The Fight

If you hang out with five millionaires, you will be the sixth.  If you hang out with five geniuses, you will be the sixth.  If you hang out with five knuckleheads, you will be the sixth.  We are the average of the five people we hang out with the most.  Are those people positive, successful,…

Now I will be the first to agree that this may be the most “easier said than done” statement of all time but the truth still stands – we have a lot more control of our happiness than we would like to admit. We cannot control what is going to happen to us in this…

This picture is from my personal cell phone on a day when I went back to the Mizzou (University of Missouri) Wrestling room for practice. The reason it is significant is because of WHAT Mizzou wrestling means to me, and what it represents in my life. This Mizzou wrestling room is where I truly became…

Michael Chandler fights to regain his Bellator lightweight championship on June 24 in front of his hometown fans in St. Louis, MO. Chandler will face Brazilian contender Patricky Freire at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis as part of Bellator 157 on SpikeTV at 8/7pm Central. I am prepared to lose. I am prepared for the pain and anguish that go along…

We have all heard a “comeback” story about someone and been happy for them and not surprised that they came back from adversity.  Why is it that we are so hard on ourselves sometimes and our memory of our shortcomings is so vivid? I challenge you today to acknowledge the events in your life that…

  Life is all about minimizing the number of times you take the easy way out. We have all done it and it is never ever gratifying. Even when something works out in our favor but we know we took the easy way out, there is something inside of us that feels lacking. I truly…

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