David Goggins
Last week we discussed Taking Souls and what to do to take a soul. But how do you reach a mental state and/or physical state so that you can take soul? You armor your mind.
Goggins’ fifth challenge, summarized, (from his book) is this:
Challenge #5 – It’s time to visualize again. Rather than focusing on bullshit you can’t change, imagine visualizing the things you can. Choose any obstacle in your way, or set a new goal, and visualize overcoming or achieving it. Before I engage in any challenging activity, I start by painting a picture of what my success looks and feels like. I’ll think about it every day and that feeling propels me forward when I’m training, competing, or taking on any task I choose.
You must also visualize the challenges that are likely to arise and determine how you will attack those problems when they do. That way you can be as prepared as possible on the journey. You can’t prepare for everything but if you engage in strategic visualization ahead of time, you’ll be as prepared as possibly can be.
That also means being prepared to answer the simple questions. Why are you doing this? What is driving you toward this achievement? Where does the darkness you’re using as fuel come from? What has calloused your mind? You’ll need to have those answers at your fingertips when you hit a wall of pain and doubt.
Remember, visualization will never compensate for work undone. You cannot visualize lies. It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you.
This challenge doesn’t have to be physical, and victory doesn’t always mean you came in first place. It can mean you’ve finally overcome a lifelong fear or any other obstacle that made you surrender in the past.
This week’s music.
GlibFit.
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#7 is close to perfect.
#7 is good looking, but just because she’s good looking and not overweight doesn’t mean she belongs in a fit girls picture gallery.
Completely on topic and GlibFit approved!
Y’all are a bunch of misogynists!
I need a Qpinion on this
https://reduxx.info/ontario-high-school-defends-fetishistic-large-bust-wearing-teacher/
One it’s disgusting. Two that’s a dude. Three, the school administration needs to be burned at the stake.
I keep getting logged out. Once more with feeling….
Oh JFC.
But with the corner they (and we) have painted ourselves into, you can’t say anything, can you?
Anything goes in the progressive utopia.
That’s someone who hates xer job and is baiting to get fired.
If Canada is anything like NYC, it is impossible to get fired for anything other than refusing the sacred jab.
No, I suspect this is just your basic mental illness.
Definitely mentally ill. Those ridiculously large prosthetic breasts are a cry for help and a workplace safety issue.
WTF, Canada?
Hell I wore this t-shirt in HS and they made me put electrical tape over the cartoon nipples. If only I had identified them as my own fake nipples I would have been in the clear I guess.
*honk honk*
I had a decent week for deadlifting.
First deadlift day was conventional deadlifts done Tabata like. Part-way through the nine work sets at 195 lbs I got sloppy with my back bracing. I had all sorts of strange cramps and pains. I finished the sets. The odd cramps and pains went away during the rest of my session because I kept better core bracing.
The second deadlift day was a modified 5/3/1 using the trap bar. The deadlift portion of the session ended with a single at 295 lbs and then as many repetitions as possible at 295 lbs. That single at 295 lbs felt light, so I decided to do as many repetitions at 305 lbs as I could. I got three. On the fourth, I got the weight a few inches off the ground and then ran out of steam.
My pre-disc-herniation-acting-up 1RM for deadlift was 315 lbs, pulling conventional. I think I will blow past that the next time I try a 1RM for deadlift.
My weight is fluctuating.
Music for this week is OK.
I had all sorts of strange cramps and pains
Menarche?
My challenge is always mental but if I visualize what I’m going to do the next day, right before bed, I find that I have a much higher success rate of getting out of bed early to do it.
I’ve started to build my garage gym. Just purchased a quality squat rack, Olympic bar, adjustable bench, and a full set of bumper plates. Been wanting to have a garage gym forever and now that I’m finally settling down, I can build it out. Got a few pieces of cardio equipment already and oddly enough, the last owner of the house had a tractor tire in the backyard that I asked them to leave so I can clean it up and use it for tire flips.
Same here on the visualization. Congrats on the home gym.
Stupid builders.
Stupid builders grade closet oragnizers.
Stupid drywall anchors.
😠
You didn’t build that?
I think i can connect those dots.
I have a contractor buddy who laughs at the GMC tagline “professional grade” exactly because of that. Professional grade = the cheapest you can find to finish the job.
I dunno, professional grade is usually a bit better. Contractor grade otoh…
I feel your pain.
