If your kids are like mine, and don’t care for team sports, MMA is an excellent alternative. My son does MMA training 3 nights a week at the American School of Martial Arts in Savage MN. When he chose to take Karate, we visited several different schools, and he decided on MMA. He liked the [...]

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Great leaders show us tomorrow will be better than today because we control the future. Having a better tomorrow is a decision we get to make. We decide what happens next. Great leaders face down our enemies and attack them relentlessly. What enemies I am writing of? The enemies of all mankind, fear and resentment. [...]

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Photo by Alice Popkorn Would you like to overcome anxiety? The only antidote to fear is consistent, repetitive, courageous action. The majority of people avoid public speaking. They fear it more than death. Are you one of the people who are afraid of public speaking? Would you like to overcome it? Do your hands shake? [...]

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Do you want to know the formula I used to go from destitution, without a dollar in my pocket to having a beautiful wife, two children, a rewarding career, and a home based business, a change so dramatic that my descriptions of it on this blog will never do it justice? Do you want to [...]

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Thanks to Copyblogger, I found a great blog, the CEO Blog – Time Leadership written by Jim Estill CEO of Synnex Canada. Jim’s post on Copyblogger – Shorter is Better was tearing it up on Twitter a few days ago. Graywolf (Michael Gray) wrote, “ if you read only one post this day, this month [...]

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Photo by Tomoyoshi Have you set a goal (like a business plan or a weight loss regimen) in a burst of energy and excitement, only to find after a few weeks the excitement fades? Your progress slows, then stops, and you regress to where you started? Unfortunately, for many of us, this has become a [...]

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I sent out a twitter this afternoon that said… Whip the fear of poverty by reaching a decision to get along with whatever wealth you can accumulate without worry – Napoleon Hill 1937 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is one of the greatest instruction manuals for handling the economic conditions we face as [...]

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What is confidence? It is believeing in yourself It is believing in others It is trust It is faith How do you build it? By learning to think any way you want to. Let me explain.

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If we have a shortage of one thing in America… it is leadership. I just heard our President on the radio this morning attempting to scare the shit out of us. That isn’t leadership. A real leader would say: I’m not going to lie to you. I believe in you and I know you can [...]

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Do you know why so many ‘gifted’ children go on to produce mediocre results with their ‘gifts’? How many times have you heard someone say, “I’m a talented guy, why can’t I achieve results like him? How did someone with such average intelligence, average looks, and average ability, become so successful?”  Vince Lombardi, a man [...]

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