0:00

I had two options to either be that 300

0:02

pound guy who's prayed for cockroaches and made a

0:04

thousand dollars a month or I can totally just

0:06

fail and fail and fail until

0:09

I succeed. You

0:11

have to remind yourself of how badass

0:13

you really are. You take one second

0:16

when your mind and your body are saying we're

0:18

done. We need to quit. You can't remind

0:20

yourself, hang on a second. I've overcome a hell

0:22

of a lot more than this. And I have

0:24

the strength to persevere, to

0:27

move on, to not settle for what's in

0:29

front of me.

0:29

I

0:32

did realize one thing. The

0:34

things I don't enjoy that I

0:36

still do, that's where growth

0:38

is at. And that's for

0:41

me, the only place growth is at

0:44

is in that very uncomfortable, you know, in

0:46

that uncomfortable zone. So

0:48

I have to visit every single day. You're going

0:51

to fail and you're going to be in your head.

0:53

You're going to be saying I'm not good enough. When

0:55

you are misunderstood, it's the point where people think

0:57

you're psycho and you're nuts and you're this and that. Why

0:59

are you

0:59

in a gym at one o'clock

1:02

in the morning? What's wrong? When people

1:04

don't understand you anymore, you're in that

1:06

spot of obsession and drive.

1:10

I do them alone. You know, like I

1:12

picked these hard things that most

1:14

people think you can't finish anyway.

1:17

You go out there, you grind, you're alone,

1:19

you're in your own head. I work

1:21

best alone. I work best

1:23

alone. So those are easier. I

1:26

have to break myself down, let people know that

1:29

anyone can be who

1:31

they want to be. What are

1:33

you doing today, tomorrow, the next

1:35

day? That's why I'm listening to theorists.

1:40

I'm listening to who's like this, man. What's

1:43

wrong, man? I'm tired, dude. Why are you tired?

1:45

Because tomorrow, I get a

1:47

duke in, man. It made me

1:49

hurt. There's no ending. And

1:53

that's the person I listen to. That's

1:55

the person who's gained knowledge. You gained knowledge

1:57

through suffering. And on the other

1:59

end of the story,

1:59

The country is a world

2:02

that's very few, very

2:04

few have ever seen. It's a beautiful

2:07

world because that's where you find yourself.

2:10

You'll find yourself in over here. You

2:13

find yourself on the other end, like

2:15

the 100 mile race I was on, I ran it for 24 hours. I

2:18

found myself on the other

2:20

end. For

2:23

me, my routine is every night I stretch out.

2:25

I stretch out for 2 or 3 hours every

2:28

single night without fail. And

2:31

while I'm stretching out, I'm thinking about my

2:34

plan for the next day. I'm

2:36

thinking about all these different obstacles

2:38

that may come up. So basically a lot

2:40

of us aren't prepared for life. We

2:42

get up really nearly and just hope

2:44

life is going to happen. It is going to happen.

2:47

But it's going to happen with a prepared

2:49

mind or an unprepared mind. Most

2:51

people attack life with an unprepared mind.

2:55

What I do is I try to account for

2:57

all things that could happen, might happen,

3:00

probably will happen, and then the

3:01

unknowns. So

3:03

basically I can't account for

3:06

everything, but I do know there could

3:08

be some things that come up in life that you need to be

3:10

ready for. I know for a fact I'm

3:13

not going to want to work out tomorrow.

3:15

Therefore, I'm preparing my mind for that. I don't want

3:17

to do that. I know tomorrow will

3:19

come with some difficult decisions to make. It

3:21

may come with getting a phone call

3:24

saying someone died.

3:26

This happened. That happened. I'm always

3:28

preparing myself, not in a morbid way,

3:31

but just like, look, man, be ready for life. Don't

3:34

let life just start attacking you left

3:36

and right.

3:37

Make sure that you start to build a mental

3:39

armor

3:41

and then you're ready for life. And that comes with

3:43

a very physical way and

3:45

the physical helps out the mental. Before

3:48

my heart surgery, my second heart surgery, I went on a 10 mile

3:50

record. My second heart surgery, the day of it, I

3:53

went on a 10 mile record and 50 pounds. I

3:55

saw that guy. He's like, look, he's doing

3:58

a real

3:58

heart surgery. So I was like, that's what I'm doing.

