As the lead Sniper, I was separated from my platoon so I had 24/7 access to the helo assets I required to protect them. Every night the call would come in and I’d rush to load the helicopter’s radios with our special crypto key so I could establish secret communications with my assault team below. I’d quickly rig the helicopter in a way that would allow me to hang myself out its door should the need to engage any targets arise.
Swap it for a high-contrast image of two people collaborating over a map, blueprint, or strategic plan, which immediately visualizes your conclusion: “Build your solution from their experience AND with their help.
Your alarm system isn’t broken. You just keep hitting snooze. In the SEAL Teams, we don’t focus on…
Every ambitious person over 35 thinks they want freedom. But they’ll never have it because they don’t understand what to do with it. People I’ve come across who “got free” or tried to get free did the same thing. Quit the job, cleared the calendar, dropped every obligation they could
A month prior my investor had bailed. COVID had just hit and he got scared. The business I’d been building had maybe weeks of runway left, and I’d spent that month running on nothing but forward motion.
By the time I sat down on those steps, I’d already asked myself every version of…
“Only on the FRINGES of an ecosystem, those outer rings, do EVOLUTION and ADAPTATION occur at a furious pace; the inner center of the system is where the ENTRENCHED, non-adapting species die off, doomed to failure by maintaining the STATUS QUO.”
– Yvon Chouinard – Founder of Patagonia –
Have you noticed that constant battle we’re all fighting? The one between grinding out the six or seven figure income our families need to survive and live a good life now and saving…
One of the greatest responsibilities of SEAL instructors is to aggressively, relentlessly, and often ruthlessly eliminate those who are either uncommitted or incapable of holding to their commitment. It’s their job to prune the herd so that it can become a pack.
Have you ever heard people say that you just “have to learn to say no”?
Or maybe you’ve said yes to one too many things or one too many people at the expense of living what could have been your authentic, wealthy, healthy and happy self.
Believe it or not, my life as a SEAL, with its intense operations, constant training, and deployments to war zones, felt more balanced than my follow-on career in the conventional business world. At the time, I didn’t realize this, which led me to leave the Teams.
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