Warrior Mind Podcast

Just a few days ago on July 4th I visited NASA at the Kennedy Space Center to check out the new exhibit “Atlantis”, which was the last space shuttle to go into space. What happened was completely unexpected! I was so inspired by the greatness of our nation, our scientists and the astronauts that risked everything to explore and learn more about space and earth. The most moving event for me was listening to President John F. Kennedy giving a speech at Rice University.  Here is the part that got to me: “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. “ - President John F. Kennedy In addition a phenomenon known as the Overview Effect became very clear. The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts and cosmonauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from orbit or from the lunar surface. It refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this "pale blue dot" becomes both obvious and imperative. Third-hand observers of these individuals may also report a noticeable difference in attitude. Astronauts Rusty Schweikart, Edgar Mitchell, Tom Jones, Chris Hadfield[6] and Mike Massimino are all reported to have experienced the effect. The term and concept were coined in 1987 by Frank White, who explored them in his book The Overview Effect — Space Exploration and Human Evolution (Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), (AIAA, 1998). Check out this video about the Overview Effect: https://vimeo.com/55073825 You can find out more about the effect in the movie CONTINUUM: http://www.continuumthemovie.com/ Now, enjoy the podcast below:

This is a special edition of the Warrior Mind Podcast.  I had the privilege and honor to recently interview Dr. Shrand about his recent book “Outsmarting Anger.” Dr. Joseph Shrand is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, an Assistant Child Psychiatrist on the medical staff of Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Medical Director of CASTLE (Clean and Sober Teens Living Empowered), a brand new intervention unit for at-risk teens which is part of the highly respected High Point Treatment Center in Brockton, MA. Dr. Shrand has served as Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent outpatient program at McLean Hospital, has run several inpatient psychiatric units, and is currently also the Medical Director of the Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Unit for High Point Treatment Centers in Plymouth. He is also the Medical Director of Road to Responsibility, a community based program that tends to adults with significant developmental disability. Dr. Shrand routinely gives lectures on Theory of Mind and it’s application to re-conceptualize the behaviors of patients. He gave a similar lecture at the 2008 Annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Chicago to broad acclaim. Among colleagues and staff, he is affectionately called “Doctor Joe,” as he was “Joe” in the original children’s cast of the PBS series ZOOM. You can find more about Dr. Shrand by visiting his website at: http://www.drshrand.com Now…enjoy the interview below: Ask Dr. Shrand says, “Keep it frontal; don’t go limbic” In addition to “Outsmarting Anger” I also suggest picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” today.  Both these books will help you understand your thoughts and emotions so that you can take back control and live a powerful and fulfilling life.

