Do it Alone.

[Music] oh you think darkness is your ally you merely adopted the dark I was born in

it molded by it I didn't see the light until I was already a man by then it was nothing to me but

[Music] blinding the Shadows betray you because they belong to me it's pushing the water and there's a jogger actually look at

this wow it's a Florida man right there for you Blake jogging in the hurricane I've trained 99% of my life alone no one

packed me on the back I did all of the work alone you had nobody anyway mother look around you there was no team it was

you there was no weight loss program or 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 WR Rock [Music] Bottom St this thing no I got to prove it prove what I'm not a

mistake when you're built different than everybody else and you have this desire for more and this desire for achievement and this desire to win everybody else looks at you in the end I don't care whether you

love me or you hate me just as long as I win this is my life man do you know how hard I work to get

here I built this me Brick by Brick I fought for it because no one gave it to me because I it was just me me alone in the gym me alone in the mirror me

alone in my head no one did it for me I worked for it and I'm never going to let someone else take that from me listen up today isn't just another day it's a

chance to break limits stop waiting for permission stop second guessing yourself the opportunity is right in front of you take it own it and don't look back

because Legends are built one bold move at a time what no one else does run 3:00 in the morning cuz no one else is running 3:00 in the morning if they if they're training 3 hours you train 4

hours you train when the gym is closed you know whenever the gym is closed and you already train you train again you know you have to do what no one else is doing you know when they're sleeping you're running you're working out and

that means the harder it is the bigger the dragon the more epic the story and by Consequence the more epic the hero if you pan it down here you see it's about

3:00 in the morning and there's not a car or a person inside 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 mother that's up there's not a car there's not a person everybody's in their bed sleep dreading that is this a Monday hate this a Monday and I'm loving it I'm loving

that where everybody's getting weaker I'm getting stronger there's certain good things about being alone you have time to do the things you want to do like study and plan the superpower of learning to be alone and

enjoying it yeah yeah well I think it's critical and I and I do think that this this these times where you just think about things just be alone and think

about things are so rare these days and I think during those rare times is when you really get to understand what you actually believe or don't believe you go

higher you go even more alone why because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy in going

higher because it's becoming more difficult along this way the higher you want to go the more likely you're going to walk alone that's why this is has helped me coming out here and

locked in an apartment on my own cuz there was no Outsiders it was isolation it was visualization it was motivation and it was dedication there was no nothing else going on in my life you know what I mean and you don't like

people too right I I mean it's not that I don't like people it's just that to get to the level to get to the Pinnacle it needs to be like that it needs to be no Outsiders it needs to be you need to

have your team and and your focus and that's it I don't need friends believe in yourself don't fear fear failure

dream big work hard stay positive enjoy the journey there is a period in everybody's Journey where they are so different because they've started to do

new things that they no longer fit in with the old set of friends but they're not sufficiently developed that they've gained their new set of friends and they're unsure should I go back should I lean back into getting a bad game with

the boys on a weekend is that the highest you know way that I can live my life passion forward cuz that's what everybody else does and all of my friends are taking the piss oh not drinking again too good for us are we

not going out again this week oh okay well like enjoy staying in home and reading nerd so you're going to feel the pain of being ostracized from the group of friends that you used to have but

you're stuck in this messy Middle where you haven't yet worked out who you are on the other side of this and that lonely chapter that's in the middle is something that I I would say almost

nobody that I've ever met who has gone from a place where they are to a place where they want to be hasn't gone through it is hard it's hard when you're young to wake

up in the offseason at 6:00 a.m. to go

train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes but understand this life is hard the only thing that you can do is

win so big that all of them constantly compare themselves to you and then you'll forget they exist success is the only Revenge it's not the best revenge it's the only one there's no other

revenge like it feels so painful cuz you're like you look around to see who can help you and then you're like it's me again you're going to lose sleep you'll doubt whether it'll work you'll stress to make ends meet you won't

