Mental Fitness Challenge: 90 Days to Change Your Life by Orrin Woodward

It is here - The Mental Fitness Challenge! The official release of the best systematically designed personal development program ever. I teamed up with NY Times best-selling author Chris Brady to conceptualize and develop a step by step process to grow personally from the inside out. Starting with private achievements, moving onto public achievements, then to leadership achievements, eventually culminating in a legacy achievement. Anyone reading this who has the mind, heart, and will desire to change can now achieve their destiny. The Mental Fitness Challenge is based around my book RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE. Each of the resolutions if focused on for one week, leading to a 13 week program designed to inculcate the 13 resolutions mindset into your life. I have never been happier with a personal development product and I am excited to play a part in helping people fulfill their purposes. What is the life you always wanted? Isn't it time to pursue it today?
Sincerely, Orrin Woodward

Mental Fitness Challenge Rolled Out in Columbus by Orrin Woodward

LIFE poured into Columbus for the launch of the Mental Fitness Challenge - the greatest personal development program developed to help the average person achieve un-average results in life. What is the life you have always wanted to live? Learn the principles taught within the Mental Fitness Challenge and pursue your dreams. Here is a video explaining more!
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Mental Fitness Challenge: 90 Days to Change Your Life by Orrin Woodward

It is here - The Mental Fitness Challenge! The official release of the best systematically designed personal development program ever. I teamed up with NY Times best-selling author Chris Brady to conceptualize and develop a step by step process to grow personally from the inside out. Starting with private achievements, moving onto public achievements, then to leadership achievements, eventually culminating in a legacy achievement. Anyone reading this who has the mind, heart, and will desire to change can now achieve their destiny. The Mental Fitness Challenge is based around my book RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE. Each of the resolutions if focused on for one week, leading to a 13 week program designed to inculcate the 13 resolutions mindset into your life. I have never been happier with a personal development product and I am excited to play a part in helping people fulfill their purposes. What is the life you always wanted? Isn't it time to pursue it today?
Sincerely, Orrin Woodward

The Ship of State by Oliver Demille

The Ship of State "At a place where the current wasn't too swift, and where there was a pretty good breeze, we sat down on the bank and Father showed me how we could make the boat go either up or down stream by simply changing the angle of the sail. "After I had learned how to do it and was moving the strings so to make the boat tack up against the breeze, Father said, 'You know, a man's life is a lot like a boat. If he keeps his sail set right it doesn't make too much difference which way the wind blows or which way the current flows. If he knows where he wants to go and keeps his sail trimmed carefully he'll come into the right port. But if he forgets to watch his sail till the current catches him broadside he's pretty apt to smash up on the rocks.'" -Little Britches, by Ralph Moody If a nation is doing the right things, it can weather any storm it faces. No outside force can hurt America if we are true to our principles, especially those in the U.S. Constitution. But if we forget, ignore, reject or abandon these principles, our freedoms and prosperity are in real dangers. The ship of state is steered by a very small rudder, the wisdom and will of the American people.

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LIFE Compensation Plan: Content & Commerce by Orrin Woodwar

Marc Militello describes the Content and Commerce in this informative video on the new LIFE Business. I listened to four CDs yesterday and I am blown away by the quality of the information flowing into the Compensated Communities. With almost 30,000 people subscribing to LIFE materials (almost 50% increase in 5 months), LIFE is great!  Even for those who have no desire to be rewarded through community building, the information is making a huge impact in their lives. I am receiving daily email, FB's, twitters, Google+, and Empire Avenue messages.  The best way to share LIFE is to hand them a CD and allow them to see the value of the information for themselves. See for yourself why nearly 10,000 new subscriptions have been purchased since November 1, 2011. Here's the video.

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Know Where You’re Going ? by Bill Lewis

