Something I have to keep doing is to catch my ego comparing myself to other men and warriors. I look at the special forces out there doing their "hard man" stuff, and wonder if they'll respect those of us who staying in the warm and dry. Rationally I know we each have a different calling, and there's nothing wussy about psychological warfare and information insurgency. Perhaps we have been brainwashed by movies and TV to celebrate the kinetic show of force, distracting us from the power of the memetic?
I think we have been...
I wasted so much time complaining that I was not where I had to be, that I could have done this and that...
We got to get out of it
We got to quit belittling ourselves
It's just like training for anything else, you start, day by day and keep going...
What works for me is challenging myself everyday to do the best that I can with what I have in the moment ...