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Nov. 14, 2023

MM#282--Getting Started 101--Standardize Before You Optimize

Ever felt overwhelmed by the mountain of tasks staring back at you? What if you could conquer the chaos and boost your efficiency with a simple two-minute rule? As your host, David Kaiser, I am thrilled to break down this int...

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Feb. 9, 2023

MM#205--The Mystery of Dirty Socks

MM#205 we continue with Roy Baumeister and John Tierney and their spectacular 2011 book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength Key Points from the Episode: The mystery science experiment Human nature, colleg...

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Feb. 7, 2023

MM#204--Willpower Is At The Center Of Things

MM#204 brings us to the center of things and how we understand Willpower. Our guide will be Roy Baumeister and John Tierney and their vaunted 2011 book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength Key Points from t...

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Feb. 2, 2023

MM#203--How Starbucks harnessed "Willpower?"

In this MOJO Minute, we take a look at a very successful company on how they train and educate their employees. That company is Starbucks and our guide is Charles Duhigg from his The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In ...

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Jan. 17, 2023

MM#198--Work the 3 Fundies Together

MM#198 provides for us the science behind why working the 3 fundies is important. When we tackle the 3 fundamentals of Eating Better, Moving More and increasing our Sleep quality all at the same time we have a far greater c...

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Jan. 12, 2023

MM#197--The Code & The Path

In todays MM, we zoom up to 50,000 feet to see the forest from the trees so to speak. We hear from our guide, Jocko Willink over these last 3 episodes about the importance of a code and a path and so we unveil, the Code and t...

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Oct. 27, 2022

MM#174--Another Superpower? = Action Action & Action

Today’s MOJO Minute, we look back to some previous MM’s to ensure we are not forgetting our fundamentals. But we are staying with our author in our previous MM, Daniel Coyle and his superb book, The Talent Code: Greatness i...

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Aug. 9, 2022

MM#151--(In A Whiny Voice) "I Dont Feel Like It"

MM#151 we discuss what happens to all of us. Procrastination! For help, we enlist Timothy Pyschyl's Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide To Strategies For Change Key Points from the Episode: We cover the sad b...

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May 10, 2022

MM#121--Action Cures Fear

In todays MOJO minute, we explore why fear paralyzes us at almost every turn? To answer this question, we turn to David Schwartz in his Uber popular book, The Magic Of Thinking Big: Acquire the Secrets of Success...Achieve E...

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Feb. 3, 2022

MM#88--Just Say No to Aristotle's Librarians

This is a fun episode, where go to back to one of the great books of all time by perhaps one of the greatest philosophers of all time, Aristotle and his Nicomachean Ethics . Key Points from the Episode: Habits are very powerf...

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Aug. 3, 2021

MM#30--Feelings, pt. 2--The Pole Position of LIfe

In part 2 of the exploring our feelings episode, we dig deep into one of the most powerful concepts I have uncovered in any of my readings. It comes to us from Eric Greitens’s Resilience (affiliate link) so be sure to liste...

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July 29, 2021

MM#29--Feelings pt. 1--Personal Cheerleader

In this episode, we explore our feelings and how they correlate to our decisions and choices. Along the way, we check out quotes from Eat that Frog and Learned Optimism finally concluding with Man's Search for Meaning (affi...

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June 8, 2021

MM#13--Thinking vs Doing

In this episode, Stephen Guise's How to be an Imperfectionist (affiliate link) helps us greatly on Thinking vs Doing Key points: Why action beats thinking every time. why Theory 2 Action is our podcast name what's the tinest ...

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