Unleash the Warrior Within: Develop the Focus, Discipline, Confidence, and Courage You Need to Achieve Unlimited Goals - Richard "Mack" Machowicz [pdf]

Richard Machowicz knows first hand that life can be a lot like war. A ten-year veteran of the Navy SEALs, he was trained to complete whatever mission was handed to him, under any condition, because failure was not an option. Now, in Unleash the Warrior Within, Machowicz takes the winning attitude and mental skills he mastered in service and shows readers how to use combat mentality to reach their goals in everyday life. Using his seven principles of combat — which include Create an Action Mind-Set, The Critical Keys to Conquering Anything, and Guarantee the Win — Machowicz shows readers how to master the arts of focus, discipline, and determination under any circumstances, giving them the tools they need to conquer fear and turn their ambitions and dreams into reality.

From the preface:
On one level, we believe we’re capable of great things. We see ourselves as heroic figures. But at the first sign of stress, fatigue, and fear that diminishing voice creeps in. Our mind begins to work against us. That tiny voice grows in intensity and volume. We hesitate. We begin to doubt our abilities. Now that internal voice is so loud that we can barely make any sense of it. We second-guess ourselves. We believe there is an inherent scarcity with regards to what might be possible. It is in that moment that the inner war is raging.

The internal conversation suggests that somehow there is something intrinsically wrong with us and that we’re just not enough. Struggling against this voice feels, in a relative sense, like we’re going through an epic battle every time we face a challenge that may seem too great for us to overcome.

This is the critical moment that you must Unleash the Warrior Within. Why? Because, in a relative sense, conflict is combat, and no one is more prepared to handle that dynamic than the warrior.