SITUATION: You are in danger of living a life so

comfortable and soft that you will die without ever

realizing your true potential.
MISSION: To unshackle your mind. Ditch the victim’s
mentality forever. Own all aspects of your life
completely. Build an unbreakable foundation.
Solo Mission Read this cover to cover. Study the techniques within,
accept all ten challenges. Repeat. Repetition will
callous your mind.
If you do your job to the best of your ability, this will
hurt. This mission is not about making yourself feel
EXECUTION: better. This mission is about being better and having
a greater impact on the world.
Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are
done..

What are the current factors limiting your growth and

success? Is someone standing in your way at work or
school?

Are you underappreciated and overlooked for

opportunities? What are the long odds you’re up
Challenge #1 against right now? Are you standing in your own way?

Whatever your goal, you’ll need to hold yourself

accountable for the small steps it will take to get
there.

Self-improvement takes dedication and self-discipline.

The dirty mirror you see every day is going to reveal
Challenge #2 the truth. Stop ignoring it. Use it to your advantage.

Doing things—even small things—that make you

uncomfortable will help make you strong.
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The more often you get uncomfortable the stronger
you’ll become, and soon you’ll develop a more
 Doing things—even small things—that make you
uncomfortable will help make you strong.

The more often you get uncomfortable the stronger

you’ll become, and soon you’ll develop a more
productive, can-do dialogue with yourself in stressful
Challenge #3 situations.

Choose any competitive situation that you’re in right

now. Who is your opponent? Is it your teacher or
coach, your boss, an unruly client?

No matter how they’re treating you there is one way

to not only earn their respect, but turn the tables.
Challenge #4 Excellence.

Choose any obstacle in your way, or set a new goal,

and visualize overcoming or achieving it. Before I
engage in any challenging activity, I start by painting
a picture of what my success looks and feels like.

I’ll think about it every day and that feeling propels

me forward when I’m training, competing, or taking
on any task I choose.
Remember, visualization will never compensate for
work undone. You cannot visualize lies. All the
strategies I employ to answer the simple questions
and win the mind game are only effective because I
Challenge #5
put in work. It’s a lot more than mind over matter.

It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering

into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that
at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life
just waiting for you.

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 Set ambitious goals before each workout and let
those past victories carry you to new personal bests.
If it’s a run or bike ride, include some time to do
interval work and challenge yourself to beat your best
mile split.

Or simply maintain a maximum heart rate for a full

minute, then two minutes. “If you’re more focused on
intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and
longer than ever before, or read a record number of
Challenge #6 books in a given month.

Can't Hurt Me The main objective here is to slowly start to remove

David Goggins the governor from your brain.
There is so much pain and suffering involved in
physical challenges that it’s the best training to take
command of your inner dialogue, and the newfound
mental strength and confidence you gain by
Challenge #7
continuing to push yourself physically will carry over
to other aspects in your life.

You will realize that if you were underperforming in

your physical challenges, there is a good chance you
are underperforming at school and work too.

Schedule it in! It’s time to compartmentalize your day.

This will be a three-week challenge. During week one,
go about your normal schedule, but take notes. When
do you work? Are you working nonstop or checking
your phone (the Moment app will tell you)?

How long are your meal breaks? When do you

exercise, watch TV, or chat to friends? How long is
your commute? Are you driving? I want you to get
super detailed and document it all with timestamps.
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This will be your baseline, and you’ll find plenty of fat
to trim. Most people waste four to five hours on a
 do you work? Are you working nonstop or checking
your phone (the Moment app will tell you)?

How long are your meal breaks? When do you

exercise, watch TV, or chat to friends? How long is
your commute? Are you driving? I want you to get
super detailed and document it all with timestamps.

This will be your baseline, and you’ll find plenty of fat

to trim. Most people waste four to five hours on a
given day, and if you can learn to identify and utilize
Challenge #8 it, you’ll be on your way toward increased productivity.
In week two, build an optimal schedule. Lock
everything into place in fifteen- to thirty-minute
blocks. Some tasks will take multiple blocks or entire
days. Fine.

When you work, only work on one thing at a time,

think about the task in front of you and pursue it
relentlessly. When it comes time for the next task on
your schedule, place that first one aside, and apply
the same focus.
Make notes with timestamps in week two. You may
still find some residual dead space. By week three,
you should have a working schedule that maximizes
your effort without sacrificing sleep.

A lot of people think that once they reach a certain

level of status, respect, or success, that they’ve made
it in life. I’m here to tell you that you always have to
find more.

Greatness is not something that if you meet it once it

stays with you forever. That shit evaporates like a
flash of oil in a hot pan.
If you truly want to become uncommon amongst the
uncommon, it will require sustaining greatness for a
long period of time. It requires staying in constant
pursuit and putting out unending effort.
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This may sound appealing but will require everything
you have to give and then some. Believe me, this is
not for everyone because it will demand singular
 If you truly want to become uncommon amongst the
uncommon, it will require sustaining greatness for a
long period of time. It requires staying in constant
Challenge #9 pursuit and putting out unending effort.

This may sound appealing but will require everything

you have to give and then some. Believe me, this is
not for everyone because it will demand singular
focus and may upset the balance in your life.

Think about your most recent and your most heart-

wrenching failures. Break out that journal one last
time. Log off the digital version and write them out
long-hand. I want you to feel this process because
you are about to file your own, belated After Action
Reports.
First off, write out all the good things, everything that
went well, from your failures. Be detailed and
generous with yourself. A lot of good things will have
happened. It’s rarely all bad. Then note how you
handled your failure. Did it affect your life and your
relationships? How so?
How did you think throughout the preparation for and
Challenge #10
during the execution stage of your failure? You have
to know how you were thinking at each step because
it’s all about mindset, and that’s where most people
fall short.
Now go back through and make a list of things you
can fix. This isn’t time to be soft or generous. Be
brutally honest, write them all out. Study them. Then
look at your calendar and schedule another attempt
as soon as possible.

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