There's a lot of messages out there now that talk about just being hard all the time.

And let me tell you from a practical perspective, being hard all the time is not sustainable. I subscribe to a saying, it's

be hard when it gets hard. So you need to have a place inside of you that you can go to when life

gets tough. You go to that place and you get the job done but when the job's done

you've got to be able to relax you got to be able to love your your wife and your children and not only

love your wife and your children but love the other people around you that aren't your families.

What credit do we deserve if we only love those who love us?

It's essential that we show those emotions, and love to the three of seven podcast. This is Chad.

Some of you guys may have heard this clip when i posted it on my

instagram page a few weeks ago i just wanted to break it down a little bit and talk about that

concept or that mantra be hard when it gets hard this was kind of realized or born for me in the crucible of seal training.

I'd see individuals around me, and most of the time they were the top performers,

the former collegian athletes or former professional athletes that we had in the class there that had set this super

high standard for themselves to just be hard or be the best or be number one

every single day at every evolution.

And throughout, you know, first phase,

especially, I would watch these individuals. They had set this standard for themselves that was not sustainable. So just by nature of seal training it's six months long you're going to have

bad days you're going to have days where you're not going to be the best even though you may

be in the top physical condition of everyone in the class, maybe you didn't sleep good that night

before. Maybe you, you know, you're dealing with a cold or some type of sickness. Maybe you're

dealing with an injury. And I would watch these guys when they would come out and they'd have a bad

day and they wouldn't finish first or, you know, they wouldn't be able to take that leadership role or just that role, that level that they had set for themselves.

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