: ACMA Board member Brian Tracy is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of human development and motivation. A martial artist since 1964, Brian is the author of many of the best selling albums in the world on these subjects.
In my previous columns, I explained that the first ingredient of success is peace of mind. Peace of mind is achieved by creating a vision of your perfect future. You begin unlocking your potential by envisioning your life, as if it were exactly how you would want it to be. Then, you work backwards from [...]
During many of my columns, I’ve described how you can reach your full potential, which is the primary goal of martial arts. I’ve described how, as when you are learning intricate steps of a complex kata or form, success is simply a matter of applying the right techniques everyday. All esteem is built on a [...]
Any factor that you would consider important to your happiness can be placed in one of seven categories. These Seven Ingredients of Success are consistent with all of success and happiness.You must start with your vision of a perfect future. You begin unlocking your inner powers by “seeing” your life exactly as if it were [...]
It has been said that men and women start to become great when they begin to listen to their inner voices. Your intuition is your direct connection with infinite intelligence. Intuition is so powerful that the greatest men and women of history have written and studied it for thousands of years. When you [...]
Some skills are peripheral to success. It’s nice to have them, but they don’t make much of a difference. There are other skills, however, that are absolutely essential to fulfill your potential; and you must develop them to a fairly high level, if you are to achieve all of your goals. One of these [...]
Why I Love Martial Arts Fitness
I’ve recently been reflecting on the impact my programming has had on people and the difference between what I hear my students say today as opposed to when I taught only a traditional martial arts program. In the past, the compliments were mostly about how a child improved in school or how much more confident [...]
Protect your Assets with the Right Business Entity, Part 1
As I wrote in my August/September column, the best way to keep what you have is not to have anything in your name. To implement that strategy, you must choose the right business entity (or entities) to limit exposure of your assets to (successful) lawsuits and separate your asset ownership. This month, I’ll explain Sole [...]
When I served my three tours of military duty in Southeast Asia, we used multiple layers of defensive methods, or multiple redundancy defenses, to protect an installation. For example, my job as a dog handler was to be the first level of defense, encountering the enemy outside the perimeter of the installation. We were also [...]