The SU and I have always ripped out all the old closets ‘n fixtures whenever we’ve moved into a new place, and then we re-build ’em with quality stuff and making sure the walls have proper stud supports in the right places. Also gives us a chance to properly repair and paint the interior walls of the closet with white paint so’s we can see inside ’em better.
In particular, the SU’s become something of an expert in installing closet systems quickly and accurately.
I use molly bolt anchors, but … I have had a whole shelf system rip out of the wall with not a whole lot of weight on them. I don’t trust them for much.
So, like R. Kelly, you’re trapped in the closet?
What? You need more than hooks on the back wall and a gun safe?
No understand.
Exciting football games today. Browns-Jets and Miami-Baltimore both go down to the wire. Both included comebacks as well.
2 teams with big leads late in the 4th quarter. Both lose.
Lifelong Jet fan, Browns/Jets was upside down. it’s usually the Jets who find a way to lose that kind of game.
I’ll believe that really happened when I emerge from my percocet-induced haze.
The Browns have a long and storied history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, this was very on brand for the Browns. At least the halftime brisket was tasty.
49ers lost their quarterback of the future for multiple games with an ankle injury. Good thing they kept their starter from last year.
You must also visualize the challenges that are likely to arise and determine how you will attack those problems when they do.
Did you visualize this challenge?
Chafed!
I love the Goggins episodes. They make me extremely uncomfortable. Which, of course, is telling.
I’m doing a 30-day reset starting tomorrow. Keto, no booze, appropriate levels of sleep and exercise. I’m visualizing a 55 year old dude who won’t look out of place next to his super-fit family on the beach in December. I also need the mental clarity as I have some tough professional challenges to navigate.
My GlibFit day today was fun as I zoomed with the cool kids at Honey Harvest while I walked 5 miles. I got to see Yusef, Fourscore, MikeS, Stillhunter, CPRM, Kinnath and the rest of the miscreants. So bummed I couldn’t be there.
We’ve talked about it a lot, but this is a really incredible place. MikeS and I were chatting the other night and I mentioned that I miss Jimbo and the rest of the crazy fuckers more than I miss my own family. That’s pretty fucked up.
Kick some ass this week, GlibFitters! Or Chafed will hunt you down.
We missed you, bud. It was a good time. I had to leave earlier than I would have liked, but it was good to see folks again. And yesterday I got to disc golf with Yousef. That was a blast!
This year’s surprise guest was Putrid Meat and Mrs. Meat. Great folks. I promise I’m not just saying that because they brought beer from Arizona. 🍺
Thread fail. Phone Glibing is hard!
Jeezus. No, that wasn’t a thread fail. Ugh. Imma get back on the road
Safe travels, brother!
I knew Mr. Meat was gonna be awesome!
Yup. I liked him in spite of his Rush love.
You’re one of my favorite people, but holy shit you can be breathtakingly wrong sometime!
Last night did NOT help my glibfitness. Mr Splosives and I had dinner with Bearded Hobbit and Mrs Hobbit last night, including indulgent desserts and a bottle of wine. They were passing through on their way from New Mexico to Montana and stopped in Pahrump for the night.
Diet resumes tomorrow.
Community is a huge part of health.
Hobbit and his lovely wife are wonderful people. I’m glad you got to hang!
You’re glad she’s hung?
Your.
So Hurricane Fiona has struck a glancing blow to Puerto Rico, proving once again that anthropogenic climate change will kill us all unless we repent, give up our cars, and pay more taxes. Also, it’s the fault of Trump, white christian nationalists, and whomever else is the leftist bogeyman of the week.
I’m looking forward to a full week of Blackberry getting pestered with questions about when the president is going down to PR to survey the damage.
He’s too busy burying the queen.
These euphemisms.
I was sold last week on Taking Souls and bought Goggins book. I’ve already tried hard to build my own rep at work and my team around this outlook. I’m finding it clashing against the latest pushes for mediocracy via DEI initiatives. Things like banning candidate presentations so candidates aren’t uncomfortable interviewing, no more 1:1 interviews with hiring managers, and needing to list my own biases. It’s like the anti-Goggins approach. Unreal.
Took a bit of time to find the uncensored version. Looking forward to cracking it open soon.
I have a bias against stupid people.
It is absolutely the anti-Goggins approach. I feel your pain. It may cause you to reconsider your employer.
We do not conduct 1:1 interviews so that we have additional witnesses in case of litigation. Though for the most part, I ask all the question, and I ask largely technical questions and questions like “Tell me about some of the work you’ve done with [technology]” as fluff pieces in between.
