I don’t watch much TV and when I do I usually just turn on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, or I am watching a game. There are very few shows that I watch but, my wife and I like to watch America’s Got Talent. We don’t even watch it on the night that it [...]
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America Is Nice
Posted by Coach Kip on September 16th, 2011
Posted in Achieve It, Believe It 
Tags: Achieve It, America, Believe It, Confidence, Hulu, Inspiration, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr, Likable, living a dream, rags to riches, throwback, underdog, USA 
No Comments »Surprising Outcomes
Posted by Coach Kip on August 1st, 2011
It is amazing how things have been sneaking up on me. I have twice now realized my dreams and have been completely unprepared when I got there. In this case being unprepared has been a wonderful and exciting surprise and is currently opening up massive possibilities. Let me catch you up a little bit on [...]
Posted in Achieve It, Believe It, Coaching Tags: 4 Hour Work Week, beach, education, income, life, lifestyle design, Miami, portable income, residual, SEO, social media marketing, Taiwan, teaching, Timothy Ferris, tropics, web design No Comments »The More Difficult the Better
Posted by Coach Kip on May 11th, 2011
Being a change expert I am proud to say that I am struggling with my current change. Proud?!?! you may say. You are the change expert this should be easy for you right? No that is not right. If it is easy you are not making a big enough change, or maybe not the right [...]
Posted in Believe It Tags: attitude, Change, Difficulty, lifestyle, mental, Persevere, Wealth No Comments »Self Directed Effort is the Best Kind @Seth Godin
Posted by Coach Kip on May 11th, 2011
Sometimes things just hit me and are said just right. This morning I read this and it hit me hard so here it is, follow the link and get inspired yourself. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/05/self-directed-effort.html
Thermodynamics and Diet
Posted by Coach Kip on July 20th, 2010
Has this blog really become me forwarding terrible jokes that will end up in someones inbox? Well after being kicked around a little bit the last year but landing squarely on my feet and running full steam into massive fortune I would say yes! So here it is. The link is here (http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/icecream.html). Beer and [...]
Don’t Get Bitter, Get Better
Posted by Coach Kip on May 7th, 2009
I wish I knew where that quote came from, if you do let me know in the comments section. This quote really sums up what makes a good athlete (or business person, or student, or person) into a great athlete. How does this quote work so well? It handles defeat in a gracious manner and [...]
Optimistic Thinking vs Positive Thinking
Posted by Coach Kip on May 5th, 2009
Since the Secret stormed out of the Oprah studio and took many of you by storm there has been some debate and some let down to the principles taught in the movie. There are some interesting factors that people overlooked. The biggest is the difference between Optimistic Thinking and Positive Thinking. I think that the [...]
It is OK to Want More
Posted by Coach Kip on May 3rd, 2009
I have heard from a lot of sources that wanting more, that wanting riches, is wrong. Why could wanting the best for yourself be a bad thing? Don’t we deserve it? I think that most of this stems from the Bible and other great books. I am no scholar of the Bible but I can’t [...]
The Toyota Way part 2
Posted by Coach Kip on April 16th, 2009
Yesterday I outlined what the Toyota Way was. I also subtly gave you a little homework assignment to go to Wikipedia and see what they have to say about the system. Now it is my turn. Base management decisions on long-term philosophy even at the expense of short-term financial goals Sound like something we could [...]
The Toyota Way
Posted by Coach Kip on April 15th, 2009
The last post What Happened Detroit started out as this post but I had to get a few things off my chest. As stated in the previous article the thing that is setting the Asian companies apart from the American companies is that they have taken our system and made it better. They have been [...]
