Dependability means that you can be relied upon to perform your duties properly. It means that you can be trusted to complete a job. It is the willing and voluntary support of the policies and orders of the chain of command. Dependability also means consistently putting forth your best effort in an attempt to achieve the highest standards of performance.

Judgment is your ability to think about things clearly, calmly, and in an orderly fashion so that you can make good decisions.

Justice is defined as the practice of being fair and consistent. A just person gives consideration to each side of a situation and bases rewards or punishments on merit.

What is the difference between a leader and a boss? Is there truly a difference or are we just splitting hairs.

Today we will examine why we make the career choices that we make. How can you make the correct choice when it comes to your career?

When I entered USMC boot camp I discovered their way of forcing recruits to discipline their minds, mouths, and bodies. No Pro-Nouns and Close Order...

Let’s examine the importance of self-discipline. We view the term “discipline” as a negative because it makes us think about punishment...

Your personal success and your personal failures can be largely attributed to either an application of or a lack of discipline...

Absolutes; when you say Always or Never, you set yourself up to be wrong. Beware of the tendency to embrace absolutes. “Zero Tolerance” for instance is absolutely wrong and it allows for both tyrannical behavior and intellectually lazy behavior.

Absolutes are like Natural, Inalienable Rights, they are few and far between.

Desire and deserve are not interchangeable terms, despite the fact that modern American use them as such. What you desire may not be deserve and what you deserve may not be what you desire.

If you believe you deserve something what have you done to earn it? The trouble with the millennial crowd is that they all believe they deserve everything that they desire just because they want it.

How do you rebuild burned bridges or repair fractured relationships? Can you be the one who helps others to rebuild their strained or broken relationships? Remember, anger is not a sin, but it is also not a strategy. There is time to consider whether or not a relationship is salvageable...

Ask yourself if the relationship was mutually beneficial to both parties or just to one? Was the respect reciprocal or largely one sided. Were you doing all of the work in the relationship?...

One of my favorite classes to teach to my military students was Land Navigation. The learned to use a map, compass, and protractor. In order to get to the designated point on the map, students needed to first know where they were and move on from there...

Personal goal setting is very similar to land navigation. Step one is to know where you are on the map. This goes back to our previous discussion of honest self-assessment...