Posts Tagged ‘First Person’

You Can Learn to Hunt, or You Can Starve with the Rest of the “Lazy Grazers”

Here's one cat that won't go hungry during times of drought. She's at the top of the food chain, and eats all the "lazy grazers" who are starving during lean times.

Here’s a story for you that I know you’ll like.

I have a friend who runs an MMA and karate school in an economically “average” area (25,000 people, household median income of $50K). He’s the first person I ever coached through starting a school, and I check in with him now and again to see how he’s doing.

I’ve been on him to get a website for years, literally.*

Yet, he does quite well in his school. He said his school was dead during the end of summer, then he “got busy” and enrolled 15 people in ten days.

Without a website.

So how does he do it?
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When I first heard the term “rotating curriculum”, I had no clue what the concept was. I think the first person I heard talking about it was one of the billing company guys, and to be honest I really discounted the idea wholesale when he mentioned it. Well, a short while later I found I was having a hard time keeping my classes structured as my school grew. I also found it difficult to keep my instructors on track with their lesson plans – no one really had an idea of what to teach in class, and Read the rest of this entry »