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Michigan MinuteCelebrating Philately and Willie Horton | October 18On this day in 1978, the USPS released one of two Christmas stamps in Holly, Michigan, a treat for stamp collectors. Additionally, we celebrate the birthday of Willie Horton, born in 1942. A beloved figure in Detroit, Horton played 14 seasons with the Tigers and worked for peace during the 1967 rebellion. In 2004, Michigan established Willie Horton Day in his honor.2024-10-1801 min
Mike Church's New Christendom DailyDemoncrats Have Created New Willie Horton’s With Border InsanityIn 1988, The Bush Campaign released a scathing ad that highlighted presidential candidate Michael Dukakis' stance on justice. This ad featured the horrendous acts of Willie Horton, a convicted felon, who was out on a weekend pass. Yes this was a real thing. Massachusetts did grant weekend passes to felons convicted of violent crimes. This was over thirty years ago and you would think the Demoncrats would have learned their lesson. Mike Church says not only did the not learn their lesson but they have stepped up their game. Mike brings the Horton issue up because, we are painfully close to anoth...2024-02-0205 min
Black DiamondsWillie Horton | How The Negro Leagues Helped Make The Game Global4x All-Star and 1968 World Series Champion Willie Horton joins Bob Kendrick in front of a live audience at Play Ball Park in Seattle, to discuss his experience of visiting the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, having a breakout season while playing in Puerto Rico early in his career, and how his good friend Buck O’Neil tried to sign him to the Chicago Cubs when he was only thirteen years old as a Spanish player.Hear how Willie dealt with being one of the early black players with the Tigers, plus his memories of the 1968 World Championship team, wh...2023-08-1738 min
Alimentary!#18 Re-train your brain to succeed with Willie Horton
When we decide to make changes to our lifestyle, the first thing that we need to do to ensure our success is get control over our mindset. After all, our brain wants to succeed so if we feel as though we are failing at something, including nutritional changes, we tend to re-focus, fall off the wagon and forget to get back up. Can we re-train our brain to succeed to help us to make healthier lifestyle choices? Listen in to my chat with Willie Horton in this episode to find out how we can do this in 6-8 minutes...2023-04-0339 min
Alan Alford Sports Talk ShowInterview with Detroit Tiger MLB Great Willie Horton!!!Interview with Detroit Tiger Great Willie Horton!!! At the Alan & Aaron Sports Talk Radio Show we have an interview with a true Legend, MLB Great Willie Horton!2023-02-2345 min
Tune In To An Eye-Opening Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great by Willie Horton, Kevin AllenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634452to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great
Author: Willie Horton, Kevin Allen
Narrator: William Andrew Quinn
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Release date: January 17, 2023
Genres: Sports
Publisher's Summary:
A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons At fifteen, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At twenty, he smacked his first major-league home run. At twenty-four, Horton stood in full uniform on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes and overturned vehicles...2023-01-178h 14Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, SportsWillie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great by Willie Horton, Kevin AllenPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634452to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great
Author: Willie Horton, Kevin Allen
Narrator: William Andrew Quinn
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Release date: January 17, 2023
Genres: Sports
Publisher's Summary:
A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons At fifteen, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At twenty, he smacked his first major-league home run. At twenty-four, Horton stood in full uniform on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes and overturned vehicles...2023-01-178h 14
Access Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, SportsWillie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great by Willie Horton, Kevin AllenPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great Author: Willie Horton, Kevin Allen Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons At fifteen, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At twenty, he smacked his first major-league home run. At twenty-four, Horton stood in full uniform on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes and overturned...2023-01-1730 min
To Succeed... Just Let GoThe 4 Secrets to Changing Your LifeOK - the title of this Episode might have attracted your attention but, actually, it is you who can become so attractive that you effortlessly bring anyone, anything and everything into your life, thereby transforming it.Do you want health, wealth, happiness, carefreeness, the kind of relationships and experiences that simply and effortlessly flow? Who doesn't?Well, then, listen carefully and, more importantly practice diligently - what you put into your life you'll get out many times over.This is how life works anyway - it's just that, when we use...2022-10-1228 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Get What You Would Dearly Love to ExperienceOooh, now there's a title. But, yes, this Episode explains:The (normal crazy) madness of planningThe exact way to discover the kind of life that's best for youHow to set your mind to the outcome(s) you would love to experienceWe look at this from a business point of view but, even more importantly, a life perspective... your life.Along the way we, once again, remind ourselves of who is important in your life and how to look after those around you (in business and in...2022-10-0526 min
Giallo PsicologicoIl caso Willie Horton: elezioni politiche "da paura"Gliel’hanno detto, ma non ci crede veramente. Gliel’hanno promesso, ma gente come quella promette, promette e poi… non mantiene. Willi si guarda le mani: quelle mani che, seppur senza occhi, hanno visto molto sangue innocente. Sangue di un giovane ragazzo bianco, morto a diciassette anni dopo essere stato derubato. Willie si mostra senza la benché minima emozione, ma in cuor suo è sorpreso. Non riesce a capire perché, dopo quello che ha fatto, e dopo la condanna all’ergastolo per omicidio, lo vogliono far uscire. È per un solo weekend, dicono. Lui rimane impassibile, muto, immobile. Ma...2022-10-0409 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Little Choice That Will Change Your LifeYou could be depressed. You could be stuck. You could be stressed. You could be constantly getting in your own way.Or you could get one teeny-tiny little choice right and... change everything - immediately, right now.What is that choice? Well, you're going to have to listen to this episode to get your head around why one single simple choice is life changing (I didn't say it could be, I said it is).You see, all the problems in your life boil down to one simple thing... thought. To people who tell...2022-09-2829 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoPeople Do Awful Things to Each OtherThe title of this week's Episode is simply a statement of fact. How could someone who is