Jocko, I think you’ll agree, is a classic badass. He gets up when it’s basically still night, and gets his workouts done.
The success secrets of a Navy SEAL are high value, so make sure you pay close attention to what Jocko has to say!
In this section Jocko talks about:
He rises at 4.30am every morning
The importance of a good workout
How not to waste a day
Why he “holds the line”
What he means by “freedom through discipline”
Why Jocko loves guitar player Jimmy Page!
0:00 Talk to me about your early wake up routine. When did you start doing it? Why do you still do it? What does it do for you? I started originally doing it in the SEAL Team because a couple reasons.
0:26 I guess one of them, I realized there was guys that were hardcore, and they got to work early, and I wanted to be hardcore. And there was actually one particular Master Chief that we work for, and I might have my old roommate who would like one of my best friends went through SEAL training with. We live together, and we used to always make it a point to try and beat him to work. Beat the old Master Chief to work. It’ll be hard, but that’s kind of the original thing, you know.
0:54 We would just get up early to go in there and beat the Master Chief to work. Make sure that you knew that we were there before him and the other reason was in order to get a workout in, like, in order to guarantee yourself a good workout. If you don’t get it done in the morning, well, then other things come up, even the SEAL Teams, you know. You got administrative things, you got training that happens, you got just things happen, so the only way to guarantee yourself a workout, let’s get up early and get it done, and so that’s where it all started for me.
1:25 And it’s the same thing in the civilian world. You know, you’re working with business, you got clients calling you if you don’t get up and get it done, then it doesn’t get done, and then you realize when you don’t get up and get it done how miserable you are and how weak you are and how mentally foggy you are and everything just turns into a nightmare. So I’ve become, I’d read the feeling so much of having wasted the morning that’s one of the things that might keeps me consistent because I just don’t like the feeling of getting up later and having mr. work out and having thrown my whole day off.
2:04 So yeah, get up early in it, and it takes discipline you know, people is like, you ever just wake up in the morning and not want to get up, just want to sleep more. Yeah, but I do it anyway, because, you know what, I’d rather take a nap late, I’d rather take a power nap later on. But hold the line, hold the line in the morning, and that workout, it anything you can do to push yourself, whatever you are. Yeah. Dude gets on treadmill, you’re doing pull-ups, wherever you can, burpees in a hotel hallways.
2:36 Yeah, I don’t care. Yeah, don’t care, just get. I want to break a sweat, look, you know, and somebody said to me the other day, you know, I can only imagine how you crush yourself through these workouts, and the workout I did that morning was not adding crush myself. I just got up. I got it done.
2:52 I had a bunch of work to do, and I was out late, up early, so no, I didn’t crush myself. I’m sorry to let that person down wherever they may be. I got up and got it done. I got up and moved. I got up, I did work, sweated, you know, and held the line on the discipline.
3:09 Held the line, right? Freedom through discipline. Can you just explain that? Yeah, this is one of those ones that I think is really, I think people relate to it, and I think people have it. It’s dug into people’s brains, because it is everybody.
3:28 To you, think about it, you go yell at strip, and the two examples that I use all the time are our financial freedom, because if you want financial freedom. How you gonna get there? Like, we all want finance for you, but how you can get there? You got that financial discipline. You can’t be going out to dinner every night, and you’re going to save your money and invest your money wisely.
3:48 So you gotta have financial discipline. And any other one is free time. We all want to have free time, but how do you get more free time? It’s not by having more free time. It’s actually by having a more disciplined time management schedule, and the more you know, if we need the days you don’t wake up early in you and you have to work out later.
4:09 You don’t have more free time. You have less free time. It’s horrible. So and it applies to everything. It applies to, you know, if you want it, if you want to be Jimmy Page and have total freedom on the guitar to just let loose and express your emotions at that time through a piece of wood with strings on it.
4:34 How do you have that freedom? It’s because you have to have the discipline to practice like Jimmy Page, you would, you know, musician from a kid and was a studio musician and sat there and was forced to play these notes that they told them to play. He got so good at that, so much discipline that now that thing can sing for him. And so it’s the same thing as you get there. How do you have you want to have freedom on the map?
4:56 You want to be free to put yourself in weird positions. How do you do that? Discipline training, you
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