Military

Navy SEALs have come a long way in terms of their diet and lifestyle. It really depends on an individual's body type and the level and quality of calories they're consuming and burning, as well as how lean they want to be.
 
Transcript: "Hey, what's up guys? So the question is what are Navy SEALs to eat lean? This is a funny question in my opinion. I'll be honest, man, when I first came in, we probably had the worst diet, the worst training, the worst sleep patterns. We drank copious amounts of alcohol. And I think the only thing that kept a lot of us lean, I know for me, is I was burning way more calories than I was consuming. So, you know, in any kind of fitness thing, caloric intake is a big deal. Quality of caloric intake makes a difference. Our modern SEALs today are so much smarter. We have a human performance program, we have nutritionists, guys are so much smarter. Although the military and special operations culture still has a heavy focus on alcohol, I know a lot of guys are probably a lot smarter and they're focused on this machine we run around in. So it varies on the individual, you know, body type, mesomorph, ectomorph, endomorph, what calories you're putting in, types of workout, all those things. So there isn't a simple answer to that question, but at the end of the day, you know, you've got to figure out, hey, the level of calories I'm burning, the quantity of calories I'm putting in, and am I even, am I at a surplus? You know, obviously if you're at a deficit, you're going to be lean, but how lean do you want to be? So, all right, man."

My philosophy of life is to take action and practice relentless positivity. I align my everyday behaviors with this by working out, eating healthy, and taking action on the things I want to accomplish in life.
 
Transcript: "Hey, what's up guys? I'm sitting in the airport and I love this question. How do you align your everyday behaviors with your philosophy of life? My philosophy of life is definitely very stoic based. It is very self-driven. I meet so many people who we are inundated with the victim mindset. There is a pandemic of the victim mindset in this country right now. That if you are not successful, if you are not instantly a leader, if you're not instantly rich, if you're not instantly in a management position, if you're not instantly making a six figure salary, if you instantly aren't an influencer and get thousands of likes on your video, then it's because someone is being unfair to you or because you're being discriminated against because of race, creed, color, gender, whatever it is. So my philosophy of life is action is the answer. It's up to you to get off that X. And how do I align my everyday behaviors? I live it. I follow those things. I practice relentless positivity. I drive forward. I work out. I eat healthy. I'm always taking action on the things that I want to accomplish in my life. And never once will you ever say, well, this isn't fair because I didn't get this. Guys, plenty of times in business, I've lost out on speaking engagements. I've lost out on deals and it didn't have anything to do with just the way it is. So I'm going to keep grinding and that is my philosophy of life. I live it every single day. You should do the same. If you like this answer, you should check it out on my questions. I'm going to post this here on iTunes."

I started by writing to a couple of buddies of mine and asking them for their stories. I then did telephonic interviews with those who agreed to share their stories, transcribed them and printed them out. Then I looked for the most interesting stories and gave them to Jim Patterson to turn into the final book.
 
Transcript: "The process for writing this book, Walking My Combat Boots, our first project together with Jim Patterson, was really pretty simple. We kept it very basic. Jim gave me the task to get 100 stories, 125 stories, something like that, and I would do these telephonic interviews with these soldiers and then transcribe them to a Word document, and then I'd print it out, look for the pieces that I thought were of interest, and I'd take it over to Jim and let him do his magic, which again turns out to be the final book that you see in the stores. But honestly, I started just writing to a couple of buddies of mine whose combat stories I did not know personally, talked to them, heard their stories, asked them for recommendations, and it just grew from there. And pretty soon we had 125 in no time. It was a great experience."

I enlisted in the Army and after serving for 20 years 3 months, I retired in 2008. I enjoyed my time in service and it gave me far more than I could have imagined. I look back fondly on my time in the military and am grateful for the opportunity.
 
Transcript: "I enlisted thinking I would spend four years and bat my eyes and 20 years, three months, and a couple extra days later, I'm retiring. It was a magical experience. I absolutely wouldn't change one thing about it, but I got to tell you, 20 is plenty. I was excited to start the new chapter of my life. I retired in 2008 and again, 20 years and a couple extra months because of the surge, but I look back often and I've told a lot of people, anybody that's willing to listen, the military, the army was very, very good to me and I enjoyed the time in service. I hope I left it a little bit better, but it definitely lived up to its end of the bargain and it did for me far more than I could have imagined. But I was ready for a new chapter and it's one of those, I've always been one of the, once this chapter over, look forward, keep moving forward and look to the future. But when I think about the army, I do look back with great fondness and I'm glad they let me in."

I wanted to join the Rangers after watching a documentary in high school. After enlisting in the Army, I discovered more about what the Ranger regiment did and was inspired to make the journey from conventional forces to Special Operations forces. It was worth every minute and I loved it.
 
Transcript: "You know, I decided to join the Rangers, I think because of a very clever marketing scheme that the Army did. I'm not quite sure that's true, but I remember in high school, you know, this is back in the early 80s, there was a documentary or a piece on 60 Minutes, one of the two, but it was about Army Ranger school. And they showed these, these Ranger students, you know, walking through the swamps, you know, chest deep in water, neck deep in water, and they looked pretty, pretty, pretty rough and tough. And I thought like, that's about the coolest thing. Didn't think anything about combat or anything about what the real military did other than that looked really cool, what these guys were doing, jumping out of planes and all that stuff. And fast forward, you know, I did enlist into the Army and, you know, some rascally recruiter sent me, wound up getting me into the regular infantry instead of the Rangers. But that was probably worked out well, because I learned what the Ranger Regiment actually did for our Army, which just whet my appetite even more to, to focus on, on making that, that that leap, that journey from the conventional forces to the Special Operations Forces. And, you know, I sound like an infomercial, I think when it comes to talking about the Ranger Regiment, but it was worth every minute, every, every bit of blood, sweat and tears to get there. I mean, this great unit with a great history and highest standards in the Army. I loved it."

On a typical Sunday during Army basic training, you may either go to church in the morning or stay in the barracks and clean. In the afternoon, more cleaning tasks such as area beautification will be assigned.
 
Transcript: "Can you describe a typical Sunday schedule during Army basic training? So, for the most part, it depends on if you're going to go to church or not going to church. If you are going to go to church, then you'll probably spend a couple hours in the morning going there. You'll probably still wake up pretty early and do like personal hygiene and everything, and then they'll take you to church pretty early. If you're not going to be doing church services, then you're kind of staying in the barracks and just cleaning. They spend all morning cleaning. You go to lunch, you know, when it's lunchtime around like 11, 30, 12, somewhere around there, come back, and you'll probably even though, you know, church will be over by then, so then all the people that went to church will be back as well. And then in the afternoon, it's probably just more cleaning. It might be cleaning in the barracks, it might be cleaning outside to pick up weeds, to pick up trash, all sorts of things. Spend some time maybe, you know, taking care of, you know, certain other kind of items that are just cleaning kind of things, but for the most part, they'll keep you busy in some way. They'll find something for you to do. Usually, that's a lot of like area beautification type of things that you're kind of doing and doing different details and different cleaning and different other tasks they find for you."