How To Develop A Warrior Mindset

Ron Lyons (00:36):
All right guys, I am Ron Lyons and I happen to be the tactical redneck, and I wanna say thank you so very much for joining us for this. Yes, second episode on our comeback for the tactical redneck. And yes, we used to be called Lions Tactical. We were a very big organization. We had quite the presence. We had a big giant podcast and we had all kinds of things going on. And as you may have heard on the first episode of our comeback, we got de platformed over a t-shirt. We're not gonna get too deep off into that because we've got something way more important to talk about on this episode, which happens to be mindset. And there's a lot of videos and a lot of books, and a lot of coaches and a lot of educators out there in law enforcement, military, and even in the private sector and things like that, where they talk about mindset.

Ron Lyons (01:30):
And it's such a critical tool in your arsenal or in your kit. It's really a make or break in many ways. And that's what we're gonna talk about on this episode. But let me tell you about this silly thing with the t-shirt at first, just in case you weren't around on the first episode, you can kind of understand what I'm talking about. So we had this big giant business, it was called Lion's Tactical. We were really, really big in the industry of tactical gear and survival equipment and prepper stuff, all that, law enforcement, all of that stuff. And we had, gosh, thousands of t-shirts, probably lots more than I could ever even look at. And they're all provided by all of these different dealers who, you know, upload them to our website through this really complicated backside. And we put a little markup on those items and then they ship out.

Ron Lyons (02:27):
And that's how we do most of our business, or at least back then we did. And we had this t-shirt and it. And if you're watching right now on like YouTube podcasts or something like that, then you'll be able to see like what I'm wearing right now. I happen to be wearing a Lion's Tactical Gorilla T-shirt right now. But we had, it was about this color, and it had a big giant Roman numeral three right in the middle of it. Didn't say anything else. There were no words on it, just a big Roman numeral three. And our platform was Shopify. And I don't like Shopify. And this is why, because when they found that Roman numeral three, it's called a three percenter t-shirt, they labeled it as hate speech. Now, back at the time, I didn't know hardly anything about that. I had heard of three percenters, I didn't know anything about it.

Ron Lyons (03:14):
I certainly didn't think of it as hate speech or anything like that. So I went and did my research and okay, extreme far right, radical whatever back at the time, we're claiming the three percenter thing. So guess what? I pulled it off. Wasn't a big deal. Shirt's gone, we're back in. Compliance, life is good. And then a short time after that, that particular dealer who created and sold that t-shirt through our website, did a full catalog upload, and they got it back on the website. And I didn't catch it, but Shopify did. And they de platformed us. No warning, no recourse, nothing just gone. And they somehow, and I don't understand this part, but somehow they were either connected to or reached out to our credit card processors and they got us shut down in that respect as well. So we couldn't process credit cards, we didn't have a website anymore. We were essentially taken outta business by a t-shirt.

Ron Lyons (04:20):
Now here we are, we're back. It's been some years now, and we're not what we used to be. We don't strive to be that. We're not trying to be that we have, I say we, anyone and everyone associated with this business today, we all have like regular jobs and stuff like that. This is not our full-time gig anymore. Now we're doing this because we love and miss our community. I spent many years as a law enforcement officer, and I did an awful lot of drug interdiction. That was kind of my specialty. And so whenever you get away from that community, you miss it. And so this is our way to stay connected. We're, we're all former law enforcement, military, et cetera, people who just love, love, love this stuff. And when I say this stuff, I'm talking about tactical prepper, survivalist, law enforcement, good stuff.

Ron Lyons (05:17):
And I told you we were gonna talk about mindset today. Mindset is literally everything. It gives you the edge out there in the private sector in business, and it can certainly keep you alive if you're out on the street. So if you're a law enforcement officer and you're listening to this podcast, then you really, really need to understand the power of and how to harness a certain kind mindset that will give you that edge out there on the street as well. And so that's kinda what we're talking about tonight. So let's just kind of get straight into it. I don't intend to take all of your time, but I do want you to get some stuff from this. Now, first of all, when you do things out there in the real world, especially if you're within the community, we are in survivalist and preppers and tactical people, law enforcement, military, whatever. If you're in those circles, then by default, you are already a warrior. You're already a warrior. That's what you do. That's part of your existence.

