Action Over Mindset “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” ~ Aristotle A …
The Power Of Forgiveness “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes. When my mother passed away in 2000, I was devastated. It left me with a deep sense of guilt. I felt guilty for having not been there in her final days. …
Are You Lucky, Or Are You Ready? I once had a conversation with a group of friends about Denzel Washington. I’m a huge fan of his. He’s an amazing talent and is at the top of the acting profession. His success is incredible. One of my friends chimed in a one …
As you Think, So Shall You Become “As you think, so shall you become.”- The Bible. I was never much a newspaper reader but with the internet, I got all the news I needed. Then, with the smartphone, the internet and the news were at your fingertips all day long wherever you were. …
Choosing Your Business “He that wishes to be the greatest, finds a way to serve the many.” – The Bible Before leaving my Wall Street career to open my first fitness studio, I spent about 10 years trying to figure out what business I wanted to do. I tried everything. I tried real estate from …
Visualize & Materialize “Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.” Dale Carnegie At age 50, I left my career on Wall Street to pursue a career in fitness. I signed on with …
The Law of Attraction at Work “Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.” ~ Dale Carnegie After I opened my gym in January of 2020, learned that my neighboring gym owner of …
Suffer Greatly “To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove …
Running to Your Fears Ever since my first experience in an elementary school play, I have had stage fright. I was 5 or 6 and I froze on stage. I can’t even remember what the play was or what I was supposed to say but there I was, frozen with just a smile on my …