Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Q & A # 1 – Overcoming The Fear of Speaking English

Woohoo! I'm kicking off a new edition of Q & A's! That's right, for those of you that ask questions about specific things, I'll be featuring them on a podcast one a weekly basis (might be Wednesday) and answer your questions as fully as possible. Here's our first question! Teacher, I would like you to...

Positive Mental Attitude: Season 2 – Episode 22 – Quotient Analysis – Part C

Here we go! This is the last part of the quotient analysis!  If you haven't already done Part A or Part B, I suggest you hit the links on the left and do them before the last part. 13. Learning from defeat (a) Does defeat cause you to stop trying? _____ _____ (b) If you...

Reject Rejection: Some Will, Some Won’t; So What – Someone’s Waiting!

I woke up this morning to a message on my LinkedIn.  A man, who invests heavily into Crypto and does a lot of blockchain, denied coming onto my podcast to talk about both topics (it's very common for those to do so because they're scared about ruining their reputation -- including Forex Traders). 24 hours...

Building Stronger Job Esteem

There's nothing like getting the "thank you for applying" email, right? Heck, just recently I went into a second-stage of an interview, only for them to tell me, "oh, well we think there are more qualified teachers."  Ha! The qualified teachers who just open a book and teach number by number, right? I began putting...

Napoleon Hill: Your Standing Army – End of Lesson XIII

These fifteen soldiers are labeled: Definite Chief-Aim, Self-Confidence, Habit of Saving, Imagination, Initiative & Leadership, Enthusiasm, Self-Control, Doing More Than Paid For, Pleasing Personality, Accurate Thought, Concentration, Co-operation, Failure, Tolerance, Golden Rule. This is the most powerful army on EARTH! This army is ready for the bidding of any person who will command it. Will...

Questions & Answers: Friendship Woes

Ahhh, thank you for asking the question and hopefully I have the answer!  A listener from Iraq asked me, "my friend and I have been friends for years, but after a miscommunication, we stopped talking for several months.  I tried reaching out to her and she never responds; however, she posts daily on social media."...

Lewis Howes: Material Mask – Part III

“Whatever success you’re after, keep in mind that someone has already had it, hated it, and deluded themselves into thinking that just a little more would solve their problems.” - Ryan Holiday Excerpt From: Lewis Howes. “The Mask of Masculinity.” iBooks. It makes you think a lot about materialistic things in general, doesn't it? I'm...

Napoleon Hill: End of Failure Lesson – Failure Is Success + Turning Points

Neither temporary defeat nor adversity amounts to failure in the mind of the person who looks upon it as a teacher that will teach some needed lesson.  As a matter of fact, there is a great and lasting lesson in every reverse, and in every defeat; and, usually, it is a lesson that could be...

Napoleon Hill – Failure – Introduction of My Physical Failure

Let me paint this picture of this life-turning night at Palo Verde High School back in May of 2005. I was a 300m intermediate-hurdler who was favored to at least make it to the Sunrise Regional Championships.  I remember I failed miserably at the 110HH - not intentionally, but because I was more focused on...

Do This And You’ll Be Welcomed Anywhere

Some of you wonder why are you even reading some of my blog posts on how to win friends and listening to my podcasts on developing the confidence to win people? Why not just study the greatest man-winner of them all.  The thing that runs up to your leg, tail-wagging, licking you, jumping all over...