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Becoming a Commando: HardKeeping 6-pack abs over 40: HardBeing a present, supporting husband: HardBeing someone your kids genuinely look up to: Hard But you know what’s also hard? • Carrying 15 extra kilos everywhere you go• Fighting brain fog and low energy every morning• Watching your family drift away while chasing another promotion• Having only…

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…

My wife wanted to kill off our lucrative ´side hustle´. My wife, Manon, is a bit mad at me—and, yeah, I can see why. Here’s what happened… Back in 2008, after years of building our business together, we both decided it was time for her to step back. Manon had done an incredible job growing…

In ’99 I had a Dream: Become a Commando.Not a backup plan. The only thing I wanted. Here’s the thing about dreams: We’re experts at putting them on hold. We tell ourselves:“I’ll start when the kids are older”“Once I have more savings and feel financially secure”“When the timing is right”Or any other excuse. Even worse?Some…