Unleash the Warrior Within: Develop the Focus, Discipline, Confidence, and Courage You Need to Achieve Unlimited Goals - Softcover

Richard Mack Machowicz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738212482 ISBN 13: 9780738212487

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2008

Synopsis

A ten-year navy seal veteran, Richard Mack” Machowicz was trained to complete every mission assigned to him, under any condition, because failure was not an option. Drawing from this experience, Unleash the Warrior Within (more than 25,000 copies since 2002, largely through word-of-mouth) offers Mack's original program for mastering the arts of focus, discipline, and determination under any circumstances. In this newly revised edition, Mack shows readers how to use his seven principles of combat such as Create an Action Mind-Set, The Critical Keys to Conquering Anything, and Guarantee the Win in order to conquer fear and turn ambitions and dreams into reality.

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Review:

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

About the Author:

Richard Mack” Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL, is the host of the Discovery Channel's hit show FutureWeapons, now filming its fourth season. He lives in Southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0738212482
• ISBN 13: 9780738212487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216