David Goggins

don’t see people in the military sagging their pants. You need to stop talking like a wanna-be-gangster. None of this shit is gonna cut it! No more taking the easy way out! It’s time to grow the fuck up!

Repetition will callous your mind.

If you do your job to the best of your ability, this will hurt.

Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.

Human beings change through study, habit, and stories.

Now, coming back, I looked different enough on the outside to perpetuate an illusion that I’d changed, but in order to change you have to work through shit. Confront it and get real.

No more taking the easy way out! It’s time to grow the fuck up!”

The ritual was simple. I’d shave my face and scalp every night, get loud, and get real. I set goals, wrote them on Post-It notes, and tagged them to what I now call the Accountability Mirror, because each day I’d hold myself accountable to the goals I’d set. At first my goals involved shaping up my appearance and accomplishing all my chores without having to be asked.

The Accountability Mirror kept me on point from then on, and though I was still young when this strategy came through me, since then I’ve found it useful for people at any stage in life.

No, I had to own it in the raw because the only way we can change is to be real with ourselves.