BELIEVING YOU CAN

This article was sent to me by a friend of mine. It comes from the Coaching Compass Newsletter www.coachtrainingalliance.com I thought you guys would enjoy reading it also.


A young man fell asleep during math class. He woke up as the bell rang, looked at the black board and copied down the two problems that were there. He assumed they were the homework for the night. He went home and laboured the rest of the afternoon and into the evening knowing if he didn't complete the work he would fail the class.

He couldn't figure out either one but kept trying for the rest of the week. Finally he got the answer to one and brought it to class. The teacher was absolutely stunned. The young man feared he did too little, too late. It turned out the problem he solved was supposedly unsolvable.


How did he do it? He was able to do what was thought to be impossible because he believed it was possible. He not only believed it was possible he believed that if he didn't solve it he would fail the class. Had he known the problem was unsolvable he would of never done it.

Beliefs are the commanders of our brain. When we believe something is true we literally go into the state of it's being true. Handled effectively beliefs can be the most powerful forces for creating good in our lives.

Beliefs control our destiny. The belief we have in ourselves...The beliefs we have in others...The beliefs others have in us. The birth of excellence begins with the awareness that our beliefs are our choice.

Beliefs are the compass and map that guide us to our goals. Believe you can do something or believe you can't and you'll be right every time.

LEVERAGE

Today's post is regarding the importance of leverage. By using leverage in a physical self defense situation you make it easier for yourself to control your attackers body. One example of this is off balancing your attacker by placing your feet on his hips, if he is trying to mount you while you're on your back.

Leverage is also important when it comes to mental and spiritual self defense. Leverage equals speed, the more leverage you have the faster and easier it is to obtain your goal. An example of this is say you want to start your own business but you don't know where to start, how would you go about making this a reality. By going to people who have started there own successful businesses. Asking them questions on how they become successful and using them as mentors.


By using there knowledge you learn what to do and what not to do to reach your goal successfully and at a quicker speed. Here are some other forms of leverage that you can use to obtain your goals.

Mentors
Teams
Systems
Tools/Skills
Networks

By using these levers above they will give you maximum leverage in your physical. mental and spiritual life at a quicker and easier rate.

RANT OF THE WEEK

Every night my wife and I watch the 11pm news in bed. I don't know how much of a good idea for me it is to do this, I tend to get pissed off with the injustice that occurs on a daily basis. So much for a good nights sleep. When I refer to injustice I am not only referring to the crimes that people commit but the injustice the courts and the government do to us. Lately the courts have been pussies with sentencing murderers. An example of this...19 year old man stabbed and killed a 16 year old standing at a bus stop waiting for his bus...the kid managed to make it home but died on his front steps were his family found him. The sentence 9 years... kid had a bad childhood, what the hell is that. The courts can't figure out why crime is on the rise...are they that freaking dumb. It is up to us to make sentencing tougher, we have to put pressure on the courts and the government to get there act together. We vote these people in and if there too stupid to do there job get the hell out & give the job to someone you knows how to do it. Let's stop giving away so much power to our governments and start taking it back.

WE ATTRACT WHAT WE THINK


Today I thought of giving you some self defense for your mind & spirit.

As Napoleon Hill writes in Think & Grow Rich

"Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds and by means with which no man is familiar, these "magnets" attracts to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts"

Our body is a field of electromagnetic activity, each of your atoms generates magnetic energy...you are a magnet. What you think is what you attract onto yourself... you send off a single or vibe. You get what you give. You have a choice of attracting negetive or positive elements into your life.

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THINGS PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAID IN COURT


These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people - lawyers, too - actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court stenographers who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.


Question: Are you sexually active?

Response: No, I just lie there.
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Question: What is your date of birth?

Response: July 15th.

Question: What year?

Response: Every year.
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Question: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?

Response: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

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Question: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?

Response: Yes.

Question: And in what ways does it affect your memory?

Response: I forget.

Question: You forget? Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten? ______________________________________

Question: How old is your son, the one living with you?

Response: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.

Question: How long has he lived with you?

Response: Forty-five years.

