As legend goes, every Joint Task Force Guantanamo Trooper adapts to one of four specific archetypes by the end of their time at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Are you a gym rat or do you prefer peace and solitude at the end of a work day to reflect on your thoughts? Or quite possibly do you prefer a smooth stiff drink or a decadent fatty meal? Regardless of your naughty decisions supposedly every JTF Trooper will fall into one of the four categories before their demobilization back home: a hunk, chunk, drunk or monk. Although my thought is pure and simple, why not become a collaboration of all of the above? “Nobody wants to be placed into a box or labeled,” said a JTF GTMO Trooper. “I feel like there have been times during my time …show more content…
“Sometimes I blame it on my time at the gym and then other times I realize it might be my second or fourth plate on surf and turf days. I did a lot of the same stuff every day: get up early, hit the gym or run, go to work, then go to the beach or enjoy a fun game with some friends if I wanted followed by a few beers before calling it a night. I developed a routine so even when work was stressful I still had something to look forward to; I guess the outcome really came from those routines I maintained.” The routines of highly successful people are often showcased in Forbes Magazine; little known fact, the younger Venus and Serena Williams woke up daily at 6 a.m. to hit tennis balls before heading off to school, ultimately leading them to become two of the most affluent tennis players in history. “Once you understand that habits can change,” Duhigg concludes in his book of habits, “you have the freedom — and the responsibility — to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power becomes easier to grasp, and the only option left is to get to work.” Whether you leave NSGB 25 pounds heavier of muscle mass or brain mass; and even if that is not the person you want to be you can change that when you want to and feel ready, THAT is your