Thom Shea's Blog, page 6
April 10, 2022
238. Hyperfocused life and discipline.
Hyperfocused life is a choice of to be intentional, or to be grey and random, or to not be on-point at all.
March 27, 2022
237. Be Agile or die Rigid!
The ability to make a the choice to be agile and flexible is the most difficult choice to make in life. The choice takes skill. Skill acquired through hardship and loss.
Being rigid requires no skill and no experience.
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March 17, 2022
236. Irish way: Own your life
Take control of the parts of life that matter and stop chasing things that don't matter.
March 6, 2022
235. The Spartan Woman
What does it mean to be a Spartan Woman™?
A spartan woman is the center of her family. She lives by four simple, yet absolutely essential principles, each with their own purpose.
* The first makes her unbreakable under adversity.
* The second shows her how to bend or yield when it serves the good of her family.
* The third allows her to honor her role as the leader in her world.
* The fourth makes her uncompromising when it comes to not accepting destructive behavior from her family, her community, or any outsiders.
Who can be a Spartan Woman?
Any woman who wants to live in integrity with strength, compassion, honor, and strategic decision making can, with training and a strong community, be a Spartan Woman.
March 1, 2022
234. Born to thrive in adversity
We are all born to thrive in adversity.
Honor your word
Never Quit
Speak your truth
Commit to the big things that scare you
Four unbreakable tools
6 people who count most
three simple things plan
Why
February 3, 2022
233. Theory Destroys Reality
Theory destroys reality
We are all literally beaten up so often by media and bad leaders and politicians, that we, me included, begin to think what we are told is real.
That is the nature of human life; the nature is to learn not to simply believe what one sense is telling you and learn to question everything in order to stay alive and to build.
I don’t say that tongue in cheek, I mean it to be a way to share how to navigate the mud pits and sand pits of our day to day lives. Theory as stated is never real. Reality is a contraction to theory.
Once a month, Stacy and I and sometimes other bad ass people come over and we have a one hour discussion about what is real and what is theory in order to not fall into a trap of theory. It is an exercise I wish you all would do.
So here is the exercise:
there are five categories health, wealth, learning, relational, spiritual. Write down what 2 trends are being discussed in each Write down what 2 real things you can do in each Discuss what you would gain or lose if you added a theory to your real life
So here are mine
Theory and fantasy world
Health (cardio is bad, lifting heavy will make women look bulky)
Wealth (side hustles are important, follow your why)
Intellectual (a degree will get you a job, professors know what they are talking about)
Relationship (real love lasts forever, yelling means the other person doesn’t respect you)
Spiritual (god is coming to help you, Since jesus died for you you can keep doing stupid shit)
Health (do something for an hour, lift weights or do body weight but bulk comes from food not the work out)
Wealth (hustle at work first, make a goal and fuck your why)
Intellectual (get a job period, learn how to perfect something you are already doing from someone already doing it better)
Relationship (every week rebuild and prove love, be real and authentic every day with the person you sleep with or your family, don’t hide your faults)
Spiritual (be self driven and self accountable, Stop making the same mistakes over and over and praying for salvation)
January 23, 2022
232. Succeed or fail with Thom Shea
What does it take to succeed?
Let’s cut to the end credits and realize two truths,
You may never reach the goal you want to reach, 80% of the population never really get to it. That is a fact. No one ever said they trained too hard. No one studied too much and dominated a test. No one worked out too hard and dominated the field.
Don’t quit just because the two truths of success are now up front and in your face. Stop being such a frail child when facing these truths.
Here are some things you can do and realize that get you as close as you possibly can be to succeeding at whatever you have in front of you:
Fact:
No one is coming to help you until it is completely broken, your mom, your dad, the cops, your professor, your boss, you lover, your wife or husband, no one. Jesus or God, won’t make a special appearance for you.
Action: since no one is coming, stop looking for a way out and keep hammering and evolving until you can begin to see improvement.
Fact:
If you are going to run a 100 mile race you have to run 100 miles a week. Simple non emotional what you must do to succeed.
Action: Literally don’t go to a race without preparing. It may take you a year until you are ready. Don’t show up half-baked. Start out with 3 miles a day. Then add miles. It is that simple.
Fact:
School doesn’t mimic real life at all. In real, life there is no answer key, there are few pre set answers.
Action:
Get out of the habit you learned in school to pre pare for a pre set answer test. Stop putting off engaging in a solution in real life like you did prior to test time in school. Real life is every day all the time.
Fact:
Nothing works until it does. This fact pisses off most people. Some may get a skill and win early, some late, some never.
Action: do that action for 21 days straight, if you miss a day start over. Once you have done something for 21 days straight you can adjust and make a decision. 1/10000 can do a simple task for 21 days, that is why most never experience success.
Fact:
If someone else has gone up the mountain you are going, ask them for help. That fact of imitation is real and effective and few use it.
Action: Call up the person or read what that person suggests will work. Integrate the exact details of how they solved it into your 21 day cycle. At 21 days you can evolve and adapt but for gods sake you need to commit to something before you tuck tail and quit.
Fact:
Number one reason or excuse people use to not win or to stop is this hurts or will hurt.
