Good to Great in record time? How?

The David Alliance

Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

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How do you get good at anything? You practice… that seems obvious. But how do you get really good at something… like expert level. Well you practice but you practice under duress.

Doctors who came back from war were far better at their jobs having practiced under war time conditions. The Benefits of Military Medical Experience include….

• Trauma and Emergency Care Expertise: Military doctors, especially those who have served in combat zones, gain unparalleled experience in managing severe trauma, critical injuries, and mass casualty events under high-pressure, resource-limited conditions. This experience can be invaluable in civilian trauma centers and emergency departments.
• Adaptability and Resourcefulness: Military physicians are often trained to work in diverse and sometimes austere environments, using whatever resources are available. This fosters a high degree of adaptability, problem-solving skills, and the ability to remain calm in chaotic situations.
• Leadership and Teamwork: Military medicine emphasizes strong leadership, teamwork, and a clear chain of command. These skills are highly transferable to civilian healthcare settings, particularly in managing teams and coordinating care.
• Exposure to Diverse Patient Populations: Military physicians often change stations frequently and may be exposed to a wide variety of patient populations globally, broadening their clinical perspective.
• Focus on Pure Medicine (less administrative burden): In some military settings, doctors can focus more on patient care without the same concerns about insurance or billing that civilian doctors often face, allowing them to hone their clinical skills.
• Innovation: Many medical innovations and practices, such as triage systems and specialized surgical teams, have originated or been refined in military settings and have had a significant impact on civilian healthcare.

When you don’t let anyone in your emotions, your faith or your mind… you build your Spiritual strength or should I say your spiritual armor.

Wether it is a person or a circumstance or even a physical health issue - these aren’t just proving grounds, they are paving grounds for your life. You are learning to pave your walk in life in a straight and narrow.

When emotions, doubt, anger, bitterness… when these emotions attack you it can cause an uphill and uneven walk… with pitfalls and roadblocks… but they are of your making because you don’t choose to the right response.

Silence is your Protection

Scripture is your weapon

Faith is your push back into the darkness

Silence protects you a few ways…

You do not give your adversary any more ammo to pull your strings or trigger you.

You keep them guessing

You ultimately make them give up

You create a sense that you know something they don’t and it makes them feel vulnerable, more likely to expose their motives and their faults.

Scripture is your weapon. I just had a conversation with a young man who said he does not believe in speaking in tongues and the HS gifts for today… I said show me in scripture where it says that. He started to say “well I think…

I cut him off immediately and told him he was either incredibly stupid, naive or arrogant or he was God. Because no one who serves God should care what another man thinks if it does not line up with scripture. My life is lived according to scripture… not my circumstances, not my upbringing, not what others think… even if they seem smarter than me… My life and how I view my life is totally based on scripture.

If the rest of my life I pray for people to be healed and they are not… Im still believing God heals for today because that is what Gods word says.

My aikido sense was John Barr- I have talked about him a few times on my podcast. He was the best, well known, on magazine covers, fought with Steven Seagal… his wife tells a story of when they went to a restaurant that had a bar…. (Story)

No change in emotion, no anger, no change of demeanor… just a calm statement of faith.

John knew what he knew, he believed what he knew and he knew it was true. THATS FAITH.

When you pray a prayer of faith or live a life of faith… you don’t have to pray loud, live brash, but if you just know what you know, believe what scripture says, and live the truth. Thats faith.

Authority self esteem, self control, inner strength… self respect… its a muscle. And as they say… use it or lose it!