You see, dedication is the sustained commitment to a cause greater than yourself.

When dedication is real, there are things you will not do, places you will not go and compromise you will not make

because they would violate that commitment.

Most of us believe that we are more dedicated than we actually are.

Do my habits, my time, and my energy actually reflect that loyalty? The unskippable rep creates a

daily evidence that you are who you say you are. The question is what will it look like in your life?

I'd like to ask you something before we get started today. And I want you to sit with it rather than

answer it immediately.

Here it is. Who's counting on you to still be there in 10 years? Now who needs you right now

in the urgency of today or the crisis of this week? I mean the longer arc. The people, the mission,

the work that require you to still be showing up, still be reliable,

still be the person you said you'd be years from now when the initial excitement of the commitment

is long gone and it's just Tuesday again. That's what today's episode is about. Not the

sprint, the oath. Welcome back to the Mark Devine show.

I am Mark Devine, former Navy SEAL commander, founder of Seal Fit and Unbeatable

Mind, author of The Way of the Seal, Unbeatable Mind, staring down the wolf, uncommon, eight

weeks to seal fit, and your host for this sheepdog strong series of solo podcast episodes on the Mark to Mind

Show. I've been building the inner architecture of what I call the sheepdog over these past

episodes. Ethos, which is the code you live by, courage, the trained choice to act through

fear in spite of it. Persistence, which is staying in the fight through

the long ride and determination, driving through obstacles with eyes locked on the target.

If you haven't listened to those episodes, I recommend you go back and check them out.

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