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Be yourself is bad lazy advice. You know that question that you layout for people, “What should I do?” You know when you’re looking at possibly a date or a job interview or important moment. “What should I do?” You are seeking information. You are seeking counsel. “How can I make this moment better?” Just …
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Secret societies don’t care about you. A fun little observation and it is that The Secret teachings of the Illuminati, the Rosicrucian’s, the Mason, Skull and Bones, the Trilateral Commission, generally the occult mysticism. And from the Mike Myers movie So I Married an Axe Murder, The Pentaverant, with Colonel Sanders before he died. Secret …
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The best style of karate to learn for a great life. It is not the one that you think it is. The way you are thinking about this endeavor is in styles and tactics. You are thinking about the methods of defending yourself. You are likely thinking about getting in shape. Learning discipline and several …
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The unique and special formula. A conversation with a friend regarding the Google Algorithm turned into an observation. The levels of interest and focus you freely give to the almighty Google prove you are not that special. We are all special except we are not. Amazon knows when you are ready to buy a …
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Promising You an Easy Life. An easy life is something we desire, who doesn’t want that? And it is the kind of life that results in an unedited, soft life. I would argue a trivial life. We can’t escape the trauma the hardship of this life it is in the nature of our existence, it …
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The Karate Master’s Indomitable Spirit. The following is a short except from our book Legends of the Masters… Two masters engaged in a contest before their assembled disciples. The results of the battle would determine once and for all who was the greater warrior. The struggle was long and fierce. Each man determined to make the …
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Craters of Improvement. We seek like-minded people. It feels good to get validating and to share similar ideas. We develop a tribe of sorts. But not a false tribe. As an example, your co-workers are a forced tribe. Your co-workers are constructed of people who meet the business needs and not yours. That is what …
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Karate Potential v. High Performance. The karate institution, the organization, regardless of the system is under the, “Karate Institution” umbrella. For our purposes, every system is the same. It isn’t about how you hold your fist; it is about the principle of competency. Competency is desired in every martial arts system across the planet. That …
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I’ll give my energy to this. The old saying, “You get what you focus on.” That’s about thoughts, will, and intention manifesting into action. It’s true. It’s as true as the changing seasons the choice of where you put that energy is the way of your flow. It’s the way that you go. The more …
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Building by Doing Your Work. Recently I donated a car to a company to get a tax credit and to easily get rid of my car it seemed like a good idea. The events lead me to need to contact them to make sure that they had received the car. The response was, “Do you …
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5 Things to Make Your Martial Arts Instructor Happy (And Stand Out from the Crowd) Martial arts students, beginner and seasoned alike typically truly want to make their instructor happy. It is natural, and a lot easier than you probably think. Listed here are what I believe to be the top five things you can …
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The Robert’s Rule of News is about the speed of news. Recently the actress Tanya Roberts died and she died twice. That is a case of fast reporting, and being the 1st to have the hot take in play here. The story is the actress Tanya Roberts died. Then it came out that she wasn’t …
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Karate must keep the high ground and here is proof from nature, history, battle, sports, and bars. Nature kills a horse from the ground up. What that means is the ground is bad and for us as martial artists. The ground is a bad place for a warrior. I addressed this in my 1st book, …
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The Future of Karate Instruction. Not the total future, but a part of it. In the conference room in San Diego, I was having a casual chat with one of the invitees to the meeting. We discovered we both had degrees in marketing. He owned a marketing company and I had at one time done …
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Your energy is key now “In these times.” That’s what the radio announcers and broadcasters like to say. “In these uncertain times,” or “These unprecedented times.” Yeah, yeah, yeah, heard a million times. Your Energy is Key Now, Right Now, More Than Ever The question is, “What do I do?” “What do we do in …
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My Love of Karate is Lost. The breakpoint, the loss of love is often the sensation of not finding purpose in martial arts. Internal Talk The internal conversation can be damaging. When you think you have lost your love of karate it sounds like a bad relationship in the last stages. “Why are we even …