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #100: Preparation and Personal Success. The purpose of this podcast is to help you understand the importance preparation plays in reaching your personal goals and achieving personal success. Preparation is one of the most important elements to success. Preparation also has the internal benefit of reduced stress. Countless people worldwide wish that they were successful, or, at the very least, able to do something they like to do. You may have heard the phrase “do what you love to do and you’ll never work a day in your life”. Well, you can, but not without preparation. Enjoy the podcast below: Preparation for success may also mean that you will eventually encounter stress – that is stress associated with too many demands on your physical or overall well-being. This level of success means that you will need to be prepared to step back, step away, or reduce your involvement. At this level of success, you may end up re-defining your next steps that will serve to bring you happiness and joy. This could entail everything from retirement, to the selfless act of volunteering your knowledge to help others less fortunate. There is no better feeling than being able to help others overcome what you have with the benefit of knowledge, and experience. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” – Confucius To help develop your mental strength to pay the price for success picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” today! This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power.  You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #99: Human Potential and Personal Success. The purpose to help you realize and recognize your limitless potential. Human Potential is a concept of cultivating extraordinary potential that largely remain untapped in all people. Through the development of “human potential”, individuals can experience an exceptional quality of life filled with happiness, creativity, and fulfillment. Those who begin to unleash this assumed potential often find themselves directing their actions within society towards assisting others to release their potential. The net effect of individuals cultivating their potential will bring about positive social change at large. Enjoy the podcast below: Whatever you are capable of doing, whoever you think you are…you are SO much more than that….you just need to believe! “Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, “I am of no value”, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought – so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.” -  Dalai Lama To help develop your mental strength to pay the price for success picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” today! This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power.  You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #98: The Price For Personal Success. The purpose to help you understand that you will have to pay a price to reach your personal goals and achieve your personal success. There is no way around this and only you can determine if your vision for your life is worth the price. “Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.” –Harry Browne In order to receive the rich rewards of personal success there is a price to be paid. Many seek success, but few have the mental strength and courage necessary to achieve it. Are you one who will pay, or are you someone who wants a free ride? If you are willing to pay the price required to achieve personal success the rewards are richer than you can have ever imagined. It’s actually not what you achieve, but what you become along the way and who you help along the way that makes it so rich and rewarding. Enjoy the podcast below: According to author Seth Godin in his book “The Dip”, what really sets superstars apart from everyone else is the ability to escape dead ends quickly, while staying focused and motivated when it really counts. Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip for the right reasons. In fact, winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. Losers, on the other hand, fall into two basic traps. Either they fail to stick out the Dip—they get to the moment of truth and then give up—or they never even find the right Dip to conquer. To help develop your mental strength to pay the price for success picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” today! This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power.  You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #97: Praising and Personal Success. The purpose to help you understand how praise has and impact on people’s lives and how giving honest and sincere praise is one of the best gifts you can give someone. One of the keys to personal success is to have successful relationships. We are not islands and we don’t get to the top by ourselves. And one of the key ways to grow successful in our relationships is to be “life-giving” people to others. Every person we meet, we either give life to or take life from. You know what I mean. There are people who encourage you and when you are done being with them you feel built up. Then there are others who you feel torn down by. Successful people are people who have mastered the art of building others up. Enjoy the podcast below: People who feel appreciated and respected are more motivated than those who think their efforts go unnoticed. They’re more engaged in the work they do, and they’re more committed to their teams and organizations, because they know that they’re making a real difference. “A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.” – Alec Waugh To help develop your mental strength power of praising by picking up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior” today! This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power.  You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #96: Progress and Personal Success. The purpose to this Warrior Mind Podcast is to make sure you understand the difference between average thinking and mental strength thinking about making consistent personal progress and its impact on your personal success. The averages person’s fear of personal progress is rooted in the belief that they won’t be able to successfully adapt to the new environment that the progress brings. Since the average persons’ thinking in rooted in fear, they simply attach this same fear to any kind of change or progress, whether it’s personally or professionally. Enjoy the podcast below: Individuals who push for personal progress automatically transcend the fear of change. This adds another link in their mental strength chain, which they use everyday. “There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” Ronald Reagan To help develop your personal progress today by pick up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior”. This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power.  You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!

This Warrior Mind Podcast is based on Mental Strength Tip #95 – Personal Power and Success. The purpose to this Warrior Mind Podcast is to help you start thinking about how enhancing your personal power will help you achieve your personal goals and personal success. Personal power begins with empowering values, beliefs and philosophies.  Where personal power becomes manifest is when you become your values, beliefs and philosophies. It’s one thing to say you have personal power and it’s a completely different when you live it. Enjoy the podcast below: A person with power has the ability to move rapidly from one vision to the next by engaging the help and support of other powerful, successful, connected people. Use your personal power for good…don’t go to the dark side.  Possessing personal power can be intoxicating and crate a grandiose false image of yourself. Wield your personal power with care, love and compassion while you’re reaping the rewards of your actions and be sure to use to help someone else less fortunate. To help develop your personal power today by pick up a copy of “Develop the Mental Strength of a Warrior”. This is a fantastic e-book that helps you with your personal development, self-improvement and personal power.  You’ll learn to take back control of your thoughts, develop success awareness and helps you tap into the powers of your unconsciousness mind to create the mental strength to succeed at anything!