CZ Lopez

How serious do you take your purpose and duty?

How in tune are you with yourself to be humble?

So I sequentially started putting all those things together and I started writing.

when i gave it to janet the first time she bled all over that paper she's like good lance ray you're just freaking chasing your tail about talking too much about stuff just make it short sweet and to the point people don't have to write don't have the time to read all this blabber they probably don't care about it so how about you make it two to three sentences per silver bullet and then put it out there

I listen, like every good husband, I listen to her advice.

And that's the paper that you saw, the 20 silver bullets.

Yeah.

Now.

It was supposed to be local for the first special operations wing.

But what I got to see year after year was that more and more people will mention the paper.

He's like, oh, I got your 20 silver bullets.

I just used it for this professional development session.

I just used it as a lecture over here at this professional military education keynote that I did.

And it was both officer and enlisted and some civilians even.

So this went on for 15 years plus.

And eventually when I was getting ready to retire, I was approached by a publisher that said, hey, I read your paper and I think you have something here.

Have you ever thought about writing a book?

And I said, nope, never thought about it.

You know, that was then, this is now.

It's like, hear me out.