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Question: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?

Response: He said, "Where am I Doris?"

Question: And why did that upset you?

Response: My name is Susan.

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Question: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the occult?

Response: We both do.

Question: Voodoo?

Response: We do.

Question: You do?

Response: Yes, voodoo.

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Question: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep,he doesn't know about it until the next morning?

Response: Did you actually pass the bar exam? _____________________________________

Question: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

Response: He's twenty.

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Question: Were you present when your picture was taken?

Response: Yes
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Question: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?

Response: Yes.

Question: And what were you doing at that time? ______________________________________

Question: She had three children, right?

Response: Yes.

Question: How many were boys?

Response: None.

Question: Were there any girls?

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Question: How was your first marriage terminated?

Response: By death.

Question: And by whose death was it terminated? _____________________________________

Question: Can you describe the individual?

Response: He was about medium height and had a beard.

Question: Was this a male or a female?

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Question: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?

Response: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ______________________________________

Question: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?

Response: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. ______________________________________

Question: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?

Response: Oral.

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Question: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?

Response: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

Question: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?

Response: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy. ______________________________________

Question: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? ______________________________________

AND TO SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST!!!!!!

Question: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

Response: No.

Question: Did you check for blood pressure?

Response: No.

Question: Did you check for breathing?

Response: No.

Question: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

Response: No.

Question: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

Response: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

Question: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?

Response: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere

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TIPS ON FINDING THE RIGHT HOME SECURITY ALARM COMPANY

Today's post is geared on how to find the right home alarm company to install your security system. Always ask & check how long the company has been in business for. You can also find out addition information through your BBB. Ask to see if individual inspecting your home has a security license, all personel should be licensed. Most home inspections should be around 45 minutes in length. Inspection should focus on all interior floors & the exterior windows & doors. If inspection lasts only for 15 minutes in length that should sound your warning bells. Last but not least do not focus on the lowest price when it comes to you & your families safety no price is to high.

NEW SELF DEFENSE TIPS ADDED TO WEBSITE CONTENT

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DATELINE HIDDEN CAMERA TELLS ALL


Datelines Thursday March 23, 2006 episode called "WHAT WOULD YOU DO"
placed a hidden camera in a park filming 2 actors playing a husband & wife arguing in public. The actor playing the husband begins to climax in his aggression becoming slightly physical with his actor wife grabbing her arm, pushing her & being in her face. The study wanted to see if people would help or just walk away. The study also chanced variables around such as having a white couple & a black couple arguing to see if race played into the equation. The bottom line was that less than 10% of people came to the aid of the woman. Dateline also approached the people who ignored the situation asking why they didn't help. The most common answer was they didn't know what to do which caused them to be scared. This study proves 2 things, first knowledge is power and helps eliminate fear. Second that we are generally alone when it comes to protecting ourselves. This should motivate us even more to learn how to protect ourselves cause no one else will.

AFFILIATE PROGRAM IN THE WORKS FOR TACT SELF DEFENSE

TACT Self Defense is currently looking into different affiliate software programs to begin a affiliate program to promote its products. "We feel due to a increased sales and the increased amount of vistors on our site asking for information to promote our products it is the next logical step for us. We have narrowed it down between two software programs.Which we are still debating which will be better suited for our and our affiliates needs" stated TACT Self Defense Creator/President Norm Bettencourt. We are hoping within the next few weeks to have an affiliate program in place on our site.

TACT SELF DEFENSE PLANS TO RESTART DVD FILMING

Plans to restart filming dvd are in the works at TACT Self Defense. Filming was cancelled in late fall of 2005 due to problems in the production dept. "We believe that we can produce this self defense dvd with the right production team working with us so we get a realistic high quality self defense product" stated TACT creator Norm Bettencourt. Meetings are scheduled to begin next week with production companies.

HOW THE TACT SELF DEFENSE SYSTEM WAS CREATED

I get many emails from my members & newsletter subscribers asking me how I came up with these proven self defense techniques. So I will try to answer that question to the best of my abilities in this short paragraph.

