And this NFL football player comes up to me and says Gog, lemme ask you a question
How do you keep that dog mentality? I said, "Lemme asked you a question. When you were younger...,
,...what did you want to be?" He said "An NFL football player, but once I got there, I lost that dog mentality"
He had a finish line is playing guess what let you talk mentality I have a dog at home
He never gets full it's not enough you made it to the NFL
But not enough you made a 5k with a 10k and that you became a doctor
Be a better doctor. It's not enough you lost 50 pounds, go out there do something with it
Guess what? It's 109' out here. Guess what? It's not enough! STAY HARD
One day I was running and this guy passes me in a car... It's about 100 degrees out here 70% humidity
The guy comes back around looks at me and pull this car by me and says, "Why are you out here?"
I said, "Because you're not."
Sometimes your motivation needs to be because no one else wants to do it
We need doctors! We need dentists! We need teachers! We also need savages
This messes I do
Nothing everybody
Some want that soft bullshit about ," Do you have sunscreen on?" This message is dangerous. It's too hot
I'm not asking you to be like me. You do you!
Stay hard!
Your minds get softer! We do that shit every day in life
A lot of you are trying to find inspiration and motivation...,
...with a depressed mindset. You'll find inspiration by not living in the grip of life
Neither leaving the grip of life to find inspiration
Put challenges in front of yourself and then you attack it! That's when you find inspiration
repetition every day stay hard
So the other day I got an email from this lady
She says she truly enjoyed my book, but as she read it, she thought I was this crazy
After she read it. She put the book down and started living a normal life
Just going back paying bills, going back to work complaining about shit
Two days later. She has time to think about the book and it scared her
she thought well, maybe this guy isn't crazy, and
that's what scared her the most. Maybe he's here trying to show us a real potential, what we're all capable of doing.
A lot of people like to put titles on other people. Who're doing extraordinary things
It makes them feel better about themselves. Gives 'em a get out of jail free card. I'm not crazy. I'm just not like you
In sports... there's a thing out there called "Load management"
A lot of us like to "Load manage" our lives
When you do that, you're gonna find yourself right at normal
Get off that and stay hard!
With success in life comes more haters
Don't make them hurt your feelings, use it for fuel, use them for energy
In times of need, put them on mental rolodex in your mind and we don't want to do shit
roll through your brain
Pull up that person who said you couldn't do something. "You weren't fast enough, good enough, smart enough!"
Use it for energy
instead of killing 'em with kindness
Torture them with success. In life, we have to continue pushing past the odds
Use everything this world has to give you for fuel stay hard
And anybody not just Navy says but anybody that can accomplish anything that is hard
The other separator is is that they really want to be there
There's some people that get inspired
and that inspiration moves them to try to do something, but the inspiration is
...is very high right now in this nice environment.
We're in a nice environment. I watched a movie about some badasses you're inspired
but the second you're not in this environment
and you're actually doing
What inspired you that "suck factor" is NOT real
You're now "there" if only those people
who have been "there" a million times in their minds and
...and have lived in that water and have suffered a million times and realized my legs may break
My knee may break, my bones will hurt.
I will be the coldest I've been in my life. I will be miserable and
Accept that me getting over situations in life your mind and media says get everybody's done even if you want to be there
But starts to have all these different questions in your mind that one second it says, okay
Why are you here why this and why that and then you started to say yourself
If you don't want to be there that bad
"I'm not gonna break my body up to do this!" Your mind starts to say "Yeah! this is stupid!"
But if you had if you are already knowing that this is going to happen to you. We have all the answers to these questions
That your mind starts to give you when you're at "Suffer mode"
Trying to be 10% better than you were last week
So you're running 30 miles a week? Run 33!
If you're swimming 500 meters, swim 550
The more you walk away from accountability
the weaker you become
Come find yourself in the grip of life. You can't find yourself by doing nothing
We've developed "Pockets of weakness" nowadays
And we try to fill these pockets with lies. I did it for many years
So... I'm here in Colorado for a conference. I go to the gym
This trainer calls me over to talk to this group of people he's training. He says "Hey, man?"
"What are you doing out here?" So I tell him, "look at what kind of workouts are you doing?"
"I'm climbing up this mountain!"
3,000 feet for three miles. I'm doing it every day
So next day I'm out looking for him
Didn't see him. A couple days later, looking for him...
Didn't see him!
So here I am on the mountain again. Climbing it
There's a gondola that takes you up and takes you down
I'm going up it and I see the gondola about 5 minutes to the top. I look up at gondola
I see him face pressed up against the window looking at me our eyes meet
Don't talk about it, be about it
Practice what you preach
Stay hard!
I like suffering in the way that is
competitive
That brings out the absolute best in me and in everybody else. I want to see what you're made of
I want to see like almost like the Coliseum. Mm-hmm. In Rome
I mean you can't do it by writing the paper and I found out in the only message I'm gonna get across to people is
Once you change one thing...
"Your mindset"
You can attack everything
People know how do you keep grinding every day
You have to make those insecurities, those fears
Like when I was 300 pounds, I didn't have any "Drive". I was an insecure, lying kid... afraid.
I had to... look at my insecurities and
In my fear and find "Drive" in that. We're all looking for passion. Passion is all around you!
All the energy and fuel you need is right in yourself!
It's all there. You got a lot of stuff to do to overcome and you know
That's where I found it. I found it right there in my own insecurities.
I found "Drive" in my own insecurities
That's the most powerful thing in the world. When you can find Drive in your own
Doubt, Fear, Insecurities
You become very unstoppable.
I'm in a search for a feeling
I'm not in a search for a trophy
I'm not in search for love. I'm not in search for more followers on Instagram or social media
when I started this journey years ago and
I realized that I'm gonna be somebody and I'm searching for a feeling
a feeling of true victory for myself and
only myself the second I shut out the whole world and
realized that one thing that I am in this world alone.
I'm fighting this race by my seekest person on the planet Earth
my goal in life was
to in my mind believe I'm the hardest man alive
That's why the whole thing is can't hurt me
That's what it's about is about. Whatever you think you are
You have to make that dream a reality. That's where
the hard part is
There are lots of successful people in this world
who still feel empty inside
And they worry about still feeling empty
So they try to make another million...2 million...3 million
let's buy a new car, new house, new boat.
Let's buy more everything then at end of the day they still feel empty inside
for me...
I wasn't even successful. I was all empty
so I was trying to hide my insecurities.
You have to be "there"
Over but not there at the graduation
[Okay] ...you gotta be there in the worst part [The suffering] ...that you know all over and over again. You gotta live that in your mind
Just enough..., same thing with life
If you don't get inside your soul,
inside your heart and fix it
You will only go to war with yourself
Stay hard