Subject: How To Get Rid Of Toxic Students In Your Dojo...
How To Get Rid Of Toxic Students In Your Dojo...
August 19th, 2015 at 8:24 am CDTFriend, So this week we've been talking about toxic students... A.K.A., crazy people. :) For the last few days I've been talking about how to recognize them, but today I'm going to start explaining ...
How To Recognize A Dojo Killer...
August 18th, 2015 at 9:18 am CDTFriend, True story alert... My second school was located in an area where there was a lot of "urban flight" - people who moved out of the inner city due to gentrification and increased costs of liv ...
How To Deal With Toxic Students In The Dojo...
August 17th, 2015 at 10:13 am CDTFriend, It's hard enough running a business without someone trying to sabotage and undermine you at every step. No, I'm not talking about the Obama administration... ...I'm talking about toxic stu ...
Forget Dojo Survival... This Is Something Else!
August 14th, 2015 at 8:37 am CDTFriend, For the last week or so, I've been watching the BJJ community lose their collective $4!+ over this 16 17-year-old blue belt who is running his own school. Now, at first I didn't know what t ...
For Your Dojo To Survive, You Need To Do This...
August 13th, 2015 at 8:20 am CDTFriend, Yesterday we talked about how survival relies on avoiding making critical mistakes... But also, survival is all about focusing on the most critical tasks and issues at hand and avoiding a ...
How To Avoid Killing Your Dojo With Suicidal Marketing...
August 12th, 2015 at 9:07 am CDTFriend, So what is suicidal marketing? Well, yesterday I wrote about how some people can survive in the wilderness naked with nothing but a knife and a stiff breeze... ...while others could go in c ...
Going "Naked And Afraid" In Your Martial Art School...
August 11th, 2015 at 8:28 am CDTFriend, One night I was bored and flipping through the cable TV offerings, and I came across this crazy show... It's called, "Naked and Afraid". The show is a survival show, and it's EXACTLY what y ...
Back-to-School Dojo Dealings And Prepping For The Apocalypse...
August 10th, 2015 at 11:16 am CDTFriend, I'll admit it - I'm a bit of a prepper. Not the "stock up on canned beans and bullets because the government is coming to take our guns" sort, but more of the "natural disasters can happen ...
How To Stop Being A Broke Martial Arts Instructor...
August 7th, 2015 at 8:05 am CDTFriend, I've said it before and I'll say it again... Being broke sucks. No one likes being broke. And that's why I'm wrapping this week up by discussing how you can stop being a broke martial arts ...
The Pursuit Of Unhappyness In Running A Dojo...
August 6th, 2015 at 7:53 am CDTFriend, I read a fortune cookie once that said, "Money can't solve all problems, but it'll solve a few." True, but the unbridled pursuit of money can cause many more problems than it solves. And, a ...