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Karate teachers making you learn. Not really, teachers don’t make you learn. As a student, you are not required to learn. In the United States, the law says you will attend school. The goal is to get a basic education. But that goal is missed by the law. You are required to attend a school, …
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Old style karate is just that, old. This is not a condemnation of traditional karate, so before you dismiss what I say take a moment a read on. The silo of classic training tools. Posts driven into the ground to make for movement and balance drills is an example. Or the classic stone lever, called …
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Custom built minds and bodies. Our bodies and minds are plastic or malleable. The body can be adjusted and is adjusting to lift massive weights through repetition practice and diet. Eddie Hall the English strong man was a swimmer in his youth and then he changed his direction. The serial killer Ted Bundy lost weight …
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One massive step to learning karate fast. In martial arts, we are all about the mind-body connection. I have a saying I use in my dojo, “Control the mind, control the body, control the body control the mind.” as an example of the desire of remaining linked, of being unified as best one can. We …
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1 tip on being the greatest karate school. We live in a cost-driven world. Big box stores dominate retail commerce. Online services are driven to text and email interactions. Finding a phone number for a conversation with a vendor is a 20-minute search. And when you do get a person on the phone, they are …
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4 fast ways to getting fast karate, and one big idea. Getting fast can be about getting stronger and working with a coach. Make no doubt about it a professional athlete can jump high, run fast and bench press until the sun goes down. That is a high level of output. These skills are based …
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A karate move too risky for the NFL was developed by David D. “Deacon” Jones. Jones was an American Football player. Jones was dominant at his position of Defensive End. He specialized in sacking the Quarterback. Dropping the Quarterback for a loss of yard and stopping Running Backs for no gain was his job. Jones …
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The secret to better karate discipline. When we look at the people we admire they always possess some form of discipline. A focus, a clarity that leads to achievement. Here is a checklist audit to help you get a better sense of your discipline. Discipline Is Ritualized Discipline is ritualized. Ritual builds consistency and as …
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Small Wins Win The Day “Keep working at it you’ll get it.” They are trite sayings, “Just keep working.” The Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) use the motto, “Just keep pounding.” The idea of just keep working is seen as a positive and it is expressed both small and large. Small as …
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There is a saying that goes, “Letting somebody live rent-free in your head.” That saying means a person has long since left the situation, but you continue to go over what happened. The saying is attributed to Ann Landers who wrote in an advice column for 56 years. They Are Gone The idea is that …
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Others get the gift of Karate and you reap the benefits. It is not a complicated formula. By participating in martial arts, you are helping keep your health. That health is important and the longer you can have it the better off you are. And the better off are those that care about you. It’s, …
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Up your karate teaching game. The biggest change in karate is the instruction method. Recently while visiting friends the conversation came to a Human Resources (HR) meeting. The thrust of the HR meeting was the changing expectations of the work environment. Millennials expect different treatment than workers have had in the past. This is a …
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The Straight Line Mind of Karate. Karate is not a straight line. We live in a linear world. Our school system is linear. We enter school and go through the grades. The grades are segments designed to let us say, “You will begin here and at the end on this date.” And there are expectations …
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Martial Arts movies are valuable even though they are often dismissed. People often turn their nose up when Martial Arts movies are discussed. The Shaw Brothers Showed The Way These moves stretch the ideas of physics and human performance. Running through the treetops in, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The Samurai that can slice a head …
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Karate power through great technique. This is not about twisting a leg in the correct way for an excellent kick. It’s a global approach to your way of life. Reaction time degrades in the human experience. As we age the ability of our reflexes to operate at a high level becomes less. Not a lot, …
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Three things karate people should seek are going to vary no matter who you ask. The reason you will get many varied answers is each person is different. Yet we are built on the same substructure. The physical specimen could be advocating for more physical abilities. These people may say, “You need to be faster, …
