Hey guys what's going on I'm retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor Chris Sajnog
founder of the SEAL training system and in this video I want to talk
to you about the power of teamwork now let's go ahead and get started
when I was in the Navy one of the things that was most important in that that
made us and continue to make Navy SEALs the great operators that they are is not
down to the individual operator it comes down to being able to work together as a
team and that's what I want to talk to you about today and try to teach you and
help you out to understand what makes the SEAL Teams so great so hopefully you
and your teams can do the same thing now I've come up with an acronym to help
make this easier and that acronym is teams now team stands for take
responsibility encourage others ask for help master your job and sacrifice for
others so let's go through and talk about those one at a time now the first
one is take responsibility and if you've got kids you see this all the time where
they blame everything that happens on somebody else and this is really first
off just kind of immature way of thinking because if you don't take
responsibility for everything in your life you're not going to be able to
change anything in your life the only way to change something in your life is
to take responsibility for them I've got two kids and one of the things that I
teach my boys is and you could ask them if you're getting punched in the face
whose fault is it and they will tell you it's your fault now why is it your fault
well you have to come up with a reason why because if you don't come up with a
reason why it's your fault you're just gonna continue getting hit in the face
so maybe it's because you're not blocking the punch
maybe it's because you're not punching back maybe it's because you're in the
way of that arm that is swinging where your face happens to be so as long as
you figure out a way to make it your fault you're gonna be able to change it
next up is E and that is to encourage others now it may sound kind of silly
coming from a SEAL team member that you would need encouragement but guess what
we are all just people and is so helpful to have encouragement I
ran one marathon in my life and I've done lots of other races that were
longer than a marathon and I remember it was like mile 20 or something and I was
feeling really tired and you know along the marathon route there's there's
always people like cheering you on and I remember that it was kind of this spot
where there wasn't many people and somebody started cheering for me they
were calling out what I was wearing and telling me I could do it and I was a
seal at the time but I was like 20 miles in this run and I'm like tired and I
heard somebody say hey come on you and the blue shorts and black shirt you can
do it now it's like oh yeah I can do it the power of encouragement is really
important and it definitely helps with teamwork so next up is to ask for help
again with being a Navy SEAL people tend to think oh you're a Navy SEAL you can
do everything well we can't do everything and we can only do what we're
trained to do and I think one of the things that really makes SEAL team
members so good what we do is that we're not afraid to ask for help
because when it comes to being a seal if you don't know what you're doing it can
get you killed it can get your teammates killed so you need to know things say
for instance I was a medic so people if they ever had a medical question on how
to do something they would come to me and ask me and they'll go hey Chris you
know how do I use this bandage I just got this new bandage how do I use it so
of course I help them do that but you don't want to be so proud with whatever
you want to learn that you're afraid to ask for help so make sure you always ask
for help next up is to master your job that's right I said your job and that
means not trying to master somebody else's job my son's play soccer and
you'll hear kids like yell at other kids for not doing their job well you can't
control what somebody else is doing can only control what you do that's why you
need to master your own job so the goalie in soccer
he's just worrying about being a goalie he's not worried about taking penalty
kicks because he's not gonna take him he's not practicing doing corner kicks
and he is just worrying about stopping balls from going in his net figure out
what your job is on your team and make sure you master it all right last but
certainly not least is to sacrifice for your teammates now in the SEAL Teams in
all of the military of course thousands of people who have given the ultimate
sacrifice and lucky for you you probably aren't gonna ever have to make that type
of sacrifice but let's just look at it like your family is a team your
neighborhood and friends like those are your team's that I'm talking about here
in our daily lives what can you do for your team so maybe you have a friend
who's part of your team and he needs to go to the airport at 4:00 in the morning
well just go ahead and do it like don't even think twice about it be excited
about helping out your teammate because when you sacrifice for others it helps
the team and it makes it stronger you can think of the same thing like if we
talk about sports again in baseball there's the sacrifice fly so here's this
guy he's gonna hit a ball and he's gonna hit it up in the air and far and he
knows he's gonna get out but he also knows that his team is going to be able
to score and win the game so that is it for my team's acronym and the power of
teamwork I hope this helps you and your team's out and until next time keep
paving your path to perfection
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