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Stop watching other people.  You will never get good while watching because your perspective is different.  Get into living your life from your Point Of View.

Erik Weir and Thom Shea talk about Unbreakable and Three Simple Things.  And how to Transition from war to civilian life.

Warrior Wisdom.  How would you live one more day?  What would you life be like if you didn't have to deal with your past or have to build toward your future?  What if you had just this day?

The disillusioned human condition of being told things are other than they are.  The constant deception of the people by the media and by many politicians has caused our youth to not be capable of simple things that matter.

Few of us even know freedom anymore. Teach your kids to earn it.

freedom

frē′dəm

noun

1.  The condition of not being in prison or captivity.

2.  The condition of being free of restraints, especially the ability to act without control or interference by another or by circumstance.

3.  The condition of not being controlled by another nation or political power; political independence.

We all misunderstand what happens during any type of communications.  The first misunderstanding is we always believe what we hear.  The ears are designed to only think what they hear are true.  However, you need to have another sense back up that notion.  

That is how media dupes us all.  Nothing in the media is actually true, if you research it for facts.

That is important to realize.

True authentic communication first requires you to 

1.  Listen without judgement (listen not believing in order to free them up from their past so they can be present)
2. Speak without drama (drama is uncommitted words that cause both people to lose interest and not be present)
3. Get clarity (that means interrupt if you don't know what they are saying and to ask them to repeat what you said)

Those three points are authentic communications

Suffering is when you think things should be different.  When you think the struggle isn't what you need to do.

The ability to build a strong relationship is simple but not easy.

All you need are three simple things:

Listen without judgement

Speak without drama

Intimacy

Learn how here

Spartan Training

Marriage to an alpha female makes the man stable and the family stable.  Marriage may be meant to build a stable environment so that each and grow and transform into their best selfs.  Submissive women never grow.

Relationships don't have to be complex.  They just have to be all in.  Nothing held back and no way out.  

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There are similarities in all success.  Thom and Erik discuss hell week and combat and parallels in business and life.

https://www.thomshea.com/ 

What would you life be like if you just went for it.

listening to Joe Rogan trying to find what is toxic about masculinity.

Trying to define what toxic masculinity is in a world searching for excuses and meaning has been difficult.   A little help here!

Making complicated things simple in a complex social media world.

To thrive in each of our lives we need only be brave enough to confront our own darkness.  Running away from, medicating away from our darkness is the tragedy of our times.

The real battle is to seek a priority off efforts and never balance one thing for the others.

Learn here

When you are ready to own your life you must own the I AM conversation you have with yourself and you place on others

.Learn the way

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Forcing women into positions for political gain will be catastrophic both on women in the long term and the military in the short term.

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Often what you don't know will change your mind about a group and a business.  

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There are four levels of communication.

Imagine a baseball diamond:

- first base is listening without judgement

- second base is speaking without drama

- third base is clarify and verify

- home plate is create action

This is truly Authentic Communication.  And I bet you cannot get on first base without help!

Joining forces with FullSail in Wisconsin to produce a leadership even and powerful presentation to support Veterans and their families.

Sign up with the link below.

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How to Start over?

1.  Commit without knowing the solution

2.  Burn all bridges

3.  Be willing to learn and do whatever it takes

4.  Be willing to die doing it

5.  Never give up

Quite a remarkable process to look up and find the definition of various words in order to communicate better.  Would be nice to have an agreed to definition so that we all can communicate appropriately.  Wouldn't it.

A man last named Cassette, said once, "As soon as certain words we all think are true are communicated the concrete melts into the abstract until none of us know what the hell we are talking about if we all do know the simple meaning of a word"

Diversity

the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness:

Equity

the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality:

Inclusion

the act of including.

The fun part is that old dictionaries, hard bound ones, have simple definitions.  The internet (which we now all use) has very new ones. 

Wonder why they are new.  So I looked into the dates the words were redefined.

In 2009 -16, these three words were redefined 5 times, on the internet under the dictionary website.  In 2021 they were changed again.

If rules and definitions of exact terms can change without us noticing, without anyone calling bullshit or wanting to clarify the new meaning in day to day life we are all stuffed.

If someone changed the definition of a mile from 5280 feet to 5000 because the deem it better.  I want you to let that sink in.  if the masses or a leader can redefine basics without your consent or understanding than we are all stuffed.

If over night you lost 280 feet of your land and had to concede what would you do? 