Ron Lyons (06:32):
And you've probably seen this, and I'm gonna try not and step on any toes or anything like that, but especially if you're in law enforcement, you've seen that there are different types of police officers. There's cops who like to go out, take burglary reports and theft reports, and go on alarm calls, wave at everybody as they're going down the road and hope and pray that they don't get any real hot calls. And they certainly don't go out and try to get in the middle of anything. Now, that's not how I functioned. I wanted to be in the middle of this stuff. I wanted to be where the action was. And it just so happened that I had a knack for drug interdiction. So the weakest link in the drug trade is when they courier that stuff by the kilos and the pounds over the roadways.

Ron Lyons (07:19):
So for some time I had a canine, I, I was a canine officer, I had a dog, I had a German shepherd that was drug trained, narcotics detection, did all of that stuff. And you can probably imagine that if you're out on the road and you pull someone over and the, let's just say they've got 50 kilos of cocaine in their car, they know that 50 kilos is there and they've done everything they possibly can to avoid detection. They wanna avoid getting pulled over and potentially going to jail because that's, that's an awful lot of jail time. That's like federal prison for decades time. So they're typically very well armed. So they have the advantage of knowing what's going on before you do. They have the advantage of having already made up their mind that if they get into a situation, how far they're willing to go to fight to stay outta jail.

Ron Lyons (08:21):
And so if you're gonna be a drunk interdiction officer, really any police officer, but especially if you're gonna be the kind of cop that I was, where you're gonna go out and get in the stuff, you're gonna go out there and try and be proactive and shake things loose, make things happen, make felony arrests, find guns, find people with felony warrants, take drugs off the street. If you're gonna be that person, then you better have the kind of mindset that's going to help you survive every single time you get involved in one of these incidents. And if you're doing your job right, you're getting into these on a daily basis, that means you come into work five days a week and you're gonna have at least five good contacts like that, probably many, many more. I can't imagine doing an eight hour shift and only having one contact like that.

Ron Lyons (09:14):
So how does that mindset play into all of this? Well, it's a survival mindset. It's a mindset that you're gonna handle whatever comes up, you're gonna manage whatever situation comes up. And it doesn't matter if you're a smaller guy like me, I'm five foot nine, and back in those days, I was a buck 85. I wish I was a buck 85 now, now I'm more like $2 in some change <laugh>. But when you're like that, you're not a big massive person and you're typically out there alone on the side of some dark highway, like I said, pulling these people over who already know what's going on, then you've gotta have that kind of mindset that you're gonna engage in this situation. Hopefully everything goes well. But if it doesn't, if everything goes to hell in a handbag real, real quick, you're gonna hand it. You've had very, very good training, and you're gonna apply that training and you're not gonna be weak-minded, you're not gonna get scared, you're not gonna be afraid, you're not going to cower because that's when you're gonna get killed.

Ron Lyons (10:25):
So it's a, I can handle it, I will handle it. Situation going on in your mind. And there's something about that when you've got that mindset, when you've got that, I'm going to succeed, I'm gonna go home after this contact, after we get through this, whatever it is, this drug and addiction stop, or whatever the heck it is. When this is all said and done, I'm going home. When you have that mindset, something about it transmits very well to the people that you're working with. Just like if you're weak minded or if you're not engaging in a strong mindset, that warrior mentality, then they pick up on that as well. Now, when they see advantage, when they think they've got an opportunity to act, to take you out, to take you down, to do harm to you, maybe escape, get away, whatever, they're gonna take it.

