The Base Line With Thom Shea

An Uncomfortable Life. It is ok to be comfortable, it is ok to be uncomfortable. The outcome is very different. Learn more I personally question why people seek comfort so happily. What causes people to choose to watch TV for an hour when they could have worked out for at least 30 minutes instead? What makes people desire to sleep past dawn, instead of getting up and reading a book or writing a bo...

  By Thom Shea Author of " U nbreakable: A Navy SEAL's Way of Life ."   Each of us is interested in balance in our lives, either in balancing relationships with work, work with fitness, or all things and spirituality. How do we balance the multiple interests we have when we cannot even excel in the small things we do each day?   Please, let me share with you reflections of 23 years as a Navy SEAL...

Operation Valor is a non-profit whose mission is to support veterans in need.  This year, we are once again going to kick off our celebration weekend with our huge charity benefit dinner and live auction!! Come out and join us Thursday, October 24th at 7:00pm at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, TX. The doors will open at 6:00 for VIP ticket holders to mingle with our speakers, celebrity g...

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I have had the honor to speak at the academy several times during both my SEAL career and as a leadership coach. This weekend was another honor to witness something quite rare: the ring weekend where the seniors are presented with their class ring. Unique in the sense that the ceremony is a celebration not of hey look at my ring but of the tradition of character. Of the long grey line of building...

In each word and section in this book I have been tasked with telling my story so that in case I die in combat my children get a sense of their father. Actually, Stacy pleaded with me for two years to put to words "Who I am and How I am". Therefore, this project is not simply a day to day recount of what I did, but rather a recalling of what I faced and what I learned in order to teach my children...

When Dana Wilde began her direct-sales business, she realized that education for entrepreneurs typically consisted of endless "how-to" explanations: how to market, how to pick up the phone, how to manage your time, how to increase bookings or sales. There always seemed to be a new system to learn, a new surefire method or cutting-edge technique for entrepreneurs to master. Get your free copy In an...

Killing Lazy   I have to admit Lazy is a bad word. Bad in the sense that everyone is incredibly lazy, yet few want to openly admit their first impulse, all the time, is to not get after it.     At first I made the mistake of thinking the bigger issue was work ethic. This nutty work ethic term seemed to overshadow every industry, even in the SEAL teams. From sales to marketing to operations to new...

Why do you wait? Why do you wait for the right time to get healthy? Why do you wait for the right job to commit? Why do you wait for the right woman or man to get involved?   Waiting causes the worse kind of neglect. Waiting is not patience. Waiting is practiced disillusionment. Waiting causes you only to be half way committed. Waiting makes you weak mentally and physically. So why wait?   I can a...

Why fit in, when you can stand out? Follow authentic dialogues of people who embraced what makes them different and excelled. Because in a world of endless possibilities, YOU are what you have. Are you ready? What separates the normal from the different? Chris is a national best selling author and podcast host of Legends and Losers. Follow and subscribe.

Love the Life you Live! Freedom is taken, not given. By living an Intentional Life, we ordinary people can live extraordinary lives. Order now Inside of everyone is more.  More available in life.  Erik has sought more.   In Erik's book "Ordinary to Extraordinary" is the story of seeking more in life through adventures throughout the world. The Mindset of mastering the basics and applying basics wi...

For almost a quarter century Machen MacDonald has dedicated himself to helping business owners, sales professionals, financial advisers, and financial services executives discover their purpose and help them align their focus to achieve dramatic and measurable improvements both in business and in life. Master the Basics His ability to develop systems, based on his clients' mental and emotional fou...

The American Experiment to form a republic of states, not a democracy, where people are free to grow and have a say in Life, Liberty, and pursue happiness as long as the people can earn it.   That was the unique declaration of independence from English rule, which was simple someone else telling you what was right and wrong and their opinion didn't have to be earned or proved effective.   Even the...

Success leaves clues everywhere.  Every successful event or person in history has left a clue for your to pick up if you are brave enough to pick it up. Failure leaves a blood trail and is a paved road with bones and good intentions.  The difference is the clues if you pick them up, even if they are small, will lead you to the end and success.  The easy blood trail will cut you up and spit you out...

Five traits of father hood   Signup for the 13 lessons of fatherhood Commitment to your wife. love her show affection listen and speak don't let her get off track   Protect your house and family your job is to make a home for your family not for you show them how to be strong and not be bullied. Never allow anyone even your family to destroy the home and family you have built Show them that you an...

No way out and no back-up plans in raising warrior children and warrior adults. There is nothing new under the sun. Really, all the human issues we are experiencing today are still the same foundational issues we have faced since the first humans. Albeit, technology has been introduced our father's and mother's of 1,000,000 years ago could not even fathom as possible, the human condition remains t...

Navy SEAL Hell Week has never been described so effectively. Success has never seemed so difficult. Six days in Hell define every SEAL that moves past their mind's point-of-no-return. This real life story is about the men of BUD/S Class 81. Robert Adams, MD brings the experiences of his class into view with real, bone chilling, difficult to believe, experiences.  This is described, in frightening...

Every generation will see war. Every mom and dad since 1776 wonders if their child will go to war or be killed by an enemy. History doesn't lie nor do smart people forget this fact. Maybe the idea of memorial day is the remember. We tend to only look at the grave and recall the dead. And I agree we must never forget the sacrifices of our brothers and sisters. Yet there is a deeper forgetting that...

Over the past 30 years I have seen people do some extra-ordinary things. And I am not drawn to ordinary and average because average seems to drain the life and happiness and future out of people I see striving for it. So as a young man growing up I sought out the extra, the hard road, and the "that cannot be done" achievers. And that remains the biggest attraction to this day. I highly recommend p...

Resilience is a very misunderstood aspect lately and is truly misrepresented in leadership. The going trend is to look at resilience after the breaking down of either combat soldiers and sailors or businesses which have fallen to constant strain. Odd that we look at the ones who didn't weather the storm instead of the ones who do. Hey listen, success leaves tracks leading toward success. Losing le...

Based on an incredible true story, a highly decorated Marine fights the hardest battle of his life, thirty-eight years after he returns from the Vietnam War. As doctors rush to save his life, his unbelievable journey in the abyss of Vietnam unfolds, giving you a front row seat to the intense action, courage, sacrifice, and survival he and other Marines endured. You will experience the ferocity and...

Leaving your Comfort Zone has been a life-changing, transformational book in the lives of many US women as well as international clients. Though written for professional women, men have enjoyed reading and share being powerfully impacted by the  6 Power Zone Principles ™  included. Also, this has become a powerful tool for Rene' Johnson's clients with several businesses investing in the entire tea...

  Some how, some where the reality of high performance; the shock of achievement; and the "wait what" of success completely got off track. Everyone seems to not realize that being successful is hard, you have to get dirty rather often, and the process is completely exhausting.   Whether you are an athlete trying to get better, or a student trying to learn a subject, or boss trying to scale or grow...

By the way, the odds are never in your favor. The odds of success are always tipped away from your idea working out. In any athletic endeavor there are and will always be chances of loss. And you see that year end and year out that even in a pro football game a team can be down 3 touchdowns and everyone is betting on the team losing and they pull it out. There is no way they could have and they do...

Each of us has inside an indomitable spirit. This spirit has the capacity to endure tough times. This spirit has the ability to build us up from the ashes of failure. This spirit will love so deeply it will amaze you. This spirit however does not live on the surface of our lives. It must be acquired through diving into rough times and only surfaces right before you drown. That is the way of it. Th...