finish your to-do list you'll wonder whether you made the right call and have no way to know for yours this is what hard feels like and that's okay

everything worth doing is hard and the more worth doing it is the harder it is the greater the payoff the greater the hardship if it's hard good it means no

one else will do it more for you to be successful at anything the truth is you don't have to be special you just have

to be what most people aren't consistent determined and willing to work for it no shortcuts they say oh it's it's already okay here why you still want to move up

there the air is Getting Thinner over there it's getting more hard to breathe it's getting more dangerous whatever so that means along the way to Mastery you

walk the way alone and if you think about the difference between winners and losers winners Define themselves by what they made happen and losers Define

themselves by what happened to them I I really don't have regrets I'm I am a person that says you know as soon as you look back in your history and you come up with something that you feel like you

want to change M something else has to change you know disappointment to me to win you got to lose to be successful you got to have something that's not

successful um to be happy you got to have disappointment so I think all of those things have evolved and happened

to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the Privileges I have for being who I am who am I I found out through this path of Life who is David

gokin so going through all I did it alone there was no trophy on the wall on the mantle that trophy is in my brain no one helped me get there no one paid my bills no one did for me no one ran those

miles lost that weight went through I suffered on my own and developed this man who said that's who I am man it'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 find yourself it's the only way to find yourself like I promise you every single person who wants to do

something with their life and has done something with their life has gone through the exact chapter that you're going through and it's the lonely chapter it's the chapter where you you're you don't fit in with your own friends but you don't have the outcomes

yet to fit into a new group of friends and you're doing this thing you're consuming content on the internet you're you're doing these free tutorials online to try and figure out how to set up a podcast and where do I host this thing and then there and and and you're going

through this and you're like am I is this even worth it because you have no signs of success right but if there's anything that you can take away from what we're saying right now is that the sign of success is the hate that you get

along the way and what you can't do is bend the knee to their hate and fit back into the Conformity because it's comfortable and it's warm because like in The Matrix when Trinity opens the door when when Neo's about to go take

the red pill and he wants to get out of the car she says Neo you've been down that road and you know exactly where it leads and I know that's not where you want to be and then he closes the door

like right now this moment that you're going through is Trinity opening the door and being like you could go back but then you'd have to remember exactly what the reason was that you decided not to go out to begin with is because you listen to this podcast and you consume

this content you're like I can do more than this like because you are starting to live in some of that hell where you look in the mirror and you're like I can do more and you start to see the person that you could be and you're like this

does start to feel like hell I wanted to read you a quote from 2013 that you said I've lost my mind on this game yeah like

Vincent Van go he dedicated his life to his art I lost his mind in the process that's happened to me when that gold belt was around my

waist when my mother has a big mansion my girlfriend has a different car for every day of the week my kids kids have everything they ever

want then it will pay then I then I'm happy I lost my mind yeah can you just reflect and talk to me about how that makes you feel hearing

that you know yeah I it's been some I've got it done and I'm up here I've been through with all my friends you know it's been a World ride for me it's not been easy at times but what a life last

but not least I want to thank me I want to thank me for believing in me I want to thank me for doing all this

hard work I want to thank me for having no days off I want to thank me for for never quitting I want to thank me for trying to do more you know if you're going to

create anything of value in this life you're going even if it's with other people you're going to have to be willing to to be on your own for a bit to forge on your own to take walks alone

and then return to people to your tribe so to speak and share with them what you've learned or maybe even just show up with whatever energy shift has occurred while you were off everybody when I when I was sleeping on the gym

floor right like you know I was the I was the underdog and everyone you know my clients were all like oh good for you you know you're going after your dream they'd see my blanket and my pillow in the corner of the gym and they knew I

was sleeping there and it was evident you know I I lived there um I didn't have a shower didn't have a shower to go to the YMC had to go shower um and that everybody was like Pro me and then