not in charge of their own mental faculties avoid doing awful things to other people and then... do awful things, repeatedly, to themselves!?Mindlessness is the root cause of inappropriate behaviour starting with the little throwaway remarks that we throw at our little children, throwaway remarks that we, as mindless adults, will forget 30 seconds later (assuming we even notice them in the first place!) but which will scar the little child for life. Seriously.Then, in later life...2022-09-2130 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow Would You Know What You Want?That's more of a statement than a question! Because, seeing as how all of us come from the standing start of using our minds normally, we only think that we know what we want. And, as we'll see in this episode, you could waste a whole life striving (which requires effort) for something that, when you do achieve it, you discover that it isn't what you thought it would be at all... not what you really wanted!In this episode, we explore how to world we live in really works - not how you think it works...2022-09-1431 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Find Perfect Balance in Your LifeSomething that we're all looking for - whether it be so-called "work/life balance" or simply the even keel on which we would love to live the kind of life, well, that we'd love to live!In this episode you will find both the key to balance - it's about your head, your body and your energy - and the practical examples of how it actually works... stuff you can put into practice straight away.We'll bust a few myths along the way - particularly about the apparent life-or-death importance of work; the myth of "...2022-09-0729 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoIt's Only a Matter of Time...Time is relative - your day could be dragging, mine could be flying. Your perspective of time is dictated by your state of mind and, as luck would have it, that's something over which you can exercise complete control. You can control time.But that's only part of the story. Because people who have taken charge of their own state of mind, people who are in Flow, people who are "in the zone", experience a quality of life that, for starters, can be encapsulated in two words:Timelessness and Timeliness.This episode explores...2022-08-3127 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoFamily Matters - Part 11 PLUS Something Special...We've already covered why families are, generally speaking, dysfunctional. In this Episode, we explore how to deal with any or every family situation so that, for starters, you look after yourself (you shouldn't have to be reminded but you are the most important person in your life).We explore that tactics that we need to use that, instead of becoming the Clown in the Circus or Normal Crazy Family madness, you become an interested onlooker - one that knows exactly what you want out of any and every situation.Does this sound selfish? Not at...2022-08-2427 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoFamily Matters - Part 1So many people have asked me to record an episode about what could be described as normal crazy families. Indeed, over the last nearly 27yrs, so many clients have needed assistance in navigating the everyday madness of it all.But, before we talk about solutions, we need to understand the origins of the problem. And that's what this Episode is about.Where do the roots of resentment take hold? Where are the seeds of self-sabotage sown? How does the subtle erosion of the field of dreams take place?As always, the episode is...2022-08-1728 min
WGBB Sports Talk New YorkWillie Horton, Mike ShannonHost Bill Donohue harkens back to the 1968 World Series welcoming former Detroit Tigers great Willie Horton and former St. Louis Cardinals 3B and longtime broadcaster, Mike Shannon.2022-08-1554 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoDownhearted? Prepare to Amaze YourselfIt's only natural to get impatient, frustrated and downhearted. As we strive to achieve our goals and objectives, it's only natural to fear that we'll never get there. It's only natural because we all have ample evidence that falling short or failing is the normal way of experiencing life.And therein lies the only issue with which you have to deal: normal.Everything that I've just mentioned only happens if you continue to use your mind normally.When you use your mind differently, everything changes. When you stop your self-defeating thoughts from blocking...2022-08-1028 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoYou're Living with a Normal Crazy PersonYes, there's a Normal Crazy Person living with you. They're inside your head, have been your traveling companion, got you to where you are. But what got you to where you are won't get you to where you want to go. Full stop!We encourage this Normal Crazy Person (aka The Conceptual Self) to derail us every day because we use our Automatic Pilot every day - I explain just how this happens in this week's episode.So, it is inevitable that we "fall off the horse"... every day.But, falling off the...2022-08-0327 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoStep Two (of Two) to Living Your Life Your WayThis episode is twinned with #94 (last week's) where we talked about the so-called Two-Piece Jigsaw - the two steps required to live your life your way, starting straight away.This week, we learn how the first piece of the jigsaw feeds the second, enabling you develop an understanding of the kind of life your heart desires - and innate understanding that you already have, it's just that your thinking mind has been hiding it from you.As we voyage through this episode I allay one of the primary fears that people express to me as...2022-07-2727 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoPractical MeditationThere are only two steps that you need to take to change your life. Online Program owners will be familiar with what I call The Two-Piece Jigsaw.In this episode we're going into the practical details of the first piece of the jigsaw - the one thing that you must to do start changing your life - and it will start changing your life straight away.We're talking about meditation. And, I'm explaining why meditation is so life-changing and how to meditate.You'll discover practical ways to meditate anywhere, everywhere, anytime and, in...2022-07-2027 min
