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Go down swinging. And I’ll tell you: If you fight with all you have, more often than not, you won’t go down at all. You will win.
But you have to make that attitude a part of your everyday life.
Do the extra repetition.
Run the extra mile.
Go the extra round
Make the right choices.
Give the full measure.
Make yourself stronger, mentally and physically.
Stand and fight.
Fight against weakness. Against fear. Against time and against decay.
FIGHT BACK.
Go down swinging.
Give every day everything you’ve got.
And when you face a challenge—even
something you don’t believe you can win, or a situation where you know you cannot win—remember this:
You have nothing to lose.
So.
STAND UP. GO FORWARD.
Go out in a blaze of glory, fighting with everything you’ve got, every ounce of energy, every bead of sweat, every drop of blood—until your last breath.
Chapter 13 - Until The End
Something I saw in combat that I later tried to train out of people was the tendency to relax once the primary objective of a mission was complete.
I tried to train that out of them because you can’t relax until the entire mission is complete
In training, we always attacked the platoons hard on their primary objective, but we always attacked them even harder after they left the main target, once the platoons were patrolling back to base, when their minds had already gone home and “turned off.”
That’s when we would bring it to them. Hit them from multiple angles with all kinds of mayhem.
So they would develop the attitude and the muscle memory to keep going until the end. And even when they got
back to base, we would re-task them so they had to begin planning again. It wouldn’t stop.
That’s the mentality I wanted to instill in them:
It is never finished.
You always have more to do.
Another mission. Another task. Another goal.
And the enemy is always watching. Waiting. Looking for that moment of weakness.
Looking for you to exhale, set your
weapon down, and close your eyes, even just for a moment.
And that’s when they attack.
So don’t be finished.
Be starting. Be alert. Be ready. Be attacking.
BE RELENTLESS.
Let the enemy stop. Let the enemy rest. Let the enemy finish.
You? Don’t finish. Don’t stop. Don’t rest.
Not until the enemy is completely destroyed.
Do I have weakness?
I am nothing but weakness.
I am not naturally strong, or fast, or flexible.
I am certainly not the smartest person in the world.
I get emotional over stupid things.
I eat the wrong foods.
I don’t sleep enough
I procrastinate and I waste time.
I care too much about meaningless things and not enough about important things.
My ego is too big.
My mind is too small, often trapped inside itself.
Now all that being said, I have a saying: A person’s strength is often their biggest weakness.
But, their weaknesses can become strengths.
Me? I am weak, in all those ways, I am weak.
BUT
I don’t accept that.
I don’t accept that I am what I am and that “that” is what I am doomed to be.
NO. I do not accept that.
I’m fighting.
I’m always fighting. I’m struggling and I’m scraping and kicking and clawing at those weaknesses—to change them. To stop them.
Some days I win. But some days I don’t.
But each and every day: I get back up
and I move forward.
People want to know how to stop laziness.
They want to know how to stop procrastination
They have an idea in their head …
Maybe even a vision.
But they don’t know where to start—so they ask.
And they say: “Where do I start?”
“When is the best time to start?”
And I have a simple answer:
HERE and NOW.
That’s it.
You want to improve?
You want to get better
You want to get on a workout program or a clean diet or start a new business?
You want to write a book or make a movie or build a house or a computer or an app?
Where do you start? You start right HERE.
When do you start? You start right NOW.
You initiate action.
You GO.
Here is the reality
That idea isn’t going to execute itself.
That book isn’t going to write itself.
Those weights out in the gym—they aren’t going to move themselves.
YOU HAVE TO DO IT.
And you have to do it now. So stop thinking about it. Stop dreaming about it.
Stop researching every aspect of it …
NO MORE
No more.
No more.
NO MORE.
No more excuses.
No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.”
No more: “Just this once.”
No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will
No more taking the easy road.
No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts
float through my mind.
No.
No more.
No more waiting for the perfect moment
and no more indecision
and no more lies.
No more weakness.
No.
No more.
Now is the time for strength
And through strength—
and through will—
and through unwavering discipline—
I will become what I want to be.
I will become who I want to be.
And then—and only then—will I rest and say:
No more
It wasn’t in a war.
It wasn’t in a battle.
It isn’t in a melee of fire and destruction that most of us succumb to weakness.
We are taken apart, slowly.
Convinced to take an easier path.
Enticed by comfort
Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle.
We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.
It isn’t that you wake up one day and decide that’s it: I am going to be weak.
No. It is a slow incremental process. It chips away at our will—it chips away at our discipline.
We sleep in a little later.
We miss a workout, then another
We start to eat what we shouldn’t eat and drink what we shouldn’t drink.
And, without realizing it—one day, you wake up and you have become something that you never would have allowed.
Instead of strong—you are weak.
Instead of disciplined—you are disorganized and lost.
Instead of moving forward and progressing—you are moving backward and decaying
And those things happen without you seeing them.
Without you recognizing them.
So.
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD.
You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things—
things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
Fear is normal.
Every person feels fear at some point.
What should you do?
Step.
Step.
Take the step.
Step aggressively toward your fear—that is the step into bravery
We are scared of what we don’t know, and there is but one way to confront that fear:
Step. GO.
And that simple action, this simple attitude answers so many questions.
How do you get to the gym every day?
Step. GO.
How do you change your diet?
Step. GO
How do you overcome fear of failure or fear of success or fear of fear itself?
Step. GO.
How do you face the fear of the unknown?
Step. GO.
Don’t wait anymore.
Don’t think anymore.
Don’t plan anymore.
Don’t contemplate anymore.
Don’t make any more excuses or justifications
Anything else.
No. No. NO. NO.
Instead: Be aggressive.
Take action.
Now.
And the first action you need to take?
The first step you need to take?
The first step you need to take is just that:
Step.
Step.
Go.
Now.
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