5 Minutes to Start Your Day Right! – MORNING MOTIVATION | Admiral McRaven’s Speech For Your Day
if you want to change the world start
off by making your bed if you make your
bed every morning you will have
accomplished the first task of the day
it will give you a small sense of pride
and it will encourage you to do another
task and another and another and by the
end of the day that one task completed
will have turned into mini task
completed making your bed will also
reinforce the fact that the little
things in life matter if you can’t do
the little things right you’ll never be
able to do the big things right and if
by chance you have a miserable day you
will come home to a bed that is made
that you made and a made bed gives you
encouragement that tomorrow will be
better I’ve been a Navy SEAL for 36
years
every morning in SEAL training my
instructors who at the time were all
Vietnam veterans would show up in my
barracks room and the first thing they
do is inspect my bed if you did it right
the corners would be square the covers
would be pulled tight the pillows
centered just under the headboard and
the extra blanket folded neatly at the
foot of the rack it was a simple task
mundane at best but every morning we
were required to make our bed to
perfection it seemed a little ridiculous
at the time particularly in light of the
fact that we were aspiring to be real
warriors tough battle-hardened seals
but the wisdom of this simple act has
been proven to me many times over
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it matters not whether you ever serve
the day in uniform it matters not your
gender your ethnic or religious
background your orientation or your
social status our struggles in this
world are similar and the lessons to
overcome those struggles and to move
forward changing ourselves and changing
the world around us will apply equally
to all if you think it’s hard to change
the lives of ten people change their
lives forever you’re wrong
I saw it happen every day in Iraq and
Afghanistan but changing the world can
happen anywhere and anyone can do it so
what starts here can indeed change the
world and you will likely fail often it
will be painful it will be discouraging
at times it will test you to your very
core at that darkest moment of the
mission is a time when you need to be
calm when you must be calm when you must
be composed when all your tactical
skills your physical power and your
inner strength must be brought to bear
if you want to change the world you must
be your very best in the darkest moments
if I have learned anything in my time
traveling the world it is the power of
hope the power of one person the
Washington a Lincoln King Mandela and
even a young girl from Pakistan Malala
one person can change the world by
giving people hope
start each day with a task completed
find someone to help you through life
respect everyone know that life is not
fair that you will fail often but if you
take some risks step up on the times
you’re the toughest face down the
bullies lift up the downtrodden and
never ever give up if you do these
things the next generation and the
generations that follow will live in a
world far better than the one we have
today and what started here will indeed
have changed the world for the better
finally a seal training there’s a bell a
brass bell that hangs in the center of
the compound for all the students to see
all you have to do to quit is ring the
bell ring the bell and you no longer
have to wake up at 5 o’clock ring the
bell and you no longer have to be in the
freezing cold swims ring the bell and
you no longer have to do the runs the
obstacle course the PT and you no longer
have to endure the hardships of training
all you have to do is ring the bell to
get out
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if you want to change the world don’t
ever ever ring the bell
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