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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we kick off a week of small business nuggets of wisdom.   First with Pat Flynn's excellent work, Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money Key points: Notice the great analogy from an airplane to launching a successful business idea Broadcast your idea to everyone...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Happy Fathers Day We shared Meg Meekers great points on being a Hero Dad in her excellent work, Hero:  Being The Strong Father Your Children Need Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much! Because we care...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#133, we tackle the final piece of the How of Happiness  with Sonja Lyubomirksy's  book by the same name,  The How of Happiness:  A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want Key points: What is happiness work and why it matter The 12 happiness activities  Learn and put into practice the Big 3 habits of happiness Other r...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#132, we check back in with Sonja Lyubomirksy's fascinating book  The How of Happiness:  A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want and learn about the Happiness set point. Key points: Why be happy? Why your happiness set point matters but what you can do about it Major takeaway, "There's no happiness without...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this post-Christian country we live in these days, the quest for Happiness has taken many people in different directions.   In MM#131, we look into this question with a fascinating book from Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness:  A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want Key points: Introduction of the How of Happiness  H...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute 130 takes us to work to help us find out how to remove drudgery from our worklife and work with more purpose & concentration and less distraction!   To help us in this MM, we turn to Bruce Daisley and his book,    Eat Sleep Work Repeat:  30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to your Work Key points: Multi-tasking myth upheld David&a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In nine days of June 1979, the course of human history pivoted and we will examine those nine days in this double episode of the Catholic Corner. In fact, we will double dip today with two Catholic Corner's separated by the "Chapter 2" tab to help you navigate easier between each of todays deep nuggets of wisdom. To help...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this 3rd episode of our Liberty Week celebration -- we peel the layers of the metaphorical onion on one of the most harmful and truly disingenuous US History books ever written, The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. To shine a light and expose this fraud of work we get a great deal of help from Mary Grabar in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this 2nd episode of Liberty Week here at the MOJO Academy -- we explore and take a dive deep into the New York Times Newspaper and their many distortions & fabrications over the last 100 years.    To help us, we turn to Ashley Rindsberg and his book,   The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode-- we kick off Liberty Week here at the MOJO Academy --and so we thank all those who gave their lives defending our country.   As a fitting tribute, we cover an excellent book written by Sean Parnell titled,  Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Key points: 1/2 of a FULL b...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this part 2 episode of the Hero's Journey, we continue with our dive deep in Rev Robert Sirico & Jeff Sandefer's compelling book, A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey Key Points from the Episode: Rev Robert Sirico's story that he "is not a true socialist" Horrific nature of tyrannical regimes often a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we dive deep in Joseph's Campbell popularizing of "A Hero's Journey" concept, and we enlist the help of authors Rev Robert Sirico & Jeff Sandefer in their compelling book, A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey Key Points from the Episode: Intro to Joseph Campbell's 'monomyth' A...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Since we are in the month of May, let us turn to the Mary, the Mother of God for some great wisdom and to do so--we will feature--Edward Sri's fantastic book, Praying the Rosary Like Never Before:  Encounter the Wonder of Heaven and Earth Key points: What is the Rosary Prayer What are the origins of the Rosary To say the Rosary is...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In episode #124, we conclude our brief review of  Stephen Covey's modern classic, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by finishing on an upbeat message.  Key Points from the Episode: How would you define 'response-ability?' Do you consider yourself proactive? Do you keep your commitments to others and most especia...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In episode #123, we continue the review of  Stephen Covey's modern classic, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and we offering one of our more intense and morbid MOJO Minutes. Just prepare yourself!    I would recommend NOT listening with children around or in the car.    Key Points from the Episode: What is a Eulogy? What...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we comment on the bad news of Cardinal Joseph Zen's arrest in Hong Kong and the Vatican's four-year  foreign policy stumble in China.     Key points: Worldwide outrage at the Cardinal's arrest The horrific 2018 China - Vatican agreement and its reaffirmation in 2020...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Todays MOJO Minute is perhaps the most powerful nugget of wisdom we have ever shared! In it, we discover through Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People   & relating the story of Viktor Frankl's-- The Last of the Human Freedoms ! Key Points from the Episode: Frankl's incredible life Frankl&ap...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO minute, we explore why fear paralyzes us at almost every turn? To answer this question, we turn to David Schwartz in his Uber popular book, The Magic Of Thinking Big:  Acquire the Secrets of Success...Achieve Everything You Have Always Wanted Key Points from the Episode: Need to make a big decision?   but paralyzed into f...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Happy Mother's Day Inspired by Paul Harvey's 1978 'So God Made a Farmer Speech' - Dodge Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial in 2013. Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much! Because we...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this follow up episode to our last MM, we continue our discussion on our smart phone digital health and some best practices.   Our MOJO book of the day carries over too from our last MM and Catherine Price's remarkable book, How to Break Up with Your Phone:  The 30 - Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. Key Points from the Episode:...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#118, lets chat about our smart phone use with the help of Catherine Price's remarkable book, How to Break Up with Your Phone:  The 30 - Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. Key Points from the Episode: Are we Americans addicted to our smartphones similar to intravenous drugs? How do you compare to the national average in checking...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, Carol Dweck helps us to understand our mindset!   In 2006, she wrote a fantastic book, Mindset:  The New Psychology of Success and we will unpack one of the important nuggets of wisdom from that book.    Key Points from the Episode: Recap of prior MOJO Minutes surrounding mindset, specifically MM's 33, 72 &...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we share how small businesses can change and clarifying their marketing to help tell their story and in the process of doing so, we discover that each of us is on our own hero's journey. A huge thank you to Donald Miller for writing this enthralling book, Building A Storybrand:  Clarify Your Message So Customers Wi...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Just seven months after the end of the US Civil War,  one of the United Kingdom's most recognized poets, Rudyard Kipling was born, over 8200 miles away in Bombay, India.    In this MOJO minute, we hear a reading of one of most admired poems titled "If". Many thanks for poems.org for Kiplings transcript. Key Points from th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The US Civil War was America's worst national nightmare.   In this MOJO minute, we explore the holy week of 1865 with Allen Guelzo's remarkable new biography of Robert E Lee:  A Life Key Points from the Episode: The events from Palm Sunday to Good Friday 1865 were a roller-coaster of emotion that sent American morale to its de...