SABRcast with Rob NeyerWillie Horton: Conversation with a SluggerOn this week's episode of SABRcast Rob Neyer is joined by former MLB star Willie Horton. Rob talks to the long time Detroit Tiger about his new book, "Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great." The pair discuss some of the highlights from the book including who Horton credits with teaching him how to be a big leaguer and his views on playing the game he tries to pass down to the younger generation. Later Rob is joined by SABR CEO Scott Bush and they break out the brooms for their weekly discussion of winners of...2022-07-171h 11To Succeed... Just Let GoFlashes of Brilliance and Your Ideal LifeHave you ever had a flash of the kind of experiences you'd love to have in your life? Have these kind of things, from time to time, occurred to you?These are messages, not from beyond but from within - they are intuitions or insights from the part of you that knows.In this episode we explore exactly how we can allow ourselves lead us forward to the kind of life that our thinking minds thinks is "unrealistic" - the kind of life we think we don't deserve, the kind of life that our thinking...2022-07-1327 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Get What's Best for YouYes, that's right - in this episode we're exploring the exact how - exactly what you need to do to live your life to the full right here and now.We explore what "living life to the full" actually means in practice and what you can expect from and of your life right here and now.You will learn how to let the past go - actually, as I say, simply "dissipate and evaporate". You will learn to accomplish and achieve what is best for you - not what you think you want....2022-07-0628 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Make Your Best DecisionsWe all have decisions to make - in fact every moment of every day, the most fundamental of which is the choice to turn up to our own lives.But, that aside, this episode actually explores the how to of not just effective decision-making but, more importantly, effective doing - actually taking the action (effortlessly) that you've decided to take.This is a million miles removed from how the normal mind thinks, rethinks, dithers, obstructs, gets in your own way and... stops you changing anything in your life.Until you change how you...2022-06-2928 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoYes, You Deserve to Live Whatever Life You Truly WantThis episode covers the whole scope of your life up to right now - from even before you were born.We explore how, when we use our minds normally, we are bounded by misconceptions about what is and isn't "realistic"; how we grew up with the mistaken notion that we might be undeserving and, most importantly, how we can divest ourselves of those imaginary shackles and start tuning ourselves into the world as it really is, you as you really are and... creating the life that you would love to live.Along the way, we...2022-06-2228 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Signs that Lead You to the Life You WantIn this episode, we talk about health, wealth, peace of mind and happiness - and how to achieve all of these wonderful things effortlessly.I explain how a healthy mind creates a healthy body. I explain how we set our mind to achieve our most desirable outcomes and how health is simply part of that package.I explain how the clear state of mind that comes with peace of mind enables us know what'a going on, know what to do and know just how to do it.And, most importantly in this episode...2022-06-1529 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoLife Stories - Your Health Is Your WealthOver the last couple of years, we've spent a lot of time talking about how to develop your ability to control your state of mind and, then, "set your mind" in a manner that enables you harness your own inner power to create the kind of life you'd love to live.In this episode, we explore what that means for your physical health and well-being. Can your mind manage your health? Can you heal yourself? How does your state of mind impact your body? And how does "setting your mind" enable you overcome the apparently unovercommable?2022-06-0825 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoYour Personal Evolutionary AdvantageI am simply quoting from clients and Online Program Owners when I say that we can become "Super Human" as a result of developing our presence and doing what we need to do to get ot where we want to go.I'll quote again... people tell me that they "Amaze" themselves or "Super Surprise" themselves by, for example, saying just the right thing in the right way at the right time, hearing themselves saying what they couldn't ordinarily imagine themselves saying in an effortless and effective way.What's happened is that they have freed their...2022-06-0129 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoSynchronicity and How It Will Change Your Life"I thought that I was drowning in the choppy waves of ordinary everyday life and then I opened my eyes only to discover that I was effortlessly bobbing up and down in a sea of opportunity" - I word-for-word quote from a client.Opportunity is all around us. The events that so-called "coincidences" that will lead us forward towards the life we would love to live are happening all around us. And we are wandering around aimlessly with our eyes wide shut!In this episode, we don't just explore the incidence of synchronicity, we look...2022-05-2527 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoLife Lessons and the Waste of WorryThis episode is full of insights and tips that will change your life.We explore the waste of worry - but, most importantly, we explore what happens when you put your worries down, what happens when you are carefree.In this episode, I tell you what worry does and how it does it... and, even though it's "crazy normal" to worry, you really don't want that in your life, at all.You'll learn what being carefree actually is. You'll learn how to achieve that state of mind, that way of being....2022-05-1825 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoWhen You Turn Up to Your Own LifeYes, in this episode, we have a real-life example of what happens - and how effortlessly it happens - when you turn up to your own life.Listen and accompany Mark on the journey of a lifetime - from the crippling thoughts that hold us all back, to the enlightenment that comes from simply bothering to turn up to the here and now, armed with an essential understanding of... the kind of life you'd love to live.Anyone armed with a normal mind (and that, by the way, is all of us), is prone to...2022-05-1126 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Get Out of Your Own WayToday, you can rid your life of worry, anxiety and stress. Today.Today, you can start living the kind of life that you really want to live. No more feelings of inadequacy; no more thinking that you might be undeserving; no more feelings of guilt.Today, you can get out of your own way. For it's not your thoughts that are getting in your own way or holding you back. Rather, it's only the manner in which you pay attention to your thoughts that is stopping you living the life you'd love to live.2022-05-0429 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoEffortlessly Dancing Through Your LifeYes, you can glide through your day, every day, like a graceful ballerina - never putting a foot wrong, always being the right person, in the right place, at the right time, effortlessly doing what you need to do without giving it a second thought (or even a first thought).The secret to achieving anything and everything that you'd love to achieve all boils down to one key thing: turning up!We know - if you didn't listen, have a listen to Episode #81 - that, when we use our minds normally, we are marked absent...2022-04-2726 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoTreat Yourself to the Life You'd LoveA big and bold statement - after all, how do you treat yourself to the life you'd love when you have to contend with the madness of normal crazy people, day-in, day-out?Well, in this episode, I explore exactly how to deal with the bad behaviour of people who are not in control of their own state of mind. I explore exactly how to deal with the frustration, annoyance, worry, anxiety and anger that that creates in your own head... if you're not control of your own state of mind.And, most importantly, we explore...2022-04-2029 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoWhen Are You Planning to Start