Yeah, I’ve done a few exactly like that, and one-on-one. It’s hard to imagine what kind of litigation can come out of me talking to a succession of randos in India but it was years ago and thankfully I don’t do it anymore.
My three-person interview to get the same job back a couple years ago was the first time I’ve ever been interviewed by more than one person at a time, so yeah maybe things have changed.
The state gets sued a lot when people don’t get the job they were sure they got. And they will levy any allegation they think will stick – sexism, racism, agism, etc. So we follow a process designed to avoid even the appearance of bias, almost to extremes. The only thing we haven’t done is recorded the interviews.
Sad and angering that such is “necessary”. Progressivism in a nutshell.
Yeah, when I was in logistics, it was always a panel interview. Sometimes it is cool, but usually one person dominates it and shives you.
This afternoon’s slate of NFL games is turning into an interception fest.
I like it.
Russel the love muscle is getting boo’d here.
Excellent discussion about testosterone and depression:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0KahXM4kjbu6YfAAt0DlIB?si=4d6db31f02a44058
No exercise today but I was all good six days last week. Today I just shot some guns.
You’re good. G-d rested on the seventh day too.
Back in my hotel room waiting for the Packers/Bears game. It’s national broadcast, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the local Minnie-Soda cable system pre-empted it for a retrospective documentary about the Vikings beating Green Bay last week.
Evening, Glibs. Just got back to my hotel after we robbed those poor bees of their vomit.
Oh yeah, and Kinnath brought a mead that was actually within my tolerances to drink, and let me keep a bottle.
When I got back I saw there is a model train museum down the road from my hotel. Didn’t look it was open though.
I find that musems love to be closed on the days I’m nearby.
Dang. I missed that. Will have try and check it out next year.
This afternoon’s slate of NFL games is turning into an interception fest.
When you throw the football, three things can happen, and two of them are bad.
_Woody Hayes
Someone catches it, someone doesn’t catch it, and…?
A bald eagle steals your ball.
those dastardly national symbols!
“The dingo’s got my football!”
Lots of obstacles and darkness on my 75 mile bike ride yesterday. It was like riding through a volleyball pit, washboard roads and a headwind for the last 20 miles. One downhill section was about 8 or 9% but the sand was so loose you had to keep pedaling or lose all your speed. And it was all over 7000 feet of elevation. I was definitely not prepared. Beautiful scenery though.
GlibFit.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Those are foreign power outlets. Is counter girl some kind of furriner?
More seriously, this was a nice collection.
That’s not sanitary.
I’m reconsidering my aversion to Nautilus machines.
Yesterday I climbed to the top of Mugu Peak at 1260 ft. From the sea level. The ascent was almost vertical in one spot. Choppers kept flying along the coast below me.
Is Mugu Peak along the Gai Pan Coast?
I’ll see myself out…
Looks like a nice hike! What was your time?
We were not in a hurry. My partner had already climbed the peak twice to prepare for hiking in the Swiss Alps. I wanted to snap pictures from a spur path overlooking the ocean. We tried to figure out if there’s an alternative path to the top that didn’t involve the vertical ascent. But we ended up taking this almost vertical climb and then descended in the opposite direction much more gradually and walked around the peak on an almost level path about two thirds the height of the mountain. 1 hour 50 minutes and 4.13 miles according to my Garmin watch.
Almost missed dropping your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://youtu.be/IrsAY2V5PlE
💯 😂
See y’all in the morning.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1571258347306844160
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
No idea what I’m looking at.
I mean, I recognize Malice and White but beyond that…
That’s Blaire’s BFF. Sorry, I forget his name.
I don’t get it either.
Me three
“WTF happened in 1971?”
https://twitter.com/max_gagliardi/status/1570796609847558145
LOL 23T national debit… we were so innocent then.
We were on the gold standard then.
Not in 2020
Sorry, I meant immediately before the debt went nuts.
👍I was riffing on how dramatically worse it’s gotten in just two years
What happened in ’71?
Zwak was born.
I miss Al Michaels on SNF.
Didn’t he move to Prime?
If I buy Prime, does that mean no commericals on TNF lol I slay me
He did go to Prime. I don’t have Prime for the same reason I don’t have Tik TOK, I don’t trust the bastards.
Jesus, the new Rick And Morty is fucked up even for this show.
Thanks for letting me know there is a new season.
