Day 5 of 75 Hard: Complete the Mission

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I continue on to complete the mission… no matter what.

As a Marine I was taught that mission completion was above everything.

To complete the mission was more important then an individual Marine, then yourself, or the Marines in your command. Giving my life seemed easy. Losing my Marines seemed impossible.

As a young Marine, I was given missions constantly. Then as a Platoon Sergeant, I was given bigger missions and even had to write my own. The missions were all more important than anything.

Even the missions I gave my Marines had to fit into the ConOps (Concept of Operations) or what the goals of the commanders above me were. And they needed to complete them without fail.

Now that I’m out of the Military, I find my missions not as important and less than motivating.

Now and then I find a mission that is worth putting as much effort in as when I was in the military. The 75 Hard Challenge is such a mission and I’m treating it as such.

Every so often in life, you should take on a task that you will complete or die trying. Some people find extreme sports, some people run marathons and triathlons. Some never find something more important than themselves.

It seems that we do very few things that we would actually do or die trying in our modern world. What is the last thing you did that you were going to complete or die trying? Not many things these days.

A mission is something you will do. There is no stopping or giving up. A mission that is truly important you will complete or die trying.

It’s hard to put a name to it for many people. Military men and women just have something different from them. It’s this quality that makes military members different than normal people.

Pick up a “complete the mission” attitude like a Marine would. Learn that you do tasks, but you complete missions.

Set your missions in life carefully. Once you figure out what your mission is, go after it with everything you have, and don’t let anything stop you.

Complete the mission or die trying.

Ben Branam