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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Perhaps you’re feeling stuck, or even trapped, in some area of your life. Maybe a job or a hobby which you once loved has turned into a chore – or a relationship has gone sour. The problem is, you can’t quite imagine giving it up. You’re still clinging to the early hopes you had, or [...]

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In this post, I am going to detail my experiences finding the right place for our business at the right price. We found it, and last week, we signed the lease. We are remodeling and moving in over the next six weeks. We’ve been planning to move christinesbooks.net from our home to a commercial bricks [...]

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Are you like me? When you decide to do a thing, you want to act immediately. You strive for constant progress toward your goal, then you run into obstacles… things that are out of your control… like other people who have other plans… but you need them to reach your goal. Then you try to [...]

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Have you heard that 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95% fail in the first five years? Let me tell you why. Most small businesses fail becuase they can’t handle debt, get buried by rent, or get pushed into risky decisions by impatient investors. I’ve seen a lot of business fail [...]

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A friend and blogger ApplePieMom brought an idea to my attention yesterday in her post Living Dangerously. The idea that living dangerously enhances life is a conundrum that rolls around in my head frequently. I understand AppliePieMom’s point that simply taking a few economic risks isn’t the same fighting in a war zone. No doubt. [...]

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The lessons kids learn in school that aren’t part of the official curriculum are the most powerful lessons taught in these institutions. John Taylor Gatto wrote about the unofficial lessons he taught in school. Today I have one to add to his list. Respect can be achieved through the purchase and acquisition of status symbols. [...]

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Let’s talk about money. Someone will probably call me insensitive or naive for posting this, but I don’t care. It’s important. Please keep in mind, I’m talking about people with normal to above average incomes, not senior citizens on SSI or single moms on state assistance. I understand there are hard cases. I heard a [...]

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Before you attempt to answer the question “Are You an Extraordinary Person?” read this story. After my mother-in-law watched our interview with Jonathan Fields on Career Renegades she mentioned to Christine, “I wish Steve wouldn’t talk like he was this regular ordinary guy. Why does he do that? We know that he isn’t ordinary at [...]

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Jonathan Fields was kind enough to interview us on Career Renegade TV. We loved doing this interview. Jonathan is a great guy and makes you feel at ease. We planned to do audio only but at the last minute we decided to go for the video. Let us know what you think. We talk mostly [...]

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