The Base Line With Thom Shea

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97. Stop Being a Victim. Defeating Your Bully with Stacy Shea Dec 02, 2018

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It is December. The Christmas holiday season is upon us. Christmas trees are pooping up all over the place, lights are going up and school is winding down for the kids and end of your stresses are ramping up for business owners.

Christmas in the Shea clan is always a time to be together, to celebrate our lives and accomplishments and be a family. We all like to sit around the table each night talking about the ups and downs and experiences we have had.

Lately the topic of Bullying has come up. It strikes me as odd because I don't see bullying around me simply because I personally defeated my being a victim long ago so it was a surprise to hear about the topic in my kids schools and in my wife Stacy's political campaign work. Since I am no one's victim I am surprised, so as you listen to Stacy and I discuss both the Bully paradigm and victim-ology we pray you powerfully find a way forward and not as a victim.

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96. Transformational Growth or Disruption Nov 24, 2018

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This weeks Unbreakable Podcast is for both individuals or companies committed to growth in 2019. There is fundamentally little difference between an individual or a company regarding looking at growth in 2019. I can tell you from personal experience it is not more complicated for a company to grow. The number of people or volume of products doesn't make growth more complicated. Individual growth is far more complicated because the complexity of ego and emotional attachments truly are harder to adjust.

So why discuss growth in 2019 now while we are still in 2018. In short because January is too late. Once 2019 hits and is underway, without preparing for new growth now in 2018, you will simply be making 2018 more effective by a factor of 10%. Oddly, that is what most organizations look to do each year … improve by 10% on last years accomplishments. If that is where you are personally or as an organization the rest of the podcast isn't for you.

As you look at 2019, the first aspect of 2019 is a time honored process to unravel these two aspects. Having consulted with 100s of people and organizations to retool for growth, I can tell you that you have to nail these two points before you can move forward.

Foundation work for growth:

Vision Statement (7 words).
Mission Statement.

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95. Staying Calm Under Pressure Nov 17, 2018

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As I grow older, as I, personally, take on new nebulous endeavors, as I train leaders and high achieving men and woman across the nation, one subject comes up more than others. Pressure. Stress. Whatever name you call how you encounter the world you are dealing with.

This week's podcast is to maybe pass on something relevant from my experiences that will help. And, since, Jill in particular asked me that exact question, I will stumble through an answer.

By the way, my answer will probably disturb the hell out of you. It isn't intended to but I come from an environment as a SEAL and a combat Vet, and now a turn around consultant, where if you cannot unravel how you perceive the environment you literally will not make it too long.

Pressure is all an interpretation of your environment. That is all it is. How you see or filter your environment is always, always, always divided into 5 parts:

The reality of the facts coming at you (I must add here that this is really the key to it all). If there were 100 people in the same environment 85 of them cannot even notice the facts; 10 can deal with some of the facts but will get exhausted, and 5 will see exactly what is coming and change everything.
The level of experience and skills you have acquired in dealing with this type of situation.
Your emotional background. Now emotion is the second most important factor.
And what actual tools or things you can bring to bear in that exact moment. Meaning you may have line items 1-3 but if you don't have the equipment needed then you are stuffed.
The last one is directed practice. Have you practiced knowing you would encounter this situation. Practice is the turning point of everything and no one practices anymore.

Retired Navy SEAL and Silver Star awardee, Thom Shea, shares his insight on mastering human performance. Through interviews with successful businessmen and women and top athletes, we unravel the mindset and tools needed for extreme success. Learn how to master your own internal dialogue, gain insight from top performers, and engage in weekly challenges.

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94. Diversity of Choice. Nov 11, 2018

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Setting aside the politics of Veterans Day, setting down which side of the tracks you may be on, Veterans Day is a recognition of the profound effect the choice we do have in the United States to actually defend or not defend our country.

Veterans Day is simply a celebration of choices, maybe it is a celebration of the liberty to actually make a choice that our founding fathers fought and died to provide us.

So, as you listen to today's podcast, as you do your particular thing and express your self in the ways you have chosen, let me share from a veteran of war's point of view the choice to defend the country.

Diversity

All who served come from the same diverse background and up-bringings as do all Americans. This point of reality is often missed in the rhetoric of media discourse. Vet's come from every nationality, both sexes, and all orientations. We are from broken and also strong families, rich and poor, some are orphans, so are from generations of veterans.

93. No Way Out Situations and Simple Steps to Win with Thom Shea Nov 04, 2018

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Imagine if you will you were faced with no way to win, no way out, and overwhelming odds not in your favor. What would be your next action or step?

