PUSH (it)
How many times have you heard the word ‘PUSH’ in your military career? Push yourself… push the standards… Push up…push the limits… keep on pushing… C’mon Soldier, push it. HARDER! Ahhhh, push it… wait, that’s not military… (Pu-pu-pu push it REAALLL good)… How many times have you heard the word since you’ve transitioned? In the military, you are given the opportunity time and time again to push yourself. You are challenged daily to push yourself… Not just simply to meet the st
Veteran Personal Branding - Who Am I?
In the military, everything is about team… ‘we’… ‘us’… ‘battle buddy’… ‘buddy system’… In the civilian world, we are suddenly supposed to start recognizing terms such as…. ‘I’… ‘me’… ‘myself’… We are suddenly expected to go by our first names… those names that have become foreign to us and have often been replaced by our last name… or our rank… or the nickname we gained by doing something really awesome and memorable… or something really dumb. It can all feel so foreign. And
Persistence - Lessons from my 4-yr-old
I think we could all take a lesson from my four-year-old. Recently, everywhere we go, my four-year-old little man, Ethan looks for money. He literally gets on his hands and knees in stores… looking under displays… looking in all of those places that nobody has swept up in months probably…. And his hard work ALWAYS pays off. It never fails – every single time we have left our house in the last several weeks, Ethan returns home with at least one penny, or several, to happily pu
