you and push
is how self-belief
you can do more than this if I had to
walk ahead and walk it just became just
a process of grinding and grinding and
grinding letting the good word for it
it’s not even a good word for it and
just just going further and further and
then when I got through running I’d go
through the bike I go to the pool if I
got tired somewhere Malays retired I go
to the gym and I develop this crazy
workout where I was doing volume things
don’t happen overnight you have to make
you never throw in the towel if I threw
in the towel pick it up
and when you’re young it’s very easy to
give in to walk away it really is so
whatever you want to do in your life
don’t ever work it don’t ever think it
do you realize your dream trust me
the question isn’t can you handle the
situation the question is can you handle
your mind can you manage the thoughts
and the emotions that are trying to
poison your progress
forget managing the situation
manage your mind no matter whose fault
it is that something is broken if it’s
it’s not somebody’s fault if their
father was an abusive alcoholic but is
for damn sure their responsibility to
figure out how they’re gonna do with
those traumas and try to make a life out
of it
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it’s not your fault if your partner
cheated and ruined your marriage but it
is for damn sure your responsibility to
figure out how to take that pain and how
to overcome that and build a happy life
fault and responsibility do not go
together Sox but they don’t was
something is somebody’s fault we want
to suffer we want them punished we want
them to pay we want it to be their
responsibility to fix it but that’s
that’s not how it works especially when
it’s your heart your heart your life
your happiness your responsibility
fear
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the only place that fear can exist is in
is a product of our imagination causing
us to fear things that do not at present
and may not ever exist as long as we’re
pointing a finger and and stuck in whose
fault
something is we’re jammed and trapped
into victim mode when you’re in victim
mode you are stuck in suffering the road
to power is in taking responsibility
your heart your life your happiness is
your responsibility and your
responsibility alone
I’m not the best at anything I’m not I’m
not gifted
I’m just driven I’m a guy that came from
nothing anybody’s capable of doing shit
like this anybody and I sat in that tub
she put the water on me she called my
mom up and I mom was dating a doctor at
the time the doctor did like I said you
need to get him to a hospital now she
came back in all I want to do is call
Chris Koster on the phone the race
director of bad waters I can get it so
she sent akin to doctor I said no let me
sit here enjoy this pain she said what
are you talking about I said you don’t I
go I need to go to the doctor I realize
that but I never thought it was humanly
possible to do what I did I went 70
miles in at 70 miles I was dead I was at
a hundred percent what I thought where I
thought was 100 percent
I went 30 31 more miles after being in
the worst physical shape I’ve ever been
and I sat in that tub and iguanas hit me
it was the most amazing feeling of
I did this however as the crazy as it
sounds it was the most amazing moment of
my entire life
to overcome such to come from this kid
who is mr. torture and suffering was
tortured his talk to this kid – Skyy now
who was able to overcome such amazing
eyes and obstacles and I call crisscross
like the race director a bad water and
he said the idea of a 24-hour races to
run 24 hours nearly ran nineteen and put
doubt in my mind that you 11 the bad
water
two weeks later roughly December 5th who
has this marathon that we all signed up
I ran a hundred miles before I ran a
marathon it’s ten days or two weeks
after this hundred mile in one race I
did this marathon December 5th Las Vegas
that gun went off 2005 14 days after I
broke myself off and I qualify for the
Boston Marathon around 308 like the gun
went off and that thing came back like
and then I went to the hurt 100 race in
Hawaii 26,000 feet of climbing over 100
miles probably one of the top-five
hardest hundred mile races in the world
not there and got through the race did
in 33 hours with a ninth place finisher
and I qualified for bad water and got in
I went on to lose weight and train hard
and I got fifth my first year I went
back my second year and got there I’m
not the best at anything I’m not I’m not
gifted
I’m just driven I have the hundred men
that go into Ward 10 shouldn’t be there
80 of them are his targets nine do most
of fighting one is a warrior I saw it
going through train I saw it everywhere
I went
there’s so many people who just show up
to life there’s something about talking
to a guy like you that a lot of people
hope that you’re gonna say some magic
thing that’s gonna click in their brain
what you’re saying is that you have to
do those things you have to suffer you
have to live in it you have to be
comfortable in it and then maybe some of
that shit will help you a little bit
along the way leave me now is the guy
that with this shirt off who can do 4030
pull-ups in 17 hours you can run tours
and then 5 miles in 39 hours who can do
all this crazy shit but what they don’t
understand is they don’t understand the
journey that it took me to get to this
point and what got me to this point was
I was just the opposite everything today
I was that guy who ran away from
absolutely everything that I got in
front of me
I wanted to quit so badly buddy quit
everything in my life I copied through
school I want to prove people wrong and
so here I am in this Air Force program
starting to get a little more confidence
but this water was kicking my ass and
six weeks in the program the doctor gave
me a blood test
it must have sickle cell so they put me
out training for a week and when you go
from being very uncomfortable in that
water situation and then now you’re
comfortable and I’m sitting back
watching the guys drown I’m not you know
I’m not part of the activities anymore
for this week I don’t want to get back
in that damn water again so the fear
overcame in all my insecurities for my
dad from this small town from everything
started coming back I mean that wouldn’t
go back in that water the doctor called
me back up I thought to get like a like
a medical kick out of the military so no
quitting for me there kicked me out so I
can had some pride the doctor said no
I’m kidding you know we could put you
back in the training and the sergeant
said hey you got to start from day one
because you missed you know that that we
could train him and I broke I broke I
couldn’t imagine going back through that
again and and I pretty much quit even
so um from the age of 19 the age of 22 I
went into the job called tack pee where
you control fast movers behind enemy
lines cool job but there’s no water I
was afraid of water so I avoided it and
I gained 125 pounds in that time frame I
went from 175 to almost 300 to 297 was
my heaviest and I started finding things
that was comfortable and the more things
I found comfortable the more
uncomfortable my mind was because that
voice I was telling you about it always
