CZ Lopez

At that moment,

I told them, it's like, hey, look, so this 20 silver bullet things that I gave you is not lip service.

That is an expectation of who you need to be specifically to be successful in this environment.

If you're not ready, you will fail.

And I'm here to prevent every single one of you from failing.

But I can only do so much.

It is your personal responsibility to play by the rules, to abide by the standards and to do whatever the nation needs you to do.

And it was from that paper that eventually, 20 years later, we end up with the book that we have today.

I have to give credit to Janet once again, because the original concept, clearly, you know, I kept these notebooks, these most kind notebooks, and I was always taking notes.

And those notes were nothing more than the bookkeeping of my character, right?

The salary of that bookkeeping was nothing more than the honor to serve, right?

And the currency was credibility.

And every single failure was a withdrawal on that investment.

But unless you kept the books, you couldn't realize when you were falling short the most, what you were doing at the time, and how to prevent it.

So I started keeping copious notes.

About 13 notebooks later, I decided to extract some of those lessons learned.

And I started shaping them into mission accomplishment and readiness.

And that was a way to sequentially highlight the company you kept, the actions that are expected to you.

How good are you at rule following, standards?

How well do you treat other people?