Can't Be Broken
Can't Be Broken
The Power of Persistence and Clear Goals: C-Monsters Mindset
What does it really mean to work hard, and are you truly giving your best effort? Join me, C Monster, as we kick off Season 3 of the Can't Be Broken Podcast with a fresh perspective and a renewed sense of purpose. After a brief hiatus to explore new endeavors and recover from personal injuries, I'm excited to share my journey and the lessons learned along the way. In this opening episode titled "C Monster’s Mindset," we explore the importance of trying new things to keep life fulfilling and dive into the foundational themes of hard work and excellence.
Throughout the episode, we dissect what it means to have "High Intention and Sincere Effort," focusing on self-honesty, responsibility, and the necessity of a clear direction in your efforts. We also highlight the critical components of achieving excellence, such as effort, integrity, and strategic planning, in the "Strive for Excellence" chapter. If you're feeling stuck or need that motivational push, this episode is tailored just for you. Tune in and let’s start turning intentions into tangible results. Thank you for joining the Can't Be Broken Podcast—let's make things happen together!
what up, what up, what up, and welcome to another episode of the can't be broken podcast. I am your host, c monster, and uh, welcome and welcome to SeaMonster's Mindset. This is season three. I was, as season two and season three, I took a little bit of time off just to do other things, other ventures, no other reason than just to get a break, and I'm not talking about a break from life because it's so nerve-wracking or busy or anything like that, but just to step away from this for a little bit. This is something that I consider fun, enjoyable, almost therapeutic for me to get on here and talk, give my opinion experiences, do the Sea Monster mindset interview people, people and give you guys, uh, hopefully, something that's educational. And, uh, people are walking away with something that they learned, um, from the sea monster mindset, or people that I bring on the show, um, so I took a little bit of time off. Uh, it was awesome, great, uh, I've been dealing with some injuries, uh, personally, achilles, tendon, stuff, you know just little things that I'm getting back into. Lost some, I wouldn't say focus, but discipline, which it happens to all of us, and we're back on track now, trying to get some miles in, trying to do some other things. You know, it's always refreshing to evolve in different things and try different things, and that's what I've kind of been doing is trying to juggle not one thing, not like just be an ultra runner, not just be a trainer, a dad, whatnot, but just to do a little bit of everything. I like to try new things, like new flavors and ice cream, or try new cars to drive or new places to stay out or new food. You know, I know we know what we like, but God, life is so great that it's good to try different things, because you never know if you might like it even more. Maybe you don't like it, but if you don't try you won't know. Anyways, welcome to season three.
Speaker 1:I'm going to start off like this, by saying thank you to everybody who's listened in the past, new people that are just finding me. Now I'm going to try to spread out the word a little bit more for season three. I have no idea what we have in stock for you guys. All I know is that I'm enjoying just I don't know just taking it day by day on this. I'm enjoying that. I'm enjoying leaving some stuff for my daughters to listen to, listen to my voice, people that know me. They can go back in here and listen. And so I'm back for season three.
Speaker 1:And today we start off with, yeah, sea Monster's mindset. And you know what? I'm going to be more raw this time, just because it's not angry. Don't even take my words as being angry, because I'm not, not that person. Nothing really ticks me off or nothing. Very, very, very, very rare that I would get upset or angry or yell or anything like that. It's just emotions coming out because I feel like it adds to the story. It adds to the expression of what I want to relay and how maybe the mood is coming out. So if I curse or you feel like I'm angry, it's not angry, it's just expressing that it's important. That's what it is Important Today.
Speaker 1:I want to talk about two things. They kind of relate. It's hard work and excellence. Hard work what is that? Is it working hard? Is it working smart or whatnot?
Speaker 1:I think many people just are confused about what hard work is and what their potential is to that. People think that they work hard. People, actually most people, I would say lie to themselves because they believe that they're doing everything to get where they want to be to win, to succeed, to overcome, to get wherever they want to be. And then, when they fall short of get wherever they want to be. And then, when they fall short of that, they ask themselves why, and they start blaming certain things, certain external factors, certain people, maybe other people, time, money, whatever that looks like, instead of just blaming themselves, taking ownership, taking responsibility and understanding that you did not work hard enough.
Speaker 1:Now, listen, this isn't for everybody. I'm not saying that you didn't give it all and you didn't get. Sometimes you work so freaking hard and you don't get what you think you were supposed to get, or that job or that promotion. But it's okay. If you change your perspective and you keep working hard, just instilling good work ethics and habits, you're going to get something. Maybe not exactly what you wanted, but something else will come and it could be a blessing.
