You Owe You - David Goggins Motivation

Well, like I've said a million times before, the most important conversation is the one you have with yourself. You wake up with it, you walk around with it, you go to bed with it. Eventually, you act on it. Sometimes you act on it good, sometimes bad. You got to change the internal dialogue. That person in your head that's talking that to you, until you change the internal dialogue in your head, until you callous over the victim's mentality that the world is out to get you because of you are the only You got to change that man. So, a lot of this isn't your fault why you do some things you do, why you feel the way you feel. But no one's coming back to save your ass. You have to go back to where this [ __ ] started, wherever that place is for everybody, and have the courage to go back there and start fixing what broke you. It's ugly. What's funny about it is that as you're trying to fix yourself and dig yourself out of this deep hole that life, society, and you helped, those people who you saw down there in that hole who were there with you, who were your friends and people who you counted on, [music] you meet the people in the same situation that you're in in life. Those people become your friends. The second you try to get out of that situation and become better, those people are in that in that grave, in that dungeon, they're just yanking at your heels, man, saying, "Get the [ __ ] back Oh, no, get home. COME ON BACK HERE." YEAH. You ain't going to make me feel like [ __ ] by you getting out of this hole. I was a fat guy trying to be a Navy SEAL now, and my life had come to this crossroads where I'm like, "Man, you have to go right." And no one was going right. Everybody was going left. I'm like, "You have to go right." And to know the pain and suffering I was about to endure by going right, the amount of accountability and failure I was going to witness and suffer by myself, alone, on this journey, it was daunting. I put my whole life, a guy that was scared of water, a guy that could tell himself how to read and write, on being one of the hardest on the planet. Think about that [ __ ] A guy that came from nothing. I put my whole life and I'm going to go out here and put everything on David [ __ ] Goggins to be a Navy SEAL. Not to go be a [ __ ] you know, a Boy Scout or some [ __ ] A Navy SEAL. And I And I I I look at that and I did all this [ __ ] just to get the opportunity to succeed. That's what That's what people don't [ __ ] understand, man. And people want to see the the the the end result. I remember that guy saying, "My God, man, I can't believe what the [ __ ] I've just done. I put everything, ruined relationships, ruined this, ruined that, put everything on faith. I have to become someone in this world or I'm no good for anybody." People would constantly remind me of who I used to be back in the day. When you come from a small, small town and you come from a place that a lot of people don't want to come out of it and get out of it and all you want to do is become somebody, small-town mentality is a real mentality. You've got to be able to get out and let your mind see open-mindedness cuz a small town, what it does to you is it closes your mind. Completely closes your mind. Not everybody. This isn't everybody. A lot of people. You need space. [music] You need space to see the world like a lot of racism, a lot of a lot of ignorance in the world. It comes from people not being out and seeing other things, seeing other people, seeing all kind of [ __ ] What That's why we judge so harshly cuz our minds are so closed to the reality of of life. I never found peace until I got real sick. And you find peace by clarity. And there's no clarity when there's noise. I'm still alive. And while I'm still alive, I'm going to grind until I'm dead. From the dungeon of hell that I came from, I had to reflect on that [ __ ] to find final peace and be able to say, "Wow, [ __ ] If you die in this bed at 40 years old, I'm the happiest in the world cuz I did it. I pissed people off along the way. So, people don't like me. Merry Christmas. Whatever. But, you can finally look in the mirror [music] and you can curse on damn Rich Roll [ __ ] and don't care what they say about you and be happy with it. One of the hardest things in the world for me at a young age was My God, I just want to fit in. I want to fit [music] in. I I want you to like me. So, that's a horrible [ __ ] place to be in life cuz you lose yourself. When you want to fit in with people so badly, normal [ __ ] people, no better than you. You do whatever you can to fit in. That's a bad place to be. You lose yourself in trying to create a character that other people will accept. And the That's where I found a lot of joy, man. This is God. This is me. Take it or leave it. You don't like me, take a number and get in line, man. And I'm not going to go God on you right now cuz I don't care if people believe in God or not. That's not my place. I'm not here to judge you. You have your own life and your own things to deal [music] with. This voice in my head guided me to a spot where I'm at today. And if you don't believe that you're here for a reason, your life will seriously hurt. And I started looking at my life and all the [ __ ] I went through as God put me some God or whoever you believe in put me here to go through this. And now I see all the hundreds of thousands of lives I'm changing by the hell I went through. There's a lot of power in that. Instead of looking at it like, "Woe is me, God. Man, why why the [ __ ] man? Why why?" I started looking at it as it's the perfect training ground. You knew exactly what you were doing. You put me in every situation possible to tell a story that needed to be told. So, when I speak, I speak from passion. I speak from experience. I I I speak from suffering. I want to tell this young man or woman that the only way I believe, and this is this my experience in life, the only way you're ever going to get to the other side of this journey is you have got to suffer to grow. A lot of people take the easy route and they had a good life that way but the better life was going to the right side. And you may have 20 years of pain and suffering to get past it but a lot of us die never truly starting our journey. I'm not the smartest kid in the world. Okay. Is there somebody saying, "Oh, no, you're smart." No, no, don't say that to I said to myself, "No, I'm a dumb mother Okay, Roger that. How do you get smarter? Educate yourself. So, the things that we run from, we run away from the truth. We're running away from the truth, man. So, the only way I became successful was going towards the truth as painful and as brutal as it is, it changed [music] me. It it allowed me to become in my own right who I am today. If you can for the rest of your life live inside of yourself [music] stop listening to people who are calling you fat, gay, transsexual, everything that is makes no sense. All these insecure people putting their insecurities on you, you got to flush it out. You got to just be whoever the hell God or whatever the hell you believe in. If you believe in nothing but yourself, I don't care what it is. You got to take everything and throw it away. I may give you the spark but you've [music] got to go inside yourself to find it. Stop going in a room, stop talking, search your soul, search your mind, search your abilities and you'll find it. But if you're not looking for it you won't find it. So, you got to go start your journey and the journey starts with you finding why the hell am I here on this planet Earth. If you don't know that, you will live the rest of your life searching, always asking the question why. I failed and I went back. I failed and I went back and I finally succeeded. All the things that kicked my ass, I put them all in the cookie jar cuz at times of hell, even the hardest men, in times of suffering, what we do is we forget how hard we really Suffering is a test. It's all it is. Suffering is the true test of life. I remember who the [ __ ] I really am. I'm not the kid that got that I was called names. I'm not the scared kid. This is who I am. Self-talk and visualization are the two keys [music] to my success. And I am all about you doing you cuz I'm going to [ __ ] do me. And I'm going to do me until I'm [ __ ] dead. And I believe I I earned the right. A lot of people haven't earned the right. Just cuz you live in this country don't mean you earned the right. You got to You got to live a little bit. Live. And then have something to say or shut the [ __ ] up, you know? You got to find the courage. You got to find [music] the courage to put your Bose headphones on and silence the noise out of this world and to find it. And to find it cuz it's out there, but it's going to take hard work, [music] courage, self-discipline, the all the non-cognitive [music] skills to be great. You know, smart is good, all this stuff is good. That's all cognitive. It's the non-cognitive [music] skills that set you apart from everybody else. And and that's what it's all about.