NAVY SEAL On Maximizing Your Full Potential | Chadd Wright EP 366

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation show.

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0:54What are the things that you saw other guys do really well or that you did to learn how to overcome being insecure, lacking the confidence of something, and just overall doubting yourself that everyday human beings could apply on a daily basis? bro i think that we all need to come to the realization that we're all made of the same stuff man lewis you are a awesome dude you have accomplished so much man but you know why you have done you have used your tools properly i hope you don't mind me using us as a direct example You don't have anything that I don't have from a physical, I have a strong, healthy body and a strong, healthy mind.

1:43We're made of the exact same stuff. You have utilized your tools, your time, the people around you, your speech, your relationships, all these universal tools that we all have access to. You can't use the argument that, oh, well, say, take time, for example. Say time is a tool that helps you accomplish your mission. Well, yeah, you may have more time than me. Say we both had a hammer. The hammer represents time. We need to drive a nail through this table right here. Your hammer's bigger than mine. So obviously you're going to drive the nail faster than me. but I have a hammer too, even though it's smaller, I can still drive that nail flush with this table right here.

2:34So it's not an excuse to say, well, Lewis has so much more resources than I have. It doesn't matter, dude. We're made of the same stuff. Yeah. You can still get the job done. We can still get the job done. So for me, that's essential is to stop looking at each other. They're like, look at me, for example, bro. I'm some old country dude from North Georgia. How could I have ever dreamed to go and serve at the tip of the spear with the best men America has to offer in the United States fighting forces? How could I have ever dreamed of going to do that? It makes no logical sense. But even back in those days, I had the same viewpoint.

3:22We're all made of the same stuff, bro. What can we do on a daily basis besides having that understanding of the tools and time to, again, overcome that doubt that we have? Overcome the insecurity or the fear or the judgment we put on ourselves in order to have more belief in ourselves to accomplish our mission. I'm very hesitant, you know, to give advice. I never give advice. I can tell you what I do based around those things that you just said. I have a routine. I get up every morning at about six in the morning. The first part of my day, I dedicate to my God. So I give him the first fruits of my day.

4:06I honor him in that way because I feel like he expects that of me. But through prayer or through prayer or reading or reading. For me, it's the Bible. So that's what I do. It could be for five minutes. It could be for 45 minutes, but that's how I start my day every single day. If I don't do that, I'm screwed up. Really? Yeah. So, you know, I do that. Then I spend four hours a day training. That may sound crazy, but I train for four hours a day. And that right there, that's where all my perspective comes from. That's where my outlook on life comes from. During that four hour block, I am honing my body and my soul.

4:46my mind will and emotions that's where that's where the battle is is in the soul what do you want to do what do you think you want to do how do you feel about something those are the things that we have need to get a hold of right but when you're out doing something hard self-inflicted adversity it hones that soul portion of us down at the same time that it's training our body so the two are very intertwined giving you energy keeping you healthy keeping you lean sharp that it provides that for the body it provides that for the body and the soul and the mind the soul being the mind will and emotions it makes you it makes you force your your mind your will what do you want to do and your emotions how do you feel about this activity and this pain because you don't want to do it.

5:39Exactly. But when you go out and do it, you're honing that portion of you as a human. So after that? After that is my work time. So from noon to the rest of the day, up until five, six, sometimes seven o 'clock, that's my work time. And so I take all that perspective and all that energy and all that good stuff that I get out there on that run or that weightlifting or whatever and then I transfer that over into my work time. So I took care of my spirit in that first 30 minutes, take care of my body, soul, and that next four hours, the rest of the day man I can hammer some stuff out. My biggest fear is that this telephone and this phone text messages and social media, my biggest fear is that that stuff is one day going to maybe tarnish the clarity of my perspective.

6:42It's going to take away from that four-hour block of time. All that Instagram, all that stuff, none of that matters because if I don't put that four hours into myself, the stuff that I put out on the back half of the day is not going to be as pure as it should be. So my biggest fear is losing that purity, man. And I shouldn't say I fear it. I'm very conscious of it.

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