I never could get into that show, too much of the humor was too juvenile for me. And I say this a man who made this cartoon.
Me neither. I tried a few minutes last year and didn’t get it. 🤷🏻♂️
That’s… alarming.
Watching the recap of the Jets v Browns.
That was an extremely “Browns” finish to the game.
“I’m gonna stand here. You run to a wide open area and catch a pass for a TD.”
-Browns secondary
I First for the Glibertariat, for their sins. But…WHO FIRSTS FOR THE FIRSTERS?
Watching Steelers/Pats game from earlier today…my god is the CBS coverage terrible. Multiple times the camera is focused on the sidelines or someone in the booth while a play has started. I don’t need the camera to stay focused on Robert Kraft for 30 seconds and miss half the play because you can’t cut to it in time, or the camera to be on Matt Patricia on the sidelines on a 3-1 coming out of TO where I once again miss the play. Bullshit talking over the officials as they call a key penalty.
This shit isn’t that hard.
Last week it was Crowder and Alex Jones. Yesterday it was Ben Shapiro with this BS argument. There some good conservatives, but man do these ones make terrible arguments.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JVQGP7WmCWg
TL;DR
Libertarianism doesn’t fix what’s broken with society.
Supposedly, libertarians wouldn’t care if their own mothers became crack whores because that wouldn’t be an NAP violation. Whenever someone intentionally misrepresents your position, you’ve gotta assume they’re doing so because they have no real argument. Ben must be doing it intentionally because he isn’t that stupid.
Reducto ad eyrolliem?
It’s just wild to me that they all are taking this moment to take shots at people who advocate liberty. We didn’t get you into these wars and we didn’t print trillions of dollars. Physician, heal thyself.
Not you. Chris Rufo was on Tucker Today with just that, as if libertarians were in control of the conservative movement and the Republican Party.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a private channel conservajournolist.
Definitely possible. Why else would you go after libertarians right now when you have Newsome, The Squad, Joe and Kamala out there? It makes no sense unless they fear non woke normies are going to start looking at the LP.
Like Buckley trying to shape future direction perhaps? Can’t let people do their own thing, they must be accept order!
They saw Mises take over from the cosmos and are afraid something like that could happen to them.
I’m a terrible libertarian, because I don’t let people rape, kill or do drugs in my house.
Those are conservative principles! We conservatives are allowed to be collectivists because of god or something.
All the bitching about WOKE MARVEL the socons have done, and not once have I heard them complain about the story line from She-Hulk where they had to give Captain America a case of the NOT GAYS by her trying to shame him that he (an unmarried man) may have been a GASP! virgin only for Hulk to proclaim that he banged some rando showgirl during WW2.
Compromised personal rights mandarin!
Commie Pig Raping Maoist
Shapiro‘s not even wrong. He just hasn’t bothered to read any of the literature and is addressing the caricature of libertarianism.
Or maybe he knows ENB personally and thinks she’s a libertarian.
Dave Smith responds.
https://youtu.be/ZxE3cAuHjI0?t=180
Huh, apparently there were bigoted words aired at a football game and this time there’s video to back it up. Anti Mormon chants. Which I assumed would be something about caffeine drinks or temple garments or a play on words. Nope, garden variety “fuck the mormons”. Disappoint.
I miss Big Love, and Bill Paxton in general.
RIP
Paxton was always entertaining.
And I bet he was a blast to hang out with.
Sumo or the queen’s funeral? Easy decision. Too bad Enho is having a hell of a day. If heart was enough, I’m sure that guy would be ozeki by now.
Mr Splosives and I went to a local restaurant/casino tonight to watch the Bears / Packers game, sporting our Bears jerseys and all.
Packers beat the Bears, as is tradition.
However, beaches we were seated at the casino bar, we had to play at the in-bar games, because the bar seats are reserved for “gamers only.”
We both played a slot style game featuring buffaloes and some other random shit, with each of us putting $20 into the machines. He won $375 and I won $50. Then we stopped at our corner store and bar, and I put in another $20 and won $105.
Knowing that if we kept playing, we’d eventually revert to the center of the Gaussian distribution, we quit at that time.
Probably done for the month.
That’s more than enough to subscribe to my onlyfans.
Morning peeps. ☕
https://www.kctv5.com/2022/09/18/no-joke-missouri-man-who-dressed-up-batman-villain-learns-lesson/
Joker gets jail time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/mcdonalds-dispute-turns-ugly-when-man-goes-on-rampage-with-axe-video/ar-AA11Wz6I
This is fine.