Ron Lyons (11:24):
Because remember, we're talking about locking these folks up for many, many years, lots and lots of problems. Not to mention the fact that if they're mulling drugs for someone, whoever that is is probably gonna have someone on the inside of that prisoner, whatever, take them out for all of the lost tens of thousands of dollars in product that's gone. So it's a lose lose situation if you're a drug courier and you don't make it to where you're supposed to go. If you're a police officer on the side of the highway happening to do drug interdiction, that's what you're running up against all the time. And so that mindset is that of I'm gonna engage in this, I'm gonna have contact with this person, and I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know if a gun's about to turn around and be aimed out the window at me.

Ron Lyons (12:18):
I don't know if you know there's three other guys in this car and they're all armed with, you know, small car beings, and we're about to have a a gun battle on the side of this highway right now. You don't know. There's no script for it. And yeah, you can call backup, and that's, that's good. If you're concerned or some of the protocols that are in place in order, you know, for you to have that backup, then certainly by all means they're gonna be there. But if you're doing interdiction out there, so so many times you get kind of an uneasy feeling about something, you've got that sixth sense that something's going on, you can't call back up every single time. It's not possible. You are running other cops who are not doing interdiction to come and be in the middle of this situation that you're in over and over and over.

Ron Lyons (13:11):
So what you find yourself doing is handling it on your own. So you're out in the middle of a dark highway, multiple occupants in a car sometimes, or someone who way, way outsizes, you probably is armed in ways that you are not. You've got your service weapon and you might have a shotgun or a small rifle in the vehicle, but it's you out there largely with your mindset and the tools of your trade be that your service weapon, your pepper spray baton, whatever it is, and that's what you have to do business with. So you walk into that situation before you ever actually say the first word, you know you're going to survive, you are going to do whatever it takes to win.

Ron Lyons (14:01):
And that projects that goes from you to the other person. And they're like, wow, there's something about this guy that I don't wanna mess with. This guy is very, very, you might call it headstrong. And it's not being an to somebody, that's not what I'm saying. It's not throwing your weight around or throwing that badge around. Nobody likes that. If you're in law enforcement, that's not what it's about. It's not abusive power, it's not abusive office, it's not any of that stuff. Official oppression, there's a lot of words for getting out of hand when you, you know, let that badge be everything. That's not at all what I'm talking about, 100% not what I'm talking about. You're out there to do a job, to protect a community, to save people from all kinds of stuff. And if you can take lots of of drugs off the road, or if you can get a felon in jail, or if you can do something like that, then you're doing exactly what the people need you to do and pay you to do.

Ron Lyons (15:01):
And probably, quite honestly, what God wired you to do, and you're doing what makes you happy. But if you don't come back the next night because you lost your life on a traffic stop yesterday, then that's the end point of your ability to continue to serve the community and to continue to take all these drugs and stuff off the street. And not to mention the fact that even if you're a ragtag, SOB like I was, there's someone somewhere who cares about you. You got a mama, you got a daddy, you got spouse, brother, sister, kids, people who want to see you come home.

Ron Lyons (15:42):
So if you know all of that, you go into this situation, whatever it is, be it a drug inter addiction stop or anything else, you go into it with a strong, strong mindset and you have what's called command presence. You've made up your mind that you're in charge before you step into that situation. You're confident, you're mindful, you're aware, you're very professional. You don't lose your professionalism until it's time to lose your professionalism. And let me tell you, sometimes you gotta lose your professionalism. I'll tell you kind of a funny story real quick. When I first got into law enforcement, I was one of those guys that was gonna get in it to, you know, save the world, change the world. So I was like super, super nice. I was, you know, very kind of boy scoutish almost. I had lived some life, but not like I ended up living through my law enforcement career.

Ron Lyons (16:38):
But I, I had lived a little bit, but not a ton. And I made up my mind like on, you know, the, uh, the academy time that I was gonna be different. There were all these cops and they would cuss and they would curse and they would, you know, just rough outright, just ugly sometimes, especially going through the academy, the, the cops that they had training us and stuff, man, they had an edge about 'em. And I was like, you know, I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna always be kind. I'm gonna be a gentleman, I'm not gonna curse. And I remember the very, very first time that I was riding out with my field training officer, got through the academy, graduated valedictorian in my class, got out on the streets with an FTO, and we're riding around one night and there's four guys in the car.