11 Lost Lessons worth remembering on September 11th

1. The enemy of a republic always is lurking
2. Better to stay up than to fight you way back up
3. The Love for family, country, and your swim buddy will ultimately defeat someone who hates you
4. Freedom earned through effort is always lost by the ones who live in it
5. Offense is always better that defense or kneeling in fear
6. No one ever said they practiced too much or trained too much before a life event, most say they could have done more to prepare
7. If you think being violent doesn't solve problems you have only led a protected life
8. Elected officials left unattended always serve themselves, and should only serve limited years
9. There is divine hand but only when you have spent all your effort and are still trying. If you give up there is no divine hand.
10. You are always fighting you way home.
11. Live each day as if it matters, because it does.

Blind Spots and their impact on our every day life is a determent to success.  We all have them and few of us confront them in any meaningful way.

What would you life be like if you over came your blind spots?

Motivation is the search for some external meaning or an external source to get you moving.  You know that source is rare and often doesn't last long.

Inspiration is your ability to breathe life into something.  Your ability to say something is possible and of value.  Notice that you can do that whenever and where ever you want to.  

When you practice inspiration you get better at taking action and better and better.

There are five ways to prepare for war.

Be resilient

Question the norm

Learn to lead by allowing others to win

At home listen, speak, and have intimacy

Build someone else up

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Army v Navy 2022 Challenge (Andy v Jon) - Warrior Rising

Army v Navy 2022 Challenge (Andy v Jon) - Warrior Rising

Andy v. Jon 1/2 Ironman

In honor of the 133rd Army-Navy football game to be played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this December, two of our supporters, both former military have thrown down the gauntlet to raise support for Warrior Rising in the time-honored tradition of the rivalry pitting America's Elite Military Academies and service members against one another.  Andy Riise, West Point graduate and career Army officer vs. Jon Macaskill, retired Navy SEAL are training to compete in a Half Ironman 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, and 13.1 mile run in Waco, TX this October 16 for the benefit of Warrior Rising. Support Warrior Rising and the entrepreneurs we serve by supporting Andy and Jon in their quest for Ironman supremacy.  (links below)

What is Warrior Rising primer:

Founded in 2015, Warrior Rising is a non-profit started by Veterans, for Veterans. The Warrior Rising team has a singular goal: transform Veterans into Vetrepreneurs. We have achieved this through carefully selecting strategic partners in business, and leveraging a vast network of young professionals and successful entrepreneurs from a wide variety of backgrounds. The organization hosts a robust team of professionals, business owners, and experts in their fields.

Since 2015 Warrior Rising has grown from a regional to a national organization with a robust outreach assisting more than 3000 veterans annually. Warrior Rising has developed sophisticated programs that leverage remote learning, built a network of mentors and coaches, and has awarded grants that will result in creating one hundred veteran-owned businesses valued at more than $1 million by 2024. The Warrior Rising team listens to veterans and provides them exactly what they need. As opposed to some non-profits, Warrior Rising doesn't give a veteran one good day… we give veterans the opportunity to earn their success and have one good life!

https://www.warriorrising.org/armyvnavy2022/

Resiliency is the key to building your future.  It can be learned and you will need it.

Take a moment and ask yourself if you really think success breeds success or does failure?

Make a list of everything  and every time you failed and what you learned from it and how you eventually succeeded.

If you want to learn the only path to success sign up for unbreakable leadership training Level one.

https://www.unbreakableleadership.com

Independence Day is a time to break from tyranny and rekindle successes and friends who are the best people we know. John Doolittle and I served at SEAL Team Two before the war on terror and continue to earn our freedoms through effort and leadership. John, now, supports an organization that helps injured men and women to recover and continue with life. Check out and order a Kaatsu support system and keep in the fight. https://kaatsu.com/

Unbreakable Leadership Training

Level One

Fundamentals of leadership (health, wealth, intellectual, relational, and spiritual outcomes)

Overview

Communication. (Listen, speak, clarity, action)

Unbreakable Formula (Human code that drives all actions, associations, and results)

Unbreakable Tools

• How to become efficient - Focus On or OFF (no partial involvement)
• How to solve problems - Ego and emotions as tools

Execution and the 21-day Challenge

Level Two : Building a Team (Team Centered/individual performance)

Level One : Fundamentals of leadership (Health, Wealth, intellectual, relational, spiritual)

Level Two

Building a team (Team centered individual performance)

Overview

Building a Team

6-Traits of leaders and teams

Unbreakable Tools

         -Fail to succeed

         -Inspired Mentorship

Expressed execution and the True Value of Life Formula

Level One – Fundamentals of leadership (health, wealth, intellectual, relational, and spiritual outcomes)

Who benefits from the training?