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Circumstances and Fate in An Active Light. “If only this would be like that,” “If the situation would just break this way.” “What we need to have is the stars align yeah that will make everything right.” Well, there’s the crux of the situation. There’s the crux of the circumstances and fate. Standing around and …
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Karate Bunkai and what you find out is pinched from Archeology. In the archeological world, there is a saying about discoveries. “It’s not what you find, it’s what you find out.” What the archeologists are saying is important to the karate world. Stay with me because there is much to learn from this analogy. A …
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I lost my karate teacher. It happens. That is the short answer. Further, you are not going to get a tab “A’ fits slot “B” solution here. You’re going to get something bigger. The understanding that being at a loss is part of the journey. Loss is part of the martial arts journey. Eventually, almost …
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The award you do not want in the Martial Arts. The argument about your restrictions is a losing proposition. Sitting at the coffee shop with a buddy, he recognized a friend of his I didn’t know. He calls her over and in the course of the first thirty seconds of the meeting I learned of …
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Break the karate rules. Breaking what appears to be a rule is important. Here is how you, as a martial artist can break free of stifling rules that may not aide you in your martial arts journey. Rory Miller’s Permission sheet This is Rory Miller’s Permission sheet. The permission sheet has been in use for …
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Winning over pain two views. Pain and suffering are different and warriors and fighters hold them differently. Pain has an end. An example would be when the surgeon tells you that the procedure you are about to undergo has a four to six-week recovery period. You go to the calendar and mark off the days, …
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Being gentle with others. The story goes this way, as I remember it told to me. If I get a detail wrong you will still get the message. It took place several years ago about this time. In the states, we begin to make our Thanksgiving holiday plans up to a month or more in …
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The 3 traits of the Karate Zealot. They are similar to the sports fan. We all know that sports fan that has gone full in. The thing to do today is to create a Man Cave. And yes, it has been my experience that men dominate the world of sports fans. These folks are subject …
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Two distinct roles in your life. One is the role of citizen the other resident. These two positions result in how you hold yourself in your community. Resident v. Citizen A resident is a person living in a place, that’s pretty much what they do they live in that place. Done. A citizen has rights …
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The Best Karate in West Seattle. Each year at the West Seattle Karate Academy we meet with well over 100 people in the West Seattle / White Center area about their desire to start karate training. Our website is clear about the value of karate training. And the benefits associated with martial arts, as well …
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Discipline must blend into motivation. There are many ways to train the human mind. There are classic forms of meditation, contemplation, and education. No doubt some forms of disciplining the mind have been left off this small list. I am confident you can point to another overlooked form or version of the three presented. They …
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Concern is better than worry. Concern is life-affirming if used correctly. Worry is draining. Worry drains you and it drains those around. It steals your energy and is exhausting to those that surround you. The concern is external in many ways. Concern has a less internal residence in your emotional house. “Worry never robs tomorrow …
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It’s in the doing for a better life. That is a phrase that is common and thrown about with ease. But there’s also a deeper aspect to doing. That is making the effort about the steering of one’s life. A person not only needs to seize their life and their direction but make a concerted …
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Must I Retreat from the World? Here are some answers. Peter Owen Jones (1957- ) made a BBC 2, television production calling it, “Extreme Pilgrim.” Jones spent time researching and experiencing different religions. At one point found himself in the desert under the guidance of Fr. Lazarus. The transformation of Jones, over his time in …
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The Goldilocks Rule and martial arts. The Goldilocks rule is about avoiding excess. As a child growing up during the cold war the Olympics were a blood sport. The Olympics were about athletic competition. But the Olympics was also about The United States getting more medals than the Soviet Union. Olympics were a replacement for …
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A Martial Arts Mind Experiment. Can I take the guidance of a couple of leaders in their field to rewrite my mind? Yes, and here is the process. First off, I have a heart rate monitor, a Blood O2 monitor, and a brain wave monitor – this will make sense in a moment. It is …