people would come in they sign up like I'm going to I'm going to support you right and then within 9 months I had hired people and I had a manager and I pulled up and I remember I walked in the

lobby and all the same the same people were like ah boss man's here oh you're you're not too good for us now right and I remember being so Jarred by the

experience and I was like you guys rooted for me and I was like and now I I did what you said you were rooting for me to do and that was when I realized that people want you to do well but not

better than them there's no luck in this game it may be a little bit of luck but the luck happens after you bust your and you put yourself in that lucky situation luck doesn't happen you put

yourself in that situation where luck might happen and that's what people don't know but to get there luck ain't going to happen you have to put yourself

in that situation man it takes a lot of work I don't care if you're tired I don't care if you're sad I don't care if you're sleepy if it's raining if the markets are crashing if the sky is falling if your girlfriend just broke up with you you're going to get it done no

matter what this is the level of discipline that I'm expecting from you you think you become a champion on the field you don't you become a champion when ain't nobody watching you you're doing your own drills and your own way

you're doing what coach tell you to do and you're doing your own stuff when you said I'm all in will you really Allin let me tell you what the cost of being Allin is early mornings late nights

being misunderstood having very few friends being your own cherleader are you those things people always talk about man I'm a hard worker everybody in this room is a hard worker that's not going to

separate you from anybody else what are you working hard on people always look for one thing for the other oh you got to work you know you got to work smarter and uh not harder no you got to work smarter and you got to work harder

there's times where you can go without your friends you can go without going out you can go without other people around you you have to separate yourself from the pack you have to be willing to

spend time with yourself you have to be willing to uh to to start cutting things out of your nutritional program eat healthy you know get enough rest get

enough sleep all of these things come into play of finding your your purpose and it's almost sacrificing you have to sacrifice greater the sacrifice greater the reward this is so true and when you

when you do these things you'll start seeing that okay well I used to do this and when you go out and you don't do it any more it's very very clear that

you've made the right decision cuz your friends will still be doing that and you'll find yourself that you don't fit in with the crowd anymore you just don't fit in ah now I got something do you

know you'll start getting away from people that are negative you only want to be around positive you'll start like not wasting your time on things that

aren't productive and you will start uh taking your time and energy and putting it in into things that you enjoy doing that are productive for yourself admit

it you aren't like that them you're not even close you may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them watch the same mindless television shows as they do maybe even eat the same fast food

sometimes but it seems that the more you try to fit in the more you feel like an outsider this isn't for the masses this is for those who want to leave normal

behind those who are in source of a new realm it's a lonely Journey you're isolated those of you to keep Pace with

you will fall off they'll see where their world ends and yours begins your ability to suffer endure out

work must be greater you must be willing to extend yourself to the Limit with no guarantee of

success every day you must ask yourself did I do enough stay hard the biggest thing you have to do is shut off

technology you have to go dark what I mean about that is you have to be quiet in your mind get away from people we love being around people we love talking

we love we love parties we love all that it's okay to be alone it's also okay to be unhappy it's okay to be unhappy sometimes man it's okay to say you know

what man I'm I'm up so you got to go to the truth first who are you get get really accountable and say okay who am I am I what's the truth about me get to

that dark place in your mind figure out it may take months may take years figure out your purpose figure out what you want to be in life and then from

there okay I have my purpose it may take a long time no one knows their purpose cuz it's too loud find your purpose from there all right you got to start

planning people love the planning phase cuz it's very comfortable then from the planning phase you got to go into execution so the execution phase where we all hate because that's where the real work begins and that's when the failure

happens and the failure and the failure but you know that's that that's kind of how you have to do it yeah people want to find that passion but you don't find it you create it and you create it by

getting good at something and to get good at stuff you start by doing something you suck at then you get good then you like it then people ask how you

found your passion answer by starting when you sucked and not get up you fall into the Trap of what is called Parkinson's law now Parkinson's law says

that work expands to fill the time allotted for it that if you have 2 hours of work to do and 8 hours of time you will stretch that work over 8 hours

