What Happened To Me
/It happened 5 years after leaving the SEAL Teams.
I was miserable. Despite the fact that I spent over a decade training and working with the most highly trained special operators in the world, I had allowed myself to conform to the overworked, under-fit and uninspired American corporate culture that I had honestly thought I was immune to. That was my first mistake.
I felt like I was in a constant state of having more things to do than I had time or energy for. I was always rushing, getting very little sleep, and barely noticed my kids. There was a constant current of stress and anxiety that ran me. And that was before things got bad.
And then one day while having a beer in my buddies kitchen he asked me…
What do you still do that really fires you up?”
When I couldn’t answer him, I thought, My God... what have I become? What happened to me? I mean It made no sense. How did I go from this high level operator who was crushing life, to this miserable son of a bitch? What I’m trying to say is that my life no longer had anything to do with purpose or passion. I had become nothing more than a paycheck producing machine.
Now. I’d love to tell you that it was one of those movie-like moments of an awakening that yanked me out the inauthentic career, body and relationships that I had become trapped in, but I can’t. You see…
I thought I knew what kind of game I was in.
I had already spent years and tens of thousands of dollars on very advanced business education and training. So I thought I knew what I was up against, and I assumed I was doing everything I could and should be doing. And that was my second mistake, the mistake I festered in for several more years. The one that almost took me out. The one that you might be making right now.
And I know that sounds crazy that I would sit miserable in that mistake for so many years, but everyone around me was in the same boat, work, eat, drink, sleep, repeat, so I kind of just accepted it as the way things were in the ordinary world. Nobody told me that there was another world of…
People operating clandestinely.
Who would have thought that there were these elite groups of people moving in ways that were changing the game and universally raising personal and professional standards in a manner that were making mine obsolete? Another world, that if I didn’t get dialed into, would continue to make my life more difficult and cause me to keep backsliding despite my education, efforts and tenacity.
It is for this reason that I’d like you to consider this both a…
Warning & Invitation.
Or what we call in the SEAL Teams a “Warning Order”. This is my offer to “Read You In” to what I discovered about these elite groups, where they came from, why they exist and what every ambitious adult must do to prevent them from raising the bar beyond our reach.
And to do this you must first understand exactly…
Eric
