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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 153
EAN num: 9781569244975
ISBN number: 1569244979
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: 2002-12
Publishing house: Da Capo Press
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War is hell, but if you prepare properly for war, there's not much about life that will take you by surprise. At least, that's the premise of Unleashing the Warrior Within, in which author Richard Machowicz takes the lessons he learned as a Navy SEAL and applies them to real-life situations.
For example, in war you learn that there are three dynamic elements of combat: target, weapons, and movement. The target dictates the weapons, and the weapons dictate movement. In real life, your target is what you want; your weapons are your skills; and movement is whatever you need to get in position to use your skills.
But, since deciding upon a target is the step that's most troubling to people, he adds another wartime analytical tool called the CARVER matrix. You lay out various targets you may have in life--a better job; getting in shape; buying a new house; and taking on a new business partner, say. Then you assess the criticality, accessibility, recognizability, and vulnerability of the target, plus its effect on your overall mission in life, and the potential return on your effort.
Machowicz calls his philosophy Bukido, and when you take his classes in Los Angeles, you learn self-defense along with these life-improvement skills. In this book, the object is to get you to choose a mission that is closest and most important to you, and then achieve your goals with military precision. By the time you're through learning the seven principles of combat, what you've really learned is how to think critically and focus your efforts. Machowicz uses his students as examples of how the enemy in life is really a lack of action, allowing life to take you along for a ride. So if your current target is a solid self-improvement course, Unleashing the Warrior Within could be your most effective weapon. --Lou Schuler
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Richard Machowicz knows very 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. A new preface is included in this paperback edition of this inspiring guide. 'Machowicz gives you the tools necessary to ensure that you win in the battle of life.'—Jim Rome, host of the nationally syndicated radio show, The Jungle, and FOX television's The Last Word
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I found this the best selfhelp book I have ever read. This one works! Right from the beginning you are given easy to use methods and tools that start taking you forward immediately. Great entertaining stories woven throught this book keeps the whole process moving. There are many new ideas that I needed to reread and pratice, but it did not seem like work at all. I am over 50 yrs. old and wish I would have been able to read this in my twenties, so I bought it for my son. He is glad I did. I give this book five stars.
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I can appreciate the work Mr. Machowicz has done in abstracting his experience and knowledge into something that can be used by anyone to accomplish their goals. His basis of thought comes from one of the most universally understood concepts in society, that of war and in general, conflict and politics. It's no mistake that Sun Tzu is a primary reference in this book, as war has often been the primary analogy for any conflict resolution.
However, despite the labeling of his precepts being very much adapted from his military background, the theory is sound and unencumbered by unrelated anecdotes or detours into tangential subject matter. "Figure out what you want, plan an attack, execute your plan... and here's how".
It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that, and why should it be? The simpler it is, the easier it will be to get right, and adapt to your circumstances. He emphasizes being honest with yourself at all times, and taking a longer view of the road ahead. There are no promises of easy success, only a single promise of improvement if you can muster the discipline necessary to execute even the smallest of changes. From one step...
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Give fear the BOOT! If you pick up and read "Unleash The Warrior Within", we'd hope you would want to tap into learning how to focus, function capably through fear and hit a target, (and not just the physical targets, mind you) but all the others that come up in life as well. That is precisely what the book promises and accomplishes. Machowicz will show you in a very straight forward and result-oriented way how to achieve RESULTS. Tangible, real, completely proof-worthy results. Not a book for wimps, as really looking at what you need to do and how to do it and even why it hasn't gotten accomplished BEFORE requires looking at yourself very honestly...and that is extremely difficult for most people...Luckily Machowicz easily manages to be clear and compassionate for the struggles we all have around fear...this book will give you USABLE tools. (Also, he tells great stories, and some of them are very funny!) The book was so awesome both my husband and I completed training seminars with this intelligent, gifted man. Not dead, can't quit!
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There was some good information in the book but mostly things that common sense would cover and what most of us do that he re-defined and put in a differnt context. A lot of it has to do with autosuggestion and a kind of self-hypnosis for accomplishing our goals and he uses a method for sucess using a technique he refers to as "Target, Movement, Weapons". There were a couple of good tibits of information about facing and controlling fear which was what I was looking for and which is what the SEAL(s) have to do as part of their training and job. A little too much ego came though in the book which takes away from the message which is why I only gave it 3 stars.
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On the surface this book may appear to be either similar to many of the other ex-military books describing the life of a member of the special forces or a self-help type book geared towards males. It actually falls somewhere in between. Unlike other books about Navy Seals that tell you what it took physically, this tells you what it took mentally and psychologically to persevere through BUD/S training. The anecdotes about Machowicz's life in the Seals is the backdrop to a mental discipline he describes in straight forward language. The book describes many mental techniques to keep you moving forward towards what you really want to do, as well as finding out what is holding you back. One of the more useful concepts in the book was a simple exercise that shows you where you should really be spending your time and effort. Like Sun Szu's Art of War being applied to the corporate world, this ex-Navy Seal's experience can be applied to your daily life. While many psychological based books tell you how you should run your life, this one simply provides you with psychological tools and leaves the rest to you. Anyone feeling like they are in a rut or find their goals just out of reach should read this book.
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