🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path
It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this.
What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸
"Call of Duty" co-creator Vince Zampella died in a firey, high-speed, single-car crash in Los Angeles. He was driving a red 2026 Ferrari 296 GTS. Went out with a bang for sure. RIP 🙏🏿
There's something I never spoke about until last night.
I often talk about the power of being calm, but that's no good to you in high stress moments unless I tell you this:
Being calm doesn't exclude stress or tension. It channels that energy.
Your precision in the moment is directly correlated with your ability to feel intense pressure without surrendering to it.
You are still calm. Relatively.
And you will never learn to be calm absolutely until you can keep your cool under pressure.
Self-defense instructors intentionally turn up the heat during training so that you learn to think when the adrenaline is flowing.
They call it stress inoculation.
It's easier to achieve this in the singular context of self-defense than it is the many facets of your life.
So we practice being calm and returning to composure. Over and over. Even in the crush of multiple stressors. Especially in the crucible of conflict.
And then it happens...
Life slings a fast ball at your groin and you step aside and bunt.
The ball is in play. Everyone and everything has to reset except you.
Because you never lost your focus. The heightened moment was no big deal.
In that moment of inevitable conclusion you change the narrative by being the only person cool enough to do it.
We all want that. Few will develop the ability to do it.
Banner Elk,NC*WILDFIRE*
Near Banner Elk and Beech Mountain is now 120 acres with 50% containment, multiple fire departments from Avery and Watauga counties, the NC Forest Service and U.S Forest Service working, 📸>Jamie Shell
Avery County #FireinNC