jaco i have a question after reading your book which i thought was one of the best books i’ve read since your last book nice i’m curious what what you did during your seal team days to maintain your your schedule as i would imagine in the teams your schedule changes at any minute to include you being deployed or active during your various missions at night so as in life how do you keep your balance of your schedule when duty calls in your book you say keep your schedule but how did you work through this when you would be on a mission that didn’t allow you to sleep at night did you still did you still the following day upon return maintain your normal schedule appreciate your time and response great yeah obviously the teams the your schedule and the teams can vary a lot and you have to adopt to what makes sense and sometimes in the teams you’re working 18 20 hour days sometimes out in the field you’re going to the field for two three four five days at a time uh sometimes you’re working for 24 hours a day or you work for 36 hours straight because you do planning in the blah blah so that can be a problem sometimes you’re doing dives you’re doing two dives a day and that takes a bunch of time and it takes a toll on you it’s hard work i guess you could say um sometimes we’re running around all day or all night running around the desert running around the urban training facility and so the schedule’s changing all the time and it’s the same thing with business the same thing with business right now i travel and the flight leaves early the flight leaves later the work all day or the dinner with the clients or the interview or the writing or the the recording of the podcast or the changing time zones and things just change and so what i do is yes i try and i try and keep the schedule as much as i can and if i fall off the schedule for whatever reason i get back on it as quickly as possible and i i think so so yes you do the best you can i think the main thing you have to watch out for is letting letting a change in schedule or a problem in your schedule be an excuse to fall off the path right that’s what you have to watch out for um you know we think oh i’m in a new time zone or i’ve got jet lag or i didn’t sleep well or i need rest from traveling or i did this the other night and so i’m going to sleep until 9 30 tomorrow morning and just call it good yeah that’s what you have to watch out for now sometimes do you need to work till 9th do you sleep until 9 30 yeah sometimes you do sometimes you stay up for 36 hours you go to bed at three o’clock in the morning guess what you might need to sleep until 9 30 that’s cool good do it get some sleep um but just be careful of using it as an excuse to go way off the path and just get yourself back on the path as soon as possible yeah make sense yes sir yeah that’s all me right there like one little thing on my schedule throws off ah this whole day is gone i’ll do it tomorrow he’s gotta be careful not
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