Part 3 of the Warrior Yoga series The 6 Strategies of Warrior Yoga In last week’s post, we discussed the bedrock strategy that Warrior Yoga is built on: Developing a personal ethos and how developing your ethos and code of conduct is the first, critical part of the journey in becoming a Warrior. As I […]
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An Integrated Practice Grounded in Ethical Disciplines Strangely enough, my journey to earning the Navy SEAL Trident began while in the otherworldly trenches of climbing the rungs of a career on Wall Street. It was the 1980s. I was a desk jockey living and working among seven million others crammed into New York City, the […]
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Honor, courage, resilience, emotional power: These have been keywords and concepts in our overarching discussion these last few months about how an individual can build the grit required to take on an overwhelmingly intimidating challenge like the attrition rate that knocks out 96% who aspire to wear the Navy SEAL Trident. One thing we know […]
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The Spiritual Ingredient of the Developing Warrior In last week’s blog, we began to discuss the magnitude and import of climbing the Kokoro Mountain, a ceaseless journey rife with challenge and solitude. Faced with exhaustion and even despair, how do you keep moving? Where does the energy come from to continue the upward slog? If […]
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As fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as daring as fire, and immovable as the mountain. –Samurai Battle Standard After being chided by an allied leader for bringing “only” 300 men to battle the Persians at Thermopile, the Spartan King Leonides responded by asking what professions the leader’s men hailed from. The […]
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CHAPTER THREE Self-Mastery The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. —James Allen Prior to the SEALs, my career as a fledgling accountant at Coopers & Lybrand was driven in the short term by my goals of earning an MBA and CPA (showing a need for significance) […]
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I’m probably in big trouble. That’s the first thought that hit me as I lay on the floor panting in a puddle of sweat. Just behind me, an elderly woman casually glided on an elliptical machine. To my right, a couple of guys were giving me puzzled looks on their break between sets of Bench […]
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The final word in our 7-part series on Serious Resiliency This blog series has been about developing emotional resiliency—the internal firepower that instantly pops you back up to your feet no matter how many times you get knocked down. We have explored emotional awareness, how to detect and transmute negative emotional energy into a […]
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This is part 6 in the Serious Resiliency Series We have become intimate with the first three demons in recent blog posts: the demons of anger, anxiety and arrogance. I am glad to wrap up this depressing topic now with the fourth demon, absence of self-love. The reason I have focused on these demons […]
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Our 5th installment in the Serious Resiliency Series So far in this series we’ve examined how the demons of anger and anxiety are like corrosive acids, burning through emotional power, energy, and the capacity for being present in our lives. Relatively speaking, these demons are easy to identify. When venting anger strikes, the perp […]
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