How much better would your world be if you deliberately trained and developed your Confidence, Competence, Discipline, Motivation & Mental Toughness like an elite member of the Special Operations community?

It is impossible to become the best of the best, at anything, if you are lying to yourself about your skills and abilities. The truth hurts, but you must embrace it and use it to evaluate your performance as you improve your skills and abilities.

You build Confidence as you do and accomplish hard things. This will develop a legitimate belief in yourself and your abilities. When coupled with humility, Confidence is an essential building block of the charismatic leader. 

Responsibility is doing your job and dealing with whatever happens. As an adult, your life is your responsibility. As a leader, everything that happens or fails to happen to your team, company, unit, or family is your Responsibility. Good leaders give praise, but they also take fault.

Readiness is about being proactive, not reactive, and is best illustrated through Physical, Risk, and Security Readiness. It is making the decision to never be a victim and to remain the master of your own fate.

Discipline allows you to stick to what you started, facilitates self-control, enforces obedience and order, and helps you do the hard right over the easy wrong. 

Mental Toughness is built through enduring hardships. It often requires confrontation, but for sure ends with resiliency. A true champion is never broken.