Goal setting — eat the elephant one bite at a time.

Mental visualization: visualize yourself achieving that goal. Trick your mind into believing that you’ve already finished a run.

Third pillar, positive self talk. It’s just that consistent positive self talk throughout the training day. That helps tremendously, and something they taught us to keep us from breaking.

Arousal control is just figuring out a way to calm yourself down. For everybody it’s different. For some people, it’s a mantra, for some people it’s a breathing technique. For some people it’s listening to music or humming music to themselves. For some people it’s closing their eyes and meditating. I calm myself down by praying. Prayer helps me tremendously.

Remi Adeleke, Navy SEAL

To make the unsatisfactory satisfactory or better is the mark of leadership. Never be satisfied with less than top performance, and progress will be the reward. 🔦Thomas S. Monson

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience. —Russell M. Nelson

Anyone who lives beyond his income is inviting disaster. Borrowed money is not income. President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Conference Report, April 1940

There are many ways of doing things; but surely, in anything we do, there’s no better way than the right way . . . Seldom is our problem one of knowing what is right, but rather in having the wisdom and the will to do what is right. Elray L. Christiansen

I don’t know of a better way to secure the wisdom that we need than by keeping the commandments. Stephen L. Richards

There is no better way than to do it in the Lord’s way. Robert l. Simpson