EMBRACE THE SUCK!

Sometimes in your training, you just need to embrace the suck. Instead of complaining or having a negative attitude about a hard or bad situation, you need to embrace the experience, and turn it into a positive. Some ways to do that follow are to try and answer some of the questions below with a yes:

Will you grow from the experience once the experience is over?

Will you have confidence that you can overcome a similar situation in the future?

Will you find that you can push past artificial limits you have set for yourself?

Will you have accomplished something that others haven’t accomplished?

Will you gain knowledge that can be passed on to others?

These are just a few of the ways, you can embrace the experience.

This past weekend the 360 instructors we were put through an outdoor survival training course. We were only allowed to bring a steel canteen, a pocket knife, and some outdoor clothes. We had to build shelter from wood logs and pine needles, learn to purify water, build a rock firewall, and learn to start a fire with various materials. Then we had to sleep in our shelters while tending to our fire in front of the fire wall. The second day was harder because we had little food and little sleep, and we had to learn some basic trapping, signaling, and some basic first aid. Then we had to start a fire with a wood tool kit we built. The kit consisted of a bow, spindle, a handhold, some 550 cord, and a plank. (See the above picture.)

Since, I knew this training would allow me to answer yes to the above questions,

I EMBRACED THE SUCK!.

Here was my normal training from the last week: