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I Don't Look Like a Navy SEAL

American Veterans Center

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[0:00]I get told a lot I don't look like a navy seal, but that's because no one really knows what a navy seal looks like. The reason I got through it is because we 99% of us we we're just people that just get it. Positive attitude. Wake up in the morning, be positive. You know, wake up, make your bed, do your thing on time. I I had an instructor at seal training tell me um um, this course is regardless of what you've been told, this course is not impossible. People graduate, look at me, I'm living proof. So I'm never going to ask you to do anything impossible. But I will make you do something very hard, followed by something very hard, followed by something very hard. Day after day after day for eight straight months, and that sounds like a lot to get from now to eight months from now, but don't think about it that way. That's not how you achieve a long-term goal. I want you to do it like this. Wake up in the morning on time, make your bed the right way, brush your teeth, little victories. Make it to the 5:00 a.m. workout on time. Don't think about the pain. Concentrate on your next goal, which is breakfast. After breakfast, make it to lunch. After lunch, make it to dinner. After dinner, do everything you need to do to get back inside that perfectly made bed because you took the time in the morning to make your bed the right way, regardless of how bad today was. Which it will be bad. Tomorrow's a clean slate and a fresh start and when you feel like quitting, which you will, do not quit now, quit tomorrow. That's life. He he gave me great advice for life too. And he also told me, it doesn't matter what you look like, what where you're from. If you keep a positive attitude, you can do anything you want. The best advice he gave me before hell week was you're about to go to war for the first time. And your enemy is all your doubts, all your fears, and everyone you know back home that told you you weren't good enough to do this. Keep your head down, keep moving forward no matter what, never quit, and you'll be fine.

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