Wanting to win and striving to achieve your personal best with the hope of winning are two completely different desires. This book lays out a step-by-step process for doing the latter. This approach can be used effectively in sports, relationships, hobbies, career, or however you want to creatively apply it. Excellence and character are goals worth pursuing. You can change your behavior to make your improvement desires become reality.
Rick Redd, MD uses COL John Boyd’s OODA loop design for his basic decision-making structure. He then compartmentalizes each of us into four realms: Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, and Spiritual, and describes twenty-one specially-selected habits which fit into these realms. He describes 27 different ways to implement these habits, some of which are quite novel and innovative, including eating right, exercising, getting enough sleep, and the essential need to use approved and quality supplements to bolster the nutritional content of the foods we eat. With these habits in play, measure your progress and generate differential advantages in sport and business. This macro-process applies to everyone in the same way running or walking enhances aerobic fitness. Rick outlines the architecture for a micro-process, specific to each position, sport, event, or job. This personalizes the system for the reader.
The author strongly accentuates our Spiritual realm and shows why it is so important to our growth and development as athletes, students, and human beings. He explains how we often short-circuit our ability to achieve duty, honor, discovery, character, maturity and, ultimately, our potential, when we fail to develop our Spiritual side.
This system is well organized, practical, and a tremendous aid to athletes, students, musicians, artists, engineers, plumbers, housewives, grandparents, or anyone who honestly desires to manifest their God-given destiny.
Richard A. (Rick) Redd was born and raised in South Western Oregon. Growing up, he was an avid sports enthusiast and fan. His father introduced him to competitive rifle marksmanship when Rick was eight years old. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1972, and while there he shot on their NCAA Division I indoor rifle team and their outdoor hi-power rifle team. He began shooting pistol silhouettes (IHMSA) in 2012. Since that time he has earned many prestigious awards at the West Coast Championships, Texas State Championships, Oklahoma State Championships and Region 4 Silhouette Championships. In July 2019, using the process he describes in this book, he set an International aggregate record in the Practical Hunter category (240/240). Rick has also applied these principles to gardening, woodworking, and other hobbies with great success. Rick has been an MD, Radiologist since 1981. He retired from the US Army in 2006, after 24 years of active Federal Service. He has been CEO of Five Star Imaging, an active teleradiology practice, since 2006. He lives in Wichita Falls, Texas with his wife, Julie. Rick's hope is that athletes and others who desire to excel in life will find a process here that they can use effectively, and that by incorporating all realms of this process into their lives, they can be the best they can possibly be at their chosen sport or avocation.