was there I was just trying to avoid
that conscience I I wanted to be left
alone from that conscience and it
wouldn’t leave me alone
so I got out of the Air Force and I
started working for a job called ecolab
respray for cockroaches at 24 and
spraying at different stake and shakes
Red Lobster whenever from 11 o’clock at
night at 7 o’clock in the morning
and what changed I came home and watch
this Discovery Channel show I’m class
224 I came home from Steak N Shake I
sprayed it down last get a big ol large
42 ounce shake walk across the street
and get a box of mini doughnuts from
7-eleven you never drive home for 45
minutes this big old fat guy was
watching these guys going through hell
week class through 24 and these guys
ringing the bell quittin dropping their
helmet down rolling out a lot of guys
just leaving and it made me reflect on
my fears my insecurities and I saw real
men when I thought were real men who
were staying who were overcoming
adversity who were overcoming all these
different things that I had blamed so
many fucking people in my life my dad my
mom for not being there everybody was a
plan my learned disability my my skin
color you know meet me being everything
and so I sat there for a while and I was
like I got it
no one’s gonna fucking come to help me
no one’s gonna fucking come to help me
his fucking me against me period and I’m
I’m exactly what people said I was gonna
be but all of us have these fears that
you just don’t want to fucking face I
have a lot of them had a lot of them and
that’s recreated the person who’s in
by two options to either be that
300-pound guy who spray for cockroaches
have made $1,000 a month and at 24 years
old knowing we’re not 50 fucking years
old I can reflect on this and think
about what God never became or I can
totally just sack it up and fail and
fail and fail and try and succeed to get
into the class I have to get into how to
lose 106 pounds in less than three
months I can’t do that and grab my
chocolate milkshake and went back to
Ecolab I’m going back to work man
this is my life next morning or this
next night I went to work and I hit the
all that cockroach is too much I hit the
mother lode of cockroaches and this
restaurant got full of cockroaches and
rodents and everything else and I sat
there i said this is my life this is it
I quit my job left my canister in that
restaurant my spray canister got back in
my ecolab truck and I went home and I
started working out like somebody I was
I became the most obsessed person on the
planet Earth and I said this ain’t gonna
be it for me we all want to read about
how we can quickly get somewhere that’s
why the six-minute abs so powerful you
may get some results from it they’re not
permanent
the permanent result comes from you I
say it all time you have to suffer you
have to make that a tattoo on your brain
so when that hard time comes again you
don’t forget it
I’m trying to find more of myself and
the only way I can find more is to
silence the world out as much as I can
because it’s getting busier every day
it’s getting faster I put my phone away
up and I go dark
I go dark a lot and it’s because I have
to find out I’m on a journey of life and
we all have a different journey I like
to take this four-lane highway the easy
highway we all love that four-lane
highway we always step over the shovel
level I made my own path but going
through this path of life this journey
over here that you make yourself that’s
it’s easier to accept the fact that I’m
you have to go into the dark chambers
that we often shut off you gotta open
them up does not some easy
lit up streetlights behalf with nice
smooth roads right fail and you’re gonna
be in your head you could be saying I’m
not good enough and it’s how you get
through that is how you get through that
on a daily basis when that thing is say
man I’m 43 I’ve done so much you start
to become civilized the refrigerator
gets full you start getting making money
and you start I’m not getting cold
anymore I’m retired and forty people
shouldn’t be playing basketball or
football or at 43 I’m still putting
hundred-mile weeks still doing thousands
of pull-ups do two thousand two push-ups
because I’m not allowing myself to
become civilized the worst didn’t happen
to a man’s become civilized you want to
be uncommon I must uncommon people
period you start putting yourself in
situations that suck you’ll find
yourself
I’m big on being with yourself I want to
be forever proud of who I was a man
and change who I used to be the liar the
insecure guy the guy who can whatever I
want to be proud but if I died now if I
die a for diet 1900 wonder to myself
saying proud myself I believe in
patience I’m a patient dude I can watch
the piece of grass grow for 20 years
because I know that this is how you get
somewhere in life by being that not like
mentality
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being able to watch something though
very scholarly patiently
okay buddy faster we drive to a brain we
put a governor brain slick we feel pain
just comfort suffering all those words
that we hate to say could be on this
happy peaceful world we live in now we
if you can get through these different
barriers and gain 5 percent 2% 3% that
40% becomes 60s 60 per kid because 70 80
and 90 and hopefully one day near a
hundred that that dreamer mentality just
would always fuel me it was just rude
man what if I can be but if I can be a
seal man I’m now I run tour in five
miles what if I can go but just what if
I can go in and what if how would that
feel you have to go into the dark
chambers that we often shut off are you
gonna open him up I was like I said 297
I was about 32 percent body fat and I
went my idea was to run four miles for
my first run I ran a quarter mile and
walked home I walked home and sat on my
couch and cry i sat down I gave up you
start out on the first day and then do
you start running again the second day
yeah second day were right back after
the ginn but I start realizing I can’t
run that for right so what I did was I
became damn near professional cyclist
with the miles I put on the bike I go to
the gym and I developed this crazy
workout where I was doing volume like to
300 reps
I spent hours in the pool hours in the
pool I had to live in the water the bike
got easier I was able to run more I went
from like one mile when I was a great
accomplishment to miles and then from 2
to 3 was a big one then I went from 3 to
6
I failed I’ll go back to scratch but I
started realizing this is part of the
process this is part of the journey I’m
just not good enough I’m gonna make
myself good enough when we have bad
times in life even the hardest person
where we forget how badass we are during
I have a thing where I take a couple
seconds to reflect on I hang on man you
meant to be with you this you’ve been
through that you overcame this overcame
that I don’t ever close my mind to the
fact that this can’t be done I’ve quit
several things I know what’s on the back
end equipment I wanted to be a man that
the test mediocrity
I started callous in my mind at this
point in my life I lost the weight and I
went back to recruiter I got into that
class I went through three Navy so he’ll
loose in one year only God ever be in
