Name: 5 Minutes to Start Your Day Right! - MORNING MOTIVATION | Admiral McRaven's Speech For Your Day
Uploaded: 2025-11-20T02:53:43.000Z
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If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day.

Future simple

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 many tasks 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.

Every morning in SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all Vietnam veterans, would show up in my barracks room and the first thing they'd do is inspect my bed.

If you did it right, the corners would be square, the covers would be pulled tight, the pillow centered just under the headboard, and

the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the rack.

But every morning, we were required to make our bed to perfection.

That seemed a little ridiculous at the time, particularly in light of the fact that we were aspiring to be real warriors.

But the wisdom of this simple act has been proven to me many times over.

It matters not whether you ever served a day in uniform.

It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status.

And the the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward.

Changing ourselves and changing the world around us will apply equally to all.

If you think it's hard to change the lives of 10 people, change their lives forever, you're wrong.

I saw it happen every day in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But changing the world can happen anywhere, and anyone can do it.

So what starts here can indeed change the world.

At times, it will test you to your very core.

At that darkest moment of the mission is a time when you need to be calm, when you must be calm, when you must be composed, when all your tactical skills, your physical power, and

your inner strength must be brought to bear.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moments.

If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope, the power of one person, a Washington, a Lincoln, King, Mandela, and

even A young girl from Pakistan, Malala One person can change the world by giving people hope.

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

But if you take some risks, step up when the times are the toughest.

Face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up.

If you do these things, the next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today.

And what started here will indeed have changed the world for the finally.

In SEAL training, there's a bell, a brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see.

All you have to do to quit is ring the bell.

Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at five o'.

Ring the bell and you no longer have to be in the freezing cold swims.

Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the pt.

And you no longer have to endure the hardships of training.

All you have to do is ring the bell to get out.

If you want to change the world, don't ever, ever ring the bell.