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Oct. 18, 2022

MM#171--Ideas Have Consequences

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Let's get philosophical shall we? Todays MM introduces us to Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences and then we pull apart this notion of the quest for ideas with the great-grandfather of personal development, Jim Rohn, in his magnum opus, Leading an Inspired Life Key points: William of Ockham and nominalism Ideas do have consequences What's your next big idea?Want to leave a review? Click here and if we earne...
Oct. 16, 2022

LM#15--Big Help With A Little Badmouth

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Liberty Minute πŸ—½sheds light on the corruption with China by our American Elites. Peter Schweizer has been at the forefront of investigating this corruption for over the last decade. His book, Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win will help guide us today. Key Points from the Episode: There is no one immune in any sector of our society from this corruption.How "big help with a little b...
Oct. 13, 2022

MM#170--In The Darkest Moments, Be Your Very Best

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we appeal for you to be your best at the darkest times. Those darkest times might upon us now as a society.... To help you to be your very best, we share a very inspirational story from William McRaven's book, Make your Bed: Little Things That Can Change your Life...and Maybe the World Key points: You must rise above your fearsYou must rise above your doubtsYou must be your very b...
Oct. 11, 2022

MM#169--The Questions From A Good Teacher

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, we think about our childhood and who influenced us to be our better self? To do this, our lightening bolt of inspiration came to us while reading, Robin Sharma's insightful book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World Key Points from the Episode: She believed in me. Which helped me believe in me.All of us can be great at something.Mrs. Greenaway'...
Oct. 10, 2022

LM#14--The 16,000 Hour War (Part 2)

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In Today's Liberty Minute πŸ—½, we continue to shine a bright light on the indoctrination of America's youth in K-12 education which Pete Hegseth's book highlights for us in this PART 2 of the 16,000 hour War. Again, Pete's book is Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting A Century of Miseducation Key Points from the Episode: What is Paideia?Why should we care about our Western Christian Paideia?This 16,000 hour wa...
Oct. 8, 2022

LM#14--The 16,000 hour war (Part 1)

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Liberty Minute πŸ—½, shines a bright light on the indoctrination of America's youth in K-12 education and the 16,000 hour war that Pete Hegseth's book highlights for us. The title of Pete's book is Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting A Century of Miseducation stay tuned for Part 2 coming Monday Key Points from the Episode: This book picks up where Allan Bloom's The Closing of The American Mind left off in the...
Oct. 6, 2022

MM#168--Getting Started Right On The Flourishing Life

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Everybody loves a simple list. In todays MOJO Minute, we believe we have found that list for starting you on the road to creating a Flourishing Life. our lightening bolt of inspiration came to us while reading, Robin Sharma's insightful book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World Key Points from the Episode: Keep the list simpleUse your inner system of navigatio...
Oct. 4, 2022

MM#167--Don't Swim In Baggy Clothing

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message How productive are you? Do you miss many ideas throughout the day? Perhaps those lightening bolts of wisdom that would or could have propelled you to new heights in life or your relationships or just in productivity? In todays MOJO Minute, we look deeper into Getting Things Done, the methodology behind the GTD productivity system with David Allen's book of the same name, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Pro...
Oct. 1, 2022

LM#13--America's Rubicon

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute πŸ—½, we explore the question--has America passed it's so called "Rubicon moment?" Historians and political commentators increasingly are asking this question, so we thought we would some research with these two books, Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic and Walter Signorelli's Rome and America: The Great Republics: What the ...
Sept. 29, 2022

MM#166--Iron Lady 2.0?

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Events in the UK, under their new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, caused us to look again to those folks across the pond and her new economic plan. So we in this MM, we look back at Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady as she was known at the height of her popularity, and her greatness at Prime Minister from 1979--1990 with Claire Berlinkski in her magnificent book, There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters Key Po...
Sept. 27, 2022

MM#165--A Queen's Flourishing Life

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, we celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth II, she certainly lived a flourishing life. Key Points from the Episode: Her life of devotion to her familyHer life of faith to her Godand her life of service to her country and its people.Other resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appr...
Sept. 24, 2022

LM#12--San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message For decades we have watched our major iconic cities throughout the U.S. fall apart into shambles. Why is that? Why do progressive political policies ruin cities? Let’s answer that question from an unlikely source, Michael Shellenberger in his latest book, San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Key Points from the Episode: Incredible research from Johnathan HaidtGerman seed of Communism from Karl MarxVick...
Sept. 22, 2022

