Navy Seal William McRaven: If You Want To Change The World, Make Your Bed!

if you want to change the world start off by making your bed if you made 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 to pass SEAL training there a series of long swims that must be completed one is the night swim before the swim the instructors joyfully brief the students on all the species of

sharks that inhabit the waters off San Clemente they assure you however that no student has ever been eaten by a shark at least not that they can remember but you are also taught that if a shark begins to circle your position stand your ground do not swim away do not act afraid and if the shark

hungry for a midnight snack darts towards you then summons up all your strength and punch him in the snout and he will turn and swim away there are a lot of sharks in the world if you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them so if you want to change the world don't back down

from the Sharks over a few weeks of difficult training my seal class which started with a hundred fifty men was down to just 42 there are now six boat crews of seven men each I was in the boat with the tall guys but the best boat crew we had was made up of little guys the Munchkin crew