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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Rounding out our  SPECIAL MOJO March Madness MOJO minutes this week, we check in with perhaps the greatest coach of the 21st century, Duke mens basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski.  In 2001, Coach K—his nickname because most people struggle with his last name—wrote a great book, wrote a great book,  Leading with the Heart:  Coach K’s Succ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In keeping with our SPECIAL MOJO March Madness MOJO minute, we gain some wisdom today from perhaps the greatest college basketball coach of the 20th century, John Wooden in his book, Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off Court! Key Points from the Episode: Make today a masterpiece  Improve a little each day The c...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Wow!   It’s MOJO Minute # 💯 Kinda special milestone! 🎊👏 So with that special milestone lets discuss my favorite word:  Flourish   And in doing so, we will enlist the help of a great author and expert in this area, Martin Seligman and his book, Flourish:   A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being. Key Points from the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays SPECIAL MOJO Minute, we talk about the cultural phenomenon known as March Madness by sharing Joe Lunardi's Bracketology:  March Madness, College Basketball, and the Creation of a National Obsession. Key Points from the Episode: Great words from Gonzaga head mens basketball coach Mark Few We end the UCLA greatest dynasty d...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Our second installment--in this first full week of Lent for Christians--we check out, perhaps, the greatest autobiography in the world, the Confessions of Saint Augustine. Key Points from the Episode: Check out prior MM's 52 and 57 for Dante's Divine Comedy. Why is St. Augustines's Confessions so compelling? Why do we com...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO Minute as we enter, this first full week of Lent for Christians, we examine--the Arabic word Jihad--and perhaps its universal concepts across many religions and great traditions.    Key Points from the Episode: Two meanings of the word Jihad The universal concepts across great traditions What is the better Jihad Other res...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MOJO Minute #96, we unpack the traditional virtues and vices that help create a persons character. We get some help from David Issac’s Character Building: A guide for parents and teachers. Key Points from the Episode: Why learning and striving for the virtues is important. Cover the four traditional virtues in detail Two  good self e...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MM, we examine that Uber popular Christian classic, The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.   Key Points from the Episode: The Spiritual War that is going on. Jesus Christ’s confirmation that there is an evil one “the father of all lies.” C.S. Lewis’s brilliant theological statements that are woven into the letters. Other resourc...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we dive deep into prayer with Peter Kreeft’s, Prayer for Beginners.   Key points: What is prayer? What is the most important thing about prayer and how we do it? What are the four themes or structures of good prayer? Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here and if we ear...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message By far one of the most requested books for us to review was Tools of Titans:   The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons and World-Class performers   by Tim Ferris.   It is also one of the hardest books to review.  lol    Todays MM will be an overview. Key Points from the Episode: Tim's humility.   Its pretty cool th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Todays MM will be different as we are trying a longer type format and a deeper dive into an important book, Dreamland:  The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. Key Points from the Episode: You will be uncomfortable It will be tough to listen too You can't believe this is happening in the United States Other resources: Want...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Staying with our history theme, in this MOJO Minute, we follow Cal Thomas's unique exploration of Sir John Glubb's thought-provoking article which turned into a book, America's Expiration Date:  The Fall of Empires and Superpowers...and the Future of the United States. Key Points from the Episode: Does America have an exp...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#91, we take a step back to ask why read?  why read history?  what's the point? we answer this question with the help from Mike Duncans excellent work, The Storm Before The Storm:  The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic  Key Points from the Episode: Is America following the same trend lines as the Roman Republic before...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In striving to live a flourishing life--whether as a person or a country--it requires answering the hard questions  in truth.   In MOJO Minute #90, we ask those hard questions of modern day China and why they have been allowed to host the 2022 Olympic games. Key Points from the Episode: 2008's China is vastly different than 2022&ap...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MOJO Minute #89, we explore the origin story of the first marathon  in Dean Karnazes, The Road to Sparta Key Points from the Episode: How a single lone runner saved western civilization  How far did he actually run to deliver the import message to the Spartans? What are the physical false limits you put on yourself?    Other resource...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a fun episode, where go to back to one of the great books of all time by perhaps one of the greatest philosophers of all time, Aristotle and his Nicomachean Ethics .     Key Points from the Episode: Habits are very powerful in good ways and unfortunately in bad ways too. Aristotle's famous quote on habits Librarians collect...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #87 takes us back to my first personal development book, the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and we learn the Slight Edge habit fundamentals.    Key Points from the Episode: 2009 is when I started devouring books at an incredible rate and the main motivation for these MOJO Minutes. Check out the 7 Slight  Edge Habit fundies. Sligh...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO Minute, lets us gain some wisdom from Olympic Champion, Lanny Bassham from his book, With Winning In Mind  where he describes  'Process is Primary.' Key Points from the Episode: 95% of all winning is accomplished by only 5% of the participants Winners are convinced they will finish first, the others hope to fini...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Mindset is the topic of todays MOJO Minute and we feature former Navy Seal David Goggins and his super-human memoir, Cant Hurt Me . *please note David Goggins is not shy throwing around the f-bombs so be mindful if you are easily offended* Key Points from the Episode: One Warrior What's the human being greatest potential? Goggin&ap...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #84 is a different episode.   We step back and see what is an example of living a flourishing life. Key Points from the Episode: How does faith help shape character? This Jewish basketball powerhouse leads the way in the integration of faith, hope and charity. In Hebrew, the root word for victory is the same as eternity, how...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MOJO Minute #83, we finalize our deep dive into the Deep Work habit offered by Cal Newport in his book, Deep Work ! Key Points from the Episode: How do start a Deep Work session? What are its characteristics? Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bum...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this correcting MOJO Minute #82,  we get to the core characteristics of the Deep Work habit offered by Cal Newport in his book, Deep Work ! Key Points from the Episode: What is Deep Work? What is Shallow work? Can we begin to notice, recognize and limit those distractions preventing us from creating a habit of daily Deep Work? Other...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MOJO Minute #81, we unpack the 21st Century Superpower we need to create.   Former Navy Seal, Mark Divine helps us with this task in his book, Unbeatable Mind and then we transition to Cal Newport's Deep Work ! Key Points from the Episode: US Special Operations guys are at the top of the mountain in creating winning mindsets The...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We continue, in this MOJO minute,  to explore Deciding vs Wishing and how they are different with Scott Adams, the author of  How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Key Points from the Episode: Preparation and Mindset are vital What is Deciding vs Wishing How I decided vs wished when creating these very MOJO Minutes Other r...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message "Goals are for losers!"  ha ha.   what a great saying!    In this MOJO, we dig into this phrase from Scott Adams the author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Key Points from the Episode: Why goals are for losers? Systems vs Goals When you have a system in place most often you passed your pre-conceived goal...