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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Earlier this week, we tackled our G-Habits now in todays MOJO Minutes,  let's tackle our G.B.O.M.B.S.  from Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Super Immunity:  A Breakthrough Program to Boost the Body's Defenses and Stay Healthy All Year Round    (affiliate link). Key points: What are G.B.O.M.B.S.? Nutritional science has made phenominal...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Welcome back to another week and today's MOJO Minute.    Today we have fun breaking down Joan Vernikos's wonderful book,  Sitting Kills, Moving Heals:  How Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness, and Early Death--and Exercise Alone Won't  (affiliate link). Key points: What are G-habits? Examples of G-habits How to s...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special college football edition, we reflect on Woody Hayes, the great Ohio State Football coach, who gave a very inspirational graduation speech in 1986.  Key points: Why Paying It Forward matters How self-pity always harms you Woody Hayes’s final farewell address Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we review, Cal Newport's fantastic book, Deep Work:  Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World  (affiliate link).  Key points: How do you end your workday?  What is your routine? Or does work continue on for you into the evening and late night distracting you from your family, friends and other loved ones...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We are back to the regular programming this week. In this MOJO Minute, we explore The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy (affiliate link) and his practical wisdom of blocking off the beginning and ending of your daily schedule so you can build a routine. Key points: How to build a world class...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special final BONUS MOJO leadership minute, we laugh at the scene of Major Richard "Dick" Winters pulling rank on Captain Herbert Sobel from Stephen Ambrose's famous book, Band of Brothers:   E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest   (affiliate link) Key points:...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special BONUS MOJO leadership minute, we discuss how corporate culture can affect character and we dig into two stories from Simon Sinek's great book, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't    (affiliate link) Key points: How corporate culture can affect your own personal character We share two...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this final special, MOJO leadership minute, we capture the balance required of leadership in The Dichotomy of Leadership (affiliate link) Key points: Recaps of the past four days of leadership week We unpack and define the many dichotomies of leadership from the book. It's one of the best leadership books in the last twenty year...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special, MOJO leadership minute, we read from a quote from 7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day:  Lessons from the Longest Day--June 6, 1944 .     (affiliate link) Key points: Recaps of Day’s 1, 2 and 3 of Leadership week To be a good leader you have to be a good follower David shares a personal story of how he learned what right looks...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In another special, MOJO leadership minute, we take a look at John Maxwell and his Law of Connection from John’s great book, the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership:  Follow Them and People Will Follow You (affiliate link) Key points: Recaps of Day’s 1 and 2 of Leadership week President Bush’s examples of the Law of Connection.  The good...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special MOJO minute of Leadership week at the MOJO Academy, we explore character by digging into the quote from Leading an Inspired Life (affiliate link) by Jim Rohn.     Key points: Recap of Day 1 of Leadership week The Greek word for character means "to chisel." Good character is the surest foundation to developing t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special MOJO minute, we kick off Leadership week at the MOJO Academy by defining how to grade Leadership best? We utilize, Extreme Ownership (affiliate link) as the resource to unpack this brilliant definition of Leadership! Key points: We conduct a thought experiment about how to grade Leadership with General George Patton from...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we dive deep into the hard work theme again and explore the overlap of talent vs hard work.   Along the way, we are helped greatly by Geoff Colvin's suburb book, Talent Is Overrated:  What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else (affiliate link)   Key points: Talent vs Hard Work What is deli...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we recap a Pittsburgh Steeler's Pro Football Hall of Fame speech and offer a unique observation about our culture,  ultimately concluding with Steven Pressfield's wisdom in Do The Work (affiliate link) Correction:   In the podcast, I said six Pittsburgh Steelers were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this new segment episode titled the Catholic Corner, we touch on Saint Dominic and his integrated way of life. This new book, The Way of Life:  A Path to Knowing and Loving God   (affiliate link) by Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP and Jacob Bertrand Janczyk, OP, helps to unpack this richness of wisdom. Key points: Can our faith be regulated...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we explore Tony's Hortons great book of wisdom The Big Picture:  11 Laws That Will Change Your Life (affiliate link). Key points: How do we deal with failure?   Do we react positively to it?  Do we learn from our failures?   Do we embrace failure to achieve success? Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click he...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In part 2 of the exploring our feelings episode, we dig deep into one of the most powerful concepts I have uncovered in any of my readings.   It comes to us from Eric Greitens’s Resilience (affiliate link) so be sure to listen to this incredible MOJO minute. Key points: The relationship from actions to feelings To ask yourself, the impo...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we explore our feelings and how they correlate to our decisions and choices.   Along the way, we check out quotes from Eat that Frog   and Learned Optimism   finally concluding with Man's Search for Meaning (affiliate links) Key points: Brian Tracy explains why we need a personal cheerleader Martin Seligman helps t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this SPECIAL episode, we launch our first ever, Author Spotlight! Key Points: We open with the preface from Brad's latest novel, Black Ice ! Check out our Author spotlight dedicated page Brad Thor's biography and his prolific writing record Why Brad was chosen as our first ever featured Author spotlight Other resources: Wan...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we examine the state of friendship and its importance in our culture ending with Aesops Fable, the Bear and The Travelers.   Key points: Results from the Survey Center on American Life C.S. Lewis and Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes The importance parent's place on their children's friends as a bellwether of the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we pivot to understand better our financial fitness in Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover (affiliate link). Key points: Whats the typical millionaire’s buying habits  Those who are practicing financial fitness the best, what are their priorities? How to gain financial fitness! Other resources: Want to leave a review...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we discuss starting a weight loss project or any project and how sometimes those project never seem to happen. Then, Joe DeSena provides to us some great nuggets of wisdom in Spartan Fit (affiliate link) to help us “get to our starting lines.” Key points: how to reach your innate potential and commit to grit? whats the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we unpack Stephen Guise's fantastic book, How to be an Imperfectionist (affiliate link). Key points: We name the top five areas of perfectionism Take a dive into each of the five and provide solutions.  Thank you Mr. Guise for such wisdom David shares his biggest area of perfectionism and how to address this short-...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we ask the ultimate question for everyone trying to tackle their nutrition and better their health, do you hate eating salads too?  lol  (seriously) Thank you Dr. Joel Fuhrman from The End of Dieting (affiliate link)  for this gem of super goodness and health. In this fun episode,  we provide the ultimate solution if yo...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we go back in the day--not really--but it feels like to the movie Karate Kid from the 1980's and we meet Danielson and Mr. Miyagi and explore the Art of Mental Training (affiliate link) by DC Gonzalez.  Key points: Art of Mental Training Academy Review Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine 4 step process to rock our negat...