A Swift Kick In The Ass: Personal Growth & Resilience Podcast

Episode 76 of A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast. Lifelong friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss the importance of persistence. Fall down, stand up, repeat is a motto of A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast. If you fail to reach a goal, simply get back up and try again. Write down your goals and have a road map that will help guide you day in and day out. Thomas Edison failed ten thousand times befo...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss the problem of self doubt and how to handle it on A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast episode 75. Doubting our actions and thoughts. David Brinkley say a success is one that can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at us. Why middle school and high school is such a formative time in our lives. John and Tom discuss the ef...

Episode 74. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how to Change At Your Leisure, spending time in the ways that create personal change. How to utilize your free time to lead to a positive life on your own terms. How to kill two birds with one stone by utilizing time spent while listening to audio books, courses or podcasts to learn and grown. Create the life you want by pl...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss The Catch 22 Of Choice. How too many choices actually create overwhelm, paralysis and regret. Tom and John also mention Barry Schwartz's book the Paradox Of Choice and his discussions at Tedx and Google.   ——————— Find out more on http://www.aswiftkickintheass.com https://www.facebook.com/aswiftkickintheass https://twitter.com/AKickint...

How to reboot your life. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how to make a fresh start in your life.  Episode 72 of A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast Ctrl+Alt+Delete - Rebooting Your Life. What to avoid when looking to set new goals and make positive change in your life. Getting rid of toxic people, staying laser focused, being very specific when setting goals, letting go...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss Robert Greene's best selling book the 48 Laws Of Power - Law 27 Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cult like Following. 5 Ways to Create a Cult 1. Keep It Vague; Keep It Simple 2. Emphasize the Visual and the Sensual over the Intellectual 3. Borrow the Forms of Organized Religion to Structure the Group 4. Disguise Your Source...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss Rober Greene's best selling book the 48 Laws Of Power - Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean. This law focuses on finding a scapegoat rather than admitting wrong doing. This is counter intuitive to what we are taught as children which is taking responsibility for our actions.  This law can be seen quite often in politics, work and military ope...

Episode 69 of A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss Robert Greene's best selling book The 48 Laws of Power Law 25: Recreate Yourself ——————— Find out more on http://www.aswiftkickintheass.com https://www.facebook.com/aswiftkickin… https://twitter.com/AKickintheass https://www.pinterest.com/akickintheass/ —-Listen to the podcast on iTunes— h...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss Robert Greene's best selling book The 48 Laws of Power Law 24: Play the Perfect Courtier ——————— Find out more on http://www.aswiftkickintheass.com https://www.facebook.com/aswiftkickin… https://twitter.com/AKickintheass https://www.pinterest.com/akickintheass/ —-Listen to the podcast on iTunes— https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-sw...

Episode 67 of A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John W. Curren discuss the need for withdraw from society and work. The importance of taking a vacation for your mental well being and overall health. Come back to work as a more productive worker and creative thinker. Form stronger social bonds with your family and friends by developing shared memories. Get...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John W. Curren discuss blame. How to take responsibility for our actions and not blame others for where we are in life. Racism and the divide in the United States is also discussed. How can we change ourselves and our own prejudice. BLAME IS LAME askita episode 66 Accountability accelerates your growth- develop a strategy and work the plan. It will keep y...

Episode 65. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how uncertainty keeps you from reaching your true potential. Definition - Uncertainty is the situation which involves imperfect and/or unknown information. Is there a genuine decision to be made, or are you just postponing the inevitable? clearly identify what the decision to be made is. Investigate to the best of your abil...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss living life on your own terms on A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast episode 64. It is not about living on a beach with a laptop making buttloads of money. Money is a factor, control your debt. Money is just a tool. Do not follow the herd mentality. Create a mind set to live life on your own terms. Keep inspirational pictures, trinkets or...

Episode 63 The Irishman Who Can't Drink Beer Or Eat Potatoes. Life long childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss Asking Questions when you really don't want to know the Answer"?    We all say we want to make changes in our life and often seek the answer to how will we change…What happens when you get an answer that you really don't want to follow through with?   My personal story conc...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss ho to Get Your Ass Off The Couch - A Quick Fix For Complacency  Episode 62 A Swift Kick In The Ass Podcast     ——————— Find out more on http://www.aswiftkickintheass.com https://www.facebook.com/aswiftkickin… https://twitter.com/AKickintheass https://www.pinterest.com/akickintheass/ —-Listen to the podcast on iTunes— https://itunes.app...

Life long childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss friendship. How is friendship like dogs and chilli? Why it is difficult to maintain many close friends. What are the main characteristics of a friendship and how to keep them going. Building trust and having fun. Being honest with your friends and how to end a friendship if necessary. ——————— Find out more on http://www.aswiftkickinth...

ASKITA episode 60. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how environment and peers can determine success. Chillin like a villain. We are pack animals, so who is in your pack? Love your family and your friends but pick your peers. Jim Rohn says that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Get involved in social groups, church, synagogue, communi...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how keeping score can help you predict future results. The final part of the gamification series. Learn how keeping track of goals using a journal or log book can help you keep moving forward without slowly back pedaling. The difference between keeping score with yourself and competition. How not to keep score in relationships with oth...

Part 2 in the gamification series - Goals. Episode 58 Grabbing Goals By The Short Hairs discusses how to set realistic and reachable goals. John talks about how he was able to pull himself out of 90 Thousand dollars of debt by setting financial goals with his wife. There goal was to have money in the bank and not owe anyone anything. Tom recounts seven steps laid out in Brian Tracy's book "No Excu...

A Swift Kick In The Ass podcast episode 57. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss the rules of personal change. This is the first in a series on how gamification applies to personal change. This first part discusses the rules of personal change and how to break them if necessary. Found on psychologytoday.com The 10 Rules of Change- Change isn't easy, but it is possible: an...

Getting out of your comfort zone is the topic of the day. Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how to create personal change by overcoming fear and being uncomfortable. whatisyourcomfortzone.com - Marcus Taylor created this website that has a tool with a scientifically supported algorithm that leads you to have an idea which he believes is the beginning of someone taking...

Lifelong childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss creativity in regards to personal change.  Change Your "I Don't Know" or "I Can't" Thinking to "What If...?" ”To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”   — Albert Einstein Instead, come up with open-ended statements and questions such as: "I have what it takes to...

Life long childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how to turn your vision into reality. Last episode they talked about the big picture of why you need a vision, this is the steps you need to take to get there.       --------------------- Find out more on www.aswiftkickintheass.com https://www.facebook.com/aswiftkickinass https://twitter.com/AKickintheass https://www.pinterest.com/aki...

Life long childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren discuss how clarity of vision will drive you forward. They start the show with Feelin' down and dirty, feelin' kind of mean a lyric from the band Foreigner's song Double Vision." I've been from one to another extreme". is another lyric that perfectly describes a swift kick in the ass. Pictures can say a thousand words. A picture of where you...

Life long childhood friends Tom Stewart and John Curren interview Aaron Anastasi the author of The Voice Of Your Dreams. Aaron Anastasi is a Southern California native who graduated with a master’s degree from Princeton where he studied philosophy and psychology. He’s also the founder and coach of the internationally recognized, Superior Singing Method, an online singing lesson program that grosse...