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.
The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't have a scholarship. But I always felt I could make it to the NBA; it was as if I had foreseen my future, and I knew I would make it.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world.
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
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