I began analyzing the natural reaction the body/mind had to violence while working as a bouncer/bodyguard. Through documentation and experiments I found nine out of ten individuals had the same reaction towards violence.

I began looking at the variables that hindered & effected individuals during violence. Varables such as...

a) How people trained & why there training wasn’t effective i.e. wearing loose clothing while training actually hindered peoples movements in a street attack due to people not being used to the range of motion with wearing "normal" clothing & being off balanced by wearing footwear.

b) Environment: fighting on uneven surfaces off balancing individuals while trying to execute a technique. Confined spaces which hindered the effectiveness of a technique performed causing it to be ineffective due to not being able to fully execute a self defense technique due to lack of space.

c) The lack of understanding of the effects that adrenaline plays on the mind & body, affecting fine motor skills to properly execute a technique. Also self defense systems forgeting to train the mind just as much as the body.

d) Knowing that a self defense system needed to be similar in movements to be remembered & to be effective. Learning a lot of different self defense techniques was dangerous due to the fact that the brain would become overloaded with information causing it to either forget or go through all the self defense techniques it learned to decide which technique was best for the situation. The increased reaction time could mean the difference between life & death.

3) Putting all the theory to the test working as a bouncer/bodyguard up against loud, pissed off violent drunks, dope fiends, gangsters & wannabe’s. I discarded what didn’t work & kept what did. I found a common fact in 99% of people that I fought with when striking anatomic weak points of the human body. These points caused a domino type of effect to your attackers system, giving time to finish him off or to escape & did not need perfect execution to work.

I considered every variable & left no stone unturned.That's why this self defense system works & is tight.

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This article was emailed to me by one of my clients. Here is another good reason why you should learn self defense.

HE GAVE MUGGERS ALL HIS POSSESSIONS BUT THEY WANTED MORE... HIS LIFE
By Jeff Edwards, Tom Parry And Robert Stansfield, Times-Mirror Staff

A successful young lawyer was stabbed to death by muggers just yards from his home despite handing over all his possessions.Tom Rhys Pryce was heard pleading with the callous thieves, "What more do you want from me? You've got everything of value."Seconds later the two men knifed him in the head, body and limbs in a frenzied, ferocious and senseless attack before they fled.The 31-year-old, who was due to marry fiancée Adele Eastman in September, was stabbed at least a dozen times as he put up a fierce fight for his life with his bare hands.Investigation chief Detective Superintendent Julian Worker said: "This is a shocking murder. It looks like a completely gratuitous killing."It is clear it was a robbery. We know that he had already handed over everything of value that was on him. We know he was telling them he had nothing else of value. He was pleading with them and they just produced knives and started stabbing him."Tom was killed just 50 yards from his front door. Adele, 31, was in the house waiting for him to return from a work social event."She went outside after hearing the commotion just before midnight on Thursday but did not see her dying fiancé who was lying in a pool of blood.The family was too upset to talk last night. A neighbor said: "Tom and Adele were the picture of happiness."He had his whole life ahead of him but it has been so cruelly taken from him. Everyone's devastated."Another, Gerry Dobson, 63, added: "It's such a bloody, crying shame. We know from firsthand experience as parents the dedication and support that has gone into getting that young man where he got in his profession."To have some idiot take that away from you, not just you, but a whole family, friends and community, well it's dreadful."He was someone who had put in all that effort when you have so many bums who go around scratching a living and don't contribute anything to society."Tom was attacked as he walked to his home at Bathurst Gardens in Willesden, North West London, from nearby Kensal Green Tube station.He was smartly dressed in a blue shirt and tie, a grey suit and black business shoes.Det Supt Worker said: "This is a quiet, up and coming area of London, and not the type of place where we would expect a murder like this to happen." A neighbour of the couple added: "This is a very normal and usually quiet residential street. It's unbelievable someone should be killed in such a horrible way so close to his home."Police believe the murderers may have been lying in wait near Kensal Green station looking for a victim to rob.

ALMOST PULLED IT
From the true stories of idiots department.

This email was forwarded to me from a friend.Thought everyone would enjoy it. It is from the "Combat Carry" internet forum. Posted by Matt on www.combatcarry.com.