three hell weeks in one year if to my
knowledge the first one I didn’t make it
I started opening different doors that I
didn’t think we’re even there they
didn’t think even existed and the more
doors opening up the more I start
realizing that my potential is damn near
endless I wanted to feel something
besides two feet I wanted to just go to
distance and that going to distance
pushed me to a point of where now I go
way past I have a motherfucker come wake
me up about three o’clock in the fucking
morning say hey you got your shit in I
had no trainer I have a nutritionist it
was the self discipline that I had to
survive it’s not survive I was weak to
thrive no one say hey man you’re 2 or 97
pounds man I want to help you out I had
to overcome and medicinals everything if
you don’t have it I don’t look at you
right now I know you’re capable of more
it’s not discipline so much for me
it’s all on you it’s all on you the self
part it was big
we count on people too much to get us
through shit and we look to our right we
look to our left we’re looking for help
and if you can build that self you can
we live in a society where mediocrity is
often rewarded we often forget how hard
we are but you got reflect back to take
a couple sides reflect I’ve been through
this I’ve been through that if you don’t
believe it
you ever endured shit you’re just
blowing smoke man I’m not the best at
anything I’m not I’m not gifted
I’m just driven it’s all about trying to
share that message with people all
starts with this two hands put another
work you know there are remarkable
people who come into the world from time
to time and there are people who do find
out over decades long periods what they
could be like if they were who they were
if they said if they spoke their being
forward when I was fifteen years old I
had a very important person my life come
to me and say who’s your hero and I said
I don’t know I got to think about that
give me a couple of weeks I come back
two weeks later this person comes out
and says who’s your hero I said I
thought about it you know who it is I
said it’s me in ten years I didn’t start
out thinking this is gonna replace my
income this is going to be I just did it
as a passion project and I think if
people have a regular day job if you
could just find some one thing that you
do as a passion project and just keep
building on it just keep at keep
watering it keep adding fertilizer keep
giving it attention keep giving it focus
so I turned 25 ten years later that same
person comes Mingo so you’re a hero and
she said why I said because my heroes
meet at 35 so you see every day every
week every month and every year of my
it’s soul-killing they’re stuck in
traffic all day and then they’re stuck
in a cubicle after that there are so
many people that are working all day
long doing something that is deeply
unsatisfying and an almost painful T to
them and they be get stronger and
stronger and stronger and we don’t know
the limits to that we do not know the
limits to that I’m never gonna be a hero
I’m not gonna paint that I know I’m not
and that’s just fine with me because
that keeps me with somebody to keep on
chase where does it start
what’s the anchor what’s the anchor
I can have all these ambitions
but the key with me is just always
finding with the anchor is getting up at
4 o’clock in the morning every day
before anybody else and grounding my
thought process is end the no one will
the weather the winters do it they do it
and do it and do it and do it until the
job gets done you know if you take
people and I told you this and you
expose them voluntarily to things that
they are avoiding and are afraid of you
know that they know they need to
overcome in order to meet their goals
their self defined goals if you can
teach people to stand up in the face of
the things they’re afraid of they get
stronger and you don’t know what the
upper limits to that are because you
might ask yourself like if for ten years
if you didn’t avoid doing what you knew
you needed to do what would you be like
so I turned twenty five ten years later
that same person comes being this oh
you’re a hero and I was like not even
close I was 41 years old I was
unemployed close the second restaurant
was an $800,000 loss I don’t I mean that
meant our entire home equity line it
meant kids come I get just choked up
just thinking about how terrifying it
was and so I found myself at the age of
41 like just feeling like a complete
failure
and so you could say well in part
perhaps the reason that you’re suffering
unbearably can be left at your feet
because you’re not everything you could
be and you know it you knew that there
was more in store for you but you
couldn’t figure out how you close that
gap how do you find the power that’s and
how do you discover your greatness how
and people that are trapped in bad
situations one of the problems is you
feel like this is your future and you
can’t get out of that there’s no hope
there’s no light at the end of the
tunnel
there’s no rainbow and if you feel like
that that alone can be incredibly
and so if your life isn’t everything it
could be you could ask yourself well
what would happen if you just stopped
wasting the opportunities that are in
front of you you be who knows how much
more efficient 10 times more efficient 20 times more efficient
have been born but more genetic powers
than I have but you can now out
determine me you came out really you
came out won’t me you came out work me
you came out desired me no one will
outwork me no one I love and I respect
you guys your motherfuckers won’t that
work me I suggest to you that if you are
facing a challenge
don’t stop stay busy work your plan
continue to do those things that you
know that work for you after you have
evaluated yourself in the situation
continue to move stay busy stay busy
stay busy you can’t just say you want it
you can’t watch the video and say I
wanted as bad as I want to breathe its
to to say it but when it’s Showtime when
the Sun comes up everybody wants to be a
beast in turns time to do what bees do
if you don’t believe in yourself
it won’t happen for you this top spot
this number one that’s mine
when the nose is coming down with us the
effort nobody can judge chef Stephan is
between you and you everything I’m gonna
do it nobody else not gonna let this
opportunity go by without giving it my
all you got to get up and make me happy
don’t fuck the opportunity out if you
want to be the best if you want to reach
greatness in any field greatness because
every day is a new day every moment is a
new law
so now you got the boy let’s show them
that I’m a different creature
because on this off for greatness
it’s a dream Fitness let me go okay with
video and no man is yogig bitch’s face
you made a choice to be average lack of
the people around you I have to an
average school or you work for an
average company and so you decided you
decided to go against who you are never
say never because limits like fears are
often just an illusion so how do you
make it how do you overcome the odds
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I don’t know what to say really three
minutes to the biggest battle of our
professional lives all comes down to
