Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Times are tough. People are losing their jobs, homes, identities. It can lead people to bad places. We are all subject to this stress from time to time. Sometimes desperate times result in desperate acts by otherwise reasonable people. People are quick to rage at normally simple conflicts. It seems a good time to review our mental conflict basics. One tried and true way Read More

Sunday, May 24, 2009 ......And he is us. Have you thought about the real conflicts, challenges, and setbacks you have encountered in life and thought about the person, events, or conditions that caused them? Ever notice that we focus on a causal factor that usually involves someone else, something that happened to us, or powers beyond our control? In believing that someone or something controls the experiences or opportunities we can achieve is feeding Read More

Sunday, May 3, 2009 In my last post, I mentioned the focus of my upcoming project as being the development of Resiliency. I have spent a lot of time this week writing and developing my upcoming weekly course at the Crossfight MMA school. Along the way I have contemplated what to weave into this hybrid Personal Protection based curriculum. When we think of self defense and martial arts we think Read More

Monday, March 16, 2009Picture the most determined fighter you can think of. Hear his alarm clock going off at 4 in the morning, scrambling out of bed and into his shorts and running shoes. Feel the cold and wet of the morning as he goes out the front door into the cold night air. See him break into a run and start down the street. He Read More

Sunday, March 8, 2009 How does this photo make you feel? What would you do if your back was to the wall? Do you have the tools to make it through? This is obviously a training evolution, but if you could go inside the mask and put yourself in the scenario, consider what may be going through your mind while your back is against the wall. I talk about Read More

Saturday, February 14, 2009 When the reality of a problem visits you, what do you visualize? Do you envision failure? Do you see the individual steps to victory? Do you see yourself with your hands raised as a winner? Or, do you capture that one mistake, that one problem, that one personal issue generating a quicksand death to your goals and dreams? The mind navigates the body, and our visualizations Read More

Regret. The feeling we could have, or should have done something we didn’t, or shouldn’t have done something we did. I listened to an account recently of a dying man who struggled till the very last moment of his life. His struggle, his pain, was more caused by regret than the pain of what was physically killing him. The personal realization that I faced just in hearing that story is Read More

Sunday, December 7, 2008 Pearl Harbor Day, 2008.I haven’t posted in about a week. I have been sitting and chewing on my lip about this post for the better part of 4 days. In trying to find a point, or an angle that might not piss a great deal of people off that may not be “switched on” to the reality of the world we live in, I Read More

Saturday, November 29, 2008

In part I of this series I went over a few issues that gun owners wrestle with when they choose to bring a firearm into their life.   I will re-state that this is