Discipline. What is it? Certainly it's something we're all chasing. We want to be more disciplined in our workouts, or our range time, or maybe we are trying to be more disciplined with our meditation or mindfulness.  But when you think about it in the context of your job, I bet the word...

I knew I was in for an earful when I saw my son’s face. I was waiting in the pickup line at his school and I could see the scowl on this face, even with his mask on.  He wasn’t happy.  What injustice had occurred in the third grade that day?  His friend called him “out” while...

"Let fate find us prepared and active" - SenecaSeneca is a man who knew a thing or two about being prepared. In his mid-20's, he left Rome for a decade in Egypt to heal from what was likely asthma, after already suffering from a bout of Tuberculosis. En route back to Rome, his uncle was killed in...

Vivere Militare Est - Seneca To the ancients, survival was a very real everyday battle. Pithy cries to stay in the fight weren’t just aspirational messages meant to inspire the troops, or shore up support from the homeland for an army away at war. Death and dismemberment lurked everywhere in the...

You know, anytime someone starts a sentence with, “Yeah no offense but…” Well, they’re about to say something meant to offend you. If you follow me on social media, you may have seen a recent comment where it was suggested that I was pushing a "boy scout" attitude about police work in the current...

At the very beginning of 2020, I got a special treat to see one of my favorite authors speak before everything fell apart a few weeks later. Simon Sinek came to LA for a talk where he went in-depth about his new book, The Infinite Game.  I highly recommend it. It might be the most important...

“It does not matter how slowly you go, only that you don’t stop.” – Confucius When I made the decision to get healthy and implement some positive changes in my life, my coach Traver Boehm gave me what ended up being some of the best advice I’ve ever been given. “Reject everything that is familiar...

I spent most of the academy with shin splints - small stress fractures in the shins that are ridiculously painful.  I had zero motivation to run. It hurt like 🔥HELL🔥 to run.  Before runs, I would chew Advil like it was Skittles. At night, I'd ice my legs like a MLB pitcher ices their...

A lot of people are interested in stoicism right now. It's become very popular in the last half decade or so especially since Ryan Holiday, released several books on the topic (see below). It's piqued the interest of a lot of people in high performer type professions, and it's gotten a lot of...

Retired Lieutenant Colonel David “Scott” Mann is many things. As a twenty-year member of Army Special Forces (a.k.a. the Green Berets), Scott describes himself as “an anthropologist with a gun,” but he’s really more than that. When Mann wrote his book, “Game Changers: Going Local to Fight Violent...

 There's an old parable attributed to the Cherokee Indians of the two wolves.  An old Cherokee chief sits with his grandson and tells him,  "A terrible fight going on inside of me. It's a terrible fight. And it's between two wolves. One is evil. He is anger, sorrow, hate, greed,...