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I Don't Want it To Be My Fault

Sea Excursion with Strategic Training Group 001 March of 2017.

Getting Out

In 2008 I was in the midst of a nasty deployment schedule and what felt like the continuous death of deployed friends. So. Just four years away from a retirement, I decided it was time to leave the SEAL teams and quit the Navy.

With four kids, two houses and a lifetime of responsibility ahead of me -- I decided it was due time to jump on what I thought was the risk free “road most traveled” of work, family, eat, sleep,...

Life's Slow Moving Disaster

Sudan, Africa

We are all living a life that took decades to produce. Like the path of a glacier, our lives consist of the habits and elements which have been slowly carved into our existence. Because glaciers move so slowly, we can’t always see their destructive or creative power until what will be done is already completed.

Sometimes we get the chance to catch them in the act and alter their course, but more often than not, we are required to experience the “disaster” they’ve surreptitiously...

The Stories of Adversity

“Deal With It. Adapt and Overcome”

A critical component in increasing our ability to deal with adversity is witnessing others travel through the same or worse. Though the these stories may not exactly match your own, you’ll find ones that are close enough for you to grab onto and use to pull you to the other side. This is ...

Adversity Part II

“Deal With It. Adapt and Overcome”

Read Part 1 if you haven’t already.

A critical component in increasing our ability to deal with adversity is witnessing others travel through the same or worse. Though the these stories may not exactly match your own, you’ll find ones that are close enough for you to grab onto and use to pull you to the other side. This is important because, as I said in Part 1, if you don’t learn how to travel through adversity you’ll keep trying to overcome it. If you keep...

Adversity Part I

SEAL Hell Week

Filtered by frigid Pacific waters and forged through adversity, the Navy SEAL’s are notorious for their feats of superhuman performance and succeeding at all costs. The uninitiated describe them as “Winners,” but labels like these obscure reality by covering up the muddy, battered, bruised truth about these men. Navy SEALs are born to lose, that’s what makes them unstoppable.

It’s often said, (and I agree) that SEAL training is 90% mental and 10% physical, but few understand th...

Prepared for Adventure - Philosophy Intro

You no longer need to prepare for emergencies: 

Flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, terrorist attack, industrial accident. Whatever. Sure, anyone of those things could thrust us into a “Bug Out” situation; but nobody is really worried. Sure we could be forced into the streets with our families alongside thousands of scared people shedding their humanity to the beat of the news, but few of us actually prepare for such things and there’s some good reasons why we don’t.

The most obvious reason we...

Superhuman Performance - The New Standard

Have you noticed the trajectory of your income, your free time and energy slowly flattening out or maybe even declining?

Does it feel like you’ve got less time for friends, family, fitness and fun?

If it feels like getting things like, earning a living, saving for retirement and paying the bills are taking more time, effort and energy it’s likely because they are -- and here’s why.

Things are getting harder for most of the population because we’re now competing with “superhumans” and it’s likel...

Juggling Personal Growth with Family - Church - Friends - Fun - etc.

When I asked:

"What are your TOP TWO QUESTIONS regarding living a life of POWER - PASSION - FUN?"

Many people replied with:

"How do you juggle your time between family, church, friends, fun, and still have time for personal growth?"

For some my reply may both surprise you and give you hope.

Watch the 3-minute video and follow along with the outline below.

00:20: What if I had something that would allow you to handle that which affects your ability to live a good life twice as fast and twice as well...

Self Generated Fear & Limiting Beliefs

STiges, SPain

Plateaued

Jason, 47, was making over $400K a year. He has 4 kids and has spent over a decade of his life flatlined, stuck on a plateau, both personally and professionally. Last year, when we connected, it was after the Strategic Training Group had filled. He was ready to go as he is this year, but now his power has started to wane and he’s not sure if he can make the commitment to the group.

He thinks fear is holding him back, fear that making big changes in his life will cause h...

Beauty

It was on a stationary bike, main deck, Port Side of a Navy “Gator Freighter”, cruising the Arabian Gulf waiting for my next mission. This is when I learned how critical beauty is to my ability to perform.  

As the lead Sniper, I was separated from my platoon so that I had immediate 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 that I could establish secret communications wit...