Yesterday, I was in my local bicycle shop, having some minor mechanical work done. I had ridden in, and was the only customer in the store, so there were no cars in the customer lot.While the wrench was working on the bike, I conversed with the manager for a bit, then drifted over to drool on some new bike toys. The shop is pretty open, with a low counter seperating the retail area from the shop, with a storage area in the back comprised of racks of shelving. There is, as it turns out, a door from the back area out to the rear parking area behind the store.One of the part time guys there decided to play a little joke on his colleagues. Thinking there were no customers in the store, he slams the back door open and announces "This is a robbery. Every Mother F$##er on the floor!"With our relative positions, I did not have a good view of the guy, but could see him through a rack of bicycles next to whereI was standing. With the backlighting from the open door, I could not clearly see his hands.I was carrying my pistol in a fanny pack, but my phone was on the strap of my Camelback, which was with my bike. I crouched down at the end of the row of bikes I was by, and moved back so there was no clear path through the frames between me and what I believed to be an armed robber. I opened the side zipper of the pack, reached in and secured a good grip on the pistol, pulling it out slightly so the beavertail and bottom rear ofthe grip were clear of the zipper (so it would not hang up if I needed to pull it the rest of the way). Thumb in top of the safety, trigger finger along the frame, ready to draw if needed.My thought process as the time was to watch and see what the guy did - if he was just after the register, I would have done nothing more. Seemed like an eternity, but it was probably only a few seconds, then the manager starts yelling at the guy"God damn it, , you scared the hell out of me. And there is a customer in the shop!". The guy says "oh, (crap), I'm sorry!"I pushed the gun back into the fanny pack, zipped it back up and stood up. The "robber" apologized to me for his stupid joke,and the manager was very apologetic.I suggested to the guy that doing things like that could get someone hurt. His response was "I didn't really have a gun, nobody could have been hurt".I thought he was going to pass out when I patted the fanny packand said "I do, and I had no way of knowing you were playing".He turned pretty white.The manager and I talked for a while, as he had never met anyone with a concealed firearm license. He's kind of a hippie,so I expected some negative commentary, but he was actually quite interested in concealed carry and guns in general.I left him with an invitation to go to the range some time,and information on the local range that provides the classes.Aside from being separated from my phone, I think it went pretty well.

ANATOMY OF SELF DEFENSE EBOOK

The recent launch of TACT Self Defense Online Training area allows TACT website visitors quick & easy access to self defense training online is now in it's second part of developement. The creation of an ebook, which completion should be within the next few weeks . TACT Self Defense wants to give easy access to self defense training focusing on the digital medium. "The internet is were people want quick answers to there questions, & they will get that from our site, simply click & you have your answers in seconds" stated TACT Self Defense founder Norm Bettencourt. The official date of the ebook release will be posted in our blog.

RANDOM CHECKS

Toronto probation & police officers are working together by performing random checks with youth's on probation. Due to the increase in gun crime & the Boxing Day street shooting which killed an innocent teenage girl, the shooting believed to be due to two rival teenage gangs bumping into each other in the street. Police & probation officers are trying to get better control with youth's on probation to follow there terms of probation & to arrest them if terms are broken. Authourities are finding the program so for successful. Single mother's with youth's on probation are finding it also successful regarding having better control of there children's curfew.

WELCOME TO TEAM TACT

TACT Self Defense would like to welcome our newest certified instructor to the TACT team David Toner. David Toner will be hosting seminars with TACT Self Defense creator Norm Bettencourt, & also teaching private lessons on his own in the Vancouver BC, Canada area. Contact information for seminars/training is davidtoner@tactselfdefense.com

WELCOME TO TEAM TACT

TACT Self Defense is proud to announce a new certified instructor to TACT Self Defense, Dustin Crocker. You can read his biography at www.tactselfdefense.com/biography.html in the near future. Dustin will be in charge of training/seminars in the Ontario, Canada area. You can reach him at dustincrocker@tactselfdefense.com for information on TACT Self Defense training in the Ontario area.