Special Forces taught me: The most powerful tool isn’t a weapon. After every mission or exercise, no matter how successful, we’d gather.Exhausted. Dirty. Sometimes seriously demoralized. For what might be the military’s most valuable tradition: The After Action Review (AAR). No rank.No ego.No sugar coating. Just raw honesty about what went wrong, what went right,…

❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ First 5 months gone. How are your 2025 goals coming along? Having this problem? For me, every year needs at least one adventure so intense, so unforgettable, that you look back and say: “2025 was the year of ___.”Something way out of your…

In Special Operations, operational security wasn’t just important – it was life or death. I still apply this principle, but in another way…. As a Special Operators, we trained extensively to protect mission-critical information. Even underwent resistance training: interrogations, sleep deprivation, stress positions, freezing cold, constant noise. That’s how crucial information protection was. It saves…

Most people need to die. Not literally.They need to die to their old self.To be reborn. The truth about change:Most people only adjust the outside – new clothes, new job, new habits.But nothing shifts within.They tweak the surface but never fully embrace the new identity needed for real transformation. And eventually, we drift back.Back to…

Why I start work at 11 AM (and why it matters)It’s Tuesday 11:06 AM, and I just sat down at my computer.Late start?Indeed. My emails and posts have been going out later because I’ve made a conscious choice about my morning routine. After my daughter starts her homeschool day, I head to my home gym…

3 Things I still miss after 20 years of leaving Special Operations Forces.Two decades since ´hanging up my green beret´. Different life for sure. Different challenges. Different mission. But some things stick with you…..even after 20 years. Here are three I still miss – and use every day: – The BrotherhoodNothing compares to the bond…