Living?I've decided we need to explore the real stories of some of my clients and Program Owners because, for all the wonderful science in the world that confirms how we can manage and set our mind to achieve our goals and objectives, the real action is in the real adventures of real people.Today, we start with a salutary tale - one where my friend was literally bombarded by the grand opportunities that would effortlessly enable live the kind of life he really wanted to live.And we explore the two things - yes, there...2022-04-1328 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Live Your Life in FlowActually, the title of this episode could be shortened... how to live your life. Because, if you're not in flow, if you're not present, you're absent - absent from your own life. And the really horrible thing is that being absent is normal!To be abnormal you have to refurbish your brain!! In fact, it's a little more fundamental than that and a lot easier than you might think. You need to fundamentally alter the fabric of your brain through changing how you use it.We know that the brain constructs and reconstructs itself according...2022-04-0628 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoAll You Have to Do Is KnowPsychology often wraps facts up in unnecessarily complicated language so let me say this really simply:You can achieve anything that you know you can achieve.It is that simple - nothing needs to be added. And yet...The normal mind doesn't know - it thinks it knows! The normal mind thinks that you're inadequate (we all have our perceived inadequacies); it thinks that you're undeserving and, in constantly getting in your way, the normal mind constantly proves to you that you can't achieve the goals that you'd love to achieve....2022-03-3028 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoWar and Peace or Putting Your Baggage DownI mean it - the difference between war and peace all boils down to the baggage that we carry around with us - the baggage that blinds us, that gets in our own way.Are we talking about big wars, like the war in Ukraine? Well, as you'll discover, we could be. But, whilst today's episode is not going to change the world overnight, what we're exploring has the proven power to change your world... overnight.Using the training that we talk about in this episode, you will go from being muddle-minded, addled and ill-at-ease...2022-03-2327 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Rid Your Life of CrapYes, ordinary everyday life is full of ups and downs, hurdles and challenges or, not to put too fine a tooth in it... crap.And that crap is real. But which is easier? Rise to the occasion and deal with the crap or think about how crap it is and layer crap upon crap to the point that you (believe that you) cannot cope?The answer's obvious. But that doesn't mean that's what you're going to do because that is not how the ordinary mind sees things. And, most importantly, it's certainly not how your...2022-03-1628 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoFeel the Fear and... What Fear?It will probably come as a surprise to you but, in our everyday lives, there is simply no such thing as fear.Yes, we're often "afraid" of doing or saying what we deep down know that we need to do or say - or we're often simply afraid of making a fool of ourselves. But none of that is real fear. You're simply experiencing a reaction to what I describe, in this episode, as "the ghost in the machine".Or, to put it another way, in purely practical psychological terms, what you think...2022-03-0928 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoFeeling a Little Flat or Anxious?Even if you’re a world-class meditator (not sure what that is, actually!), there will be days when you’re a bit “flat”, a tad “out of sorts” or even mildly anxious, often without being able to pinpoint as to why that might be.So what! At least you’re aware of your state of mind - most “normally-minded” people are blissfully (clearly not the right word!) unaware. And, being aware, there’s something you can do about it - simply a question of making the right choice.But what if you’re not that world-class meditator? ...2022-03-0228 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Get Exactly What You Really WantYes, you read the title of this episode correctly. Most people think that they know what they want. But it is that very thinking that gets in the way of us knowing.The fact is, of course, at an instinctive level, we do know. We know exactly what is best for us. More than that, we know exactly how to get it. Again, it's only our thinking mind that thinks it knows best.That's why you need to get out of your own way. As a client told me "When you get out of your...2022-02-2332 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoGetting Just This One Thing Right Changes EverythingA couple of weeks ago I celebrated my 26th anniversary of working for myself - doing what I do with my clients, what I explain in this podcast. As I reflected on the past 26 years it occurred to me that there is a common thread running through the conversations that I've had with oh so many people over that time.That common thread? Above all else (because if you get this right it deals with all else!) people seek peace of mind. In a world of ups and downs, highs and lows, everyday challenges, cares...2022-02-1631 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHealthy Mind... Healthy Mind!We know about healthy mind, healthy body - we discussed that topic in considerable detail in last week's episode. This week we explore what managing your state of mind does to your physical brain and your functioning mind, bearing in mind (if you pardon the pun!) that, as defined by psychology, "mind is what the brain does".In this episode we explore how to manage your state of mind (you're the only one who can!). We discuss the "right state of mind" (there's only one) and how best to get into that state of mind... how to...2022-02-0927 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHealthy Mind Healthy BodyYou've heard the expression, you are what you eat. Well, you are what you think or, more correctly, you are how you think.If your mind is ill-at-ease, your body will suffer dis-ease. There are direct causal links between what we're thinking and our physical wellbeing.Over many years at this stage, research has established links between stress and heart disease and cancer. The links between stress and digestive disorders has been know for a very long time indeed.Your weight and how you manage it - or not! - is directly related...2022-02-0231 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoBullies and How to Deal with ThemAstonishingly, more than 75% of people say that they have been bullied at some time during their adult life. Bullying is something that ruins people's lives. But bullying is something that you can deal with effortlessly - but only when you're in the right state of mind.In this episode, we explore why bullies bully. We explore what is actually happening when bullies bully. And, most importantly, I explain how to manage bullies... completely out of your life.We explore the psychology of what you must do to rid your life of the threat imposed upon you...2022-01-2632 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Navigate Your Work and LifeWe're talking work/life balance in this episode or, more to the point, we're exploring how you can live the kind of live you'd love to live