Do It Alone - David Goggins Motivation

Well everybody, it's Groundhog's Day again for David Goggins. If you pan it down here you see it's about three o'clock in the morning and there's not a car or a person in sight. If you pan over here it's the same thing, not a car or a person in sight. People want to know where I find my strength at, where I get my strength. I get it from a lot of places but right now this morning I'm getting it from there's not a ************ that's up, there's not a car, there's not a person. Everybody's in their bed, sleep, dreading that it's a Monday, hate it's a Monday and I'm loving it. I'm loving that where everybody's getting weaker I'm getting stronger. It's not about the running, the swimming, the push-ups, the sit-ups, it's about what those things do for your mentality. You don't get better on the daggone couch, you get better by coming out here and getting the **** after every daggone day. Stay hard. It's funny man, people want to know how I'm always motivated, it's the unseen work. Like I'm out running at two o'clock in the morning, one o'clock in the morning, in the gym, long sessions by myself. You, that's real. How I'm able to just extract dopamine, the good dopamine whenever I want, man I've trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. And while I'm still hard on myself, I know what I did. So whenever times get bad for people, all this, who's gonna carry the boats and all, that's real. I hate that people know me for that guy because that guy is not every ******* day, like when they see me they want that energy. That's not me every day. I can extract it immediately when I need to because when you train alone and I lived alone for so many years in this misery and you're able to get out by yourself, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose and like the feeling I get is something I can't even explain by myself. I don't need anyone. That's why people come to me to motivate them. No one can motivate me. I have a resume full of ******* motivation. That whenever I'm down like, oh hang on ************. Oh you know, you know the truth. You know that you, you know the darkness of the ******* dungeons and the ******* demons that fly. You know, and then from there it's like, okay you were there. You know this. There was no one there to pick up the rucksack, to pick up the boat, to pick up the log, to go in there. It was you. For the time of my life I wanted to be accepted. Growing up I lied, I ******* did what I could. If you ******* like UFC and I didn't, I love it. I love it man. Let's go ******* watch it man. Be my friend. Be my buddy. That ******* weak ass shit. I fought it out through this path of life. Who is David Goggins? Who am I? To go through all, I did it alone. There was no ******* trophy on the ******* wall, the mantle. That trophy's in my ******* brain. No one helped me get there. No one paid my ******* bills. No one did shit for me. No one ran those ******* miles, lost that ******* weight. I suffered on my own and developed this man who said, that's who I am man. A very competitive, ultra competitive dude that, take it what you want man. I call that personal sovereignty. Exactly. There's not a lot of people that have that. That's me. There's a lot of people that change who they are depending upon what people want from them. And that's me. Yeah, that's important man. And most people struggle their whole life to find out who they are. Struggle their whole, their whole life to find out what defines them, what they actually enjoy and what they don't. You start putting yourself in situations that suck, you'll find yourself. Yeah. You'll find it real quick. If you, whatever the hell you're going through, it takes a lot of patience, a lot of time and a lot of pitfalls, a lot of plateaus. You're gonna hit so many ******* plateaus. If you don't know how to get around that plateau, it's not going to happen fast. Yeah. Everybody wants the hack. Yeah. Everybody wants the hack. There is no hack man. They have the woe is me mentality. It's too hard. Life isn't fair. These things in life are not easy for me. You, you, you look to your left and you look to your right and you start to judge yourself off other people. Like if you're a female, well, she's skinny and she doesn't work out as hard as I do. And everything starts to corrupt your mind. You start to look around too much at other people and what they're doing. And that starts to corrupt your own dialogue. We are judging ourselves against too many ******* people. You have to judge yourself against yourself. And that's the one thing I started learning, man. This isn't a race against me and Rich Roll. This is a race against David Goggins and David Goggins alone. And once you can silence all that bullshit, all the outside interference and things that are attracting your mind to everything, you can then start to grow and realizing I'm stressed out for no reason. This is my own little race. This is my own timeline. And this is how I'm going to run it. I think that so many people are so disconnected from themselves. They're operating on autopilot. They're reacting to their environment that even when given the opportunity to set a goal for themselves, they generally don't set the right goal because they don't know what the **** they're doing because they don't even know who they are fundamentally. That's the big thing, man. And that's why it was important for me to finally realize, stop being all these fake people I used to be. Stop being afraid. There was no growth until I cut myself down to nothing, to the person I really was, the real human being. And once I found out who I really was, that's when I started growing. But where do you go to? You wake up on a morning, it's cold, it's wet, it's dark. You've got no cartilage in your knee. You've got shitty shorts, whatever it is that's the issue today. It's warm on the couch. Your missus says stay in bed. It's comfy. It's cozy. You've got work later on. You had an argument last night. You're slightly hungover. God, I know every ************ ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do. So this is how you level up. That's how you level up. I know there's a whole bunch of people with that right there. That fires me up. That makes me ******* happy what you just said. That brings joy to my life right there. Why? Because I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch, refuse to study a few more hours, refuse to go deeper, to go further. And that's where I gain the advantage. It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don't want to go to that extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely. You talk about that you were kind of, you know, lonely by yourself. I was the same way and that used to hurt me growing up. Now I ******* thrive in that shit. That's the only place to be. There was no patting the ******* back at 300, at 275, at 250, at 220. No, that was you. So those things that come out of me, that extract from me in the darkness, people are looking for that pat on the back. Where is it? Oh, I don't need it. Because what I've done is in the ******* unseen work, I built Frankenstein. So whenever shit gets nasty, David Goggins goes, we had nobody anyway, ************. So see how I'm talking to myself right now? That's me. That shit fires me the **** up. That shit makes me ******* nuts. You had nobody anyway, ************. Look around you. There was no ******* team. It was you. There was no weight loss programmer. Mom and dad waking you up saying you can do it. You can be better. Trying to build belief. You built belief when you had nothing. Rock bottom. You did that. So as times get hard for me, the truth comes out. And my truth is powerful as ****. It's real. It's tangible. I feel it. It comes out of my brain as I speak about it. I'm reliving every single dark moment of my life to be here. So that is what people don't get. That is what motivates David Goggins is the unseen work. Everybody needs that pat on the back. They need that training partner. They need that accountability coach. I don't need that shit. And neither do they. But it's what we've trained ourselves to believe that we need. The truth in front of you is it sucks. It's painful. It's ******* mind numbing. And that is the truth. And that's why a lot of people don't like listening to me. Because this is what it takes. Creating another voice and sometimes going at it alone. All the time going at it alone because no one's gonna believe in you. That's that.