I really enjoy reading Aesop’s Fables and I just finished “The Swallow and the Other Birds” and wanted to share it with you. The fable teaches us it is important to plan our future and keep an eye out for obstacles before they become a challenge in life. Too often, people spend their life reacting [...]

In class the other day, I noticed a young student finding ways to get out of doing push-ups with the class. These creative ways include fixing their uniform or belt, pretending to stretch their arms, or just plain lying still while everyone else is working hard. This got me to thinking that this student is [...]

People are always asking me how they can get more done in their day and I have found that everyone has wasted minutes and hours in their day that prevent them from being as productive as they can be. The challenge is to minimize that wasted time and fill it with “must do” items. Here [...]

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Reaching Your Goal By Denny Strecker I speak with a lot of people in my day to day work, and this past week I was speaking with a gentlemen who asked my opinion on getting back into shape. He had decided that he was tired of being overweight [...]

The message of the week that the karate students are working on is a great story about deciding what to focus on in your day. This is a story from the Navajo Indians that was been passed down from father to son for generations. A young Navajo boy was brooding over his poor performance in [...]