 But you start becoming comfortable in that you can have those conversations, not all this emotion attached to it, right? Those people who run their mouth and are very quick to get triggered or very quick to have these big blowouts, a lot of that's coming out of insecurity. Someone who's confident doesn't get easily triggered, right? The more confident you become, the more time you spend in that environment, the less likely you are to have to feel the need to prove yourself. Because you just know that you have the capability there, right? So in this, you build your own confidence, your own self-worth, and it puts you in a position of stability, right? People look to leaders for stability. People don't look to leaders that are freaking out and are constantly in this damage control freak out emotional response. Every time something doesn't go their way, right? People want to follow stable, consistent leaders. One aspect of it, just because we're talking about the physical side, is we have to have people who are calm and collected under stress. The only way you do that is by putting yourself in stressful situations and learning how to mitigate that and becoming comfortable in that environment and becoming productive in that environment and not having emotional responses, right? I talk about it that we want to be warriors, not warriors, right? We want to be proactive, not reactive, okay? Now, as far as the spiritual side and the psychological side, on again, these are two different ways that can be very similar in nature. The main thing with the spiritual side is this is coming from internal. The psychological side can very easily be internal also, but a lot of times that might be someone else trying to manipulate you and attack you in that kind of way. So let's talk about a hybrid of these, right? So in the SEAL training, one of the things that they do is they put you in cold water for really long amounts of time, right? And they put you in there so you get hypothermia. And once you get hypothermia, they pull you out, they put a space blanket on, and you get your temperature back up to where your organs aren't gonna shut down. And what do they do? They throw you back in the cold water. A lot of the people who you talk to say, yeah, man, I want to be a SEAL. I want to do that, but cold water stuff's just not for me. And I watched a lot of people leave and quit because of the cold water. And I always found this to be a very interesting thing because of all the different challenges they had us do, carry logs, run with the boats in our head, I remember this one time, this really sucked, right? We got in trouble and they had us jump in the ocean, right? They had us take our wetsuits off, we're getting ready to do a swim. We got in trouble, they had us take our wetsuits off. We jumped in the ocean, they had us come out wet, roll around in the sand, like a shake and bake, sugar cookie, right? Put our wetsuits back on, covered in sand, and then they took us for like a seven mile run. And everyone was just completely chafed. Like that was very, very painful, right? But the cold water, all you have to do is just sit there. Neck deep, and just sit there, and just enjoy being miserable. That's it. And most people quit, they can't just sit there and freeze. Just think about that. The only thing that you have going on is the battle in your mind at that point. It's very, very low physically exertion, you know? Like you just sit there and just be miserable. And that comes into that, the warrior mentality of the battle is against my mind, right? I recommend for people who are trying to train to go into the military or they have things going on in their life, and they have certain issues and they're looking to the wrong things to find that emotional release or guidance or whatever. And I'll tell people all the time, hey dude, you should go for a run. And they're like, I hate running. I'm like, yeah, that's why you should go for a run. You know what I mean? And they're like, well, sometimes when I go for a run, I like to blast my music and get hyped up. I'm like, great point. Don't bring your headphones. Leave your phone in your headphones. And they're like, but I need that music. I'm like, that's why I'm saying, leave your phone in your headphones. Leave it. Go run, listen to your breath and listen to all the stuff that's rattling in your mind. Take it under consideration. What are the thoughts that are coming into your mind? Why are you thinking those? We need that time to reflect in our thoughts. We need that time to build ourselves, okay? Running is hard, but the most hard part about running is the mental aspect of going, this is stupid. I just want to stop. I feel uncomfortable. My lungs hurt. My heart's pounding, right? You're saying all this stuff. My feet hurt. My shins hurt. This is stupid. I'm not going to run from people, right? I remember talking with the guys and their attitude. Going through the seal training was like, I'm going to fight guys. I'm never going to run away. And I'm like, my attitude was, I'm not running from anyone. I'm chasing people. I'm chasing motherfuckers down. You're talking about running away. You see this as running away. I see this as chasing someone down. I'm running in the group and I see the dude in front of me and I'm like, I watch his back and I'm like, I'm coming for you, right? And I run and run and then I get to him and I'm like, got you. And I look at the next dude. It's a different mentality. I'm fighting my way through the run. That is a battle, no different than the battle if I'm on the mat with another man. But that battle is with my mind, right? Because everything in my mind is telling me, hey, dude, this is stupid. We should just stop, okay? It's very important for us to have these because what happens when I don't stop, I then build my own self-worth. So the other day, everybody, Mike's here in the front. He works with us. The other day, we've been running unlike, this isn't for a pity party, but we've been running on like three to four hours of sleep on average for like the last month and a half straight because our work schedule has been so crazy, right? And the other day, it was, I said to Mike, I really didn't feel like going for a run. So this is what I did. I said to Mike, I was like, hey, dude, yeah, man, I'm gonna get up early tomorrow like 5.30 before the clients get here, I'm gonna go for a run. He's like, yeah? I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do that, right? And not that this is a big deal, but this is one of the things I'm saying for you guys, just as something to help you, something you can do. By me saying that, right, to Mike, now what happens is I've now made an obligation for myself, but I've verbalized that obligation. I said it to myself, I'm gonna do this, but if I don't do it, right, no one knows. And I can just lie to everyone, right? I wake up in the morning and I see the clients come in, the clients don't know that I had said to myself, I'm gonna go run in the morning, right? But now what I do is I verbalize it to Mike and go, hey, dude, I'm gonna run tomorrow. And he's like, yeah? And I'm like, fuck, why'd I tell him like that? You know, that's what I'm thinking in my head like, damn it, you know? But I did it on purpose. So what happens is in that morning, if I don't run, Mike's gonna go, hey, dude, you run this morning? Oh, dude, I just hit snooze, I was so tired from the other day, right? Would he judge me on it? I don't know. But what happens is Mike's gonna go, well, Rich said he was gonna do it and he didn't. Did I earn respect or lose respect? Even if it's just a little bit. I lost respect, right? So in this, if I know that Mike lost respect for me, did I gain respect for myself or lose respect for myself? Right? I lost respect. It's important for us to put ourselves in these situations to hold ourselves accountable in this mental fight that we have going on every day. If I say something, I need to follow through and do it. Right? I voice it out and make it public knowledge now that it holds me accountable to do it and when I hold myself accountable, I build my own self-worth.