A great quote – from last month:
“Winners Remember Results – Losers Remember Reasons”

Anchor this with your staff and your students. Teach “Internal Locus of Control” and have a “no excuses” environment, that starts with you.

Anyway since we’re in the Holiday Season I’ll share another quote for you and for your students, it’s actually from the first edition of the Mile High Maverick and is my 1960’s music trivia question as well:“Face piles of Trials with smiles, it riles them to perceive
the web they weave”

Music trivia nerds, recognize that one?

Anyway moving on to more serious things.

On our end we’ve had an incredibly busy and productive fall so far. Our Black Belt retreat morphed into the “World Champion Reunion” with my instructor and our Mile High Karate director of instruction Jeff Smith who invited Joe Lewis to join us for the weekend in Breckenridge with about 350 Mile High Karate Black Belts.

Then I was at the NAPMA office with Bill Wallace called and after a few minutes of ritual harassment (mutual harassment about bow legs and walking like chimps (him and I)) it dawned on me that if we talked him into rescheduling a seminar we’d have all three of the original champions together.

Anyway, Bill was nice enough to accommodate us and we ended up with the original Middle Weight, Light Heavy-Weight, and Heavy Weight World Kick-Boxing champions at our Black Belt retreat to training privately all of our Mile High Karate instructors then to work with our Black Belts from around the country including Colorado, NY, Florida, Maryland along with new MHK school owners like Wes Hall, Christine Hardy, Alan Condon, and Calvin Thomas.

The planets really aligned and it turned out that WCL ended up booking their event on our same weekend and we ended up taking all of our Staff and Black Belts (and, Chuck Norris’ invitation) to the WCL event along with about 1,000 Mile High Karate schools.

Joe Lewis, Jeff Smith, Bill Wallace, and myself (along with Jodi & Jaeda) got a chance to meet with Chuck at a private reception before the event along with his friend Randy Travis and others. The event was exciting and we got a chance to touch base with NAPMA NSSN member and Oklahoma Team Captain Dale Cook – among many others.