we’re in Hell right now
believe me and we can stay here get the
shit kicked out of us or we can fight
our way back into the light we can climb
out of hell or you could be like me
dream a pro football get hurt dream over
find yourself with just seven bucks in
your pocket so how did I get here by
while worthy and you’re able to do
something special that no one else in
the world can do are you ready to go out
there and take what’s yours all of us in
life have things we want we don’t get
we all get what we tolerate in ourselves
and other people but when you’re no
longer willing to tolerate something
that’s when your life changes everyone
in the world has a list of things they
think they should do I should lose
weight I should work out I should spend
more time with my kids I should work
harder I should make more calls I should
I should I should I should and then you
know what people don’t do their shirts
and they get mad at themselves they beat
what changes people is when you should
becomes a bust
when suddenly the thing you said should
happen has to happen that’s when you
redeems change it’s like if you want to
take the island and you’re the head of
the army if you want to take the island
the most powerful way to take the island
is burn the boats cuz if there’s no way
to go back it’s amazing what happens
when it’s a must to be something first
as a should that’s what makes you a baby
ego is the success inhibitor you have to
do your best not to make decisions based
off of ego for sure success and failure
are generally slow processes either
slowly building things up or gradually
and that’s why I say you’ve got to pay
attention
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you have to watch you have to watch
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because those seconds they turn into
minutes
then minutes turn into hours and hours
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and so that second that second that just
until the backside and so did that one
and even those precious seconds
you’re either building
or you are decaying
so
second
the dreams shattered sent home with
seven bucks in my pocket I was like wait
no I gotta play in the NFL eventually
those are my big goals that’s my dream
you realize that that playing in the NFL
was the best thing that never happened
because it got me here so my point is
look you’re gonna get your ass kicked
we’re gonna get the shit kicked out of
us you got to get up you got to have
faith that the one thing you want it to
happen oftentimes is the best thing that
never happened so have faith just keep
that in mind and keep plugging away
I’m gonna do this shit until they throw
fucking dirt on top of my eggs until
they bury me pain is temporary it may
last for a minute or an hour or a day or
even a year but eventually it will
subside and something else will take its
place if I quit however it will last
forever
there’s two sides of pain that I don’t
think a lot of people really understand
Frank there’s there’s one side of pain
that’s the suffering and the discomfort
side of pain you remember what that felt
like
but then there’s another side of pain
that’s called effort
it’s called glory it’s called if you can
find a way to push through pain there’s
I’m gonna prove to you that I can come
back that I will come back because I got
this motherfucker right here I am
determined
it’s my motherfucking magnificent
but let me tell you when they split me
open and I passed away three times now
you talk about bro Dan goddamn but this
thing that we do with my motherfucking
magnificent obsession that’s obsessed
with this shit I’m gonna do this shit
until they grow fucking dirt on top of
my eggs until they bury me the greatest
pain of my fight is the reason I’m
I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill
right
I would not be outworked right period
let me tell you something you already
know the world ain’t all sunshine and
rainbows it’s a very mean and nasty
place and I don’t care how tough you are
it will beat you to your knees and keep
you there permanently if you let it you
me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as
life but it ain’t about how hard you hit
it’s about how hard you can get hit and
keep moving forward how much you can
take they keep moving forward that’s how
you know what you’re worth
get what you’re worth but you gotta be
willing to take Dex and not pointing
fingers saying you ain’t where you want
to be because I
bloody cowards do that in that a Jew
you’re better than that I’m fragile I
feel pain I heard I opened my eyes I
create that conquer I hold the power
I’m a thinker I crave victory I do not
give up
I feel no fear I fear no man I’m an
athlete
a warrior an artist the only thing I
need every day of my life
is 86,400 seconds we’re going your focus
perspective is everything probably most
of you is that you see difficult as
something negative should I want you to
see difficult differently are you
hearing me I need you to see difficult
differently
it’s amazing than one excuse not to get
can you be committed to the process of
what you do without being emotionally
attached to the result of what you do
because a lot of people can be committed
to the process of what they do if the
results don’t change but the moment the
result or the outcome changes of what
they’re chasing they shut it down or
they quit simply because the result
changed so can we be committed to the
process of what we do but not
emotionally to the result of what we do
understanding every day I get up and
give everything I got to everything I’m
apart of simply because this is a way I
stop saying I’ve gotta wait for good
things to happen to me and I said I’m
gonna cry I’m going to fight I’m going
to work I’m going to press toward I’m
going to learn I’m going to do
everything in my power to become a
Victor not a victim winners win and
losers lose what show to the dream if
the last time that was the time when
we’re getting think about it so you know
wherever you wet way making no excuses
got no fear I feel I can’t explain it
any better than that I don’t know how it
happens but winners win and if you
create a culture of losing if you keep
being a victim if you keep letting
losing happen to you if you keep letting
people do you and treat you any kind of
way it’s gonna become a culture there’s
nothing you can’t accomplish you’re
gonna go on you’re gonna become world
champion see it should drive you it
should work for me it should drive you
you get all the talent the world it’s
all here it’s all here everybody’s next
best thing
everybody’s the thing everybody’s the
best it’s all here I think this fear is
not that we are inadequate
our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure I never feared about my
skills you know because I put into work
work Catholic eliminates fear yes you
know so if you put forth there to work
then what are you fearing you know you
what you came for doing what you’re not
never say never because limits like
fears just an illusion when I want to
smile you what motivate you what a make
it hard for you to sleep to get up early
and start early go to sleep late
the world might say you are not allowed
to yet I waited a long time out in the
