Action EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Ever felt overwhelmed by the mountain of tasks staring back at you? What if you could conquer the chaos and boost your efficiency with a simple two-minute rule? As your host, David Kaiser, I am thrilled to break down this intriguing concept, borrowed from David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' and James Clear's 'Atomic Habits'. I will share how to quickly discern which tasks demand more than a single action or two minutes to compl...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#205 we continue with Roy Baumeister and John Tierney and their spectacular 2011 book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength Key Points from the Episode: The mystery science experimentHuman nature, college exams and unhealthy habitsStress diminishes your ability to control your emotions which results in depleting willpowerOther resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#204 brings us to the center of things and how we understand Willpower. Our guide will be Roy Baumeister and John Tierney and their vaunted 2011 book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength Key Points from the Episode: Why is Willpower at the center of things?How to gain Willpower?How to fuel Willpower and get more of it?Other resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want to leav...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we take a look at a very successful company on how they train and educate their employees. That company is Starbucks and our guide is Charles Duhigg from his The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business Key Points from the Episode: How creating a habit is tied to WillpowerDuhigg credits Starbucks executives for writing a curriculum that--in part--launched them from a small Seattle ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#198 provides for us the science behind why working the 3 fundies is important. When we tackle the 3 fundamentals of Eating Better, Moving More and increasing our Sleep quality all at the same time we have a far greater chance of success then when we do not. Tom Rath shares this science with us from his book, Eat Move Sleep. Key Points from the Episode: MM#9--7 hours and you get a vaccine The research ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MM, we zoom up to 50,000 feet to see the forest from the trees so to speak. We hear from our guide, Jocko Willink over these last 3 episodes about the importance of a code and a path and so we unveil, the Code and the Path from his book The Code. the Evaluation. the Protocols: Striving to Become an Eminently Qualified Human Key Points from the Episode: Everyone has a codeNot everyone follows the pathWhy following the p...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today’s MOJO Minute, we look back to some previous MM’s to ensure we are not forgetting our fundamentals. But we are staying with our author in our previous MM, Daniel Coyle and his superb book, The Talent Code: Greatness isnt born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. Key points: Fundamental #1—action. Put theory INTO ACTION!Mindset fundamental—default actionOur next superpower = Discipline Want to leave a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#151 we discuss what happens to all of us. Procrastination! For help, we enlist Timothy Pyschyl's Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide To Strategies For Change Key Points from the Episode: We cover the sad breaking news: The beloved American historian David McCullough passed away. We offer a quick tribute. Time to eat our own dog food and set the good example to end (or lim...

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 fear?

Fear is a psychological infection just like there are body infections.

Why indecision & postponement ONLY fertilize fear? Why taking action is so important!
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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 information, data and organize it. Let us act on NOT being librarians but on doers--putting into practice this information.

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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 important question of “who do I want to be?”

Get the order right between feelings, indentity, action to live a flourishing life.

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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 to understand the choice we have in choosing our feelings

Victor Frankl distills all this knowledge into a powerful nugget of wisdom--No matter how bad our circumstances--...

In this episode, Stephen Guise's How to be an Imperfectionist (affiliate link) helps us greatly on Thinking vs Doing

Key points:
Why action beats thinking every time.

why Theory 2 Action is our podcast name

what's the tinest thing you can do today to get moving on your next big project. don't think about it. Do something moving towards it.

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