10/19/2020
To summarize life is about identifying and overcoming obstacles and never giving up.
What makes the Navy SEAL’s click while there is a 90% failure rate?
- Work Ethic- The ability o control yourself, work hard, and behave in a particular way without needing anyone else to tell you what to do.
You don’t decide your future- you decide your habits.
Your habits decide your future.
- Learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Your ability to stay focused on the mission and solution will dictate your success.
Never quit.
Expect the worst and stay focused on solutions.
- Work Together- Put the team first. Unit is bigger than me. SEAL training runs from Sunday through Friday and they get four hours of sleep during that time. How far can you go? Need to care about the guy next to you and you can’t do it alone!
NEVER QUIT ANYTHING. NO MATTER WHAT!
- Define Success- In the SEAL Teams, we are only as good as our last mission. For me as a golf instructor, I feel like I’m only as good as my last lesson and never want to rest on my laurels. I believe I have a healthy fear of failing and letting my students down or not having the answer or sequence to helping them improve.
- Master The Basics-
Smooth is fast. Fast is smooth.
Panic doesn’t solve anything, no point in panicking or yelling, get focused on the solution and move.
Success leads to complacency. Complacency leads to lack of focus and attention to detail – It’s the lack of attention that will get you.
He told a story of a one of his fellow SEAL’s going into a village and not seeing anything for a couple days and decided to crawl out and then just stand up and walk. When he did he got shot in the butt, right through both cheeks. He went on to receive a Purple Heart and when the soldier looks at it he’s reminded that lack of attention to detail cost him a shot in the rump.
- Being Prepared- Complaining without coming up with a solution is called whining. Coming up with solutions is called innovation.
I think of Brian Jacobs developing Jacob’s 3D because he wanted to know what was really going on in the golf swing. He was not willing to accept current state, rather he pushed the envelop and created what I consider the greatest teaching research our generation has developed.
Take care of he people taking care of you, successes and failures are earned as a team, not as an individual.
- Lead From The Front- Every SEAL started from 1A and completed the same training and built trust and confidence not only in themselves but their team. It’s easier to trust someone who has gone through and successfully completed Hell Week and earned their stripes. He also made the point of, “How can you lead your people if you don’t know your people?” Talk about living in the trenches… the SEAL’s train, eat and sleep day after day with each other.
Accountability = no excuses
Accepted Responsibility = not looking to blame. If SEAL’s fail, people die. Learn from mistakes and change standard operating procedures, strategy to continually improve. “When people die, we need to change how we do things.”
Credibility = trust
We all want trust and it takes hard work and dedication, day after day to develop trust.
- Quitting is not an option. 90% of candidates that start SEAL training quit. If you want to be hard, you have to do hard things.
Nobody remembers who quit! Attack back! Be strong!
If you are looking for a great speaker and someone to motivate and activate your organization, I highly recommend Darren Mc Burnett.
He has also published a book, “Uncommon Grit” you can find on Amazon, Target etc.
Remember, the 1% takes care of the 99% of the country. Thank you to all those that serve in our military!