Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins

“You never know when you might need it,”

but facts are facts.

I felt so disgusted I wanted to punch that motherfucker in the face and shatter glass. Instead, I lectured him. It was time to get real.

“It’s on you,” I said. “Yeah, I know shit is fucked up. I know what you’ve been through. I was there, bitch! Merry fucking Christmas. Nobody is coming to save your ass! Not your mommy, not Wilmoth. Nobody! It’s up to you!”

I set goals, wrote them on Post-It notes, and tagged them to what I now call the Accountability Mirror, because each day I’d hold myself accountable to the goals I’d set.

Being soft when you look in the mirror isn’t going to inspire the wholesale changes we need to shift our present and open up our future.