where work is an integral part of how you live your life in flow.The key factor in enabling you create the kind of work/life balance and, indeed, life that you'd love to live is the attitude of mind that you bring to the party. Attitude is the key success factor. In work and life.So, if you want to experience greater levels of happiness and success...2022-01-1928 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoEase, Disease and Taking ControlToday probably feels much like any other day because your mind is designed to make it so.That leads to a creeping lack of ease of mind - so many people tell me that they're seeking peace of mind - and, when one's mind is ill-at-ease, we bring about dis-ease in the body.That's just one of the things we explore in this episode. And, of far greater importance, is what happens when we cultivate ease-of-mind. What happens as a result is transformative.First and foremost, we transform our understanding of who we...2022-01-1227 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoImagine Living How You Really Want to LiveImagine discovering your own inner potential and realising that doing what you need to do to live the life you'd love to live could be... effortless.All scientifically confirmed: effortlessness is a scientific fact when you're in flow - when you're free of the thoughts that hold you back - most importantly, when you're free of your own self-limiting thoughts.You are not who you think you are. You are someone completely different, someone effortlessly capable of living your life your way on your terms right here and now.How do you discover...2022-01-0527 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoTake These Two Steps and Change Your LifeAs we approach a New Year, no doubt you, like everyone else will be looking forward to new things you want to achieve.Psychologically speaking, there is a whole load of things wrong with that last sentence. The part of your brain that will enable you effortlessly change your life is blocked when we look forward. That same part of your brain that will enable you effortlessly do what you need to do to get to where you want to go doesn't understand want either!It understands now.So, in this podcast episode...2021-12-2928 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoJudge, Jury and Executioner... How You're Your Own Worst EnemyAny, every, choice you make, any decision you take, small, medium or large is, when you're using your mind normally, a step in the wrong direction. And, as you know, this podcast is all about putting your best foot forward and taking a step in the right direction.So, this episode tells you what you need to do to:Start making the right choices and decisions in your life... todayStart doing what you know you need to do, regardless of how bold, brave, courageous or just plain uncomfortable you think it might beGet out of your o...2021-12-2225 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoSelf-Esteem, Self-Confidence, Self-Loathing! And the Real You.Consider all that's been said and written about developing "self-confidence"; all you've heard about self-improvement; all the stuff churned out by the personal development industry, the self-growth industry.And consider what modern psychology and neuroscience knows about the so-called Conceptual Self... the person you think you are, the person that... isn't really there.You don't need to develop anything, you don't need to improve yourself, you certainly don't any personal growth. You're perfect as you are - it's just that the person who isn't there, the Conceptual You, would have you think otherwise....2021-12-1525 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoInvesting Your Energy and Attention... In Your Own LifeIt's a simply choice - there are only two alternatives - we're not talking about some complex multiple-choice question: do you want to stay dead or do you want to start living your life to the full?Tough decision!In this episode, we'r exploring the flow of energy and attention - how the normal mind directs our attention and energy back in on ourselves until we end up buried up our own nether regions!!Actually, though, we're exploring what happens when you stop feeding the beast of your own self-defeating thoughts and start...2021-12-0828 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Life You Would Love to LiveIn this episode we're exploring some fundamental truths about life... your life.First of all, your life is lived in moments - nows - just as the universe exists in moments or nows.Secondly, there's no such thing as an unimportant now - we never know the day or the hour when something significant is going to happen. We might think we do - and we explore that in this episode too.Most fundamentally of all is the real you - the fundamental you. This real you knows.It knows the...2021-12-0128 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoAmazing YourselfMost people have very low expectations of themselves - there are "normal" psychological and even physiological evolutionary reasons for that. So, when you do something that you consider to be "brave" or "courageous", you surprise yourself.But... prepare to be amazed!The really exciting thing about this is that, when you do start surprising yourself, it becomes a habit, a way of life and that leads to the amazing kind of life that you'd really, really like.How do I know this? Well, for starters, I've decades of research to confirm...2021-11-2421 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Discover Your True PotentialWe're following on from last week's episode where we talked about how, when using your mind as nature and evolution intended, you don't have a clue who you are... you only think that you actually are your so-called Conceptual Self which is, as we now know, a figment of someone else's imagination.This week we're going further - we're not only revisiting a couple of the key issues in relation to not know who you are, we're exploring who you could really be... what your inner potential truly is.Most people don't know that their...2021-11-1728 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoAnd So Your New Life Begins...Do you want to change? It could be something small, like the discomfort that you feel in mixing with certain types of people or in certain situations. It could be something of a personal project, like losing weight or getting fit. You might wish for a new direction - in your work, your career or you might really love the freedom of working for yourself. It could be a more enjoyable relationship or, indeed, a new relationship.Either way, anyone I've ever met is alway seeking some for of new beginning.Well, that...2021-11-1028 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoIn Reality You've Just Got One Option... Option #2No, I'm not going to explain what the title of this week's podcast means - like all the best things in life, you're going to have to put in a little (effortless) work to find out... the effortless work being to listen through to the end of this week's episode!!And, as I said, we're talking about the best things in life, we really are.For starters, this week's episode picks up on our last two: how the normal mind doesn't know what's going on and doesn't know what to do: what choices to make...2021-11-0331 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Most Important Choice You'll Ever MakeWe're picking up on last week's episode where I almost casually made four really