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Elite producers live like warriors

By Marc Beauchamp My Marine Corps experience and involvement in Wake
Bankcard Life up Warrior keeps this concept fresh in my daily life. Each
day, I strive to embrace the idea of being a warrior, not on
've been sharing with you over these last few the battlefield, but in my life and for my family. I fight for
months what I feel are 10 distinctions that separate them every day. It is what drives me, and I bet it's what
average producers from exceptional producers. drives you.
I Being a former Marine, I love the idea of living
my life as a warrior. This means living a life that fosters Rest assured, when you hit the door in the morning, you're
love and compassion, delivers value to others, and is not going out in the marketplace to do battle, but the enemy
consumed by the need for constant comfort or finding the is not the competition. It's you. The most difficult battle
easier path. This brings to mind the Roman proverb: It's to fight is the one that centers in your mind. Adopting a
better to live one day as a lion than a thousand as a lamb. warrior mindset will help you overcome this challenge.
This is the mindset that builds the resilience you need to
Every great civilization has fostered a warrior way of handle any situation you encounter.
life and warrior legends. The Old Testament recounts Mindset shift
the stories of a warrior people and a warrior God. In the
ancient Mediterranean, the Spartans probably had the I remember when I first got off the bus for Marine Corps
most legendary warrior tradition. From birth, Spartan boot camp. The last thing on my mind was that I wanted
society cultivated and trained their boys to become to be a warrior. I was just looking to survive the first
warriors, and that arduous training created men like few days. But as time went on, they stripped me down
Leonidas and his 300 soldiers that fought to the death. physically, mentally and emotionally—and rebuilt my
Japan had their courageous samurai warriors whose mindset. My belief in what was possible for myself and
undaunted bravery came from living life as if they were my fellow Marines was transformed: we had become
already dead. brothers.
Everyday warriors
Extraordinary achievers embrace the fact that they are
Today the warrior prototype is personified by those who living the life of a warrior. They embrace the warrior
serve in the military and is respected by people in all energy that comes with the declaration: I am a warrior!
walks of life. The warrior prototype is also depicted in a Fighting itself is not bad; the question is simply: What are
positive light by media and in popular culture. General you fighting for? The warrior's energy is needed not only
Maximus from Gladiator, William Wallace from Braveheart in times of war, but also on all the battlefields of life.
and King Leonidas from 300, all exemplify the classic
warrior ideal. So, when I see elite performers, they exemplify the
characteristics of warriors.

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