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Take a Gratitude Minute

In Adventure, All, Learning, Personal Development by Don AlleyJuly 9, 2020Leave a Comment

Stop.  Stop everything. And just feel.  Feel grateful.  Feel love.  Feel the joy of being alive. You have family. You have friends. You have possibilities.  Connect to yourself.  Where you …

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What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

In Adventure, All, Business, Entrepreneurship, Learning, Personal Development by Don AlleyFebruary 17, 20201 Comment

It was 2014, and I sat in my car nervous and scared, fretting, picturing every conceivable outcome. Would it be a success? A failure? I called my friend Sam and …

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17 Questions to Help You Grow as a Human, an Achiever, and Entrepreneur

In Adventure, All, Business, Entrepreneurship, Exercise, Learning, Miscellaneous, Motivational, Performance, Personal Development by Don AlleyFebruary 3, 20203 Comments

Every morning, I like to sit and think as part of my routine. And without the aid of specific questions, my mind races along with the gottagottagotta stuff. “I gotta …

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Where Will You Put YOUR Acorn?

In Adventure, All, Learning, Motivational, Personal Development by Don AlleyJanuary 17, 20209 Comments

I grabbed some string and tied it around its base, then hung my acorn from my rearview mirror, and now I see it every day. Booyah. Wait, what? An actual …

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Community and Rituals. This Quarter, I’ll Focus On These Three Things.

In All, Entrepreneurship, Learning, Miscellaneous, Motivational, Performance, Personal Development, Staff Training, Super Kicks Karate by Don AlleyJanuary 8, 2020Leave a Comment

New Years, it’s my favorite holiday! So much NEWNESS! New month, new year, and this time…new DECADE!!! Welcome to the new 20’s! Interestingly for me, on the first day of …

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The Struggle Is Real

In All, Learning, Motivational by Don AlleyAugust 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Every so often, I hear this from a parent: Master Alley, he loves it when he’s here, but sometimes it’s a struggle actually GETTING him here? What do I do? …

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When Big Goals Change Directions

In Adventure, All, Italy, Learning, Personal Development, Travel by Don AlleyApril 29, 2019Leave a Comment

The plan was simple. Move to Ashburn, spend 10 years there making money, and then “retire” in Venice, Italy. Big goals. The BIG Goal Moving to Italy and being financially …

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5 Powerful Discoveries from Reading a Book Every Day

In All, Learning, Motivational, Personal Development by Don AlleyApril 25, 2019Leave a Comment

Even now, I can hear my instructor berating us in staff meetings:  “What are you reading? Readers are leaders! Do you want to influence your students? Make sure you’re feeding …

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8 Ways to Learn Italian

In All, Featured, Italy, Learning, Personal Development, Travel, Vacations by Don AlleyMarch 16, 2017Leave a Comment

First, you start with the basics. Bad words. Parolacce. The most important part of any language. Va’fanculo. Cazzo. Minchia. Stronzo. I curse enough in English, I’ll let you Google these …

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Sit at the Feet of the Greats!

In All, Learning, Personal Development by Don AlleyMarch 10, 2017Leave a Comment

I am a firm believer that reading plays such a vital role in our personal growth. When we read, we get to sit at the feet and listen to great …

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