important points... when you're using you mind in an ordinary way:You have no idea what's going onYou haven't a clue what you should be doing or how to do itYou don't know who you are andYou don't know what you really want to achieveSounds weird - but it's the stuff of ordinary everyday life - because it is designed to be ordinary, to feel mundane.But your life is only ordinary because you're using your ordinary mind in...2021-10-2729 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoAre You One of the Zombies?You're surrounded by them, you may even be one of them and, if you are, you aren't even aware of it because... you're a Zombie!The alternative presents itself in every single moment of your life and, in each and every one of those single moments, you have a life-changing choice to make: am I going to turn up to my life and live it to the full in the here and now or am I going to continue, automatically, wandering around in a brain fog?You aren't going to change anything in your life...2021-10-2031 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoWho Said Anything About Being Realistic?Ah yes, one of the many excuses used by so-called normal crazy people to stay put in their not-so-comfortable comfort zone... I need to be realistic. Or, if I can put it the other way around, "I couldn't have that kind of life... that would be unrealistic!"But what is realistic if not something your normal mind thinks? And, from all our conversations, you already are aware of the constraints that normal thought imposes upon us.So, in this episode, we're exploring how to drop the preconceived notion of being realistic. We're looking at it...2021-10-1326 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Find Fulfilment, Happiness and SuccessYes, in this session I'm going to tell you how to achieve all of the above... effortlessly.And, although I and pretty much all of my clients are actually experiencing fulfilment, happiness and success, this podcast episode is not based on someone else's experience that you may or may not be able to replicate... these small transformational steps I'm suggesting are based in the hard sciences of developmental and cognitive psychology, neuroscience and even cutting-edge quantum physics which, by the way, tells us how the world really works.How does this world really work? How...2021-10-0627 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoAre You in a Mood?The answer to that question is, of course, "yes" - we're all in a "mood" all of the time until we take charge of what's going on between our own two ears.When you do, you're going to discover something so breathtakingly simple that you'll marvel at how easy it is to change your life... yes, that's what I said.Choosing to take charge is even simpler than it sounds: you don't try to change your mind, you don't have to start trying to think "happy thoughts" - none of that superfluous nonsense is required.2021-09-2925 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Root of All Evil...Do you realise how addicted and obsessed you are? Do you realise that it's normal? Do you understand that being normal is short-changing you in every single aspect of your life?In this episode, we're exploring the one thing that poisons everyday life - the root of all evil.Do you know what that is? You'll have to listen in!!But... actually this episode is really about being present and attractive - it's about becoming a magnet - it's about how to attract into your life everything that you need to live the...2021-09-2226 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThere's No Such Thing as Work Life BalanceLife and how you live it, work and how you do it... it's all about the attitude that you bring to the party.If you hate your job, you'll make it so much more difficult for you to do it, simply confirming that you were right to hate your job in the first place. Why would you set yourself off on such a vicious, thought-fuelled, circle?Why not get off the sorry-go-'round and hop on life's merry-go-'round?Obviously, I'm not talking about being positive instead of negative - I'm talking about being in...2021-09-1526 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoIt's Never Too LateThere are two key learnings in this episode - phrases we throw away in everyday life - phrases that developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and modern neuroscience suggest that we should contemplate more deeply. Or, actually, understand their life-changing significance..."It's never too late" and "there's no time like the present".Actually, as you listen, you'll begin to realise that there is just one key learning:You need to be.How do you be?!?!? Well, tune in and let your (conceptual) self go.One more thing - there are a...2021-09-0826 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoYour WealthSo much is explored in this episode - but not what you think!At the outset, I talk about how what we feel, what "occurs" to us, is so much more important than what we think, how our gut instinct will look after everything for us, if only we'd let it.We explore flow and the exhilaration of living life to the full. We talk about the joy of being in flow... everyday.And we talk about your wealth... your health is your wealth. You need to look after your body....2021-09-0130 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoTo Trust or Not to TrustDo you trust yourself to make the right choices or decisions? How about other people, do you trust them to do what they say they'll do?Or, to put it bluntly, how can you trust a normal crazy person?When we use or minds normally we think things through using a preprogrammed patterned way of repetitive thinking (that we've been using since our childhood) to "enable" us come to the right decision. As a result, the chances of us making the right decision or a decision different from a wrong decision we had made in...2021-08-2528 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoTaking Today's Step in the Right DirectionNormally (and that's a bad word!) we are expert at taking steps in the wrong direction. For starters, we're very good at wasting time and energy doing meaningless stuff.But, when we're using our minds normally, it's much worse than that - we actually do wrong things, react in ways that make things worse, not better. And, even worse than that, we stop ourselves achieving what we want to achieve and, in the process, confirm to ourselves that it's quite likely we'll never achieve them.But what you need to realise right now is... there's...2021-08-1827 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Banish StressYes. I said banish - not manage or find some stress relief. It takes just one simple step and that step has been staring you in the face, hiding in full view, since the 1980s (and actually a couple of thousand years).And you don't just need to rid your life of stress so that you can be a bit happier. When you choose to be stressed (yes, it is a choice you make), you damage your physical health in at least five different ways and... shorten your life.And, yet, as I said, stress...2021-08-1127 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoYour State of Mind - Your ResponsibilityWe control but one thing in our lives - our state of mind.Funny then that most people (they're normal, they're just a little crazy!) fret about not being in control of everything and everyone else in their lives over which they have no control!But - and this is a really important