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Summary Of Don T Be Haunted By Your Goals But Haunt Them

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Don't be Haunted by Your Goals, but Haunt Them. This book is a motivational book and tells a story about how someone who was always told they would never be anything rose up against all odds. In the book we see motivation working when David Goggins told a navy seal recruit he wanted to join him when he was 300 pounds and out of shape. The recruiter said that he would never be a seal and he took this and his goal was to prove him wrong. Throughout the book we see the transformation of him going from a nobody to one of the nations top navy seals and the grind,grit and toughness he had to get to be able to accomplish this. The author is also David Goggins, a former Navy Seal who has written 4 other motivational books. All of the books he has written …show more content…

His mom then relocated them to Brazil, India where he received racial comments and threats from his peers and this was when he started to become overweight which made him an easy target for bullies. Through all this, he developed post traumatic stress inside of him which would make him anxious by just walking the halls at school. But this sets the mental toughness of when he does transform himself, the struggle is doing it, but he is mentally prepared because of his childhood and everything that he has seen and been told in his life. The book talks a lot about “win the war within” and how we have to be mentally tough to be able to achieve our goals in life. What you see in your life and how you are raised play a big factor in whether you are ready for that war. As an adult, he moved back to the United States and lived in Colorado. The plot of Not Finished shows his journey as an overweight, broken person transforms into a man who becomes one of the top navy seals in the world. We see the relentless improvement of mind and body of David Goggins. The plot shows us the determination that he had to achieve what many said was

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