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Teach Your Kids How to Drive a Manual Transmission
When I’m coaching, teaching, and working with others, I often find that a lot of my methods and analogies come from the automotive world. This is as much by chance as it is design. I had a friend ask me once if I had any advice for raising good, hardworking kids. Of course I mentioned…
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Why Dads Are Essential in Homeschooling: Lessons from My Journey Walking this Road
I recently wrote about our family’s journey with homeschool thus far, where I ended by calling on other dads to get involved in the homeschool journey. But I didn’t really recognize the importance of that call to action until after a conversation I had with our community director, Noelle. We were talking about the challenges…
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The Martin Homeschool Journey
This year, we enter our 5th year of homeschool. I’ve had a lot of people begin to ask me more and more questions about how it works, what we do, how involved I am, etc. so I thought I’d write this to help anyone who has similar questions. We are part of a community called…
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Leadership Lesson of the Day #2
There are three distinct types of communication you can have in your business: No communication – things remain in your head, leaving you as the only one who can truly get work done in the business. The trouble with this is that it leaves nobody to work on the business. Slow Communication – this is…
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The LDDR Framework
What is the LDDR (pronounced ‘Leader’) Framework? In short, it’s the 4-step process by which we take a business from where they are to where they want to go.
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Leadership Lesson of the Day #1
Communication is the backbone on which everything else in your business flows out of. Much of what I’ve learned about leadership has come from two areas: The first has been my largest area of influence by a long shot. You see, a big part of a leader’s role in any organization is to cast vision…
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My Dad Struck Out Pete Rose in the 1980 World Series
On three straight fastballs. If that’s crazy to read, think about how crazy it is for me to write. What’s stranger is that I didn’t even know that until sometime in my teenage years, around high school. Even now, more than thirty years after finding out, I know the broad brush strokes…the highlights, but not…
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100 Days
As of today, September 22nd, there are exactly 100 days until this year is over. What can you do with 100 days? There’s nothing particularly special about 100 days, but then again there is something about a nice round number like that. This time of year is usually when business owners put together their annual…
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Success Framework
While onboarding a new client recently, we put the finishing touches on his success framework, which helps define what actions need to be taken in order for him to meet his goal. It’s the bridge that helps him get from where he is to where he wants to be. I wanted to share the general…
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Margin
When I first opened my gym, I remember that as we grew, and demand for session times went up, I was enthusiastic about shoe-horning as many things back to back as I possibly could. Ditto for when I started taking clients at Two-Brain. I set up my calendar with wide-open, reckless abandon and couldn’t wait…
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