Don’t bother making any friends; most of the people around you won’t be here for very long. Your confidence will come from seeing others drop out, as they will. You must want to be here. If you have a “Plan B,” you won’t make it.”
Selector’s Greeting, Australian Special Air Service
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Continue Reading →In the next twenty-six weeks, we are not going to try to train you. We’re going to try to kill you. You will be asked to do things; you’ll think are beyond the limits of endurance. You will run faster, swim farther, and dig deeper than you thought humanly possible. When you are [...]
Continue Reading →Ah …. NO.
But, this doesn’t mean that you can’t have a tough mindset, because you can.
Every day, challenge yourself. Find something that’s hard for you to do and do it.
If you’re fat, get off your ass and walk around the block. When you stop huffing and puffing, do it [...]
Continue Reading →A good teacher gives lots of criticism followed by positive encouragement.
Every challenging task has a first day. You have a first day on a diet. You have a first day exercising. You have a first day studying karate.
As a first timer, you feel out of place. You are out of place, out of [...]
Continue Reading →To be SELECTED to attend Navy Seal SELECTION, just to among those selected for testing, you are already the best of the best. You already have to be a star.
When you arrive at Coronado Beach for selection testing, every other sailor looks fit and psyched and ready for action.
These are your peers; physically [...]
Continue Reading →Sadly, there are lots and lots and lots of people who DON’T wish you well.
A few will say it to your face. Many more will snicker behind your back.
You are successful which means you are ambitious.
Most people are NOT ambitious when ambition requires work and risk.
If you are ambitious and actively pursue success and you’re a [...]
Continue Reading →A REAL man …
Men want to be him. Women want to be WITH him.
What makes a REAL man?
Stands tall, confident and strong. In control, quiet and still. Does NOT bitch, whine or complain. Doesn’t gossip. Works hard at being successful. Listens more than spouts meaningless opinions. Willingly [...]
Continue Reading →A martial artist is always alert and aware to his or her surroundings.
Insight and instinct born of eternal vigilance.
Vigilance takes practice. So, while you’re waiting, you can practice. Watch people going in and out of the Starbucks. Look for people or any signs that look out of place.
Practice. Try to spot every [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, I was honored to attend the graduation exercises for new airmen at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas. My newphew, Adam, was an honor graduate.
Six months ago, Adam was in a quandry as to what to do with his next few years. College? Job? [...]
Continue Reading →I was originally going to name this post, “Why Special Forces soldiers quit,” however, this would be ridiculous since being SF means that YOU NEVER QUIT.
OK, we are only talking about men – only men in SF. Too many twenty something [and now thirty something] “Emerging Adult Males” are not exactly Green Beret, Seal, [...]
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