world before I gave myself permission to
fail please don’t even bother asking
don’t bother telling the world you are
ready show it do it there are a lot of
sharks in the world if you hope to
complete the swim you will have to deal
with them so if you want to change the
if I have learned anything in my time
traveling the world it is the power of
hope the power of one person the
Washington a Lincoln King Mandela one
person can change the world by giving
people hope so if you want to change the
world start singing when you’re up to
your neck in mud don’t wait until they
tell you you are ready get in there
sing if you want to be successful you
must be willing to do the things a day
others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have what
did Beckett say ever tried ever failed
no matter try again and fail again fail
better
finally a SEAL training there’s a bell a
brass bell that hangs in the center of
the compound for all the students to see
all you have to do quit all you have to
do to quit is ring the bell ring the
bell and you no longer have to wake up
at 5 o’clock ring the bell and you no
longer have to be in the freezing cold
swims ring the bell and you no longer
have to do the runs the obstacle course
the PT and you no longer have to endure
the hardships of training
all you have to do is ring the bell to
get out if you want to change the world
don’t ever ever ring the bell if you do
what is easy your life will be hard
complain important your circumstances
give up your power to blame the
government blame the economy if you do
what is easy your life will be hard
start each day with a task completed
find someone to help you through life
respect everyone know that life is not
fair that you will fail often but if you
take some risks step up on the time
through the toughest face down the
bullies lift up the downtrodden
and never ever give up if you do these
things the next generation and the
generations that follow will live in a
world far better than the one we have
today and what started here will indeed
have changed the world for the better
but if you do what is hard
your life will be easy
it’s hard to make a radical change in
your behavior it’s hard to take
ownership it’s hard to swallow the
bitter pill that wherever you find
yourself at some point in time you made
an appointment to be there as hard
the world is yours treat everyone kindly
and light up the night to everybody
who’s has somebody tell them they can’t
do what they want to do family members
even tell them they can’t do what they
want to do the people who look in the
mirror and when you look in the mirror
all you got is that one person that
believes that you I’m here to tell you
that’s all you need when you crawl out
from underneath the covers every morning
and you sit on the edge of the bed you
have a choice before you we’re wired
differently we have to set a goal that
if we hit that goal we’re guaranteed to
make sure all that other stuff in the
minute was going on why three o’clock in
the morning why don’t you sleep my
appetite my appetite I said ET I want
more I can do more if I complet this
without a father what I’ve accomplished
is with my mom being a teenage mom if I
if I can accomplish these things from
this start now that I’m at this place
knowing what I know now what can I count
and I want you to think about that I
want you to think about more than jets
what you’re going to do financially more
than what you’re gonna do in this
industry in the next three years right
more than that what’s your appetite what
do you what are you going to do that
will ensure that when the alarm clock
goes off that you are already up 10 20
minutes before your alarm clock blows up
why do the word do the fucking work
you’ve heard me say it before no alarm
clock needed my passion wakes me up
sometimes the only way to go about doing
the work is get fucking raw and get
fucking intense get angry and aggressive
and make it fucking happen for yourself
you start today I don’t care really your
life clock started ticking you can start
fucking right now today if it’s 4:15
a.m. in my world you’re on the East
Coast and it’s 6:15 a.m. and you’re
already up and you’re already dragging
ass by six sixteen you can change your
fucking perspective of the world love
fucking do it dig fuck dig deep and get
no long I’ve been using a long clock and
over 20 years
what is it internally here I wanna be
successful I want to execute I wanna
make all my dreams become a reality I
want to do everything I said I’m going
to do so my appetite increases it gets
stronger every year I want more every I
want to do more every I want to help
more every I want to be bolder I’m gonna
be better I want to be stronger every
single year every single year your
appetite to go up you should never get
saddled you should never get settled you
should never get content every single
year when you get content when you
settle some
somebody’s coming for me ah and somebody
time take your spot and so every single
day you wake up you gotta set new goals
new benchmarks you got raised it higher
and higher come about your box and box
he’s wired differently that has same
makeup mr. Dubey what makes a gazelle a
let me explain to you when a lion sees a
gazelle and the gazelle she’s the lion
see Jenna the exact same time when the
gazelle sees the line because of how
he’s wired he automatically fear takes
over
the Showtime the hunt is on this is what
I was made for do the work do the
when I was in high school I early on
about 16 years old as I want to become
fuzzy United States because I how can I
contribute most of society and I went to
a seminar my man named Jim really stole
some of our speaker
I took a week’s pay as working 40 hours
a week as a janitor and it was 35
dollars to the evening seminar so his
big decision I listened to him speak
I came I’m so inspired as most of me
said I already believed Mao was an
authority figure saying you really could
be this way well I paid the price
why work this hard why go this far why
try to learn this much why try to do it
all
why try to see it all why try to have it
all
why do it why I learn it why study why
put yourself out why try to take on this
puts responsibility why develop yourself
to the full why try to become all that
you can possibly become why try to earn
as much as you can earn share as much as
you can share develop every skill you
possibly can
see every human you possibly can go to
every class you possibly can touch
everybody you possibly can do I do that
much if I go that far
why share that much why give that much
away why try to see everything why try
to do everything why try to become
everything that’s a good question why
and you’re the only one personally that
can answer that question for yourself
work on your list of wives if the Y is
powerful the how is easy if you want to
think that enough to go out and fight
for to work day and night for it to give
up your time your peace in your sleep if
all that you dream and scheme is about
it life seems useless and worthless
without it and if you’re going to sweat
for it and fret water to plan for and
lose all your terror of the opposition
for that if you simply go after that
thing that you want with all of your
capacity strengthens of gastly Faith
