A sheepdog without skills is unprepared.

Attributes answer the question, who am I?

Skills answer the question, what can I do with what I have?

Before you say a single word, your physical presence is already communicating,

and that communication is often more powerful than anything you'll ever say.

But I'm not afraid to fight all three of you right now, and I will win.

Silence in a tense moment can radiate authority in a way that words often can.

Think about the last time you walked into a room, and it immediately changed when someone

else walked in.

Maybe it was a leader that you admired or someone who scared you a bit.

Could be a person so visibly

calm and grounded that the room just kind of settled temperature dropped a degree or two in the

best possible way people stood up a little straighter side conversation stopped something had shifted

nobody announced it the person didn't actually do anything. They just showed up.

That's what we're going to talk about today. What I want you understand though, before we go

a step further, that quality, whatever it is that that person has, it's not a gift. It's not

charisma that you either have or you don't. And it's not the exclusive property of just

certain personalities or certain titles. It's a trainable skill. And by the end of this episode

on becoming sheepdog strong, you're going to know exactly how to build it. So welcome to

part two of the sheep dog strong series, moving from who you are to what you can do with it.

Welcome back to the Mark Devine show.

I am Mark Devine, retired Navy SEAL Commander, founder of Seal Fit and Unbelled Mine, author of books such as The Way of the Seal, Unbelled Mind, Staring on the Wolf, Uncommon, and Eight Weeks to Seal Fitt.

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