Ron Lyons (17:28):
And so as we light 'em up, pull 'em over, they all started getting outta the car. And of course, you can't have that. We've got the spotlight on 'em, we've got the take down lights on 'em, my heart rate's up and my, my nervous system's on full blast. I'm just like, you know, those sympathetic nervous system's just like it's, it's kicking in and I'm being kind. And I'm like, guys, we need to get back inside the car, guys, please get back inside the car. I was given those commands and I was giving them very kindly, and they weren't doing it. They weren't complying, and they were very, very big. There was four really big guys, little old me and my field training officer. My field training officer was not a big person. As a matter of fact, he even had a nickname that, uh, indicated exactly how small he was.

Ron Lyons (18:22):
He was a, he was a little man, they called him low rider little guy. And when these guys kept coming, I realized that it was time to take control of this or somebody was gonna be in trouble, and it was gonna be me and my field training officer right there on the side of the road on day one for me. And so I lost it. I used curse words that, uh, I, I put 'em together. I'm kind of proud of it. Now, looking back, I put some curse words together that meant business. And all four of those guys got back inside the car real quick. And I sat down in the car and my filtering officer looked over at me and I looked over at him and he goes, you made it a few hours. That's good. It was like, shh, <laugh>.

Ron Lyons (19:09):
That's right. All of my plans through the academy to be different and never be that way, and right there, right out of the cage, man having to use that. So sometimes you have to lose your professionalism. So I'm not saying that absolutely, when the time calls for it. And that's what discretion is. And you'll learn to develop your officer discretion if you're a cop. And if you're out there doing that, or if you've done it at all, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And it's the same in private life, guys. We're gonna be out there doing things in life now every single day. And this world's gotten really, really ugly and nasty. And road rage and stuff like that is like at an all time high. There was a time when something would happen and two people would almost like, you know, run into each other, something would happen and, and you'd back off a little bit.

Ron Lyons (20:00):
Let go ahead and let the car in. Now it's like somebody pulls up and because they passed all this traffic and didn't have to wait as long as you, now you're gonna speed up and not let 'em in. We've all become a bunch of and we treat each other that way out there on the road. And the, the bad part of that is no longer do we just like flip each other off or honk the horn and go on. Now it's all about invitations to pull over and fight or shoot. And that's the world we live in. Now, I've learned in my senior age now that it's not a good idea to engage in any of that nonsense. Now, I certainly did when I was younger and thought I was bulletproof. It's a terrible idea. It's a horrible idea, and I don't do that stuff anymore.

Ron Lyons (20:45):
But is there ever gonna be an opportunity for someone to still get upset with you out on the road or somewhere else in some other situation? And where you have to rely on that mindset, that warrior mindset in order to survive that situation? You better believe it. It's absolutely possible. Not only is it possible, it's even likely. So if you don't wanna become a statistic, or if you don't wanna become a victim, then you're gonna have to have this warrior mindset, this command presence in these situations. And again, just like when I was saying, don't, you don't throw that badge around, you also don't throw this around. When you get this skillset, when you develop your mindset, you're gonna feel pretty strong and you will be. But you don't go out there and take that out on the road and use that. You don't sit there and hope for someone to get off and invite you over so that you can hop outta your car and, you know, dominate that situation.

Ron Lyons (21:47):
That's not what it's all about. Even as a warrior and with a warrior mindset, you still have to be compassionate. You still need to be kind and caring and forgiving and give grace that there's gonna be situations that are gonna go through every single one of those boxes, check 'em off and cast those things into the trash. And it's just gonna be you standing there with some jack wagon that needs to be handled. And that's when that mindset is gonna kick in, and that's when you're fully justified and utilizing that very strong mindset to handle that situation. Hopefully it doesn't come to people going bang, bang against each other, but at least if somebody is going to attempt to harm you, kill you, hurt you or your family, you've got that mindset of survival and you're gonna be able to handle that. So how do you develop this mindset?

