This is Why 99% of People Don’t Achieve Their Goals

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Mark Divine

Fitness, Sealfit, Business, Leadership, Health & Fitness, Navyseals, Kokoroyoga, Alternative Health, Unbeatablemind, Politics, Entrepreneur, Health, Military, Yoga

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

You can have superior physical capabilities and technical skills and still fall short in the face of adversity. The key differentiator between success and failure lies in ability and emotional connection to the goal. Without this deep emotional investment and clear sense of purpose, even the most qualified individuals can falter when facing extreme challenges.

Mental Mastery Through Meditation: Meditation fundamentally alters your thought patterns and reactions. Through Zen practice, Mark learned to create space between thoughts and responses, leading to better decision-making and emotional control. This was about transforming how his mind processed experiences, ultimately reshaping his brain's structure and subjective reality.
Overcoming Negative Self-Talk: Purposeful management of internal dialogue can transform self-image and performance. By consistently replacing negative thoughts with positive affirmations (like "I like myself") Mark reconstructed his self-perception. This "starving fear and feeding courage" approach shows how deliberate thought management over time can overcome deeply ingrained negative programming from childhood trauma.
The Role of Deep Purpose: You can possess superior physical metrics and ability, and ultimately quit on day one. The difference between people who succeed and those who quit lies in their emotional connection to the goal; Having a purpose that resonates at an identity level. Surface-level competence, without deep emotional investment and clear purpose, falters in the face of extreme challenges.

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0:00.0	I knew why I wanted to be a Navy SEAL because I wanted to be someone special.
0:03.6	One day I was walking down the street and I passed a neighbor recruiting office and I saw a
0:09.6	poster. All I said was be someone special and I was transfixed.
0:14.0	You see I did not feel special at that time. I felt small. I felt tiny. I felt the way you feel when you grow up in a traumatic situation. I've never told these
0:25.4	stories before. I'm telling them now because it's the first day of
0:30.7	training. Bud's class 170.
0:33.3	We've been at it for hours.
0:34.8	We're cold, we're wet, endless push-ups.
0:37.1	The instructor yells at us, hit the surf.
0:40.1	I turn and I start running toward the surf and in that moment I flash back to my 12th Christmas
0:47.9	staring in horror at my stocking which was full of coal and the shame that Santa Claus would be so
0:56.8	mad at me that would give me coal. Back at Buds in that moment I was like wow what
1:01.8	am I doing here? Am I worthy to be a Navy
1:04.7	seal am I a strong enough good enough person to be a Navy seal time will tell you
1:12.1	see like you, childhood was challenging. There's a lot of chaos going on in our house.
1:18.0	Had a lot of things to unpack as I got older.
1:22.0	I remember many times my father would storm up the
1:25.2	stairs, come screaming into the bedroom, belt coming off of his pants and you
1:29.4	slapped, smacks my brother and then he would point at me and say same to you.
1:34.0	And I remember thinking, well, dude, why don't you just smack me too?
1:38.0	It's way easier than having the guilt of not being hit while my brother was getting that abuse.
1:46.0	Countless time. I remember one time where my brother and I were rough housing in this room
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