20 Minutes Between Snacks…..Quick Holiday Workout Ideas
It is the best time of the year again, to be with the ones we love, relax, recharge……and get fat! Here are a few quick workouts to keep your body as close to it’s pre holiday shape as possible, or at...
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Success and failure are both unavoidable parts of our everyday lives. Fortunately neither one is final. They are merely part of a larger plan. They are part of a bigger process. Even better they are...
View ArticleAfter Passion, Before Success
Passion is a great tool, an excellent motivation, it burns white hot fueling, and driving you towards your goals. However hot it burns it unfortunately fades just as quickly. That drive, that emotion...
View ArticleYour Competition
Your competition is working, they are trying new things, doing things differently from you, trying to grow and expand. Your competition may be younger, may have more resources, may have more money, may...
View ArticleCrazy Ideas…..
Nothing ground breaking, nothing extrodinary, nothing that changed the world started as a run of the mill idea. “We are going to fly to the moon.” “I am going to take this moldy bread and make...
View ArticleHe’s not finished with me yet…..
It’s easy to get depressed. To get down on yourself, to see all that is wrong with yourself, to reflect on all those mistakes still frozen in your past. Every time you recall them, the pain seems so...
View ArticleEyes Forward
It is easy to focus on what happened, what we didn’t get, how bad it was. It is easy to keep your eyes fixed on the past, after all it is the easy route. Just reliving an unchanging past, no matter how...
View ArticleNo Shortcuts
Choose the hard path, embrace the grind, the struggle, and the pain. Fix your eyes on the highest peak and start climbing. It’s not the destination that makes you a champion, that earns you respect, or...
View ArticleOceans away, right beside you
When I was a child I spent a great deal of time waiting for a Father who was not there. He was literally an ocean away for most of my young life. There was no email, or facetime, no facebook, or...
View ArticleThe Bow Tie and Dog Collar Approach to Training…..
In life, in business, in relationships always….act with class, take the high road, smile when it is difficult, swallow your words even when you feel the acid bubbling up. Keep your bow tie straight,...
View ArticleHow or Why?
We spend a great deal of time thinking, worrying, and hesitating over all of our “how’s”…… “How will we afford this, how can I start working out in this shape, how will I make time to eat better, to...
View ArticleSuccess and Happiness
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” -Minsella Is what your working so hard for bringing you success or happiness? If your working your life away to be...
View ArticleMaking Room for Can
We all walk around talking to ourselves all day…..it’s true. In fact, we speak to ourselves more than we speak to anyone else. What is interesting is not that we talk to ourselves, but what we are...
View ArticleYour Chains……
What is tying you down, dragging you down, holding you in place under its weight? What are the chains that bind your hands, steal your joy, and crumble the ground underneath your feet? What are the...
View ArticleOur Unique Connections….
A few years ago my Jiu-Jitsu instructor started teaching me about the importance of connection in jiu-jitsu. The concept radically transformed the effectiveness of my jiu jitsu, and took away some of...
View ArticleSuccess Beyond Talent
Early success is a mix of talent and luck. Simply being in the right place at the right time, or having a natural inclination to something, make initial achievement seem easy. Continued success...
View ArticleStart…..at the end
Have you ever been on a plane that didn’t announce it’s destination? How successful would the airline industry be if they didn’t? Would you get on a plane if you had no idea where it was...
View Article1,000 Reasons to Quit
There are 1,000 reasons to quit on your goal, at least 1,000. Some of which are even valid, that make sense, are rational, pragmatic reasons. Some of them pull at your heartstrings, make you emotional,...
View ArticleFind the Right Ears
I wanted to share with you guys an excerpt from a new book project I am working on with Nate Lambert, we have been working with children and families going through bullying situations for the past few...
View ArticleA Simple Hello
We have been doing talks on kindness, and bullying over the past few years. We have it down to a science, student involvement, impactful stories, ideas, and strategies to become mindfully kind, to...
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