Ron Lyons (22:45):
Well, that's the interesting part. It is literally a decision that you make and you decide you could, you could do it just as easily as right now sitting here and saying, you know what? I'm gonna change the way that I think about these things in the event that this happens. Here's how I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be strong, I'm gonna be confident. I'm going to do whatever it takes to survive and to protect my family or whomever, whatever the situation is, because it could be a lot of different situations, but it's a choice, it's a decision. It's just like losing weight. You have all of these people and they, they search and search and search for like, how do you lose weight? Like how do you do that? Like how do you lose weight? And there's about a thousand different things out there that can, you can use to lose weight.

Ron Lyons (23:41):
But you know what the difference is between the people who attempt to use those things to lose weight and fail, and those who attempt to use those things to lose weight and succeed is the decision and the mindset. Same tools. The gym is available to people who go in every day and attempt to work out and never lose weight and never get in shape. That exact same gym is available to the people who go in and actually transform themselves completely. Not a different gym. It's like a here's the gym for people who are gonna fail, and here's the gym for people who are gonna succeed. It's all about the person, it's all about the mindset. It's all about what you take into that gym with you. And this is true with this mindset. It's what you have that you take into life and into these situations with you.

Ron Lyons (24:36):
And I'll tell you what, the thing about having this mindset is that it rolls over into so many other areas of life, and there's probably some areas where it should not roll over into. We'll talk about that too. But I've learned in my business life that the strong mindset gets me just way ahead of all of my competition. It's rare. I'm in a, I'm in a position right now where I have to negotiate with people and it's shocking how well this strong mindset serves me. It's shocking how few people out there, especially men, do not have that. And it doesn't mean that I'm a to people. It doesn't mean I'm a bully, it doesn't mean that I treat them poorly. As a matter of fact, it's none of those things. I'm as kind and friendly as you can possibly imagine, and very direct and very confident and very strong-willed and very, very sure of what I want and how this is gonna work out.

Ron Lyons (25:40):
That's what I'm talking about. It's that kind of a thing. So no matter what, this concept of mindset and having the right mindset, this all comes about with you making a decision. You decide that you're gonna be confident, strong, that you're gonna think in a particular way, like a warrior, like a person who's gonna survive, being very, very mindful of not allowing that to be abused or thrown around ever, because then you're just a bully and then somebody else needs to come along that's got a stronger mindset than you and take care of you so that you lose some of that bully nonsense. Don't, don't become that, don't do that. It's like when you get in martial arts and you work your way up and you get to a high level rank, you get your black belt or whatever, there's a small percentage of people who get that high rank in a martial art and go out there and abuse the crap out of it.

Ron Lyons (26:35):
They just go out there and try to get in fights and bars and stuff so they can kick the out of people. That's not okay. The really, really good guys, they're the ones who get that and then know the power they have and then never, ever abuse it, but only use it when they absolutely have to. And that's what this is. Mindset is like a very good defensive weapon. It can be an offensive weapon too, but that's a little more than what we have time to get into tonight. And I told you just a second ago that there's times and places where you should never use this. And an example would be in your relationship, if you're married to someone and you get into an argument or whatever, once you understand that you've got this really strong mindset, it's super easy for you to dominate arguments.

Ron Lyons (27:25):
That's not okay. You have to remember that 99% of the world is not like you, they don't have that strong mindset. They don't have that same background experience, or they've not made that decision to be that way. They don't need to. They're, they, they do different jobs, they do different things that we, that we are not doing out there and they don't need the same thing. We're doing the other stuff, we're we're defenders and protectors, maybe law enforcement, maybe military, maybe people who have, you know, corporate jobs or something where we've gotta do like what I was saying and negotiate a lot. And if you're married to someone, like my wife doesn't have to go negotiate a single thing, she's not having to go out there and use weapons on a daily basis. So it's very unfair if we get into an argument for me to bring this mindset and this level of strength into that conversation and use it, I would call it abuse this by dominating that conversation.