• Already successful leaders who want to create a legacy through their efforts to improve the lives of their teammates and their families
• Leaders who want to lead their best life
• Leaders who recognize the holistic nature of leading and teamwork
• Leaders must be willing to lead themselves in all areas of life

How the training works?

• Friday evening: The training starts at 6:30 pm and ends before 11:00 pm
• Saturday: The training continues at 8:00 am and concludes at midnight
• We engage in experiential learning and education through profound discussion and experiences that transform what was out of reach to what is now possible
• We teach fundamental skills and create a process to execute, 'on a daily basis', the three simple things method.

Execution and Follow-up!

• 21-day challenge to build a process to execute on your goals and learn skills to overcome the pitfalls of success
• The process of overcoming your excuses and inertia is profound and once complete will leave you inspired for more

Outcome and Skills acquired!

• Achieve health, wealth, and intellectual goals in 90 days
• Learn efficiency in your actions
• Learn how emotions work
• Learn how to make a promise and keep it
• Learn how to overcome your excuses
• Learn what it is like to lead yourself in order to lead others

Level Two – Building a team (Holistic team support and performance based)

Building a Team

6-Traits of leaders and teams

Unbreakable Tools

         -Fail to succeed

         -Inspired Mentorship

Expressed execution and the True Value of Life Formula

Who utilizes the training?

• Humble Leaders committed to the lives of their teammates and their families
• Already successful leaders willing to mentor the lives of their teammates
• Leaders committed to personal growth and leaving a legacy
• Leaders who continue to be goal oriented

How the training works?

• Friday evening: The training starts at 6:30 pm and ends before 11:00 pm
• Saturday: The training continues at 8:00 am and concludes at midnight
• We engage in the uncomfortable discussions of the 6 human traits of both leading a team and how the individuals on the team lead their own lives
• We engage and transform how to engage the primary relationships in our lives at home, in order to, ensure a legacy of support and values service to each other.
• We teach fundamental skills and create a process to execute, 'on a daily basis', the true value of actions in all aspects of your life

Execution and Follow-up!

• 21-day challenge to operate within a 6-hour baseline of actions
• You will learn failure and you will apply mentorship skills toward the success of others

Outcome and Skills acquired!

• Achieve health, wealth, intellectual, relational, and spiritual goals in 90 days
• Learn the design of how to fail to succeed
• Learn the process of inspired mentorship
• Learn how to lead others toward their expressed goals

Lessons while in combat to my kids.

1.  Honor your word for 21 days

2.  Face your fears every week

3.  Walk for 24 hours

4.  Commit to a project with another human

5.  Kill Hope and Belief from your vocabulary

6.  Give up being Right

7.  Join a Team

8.  Mentor another human

9.  Embrace the grind

10.  Choice - pick one

11.  Overcome the Fear of dying

12.  Play big and Burn Bridges

13.  Embrace Failure as a means to succeed

www.unbreakablelessons.com

Owning what goes on inside of you and how you filter and process the world.

Internal dialogue drives every single action you do and every single decision you make even while sleeping.

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): the Design of Human Performance

Unbreakable Leadership Training is the blueprint for results in the Five Pyramids of Human Performance®.  Our training is designed around a process formula and step-by-step methodology of linear progression ... there is no other way to take complete ownership of your life.  To achieve these five results, we find it necessary to demonstrate Five "Unbreakable Tools":  Focused Effort, Emotional Mastery, Fail to Succeed, Inspired Mentorship, and Disruption and Innovation.  While linear progression is needed, the underlying cause of greatness in every human being anywhere is to first master the two foundational principles:

1.   Honor your word
2. 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.

THE UNBREAKABLE LEADERSHIP SOLUTION:

Operating at 20% efficiency and capacity is both tiresome and emotionally draining.  Being out of sequence will leave you plateaued and unaware of your ultimate potential.  Not pursuing your ultimate potential every day will cause you to be unhealthy, stagnant, scarce, alone, and disconnected.  Our training will teach you to do three simple things every day in the five pyramids of performance® in order to operate at 100% capacity.

D-Day and The Long Grey Line symbolize our nations continued excellence in war and character and effecting the lives of all those who participate in your protection.

Memorial Day is to honor those not with us with our best lives.

discussion of what hell week teaches warriors regarding the impact of quitting.

1. Hyper focus and the off or rest button. If you do things half asses or just hammer without taking a break you have already failed
2. Learn to embrace discomfort and problems but letting go of your emotional reactions to them. You should be ok with every issue you face and solve each one.
3. Fail to succeed. Practice until you fail. Learn then practice until you fail again. Repeat until you arrive
4. The forth is you need to mentor other people to support their growth not your growth. The more people your help grow the more skills you acquire

The Two branches of Trait Alignment

In each of us we carry 6 primary traits that when exhibited determine what we say, do and cause in the world around us.  The 6 traits are separated into two branches that further align our thoughts and actions. 

