Category: Spades
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Black Men Made Well 2022
Greetings Joker to King Family! Just a quick note to let you all know that I will be participating in an amazing virtual AND live conference called “Black Men Made Well.” The conference is sponsored by Marsell Consulting and the Riverside Unviersity Health System’s Department of Behavioral Health. This is a free weeklong event that […]
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Go On an Information Fast
In September of 1994, a few months after my college graduation, I hopped on a plane and flew to the east coast for the very first time. I got a job with an outdoor education program called Nature’s Classroom. Without going into too many details, I was in a small town called Colebrook, Connecticut stationed […]
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Updates on the King
It’s been a while since the last article, so I wanted to update all of my readers on what has happened this summer. But before the update, I want to mention a couple thoughts that came to mind. As I look back over this website, there are two things I noticed. One thing I noticed […]
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How to Be One Percent Better
The most important factor in improving your life is to have goals instead of dreams. Concrete, specific goals exist in reality…lofty, shiny dreams exist in fantasy. All of the men who have dreams instead of goals soon discover that their dreams never become reality. They gradually lose momentum, and then wake up one day feeling […]
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Name Your Nuts
Earlier this morning, I asked a colleague a question about an incident that happened a few days ago with one of his students. My friend got heated, argumentative, and shouted that I had no right to question his integrity. (Afterward, he realized that he actually made a mistake with this incident and came back a […]
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Why Discipline Beats Motivation
A Quick Story Right around this time one year ago, I finished writing the draft of my book Joker to King. But here’s the funny thing about the book…I actually started writing the book in 2014. You heard me right…2014. So you’re probably wondering why it took me so long to finish. Here’s the reason. I was […]
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Stop Being a “Yes Man”
A few days ago, one of my students asked me to help him overcome the problem of being a “yes man.” He said he is overwhelmed because he doesn’t know how to stop pleasing other people who are starting to take advantage of him. If you fit this description, then stop everything else you’re doing […]
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Build an Indestructible Work Ethic
(This post is a variation on an article I wrote last year for an educational website called Fractus Learning.) A writer and computer programmer named Scott Young has written hundreds of articles on improving productivity, and his take on developing a stronger work ethic is the best I’ve seen yet. The main idea is that […]
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How to Develop a Talent
When I was in middle school, my mother signed me up for piano lessons at our church. I took lessons for about a year or so, and then quit after we got our first video game system in the late 1980s. But I learned the basics, including learning my scales and how to read music. […]
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How to Drop a Bad Habit
We’re still in January and there are some of you trying desperately to hold onto your New Year’s resolutions. If one of your goals this year is to let go of some bad habits, then this article is finally going to help you drop bad habits once and for all. The way to drop a […]
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