Action: birth hurts the baby and the mom. Get over it. Getting yelled at hurts emotionally. Get over it. Running so hard you puke hurts. Get over it. Studying until 4 am hurts. Get over it. Losing 2 million dollars in a failed partnership hurts. Get over it.
Fact:
You will lose more times that you will win. The fundamental truth of every single thing you will try or any path leading anywhere.
Action:
Plan and embrace hard times and get good at things that suck. Let the suck expose your weaknesses.
Fact:
Competition is hard. There will always be one winner and the rest are not winners. If you have that weak of an emotional disposition you will never win even if you get number one trophy.
Action:
Keep trying. If people around you put down the people who win at the thing you are trying to win, kick those losers out of your life. Win by winning
Fact:
Physical and emotional fights are supposed to happen. The most pressure, the more strain the more fights happen. You will be called names by loved ones, you will be punched and physically assaulted by friends and foes. Bullying is always going to happen. The space between control and lack of control is filled with things like bullying, punching, degrading, put-downs and all the other lack of control mechanisms.
Action:
Forgive yourself be fighting and being mean. Forgive others for doing it to you. Learn to notice lack of control quicker and help others gain some control.
Fact:
You will give up on yourself and so with people you count on. Listen stop lying to yourself and others, stop thinking everything will go well.
Action:
Before you learn any other skill. Learn how to heal and recover and start over. No matter what sport or job or life you have spent 20% of the time while practicing starting over, or dealing with injury, or facing loss or facing never win situations. Practice losing and then keeping in the game.
Fact:
Not every person you date or even marry is the right partner for you. They just are not. Our society has demolished the institution of marriage as a process and made it an event.
Action:
Slow down. Go on a camping vacation with them in a cold or rainy environment. Go meet their parents.
Fact:
9 to 5 jobs are no longer a way to live your life. If you are working 5 days a week from 9 to 5 it is guaranteed you will not have that job for more that 6 years.
Action:
Get trained or train yourself to have a skill you can use and apply in a job and get paid for it. A diploma is useless. A skill is treasured.
January 21, 2022
231. Do hard things.
Do hard things
The older I get, the further I get away from the day-to-day life in the SEAL teams, the clearer I become on a great many things.
The older I get the clearer I see the importance of being a father, of staying alive and being attentive to my family.
The older I get the easier my reactions are to politics and threats of the end of the world and existential crisis like global warming trends trailing an ice age.
Yet something is not being made clear to our society and our youth today and social media is spanking the true hardness out of youth. So, sit back and listen and watch or read what I am going to share. If this pisses you off, good? If this inspires you to act, even better?
Let me first just come out and say it, 90% of the people listening to this have No fucking idea what Hard is. You lead a protected life and the real predators are all but killed off. And you can go to a store and buy food or even steel it. You don’t understand hard.
Let me tell you some truths:
Marriage is hard
Divorce is hard avoiding either is weak
Being fat is really fucking hard getting fit is hard as hell avoiding both is weak
Losing a job and having debt is hard
having financial discipline is really hard. Taking a govt hand out is weak
Speaking plainly and clear is harder than you think
Deciding not to speak is also hard
Blaming others for speaking out is weak
Being straight is hard being gay is really hard Not having intimacy at all is weak
Making and keeping a promise is hard quitting is extremely hard on your life
Never committing is weak
Learning to fight and face violence is hard not learning to protect your self is rude and hard giving up the right to protect yourself is weak
Being a republican is hard being a democrat is hard
Not taking a side is weak
School is hard
not going to school is hard
Expecting a job because someone else is successful is weak
Being born male is hard being born female is hard
Not accepting either is weak
Waking up early because you want to is hard
Waking up early because you have to is hard
Hitting the snooze 5 times is weak
Training for an ultra marathon is very hard
Not training for anything is even harder on your body
Drinking beer watching a football game is weak
Being injured and watching others progress is hard
Helping others through injury is very hard
Having never been injured or helped another is weak
Being a dad is hard
Being a mom is hard
Not trying to raise a family at all is weak
Killing is very hard
Watching someone be killed is hard
Never facing down an enemy at all is weak
If you are on the weak side, hard will find you and you will not be ready.
As I close and trust me I could go on for days about the weak times I see and the hard men and challenges I have witnessed, yet let me say the hardest thing you will ever have to encounter is starting over with nothing.
I wish everyone that level of hardness. I wish you the hardness it takes to start over at the bottom with nothing.
January 8, 2022
230. Thom Shea you can motivational speech
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Honor your word Never giving up on honoring your word
Without the two foundational principles being deeply mastered and constantly applied the climb toward rapid and sustainable growth is doomed. We will test these two aspects of human performance upfront and teach you to master them first.
We are going to achieve Five Measurable Goals together. Goals that are built on Honor Your Word and Never Giving Up.
September 13, 2021
229. Transformation and Kristin Rowell and Thom Shea
https://energeticallyefficient.com/
Founder and CEO of Energetically Efficient™. I am a former business litigator turned Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. I help people lose weight and gain muscle and energy so that they are proud of the person they see when the look in the mirror. I speak to and consult for companies and organizations around the country on a variety of nutrition, lifestyle and wellness topics. I also coach a select number of individual clients one-on-one. Due to the demand for my services, and so that I can reach more people, I'm launching my first online course and would love to have you join me!!