4:00

I'm getting in before I'm going to be out for about six months after the

4:02

heart surgery. I was not in the town because

4:05

I started realizing at a young age when

4:07

I was leaving on the table and once

4:09

I found out what a human being is capable of

4:11

I didn't know how to control that.

4:15

A lot of times in life is quiet

4:18

and those are the times when you want to run and hide.

4:21

You got to be able to find energy, you got

4:24

to make up games, make up tricks, make up whatever

4:26

you can to get to the next evolution of life.

4:30

So taking souls is just another

4:32

way. It's not about hurting the person you're against. It's

4:35

about finding a tactical advantage in every

4:37

situation you physically

4:38

can.

4:41

You have to live in your own

4:43

world. You cannot judge yourself.

4:45

That's why social media and all these things are horrible. You

4:48

can't judge yourself off of the so-called

4:50

competition that we have made up in our mind.

4:53

The thing that how people look, how people act,

4:55

how smart someone is. This is a race that

4:57

you run completely alone.

5:00

You're all by yourself. I

5:02

had tons of sticky notes all over my mirror.

5:05

It wasn't like be better than John

5:07

or be as fast as whoever. Okay

5:10

David, yesterday you did this. Today

5:13

our next goal for the week is this.

5:17

So I had a year goal,

5:19

weekly goals, daily goals, hourly

5:22

goals and

5:24

the big goals. I lied a lot growing up.

5:26

I wanted to be accepted. One goal was,

5:29

let's go one day without lying.

5:33

Today we discuss Miro. Listen, when

5:35

it comes to running client workshops, the dream

5:37

of course is to get those creative juices flowing,

5:39

right? But typically what ends up happening is

5:42

thousands of hours get wasted because of poorly

5:44

facilitated meetings. So I have Maya

5:46

with me today. She's a consultant who runs Fortune 100

5:49

workshops from leadership training to team building

5:51

and she has the insider tip on what makes

5:53

things work. Maya. Thank you Jason. I've been

5:56

doing this a long time. My number one tip is

5:58

to bring everyone into that. a visual collaboration

6:01

platform. So personally, I use

6:03

Miro, and it's completely

6:05

changed how I interact with the room. You

6:07

have to give people a way to feel like they're in

6:09

the room even when they're not. That's something you can do

6:12

easily in Miro. Otherwise, they've seen

6:14

the same slides in format a thousand times.

6:16

Falling asleep, eyes glazing over, yawns,

6:18

all that. Exactly. When people follow

6:20

me on the Miro board, everyone is literally

6:23

going on a journey with me. We're adding thoughts,

6:26

we're reacting, and we're voting for

6:28

the best ideas. It's great.

6:29

I like it. That's

6:32

M-I-R-O dot com. Douglas

6:35

is one of many who found a new life through

6:37

Seattle's Union Gospel Mission. I was

6:39

living on the streets when I heard this guy talk

6:41

about how he got clean and sober at

6:43

the mission. So I decided to give

6:46

it a try. I could feel something working

6:48

inside of me, and I knew I was getting

6:50

better. Today, my number one goal

6:53

is to stay clean and sober. And

6:55

grace will lead

6:58

me home.

6:59

To hear more, volunteer or donate,

7:02

visit UGM.org.

7:06

I can't do it. There may be some days I get up with

7:08

poopy pants,

7:10

and I'm like, you know what, man?

7:11

Yes, man. What am I training for?

7:14

I have no race in the docket. Why

7:17

am I having this, this such a structured

7:19

life? Why?

7:21

And I'm like, you know what? I'm good.

7:23

Done. I'm tired every day. And

7:26

I sit around and I say, okay. And then

7:28

this is my thought process.

7:29

So you want to be normal.

7:33

So you just want to be like everybody else that

7:35

roams the world, not knowing the

7:38

power that's in them. Being fine

7:40

with being mediocre.

7:41

You want to go back to who you were, huh, Davis?

7:45

And say, okay, who am I? What's the truth about

7:47

me? Get to that dark place

7:50

in your mind. Figure out, it

7:52

may take months, it may take years. Figure out

7:54

your purpose. Figure out what you want to be

7:56

in life. And then from there,

7:58

okay.

7:59

Okay, I have my purpose. It

8:02

may take a long time. No one knows their purpose,

8:04

because it's too loud. Find your

8:06

purpose. From there, all right,

8:09

you gotta start planning.