Speaker 1:In disguise, no-transcript, but if we have good work ethics, good habits, good daily routines, discipline, focus, you will be successful in something, and that's what we have to focus on. The first thing we have to focus on is making sure that we take ownership, that we take responsibility for actions, that we don't lie to ourselves. We can lie to other people and get away with it. But, goddamn, we cannot lie to ourselves. We can lie to other people and get away with it, but God damn, we cannot lie to ourselves. And if you continue to lie to yourself, you're going to believe that shit and then you will never reach that potential. You will never actually fucking work hard. You will never know what it is to overcome adversity, because we think we work hard and then there's somebody else working out harder than us. That's fucking working hard. And can I work harder than that person?
Speaker 1:Listen, when I was growing up, I was such a short grommet and I was ragging myself about being short and whatnot. Who cares? I fucking outworked people. I didn't have the best talent, I didn't have the speed, I didn't have everything. There's other people that had that the height, the arm strength, the speed. But I'll tell you what I could hit I could fucking bang. And that's because I studied the game. And you know what I did work hard. I worked hard on and off the field. I was obsessed. I was obsessed with winning and proving people wrong and proving myself right. That's what I was obsessed with.
Speaker 1:Now, if you don't have that fucking attitude, maybe you have talent, but God, just imagine if you had both. Or if you have talent and you don't work hard, bye, you will get outworked by somebody who wants it, who has grit, and they will beat you soon. I know I have, I know I've beat people. So if you're thinking you're working hard, really ask yourself that question Can I work harder? Is there more? Can I give more? And I'm not talking about lifting weights and getting on it and until you hurt yourself. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about if there's time to put in work in certain things or something you've neglected, can you do more? Can you learn more? Can you become a better base runner? Are you better at learning the game? Can you have better reaction time?
Speaker 1:I mean, there's so many different things, not just in baseball and softball and in sports, maybe at work, maybe in your relationship, maybe in whatever you're doing or whatever you're trying to accomplish ultra running, triathlons what can you do daily? And have you given it all in different aspects, to have really said to yourself that you worked the hardest to get where you wanted to be? Genuinely ask yourself that and if the answer is no, then go back out there, figure it out and fucking do it. Don't make excuses. It out and fucking do it. Don't make excuses Because once it's done and you didn't do it you're going to find something in someone or whatever to blame, and that is not the right thing. The thing you should do is not blame nobody except yourself for not doing more, for not figuring it out, for not caring more. No excuses.
Speaker 1:Now, with working hard, you can't just fucking go out there and grind without intention. Intention is needed, and this is what's going to be directed towards excellence. A direction or an intention is needed. I can't just be like I'm going to run and I'm going to work so hard at running, but my sport is fucking tennis. It has nothing to do with that. Sure, there's some stuff that matters endurance but how about the skill level? How about different aspects of tennis or whatnot? Oh, I'm going to go just lift weights, but my fucking sport is table tennis. I don't know what does that matter then? Like, really have an intention, a direction, a focus of where you want to go and what you want to do, and have a plan to how you're going to get there. That's working hard towards an objective, towards where you want to be, not just randomly fucking kicking your own ass for something that doesn't even matter. You have to have direction and an intention Because, listen, success doesn't care how busy you are, it cares how effective you are. That's what it cares about. That's what success is.
Speaker 1:Now, the second thing I want to talk about is excellence. You want to be excellent at something. Here's a quote I heard that is amazing, and it has that word intention. It has that word sincere in it. Effort, intelligence and execution. It goes like this by Aristotle Excellence is never an accident.
Speaker 1:It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort and intelligent execution. It's not an accident. It is the result of high intention. High intention, what we talked about earlier. Your intent. What is that? Where do I want to go? What do I want to do? What am I trying to accomplish? What is my goal? Sincere effort, being real, taking ownership, responsibility, what we talked about earlier.
Speaker 1:Effort that you're doing everything you can in everything, in every aspect of what you're trying to accomplish, and you're sincere about it. You're honest about it. An intelligent execution, a plan, a worthy cause of execution of how you're going to go about doing it. Those three things are needed to be excellent in whatever you choose to accomplish.
Speaker 1:Man, I wish you nothing but love. I wish you nothing but good luck. I wish you nothing but good luck. I wish you nothing but something that's going to snap out of your fucking head. Get out of your own head and think about why you're just wasting time instead of being excellent, because many of us are. You can't get time back. So if you're listening to this now and you're young and you want to go and do something, or you're old and you want to accomplish something that you've realized you haven't done, then go, fucking get it. Go after it. Don't let nobody tell you no, but have a plan. Be truthful, be honest with yourself about your effort and be intelligent about your execution. Thank you very much for listening to Sea Monster's Mindset. Remember you can't be broken.