Just trying to bury the hatchet after an argument.
You mean he wasn’t trying to axe them a question?
something something more of what you encourage
McD’s is just a bargain basement Chop House.
https://www.fox29.com/news/police-looking-for-truck-after-man-dies-several-cars-struck-in-hit-and-run-in-east-germantown
Vicious, indeed.
https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/drink-a-lime-a-rita-since-2018-you-could-receive-21-in-a-new-settlement/
You can receive a partial refund of up to $9.75 without proof of purchase. If you have a receipt, then you may get $21.75. Your refund total will depend on the product or products you purchased.
The deadline to file a claim is Dec. 16, 2022.
🙄
We need to start culling lawyers.
You get $21.75. They get $2.1 million.
But you have to formally admit you drank one of those things.
Shakespeare concurs.
Morning, glibs.
“High School Defends Trans Teacher Who Wore Massive Fake Breasts To Class”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/high-school-defends-trans-teacher-who-wore-massive-fake-breasts-class
I’m going to need a ruling on this. Where you at Q?
Damn, I accidentally stole this from upthread. Need to scroll through first I guess.
Don’t worry you’ll only get a few accusations of rectal narcotics.
Good morning, Stinky, U, Sean, and RoaT!
Hoping for a quiet day at work – no payroll this week, all the Board meeting prep is done, AFAIK.
That just leaves my boss’s budget for next year. Fortunately, I know what to do about that!
I’m still waking up, but I’d spotted this place from the train.
Look at the hours it’s open. How is anyone supposed to be able to figure that out?
I’d never before noticed the “Suggest new hours” link on one of these Google Maps listings, but this place seems like a prime candidate for doing so.
I think that link only tells google their listing is wrong rather than telling the store to shape up.
Perhaps the sad truth is that Gabriel doesn’t really want to part with any of his beloved books, but he has to keep up the pretense of a “store” in hopes of covering the rent and utilities for the place.
I’m trying to work out when I should leave and whether that leaves anything for me to see before I go. Because of the time zone skip, I have to count the drive as five and a half hours for planning purposes (it’s four and a half as driven) but that leaves me on the road before anything’s really open around here
I just plugged your Point A and Point B into that Google map.
It didn’t tell me how long it would take to drive from one to the other, but please be advised that it will take you 81 hours to walk there.
“Our Monday and Friday volunteers are now back”
Gabriel doesn’t seem to be pulling in a lot of money.
Part of me wonders if it’s associated with the church across the parking lot.
My local “awesome” bookstore is full of bookends on display. When I tried to buy a pair as a gift, I was informed that they aren’t for sale, they’re just the owner’s collection out on display.
Week two of covering one of the developers out on vacay. Wondering when do I get two weeks, hmph.
Well, did you put in a request for two weeks?
I guess I could in theory, but that would not leave a lot of days left in my bank.
TBH, I prefer multiple short breaks.
All of these consultants get multiple two-week vacations every year.
“Week two of covering one of the developers out on vacay. Wondering when do I get two weeks, hmph.”
Breaking out the shovel, wh?
Mornin’, reprobates. Unusual day in sports: first time since 2009 that Mets, Yankees, Giants, and Jets won on the same day. Apocalypse coming in 1,2,3…
Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you feeling today?
For once, I was (reluctantly) rooting for the Yankees, but only because they were playing the Brewers, who are only a few games behind the Cardinals. And the Cardinals couldn’t take a series from the REDS, for pity’s sake! The Reds who’d be in the basement of the NL Central if it weren’t for the Pirates! Oh, the shame!
Thanks. Not too bad, haven’t had an episode since about 10:30 yesterday morning (after being up all night).
You may now root for my Mets who have 3 with the Brewers. Braves still nipping at our heels because the Phillies suck.
Too bad NYCFC’s win was on Saturday – against the NY Red Bulls 🙂
Close enough 😊
On the drive up NPR did not mention Trump once!
Surely that counts a Liz’s first miracle, so I guess she’s “Blessed Elizabeth” now.
“Now the kingdom will be observing two minutes of silence (except for us because basic rules of courtesy and decency do not apply to the press.)”
Good Queen Bess II.
I am of the belief that most people hate OMB because of style, not substance.
Alas, I am prone to the same weakness. Allow me to present the first inspiration of rage for the week, from our new “Chief People Officer.:
+1 pussy hat
Are they Amish?