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  • August 2026: Attitude

    Zig Ziglar tells a story about two baseball players that strike out in two completely different ways. The first batter goes up to bat. When the first ball is thrown he is so busy thinking he will miss the ball that it goes right past him! Strike one. The second ball is thrown and he closes his eyes! Strike two. When the third ball is thrown he jumps backwards, away from the ball’s path. Strike three. He’s out! The second batter comes up to bat and thinks to himself, “I can do this!” The first ball is thrown so fast that he doesn’t have time to swing the bat. Strike one. The second ball comes toward him and he swings the bat as hard as ....

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  • July 2026: Speed

    Speed If you cannot do it slow… One day I was invited by a couple friends to go to the driving range, where golfers practice their long shots. My friends, on each side of me, were regularly hitting their golf balls the length of half a football field or more. Being unpracticed at golf, I tried to compensate by swinging the club with more force. This caused me to miss more, and the ones I hit didn’t go far. Then my friend Billy looks over at me. “If you can’t do it slow, what makes you think you can do it fast?” It was a genuine question. He walked over to my platform and casually hit a ball that landed as far as my ....

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  • July 2026: Accuracy

    Black Belt Eyes Years ago, as a newer instructor, I was teaching a group of students. We were going through a form, in which stances, punches and kicks are performed in a pattern. Because the students were performing like beginners, which they were, I had them repeat the sequence over and over. After class a senior instructor came to me and said, “You have black belt eyes.” I was puzzled. He asked about the different belts in our system. Do we have a white belt in our system? Yes, I replied. What about blue belt? Again, I replied, yes. And, brown belt? Yes. You see, these belts exist in our system because it is acceptable for a white belt ....

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  • June 2026: Honesty

    Honesty If you ask, most people will say they prefer to hear the truth. There is a children’s book called “There’s no such thing as a dragon.” In the story, a boy tells his mom that he sees a small dragon sitting on the kitchen table and eating his breakfast. She assures him that dragons do not exist. And, if dragons don’t exist, then you cannot tell it to stop eating your breakfast or to get off the kitchen table. The dragon continues causing problems that are ignored. And, each time the dragon is ignored, it grows. Eventually, the dragon grows so big it walks off with the house, wearing it like an outfit. It isn’t until the dragon ....

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  • June 2026: Integrity

    Tony Robbins mentions that the word integrity shares the same prefix with the word from math class, “integer.” An integer is any whole number. Someone who has integrity is an undivided person, a whole person. In this old story, an emperor has no son as his successor, so he decides to find the next emperor among the children in the city. Each child was given a seed with the task of growing the best plant possible. This would demonstrate their potential in how well they could rule the country. After one year, each child was to return and show the progress they made. Plants of all sizes were brought before the emperor. Finally, one boy approached the emperor with a ....

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  • May 2026: Self-Discipline

    “Self-discipline is the ability to control your feelings and desires to achieve goals, regardless of how you feel physically or emotionally. It involves making consistent choices that align with your long-term objectives, often requiring practice and perseverance.” -Internet search Tasks become easier when we have a compelling reason for doing them, and believe our efforts will be fruitful. “Doing the math” can be a fun exercise. If a student trains twice a week for approximately fifty (50) weeks a year, that’s about one hundred (100) hours of training. On the journey to black belt, students will have trained ....

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  • May 2026: Perseverance

    Perseverance Zig Ziglar and Mark Batterson each tell the well-known story of the Chinese bamboo tree. The farmer will go out and plant the crop and take care of it all year. At the end of the first year no sign of growth shows. The next year the farmer continues to take care of it. At the end of the second year, still, nothing happens. The farmer continues taking care of the plants for five years without seeing any sign of growth. Then, in the fifth year, in a period of about six weeks, the plants grow about ninety feet high! The question with the lesson is “did the plants grow in the six weeks or in the five years?” Answer - five years. It can ....

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  • April 2026: Intensity

    Intensity None of us can go 100% all the time. Some days we are running at 2 out of 10, while other days we feel like a 9 out of 10. Each day our best is different. This is normal, because each day is different. Some days are more challenging than others. Intensity can be compensated for with consistency. Much of life is about showing up. Few are the number of games one wins by NOT taking one’s turn. "When it’s all said and done with, let the ledger show your wins and let it show your losses, but don’t let it show you didn’t play." -Jim Rohn Allow yourself to show up with the energy level you have. Consistency over intensity. ....

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  • April 2026: Fitness

    Fitness How good is anyone to their family and friends, or at their job if they are dehydrated, hungry, and haven’t slept in the last 48 hours? We would all say no one is exceptionally useful under these circumstances. When was the last time you drank some water? What was on yesterday’s menu? And, what’s on today’s menu? Do you have a “bedtime” that gives you enough rest to tackle the day? Fitness is less about being able to run a marathon and more about being present and participating in each day fully. Don’t forget to take care of yourself, so you have more of yourself to put into each moment of ....

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  • 19 Mar 2026

    March: Assertiveness

    Story of the monk and the snake This is a story of an encounter a monk has while traveling to a neighboring village. Shortly after setting out on his journey the monk travels near a village where he is asked by villagers for help. Our village is constantly attacked by a snake that bites everyone he sees: men, women, children, and livestock! Won’t you help? Take me to this snake, said the monk. The boy took the monk to a pond where the snake typically visited. Sure enough, the snake was there. Snake, why do you bite the villagers. Do you not know that you can live without biting others? The snake answered, “I have never considered any other way of living.” But, ....

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