but - when you do take control of your own state of mind, you greatly enhance your ability to influence everyone and everything around you. So, what's the best state of mind to be in? Is a positive state of...2021-08-0426 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoStories and Masks - You are Not Who You Think You AreWe're great at telling stories - in ancient times that was how knowledge was passed down the generations. But that is not what this episode is about! It's about how great we are at telling stories about ourselves... and believing them!These stories create the masks that enable us flexibly move through our everyday lives - or do they? Because they only make our lives more difficult by further distancing us from an experience of the reality of the moment, the here and now where real life is actually happening.If real life is happening...2021-07-2828 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Make Your Ordinary Life ExtraordinaryWhat's the difference between the humdrum of everyday life and being in the zone or, as the University of Chicago would have it, in Flow?The extra in extraordinary is simply down to turning up. You need to turn up to your life right here, right now.And that requires training: meditation is the training. Meditation develops mindfulness: that's the turning up. But turning up to what? Or, more to the point, turning up for what? What do you want out of life? What's your purpose? I would suggest that you neither need...2021-07-2127 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoPlanning, Doing, Changing Your LifeDo you need a plan to get you to where you want to go? Do you know where you want to go?! How best can you move yourself forward in your life so that you experience the kind of life your heart really desires?Well, for starters, let's park your thinking mind - it only thinks it knows best. There's another part of you that you need to let out because, when you free it up, it simply and effortlessly enables you do just what you need to do moment to moment, no plan required....2021-07-1427 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Lost Art of Doing NothingI bet you nobody has ever suggested to you that you do less! Here, I'm suggesting that you do nothing.In this episode, we explore how letting your mind settle, how allowing the so-called Gap occur, will enable you deepen your experience of you and the moment.And, seeing as how you need you to fully turn up to the moment, each moment, doing nothing is, for starters, one of the most practical trainings you'll ever do.But that's just for starters because, when your mind does settle, you'll begin to realise that...2021-07-0727 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoTrance StateYour thoughts have bewitched you and you've been under their spell since you were twelve or thirteen. You've been "living" in a trance state... couldn't really call it living at all, actually.This trance state is a "can't do" state of mind so, regardless of the fact that you know there are things you must do to achieve what you want or live the kind of life you want, you can't do them!To quote Henry Ford: If you think you can't do a thing, you're right. And, if you think you can do a...2021-06-3027 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoIt's a Matter of Life and DeathYou've got a choice to make and you need to make that choice... now.The choice is one between life and death - the life you're supposed to be living or the existence that the normal thinking mind creates for you. The choice is binary: mindfulness or mindlessness.Mindfulness is not a "nice to have" - if you want to change anything in your life you've got to be mindful - because the normal thinking mindless mind is designed to keep you where you are, inside your comfort zone, regardless of how uncomfortable that might...2021-06-2327 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow Best to Look After Your SelfYou are the most important person in your life - you need to look after your Self.Yes, I don't mean look after who you think you are - I mean your real Self - the wonderful you full of all that potential.So, we're not talking about being selfish - although we are talking about pampering yourself! We're not talking about boosting your self-esteem or enhancing your self-confidence - they are all about making who you think you are feel better about... who you think you are!We're talking about state of...2021-06-1628 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoMental Fitness and Mindfulness TipsThis is a practical "how to" episode designed to help you further develop and enhance the regular practice that we all need to do to enable ourselves make the all-important moment-to-moment choice of turning up to our own lives so that we can live them to the full.We're talking about morning routines, during-the-day mini-meditation, meditating with others and how that makes for effortlessly amazing teams at work and, even more importantly, great personal relationships.And, now that we're talking about meditation, you should really tune in to the free training session that I'm running...2021-06-0928 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoHow to Live the Life You Really WantYes, the title of today's session says it all. And it's all awfully simple.Today we're talking about intentional mindfulness or purposeful mindfulness... turning up to your life with your intentions in mind.What might those intentions be? Well, you might want to lose weight - if you look at Program Owner's Reviews on my website, you'll see that the very first one talks about losing "45lbs to become fit and healthy". You might want a new job or career or a new or improved relationship. Or you might want to play better golf or...2021-06-0226 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoObsessionNow, there's plenty that we're covering in this week's episode - but it all boils down to using your mind in an abnormal manner.Purely and simply, we make life awfully difficult for ourselves by pouring our mental energy into the things that stop us from being focused enough and present enough to do just what we need to do... and forget the rest.How much more effortless would life be if you could graciously and simply say "No" when it is the appropriate response? How much better would be at doing what we're doing...2021-05-2627 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Most Important Decision of Your LifeThe title of this week's episode may well sound dramatic... because what we're talking about is.Our live's can "change on a sixpence" and, in quantum reality, do. That's why the most important choice in your life is the one you make now. For starters, only now can you decide or choose anything. You only are now. You can only be now, only do now.And the choice you make now sets up the next now and... so on.Now, if that's what this week's episode is really about, why do...2021-05-1929 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoBack from the Land of ThoughtThe land of thought is a foreign land indeed... so very far removed from the world in which we actually stand, surrounded by opportunity.Far removed the normal mind may well be from the here and now - but it's only a single simple step from there to here - the real here - no passport required, no vaccination, no need to move at all... the real here is here and now.And you can make that choice any time - take that step that changes your life whenever - and it doesn't matter what...2021-05-1228 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoStress, Resilience and the AlternativeStress is a choice - that means we can choose not to be stressed. And resilience is something too many people are overly proud of when you consider that it often means coping with something with which you shouldn't have ever put up with in the first place!Yes, our minds play tricks on us - the cruelest of all being the automated choice we make to slowly kill ourselves through curse of everyday low-level background stress - the stress that the WHO says is causing a "pandemic of hypertension".And, as for resilience... why...2021-05-0529 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoLet Yourself Off the HookAll too often, we think that whatever we know we need to do to get to where we want to go would be a bridge too far for us... would require the kind of backbone that, somewhere deep down, we suspect we don't have.Or, more to the point, expect we couldn't do!We look on in some kind of awe at people being the kind of brave and courageous that we'd love to being, knowing that we can't.Well, I've news for you... yes you can! And, in this episode, I tell...2021-04-2829 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoWhat If I Hate My Now?Do you not like your boss? Do you hate your job? Are you stuck in a dysfunctional relationship? Do you feel there's no way out? Are you afraid of doing what you need to do to bring about change in your life?Well, the fear you're feeling is just the fear you're thinking. The challenges with which you're confronted are magnified by what you think about them. And the solution to all your problems requires neither bravery or courage on your part.It requires just a little something that will completely...2021-04-2127 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThinking About MeditationWhat kind of fool would think about the unthinkable, judge the unjudgable, evaluate the unevaluatable?Meditation is practiced to enable us stop thinking, stop judging, stop evaluating and, in the process, free ourselves from the thoughts that facilitate the process of how we, ever so negatively, judge ourselves.What kind of fool wouldn't bring the clear mind that the have developed through their regular practice of meditation to the cut and thrust of everyday life? Meditation is practiced to enable us be in and experience flow during the highs and lows, peaks and...2021-04-1428 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoDancing Through Your Life TodayYou have a thinking mind - it will "enable" you trudge your way through today. And you have a doing mind - it will enable you do just what you need to do with the least possible effort to enable you dance your way through today on the journey of a lifetime... your's.In this episode, I explore what happens when you let your doing mind do what it does best.We're talking about things "occurring" to you and "Aha Moments". We're talking about spontaneity and being the right person in the right place at...2021-04-0729 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoSelf-Confidence, Self-Esteem... and LoveDo you love yourself... unconditionally? Or, like most people, would you like to be more self-confident? Do you "suffer" from low self-esteem? Or, like few abnormal people, do you know the power within?How do you become acquainted with that power within? How do you meet the real you?You already know that there is something "more" within - because we all have seen flashes of our true capability... in a crisis, under pressure or simply when a little voice says "do this" or "don't do that".There is a passionate power within...2021-03-3131 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoThe Third WayGenerally speaking, how we think falls into three buckets - the 70k repetitive thoughts that enable us make it through each day; the specialist knowledge or skills we bring to what we do "for a living" and - most importantly - the third way.Picasso called it inspiration, Edison knew exactly how to tap it, you've got it within, in this episode we explore how you can let it loose... and it will change your life.Imagine you didn't have to wait for an accidental "Aha Moment". Imagine if inspiration didn't have to wait to...2021-03-2430 min
Wrestling Core: A Guide From The Guys Who Have Been ThereEpisode 10 Giving Back Part 2 With Coach Willie HiltonGiving back isn't just a phrase. It is a crucial part of growing the sport. In the second part of the giving back series dedicated to Robert Horton, Coach Nick and Coach Tre speak with Coach Willie Hilton from Sly Fox Wrestling Club in Wilmington, North Carolina about the topic and how the sport has changed over time. Don't miss your chance to hear from an assistant college coach, South Carolina State Champion and three time All American Willie Hilton.Sly Fox Wrestling Club: https://www.facebook.com/slyfoxwrestlingWrestling Core Website: http://www.wrestlingcore.com2021-03-2125 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoPositive Mental AttitudeYou might think you know what this episode is about and you might just be wide of the mark!What's the problem with positive thinking? What about the power of positive thinking? What about your own inner power?What about leaving the shadowlands of thought behind for the reality of the here and now for it is only in the here and now that you can be the best you that you can be and live the kind of life you'd love to live.That's what this episode is actually all about.2021-03-1727 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoSuppressed, Depressed... and Letting GoTo some extent, we're all depressed. For starters, our own vital energy is suppressed by the impediment of ordinary everyday repetitive thought... our own thoughts disable us.The efficiency of our cardio-vascular, digestive and immune systems is depressed by the hormones triggered by those everyday repetitive thoughts. And we "live" on autopilot - a shadow of who we really are.Who are you really? Well, if you reflect upon the noise in your own head, you'll realise there are two of you: you and the conceptual you. Which one do you think is real?2021-03-1027 minTo Succeed... Just Let GoChoosing to Create the Life You WantWe constantly create and recreate our own lives - this is a fact of cognitive psychology, not some fanciful concept.When we use our minds normally, we constantly recreate the same life - that's why we find it so difficult to change our lives or any aspect of them - that's a fact of cognitive psychology too.To change, we need to make a choice: it's a binary choice between action or reaction, a binary choice between mindfulness and mindlessness.Automatically - yes, psychology actually explains that our lives are daily created on...2021-03-0327 min
Through My Eyes With 1 Eyed WillieEPISODE 2: Pimp City Feat. Tarris Horton/TroyWaddup WORLD! Welcome back to The WORLDs iLLEST Podcast. Today I am back with Episode 2: Pimp City Feat. Tarris Horton/Troy. Inside this episode Troy and I cover his history starting with his first job in the music business managing a local group, making a dope theme song for the University of Kentucky Men’s Basketball during the “Comeback Cats” Era. Troy would later move to become a Master Barber with his own shop and an independent record label called Country Boy Entertainment. Troy picked up the hottest talent in Radcliff such as MJ, Grip, Babee G, Tank, Loc, and ev...2021-01-271h 25