MENTAL TOUGHNESS

 Mental toughness is a lot different than motivation. 'Cause if I said right now, everybody in here, everybody, we're all gonna run a half marathon in 5 days. All of us. And we're all going, "Yeah!" And we're getting fired up. And I say, yeah! We're gonna start tomorrow at 5 AM! And everyone's hugging each other. "Yes! 5 AM." We leave. 5 AM comes. It's dark. It's cold. Our bed is comfortable. It's hard to get motivated at 5 in the morning. And maybe you do it one day, But again? And again? You gotta go do it again and again? That is the X-ray vision. It's seeing through your broken bones to get to your goal. You have to train your brain by doing things that make you uncomfortable consistently.

To build this mindset that when things get hard, which they will be, we don't shy away, we don't quit, we attack. I'm seeing through all those walls. I'm getting to where I wanna go. See I've learned, everybody on the face of this planet, they want something. Everybody that comes into this world, they want something. Everybody wants greatness, everybody wants excellence. But the question is, what are you willing to go through to get it? What type of dedication? What type of commitment? What type of sacrifice? I tell people all the time, if this is not your vision, if you don't see this as part of your real contribution, if it doesn't make you fully alive and express, and it's your real goals, bail. Quit sooner than later. But if you know it's right for you, then resilience is everything. The ability to be resilient toward your dreams, to keep marching on when the struggle, the trial, the chaos, the frustration, the hurt, the anger, the disappointment, the shame, the regret, the embarrassment, when all that is there and you keep marching on, you know you'll be a successful person. It's the ability to be optimistic enough to know this too shall pass. This time shall change. I will find a way. I will honor my truth and keep pursuing my dreams, thick and thin, storm or night, I will maintain my march. Mental toughness says, not only do I climb that doggone mountain, I enjoy climbing the mountain. I get a kick out of the mountain. I get a kick out of the weights. I get a kick out of going against the number 1 team. I get a kick out of fatigue. I get a kick out of the grind. I get a kick out of it. I hope that you understand that every single person that you look at, every single person that you admire, every single person that you aspire to be like, is literally just a regular human f*cking being like you, that has worked their motherf*cking ass off. Now it's gonna be hard.

Understand that. It's gonna be very hard. But you ain't got nothing else to do. 'Cause let me tell you something about being not successful, being not successful, that's really hard. So might as well apply yourself to something that has a benefit. And what some of you doing wrong, you play the game but you're not the game. You play football but you're not football. You gotta go all in. You take advantage of this opportunity. You let everything else go. You eat different. You study different. You practice different. That is something that is built and engrained into a successful person, not because they were lucky with it, not because they grew up with it, because they developed it. By doing it once, they did it again, they did it again, they did it again. The more bold and courageous you are, the more bold and courageous you'll be in the future. The more confident you are today, the more confident you'll be in the future. The more you overcome yesterday's struggles today, the more you'll be able to overcome the bigger struggles tomorrow. Never forget these things. Keep marching my friend.