It’s an unfortunate reality in our business that, despite our best intentions, students quit, for good or bad reasons. It is an even more unfortunate reality that many schools do very little to prevent attrition. I remember buying a car once. At that time, I did not have a very sophisticated understanding of the sales [...]
Over the next few months, here in Martial Arts Professional I will ne explaining to you the Seven Laws of Mental Mastery. The United States spends more its gross national product on health care than any other nation, and the costs are increasing. More people are sick, overweight, unfit, and unhealthy than ever before. Today, we [...]
Our culture seems to make everything available seven days a week, twenty-four hours per day. People who once rested on the weekend now use that time for many activities and chores. Our lives seem to contain endless work. All of us must become conscious of the scope of damage that this stressful, materialist cycle has [...]
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. You make errors in judgment and then foolishly repeat them every [...]
With the passing of every New Year, you must understand the magnitude of social and economic changes in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required. Today, in our knowledge-based world, where change is the rule, a set [...]
In the July and August NAPMA Resources Kits, all NAPMA members received parts 1 and 2 of an interview by Rob Colasanti with my instructor Jhoon Rhee. Jeff Smith and I have been associated with Jhoon Rhee for 45 and coming up on 40 years, respectively. If you are not a NAPMA member, then you [...]
I was involved in a pretty toxic IRS audit of the tax return of one of my clients (a plumber who was operating his business as a Sole Proprietorship) a while back. The auditor seemed pretty intent on not allowing his business deductions as business expenses because, although his income had been steadily going up, his [...]
If not, is your school DOOMED for mediocrity (or failure)? In the last 2 installments, we’ve been exploring the “Environment of Support” you are creating for yourself, and how it relates to the success of you and your business. I was thumbing through one of those silly desk calendars loaded with cute little quips, and [...]
While an instructor may run a class with stern discipline, that doesn’t always translate well when that instructor puts on his management hat. The job of the owner/manager is not to be a dictator, but to tell people how they’re doing, what they’re doing, give encouragement, and give advise. IN motivation, we only become committed to [...]
I was involved in a rather toxic IRS audit of one of my client’s tax return (a plumber who was operating his business as a sole proprietorship). The auditor was intent on not allowing my client’s business deductions because, although his income had been steadily increasing, his expenses had increased also. This had happened largely [...]
It’s your nature, as an entrepreneur, to want to create and manifest new things, consistently. It’s not that you don’t have great ideas and projects you want to accomplish and people you want to help; the problem is that you have no time to do the extra things in life that you would like to [...]
In the final episode of this martial arts-specific interview, fellow Black Belt and world-renowned “professional” imparts a wealth of knowledge on a wide variety of significant topics. Addressing The Seven Key Result Areas in selling and in management; the 80/20 Principle; the zero-based thinking, and more; we present to you… Master Brian Tracy. MABusiness: One [...]
Emotions are powerful human forces. Under the power of emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic (as well as barbaric) acts. To a great degree, civilization itself can be defined as the intelligent channeling of human emotion. Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, which together propel the ship of civilized progress. [...]
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 [...]