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The Menu of Life. Life is likely not going to go as planned. Your life well, it does what it does and as much as you plan, things change. As much as you are an excellent planner, setting out that trajectory, establishing those goals, implementing them one after another successively. As you are moving towards …
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Organization changes everything and improvement is often unmeasured, it can’t be seen. That means it’s how I feel about my progress and the feeling is often worthless. Bear with me as I lean into aphorisms, and truisms to emphasize my point. The first one and we all know it, “What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t get …
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The big 3 Martial Arts rituals are made for Martial Arts Practitioners. But, with some adjustments, you can see how these three principles can be used in other places in life. This is not about specific ways to solve a problem it is about three ways to see behaviors. These three things are being taken …
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Learning agenda. Learning with an agenda is predisposing yourself to a conclusion. This type of learning serves a purpose but it also narrows our lives. We create silos of knowledge and the desire to learn and be entertained. We create silos of knowledge. In those silos, we have a predisposition. We have a planned outcome …
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Light the Lighthouse. Terror, fear, the pain they create confusion and then we go into survival mode. That’s not new the survival mode, but here’s a way to look at survival mode and how you might deal with it as somebody else is experiencing it. The Sub-Personality One way to look at this is as …
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The best reasons to attend a martial arts seminar. The reasons are four-fold, COVID has taught us, there is no replacement for being on the floor. Zoom classes are a nice bandage or as a banker might say a bridge loan, something to get us over a hard time. There is no substitution for being …
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A Martial Artist by a look? You know, can you judge a martial artist by a look? No. You know that, but let me share a few stories with you to illustrate the point. Big and Nasty In talking with a bouncer. I asked him about his skills, the implication being, “What martial art training …
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Is Kata useful in fighting? No, not at all. Kata comes from a time of illiteracy. Kata served as a tool to communicate to another person, “I have found this works when the bad guy comes.” Let’s look at this idea that kata doesn’t work in fighting through the lens of a boxing technique called, …
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Whispers of defeat and crab pots. The story of the crab pot goes like this. A bunch of captured crabs are in a bucket and as one crab has made it to the rim of the bucket, about to escape it gets pulled back down by the other crabs. The truth is that this is …
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Karate blocks, let’s make them work. We have all caught a punch in training. I don’t mean reaching out with chopsticks and catching a fly from the air, I mean guiding a punch straight into our chest. Not only does it hurt our arm or chest but it hurts our ego. “I thought was better …
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Victim times three. The title sounds like rejection or oddly an acceptance of what is happening, but in a strange and odd way. “This is not happening,” or I am a victim of a certain circumstance is not an attractive look. Business Destroyed Recently my karate dojo got flooded. The dojo was destroyed. The unit …
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Improve my life. The idea of improvement of getting better is not inherent in all of us. We do what we need to do and not much more. The caveman Grock needed a better smashing rock so what he did was he fashioned a new tool, enter the rock on a stick. The rock on …
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Cultivating a life. Are you a cultivating person or are you something other? Are you seeking change in your life or are you letting it pass by?
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Putting your world in place is important but I would argue that it's essential.
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Mistakes are part of life
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Monotony should be used
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The Sanchin kata testing was dynamic. After the examination, we gathered around the new Godan. The finger imprints from the teachers slapping the new Godan shoulders resonated red. The fingerprints appeared buried deep in his sweat-covered skin. Being freshly minted black belts, we worked our way around his torso, calling out, “Look at this one!” …
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Quote Sitting, that’s a term I just made up but I’m going to show you how it works and I think you’re going to find value in it. On any social program any social platform you’re going to find quotes that are tossed out like chicken feed cast on the ground with little thought and …
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Here are 8 simple tips that take place between the ears that will make your karate experience better, more productive, and set you on a path of consistently spiraling upward in karate skills and abilities.