Your ability to know which trait is needed for various times and conditions in life will pre-determine the outcome and your ability to place the right trait into the right position in your family, you work, or on a team will also pre-determine the outcome you desire.

Not knowing the traits will cause you to faulter; cause business to die, and cause family to fall apart.

WHO

The Wolf Pack                                      The Shepherd's Herd

The Alpha                                                The Shepherd

The Beta                                                  The Sheep dog

The Omega                                               The Sheep

GOAL

Growth of the individual                            Growth of the Shepherd's herd

Growth of the pack                                    Acquiring land to produce more sheep

Allowing perfection in skills                       Maintaining the norm of the herd

Decentralized Authority                             Centralized Authority

Individual Responsibility                            Sheep Dog responsibility

Irreplaceable individuals                            All are replaceable except the Shepherd

All skills are shared up and down                Sheep dog is afforded skills

Mindset is build the pack                            Mindset is do what you are told

Philosophy is "Prove it/earn it"                   Philosophy is "moral high ground"

SUCCESS METRICS

Support the pack                                        Sheer the Sheep

Build your own pack                                  Eat the sheep

Earn and keep what you kill                        Build the shepherd's empire

1. Alpha
   • Goal Driven in all five formula(s)
   • 6-hour nonnegotiable daily activity
   • Focus, let go, fail, mentors betas
   • Always building other alphas (replacing itself)
   • Embrace spartan woman (spousal goals realized)
   • Disruption and innovation on schedule
   • Builds a team of future alphas
2. Beta
   • Acquiring all five areas, may be good in only a few
   • Building toward a baseline and often sporadic
   • Learning to focus, still ego and self centered, seeks comfort often, being mentored
   • Functions well on the team
   • Testing powerful spartan women(plural)
   • Will change and start over if the pack does
   • Wants to be the alpha when ready
3. Omega
   • Expert in One Pyramid (top 1%) or not good at anything
   • Hyper base line in all areas or only in one and is consumed by the one
   • All or nothing with the four skills
   • A reject or has broken away to build own pack
   • If expert does the one thing with great excess
   • While an omega cannot mentor or have spartan woman dynamic
   • While an omega is constantly disruptive and destructive

1. Shepherd or Master
   • Only works for him or her self (always takes the moral high ground)
   • Expects others to follow a formula yet rarely does him or her self
   • Needs a sheep dog to achieve results
   • Needs a herd to direct
   • Un-intentionally disruptive
   • Hyper focused on empire
   • Emotionally convicted and unyielding
   • Developer not mentor
   • Will abandon the herd in a moments notice
2. The Sheep Dog
   • On formula only or does what is told
   • Subjugates goals for shepherd and sheep
   • Can be taught to develop another sheep dog
   • Do not embrace spartan woman (breads many)
   • Will disrupt if directed to
   • Doesn't work well with other alphas nor other teams without the shepherd
3. The sheep
   • Follows trends never goal oriented
   • Goes with the heard or majority
   • Random, Decisions based entirely on emotions, fear based, never mentor
   • Dislikes the Sheep Dog and the Wolf
   • Often disobeys the shepherd

Sergeant Major (ret) Mark Spicer is a 25-year veteran of the British Army with a worldwide reputation in the sphere of Sniping and Counter terrorism, which led to his selection and use as the US Government's Expert witness ini the Washington DC Sniper trials. He has served worldwide with the British and UN forces on real world deployments, and has extensive experience of counter terrorist operations and terrorist methods of operation, having worked against the IRA in Northern Ireland and subsequent terrorist elements worldwide.

He's recently launched his latest book OUTDANCE THE DEVIL where he outlines his own experience of dealing with PTSD & overcoming the "darkness".

Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI)

...does not care if you've served. This book focuses on my life, and being a soldier for most of it, it's going to have a part of my career attached by necessity. However, I ask from the first page that you understand that this book is for anyone who has suffered traumatic stress: police officers, firefighters, parents, medical professionals, and more. 

What does success look like from someone at the top of his game?

What it takes in all areas of life you can see in the life of someone at the top of the game?

Hyperfocused life is a choice of to be intentional, or to be grey and random, or to not be on-point at all.

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.

Take Level One Training and learn.  Sign up

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Take control of the parts of life that matter and stop chasing things that don't matter.

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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. 

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

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)