I served all my adult life in the US Navy SEAL Teams and trained for years learning how to execute viscous and devastating ambushes on enemy forces if given the chance.  In Sept of 2007, I felt first-hand what it feels like to be on the receiving end of this overwhelming firepower.  The feeling of devastation.  The feeling of helplessness.  The desire to just hunker down and hope the pain, cacophony of sound and raw firepower would just go away.  But after years of learning how to deliver an ambush, my team and I knew, the only way to survive was to fight back and get off the X.  This is what we did and thanks to my teammates tenacity and courage, we won the fight and everyone made it home alive. 

I quickly learned that I got off one X only to step into a new ambush and a new X.  It was the life ambush that erupted due to my injuries and the four-year journey of surgeries, rehabs, setbacks and successes that led ultimately to my medical retirement from the SEAL Teams.  I could have gotten bitter. But Thanks to my training, I recognized the mechanics of an enemy ambush were the same as the real-world ambush I found myself in and the only thing I could do to survive was to GET OFF THE X! 

Today, I have come to learn and appreciate people all over the world have been crushed and overwhelmed by life ambushes.  And like so many bewildered enemy forces caught in the cross fire, they sit on the X and wither and die.   Maybe not physically, but emotionally and mentally, they cease living after this catastrophic event.  I am here to tell you, in order to survive and thrive, you have to GET OFF THE X.  There are the principles I am now teaching in my online courses through my customised online training site and accompanying free JR Overcome App.  There you can get courses from overcoming a life ambush, to a study guide for my new Overcome Book or even a course  to prepare young men who want to become SEALs.  New courses are being added regularly.