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REACHING BEYOND BOUNDARIES DON MANN SEAL TEAM 6 Rev. 5-3-2013 My experiences and achievements pale to the experiences of so many other people. Anybody with the proper mindset can achieve anything imaginable! And it is my great honor today
REACHING BEYOND BOUNDARIES
DON MANN SEAL TEAM 6
My experiences and achievements pale to the experiences of so many other people. Anybody with the proper mindset can achieve anything imaginable! And it is my great honor today to share my message with you. This presentation today is on my own personal journey of developing and strengthening my combat mindset.
PROFESSIONAL AND ATHLETIC MACRO GOAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
India / 10 days, 500 miles
DON DEVEREAUX MANN
Military Biography:
Training Academy
AUTHOR INSIDE SEAL TEAM SIX
MY LIFE AND MISSIONS WITH AMERICA’S ELITE WARRIOR (NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER)
MARATHONS / ULTRA MARATHONS
*1st Place, 33.39 (PR)
World Record pace)
bike race (Course Record)
1st finisher in every stage
CYCLING ROAD RACING
1st Finisher
1st Finisher
3rd place Finisher, 2nd place Finisher, (PR) 4:39
58:56
CYCLING ROAD RACING
MOUNTAIN BIKE RACING
(mid-late 80s – 90s)
1st MTB / 2nd overall
Mountain Bike Race: 24 Hours of Canaan Mt. Bike Race 4th place, Solo
Bike Race, Alaska, 23rd overall
MOUNTAIN BIKE RACING
20 miles, Expert Category
Masters, 1st place, 1:09
1st place MTB category
Mountain Critirium and MTB Race
KAYAKING AND ROWING RACING
1st place overall, canoe, 70 miles
1st place overall, Sea Kayak division, 8 miles
3rd place, Sea Kayak division, 8 Miles
14th place overall, 9 miles
1st place 7:05.2
ERG Sprints, 1st place overall 6:56
KAYAKING AND ROWING RACING
1st place, 6.2 miles
1st place Sea Kayak division, 6.8 miles
1st place overall, Sea Kayak division, 6.5 miles
1st place overall, 5.5 miles
2nd place overall, 1st place Sea Kayak division, 8 miles
Pacific Ocean (cross country), Sea Kayak, 120 miles
SURF SKI RACING
3rd place overall, 8 miles
4.5 miles
2nd place overall, Surf Ski division, 6 miles
2nd place overall, 2nd Surf Ski division, 9 miles
4th place overall, 3rd Surf Ski division, 9 miles
2nd Surf Ski division, 6.8 miles
SURF SKI RACING
division, 5th overall, 6 miles,
3rd Surf Ski division, 2nd overall, 2nd Surf Ski division (x2), 7.3 miles,
and Kayak Race, 2nd overall,1st Surf Ski division, 5 miles
Wounded Warrior Race, 3rd overall, 1st Surf Ski division, 6 miles
SURF SKI RACING
6.8 miles,
place Surf Ski division, 4th place
place overall, 1st place co-ed team
120 miles
TRIATHLONS
bike and 52.4 mile run), current Double IRON paddling record holder
1st place, team event
ADVENTURE RACING
Himalayan (Nepal, Tibet and across India), (10 days, 500 miles)
RAID Gauloises Ecuador, (9 days, 400 miles)
Africa, (11 days, 500 miles)
(9 days, 350 miles)
Race, (4 days, 250 miles)
(3 days, 200 miles)
MOUNTAINEERING
Wyoming – “A Reach Too Far,” 5.10, Red Rock, Nevada – “Jolly Roger,” 5.10.
NUMEROUS CLIMBS:
MACRO AND MICRO GOAL SETTING
Turning macro goals into micro goals has helped me in every aspect of my life including extreme and ultra-distance sports, SEAL training and SEAL combat missions. The real tragedy for most people is not that they set their goals too high and do not achieve them, but that they set their goals too low and they do achieve them. Know your own personal limitations and then simply defy them
REINHOLD MESSNER MOUNTAINEER AND EXPLORER
First solo ascents of Mount Everest without oxygen... First to climb all fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters... Arctic, Antarctica and Gobi Desert crossing... Lost seven toes and three fingers from frostbite…
As an athlete, I have competed in some of the world’s most difficult competitions.
