Tag: Navy SEAL
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Want to be great? Fast for 86 hours
Great leadership can be learned, developed and practiced in every aspect of your life. If you are not in a leadership position, don’t despair. The same formula applies to greatness on an individual level with anything you do. A couple years back, my wife and I embarked on a five-day fast that included broth with…
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Palestine and Israel: Don’t be Blind For Your Side
The subject matter of this article will test your ability to apply the very leadership topic I’m addressing. Keep that in mind as you read it to see how accurate I am in my assessment. I took a class back in 1988 at the United States Naval Academy on the Palestine/Israeli conflict. To date, not…
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Money and Free Speech
I sometimes get asked what drove me to sacrifice so intensely for our country. My answer may appear to be cliché, but it is honest and real: “Because I love this country and what it stands for. It never felt like a sacrifice for me; it felt like an honor.” What exactly do I love…
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Guns, Bombs and Hard Conversations
What do we know about Diego Barajas Medina, the man found dead in Glenwood Springs with a relative arsenal of weapons and explosives? At this point, very little — at least very little about his motivation and what he intended to do prior to committing suicide. However, we do know a lot about what Medina…
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On Leadership: Do Something Different To Get Out Of Your Rut
We identified an overseas al-Qaida associated bombmaker with family in the United States. I was the lead case agent, and I was struggling to make movement on the case. I had tried all of the standard investigative techniques to determine if the family was providing any type of support to the bombmaker. Money, supplies, information,…
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How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything: SEAL Leadership in Practice
On leadership: You play how you practice. You’ve probably heard it before. You may have heard it so much you are beginning to consider it a cliché, something to not even concern yourself with anymore. Here’s the funny thing about clichés: They started out as true wisdom. I’m not sure if this saying has become…
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Want to Be a Great Leader? Train Your Glutes!
Your gluteus maximus (or more commonly known as your butt) is the largest and strongest muscle in your body. In our active valley of skiing, hiking, biking, running and everything else under the sun, this little fact matters. Why? If you are a runner, for example, you’ve probably suffered from one of the following maladies…
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The Power of Four: Whose Opinion Matters Most?
My wife recently attempted the Audi Power of Four Trail Run. For those of you who are not familiar, it’s a 50K race up and down our four mountains: Aspen, Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass. At the halfway mark she was short of the cutoff time and was not allowed to continue. The heck of it…
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Basalt River Park: authentic vs. inauthentic
A desire to be your authentic self is a noble goal. Labeling someone inauthentic has become an insult that cuts deeply. There is a potential problem, though, with touting our authenticity. What happens if you are authentically a rude, snarky and condescending person? Is your authenticity still something to hold up as a badge of…
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What Will You See When Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes?
I heard the noise, “Bam!”, and I knew exactly what happened. As the ladder disintegrated under me, I began my fall 30ft to what was surely my death. I was to either fall in the water and be sucked under and into the screws of the one-hundred-foot cargo ship I was climbing at sea or…