Our website has been sabotaged!

Dear friend, Please pardon our momentary mess as we rebuild our web page from scratch. Our site may have been sabotage, but our academy is going strong in Longmont. Recently, my web designer left the internet field and dismantled every web site she worked on —...

To Manage Anger You Have to Get Angry First

Our Powerful Word for March is Anger Management.  This is the perfect lesson to follow Self-Control because, as I wrote before, expressing anger usually leads to regret. Anger is a hot topic, it’s about fiery, heated emotions with the energy to drive us to...

A Salute to Self-Control

Given Self-Control is our Powerful Word of the Month, I’d like to share with you a Powerful Strategy to control anger. Anger usually manifests in violence, in word or deed, as the quickest way to overcome a perceived threat. Violence is the default...

Have you ever regretted this?

Yesterday we had some friends over for brunch and I got into a fascinating conversation. Three of us somehow got onto the topic of our exercise regimes, and specifically what each of us does to stay on track and talk ourselves into working out when we don’t want...

Happy (Re)New Year!

Happy 2013! Ah, the New Year. This is the time when we are supposed to clear out the old and usher in the new, to wipe the slate clean and start all over. Or so they say. What kind of way to go through life is that? I can’t imagine wiping my brain clean of all...

A Tribute to Zig Ziglar

I just heard on NPR today that the Zig Ziglar has died at the age of 86. If you don’t know who Zig Ziglar is, let me begin by telling you how I first heard of him. I had just graduated from college and moved to Fort Meyers, Florida to continue my martial arts...