Day one, week one mentality
Show up every day as prepared as you were on the first day of the job
Treating every day as if it were the first day of the first week of a new job or course: clothes laid out, food ready, early, prepared, no assumption that you have arrived. David Goggins, who was twice rolled back to day one of SEAL training, says he lived all 21 of his military years that way. Used as a check against the slow slide into comfort that follows getting the job, the promotion or the result.
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Retired Navy SEAL · Can't Hurt Me
For 21 years in the military, he says, he lived every day as if it were day one, week one of SEAL training. Twice, he was rolled back to that phase.
Source: DVIDS: The Toughest Man Alive: An Interview with retired Navy SEAL David Goggins
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