Ron Lyons (28:30):
That's not okay. So understanding the wins, wheres and hows, if you're out there carrying a concealed weapon, and I hope you are carrying concealed and not open, but we'll, we'll talk about that a another day. But if you're carrying a concealed weapon, what's one of the most important things that you have to know and learn before you start carrying concealed? Well, it better be when it's appropriate to deploy that weapon system to, to pull that weapon out and to actually utilize that under what circumstances. Every circumstance does not mean you can just pull your gak out and engage someone. You need to know that. You've gotta refine that. And it's the same with this mindset concept. So you can't just pull it out and use it anytime you want. That would not be okay. So make a decision, decide that you're going to have a very strong mind, realize that it's one of your most powerful tools that you have and you, how can you practice this?

Ron Lyons (29:37):
Well, here's a good way you practice building a strong mindset by practicing things that require discipline. And for me, one of the things that requires discipline might be like eating a certain way or committing yourself to a certain kind of exercise. And you set out a certain timeframe. And, and for me here, just a little while back, I decided, you know what, it's time for me to start cleaning up the eating and doing stuff like that. And so I ran nine months straight. I don't mean ran, like ran, ran. I went nine months straight eating on a high protein, higher fat, kind of a ketogenic style diet. And I never made a single mistake in there anywhere, not one time. I mean, I didn't even grab like a, a a half inch of someone's french fry and put it in my mouth, nothing, no cheat meals, no mistakes, no errors, no gaffes, no nothing.

Ron Lyons (30:34):
And I needed to run that long. And I decided I was gonna make it all the way up until Thanksgiving. And that at Thanksgiving I would go ahead and allow myself to have something, but not a single minute or day before, not even the day before Thanksgiving, nothing. And I did. I literally ran nine months straight with no issues, no errors, no problems. And guess what? That mindset, baby <laugh>, it's good. It's solid. It's solid. So that's how you do it. Commit yourself to doing something that requires discipline. Engage in whatever that is. Maybe it's an exercise program, maybe it's a diet, maybe it's whatever. But when you do give in on whatever it is that you choose as your modality, whatever it is that you choose to use to build that internal strength, that determination, that confidence, that mindset, whatever that is, if you gaff, if you mess up, then you need to get down in front of a mirror and you need to have a very, very serious soul searching discussion with yourself about that.

Ron Lyons (31:39):
Because you don't develop that mindset. I'm talking about by having mistakes and then just letting them go. You're holding yourself to account, you're holding yourself to a higher level. You're making sure that you are actually rising up to another level. You're improving yourself. And so you have to sit there and hold yourself accountable. If you mess up, which you might, then guess what? Reset, be very honest with yourself. Be brutally honest with yourself. That's why I say get that mirror and sit down and talk to yourself like you need to be talked to. You're gonna have to talk to yourself. Nobody else is gonna do it. You're not gonna hire, you know, the the pretty boy trainer down at the gym. Your beer drinking buddies aren't gonna do it. And it's rare to find somebody that can actually sit down with you and kick some common sense into that brain whenever you're slipping or messing up or doing something wrong.

Ron Lyons (32:36):
So you're gonna have to do it for yourself. You're gonna have to train yourself. And then the other thing that you can do throughout this time of trying to develop a good mindset like this, a strong resolve command presence, confidence, is by putting yourself into situations where you can learn. Go sign up for that martial arts class. But don't just go down to the corner of martial arts place. Go find the baddest hardest place that you can possibly find the one that's just gonna destroy your, you know what, that's gonna tear you up. Sign up for that. You're not trying to become Billy badass with a black belt. You just need the training. You need to make your show up every single time you're supposed to. If you commit to being there two nights a week by God, you better be there two nights a week.

Ron Lyons (33:26):
If you commit yourself to doing something else, then you ensure hold yourself accountable and make yourself do that. You can also pick up lots and lots of information and knowledge on this from so many people, right on YouTube. I mean, YouTube is virtually free and there's so much out there. People who have experienced life, people like me who've been in jobs and done things like interdiction and handled a lot of situations, who relied on that confidence and that mindset, that command presence to survive. And you can take their knowledge and you can apply that into your growing and your learning. It's available. You can't sit here right now, and I don't care who you are, where you are, what your lot in life is. You can't sit here and tell me, well, I never, uh, signed up for the military, so I kind of missed out on that.

