What’s New?

ADDED 5/31/10

* Week 22 Transformation Video Watch as David trains for body building competition this summer. Compare Week 1 to Week 22.

ADDED 5/30/10

* The Unnmoved Mover – Atlas Shrugged I have spent a lot of time contemplating the source of motivation, the source of action, what inspires people to do what they do. In sales, we are taught that people make decisions, or take actions, based on their emotional responses to things– present an individual with a visually pleasing scenario, and they will automatically respond in a predictable manner.

This is a mechanistic and unflattering view of how humans operate. Perhaps some people are so passive that they live their lives according to knee-jerk reactions, where car commercials and fast-food tag lines drive the motor inside of them. But I refuse to accept that it has to be this way. The above description is basically how dogs operate– they see something they like, and the tail starts a’waggin.

ADDED 5/20/10

* The Command To Rise – I hope I am never perceived as “nice” or “friendly” or “caring” or “empathetic”. I hope I am considered mean and cruel and harsh, like a man delivering blow after blow to the solar plexus. Because then, I will know I have given the command to rise. And some, inevitably, will meet that call.

ADDED 5/20/10

* Henry Rollins – Pumping Iron Anyone who works out on a regular basis knows the dramatic effect that pushing yourself to the limits can have on not just your body, but your mind as well.  Henry Rollins wrote about it several years ago.

ADDED 5/09/10

* Fate or Destiny:  Are you living life the way you want to live?

ADDED 5/07/10

ADDED 4/25/10

  • Ordinary and Extraordinary, Flash and Fire – This weeks “Emotional Fuel” Every moment of every day, you can choose to be great, or you can choose to be less. You can choose to be ordinary, which is definitely the easier path, or you can choose to be extraordinary. Just remember that it is a choice. I, for one, choose for my life to be built not on flash, but on fire.

ADDED 4/21/10

  • Doing What Others Say You Can Not Do - I understand rules of the universe, like gravity, or cause and effect; but I never understood “the rules” that I was expected to play by, the “rules of man” so to speak. I like to view them more as suggestions, and then test them, and break them, with a condescending grin.