MM#164--Overcoming Resistance

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message How you start your mornings matter! In todays MOJO Minute, we read from Steven Pressfields great little book, The War of Artand how to overcome resistance Key Points from the Episode: What is resistance?Steven Pressfield's morning routineWhy mornings matter!Other resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star review from you **high fiv...
Sept. 20, 2022

MM#163--Calling Mayor Lightfoot

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recently the President & CEO of McDonalds, Chris Kempczinski, spoke to the Economic Club of Chicago, our ears perked up when he mentioned crime as one of large concerns with the crisis happening in the city of Chicago Key Points from the Episode: Why are more large corporations leaving Chicago this month than last month, why more corporations are leaving this year than last year?McDonalds restaurants are a great bell-weather in...
Sept. 17, 2022

LM#11--Violent Crime Is On The Rise, Why? , PART 1

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute πŸ—½, we ask the question, why is violent crime on the rise? To answer that question, we look to Matt Palumbo's excellent work, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros Key Points from the Episode: Is the best contribution that George Soro's can make to the common good and to the betterment of civil society?Does a majority of Americans support this type of radical social justice ide...
Sept. 15, 2022

MM#162--The Dignity of Human Work

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Continuing on with our nuggets of wisdom surrounding our work and our notion of human work, in this MM, we turn to Timothy Keller in his very insightful book, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work Key Points from the Episode: Why is doing our work well a form of co-operating with God in his creative work?Why is there a dignity in all forms of good human work?Should manual labor be more appreciated vs knowledge, in...
Sept. 13, 2022

MM#161--The Passion of Work

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Do you have passion for your work? Do you love what you do for a living? If not, why not? Perhaps, your passion is misplaced. In this MM, we ponder that reflection on a "Gospel of Work" Key Points from the Episode: Do we need to have a job that we are passionate about to work with passion?How do we work with more effectiveness, with more care, with more clarity to insist the work is well done?How do we lead be...
Sept. 10, 2022

LM#10--The Tyranny of Big Tech

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute πŸ—½, we examine Big Tech with Senator Josh Hawley and his new book, The Tyranny of Big Tech Key Points from the Episode: Are the robber barons of the Golden Age of America just like todays, Big Tech Firms of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter?Should these Big Tech giants be broken apart?The time is ripe to address this overwhelming threat to our republic.Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here, a...
Sept. 8, 2022

MM#160--Building Our Second Brain

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Whoa, what a title for this MM...Building our second brain In this MM, we look at Getting Things Done by David Allen but then we zoom ahead to what our future looks like within the productivity domain with Tiago Forte's new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential Key Points from the Episode: Can we, with technology, find a reliable system that helps us s...
Sept. 6, 2022

MM#159--Happiness & my notation system = Happiness Revisited

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recently, I was asked how do I jot notes in my physical books that Im reading from? In this MM, we answer that listener question as well as we found a fantastic nugget of wisdom in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which we use one of our most recommended books, Aristotle's great classic work, Nicomachean Ethics to expand that on answer in our quest for more great ideas. Key Points ...
Sept. 4, 2022

CC#13--Calming The Storm

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We live in a crazy world and often that confusion causes many Catholics to lose hope. Todays book--in our Catholic Corner--should restore hope that we can make sense out of this confusion with Father Gerald Murray's Calming The Storm: Navigating The Crises Facing The Catholic Church and Society. Key points Fr. Murray shows us the way, with Christ, and how to navigate these modern day crises in the Catholic faith.His theolog...
Sept. 3, 2022

LM#9--A Broken Trust

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message For two and half years, the COVID19 pandemic has ravaged the United States and the world. In this Liberty Minute πŸ—½, we look to Scott Atlas on what should have been our National public health response, who broke that trust and who is to blame in his book, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight At The Trump White House To Stop COVID From Destroying America Key Points from the Episode: Was our National COVID19 response effecti...
Sept. 1, 2022

MM#158--Little Hug, Big Heart

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The power of example is often underestimated. Not so, in todays MM, where we watch a little league baseball player hug another competitor in an incredible show of compassion and sportsmanship. Key Points from the Episode: Kids are often our best teachers because of their purity of heartBe sure to get the tissues readyOther resources: Video of the Little League Hug More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want...
Aug. 30, 2022

MM#157--Make It Hard To Have A Bad Day

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO Minute, we will talk about how to conquer our day from its first beginnings and how to make it hard to have a bad day! To do so, we will enlist our help from Brian Tracy's great book, Eat that Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time Key Points from the Episode: Develop a habit of tackling the hardest item FIRSTHow to increase your performance reaching your peak with th...