you have to be the hero of your own
story and you can do that 90% of is just

showing up get there and start working
like you're not gonna feel perfect every

day

there's got to be those days you push
through and there they're probably gonna

be more numerous than the days you don't
and so the benefit of discipline in my

eyes has always been that through
discipline I get things done write down

everything you want to do this is what I
want you to do write down what you would

like to fix about your life and then
just if you're 30 pounds overweight you

want to lose 30 pounds do it the right
way

go start eating vegetables monitor your
calories write down what you eat

exercise every day force yourself to do
it the brain is the general the troops

of the body and you get up and you do it
and then you get to write it down our

bodies for whatever reason most people
their associations are to avoid anything

that's uncomfortable

it's so illogical because when you look
at comfort and you look at success and

progress and in eventual the feelings of
accomplishment and of getting past

certain hurdles and in terms of like how
you feel about life a lot of those are

connected to discomfort like discomfort
is your friend it really it a discomfort

and and not being happy and content with
certain situations in life or certain

feelings in life one of the big problems
is sitting down and doing the work and

he labels it like an enemy he calls it
resistance you know and that you have to

sit down you have to overcome resistance
and that the pro goes to work and it

doesn't matter if you're sick doesn't
matter if you have kids it doesn't

matter what you you're a pro and you go
to work and that and that just it puts

it in your head that this is what I do
you have pride in that and then when you

are in front of that keyboard and you're
you got you look down the count it's set

for the files more than you yeah you
you're doing the work and out of that

work gems blossom and it's about
resistance that people feel when you

know you should write or you know you
should paint or whatever you should

sculpt whatever these things are you
pursue and that there's this thing that

comes up that tries to keep you from
doing this

this resistance

you're not a hero in your own eyes
you're not you're not someone who you

respect you know you're doing what you
got to do to get by but ultimately

you're not respecting yourself and I
think we all have a certain amount of

appreciation and respect for hero
figures you know like we all look at

like the guy who never lies and it
always does the right thing and fucking

helps everybody out and that's the John
Wayne character you know that's that's

the ultimate hero and he's like this is
a battle that you will fight for the

rest of your life but the key is to
fight it not to give in don't give in to

that resistance to fuck just to fight
that resistance and in doing so every

day you do so you have won the battle
for that day and you will continue to

fight that battle and when you look at
your own life and you don't stack up

you're a thief you stole money from your
wife's purse and you know you don't want

to smoke cigarettes but you fucking have
to you can't deal with the stress and

smoke you devalue yourself you slowly
start devaluing yourself you look at

yourself you realize that if you were
judging yourself you would judge

yourself unfavorably
so no matter who you you can't pretend

you're the hero of your story

you can be the hero of your own story
that woke up today you could be the hero

of your own story that at forty years of
age stopped got out of bed and said I'm

not doing this anymore

only by my instincts and only by my
morals and my ideals and my mind and I'm

gonna be dead honest with myself because
I'm realizing this is not gonna last

forever and I'm gonna get myself in
shape but I'm gonna eat healthy and I'm

gonna do this because this is this is me
now

I decide that this is me

and people have to realize that you are
not your past you are not all the times

you fucked up they're not all the times
you were drunk that's not you what you

you are the person who's learned from a
great deal of experience when you're

alone with your thoughts you get an idea
of what your thoughts actually are you

live your life just acting constantly on
the momentum of other people's

expectations of you wanting to be liked
by these other people you can run into a

trap
and you you you set up a life that you

didn't really want your life is
certainly some sort of a journey it's

certainly some sort of a journey

you're trapped in this situation where
you have a mortgage

you've got credit-card bills you've got
student loans you have to pay you have a

bunch of shit going on you have to
continue to feed and all that and

especially if you have a family and you
have to feed them oh my goodness

then you're fully locked in you can't
take any chances whatsoever and

oftentimes people make the mistake of
getting stuck and it is just a tactical

mistake just like it would be a mistake
if you got stuck on a video game just

like it would be a mistake if you
followed a map incorrectly and you get

stuck in the woods your life is
certainly some sort of a journey it's

certainly some sort of a journey and we
have to all be aware that when we're

making journeys we're not going to
always make the right steps and

sometimes you have to back up and try
again and if you're in a position where

you can't back up and try again you've
trapped yourself as people define

themselves by the past instead of
thinking about who they are now and said

if they still look back at a mistake
they made and don't just get past that

mistake grow and learn but dwell on
think it defines them

I mean there's definitely pitfalls in
life you're gonna run into him we all

are
no you didn't learn and grow if you

survive somewhere along the line they
didn't face enough of the adversity to

realize that there's sometimes you just
got to get up and get shit done there's

sometimes we have to fucking pull
yourself up and you have to push forward

even if you want to stay in bed having
that safety net just provided him with a

way to stay in bed kept him weak have an
opportunity every time things go wrong

every time things feel terrible you have
an opportunity to learn from whatever

makes you feel terrible and never allow
it to happen again

push forward the system will set out
honey pots for people to get trapped in

the system will set out the ideas of
retirement the ideas of the Golden Ears

providing you benefits providing you a
healthy work environment why well

because they want people to work for
them they don't want people to realize

their own dreams and escape they want to
set it up so that you stick around stick

around some sort of an unsatisfying
world it's up to you to see that video

game problem to see that issue as it
comes up on the map and known I think

this is a right turn to see all the
problems that could potentially lay in

front of you and calculate your your
future and then also look around all the

people that didn't do it and look at the
misery that they're in and learn you

don't want to be like them

and most people get stuck in these
patterns or they define themselves on

the person who doesn't follow through on
their ideas or a person who doesn't

pursue the real interests and loves you
define yourself by that well you know I

guess when I start things and I quit no
you don't know you have started things

and you quit and it gives you a horrible
sense of regret that's made you define

yourself by that you don't have to do
that I look back on anything I've ever

done mistakes ever made
a pass that I you know what something I

put out that I didn't quite yeah maybe I
waited three months before I released

that or maybe I should have you know
rieta to that blog post a couple more

times before I put it online or things
that I've done have driven me crazy but

yelling at someone I didn't have to yell
at them for whatever but the most

important thing is always for all people
to recognize that you're not who you

were a year ago you're not who you were
five years ago you're not who you were

last week so you gotta regulate how much
you dwell on regrets of the past you

really got to be careful

it's also directly proportionate to the
amount of hardships that people face in

life their ability to face hardships you
know and there's a lot of folks that

live life on a cushy cloud of
marshmallows and bullshit and then one

day something goes wrong and then look
at the people that are have kind of

taken chances and navigated their way
what did they do differently

what insight into their own mistakes are
they willing to delve into that you're

not that you step back and go you know I
don't I just don't want to look at

myself that closely but the person who's
able to look at themselves the closest

it's gonna get the more rational results