Never Finished

“We cannot get time back so we must be minute hoarders. When you separate yourself from the pack by cultivating the values and priorities that lead to greatness mountains of adversity and hardship, become speed bumps, and that makes it easier to adapt to the road ahead and build a new life or sense of self you crave.”

David Goggins is an ultramarathoner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, wildland smoke jumper, public speaker, author and retired Navy SEAL. In Never Finished, Goggins reflects on how the circumstances and trauma of his past — David and his mother’s abuse at the hands of his alcoholic father, his hard-driving, his disciplinarian grandfather who took them in after they fled to Brazil, Indiana and his self-hate as an out-of-shape pest control fumigator after he left the Air Force at the age of 24 — all fueled his drive to push himself beyond the physical limits of his body to achieve his goals. With a unique ability to dish out unrelenting motivational truths, Goggins elucidates where found the mental drive to complete an never-ending series of incredible physical tests: BUD/S training, ultras including the Badwater 135 and Moab 240, wildland smoke jumper training in British Columbia while also overcoming the physical limitations of his body — sickle-cell, a genetic heart condition, Raynaud’s syndrome and the debilitating injuries he has faced along the way. This book a pure, unadulterated kick in the ass to someone like myself, who, as a fitness enthusiast rounding 40, is always in need of that extra inspiration to avoid excuses, improve split times and become more “savage” as Goggins would say.