The Intuitive Warrior has been released early by Amazon & Barnes and Noble so if you pre-ordered a copy from them you should be getting it soon. We should be seeing it in bookstores in less than two weeks!

Flash Update: The Intuitive Warrior is now available at select Barnes & Noble book stores. If you go to their online site and pull up The Intuitive Warrior you will see a caption that says: Pick Me Up! along with a box for inserting your zip code. Plug in your zip and it will pull up stores in your area that have the book available. Click on the store nearest you and they will have it available within 60 minutes behind the checkout counter for you. If they don’t have it they can order a copy and have it there in a few days.

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Eight Ways to Awaken Your Intuition & Make it Work for You!

Begin to type in The Intuitive Warrior in the search box on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million or any number of online book sellers and you will have a long list of books show up with the word Intuitive in the title. Books like: The Intuitive Way, The Intuitive Mind, The Intuitive Trader, The Intuitive Edge, The Intuitive Advisor are all popular books. As we move deeper into the rapidly dominating information age and out of the old industrial age we will see a growing emphasis on the creative ability of the intuitive side of the brain.

Intuition is defined as the apparent ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. “The word ‘intuition’ comes from the Latin word ‘intueri’, which is often roughly translated as meaning ‘to look inside’ or ‘to contemplate’.” Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in psychology, as well as a topic of interest in the supernatural. The “right brain” is popularly associated with intuitive processes such as aesthetic abilities. Some scientists have contended that intuition is associated with innovation in scientific discovery. Intuition is also a common subject of New Age writings.

The number one – way to awaken your intuition is to be open to the possibility that you can be intuitive. Whether you are a business professional, in the military, law enforcement, firefighter, student, homemaker or casual observer you will be rewarded with a higher level of performance if you begin to open yourself to the possibility of an intuitive mind. If you are not open minded to intuition then there is nothing anyone can say or do to help you become intuitive.

Number two – is to desire to be intuitive. Desire is what has brought everything you currently are experiencing into your life. The rocket fuel that propels you forward to achieve anything is desire.

Number three – on the list is to believe that you can be intuitive. If you are sabotaging yourself by not really believing you can be intuitive then you will never attain it or maybe sporadically. For instance lets say you thought of a friend you haven’t seen or spoken to in years and then the phone rings and it’s your friend. If you say to yourself hey I intuited my friend was going to contact me and then turned right around and said nah it was just a coincidence, then you are in effect shutting down your intuition. On the other hand if you said hey that’s great that I intuited that contact with my friend then you are training your intuitive mind to give you more.

Number four – logically follows number three in that every time you have an intuitive moment you must tell yourself great job. Thanks for that intuition, you just saved me and fifty other people from getting blown up or thanks I just sold my entire stock portfolio on a strong intuition and saved myself tons of money. Both true stories in my case.

Number five – happens by focusing on being intuitive throughout your day at random times. You will begin to attract intuitive moments to you when you focus on being intuitive. The law of attraction works well for this one in that by focusing on being intuitive you attract that which is part of your focus in life. Eventually you will start getting intuitive insights throughout your day. I set up a pattern of focusing on being intuitive so often that when I travel and work in dangerous places my intuition automatically kicks in when danger is close. This can be applied to any aspect of your life. Like knowing your child is in danger of getting hurt or is hurt. Not quite knowing why you hesitate at a light when you are in a hurry or race around traffic that is slow until you see a dump truck and car collide right where you would have been if you had taken off like normal. Another tragic but true story for me.

Number six – is to learn to relax, reduce stress and learn to meditate. Stress and tension take us away from the intuitive mind and put us deep into the analytical mind. Nothing wrong with the left side of our brain we need it to function in our everyday world. But we need to learn that the left side of our brain is our tool not what we are. Without going too deep into this subject know that by relaxing you can activate your right brain, artistic, creative, intuitive side.

Number seven – to be intuitive we must learn the difference between our egoic selves that always wants to be in charge and our intuitive selves. Our egoic mind wants to always be in charge and will sabotage you to be so. The ego doesn’t care about others and is self-serving and will give you false readings to stay in charge. To check your thoughts learn to feel if it’s in your best interest and for all those involved. If it is you are on the right track. With practice it will become quite obvious to you which one is a five alarm intuitive alert, and which one is your ego trying to do the same thing to be in charge.

Number eight – last but not in any way the least is the knowledge that by being an intuitive being you are connecting with your highest good. By focusing on this thought you bring all the other seven into alignment and activation.