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Common specialness is wonderful. It cost nothing to be decent. Be kind because is who you are, it’s a great policy. The idea of being kind because it’s who you are is only half of the formula of this common specialness. When you are kind because it is who you are it turns into a …
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The intrusive evil of the media
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You are losing you are on your heels, metaphorically or literally. In using Go No Sen you are at the will of the opponent and you are not on your toes.
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What she told me was so counter to Martial Arts instruction as I have known it. I had a hard time getting my head around the idea. I’m supposed to be in control, directing the learning, not wasting a moment, keep ‘em moving.
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The executive mind and how you should engage your world.
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We tell ourselves fallen stories, negative self-talk. Sometimes these stories are ego feeds, they’re a great story about how wonderful. That we the best and we’re pretty darn good at what we’re doing. You’re Not Good Enough Then of course there are those other stories, those fallen stories, negative self-talk, where you’re not good enough. …
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Sprinters v. Hikers is one way to look at information. There is a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, and this is not an exact quote, but he relates all truth passes through three stages. The first stage is the idea is ridiculed, secondly, the idea is violently opposed. Thirdly the idea is accepted …
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Consistency is greater than quantity and its greater than quality. Morning TV shows, you know, those Good Morning AM Sunshine, they are tripe. But those shows are there every morning at the same time with the same rhythm. Their power is not in the quality or the quantity or what they provide regarding their content. …
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These stories can be a good thing or they could be lies but we’re not going to delve into the idea of the lies right now we’re going to stick to the stories. Stories are how we communicate and make experiences stick. Stories are how we make ideas work, how we make them spreadable, and …
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Used to express an obsession with something, an object, to a product, is “I’m addicted.” “I’m Addicted,” is used to share with someone the idea of a product, a movie series, again, about anything as being so good that it creates a mental and physical dependency. Giving Away Free Will The idea that it’s a …
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Ladies and Gentleman, those are earned titles. Recently you may have noticed that the world changed. Along with that change came stress, fear, terror, anxiety. The purveyors of this fear are relentless, it’s their job to spread terror and fear. They want to get clicks and eyeballs and create a sense of ambient anxiety. Tell …
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Uncertainty is what is happening now. The world is on fire according to the news of the day. If it’s not one thing that the world is doing to destroy your life, your world, your family, your fitness, your health, it’s another thing. The phrase that is being used today or the versions of it …
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Cherokee story is how it is attributed, who told it, but I suspect the story’s origin is lost to time. But the Cherokee story is about a grandson who was wrestling with a couple of ideas. The grandson went and talked with his grandfather to try to get the situation resolved and the grandfather said, …
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Fast zombie. They are part of our world. It is no secret that mayhem and chaos sell, fear sells, it sells all the time. One of the classic methods of selling fear is the horror movie. It’s a genre all to itself with monsters that have changed over time. The monsters used to be the …
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Gift eyes see the world differently. Unsatisfied with the place you are is not an uncommon thing to have happen. The dissatisfaction is a motivator. It’s a change, or it gets you off your mark, gets you going it’s not a bad thing to have. But sometimes we become overly oriented externally. Too much on …
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Self-mastery is often about viewpoint. “I haven’t had a haircut.” “My business is closed.” “I don’t have a job, or a business anymore.” “My movements are restricted.” All these things are taking place right now. They can be seen as an opportunity to relax into the oblivion or to, “Seize the Day,” to quote that …
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For the win is often swimming upstream. Swimming upstream is a metaphor for the difficult task. Something that is present and constantly pushing against us. The fact is that those things exist. Philip K. Dick Had Something to Say One of my favorite quotes is from the science fiction author Philip K. Dick and he …
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We all need an Icon of Destiny. We need icons. We need those people that have come before, we need those people who espouse truth. we need that person who has risen when life leveled them. False Icons The false icons, of course, are the ones that don’t build, that don’t build a positive future. …