Hope and confidence and stern
pertinacity if neither cold poverty
famish a god sickness a pain of body and
brain can keep you away from the thing
that you want dogged and grim you can
see gender senate the hope of god if
your goals are powerful
if the vision isn’t clear the old
prophet said without a vision we die
without a vision we perish without a
dream we’re nothing and because he spoke
how people live their lives as a result
of the story they believed about
themselves he interrupted the story that
I believed about myself work on your
list of why make no small plans or they
have no magic to stir men’s blood make
large plans for they do have magic
determined but impossible is not a fact
it’s an opinion it’s your opinion they
don’t say no science shows and I say
yeah I know how many times the science
shows something’s impossible now science
shows it’s possible things are
impossible till somebody does it divorce
the story of your limitation and marry
the truth of your unlimited capacity
than the whole game changes success is
born out of luck its awareness of mind
you will all be confronted with
opportunity you must take advantage of
it
so you don’t take advantage of your
opportunity you’ll never realize your
dreams whether you want them or not is
the relevance you don’t know that until
you achieve it but most people have
strategies available or they could get
them or you could create them but the
problem is you got a story and your
story is why does it work and the story
is I’ve tried everything if you tried
everything you’d be fit you try
everything you’d be profitable if you
tried everything you’d be there but
I was going to a council estate
getting a job at the hotel st. George
was my passport to escape the world that
do I have what it takes
I said to myself yes so I started
pushing and push you push you and push
is how self-belief
you can do more than this if I had to
walk ahead and walk it just became just
a process of grinding and grinding and
grinding letting the good word for it
it’s not even a good word for it and
just just going further and further and
then when I got through running I’d go
through the bike I go to the pool if I
got tired somewhere Malays retired I go
to the gym and I develop this crazy
workout where I was doing volume things
don’t happen overnight you have to make
you never throw in the towel if I threw
in the towel pick it up
and when you’re young it’s very easy to
give in to walk away it really is so
whatever you want to do in your life
don’t ever work it don’t ever think it
do you realize your dream trust me
the question isn’t can you handle the
situation the question is can you handle
your mind can you manage the thoughts
and the emotions that are trying to
poison your progress
forget managing the situation
manage your mind no matter whose fault
it is that something is broken if it’s
it’s not somebody’s fault if their
father was an abusive alcoholic but is
for damn sure their responsibility to
figure out how they’re gonna do with
those traumas and try to make a life out
of it
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it’s not your fault if your partner
cheated and ruined your marriage but it
is for damn sure your responsibility to
figure out how to take that pain and how
to overcome that and build a happy life
fault and responsibility do not go
together Sox but they don’t was
something is somebody’s fault we want
to suffer we want them punished we want
them to pay we want it to be their
responsibility to fix it but that’s
that’s not how it works especially when
it’s your heart your heart your life
your happiness your responsibility
fear
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the only place that fear can exist is in
is a product of our imagination causing
us to fear things that do not at present
and may not ever exist as long as we’re
pointing a finger and and stuck in whose
fault
something is we’re jammed and trapped
into victim mode when you’re in victim
mode you are stuck in suffering the road
to power is in taking responsibility
your heart your life your happiness is
your responsibility and your
responsibility alone
I’m not the best at anything I’m not I’m
not gifted
I’m just driven I’m a guy that came from
nothing anybody’s capable of doing shit
like this anybody and I sat in that tub
she put the water on me she called my
mom up and I mom was dating a doctor at
the time the doctor did like I said you
need to get him to a hospital now she
came back in all I want to do is call
Chris Koster on the phone the race
director of bad waters I can get it so
she sent akin to doctor I said no let me
sit here enjoy this pain she said what
are you talking about I said you don’t I
go I need to go to the doctor I realize
that but I never thought it was humanly
possible to do what I did I went 70
miles in at 70 miles I was dead I was at
a hundred percent what I thought where I
thought was 100 percent
I went 30 31 more miles after being in
the worst physical shape I’ve ever been
and I sat in that tub and iguanas hit me
it was the most amazing feeling of
I did this however as the crazy as it
sounds it was the most amazing moment of
my entire life
to overcome such to come from this kid
who is mr. torture and suffering was
tortured his talk to this kid – Skyy now
who was able to overcome such amazing
eyes and obstacles and I call crisscross
like the race director a bad water and
he said the idea of a 24-hour races to
run 24 hours nearly ran nineteen and put
doubt in my mind that you 11 the bad
water
two weeks later roughly December 5th who
has this marathon that we all signed up
I ran a hundred miles before I ran a
marathon it’s ten days or two weeks
after this hundred mile in one race I
did this marathon December 5th Las Vegas
that gun went off 2005 14 days after I
broke myself off and I qualify for the
Boston Marathon around 308 like the gun
went off and that thing came back like
and then I went to the hurt 100 race in
Hawaii 26,000 feet of climbing over 100
miles probably one of the top-five
hardest hundred mile races in the world
not there and got through the race did
in 33 hours with a ninth place finisher
and I qualified for bad water and got in
I went on to lose weight and train hard
and I got fifth my first year I went
back my second year and got there I’m
not the best at anything I’m not I’m not
gifted
I’m just driven I have the hundred men
that go into Ward 10 shouldn’t be there
80 of them are his targets nine do most
of fighting one is a warrior I saw it
going through train I saw it everywhere
I went
there’s so many people who just show up
to life there’s something about talking
to a guy like you that a lot of people
hope that you’re gonna say some magic
thing that’s gonna click in their brain
what you’re saying is that you have to
do those things you have to suffer you
have to live in it you have to be
comfortable in it and then maybe some of
that shit will help you a little bit
along the way leave me now is the guy
that with this shirt off who can do 4030
pull-ups in 17 hours you can run tours
and then 5 miles in 39 hours who can do
all this crazy shit but what they don’t
understand is they don’t understand the
journey that it took me to get to this
