🥋🏅Even I wouldn’t train in the Snow🏅🥋

P.S. You may want to read this if you A) want to know what being a black belt really means or B) want to know what martial arts can do for your family. Before I drove to the studio Saturday, I hastily scraped the ice out of my car. My Ford Fiesta dutifully reminding me […]

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✨ You’re nothing special | Why I kinda hate being called Master Magill ✨

The Leadership Philosopher Simon Sinek once told a beautiful story: As he was listening to the speaker at a conference—a former high-ranking member of the defense department—the speaker held a Styrofoam cup aloft. “I was at this conference last year. My flight was first class and when I arrived, they gave me coffee in a […]

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Moving the Needle | Why I like to think small🧵

I have… large dreams. No, I don’t mean I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about elephants. I want to build an army of highly effective people that improve the community around them. Given the current life expectancy in this country, I have forty years left to do it. My student’s have […]

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Karate Near Me | What do they really do?

  So, parents in my area—Mount Laurel—keep coming to our karate school already knowing what they can get out of a karate program. Self-Control Discipline Excellence Dinoto Karate Center has 25 years’ worth of word-of-mouth-marketing, but my intuition tells me it’s more than that. The secret is out. The idea of a Karate Master teaching […]

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Back to School|Find Study Skills for Your Child

Welcome to the brave new world of education where kids of every age group must learn how to study on their own. Real talk: I was an honors and AP Student my entire life and nobody taught me how to study in a way that was useful.  Seriously, because of my particular learning disblity NLD, […]

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Karate Near Me | How To Pick Between The Ocean Of Options

Your Mount Laurel Martial Arts School–Dinoto Karate Center–

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How to use Goals so Your Child can Pursue their Dreams

If you haven’t heard one motivational speaker talk about goals, I have one question for you. How comfortable is living under that rock?  Seriously, I envy you the ability to not here the phrase you need to set achievable goals nine times a day.  Some experts say that you need to make big goals.  10x […]

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How to Build Self Confidence in Your Child

“Confidence is the ability to smile even if your teeth are crooked.” That is what one of my students told me when I asked my class what confidence meant to them. And that answer blew me away. Twelve year old Zy’Asia perfectly described it better than I ever could. She was completely right. Self confidence […]

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Kids Karate In Mount Laurel AND The FOCUSING RULES

All of our Little Champions classes start with those rules.  We start there because we know kids who are 4, 5, or 6 years old are learning about how to control their body and mind.  They are learning the big, macroscopic skills that are required for them to start becoming themselves. Managing focus is a skill that […]

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Seven Simple Ways To Help Your Child Focus And Pay Attention

Today I want to share 7 ways to help your child focus and pay attention. I thoroughly enjoy sharing what I’ve learned with my community and I especially love hearing from you. My family and I’ve been a part of the Mount Laurel community for almost twenty years and we love and support our township. […]

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