👊🏽 The (NEW) Newsletter! 🔹Blue Grit🔹(1/26)
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Hey Grit Nation!
Welcome to the new newsletter (dat new new) Blue Grit Newsletter. (You may have received a first run- this one is updated with more info!) After much asking and nudging from viewers and listeners- it is here and a thing! This is THE place to get the most specific, actionable tips and reflections I can share on the regular. Most of my topics come from events and incidents in police in my region and around the country, what I’m reading and listening to, and questions from the fantastic likes of you!
Thank you for your continued support- and honestly your drive to be your best and elevate our community to do the same!
💡 This Week’s Gritty Thought
Is this serving me? Is this serving my Mission?
We all know about goals. I venture that your tuning into my page, IG, podcast, and this newsletter indicates you are self-initiated, determined and introspective to be working on developing the best version of yourself.
So when we hit a crossroads with options, decisions, temptations, opportunities- what do we do? How do we decide our choices?
Ultimately, I have been exercising the thought of: “Does this serve me? Does this serve my goals, purpose, Mission?” We all need a mission, and though not all things fit neatly in or outside of that, many things do.
First example- recently, I got home from working a bit later than my early bird body likes these days. However, I do it now and then since I need to see my grave crew and sergeants for actual face time. When I got home, I was cold, exhausted, and “hungry.” I put it in quotes because I wasn’t actually hungry- I just was stressed, tired, and wanted to self-soothe with food. Thus, I hit the pantry and started munching. Started feeling mindless about it. Then I started doom scrolling to accompany my snacking- that’s a slippery slope for me!
Although I should have/could have gone to bed from the jump- I paused and realized what would SERVE me was doing just that. Not taking in useless calories but giving my body what it really needed- actual sleep. The goal is to pause, recognize, and alter course without blame or shame.
Second example, in the past couple months, I was offered an opportunity to join a rapidly growing company to help teach and train cops to recruit across the nation. Impact and influence are big drivers for me, and I not only was humbled by the invitation, but started getting enticed by the potential to really help cops at scale- to take my learnings and help agencies all over get staffed up- thus helping build safer teams and communities.
After weeks of weighing and considering, learning more, I came to the realization that it was not going to serve me, at least not my larger framework of purpose, time, attention and intention. With a young daughter and already variably (high) career demands, new Blue Grit projects and endeavors, my time at and around home is so precious. I couldn’t justify the time/compensation/value to my family calculation. I passed on the gig, and knew immediately it was the right thing.
Whether it’s a bag of plantain chips or a work opportunity- running it by a simple prompt can help you iron out your simple (or complex) decisions.
🗣 Quote of the Week
“Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.”— Abraham Lincoln
It feels like anything and everything is polarized and politicized these days. It’s not just the new administration, but feels like each one increasingly since I’ve been an adult. This is NOT a partisan comment- hardly any of my public thoughts are, despite many online folks’ attempts to make them so.
This is a call to pause and focus on our locus of control. This is a call for empathy. Focus on your emotions, control your attitude. Ask yourself what is controlling you and why you give it the power to do so. Reflect on how you show up with, for, and around others. Those you like, those you don’t. Those you know, those you don’t.
Just like actual threats to our nation: foreign and domestic- we need to be wary of both. In police culture, we are very attune to dealing with external threats- dangerous armed felons, public scrutiny.. But what about our OWN. We eat our own and we need to get that in check.
Same team, guys and gals, same team.
🎙 New Podcast Episodes
As always please follow/subscribe, share the show and give a 5 star rating and review on Apple or Spotify!
🚀 174: Improving Cops with Tools, Info, Attitude w/ Officer Devonta Richardson
✅ how to encourage a proactive, positive patrol culture✅ how to find the information and resources you need✅ how attitude affects everything
🚀 175: Do YOUR Job, Old School vs. New School Academy and Patrol Dynamics w/ Sgt. Brian Anderson
✅ one of my old academy mates and I discuss back in the day✅ generational dynamics of old vs new school✅ knowing your role and communication for better teams
🚀 176: A Word to Police Applicants & Active Officers, on the Hiring Landscape, the Career, and What Mindset is Needed
✅ Hiring landscape today✅ Importance of Mindset✅ Resources to help
🚀 177: How to Improve Leadership in Police or ANY Organization, w/ Jonni Redick (ret. AC of CHP) and Oakland McCullouch (ret. Army LTC)
✅ Simple tenets, application is harder✅ Leadership development and mentorship
☀️Wellness 🍎
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Anyhow- now with an affiliate program, I can provide you all a 10% discount by using code: BLUEGRIT on at nutricost.com or click HERE to access the instant discount in your cart.
Why L-Theanine and Magnesium? (Cue, BETTER SLEEP!)
L-theanine is naturally occurring in green tea; it helps explain why you may buzz on coffee but not on green tea. It can have a very mild calming effect, which is why I usually take it at bedtime; it is also VERY common in high cost sleep supplement cocktails these days.
Based on recommendations from pros like Andrew Huberman, Dr. Kirk Parsley, Shawn Stevenson and more, I tend to use Magnesium in the form of glycinate or threonate instead of citrate or oxide (these are common in cheap drug stores versions).
You can find these 3 highly recommended versions at Nutricost; here I have already selected the threonate and L-Theanine in a cart with the discount code (GOOD TO GO!)
📰 News & Offerings
🔥 Entry Level Online Group Coaching starting up Feb 12- reply back to reserve your spot! (Feb and March, twice a month in the evening. Q and A, direct feedback, tips and more! Recorded if you miss a session).
📌 Hiring Guide AND the Promotional Testing Guide (for Sgt, Command, etc.) are both LIVE! Everything you need to know for the processes, prep, and actually showing up your best for the job!
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As always, thanks for being part of this positive, driven community to do and be our best: for ourselves, our families, teams, and more. Share this newsletter and what’s helpful! Send your questions, feedback, and topic ideas!
Stay safe, stay hungry, and stay gritty!
Tung
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*Legal disclaimer, please do not consider anything in this newsletter as medical or legal advise from Eric Tung or Blue Grit. I’m just giving helpful tips, resources and insight. Consult your people and professionals and be your own advocate!
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