Ron Lyons (34:19):
So I'm not gonna have that chance. Or, I, I was never a cop, you know, and I didn't have to go out there and, you know, do all that stuff. So I can't get that. No, no, no, no, no. You can absolutely get this. And how do you do it? You start by deciding to do it. You say, I'm gonna develop a a warrior mindset and please, please, please don't do this. Here's another thing that just drives me insane. You know, those people who get committed to like a fitness plan or whatever, and they decide, okay, I'm gonna lose all this weight, I'm really doing it this time. And they go out there and they put it all over the internet and they tell everyone, and they broadcast it far and wide that they're on this thing. And you know, for a little while, they're very committed.

Ron Lyons (35:02):
They're going to the gym, they're eating, they're taking pictures of their food and posting it for all of us to have to endure. And they're doing their, their flex pictures in the gym, and then they're showing you the scale and all this stuff. And then somewhere along the way it falls apart. They don't stick with it. But you have all of this buildup for all of this time where they were telling you all about it and they were so sure of themselves. And God bless them for fully believing that they were doing it. I would much rather them go out there and engage in this effort and fail if that's what they're gonna do, if that's the way it works out and fail silently, quietly. They didn't have all the bravado, they didn't have all of the Facebook pictures, they didn't tell everybody in the world, they were just doing it.

Ron Lyons (35:55):
That's so much better. So don't go tell the whole wide world. Don't post all this crap about I'm doing it and whatever. Now, if you wanna make a comment below, if this is a video you're watching or somewhere in the, the comments or whatever, if you're just listening to this on audio and you want to say to me and other like-minded people in this circle, Hey, I'm gonna do this, that's awesome. But we're not gonna be subject to your, you know, daily pictures of you doing whatever it is that you're gonna do to develop this strong mindset, this command presence, et cetera. We're gonna hear it one time and that's fine, that's great. Tell your brothers, people like me tell us, Hey, I learned something, I love this and I'm doing this. And then silently and quietly, go and develop yourself, grow yourself, make yourself stronger, make yourself better in short order, you can make an awful lot of progress and you're gonna be very, very happy with yourself when you do.

Ron Lyons (36:56):
So guys, that's gonna wrap it up right here. I am absolutely certain that we're gonna talk about this a lot in up and coming weeks and months and hopefully years if we're all blessed to know each other that long. And we're gonna talk about this a lot 'cause it's absolutely critical. And if you're watching on video right now, yeah, you see my, uh, tactical redneck cap that I'm wearing. I've got my tactical redneck, uh, gorilla shirt on, if you like any of that stuff, if you want that stuff, tactical redneck.com. We've got a little shop on there. And that is essentially how we support what we're doing right here. This camera equipment, this lighting equipment, this, this is a $500 microphone and I had to buy two of them, is how we do what we do, is by selling these t-shirts and these ball caps and making a dollar or two or three off of each thing.

Ron Lyons (37:45):
It helps with all of this production and us trying to get this knowledge to you. So if you want kind of a win-win situation, go to tactical redneck.com, find something in the shop, go buy yourself a, a, a really cool camo hat like this with this embroidered stuff on it. Go find something cool that you like, you win because you get something really awesome that nobody else has. And we win because we make a couple of bucks and we compile all of that stuff together and we can, we can pay for all of this and keep it going guys, here's what I want you to do. I want you to think about this. Decide if you want to engage in this. Figure out a path forward, make up your mind. Remember step one, make up your mind, decide to do it and then get going. It's a process. Don't try to do it overnight. Do it over time, but be extremely confident that you're going to elevate yourself to a new level, to a new place. You're gonna feel a whole lot better about yourself, and you're gonna be able to serve your family, your community, and the entire world by being a literal warrior ready to handle whatever comes up. And guys, until our next episode, stay safe and God bless.