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Think Write is a means of ordering yourself. With stress increasing, intelligence gets reduced. Often in stressful situations, choices are made that are not good. Stress can create headaches, increased depression, heartburn, create shallow breathing, blood sugar spikes, and many other things. Excited State This excited state of stress is not good for the body. …
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Scars, we likely have them on our body. I’ve got more than a few. One from a barbwire fence. Another from gravel being dug out of my arm. A good one on my arm that shows itself when I’ve got a little bit of a tan. An excellent one on my back from a motorcycle …
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What happens is important, but let’s talk about how you deal with what happens to you. It’s an old saying. It can go back to religions, schools of thought, but ultimately what is being said is you’re not in control. The world’s going to do what it’s going to do. Oh, you think you can …
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Loss and change can be horrible. It can be traumatic and it can be soul-crushing. Think of the greatest loss you could experience in your world. The permanent painful loss. Now step back from that moment because thus the laws and change I can’t address and I wouldn’t try. However, a wet finger to the …
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Grateful for can be a pattern. The human brain focuses on problems. Abnormalities, broken patterns, it’s a built-in system, it’s a mechanism that has allowed us to become the most successful species that we can imagine. You could call this the nature side of the brain, the animal, the pre-loaded functions, a pattern. Or you …
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IDK (I Don’t Know) as it’s said in the text world. I Don’t Know Can Be A Statement of Honesty I don’t know can be a statement of honesty. “I don’t know where the increase in the budget is going to come from.” In the context of business and as a tool, yes it’s an …
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Bruised People. We all have our heroes the people that we admire in their attributes the things that attract us to them. Those elements of their personality are bright, like the proverbial moth to the flame. We are drawn to those attributes that the person possesses. As an example, I’ve always held Theodore Roosevelt in …
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Crazy Catastrophe. There is this thing sweeping the world and evidently, we’ve lost your minds. I’m talking about The Corona virus and everybody is losing their minds the point of nausea. Sometimes it becomes difficult to sort out the true information. The information that’s needed to make good choices. The run-on goods in stores for …
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Brains v. Backbone. What’s better to be a genius or to have a backbone? You know the consistency of life? Fiber, fortitude, guts, grit? Well, I have an opinion and I set out to find out if it was shared by people I know. Here’s my unscientific poll and the answer to that question and …
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Forgot and forgive. Hanging on to transgressions, errors, missteps, oversights, mistakes, and more is not a good idea. It is called, “Letting somebody live in your head rent-free.” It’s, “Dying from the poison of the snake bite of revenge.” “Living in the past.” You can likely name a few other ways of describing this behavior. …
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Not everyone is virtuous. I know it’s not a popular belief right now. We want to assume goodwill and that everybody has our best interests at heart. That’s not the way the world works. Virtuous People, Non-Virtuous People Here’s an example. Willy Brandt (1913-1992) who was the chancellor of Germany had to resign in 1974 …
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Why Forgiveness? People are not willing to give forgiveness – readily. But they are swift to request forgiveness. When forgiveness is asked for the request is often rejected. Forgiveness often needs to be requested, beg for, and groveled for. People like power over other people. When the screws are on the thumbs, they tighten, twist, …
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Death and the context of the other 2 phases of life.
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How to audit a quote and go deeper than a cursory top line.
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Frank Sinatra had a lesson in his song, but was it correct?
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You have more choices, here are 3 you may chose to use.
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The small screen is seizing your mind.
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The media is assaulting you, and getting away with it.
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The simple thing that we should all avoid.
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The transformation of the greatest moments.
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We all hold hold our breath when we hear the word," Technically."
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Negative self-talk, a perspective
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A means of becoming progressively better.
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The one person that made the difference.
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Crabs and Eagles. A quick take on attitude.
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The soul and the color of thoughts
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A Russian author tells the truth
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The importance of Calm Time & how to get it.
