This was sent to me by a friend, Curt Cronin, who is a Navy SEAL. He lost some very close friends in the recent helicopter crash in the Middle East. He has given me permission to share this, so please read it because I know his words will impact you in some way positive in your life right now: 

“I've spent several days the past week or so going to the memorials for the SEALs that I had commanded, fought alongside, and knew more about than my wife for quite some time.  

Tony Robbins always talks about that everyone goes to their emotional home in a crisis.  

As we've spent a lot of time working on our own psychology, I watched as I cried with sadness with Connor and Rachel on my lap for the first 3-4 hours; then got into an unproductive angry state for about a day, and now feel the most incredible burning desire to live my life to the standards and integrate into myself the greatest aspects of each of these men. We must be the change agent that we want to see in the world.

The reason that I relate this to you, my brothers, is because based on the tremendous value that I gained from this group, I founded another group, which I also called the Brotherhood (in NSW, one of our quotes is "Long live the brotherhood."). That group was composed of 4 men - myself and 3 others. These were men of the absolute most incredible calibre; men that I aspire to be like as much as I aspired to contribute to just as in this group. 

All 3 of the other men were on that helicopter - so I want to pay forward their sacrifice to this group as well as all those that this group touches:  

We do not know the day or the hour; so we must live our life according to our destiny and not someone else's. I challenge you to find things in your daily life that you do because you think you should as well as those that you do because you know it is your gift and your destiny to do so. You know the drill - shit can anything that is off of your true essence and live your life radiantly as an example of what is possible if living congruently and chasing your dreams with the passion and the certainty that comes only from knowing you are guided to do so. People often tell me that being a SEAL is amazing. I say it's easy. You have a tremendous external driver to perform because if you don't you'll be dead in an hour. In life, we are all dying a little bit every day - we don't have unlimited time in these bodies. However, because it's longer in duration, it's easy to lose the drive and activation energy to live your destiny every day because you don't feel the water getting warmer degree by degree until you're cooked. I believe living a disciplined life is amazing - without the external driver because of internal drive.

Before they departed on deployment, there were two meetings that the guys asked me to attend with them. One of them I did not because I was "too busy." One I did. And I'll be forever glad that I did the one that I was too busy for and stood the group up last February, taking the incredible risks inherent in exposing myself, and know that we each connected souls before they passed out of this plane. 

The day of the crash, I was getting a brief from a 20 year professor at Stanford and the CEO of Jet Blue. You all know me - I should have been absolutely ecstatic and sitting happily like a little school boy learning. I was unbelievably uncomfortable - almost the sick feeling that you get when you are kicked in the balls - and I had no idea why. I learned 12 hours later that at the moment I was uncomfortable the helicopter with my men was crashing to the ground.

 I've never had as great a sense of being connected to the universe or of being guided as after the Egypt trip and continuing to look for, as Sage discussed, proof that we are guided. I challenge each of us, in our calls, in our interactions, in our lives - to state that which we would state if we had no fear of being rejected, to state that which we would state if we had no fear of not being loved, to live as if we are guided by God, the universe, and our unconscious mind to do and state the things that we feel in each moment.”