Parkinson's law also says that work contracts to fill the time allotted for it if you have 8 hours of work to do and because of an emergency you have to have it done in 2 hours you will get it done

in 2 hours Highly Effective People Are Always setting tight stringent disciplined deadlines on themselves so they get more work done in a short period of time rather than less work

done in a long period of time does this make sense if you committed the next 365 days of your life to the persistent pursuit of your potential and you were grinding 24/7 and you didn't cheat

yourself imagine what you would become you would become a ruthless killer you would become such a g that nobody would say nah this person ain't doing it you'd

be undeniable 365 days if you committed to that you would win 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 it's warm on the couch your Mrs 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 hung over cuz I know every mother ain't going

to do what I'm going to do 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 fire me up

that makes me happy what you just said that brings joy to my life right there why cuz 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 cuz most people are weak most people don't want to go to that extra mile most people don't want want to find that extra cuz 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 thriving that that's the only place to be and that's why when you think about the mentality of greatness they have no breaks I hate to tell people that right

cuz everybody wants it fast to be great Monday on top of Tuesday Tuesday on top of Wednesday Wednesday on top of Thursday Thursday on top of Friday Friday on top of Saturday Saturday

Sunday it start over it start over and true greatness is always evolving it never stays the same your comfort zone will stay the same unless sometimes

you're Force to come out of it you will never touch a level of greatness until your comfort zone is Disturbed the mentality is what's going to make things happen you know is having that mentality

to never give up keep pushing forward people don't like to think they like to ask they don't have enough confidence in their decisions that they make on their own the truth of the matter is you

really have to believe what you're doing is working there was a kid who everyone underestimated too small too quiet too ordinary but every day while they

laughed he worked in the gym in the books in the shadows he knew one truth effort beats Talent when talent doesn't try

years later they asked him how he did it and he just smiled because they never saw the grind it's the quiet hustle that makes the loudest impact how loud do you want your success

to be this my biggest fear in life is not reaching my full potential and not being the good I can't cuz everyone has a choice in life everyone has a choice

over this person up here or this person down here hey look let me guess New Year New You Right new year new you you've been saying that every year but it's always New Year same you you know I just don't understand why you go every year

remaining the same when the person that you are today has just been destroying your life you're mentally killing yourself every year and you don't even realize it I mean this time if you look yourself in the mirror and make some

change before it's too late one day in the gym is basically imperceivable 2 Days in the gym you don't recognize any change whatsoever a

100 100 days in the gym and you're almost a new person right you seen those before and after

pictures one day of playing guitar one day of playing guitar you can barely play one

chord 100 days of practicing guitar and you can play literally almost any song people only root for people who don't

need it like the amount of times when I was on my lonely path where I was too different from the friends that I had but not successful enough to be friends with the people that I wanted to be

friends with that's when that's when you want people to root for you that's when you want people to support you once you've already won people are like he's

amazing he's so good but like that's the time when you need it the least and so you always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does and it's usually a single clap in the

auditorium for a very long period of time it is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you and that visual I think is one that you can kind of take people

struggle to do things alone and the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception which means that you are not with other people look at the past look at who you've become the progress that

you've made and if you haven't made a lot of progress just be happy at the fact that you're alive because you have the chance to make progress and live in

the present moment here now and use your time energy and attention my friend to pursue your goal one of the most important things that I learned from my

dad is that regardless of your circumstances even if things are around you you can change that by going to work

just wanted so bad that I told the universe excuse me this is my destiny I know it and you know what because of that belief system it happened but you know what gives me strength the fact

that I was able to hear squat here and go to the point where I couldn't do five more and I got five more and then got even five more there was always five more fact that I could do that gave me

so much strength in life I mean I'm in total respect and honor of the squat R forever it's it's my alar it's what taught me how to get there I used to care so much about what people thought