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Having anchors in the course of the day are necessary.
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Rituals are more than just important, they are essential.
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It is a natural thing to do, and it brings clarity.
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Do less, it is a popular call, but how? Why?
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The deep satisfaction of doing it completely
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The Deliberate Flow; How to get it and how to keep it.
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The lie of multitasking and how popular culture adds to it.
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The value of the unstructured structure.
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Living in the problem, or another choice.
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Two comedians in a coffee shop talk about the Chemicals of Anxiety
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Sometimes listening is a value that is a better position than a position.
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Cigars and Ants. How neither makes for a good choice – in certain circumstances.
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Anger and nonsense have joined together and wrongly so.
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A piece of wisdom from a Rock Star.
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A recommendation on how to view problems from an unlikely source.
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The lesson of focus is in every walk of life, in every corner of the globe.
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A cautionary tale straight out of Saturday Night Live and Martial Arts.
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The fear of failure is a powerful sensation. Maybe it shouldn’t be so.
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You desire discipline and finding it is sometimes a challenge. Here is how to solve the problem.
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Learning to like yourself is the first step to a better life.
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You might be living in a monastery and not even know it.
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The hype of evil is just what evil wants.
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The tyrant of the mind, the word, and the deed.
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Clearing distractions from your immediate world.
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Bill and Ted introduce 10 items to ponder.
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Embrace the Grind is a popular saying, but what about a much older saying?
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Michelangelo has a snit with the Pope, and how plumbers are of extraordinary value.
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The separation of resources from you takes on many forms, some you agree to, others not so much.
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We all know the value and place of position and money, but a second look is not a bad thing.
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You know that unproductive thought that keeps coming back? Here is how to deal with that thought once and for all.
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An old Greek story has a modern twist that may be helpful to you.
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The structure of the common good, a lesson from history with Eisenhower and Kennedy.
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The Back Channel Extended Special with Louis Kim. An executive, a father, husband, son, brother, martial artist, and thoughtful. You are going to enjoy the half-hour you invest with Louis Kim.
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Being big anyway is often about doing something – in a meaningful way – when there is nothing coming back in your direction.
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The choices you make are exchanges, and you should be engaged in and fully aware of the trade.
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The Back Channel Extended Special with Wade Pitts. A San Francisco based Krav Maga instructor Wade Pitts is also a financial advisor. Born in Alaska raised in New York, the life lessons are wide and deep, plus a couple of insights into human behavior and how one might just boldly jump into the phases of life.
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The media is bad, it is their nature. However, you are complicit in the dance – unless of course, you make a choice.
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Allowing your brain type to run unchecked? Welcome to the dark side of your brain.
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The state of being overwhelmed and what can be found in the state of underwhelm.
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The men who played for him understood, “Lombardi Time.” This principle of time usage is for you as well regardless of your area of life.
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Free From Passion, a brief take on Marcus Aurelius
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The question is who is in charge and here is how to tell.
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A creative and proven method of success.
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A timeless story of self-understanding.
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Having a soft brain is a great gift when you smartly use it.
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Your life is a lot of preparation, and being ready.
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Having an adaptable goal for young men
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You might consider your life in concentric circles.
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Some simple rules for life, all forgotten be it one. One rule that changed it all.
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Sure the news is what it is, but here is when it shows it’s true colors
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An unreasonable sense of want created by the Today Show.
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Unseen discipline, and the easily seen emotion of anger.
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Maxim’s Maxim. A statement from the future.
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What a lab coat can say and when not to listen.
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Reaching For What You Are
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A Different Friend of 30 Plus Years.
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Sylvester Stallone and Public Mistakes
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Action, lest you become a comedy
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Let’s hope that you are not what you used to be.
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Combinations of convoluted words are no way to go through life.
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60 years old, and frustrated.
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3 things tested in Olympic Athletes
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The Non-Existent Problem
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