Pay The Man // SPARTAN WAY 031
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Inspired by former Navy SEAL & 1 of the world’s best CrossFit competitors, Josh Bridges. Josh constantly talks about #PayTheMan - meaning, you gotta earn it!
If you want something, you gotta EARN it. You don’t deserve anything. You get what you Earn!
LESSONS:
Most successful people will tell you that the majority of their victories and success stories are on the other side of hard work, aka Paying the Man.
You can #PayTheMan and apply this lesson to any area of your life.
Set small goals that you MUST accomplish that earns you the right to do something.
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2019 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Who is this man and what are we paying him? |
| 0:02.4 | Spartan's, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way Podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm your host, Zach Evnish. |
| 0:12.4 | In this episode, I want to talk to you about an awesome |
| 0:15.0 | hashtag that I picked up from Josh Bridges. He's a Cross Fit Games competitor. |
| 0:20.0 | I believe he was a Cross Fit games champion or a runner-up. |
| 0:23.0 | He's a former Navy SEAL, former college wrestler, |
| 0:27.0 | all-around badass, super-inspiring guy. |
| 0:30.0 | And he inspired me with this hashtag that I saw him posting on his social media |
| 0:34.3 | accounts and it said hashtag pay the man and basically everything was this |
| 0:39.7 | highlight of him training hard, working out hard, and it was this message that he was sending |
| 0:46.8 | himself and sending to me and others that, hey, we don't deserve anything. |
| 0:52.1 | We might want X, Y, and Z, but you don't deserve anything we might want X Y and Z but you don't deserve it you've got to earn it and it must be his |
| 0:58.6 | wrestling background his Navy SEAL background and of course being a champion in the CrossFit Games community |
| 1:05.4 | and it made me think of it's the late afternoon almost early evening here in Vermont |
| 1:11.3 | but I skipped lunch today and I said to myself, I don't |
| 1:14.3 | deserve to eat lunch because I haven't done anything physical today. I haven't |
| 1:18.4 | paid the man and by going up this mountain and accomplishing a tough challenge, a tough task, |
| 1:25.0 | getting back down, now I feel like, all right, I've paid the man, now I could earn, |
| 1:31.0 | or I have earned my dinner. and it's something that you want to |
| 1:34.4 | start putting into play in all areas of your life and it doesn't have to be pay the |
| 1:39.2 | man it could be pay the woman right we're paying ourselves through work and anybody who's a |
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