8:11

People love the planning phase, because it's very comfortable.

8:14

And then from the planning phase, you gotta go to the execution.

8:17

So the execution phase that we all hate,

8:19

because that's where the real work begins. And that's when the

8:21

failure happens, and the failure, and the failure. But

8:24

you know, that's kinda how you have

8:26

to do it.

8:29

I always equate it training

8:31

to mental toughing. Like, it always looks

8:33

brutal. People waking up early and doing all

8:35

these things, and it looks horrible. I was

8:38

like, wow, man, I gotta start doing that. Not to

8:40

get better, bigger, and stronger. But

8:43

that is what's gonna build me. That looks uncomfortable. That

8:46

looks brutal. And getting up early,

8:48

I don't wanna do that. Some of this long

8:50

list of things I don't wanna do.

8:52

And through that, I found myself. So

8:55

you

8:56

guys are getting up at five o'clock in the morning, running

8:58

over here in this golf course.

8:59

So I started seeing myself very differently than

9:02

the average human being. I was like, hang on a second.

9:05

I have something they don't have. And

9:07

that's when I started to develop these things through working

9:09

out. It was this great, never-ending

9:12

work ethic. And I started working

9:15

out like somebody. I became

9:17

the most obsessed person on the planet Earth.

9:19

I had to invent a guy that can take any pain, any suffering,

9:21

any kind of judgment, and I built it through suffering.

9:24

And I started realizing through this

9:26

process, mind is what you created.

9:28

And I started opening different doors. And the more doors

9:30

I opened up, the more I started realizing that my potential

9:33

is damn near endless. It changed my whole mindset.

9:37

I'm not gonna be okay. I had to realize I

9:39

had to take a stand. I had to make a real

9:41

stand.

9:41

And it was painful to

9:44

look at who I was,

9:46

what the world and myself created.

9:49

It created a

9:51

very lonely, depressed, insecure

9:53

man that would do anything

9:56

just to have a friend. And I saw

9:58

that as very pathetic.

10:01

Let's say there's 10 people in this room

10:04

and we're all mediocre, but

10:07

I'm the best of the mediocre

10:09

people. I

10:11

now think I'm great.

10:13

I'm great. We surround ourselves

10:16

around people that make us feel great. They

10:19

tell us what we want to hear. The second

10:21

we put ourselves amongst the uncommon

10:23

people, we don't like that feeling.

10:26

That challenge and feeling of that person's

10:28

rickety-three-third of the morning saying, hey, push this shit

10:30

on, we're going for a run. We don't like

10:33

that challenge. We like that person who says, hey,

10:35

you know what man, I don't feel good today man.

10:37

And they say, oh, it's okay brother. Get

10:39

that off, let me get a pizza and watch the game. We

10:41

like that. We don't want that. Say,

10:44

hey man, no bro, get your shit on

10:46

man. Stop being a punk.

10:48

We don't want that in our lives. We don't want that

10:50

person's constantly challenging our

10:52

weaknesses. We want that person's

10:55

constantly making us feel nice

10:57

and good and secure in our sense. That's

10:59

the mediocrity of life. Motivation

11:01

is crap. It comes and goes as

11:04

how you feel. No one's going to come

11:06

back and save you. No one's going to come back

11:09

on the couch and say, hey, it's

11:11

okay. You're going to be okay. No, I'm not.

11:14

If you can't control your own brain

11:16

and your brain controls you,

11:19

you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how

11:22

you want to go and how you want to get there.

11:24

You got to control it.

11:25

If not, it's over. I don't care what you

11:27

believe in. It doesn't matter. I'm not judging anybody.

11:30

Let's say my thing is God, you get to heaven.

11:32

We're sitting down just like this. You're God and I'm David.

11:35

And he says, look at this and look at this chart and

11:37

on the chart, it has all these different things.

11:39

I'm going to change the world. I'm going to set records. I'm

11:42

going to be a Navy SEAL. I'm going to be honored here,

11:44

honored there. I'm like, this isn't me.

11:46

Like it says David Goggins. I was an eco

11:48

lab guy, I sprayed for cockroaches and I'm 300 pounds.

11:51

It said here I'm 185. And God

11:53

goes, no,

11:54

that's who you were supposed to be.

11:56

My biggest fear in life is if there

11:58

is a final resting place.

