Before you start a goal - let's take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you're suffering.
Interpretation
Addressing insecurities is crucial before pursuing goals, as they can hinder progress when faced with challenges.
In this quote, David Goggins emphasizes the importance of confronting and managing our insecurities before embarking on any significant goals. He suggests that when we push ourselves to achieve difficult objectives, our hidden doubts and fears often resurface, especially during challenging times. By taking the time to acknowledge and work through these insecurities, we can fortify ourselves against the struggles we may encounter on our journey to success.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage resilience in students.
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that.
I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.
I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- _x000D_ preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.
Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
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