I have always been a person that was active and liked to work out. My family also, seems to have, a high metabolism. So I love any kind of mental or fitness challenge. I know some you are thinking, ” You lucky dog!” (Referring to the metabolism part). But not so fast my friend. All of that changed when I turned 40. It has been an ongoing challenge to fight the fat. Being busy and running the roads a lot did not help my cause. I would tend to eat lots bad foods and I wasn’t getting the exercise that I used to get. The exercise part was kind of easy to fix, just make the time. I absolutely hate running on a treadmill! I hate it! Running in place, staring at a wall……Aghhhhh! But I hated looking at my stomach in the mirror more. First lesson grasshopper. When the pain of staying the same is great then the pain of change, you will change. I still hate the treadmill so I had to figure out a different strategy. I found out I could do sprints at an incline and burn even more calories. YES! I can do sprints, not so monotonous and quicker. I added the sprints in and started to see some results. I still wasn’t getting to where I wanted to go fast enough, so I decided to add something else to help speed up the process. I did something called the Lemonade Cleanse. This is like ramming your head through a brick wall, but if there is a fire and its the only way out, you will do it. I need to get to my point so I will discuss the lemonade another time. The point is it helps you lose weight fast. My real issue was once I lost the weight how do I keep myself from getting back into that position again. (Flabby belly, if you forgot). This is where the worst smart phone app of all time comes into play. See, I never had any idea of how many calories I was eating, if they were good or bad calories, fat grams, protein or carbs. All of his is important information if your working out to lose weight and gain muscle. I was violating the first law of success. If you don’t know where you’re at you can’t move forward. So me and my wife downloaded an app called, My Fitness Pal. It tracks all of the information I listed above and gives you daily goals to hit. It is very easy to use. I started tracking my foods and couldn’t believe how many calories I was eating in a day. I was totally deceived. I thought I would be way under my daily allotted calories and I was way over. If you go out to eat at a restaurant, that day is shot! This brings us to the leadership part of this blog. If there is any area in your LIFE that you want to improve, you first must know where you’re at and have a way to track where you want to go. Sometimes this is hard to do and sometimes it’s easy but if you don’t know where you are at on a daily basis you will for sure not get to where you want to go. God Bless,
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Tim Marks: Voyage of a Viking Review by Orrin Woodward Here is a fantastic review of Tim Mark's book from my friend Oliver DeMille.

Tim Marks: Voyage of a Viking Review by Orrin Woodward Here is a fantastic review of Tim Mark's book from my friend Oliver DeMille. Oliver describes what many have felt when reading Tim's book. Rarely, if ever, has a book combined the strengths of autobiography with success thinking as well as Voyage of a Viking. I am proud of Tim and Amy Marks for their accomplishments and thankful for the wonderful book, that is impacting tens of thousands, released into the LIFE business. Enjoy the review. Sincerely, Orrin Woodward A Review of Voyage of a Viking by Tim Marks
Reviewed by Oliver DeMille Years ago I gave a speech at a business convention. I’ve done a lot of these, so I don’t remember every detail or venue, but several really stand out as memorable. On this occasion, the big arena had many thousands of people, but due to construction there was only way to the stage and we had to get there early and sit on the wing of the temporary stadium stage with all the speakers for that session. A construction boss walked us all through together to ensure that we were safe and avoided the danger areas. This turned out to be a real blessing to me, because the speaker who shared the session with me changed my life. He spoke just after me, and because of the special construction circumstances I had to stay after I spoke and listen to what he had to say. I think if I’d had been scheduled after him I would have been busy thinking about my own speech and not listened closely to his message. Thankfully, I was highly motivated after my speech, and I listened carefully to every word he said. He started by saying that nearly all his important lessons in life had come from his struggles, failures, mistakes or losses. He was a fan of golf, and talked about how every golf mistake he made taught him how to be a better golfer. He related this to life and business losses, and discussed at length how he was taught in school to avoid mistakes and focus on the lessons of success—but how real life had taught him exactly the opposite. It was a moving speech. He had us all pencil out our 5 biggest losses and mistakes in life, and then helped us brainstorm at least three major lessons we should have learned from each. That’s fifteen top lessons, and he assured us that these lessons were some of the things we most need to achieve our goals in life. I was mesmerized, instructed, and moved. The speaker was right: my fifteen lessons have been invaluable to me. I went away deeply touched by this speech. I have seldom listened to a speech or read a book that was so genuine, so real, so deep, and so powerful. Until today. Today I read a book that struck me the same way this speech did. Voyage of a Viking by Tim Marks is a must read for anyone who cares about success and leadership. It will apply to moms, dads, mentors, professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and everyone else. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down. I read the book straight through from the beginning to the end. I was touched, moved, motivated, instructed. I cried. I read quotes to my wife, and later to two of my kids. I found myself taking notes about my own life, and making plans to be better. This book is incredibly real, genuine, and powerful. Marks admits that not everything in Viking history should be emulated, but he emphasizes how much we can learn from the positive Viking traits, including such things as yearning for freedom, being courageous explorers and connecting communities. He teaches how the name for the modern Bluetooth comes from the Viking king “Bluetooth” Gormsson of AD 958, a great builder of bridges (literally and figuratively) between communities. This concept of bridge-building is still much needed in all facets of modern leadership. Marks shows how another Viking trait worthy of emulation is bullheadedness, which combines initiative and innovation with tenacity and ingenuity. Together these form the base of the great entrepreneurial values—they are also the de facto values of the great free societies in history. One of the most moving things in this book is Marks’ view of what it means to be an adult, a leader, and a man. In many ways this reminds me of one of my favorite authors—Louis L’Amour. Some prestigious universities were criticized a few years back when they began using L’Amour texts in great literature courses, but this didn’t surprise me. Some of his works are, in fact, truly great. As a youth, one of my favorite pastimes was reading L’Amour. My dad was a school teacher by trade, and my mom was an English teacher for both high school and college, but our family ran a farm with croplands as well as cattle, sheep, horses and other animals, and a lot of my non-school time was spent working with my dad and brothers on the farm. In later years, after I became an author, my brothers made it a standing joke to laugh about how often they’d be in the middle of a farm project (hauling hay, moving wheat into bins, building fences, shearing sheep, exercising the horses, etc.) only to notice that somehow I’d slipped away from the work and was nowhere to be found—I was nearly always high on haystack in one of the barns reading books by L’Amour or some other author. Marks’ Voyage of a Viking book would have fit right in. This is a book about life, what it means to live a good one, and how all of us have to overcome our challenges if we want to make a positive difference in the world. In my book The Student Whisperer, which I wrote with Tiffany Earl, I wrote about the “desert” or “wilderness” that all leaders must pass through on the path to any success, but I have never seen it more effectively described than in Voyage of a Viking. This alone is worth the price of the book. But there is so much more. Marks’ thesis sums up what this book, and in fact all success in life, is all about: “Define what you want, learn from someone who has gone before you, and then do it for the glory of God.” Right on. It is full of profound gems. For example: “Being humble doesn’t mean you think less of yourself—it means you think of yourself less,” and “We can judge how good we are as students by how fast we implement our mentor’s advice.” Perhaps the most powerful thing about this excellent book, as I mentioned earlier, is that it is one of those rare contributions to success literature that shows how our losses, struggles, setbacks, mistakes, and challenges are some of our most important teachers and mentors. A lot of books tell us to make lemonade out of lemons or see the silver lining in things, but this book shows us how this works—in real life, in the face of real obstacles, in our own experiences. As such, it is literally a must read. Leadership is about wisdom, and Voyage of a Viking is a profoundly wise book. There a few wisdom books every leader simply must read, like Corrie Ten Boom’s Tramp for the Lord, Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, or L’Amour’s The Last of the Breed. And, of course, there are a few truly wise business books, such as The Radical Leap by Steve Farber, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis, Johnson’s and Blanchard’s Who Moved My Cheese?, among others. And who can forget Goleman’s Primal Leadership, or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey? Tim Marks’ Voyage of a Viking fits right in to this list. As Marks himself says about this book: “This is a no-holds-barred discussion on the speed of the leader determining the speed of the group.” This book is fun. It is about finding yourself as a leader by dedicating your life to serving others, and it is about the adage, as articulated in the foreword by Orrin Woodward, that example in leadership isn’t the main thing, it’s everything. I’m still applying those 15 lessons I penciled out years ago as I listened just off stage, and I know that many years in the future I’ll still be re-reading and applying the things I learned today in Voyage of a Viking. It’s a truly great book. So do yourself a favor and don’t miss out on this great contribution to leadership! Oliver DeMille is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education, Leadership Education, The Student Whisperer, The Coming Aristocracy, FreedomShift, and other books on freedom and leadership.