of me when I was competing I wanted to be the best and I wanted everyone to know that I was the best I had the biggest ego ever then I realized something that it's not so healthy to

think that way because you cannot please everyone there are always going to be haters and to the Scale of the Universe for the small time that I'm here in this world it's better that I spend it with

people that I care about and who care about me I will have a better return on my investment so for the New Year's resolution think about it small thing

that can change your entire world time alone again will make you see first of all who God is second of all who you are

and the third thing it let you see what will fit you what's suitable for your life where is your sweet spot what works

for you all right guys so that's my tip and that's it so stay focus don't be afraid to be by yourself and spend time

alone okay the most important thing is the mentality selft talk positive I think it's all the details depend of you

I am cold I am emotionless I am Zen at peace Ready for War everyone is jealous of what you've

got no one is jealous of how you got it people see the trophies but not the training ground everybody wants the view but no one wants the climb now I'm going to repeat something which a clergyman

perhaps shouldn't say but nevertheless it's a fact and it will cure many other you you are not going to get any where in this world you're not going to get

anywhere financially spiritually socially or otherwise until you get to that point where you don't give a damn about what other people think about

you my philosophy is why be normal when you can be the best no want to be normal I want to make the difference so everything I do I want to make the difference because when I make the difference I'm the best

and that is not arrogance that is confidence dedication hard work dedication hard work I'm one male Army

one M Army the world can go against me I'm still coming on top I got gu on myself side my mind is absolutely

bulletproof solid as a rock I am number one Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships he

was obs obsessed and Obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention

too and I have a saying all right interested people watch obsessed people change the world then there's the athletes who train to win they train

every day every session so they win on Match night and then I remember saying to Adam's group there are just those very few

players who trained to dominate they train so hard that winning is inevitable on Race night and Adam said that clicked

with me I decided I was going to train to dominate so he said when I go into the Olympic final I know I know I'm going to win when you ask you're like why do you do it it's because there's a

possibility that you can and that's enough like I think I can do this if I know I can be something and so why would

I not the best line I've ever heard in my life sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been

buried but actually you've been planted but here's what you should know about winning before you chase it winning is not loyal to you it doesn't

care about you winning doesn't care how sore you are winning doesn't care how much sleep you get when he doesn't care how hard you work at times it's sometimes a guy doesn't outwork you and he still wins it isn't fair man

sometimes there is no [Music] justice winning requires all of you and then more and it promises you nothing it's a mastermind of creating fear and

doubt in your mind it causes setback after setback so the question is about winning are you willing to Sprint when the distance is

unknown and why CH this thing called winning because the only thing that's guaranteed in life if you don't chase it is losing since with 11 years old I

always make pressure to me Cristiano you are the best player in the world in my mind I'm always thinking in that way and I put a lot of pressure to myself you

have good sides when the things go good okay but when the things go wrong you feel that too because you make too much pressure to me I make pressure to me but I love that I know to deal with that I

hate losing I mean it's not even question but I I mean I have to respect losing cuz losing is a part of winning yeah and you never just you know win you got to Lose to Win losing is going to hurt you know to a point where you would

look at how can I do things different how can I change before you can look at someone else you got to look at yourself in the mirror because that's how things get started whatever I'm afraid to do I do it anything I'm afraid of I confront

it and that's my personality like right now I'm scared to death as the fight gets closer the less nervous I become because it's reality and in reality I'm

Invincible do not give up do not feel like you tired were you tired think of last year and think of that record every time I get tired or I think I can't go

no more I think of that record we can make it we got to believe we got to be mentally strong when we tired that's when we got to put our fundamentals together that's when we got to be more

focused when we tired look across the field and see how tired they are that should give you more effort be like I'm going Beat it I'm going get fundamentally strong everybody's great

when they not tired the Champions is when they tired that's when the real champions come out that's when that real dog come out [Music]