11:59

world and

12:00

there's a final judgment you talk to

12:02

something

12:03

much bigger than you I don't want to sit down

12:05

have a conversation with someone that says you're

12:08

in heaven

12:09

this is what you should have been on earth

12:11

I want God to be up there right now

12:13

as we're speaking writing stuff down saying

12:15

my God he even my that's

12:18

how I live my life I now know that

12:20

there is no cap on the human mind

12:23

there's no cap

12:24

we capping ourselves

12:26

your brain is most powerful weapon in the

12:29

world

12:30

if you can't control your own brain

12:33

you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how

12:35

you want to go and how you want to get there you

12:37

got to control it

12:39

if not it's over

12:40

a good human being a fulfilled

12:43

human being doesn't need

12:45

to break anyone down

12:47

all they do is want to build you up

12:50

so anybody you meet

12:52

that calls you out of your name that

12:54

bullies that messes you up that that makes

12:57

you feel not lifted they

12:59

are dealing with something deep-rooted when

13:02

you quit your minds as we're done so

13:04

it doesn't expand there's no expansion

13:07

when you quit when you say uh-uh

13:09

this sucks I'm drowning I'm miserable

13:11

I'm suffering I'm broken but

13:14

I'm not going anywhere what happens to

13:16

your mind it says he's not

13:18

leaving so

13:19

we got to expand we got

13:21

to grow we got a figure this

13:23

thing out

13:25

so then these compartments in your brain

13:28

they have to work and he said to engage

13:30

parts of your mind that you never engaged before

13:33

when you're in suffer mode and you say

13:35

I'm not going to quit

13:36

you're forcing your brain now to accelerate

13:39

on a level it's not used to but

13:42

then it becomes used to it

13:45

the only way anything gets accomplished you

13:47

got to work hard I can't remember what's in

13:49

this paragraph to pass this test get in the military

13:51

read again still not getting it read again

13:53

but if not getting it write it out and

13:55

guess what happened I got it I can't

13:57

swim I'm negative buoyant go back again

17:41

by

18:00

the armor plate my mind. It's

18:02

about what you're saying to yourself, but it also comes

18:05

with work. So whenever I was

18:07

getting beat down, physically, mentally, spiritually,

18:09

whatever I was going through, just saying,

18:11

you know, you can't hurt me. Can't

18:14

hurt me just became a message I would say to myself.

18:16

We all have two people,

18:18

and I'm not saying you're crazy.

18:20

We have the easy voice,

18:22

which is that 20% telling yourself that

18:24

you're, I'm easy at 90% of

18:26

my full potential, maybe 100% at that 20%. That's

18:30

that voice that we all love. That's that

18:32

very comfortable voice that, that's that

18:34

mommy holding you saying, it's going

18:36

to be okay.

18:38

Doesn't care how good you are, just

18:41

loves you. Just loves you no matter how

18:43

messed up you are in life. That's where you want to

18:45

be at.

18:46

So that's that one voice. This

18:48

other voice that we walk very far

18:50

away from is a voice saying, hey

18:52

man, you ain't doing shh.

18:55

So we try to get this voice out

18:57

of our head completely. And we live over

18:59

here in this land. So what you have

19:01

to do first is turn up this

19:04

voice over here. The voice saying

19:06

things to you that aren't nice.

19:09

That it's in our head and it's not putting

19:11

yourself down. People take this

19:13

the wrong way in this new society. I'm

19:16

not saying to put yourself down. I'm

19:19

saying listen to the truth.

19:22

And the truth isn't in the 20%. The

19:25

truth is in this other part of your brain

19:27

saying, look man, you're wasting

19:29

a bunch of percentage here. We have 80 more

19:32

percent that we're not tapping into because in

19:34

this other 80% is

19:36

suffering,

19:37

pain, failure,

19:41

failure, self-doubt, darkness,

19:43

and

19:46

then a whole bunch of light.

19:48

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20:00

which you're made of, were made from work, stricken

20:02

supply. Douglas is

20:04

one of many who found a new life through

20:07

Seattle's Union Gospel Mission. I was

20:09

living on the streets when I heard this guy talk

20:11

about how he got clean and sober at

20:13

the mission. So I decided to give

20:15

it a try. I could feel something working

20:18

inside of me and I knew I was getting

20:20

better. Today my number one goal

20:22

is to stay clean and sober. And

20:25

grace will lead

20:28

me home.