THE FOUNDATION FOR PEAK RESILIENCE
Updated: Oct 3
What is commitment and how does this affect our ability to overcome adversity and accomplish our goals and objectives?
Through this post, my goal is to provide you with the tools needed to commit with purpose and intention to your chosen goals and objectives. In doing so, your potential for success is drastically increased.
Foundation
Commitment is the foundation of a high-performance mindset and is critical for success through any challenge or endeavor.
Think of it this way: the deeper and wider this foundation, the larger the pyramid and the higher the potential peak. We are only as successful as our commitment enables us to be. If we are weak here, it is only a matter of time before we fold to the pressures and hardships of adversity.
Our level of commitment strengthens our resolve and enables us to come out the other end of hardship stronger than we were going in.
SEAL Training
About the mid point of my 22 year career in special operations, I had the unique privilege of being an instructor at BUD/S or the Basic Underwater Demolition/ SEAL school house in Coronado, CA. BUD/S is the initial stage of becoming a US Navy SEAL and arguably the most demanding program in all of the US military with an average attrition rate of roughly 80%.
It is six months of arduous conditioning and hardening of the mind to see who has the commitment and aptitude to become a US Navy SEAL. After this initial stage in the process, successful candidates will then attend an eight-month qualification course to learn more of the advanced skillsets needed to effectively integrate into an operational SEAL Team.
Despite all of the data collected by the US Navy to figure out what enables and even predicts success through BUD/S, the Navy’s top performance psychologists have narrowed it down to one key factor.
The number one trait that a successful candidate possesses is resilience. That’s it! Mental and physical resilience. Not intelligence, athleticism, strength, physical build, sports background, knowledge, etc. All of these attributes can help to varying degrees, however, the predominant predictor of success is resilience, or the ability to persevere through adversity without breaking.
At the end of the day, your level of resilience comes down to your ability to commit and follow through to the completion of your desired end state.
Now, let’s discuss how to commit.
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