One of the rare times the YouTube algorithm pushes something that is deeply interesting.
To say Robert O’Neil and his bunch of buddies up at SEAL are awesome, would be crass. Words cannot do justice to what he and his fraternity across the free world do every day to protect the vulnerable and the weak. If you need a refresher on what SEAL means, here’s some help.
For the benefit of some of you, who are in a rush, I’d not want you to miss out on the powerful learnings. Just remember as you read this: We are talking about a SEAL saying this. Here are some gems. There are many more hidden in the video like the one on fear. I’ll leave that for you to dig thru.
“Nobody wants to work for a jerk”. “I had a boss who said please and thank you for normal work, not all the time, but to let you know you’re part of the team” – People skills.
When morale is high the team will work harder”.
“The perfect plan only exists in the planning room, the moment you leave the room Murphy shows up and everything seems to change. Life is happening around you while you are planning this stuff and 95% of the plans that you worry about never happens any way. “What’s the worst that can happen” ” the helicopter could crash in the front yard” and it happened.”
“Know the difference between over-planning and being prepared” – Preparation over planning.
“Your initial reaction is the wrong reaction. Its important to take a second even if a second is all you have, to make and informed decision. I try to apply it every day.”
“Take emotion out of the decision making process”.
Pause to “look at What’s the problem and what’s the emotion I am associating with that problem and that’s enough time to make an informed decision”.
“Even in combat don’t react, do respond “
“You’re having a bad day or series of bad days and you say: “that’s it. I quit, am done”. You’re not having a bad life, You’re having a bad day. Take a rap off, time heals everything, it will get better”
“No matter what, we never quit”.
“Stress is a bag of bricks, which you choose to carry”.
“Stress is a choice. Just put the bag down”.
“When you are done saying what you’re saying”
– stop saying it.
“Never pass up the opportunity”
-to shut up.
“Time heals everything”
Know the vast difference between what you truly hold dear and everything else
“Push to talk – “
– i need you to think (so stop pushin’)
“You are about to go to war for the first time and your enemy is: all your doubts, all your fears and everyone you know back home who told you you were not good enough to do this”.
Keep your head down, keep moving forward and never quit and you will be just fine.
The one that resonated most with me:
“My life starts right now: Am as old as i have ever been, but i’m also as young as i will ever be”.
I know you will apply some of these immediately.
A SEAL is an extreme example of a person demonstrating #PEAKISM(TM) behaviours. Check out how much on your PEAK are you.
Best wishes.
Epilogue
If you do decide to watch the video, or, contributed to one of the 293,344 views including me who have watched it, you are bound to re-live some of the moments O’Neil describes. Like, ” There’s a big difference between saying good night and goodbye to your kids . . . knowing it may be the last time you’ll see them”. This is one of several poignant points in the video. Another is when he shares the reason why its worth taking the trouble to be a SEAL.
“We are not going for fame and we are not going for bravado. We are going for the single mom who dropped her kids off at elementary school on a Tuesday morning and then 45 minutes later she jumped to her death out of a skyscraper, because that was a better alternative than burning alive because it’s 2,500 degrees inside, and her last gesture of human decency, was to hold her skirt down so nobody could see her underwear, as she committed suicide. She didn’t want to do any of that. She wasn’t supposed to be in the fight. We’re supposed to fight that’s why we’re going.”
They find that higher calling to do it. The above anecdote teared me up. Enough said. I’ll let you find what resonates most with you.
Gurunath Hari is the author of “The 6 Dimensions, Overcome Presenteeism: Excel in work and Life”. He has over 25 years of corporate experience, including leadership and management roles. His working life started at the end of the pre-computer era and continues to the present ‘everything-mobile’ era. He with his mentor Sir Prof. Cary Cooper, invented the term PEAKISM – the opposite of presenteeism and absenteeism. The book became an Amazon best seller in 2016.
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