point and what got me to this point was
I was just the opposite everything today
I was that guy who ran away from
absolutely everything that I got in
front of me
I wanted to quit so badly buddy quit
everything in my life I copied through
school I want to prove people wrong and
so here I am in this Air Force program
starting to get a little more confidence
but this water was kicking my ass and
six weeks in the program the doctor gave
me a blood test
it must have sickle cell so they put me
out training for a week and when you go
from being very uncomfortable in that
water situation and then now you’re
comfortable and I’m sitting back
watching the guys drown I’m not you know
I’m not part of the activities anymore
for this week I don’t want to get back
in that damn water again so the fear
overcame in all my insecurities for my
dad from this small town from everything
started coming back I mean that wouldn’t
go back in that water the doctor called
me back up I thought to get like a like
a medical kick out of the military so no
quitting for me there kicked me out so I
can had some pride the doctor said no
I’m kidding you know we could put you
back in the training and the sergeant
said hey you got to start from day one
because you missed you know that that we
could train him and I broke I broke I
couldn’t imagine going back through that
again and and I pretty much quit even
so um from the age of 19 the age of 22 I
went into the job called tack pee where
you control fast movers behind enemy
lines cool job but there’s no water I
was afraid of water so I avoided it and
I gained 125 pounds in that time frame I
went from 175 to almost 300 to 297 was
my heaviest and I started finding things
that was comfortable and the more things
I found comfortable the more
uncomfortable my mind was because that
voice I was telling you about it always
was there I was just trying to avoid
that conscience I I wanted to be left
alone from that conscience and it
wouldn’t leave me alone
so I got out of the Air Force and I
started working for a job called ecolab
respray for cockroaches at 24 and
spraying at different stake and shakes
Red Lobster whenever from 11 o’clock at
night at 7 o’clock in the morning
and what changed I came home and watch
this Discovery Channel show I’m class
224 I came home from Steak N Shake I
sprayed it down last get a big ol large
42 ounce shake walk across the street
and get a box of mini doughnuts from
7-eleven you never drive home for 45
minutes this big old fat guy was
watching these guys going through hell
week class through 24 and these guys
ringing the bell quittin dropping their
helmet down rolling out a lot of guys
just leaving and it made me reflect on
my fears my insecurities and I saw real
men when I thought were real men who
were staying who were overcoming
adversity who were overcoming all these
different things that I had blamed so
many fucking people in my life my dad my
mom for not being there everybody was a
plan my learned disability my my skin
color you know meet me being everything
and so I sat there for a while and I was
like I got it
no one’s gonna fucking come to help me
no one’s gonna fucking come to help me
his fucking me against me period and I’m
I’m exactly what people said I was gonna
be but all of us have these fears that
you just don’t want to fucking face I
have a lot of them had a lot of them and
that’s recreated the person who’s in
by two options to either be that
300-pound guy who spray for cockroaches
have made $1,000 a month and at 24 years
old knowing we’re not 50 fucking years
old I can reflect on this and think
about what God never became or I can
totally just sack it up and fail and
fail and fail and try and succeed to get
into the class I have to get into how to
lose 106 pounds in less than three
months I can’t do that and grab my
chocolate milkshake and went back to
Ecolab I’m going back to work man
this is my life next morning or this
next night I went to work and I hit the
all that cockroach is too much I hit the
mother lode of cockroaches and this
restaurant got full of cockroaches and
rodents and everything else and I sat
there i said this is my life this is it
I quit my job left my canister in that
restaurant my spray canister got back in
my ecolab truck and I went home and I
started working out like somebody I was
I became the most obsessed person on the
planet Earth and I said this ain’t gonna
be it for me we all want to read about
how we can quickly get somewhere that’s
why the six-minute abs so powerful you
may get some results from it they’re not
permanent
the permanent result comes from you I
say it all time you have to suffer you
have to make that a tattoo on your brain
so when that hard time comes again you
don’t forget it
I’m trying to find more of myself and
the only way I can find more is to
silence the world out as much as I can
because it’s getting busier every day
it’s getting faster I put my phone away
up and I go dark
I go dark a lot and it’s because I have
to find out I’m on a journey of life and
we all have a different journey I like
to take this four-lane highway the easy
highway we all love that four-lane
highway we always step over the shovel
level I made my own path but going
through this path of life this journey
over here that you make yourself that’s
it’s easier to accept the fact that I’m
you have to go into the dark chambers
that we often shut off you gotta open
them up does not some easy
lit up streetlights behalf with nice
smooth roads right fail and you’re gonna
be in your head you could be saying I’m
not good enough and it’s how you get
through that is how you get through that
on a daily basis when that thing is say
man I’m 43 I’ve done so much you start
to become civilized the refrigerator
gets full you start getting making money
and you start I’m not getting cold
anymore I’m retired and forty people
shouldn’t be playing basketball or
football or at 43 I’m still putting
hundred-mile weeks still doing thousands
of pull-ups do two thousand two push-ups
because I’m not allowing myself to
become civilized the worst didn’t happen
to a man’s become civilized you want to
be uncommon I must uncommon people
period you start putting yourself in
situations that suck you’ll find
yourself
I’m big on being with yourself I want to
be forever proud of who I was a man
and change who I used to be the liar the
insecure guy the guy who can whatever I
want to be proud but if I died now if I
die a for diet 1900 wonder to myself
saying proud myself I believe in
patience I’m a patient dude I can watch
the piece of grass grow for 20 years
because I know that this is how you get
somewhere in life by being that not like
mentality
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being able to watch something though
very scholarly patiently
okay buddy faster we drive to a brain we
put a governor brain slick we feel pain
just comfort suffering all those words
that we hate to say could be on this
happy peaceful world we live in now we
if you can get through these different
barriers and gain 5 percent 2% 3% that
40% becomes 60s 60 per kid because 70 80
and 90 and hopefully one day near a
hundred that that dreamer mentality just
would always fuel me it was just rude
