Change the world, start off by making your bed.

If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day.

It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task,

and another, and another. And by the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter.

If you can't do the little things right, you'll never be able to do the big things right.

And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made, that

you made.

And a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

To pass seal training, there are a series of long swims that must be completed.

One is the night swim.

Before the swim, the instructors joyfully briefed the students on all the species

of sharks that inhabit the waters off San Clemente. They assure you, however, that no student

has ever been eaten by a shark, at least not that they can remember. But you are also taught that if a shark begins to circle your position, stay on your ground.

Do not swim away.

Do not act afraid.

And if a shark, hungry for a midnight snack, darts towards you, then summons up all your

strength and punch him in the snout, and he will turn and swim away.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim, you will have to deal with them.

So if you want to change the world, don't back down from the sharks.

Over a few weeks of difficult training, my SEAL class which started with 150 minutes. the world, don't back down from the sharks.

Over a few weeks of difficult training, my seal class which started with 150 men, was down to just 42.

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