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In the world that surrounds most of us that thought, that circumstance scares us from even thinking about it. Most of us would avoid that situation all together. Few people have the presence of mind and guts to consider … what would I do?

The concept of the no win scenario however is a concept winners solve on a constant and consistent basis. People who shy away from the concept of looking at the no win scenario … lose. And of all the things successful people do that sets them apart from the rest is simply to put themselves openly in no win scenarios as a means to find a way.

92. Raising a Warrior Daughter with Thom Shea Oct 30, 2018

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Many of you lately have asked us to discuss how we raise our kids as warriors and what it is like for us to have one of our kids at one of the military academies. We get so many that Stacy and I have reflected often on the experience of raising kids and what we have done that is of any value.

13 warrior lessons

I would have to start with defining a warrior. There are two types of warriors: those in war, and those who are forward leaning and openly willing to make it through adversity to achieve a goal. Since kids are not really at war, I reflect on the latter definition to describe raising warriors.

For me, and if you as a mom or a dad don't agree, than so be it, parents are responsible to teaching their kids to lean forward into life, to deal with adversity well, and to play in a bigger cause than self serving smallness. The raising of a young child into an adult and on to being a warrior in their life is very hard. Combat is easier. You as a parent are responsible to getting it done. You must model the behavior you are asking of your kids. No short cuts, no having other people raise your kids because it is too hard and you have other self interests involved. You must be the example and that is very hard.

When I wrote the 13 Unbreakable Lessons into the book I wanted my kids to learn each one. Because each lesson deals with them and each lesson helps overcome internal and external adversity. It makes them warriors in their own lives.

91. 4 Traits of Successful Leaders with Thom Shea Oct 23, 2018

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The search for the traits that successful people have, agnostic of industry or even gender seems to be the going trend. You don't have to have a secret decoder ring or spend a life time getting on degree after the other to find the common leadership traits. The 4 are evident everywhere you look.

Knowing what they are and actually acquiring each trait as a thing you do each day however it not simple. Simple but not easy is the phrase I have found to be true throughout the pursuit of higher level of performance in leadership.

Here is what I have found to be true and if you have found others please email me at engage@adamantinealliance.com.

Mission focus and clarity of purpose.
Intentionality and targeting
Skills acquisition and consummate learners.
Never give up mentality

90. Overcoming self-imposed limits with Thom Shea Oct 16, 2018

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We all have limits. Whether they be physical, intellectual, financial, relationship, or spiritual limits. In my search for my own performance in each, I have learned an odd thing regarding limits. Most of them are self-imposed.

This past weekend was our 21st 24 hour leadership challenge to overcome the self-imposed limits leaders perceive they have. And, each leader did hit and over come their limits.

I originally set up this challenge, which I discussed in my book, "Unbreakable: A Navy SEALs Way of Life" to encourage my children to learn the 13 most valuable lessons in life. I wanted them to be capable of having a great life in case I didn't return home from combat. And, this lesson, Lesson Number three, I knew would open up their life in magnificent ways. Because, the reality of life is that if you cannot overcome your own self-imposed limits you are stuffed. You are stuffed to the frustration of past failures, you are stuffed to the opinions of others regarding what you allow their opinions to curb you from doing, and you are stuffed to resigning yourself to follow in the footprints of the buffalo running over the cliff.

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89. Morning rituals of successful people with Thom Shea Oct 07, 2018

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Jumping right into this topic today, simply because the topic needs no flare. What do successful people do in the morning that makes them different? Having been a active part of the most successful military unit in history, I can tell you that every successful person, or company, or team actually does the same thing in the morning. And what they do differentiates them from failure.

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For brevity sake I will separate the activities into three parts: What they do; what they think about; and how they prepare. Write these items down and you too can actually use these three events in your life to great impact.

88. Three ways to recover from loss with Thom Shea Oct 01, 2018

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The topic that comes up most often for me over the past 28 years has been loss. Honestly, winning is not a huge topic. Because, few people win. Out of 100 runners there is one winner. Out of every business competing for the one contract there is one winner. In war there is only one winner. Everyone thinks they want to know how to win, but they soon discover that the first thing they experience is loss.

Even the one out of a million who wins the first time, eventually faces loss. But no one thinks of loss and recover; they just want to win. That is the tragedy of winning: you must master losing…period.

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Here is the truth parents and bosses and leaders ought to be openly teaching the youth, the understudies, and the team, you are going to lose, you are going to hurt, you are going to go sideways, you are going to spend money ineffectively, you are going to make enemies. There is no avoiding loss, loss is the only for sure aspect of growth. Winning actually may never happen. But the only access to winning is recovering from loss.

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