man what if I can be but if I can be a
seal man I’m now I run tour in five
miles what if I can go but just what if
I can go in and what if how would that
feel you have to go into the dark
chambers that we often shut off are you
gonna open him up I was like I said 297
I was about 32 percent body fat and I
went my idea was to run four miles for
my first run I ran a quarter mile and
walked home I walked home and sat on my
couch and cry i sat down I gave up you
start out on the first day and then do
you start running again the second day
yeah second day were right back after
the ginn but I start realizing I can’t
run that for right so what I did was I
became damn near professional cyclist
with the miles I put on the bike I go to
the gym and I developed this crazy
workout where I was doing volume like to
300 reps
I spent hours in the pool hours in the
pool I had to live in the water the bike
got easier I was able to run more I went
from like one mile when I was a great
accomplishment to miles and then from 2
to 3 was a big one then I went from 3 to
6
I failed I’ll go back to scratch but I
started realizing this is part of the
process this is part of the journey I’m
just not good enough I’m gonna make
myself good enough when we have bad
times in life even the hardest person
where we forget how badass we are during
I have a thing where I take a couple
seconds to reflect on I hang on man you
meant to be with you this you’ve been
through that you overcame this overcame
that I don’t ever close my mind to the
fact that this can’t be done I’ve quit
several things I know what’s on the back
end equipment I wanted to be a man that
the test mediocrity
I started callous in my mind at this
point in my life I lost the weight and I
went back to recruiter I got into that
class I went through three Navy so he’ll
loose in one year only God ever be in
three hell weeks in one year if to my
knowledge the first one I didn’t make it
I started opening different doors that I
didn’t think we’re even there they
didn’t think even existed and the more
doors opening up the more I start
realizing that my potential is damn near
endless I wanted to feel something
besides two feet I wanted to just go to
distance and that going to distance
pushed me to a point of where now I go
way past I have a motherfucker come wake
me up about three o’clock in the fucking
morning say hey you got your shit in I
had no trainer I have a nutritionist it
was the self discipline that I had to
survive it’s not survive I was weak to
thrive no one say hey man you’re 2 or 97
pounds man I want to help you out I had
to overcome and medicinals everything if
you don’t have it I don’t look at you
right now I know you’re capable of more
it’s not discipline so much for me
it’s all on you it’s all on you the self
part it was big
we count on people too much to get us
through shit and we look to our right we
look to our left we’re looking for help
and if you can build that self you can
we live in a society where mediocrity is
often rewarded we often forget how hard
we are but you got reflect back to take
a couple sides reflect I’ve been through
this I’ve been through that if you don’t
believe it
you ever endured shit you’re just
blowing smoke man I’m not the best at
anything I’m not I’m not gifted
I’m just driven it’s all about trying to
share that message with people all
starts with this two hands put another
work you know there are remarkable
people who come into the world from time
to time and there are people who do find
out over decades long periods what they
could be like if they were who they were
if they said if they spoke their being
forward when I was fifteen years old I
had a very important person my life come
to me and say who’s your hero and I said
I don’t know I got to think about that
give me a couple of weeks I come back
two weeks later this person comes out
and says who’s your hero I said I
thought about it you know who it is I
said it’s me in ten years I didn’t start
out thinking this is gonna replace my
income this is going to be I just did it
as a passion project and I think if
people have a regular day job if you
could just find some one thing that you
do as a passion project and just keep
building on it just keep at keep
watering it keep adding fertilizer keep
giving it attention keep giving it focus
so I turned 25 ten years later that same
person comes Mingo so you’re a hero and
she said why I said because my heroes
meet at 35 so you see every day every
week every month and every year of my
it’s soul-killing they’re stuck in
traffic all day and then they’re stuck
in a cubicle after that there are so
many people that are working all day
long doing something that is deeply
unsatisfying and an almost painful T to
them and they be get stronger and
stronger and stronger and we don’t know
the limits to that we do not know the
limits to that I’m never gonna be a hero
I’m not gonna paint that I know I’m not
and that’s just fine with me because
that keeps me with somebody to keep on
chase where does it start
what’s the anchor what’s the anchor
I can have all these ambitions
but the key with me is just always
finding with the anchor is getting up at
4 o’clock in the morning every day
before anybody else and grounding my
thought process is end the no one will
the weather the winters do it they do it
and do it and do it and do it until the
job gets done you know if you take
people and I told you this and you
expose them voluntarily to things that
they are avoiding and are afraid of you
know that they know they need to
overcome in order to meet their goals
their self defined goals if you can
teach people to stand up in the face of
the things they’re afraid of they get
stronger and you don’t know what the
upper limits to that are because you
might ask yourself like if for ten years
if you didn’t avoid doing what you knew
you needed to do what would you be like
so I turned twenty five ten years later
that same person comes being this oh
you’re a hero and I was like not even
close I was 41 years old I was
unemployed close the second restaurant
was an $800,000 loss I don’t I mean that
meant our entire home equity line it
meant kids come I get just choked up
just thinking about how terrifying it
was and so I found myself at the age of
41 like just feeling like a complete
failure
and so you could say well in part
perhaps the reason that you’re suffering
unbearably can be left at your feet
because you’re not everything you could
be and you know it you knew that there
was more in store for you but you
couldn’t figure out how you close that
gap how do you find the power that’s and
how do you discover your greatness how
and people that are trapped in bad
situations one of the problems is you
feel like this is your future and you
can’t get out of that there’s no hope
there’s no light at the end of the
tunnel
there’s no rainbow and if you feel like
that that alone can be incredibly
and so if your life isn’t everything it
could be you could ask yourself well
what would happen if you just stopped
wasting the opportunities that are in
front of you you be who knows how much
more efficient 10 times more efficient 20 times more efficient
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