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3 Hard Lessons I Learned About Hard Work
High school basketball coach Tim Notke said it best, “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” My story is a perfect example. I wasn’t a “natural talent” working in construction with my father, working on Wall Street, or even building Spartan. I...
Change Your Life Through Self-Learning
Take a second and think about your life, and all the energy you’re putting in to make it incredible: The marriage, the job, the house, the kids, the summer vacation plans. Are you comfortable with where your life is right now? If you are, I’d take that as a warning...
Time is money. Stop wasting it.
You’re on your fourth cup of coffee, head pounding from client emails, staring at your computer screen with tired eyes in the third meeting of the afternoon. Just another day at the office, right? I talk about ripping people off the couch, but I’m equally invested in...
Why it pays to have an audience
We’ve all been there. You’re outside going for a quick 3 mile run and suddenly someone passes you and you start using their pace as yours. You keep following them, and the next thing you know, you’ve gone 10 miles further and still have to turn around to get back...
The Importance of Small Wins
People who know me understand that I have big goals and huge ambitions. I’m never done pushing to get the next win. My eyes are on the prize—as a business owner, as a fitness freak, and as a husband and father. But big wins—those massive moments of success—don’t...
Joe De Sena’s Daily Exercise Routine
I’m religious about my workout. Every morning I wake up around 4:45 a.m., drink a few room-temperature glasses of water, and get right to work on my 15 daily exercises. I do fifty reps minimum of each, but if you only start out at ten or twenty, that’s fine too. The...
