advice on restarting your life after the military i think you just got to figure out what you want to do yeah you got to figure out what you want i have a new mantra that i tell people now it’s it’s uh find your next mission and that’s what you got to do and got i got really lucky because we got right into this and and you you the same thing like we we went right into a new mission and so any time to kind of wander around and look around and figure out which direction to go and by the way when you’re wandering around and looking around to find out which direction to go you’re going to get pulled in a direction and that direction is probably going to be the path of least resistance it’s not going to be a good path we certainly know it’s not going to be the path so when you come out when you get out of the military man have a mission figure out what your next mission is going to be but i i would disagree with you there in that it wasn’t that we got lucky right in that and that if you think about what we’re doing now this is what we like to do and this is what we we uh we brought lessons back from mahdi that we uh we translated and gave to the next generation of seals and saw the impact that was happening i mean when you when you came back from my you could have had any job that you wanted to and you said i want to go run training detachment because i want to make sure that the the the next uh seals that are coming through this training and going forward to places like iraq afghanistan are ready uh you chose to do that and and i was running a training program that that’s i would i didn’t want to be anywhere else in that it was awesome and i recognized how powerful that was and the kind of reward it brought to me to see these young officers go out there that i put through training and succeed on incredibly difficult dangerous battlefields in different areas that that i’d been to so you know we we took that and recognized like this is something that that that is useful it has impact and and that we can do for others so i i think that’s it was absolutely not the path of least resistance and i got you know we had job offer offers that people thought people thought i was completely crazy a buddy of mine was like come work for me we’ll pay you know this huge salary that was you know triple what my navy salary was and i said i’m not going to do that i’m going to start my own business i mean he looked at me like i was nuts yeah we were talking about yesterday because we weren’t making a lot of money at the beginning of echelon front now where are we yeah we we we had to put it together we were writing checks and paying for things and traveling on our own dime to to go and talk to companies and for free and i think that’s and that’s really it is is finding your mission like this is what i can do uh and this is this is what i like to do and and i’m gonna figure out a way to do something that is useful it impacts people and i think that’s that’s really key is finding that next mission for sure
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