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March 17, 2022

MM#101-- March Madness SPECIAL -- Wooden's Wisdom

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 Ref...

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March 15, 2022

MM#100--To Flourish...and Thank you!

Wow! It’s MOJO Minute # πŸ’― Kinda special milestone! πŸŽŠπŸ‘ 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 Seligma...

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March 14, 2022

MM#99 -- March Madness SPECIAL -- The Madness Of March

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 ...

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March 10, 2022

MM#98--The Confessions of St. Augustine

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 ...

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March 8, 2022

MM#97--The Better Jihad

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: Tw...

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March 3, 2022

MM#96--Virtues and Vices

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 ...

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March 1, 2022

MM#95--Screwtape's Spiritual War

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 β€œthe fa...

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Feb. 27, 2022

CC#4--The Battle of Prayer

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 ...

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Feb. 24, 2022

MM#94--A Notetaker's Dream

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...

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Feb. 22, 2022

MM#93--America's Forgotten Epidemic

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 wil...

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Feb. 17, 2022

MM#92--Whats America's Expiration Date?

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 Superp...

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Feb. 15, 2022

MM#91--Why Read History?

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 R...

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Feb. 10, 2022

MM#90--The 2022 Airbrushed Olympics

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 allowe...

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Feb. 8, 2022

MM#89--The Road to Sparta

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 deliv...

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Feb. 3, 2022

MM#88--Just Say No to Aristotle's Librarians

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 powerf...

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Feb. 1, 2022

MM#87--The Slight Edge Habit Fundamentals

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 inc...

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Jan. 27, 2022

MM#86--Process is Primary

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 accomplishe...

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Jan. 25, 2022

MM#85--The Unbreakable Goggins

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 ea...

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Jan. 20, 2022

MM#84--The Maccabees Victories On & Off The Court

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...

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Jan. 18, 2022

MM#83--Superpower pt 3, The Holy Grail

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 resourc...

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Jan. 13, 2022

MM#82--Superpower, part 2 - Deep Work Habit

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...

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Jan. 11, 2022

MM#81--The 21st Century Superpower

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 ...

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Jan. 6, 2022

MM#80--Deciding vs Wishing

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 Min...

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Jan. 4, 2022

MM#79--Goals are for losers!

"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...

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