I can’t give you all the details of what happened but…
I can say that one small slip in focus or drop in attention can send the people who are trusting you with their lives… in a casket back home.
Leaving you having to explain to their families that it was your fault…
Or having to live with the guilt that because you didn’t have the right mental sharpness.
One thing I really learned about my experience as Frogman was that the lack of mental sharpness could cost a family…
Their son…
Daughter…
Wife…
Husband…
Or parent.
I had the pleasure of leading and serving with some great men and women.
Some of them you may have heard of because they are books and movies made about them.
When I retired, I started to see a decline in my mental sharpness…
I thought I lost my touch…
This was true because what I was doing and taking as a civilian was made to help someone be mentally sharp for sending an email report in…
Not leading 400 men to victory.
Civilian-Centered Nutrition was lowering my mental sharpness to that of an average Joe…
Who didn’t have their partner or teammate relying on him to have their back.
Forgetting the simplest of things, I couldn’t rely on the limitless pill to make things “magically” get better…
That doesn’t exist.
So I flipped through my black book’s pages to see if there was anything I could find on turbocharging my mental sharpness…
And what I found to help me with this is beets.