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The Intuitive Warrior was released early in Canada. I have been checking the pre-sells by looking at the sales ranking at amazon international sites all over the world. This weekend Amazon Canada started releasing the book early to online sales. I think the fact that this weekend was a weekend of love celebrated all over the world as Valentines Day is quite appropriate for an early release date. What better place than Canada! Thanks Canada!

The sales ranking went through the roof dropping all the way at one point to below 300. When a book drops that low the sales ranking opens up in several different categories. For instance The Intuitive Warrior over the last few months during pre-sell release has been as high as #5 in Military/History/Strategy in Austria and Germany, #7 in the UK & US, #4 in France and now a new high of #2 in Canada. The Art of War is usually #1 all over the world in this category. It also hit #20 in Health, Mind, Body > Self-Help> Motivational right in between one of my hero’s, Dr. Wayne Dyer’s new book Excuses Begone! and another favorite author and the new book  The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Sales rankings change and fluctuate by the minute on Amazon so you may see a different picture but the trend is definitely moving in a positive direction. My book company shipped out 512 copies last month to a distribution point so this may be where they went. Right now there are only 2 copies left on the Amazon Canada website for the book. This is probably a test of the waters so that the publishing world can see what the response to the book is going to be. Way to show um Canada!

In other developments we will be offering a bimonthly newsletter starting this week. It will have an article, current movie review and upcoming appearances. We will be adding more content in the future.

The website is doing really well we have Google Analytics and can track the number of visits to the site as well as where they come from.

Right now we have been visited by 53 countries and territories.

The top 10 are:

1. US

2. Canada

3. UK

4. Spain

5. New Zealand

6. France

7. Mexico

8. Germany

9. Austrailia

10. Tied for 10th are: Slovenia, Italy, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan and Belgium

In the US 49 states/territories visited the site with only three states that have not yet visited and they are Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota. Anyone know anyone there give um a shout to log on to visit the site so we get all 50 states!

Top ten in the US are:

1. Texas

2. California

3. Oklahoma

4. South Carolina

5. New York

6. Missouri

7. Virginia

8. Illinois

9. Florida

10. Tied for tenth are: North Carolina, New Jersey and Washington State

Thanks to everyone who has been talking up the book and sharing it with others.

The word is obviously getting out about The Intuitive Warrior and people are liking it!

Eight Ways Military Training Can Enhance Your Life

As a kid I was always enthralled with everything military. I would watch movies, play with soldiers, read military comic books and play war games with my friends. It became a very strong desire for me to become a Frogman after I saw the movie with the same name as a mere five-year-old boy. Today almost forty-five years later, twenty-four of them spent as a Navy SEAL and over six as an independent security contractor protecting government officials in high risk combat zones, I have no regrets and highly recommend the lifestyle military style training can offer.

You do not have to go into the military to enjoy the physical fitness, discipline, esprit de corps or intuitive ability to think and make decisions in an instant. So what type of training and it’s equivalent in the non-military world does it take to have the benefits of military training that will enhance your life?

Number one is a total focus on your goals. I learned very early on in SEAL training that unless you have complete focus on becoming a SEAL you will not make it. It is all consuming and will challenge the most experienced athlete. In fact many high level athletes from former pro football, baseball, triathletes etc. would often be the first to quit in Hell Week. The Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea, Air & Land (BUD/Seal) training that has Hell Week in its first two months of training out of a total of six months of training was a great equalizer and would find those with the correct focus and those without. When I first saw this in my own training class and then witnessed it repeatedly over a three-year period as a BUD/S instructor and phase chief I was amazed. Everyone thought these superior athletes were a shoe-in but as I learned later you could never tell from outward appearance which guy had the inner focus necessary to achieve their goals. So having a total and complete focus on achieving your goals in nonmilitary life is just as important to attaining your goals as in the military. This total focus on achieving goals has carried over into my life now that I’m not in the military and is a gift that I will continue to enhance and use for the rest of my life.

Number two is a disciplined approach to managing your everyday life. As a football and soccer athlete in high school I learned that you have to exercise and stay in shape to play and stay on the team. I was gifted as a fast runner and at one point the fastest in my school. I would train with weights and play every sport I could after practice and in between sports seasons. This was a discipline that I set for myself very early on. I had a coach that I looked up to when I was in the sixth grade during gym class that taught us cutting edge physical training. He got universal weight machines for gym class that up to then was unheard of except for the football players in high school. I still remember his words when he said that he wished that he had worked out harder and developed his body at an earlier age and stuck with it. Remember I had a goal at an early age to become a frogman so I thought, rightly so as it would turn out, that the better in shape I was the better my chances for becoming a frogman. So I learned to discipline myself to workout everyday in one fashion or another. So taking a disciplined consistent approach to life is important to achieving short term as well as long-term goals no matter what they are.

Number three is physical fitness. I have been into physical fitness most of my life and can honestly say that I can’t imagine not working out in some fashion on a consistent basis. Physical fitness is not only for being in shape for conducting missions or performance during athletic events but; is also necessary for relieving stress, keeping the heart and cardiovascular system healthy, strong bones, muscle tone and general well being. It was not uncommon in the early days that I was a SEAL that people did not know anything about the SEAL teams. Post Viet Nam people were not friendly towards the military so my fellow SEAL’s and I were often fortunately confused with the local pro football team in San Diego where I was stationed in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It helped that I have a very close resemblance to Hank Bauer of the San Diego Chargers. At restaurants the waitress would get chatty and ask us what we did? “Are you guys football players”? would be a common question. Often we would just say yes, but once I told the guys I was with lets really tell the waitress when she asks what we are and see how she responds. So on this particular rare occasion when asked what we did we all said that we were SEAL’s. A confused look came across the waitresses face and then it lit up and she said: “Oh… you train… SEAL’s”! yes, we replied. Physical fitness is an important element in every military persons life and by adopting a regular physical fitness routine into your life will go a long way in enhancing your overall well being.

Number four is a commitment to esprit de corps. This term is usually used for military or sports teams but can and does apply to any organization. The morale of a group or organization is dependant on how closely the team works and operates together. A professional in one organization can easily move to another professional organization and easily integrate with that group. When I was working at SEAL team six I went to Australia for six weeks to work with their SAS (Special Air Service) equivalent. I completely integrated with on of their teams and still remember that as one of the high points of my Career. We worked incredibly hard but always had a great time together. I have never laughed so hard in my life. It was as if part of the requirement to make it into the team was how good a sense of humor you had. It seemed as if we had trained together all of our lives and this was because of the high level of esprit de corps. When I look back on the best groups or teams that I have had the pleasure of working with it was usually because everyone worked well together and treated each other as family. I try to think of everyone I see and meet as part of my extended family.

Number five is leadership. We would often have the most junior man among us plan, brief and lead a training operation. This was so that everyone knew that at anytime you could or would have to stand up and take charge. Leadership by example was also a must in the SEAL teams because do as I say not as I do would never get full compliance from a group of hard core veterans. Lead from the rear is another non-starter as the word LEADership is about being the example to follow not the one to look back over your shoulder and try and figure out what to do. If you want to be admired (Not Necessarily Liked) in a leadership position and get people to perform you must be a good example. If you want to come in and teach others anything you must have something that they can look at as an example of past performance. Do you tell your kids or know of someone that tells their kids not to do drugs; smoke or drink but does them themselves? What is the reaction? It’s usually obvious isn’t it? Lead, follow or get out the way is a quote that I have often admired.

Number six is the ability to follow. You must not only be able to lead but you also have to know when it is time to let a subject matter expert take over. We would commonly have guys that ran a particular department or taught a subject in which that person would go to several schools to get highly skilled. Take shooting for instance. We would have many guys that would run the armory where we kept our weapons that would teach courses in shooting to the rest of us. Eventually we developed training cells of guys that would do the same thing. Specialize in a particular area. When that person taught everyone else was junior to him no matter what his rank or the rank of the people that he taught. This ability to be humble and allow others to take the reins was an important aspect of military life. This is hard for some because after you attain a certain level of proficiency or rank your ego wants to keep you in the limelight. To excel in anything in life and to stay there you must learn to allow others to help you advance further or you will most definitely fall behind.

Number seven is learning to make decisions rapidly. In combat milliseconds can be the deciding factor in whether you and or your team will live or die so learning to be quick and nimble on your feet and making spot decisions is imperative. Many people agonize over making decisions but I’ll make them in less than a heartbeat if necessary. When forced into making a snap decision it’s often not so important that you pause to determine if you are making the right decision as much as it is to just make one and get off the X or the kill zone. I can fix a wrong decision in an instant but if we all sit around trying to come up with a solution then often that is the worst thing to do. If you have the time to make an informed decision by all means take it but don’t procrastinate your life away.

Number eight is in my opinion the most important and will greatly enhance the other seven if utilized. Learn to use your intuition. Often your initial intuitive response is the most accurate. By opening yourself to intuition as I teach you how to do in The Intuitive Warrior and will be teaching at seminars across the country soon you can take every single aspect of your life no matter what your capacity in life to a whole different level. Only the most advanced warriors become intuitive warriors. Not every military person is intuitive but every single one of them can be and it can be easily done. You don’t have to be in the military or have military experience to excel in life but you can most definitely enhance your life by following any or ideally all of the above.

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