About the Book
Wanting to win and striving to achieve your personal best with the hope of winning are two completely different desires. This guide for advance study of comprehensive mastery helps the reader by positioning out a step-by-step process for doing the latter. The 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.
This guide for advance study will help the reader grow deeper and assist the reader to achieve excellence in sport and life.
About the Author :
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.
Review :
Robert F. Dees, Major General, U.S. Army, Retired, Author of The Resilience Trilogy and Resilience God-Style
President, Resilience Consulting LLC, www.resilienceGodstyle.com
All-In or Nothing Rick outlines a nine-step process to achieve excellence in one's chosen field, starting with determining God's purpose for your life. I encourage you to dive into each of these steps as you glean wisdom from each page of this book.
Significant to me as the author of Resilience God Style, Rick asserts that excellence in any endeavor can be achieved from growth and balance in the Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, and Spiritual realms within each person. He further states, "The most critical and indispensable component of mastering one's destiny is the Spiritual realm, which so few people understand or effectively apply. Without it, duty, honor, and discovery are a myth; getting into 'the zone' is vanishingly rare. When God directs the activity, all is possible and being 'in the zone' in any arena is commonplace." While each realm is important, the areas of overlap produce compound effects. Where the Physical, Intellectual, and Spiritual realms do overlap, for example, one finds discovery. Discovery is where new ideas, synergy, and creativity are hatched and nurtured. Highlighting the real "sweet spot" of performance, Rick concludes: "Where all four realms overlap, one finds character (the person God intended you to be), toughness, resiliency, and results."
A very practical and useful aspect of All-In or Nothing is discussion surrounding beliefs and habits which add to and detract from one's abilities to achieve success in all four areas.
These concepts go beyond theory--Rick has personally applied and demonstrated the perspectives and techniques in his own life. He has honed this process at both the macro and micro levels and applied it directly to silhouette shooting. In 2019 he won the practical hunter aggregate (3 guns) category at the International Silhouette Championships, setting a record of 240/240.
All-In or Nothing represents a major contribution to the field of performance coaching. Notably and somewhat uniquely it puts valuable tools into a holistic package including the Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, and Spiritual dimensions which comprise each of us. I know I will benefit from the many valuable techniques in this book--and I am sure you will, too.
Dr. William S. Spears, CEO - Founder, Cenergistic
I'm proud to recommend his book as a best practice for success -- I've witnessed the results myself, and have been blessed to learn and grow from our association.
William F. Galli, P.E., G.E., CEO, The Galli Group
This book will provide understanding and direction on how to go to the next level and be the best you possible.
Hal Porter, MBA, Partner, Summit Wealth & Retirement Partners
Rick has a heart for others, a servant's mentality, and a commitment to personal excellence. This book has actionable steps, and is a read everyone can benefit from.
David I. Henslee, Physical Therapist and Certified Health and Wellness Coach
A must-read for the success-minded sojourner.
Michael Abel, Owner, Operator Rogue Precision Gunworks
"Synergy"... When and unwavering positive attitude, proper tools and process come together, success is imminent! A must read...