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The U.S. Ego

One pithy definition of Ego is, "Edging God Out." If you don't believe in God, the definition is, "Easing Good Out." Either way, taking the good, the moral, the sacred, the uplifting and the right out of anything is a sure way to cause its failure. Alexander Solzhenitsyn said America has adopted the question "is it legal?" over the more historical "is it right, good and moral?", and that this disqualifies the U.S. as the example for a future free society in Russia. And the iconic "ugly American" has left a bad taste in elite mouths for several decades. Are we really a nation of loud, ignorant, arrogant and uncaring louts? If so, what does this say about the future of freedom? If not (and I suspect this is the more accurate answer), why have we projected this image around the world and, even more worrisome, to each other? Are we really that smug, or do Americans sometimes overcompensate for our insecurities by putting on our football-fan egotism? The middle class has seen its standard of living slowly decreasing since the 1970s, propped up only by two-income households and increasing debt. We are deeply worried, as a nation, and humility is a hard pill for great powers to swallow. Pride is often touted as a basis of patriotism and national loyalty, but it is actually humility and self-sacrifice that obtain and maintain freedom in a society. Is it time for a refocus on symbols like "liberty and justice for all," "give us your tired, your poor, your struggling masses yearning to be free," "a more perfect union," "we the people," or "one nation under God"?

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Buddha was Right - by Oliver DeMille

Buddha Was Right Buddha is quoted as saying that "Your purpose in life is to find your purpose in life, and then to give your whole heart and soul to it." We don't do enough of this in our 2012 world. What is your true purpose? Have you found it? Are you giving your whole heart and soul to it?

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