Although there were always so many athletes so much faster, stronger, smarter and more experienced than I have ever been, my mindset allowed me to compete in the same arena with them and I played to win.
DAVE KELLEHER MOTO-CROSS CHAMPION
Dave – Professional!!!
Don - Novice
Dave’s secret to success was that
he never gave up his goal of becoming a Champion. He ran 10 miles at a time, 3 times a week.
I QUIT!
That day taught me my first valuable lesson in goal setting and developing a combat mindset, a lesson that has shaped my life and has lasted a life time...
PRO VS. NOVICE
the pack was OK. If I had a bad race, I lost focus and ended up giving much less than my full 100%.
every morning and work hard at it.
COMBAT MINDSET
Competed in the Boston Marathon,
as a non-runner, but with the right mindset. Ended up running 30 marathons in 3 years.
NEW GOAL!
Work out every day of the year (x 22 years) always with a macro goal in mind
2.4 mile swim 112 mile bike 26.2 mile run
HAWAII IRONMAN STUDS
CA model, wearing a tank-top, posing at the airport – very intimidating!
Surf was crashing over the sea wall. Scared, intimidated and way out of my comfort zone…
Motobecane value $109 Bianchi value – priceless
HAWAII IRONMAN
with a developing and fierce mindset
had only one goal – to pass 274 riders
“SO THAT’S A BIANCHI – HA”
Passed the original IM champion, Gordon Haller…
GORDON HALLER: THE INAUGURAL IRONMAN CHAMPION
Haller won with a time of 11:44. Reached my goal of breaking 11:44 with an 11:41
DOUBLE IRONMAN
Ironman becomes a micro-goal and the Double Ironman becomes the new macro-goal:
Bonked/passed out on mile 32 but woke up and finished the competition
TRIPLE-DECA: 30 IRONMANS
Turn those macro goals into micro goals!
CHET THE JET
World record holder for doing 23 IMs in 12 months. “I am going to swim for a few days, ride my bike for a few weeks and then run for a couple of weeks”.
"A man must not withdraw from the sport, without having given at least once in a lifetime all that he had !"
Mark Allen Six-time Ironman Hawaii Champion
Julie Moss collapses just yards from the Ironman finish line but crawls to the finish.
attempt.
riding at least 300 miles a day /18-22 hours a day.
time to ride 300 miles a day”.
hadn’t done this yet.
enough – I failed!
New Macro Goal!
“Sometimes it isn’t the mountain that wears you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
– Robert W. Service
Turn those macro goals into micro goals!
Nothing can stop the person with the right mindset from achieving his or her goal(s). Nothing can help the person with a weak mindset.
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you could not do.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.- Vincent Lombardi
“YOU’VE GOT TO LIVE BEFORE YOU CAN AFFORD TO DIE.”
– JOHN STEINBECK
100-hour non-stop workouts
beyond that line. My body would eventually fail but my mind always strengthened. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Your body can and will fail…
“Conversational Pace”
times that much more enjoyable.
If I did not occasionally bonk, bleed, pass out and/or hallucinate, I would not known where my limits were.
DON’T SELL YOURSELF SHORT! REACH FOR YOUR FULL POTENTIAL!
THE ULTIMATE TEST
too severe, my body would do me a favor and I would pass-out and would have some rest time.
mind
your spirit Most people have not experienced the great pleasure of“testing their spirit.”
ANGELIKA CASTANEDA
Female on Team Odyssey in the Raid Gauloises, the 11-day, 500-mile adventure race that went through South Africa and Lesotho
ANGELIKA CASTANEDA
She bonked!
She did not eat enough in an Eco Challenge. She ended up on the ground, crying, vomiting, defecating, had incoherent speech and did not have the strength to get back on her feet.
“MY BODY WILL EAT FROM ITSELF…”
“Don, don’t worry about me.
I will be OK. I will not die on you. I will feel like I will die but I won’t. My body will eat from itself.”
But, I knew I had reached (beyond) my full potential!
As my 7th toe nail came off in Lesotho South Africa, the mountain section of the 500-mile competition, Angelika reprimanded me for not removing my toe nails before the event. “…Remove them all and have the skin sewn together so they don’t grow back.”
IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE…
“IT IS NOT THE MOUNTAIN WE CONQUER, BUT OURSELVES.” - SIR EDMUND HILLARY
NANCY STEVENS SUMMITS THE GRAND TETON! CONSIDER EVERY LIMITATION A CHALLENGE
It’s only those who push themselves “too far” will ever find out just how far they can actually go.
Compare extreme sports to a SEAL mission…
As a SEAL my deployments have been to places such as:
Philippines Somalia Korea Yemen Afghanistan Iraq Serbia Peru Ethiopia Israel Thailand Colombia El Salvador Panama Bolivia Honduras Horn of Africa Egypt Bahrain South Africa
(now operating in 89 countries)
U.S NAVY SEAL TRAINING
THE MOST DIFFICULT MILITARY TRAINING IN THE WORLD PRODUCES THE TOUGHEST WARRIORS ON THE PLANET.
THE SPARTANS DID NOT ASK “HOW MANY ENEMY ARE THERE, BUT WHERE ARE THEY.”
If you’re training, racing, fighting, working etc… hard,
giving it your all, and moving at,“race pace” then expect and welcome the pain. Pain Breeds Strength Pain is Good Extreme Pain is Extremely Good!
There Are Two Types Of Pain:
The Temporary Pain Of Discipline and The Permanent Pain Of Regret
Regret for the things
TERRORIST-RICH ENVIRONMENTS
terrorist-rich environments, having the proper combat mindset is not an option, but a requirement.
Hands tied behind our backs and feet tied together… “Now tread water until we get tired...” – SEAL Instructor
SEAL Training Instructor:
because you are uncomfortable…”
be pulled out of the water and it will be considered passing…”
One Student Drowned… 8 out of 125 passed.
“They, the weak, will be the ones to quit once the shooting begins.” – SEAL Instructor Another lesson that lasted me a lifetime and saved my life at least once.
17,999 feet, night jump, full combat equipment. Bad exit, O2 mask knocked off, dislocated jaw, cut away…
HAHO
SHIP ASSAULT MISSION
malfunction procedures x 4.
“One quick breath- and the pain would be over.” “Where and how would they find my body?”
As a SEAL, not giving your 100% is never an
It should never be an option in any reputable profession…
SEAL squad parachuted under the cover of darkness…
snakes and frogs
14 assailants armed with AK 47s… Held at gunpoint overnight They were going to shoot us in the backs for trespassing
CAPTURED
We completed the mission and got out alive. We never thought about giving up because it was too hard or we were too uncomfortable. * I am very fortunate because I have been
captured and released twice.
IT IS DURING OUR DARKEST MOMENTS THAT WE MUST FOCUS TO SEE THE LIGHT
SEAL Team SIX parachuted into Somalia to rescue two aid workers from their three-month captivity in Somalia, HUTS - 9 Ts KIA
SEAL Team 6 Snipers Kill 3 Pirates And Rescue Captain
snipers on the deck of the USS Bainbridge, simultaneously shot and killed 3 pirates in a lifeboat.
the American cargo ship captain unharmed.
THE OSAMA BIN LADEN RAID
SEAL Team Six killed al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Under the cover of darkness on May 1, 2011, SEALs killed UBL and several OF his followers. The team returned to Afghanistan with a wealth of intelligence information.
THE UBL RAID
“IT WAS LIKE SHOOTING PAPER TARGETS, NO RESISTANCE AT ALL. WE NEVER HAD A TRAINING MISSION THAT EASY”.
NAVY SEAL CHRIS CAMPBELL
One of 17 SEALs killed Aug. 2011 Helicopter shot down in
Afghanistan.
It only strengthened the resolve of
his teammates!
They all became stronger and
gained strength from this incident!
The worst single loss of life in the
history of the SEAL Teams built commitment to the mission and to
I never wanted to be the person who ended up saying,“ I should have done this, or should have done more, I should have tried harder, I should have given more, I should never have let go of the dream.” I want to be and will be the person to say, “I did all I ever wanted to do and more. I accomplished all I wanted to accomplish, I pushed myself to my full potential and achieved all of my goals. Most importantly, I was there for those who needed me. I absolutely had nothing left at the finish line.” One day you may wake up and there may not be anymore time for you to do all that you want to do. Don’t let time take your dreams away. .
“Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting... ‘Wow...what a great ride!’”
Thank you for your attention. I wish you all great success in all that You do in life!
Don D. Mann “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday”