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Here's a SPECIAL episode--March Madness MOJO Minute--Final Four Edition!

As this NCAA tourney comes to a close with the Final Four games tonite and the championship game on Monday, I thought we would explore the most intriguing storyline remaining in this tournament--Coach Mike Krzyzewski's swan song.

To do so, we use former Duke Basketball player and now ESPN analyst Jay Bilas and his 2009 article turned into a book Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court
Key Points from the ...

In this short MM, we have fun with the Pareto Principle while gaining some wisdom!

Key Points from the Episode:
Vilfredo Pareto created the principle in Italy about 20th century English wealth

20% of beer drinkers drink 80% of the worlds beer

20% of our actions should be producing 80% of the results. lets do more of them

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What is an essential leadership question to ask ourselves? We explore that question in this MM#107 with Jocko Willink's excellent book, Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
Key Points from the Episode:
Quick review of Leadership week MM's #34-40, be sure to check them out

Leaders are NOT actually superior to those below them in the chain of command

Do we have the right frame of mind for great leadership?

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Offering up another SPECIAL MOJO Minute--March Madness style--we appreciate GRIT and these two unique storylines playing out in this years NCAA college basketball tourney.

Our MOJO book of the day GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth helps us to see the metaphor of the sport of basketball in the game of life.

Key Points from the Episode:
Saint Peters historic win over Purdue to reach the Elite 8

Coach K's storybook run into tonite's match against Arkansas, a 1994 va...

Continuing our SPECIAL MOJO Minutes--March Madness style--we dig deep in The Anatomy of the NCAA upset.

Our MOJO book of the day, Spartan UP: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance by Joe DeSena helps us to understand the psychology of winning telephone pole by telephone pole!

Key Points from the Episode:
Watching the St. Peters v Kentucky first round game up-close reminded me to the Anatomy of the NCAA upset

The underdog team using the TV timeouts in...

In this MOJO Minute, we continue our study with small businesses and with our MOJO book the day, The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd by Allan Dib.

Key Points from the Episode:
Why are marketing plans important

What is the 64/4 leverage principle and how does it apply in our lives and businesses?

Are you a small business owner, do you have a marketing plan? if not, why not?

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In todays MOJO Minute, we study the #1 reason why small business don't grow! To help us, we dig in with our MOJO book of the day, The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd by Allan Dib.

Key Points from the Episode:
Why are business systems important

What is the poster child for good business systems

4 valuable benefits for implementing business systems

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Rounding out our SPECIAL MOJO March Madness MOJO minutes this week, we check in with perhaps the greatest coach of the 21st century, Duke mens basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski. In 2001, Coach K—his nickname because most people struggle with his last name—wrote a great book, wrote a great book, Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life

Key Points from the Episode:
Grab a Kleenex for todays story

Family is important

Coach K’s prayer before every ...

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 Reflections On and Off Court!
Key Points from the Episode:
Make today a masterpiece

Improve a little each day

The classic John Wooden coaching story of teaching the fundamentals by putting your socks on properly.

ENJOY the games today!

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Wow! It’s MOJO Minute # 💯

Kinda special milestone! 🎊👏

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 Seligman and his book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being.
Key Points from the Episode:
Quick background on the Positive Psychology Movement

Difference between Happiness and Well-being

And a special PS thank you for all the podcast listeners over...

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 the Episode:
Great words from Gonzaga head mens basketball coach Mark Few

We end the UCLA greatest dynasty debate from the mid 1960's--mid 1970's

Enjoy the games and especially the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat because this tourney will have it all from buzzer be...

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 and 57 for Dante's Divine Comedy.

Why is St. Augustines's Confessions so compelling?

Why do we commit evil for evil's sake?

In a society obsessed with sex, how to live a virtuous life?

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Audible version of Confessions narrated by Simon Vance

Want to leav...

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:
Two meanings of the word Jihad

The universal concepts across great traditions

What is the better Jihad

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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 learning and striving for the virtues is important.

Cover the four traditional virtues in detail

Two good self examination questions on one of the virtues.

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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 “the father of all lies.”

C.S. Lewis’s brilliant theological statements that are woven into the letters.

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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 the four themes or structures of good prayer?

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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. lol

Todays MM will be an overview.

Key Points from the Episode:
Tim's humility.

Its pretty cool that we have covered 4 of contributors in our MOJO Minutes from in this book.

Why this book is a notetakers dream

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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 will be tough to listen too

You can't believe this is happening in the United States

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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 Superpowers...and the Future of the United States.
Key Points from the Episode:
Does America have an expiration date of July 4, 2026?

Much like a individual patient has health markers indicating trend lines for their health, What are America's health markers--for the whole country...

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 Republic
Key Points from the Episode:
Is America following the same trend lines as the Roman Republic before it fell?

Duncan provides a compelling list of why the Roman Republic fell

Cicero's EPIC speech about the fall of the Republic

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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 allowed to host the 2022 Olympic games.

Key Points from the Episode:
2008's China is vastly different than 2022's China.

Four difficult questions that should have required answers before allowing China to continue to host these games.

Is the 2020 China Games a repeat of the 1936 N...

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 deliver the import message to the Spartans?

What are the physical false limits you put on yourself?

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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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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 incredible rate and the main motivation for these MOJO Minutes.

Check out the 7 Slight Edge Habit fundies.

Slight Edge Habit fundie #5 is my favorite.

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