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One of my favorite musicians recently passed away. Teddy Pendergrass passed away after complications from a terrible auto accident that had left him paralyzed.
One of his songs was titled Life Is A Song Worth Singing. Great song, great meaning. Here’s a story about a woman who lived her life to the fullest and helped thousands in the process. A real life hero. Enjoy reading about her. She really deserved the award

Have a great weekend
 
Fred Nicklaus 
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IN MEMORIAM 64 YEARS LATER
The prize doesn’t always go to the most deserving.
Irena Sendler
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena.
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the WarsawGhetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an ‘ulterior motive’. She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids).
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed.
Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize…she was not selected.

Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This email is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests  who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other  way!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it’s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.

This email is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!

Sometimes you see and hear about things that just make you wonder. Over the past few days I’ve come upon some things that made me want to just shake my head and shake somebody.
Here’s a few good rants for you. See whether you agree or disagree.
As you know I’ve spent the last 32 years working with and helping children become physically and mentally stronger and achieve their potential.
I’ve gotta tell you some of these kids face some real uphill battles.
When I watch how kids interact with each other and with authority figures. I can usually tell within the first few minutes what kind of a young person he/she is. You can tell by how they treat their friends, by how they respond to authority, and whether or not they listen and pay attention when people talk to them.
All of the things I look for are practices that have been taught to them by an adult, usually a parent or parents.
It’s hard enough to be a kid. It’s important that they get good information and proper guidance. Some of these kids will struggle forever because of the downright stupid guidance they are getting.
Here’s some examples:

1. When a child is doing something that he/she should not be doing, someone please take notice and correct it. Do not be afraid to hurt the child’s feelings. You’ll be hurting much more than that if a child is left to do whatever he/she wants until they are adults and then get absolutely crushed when the real world finally hits them over the head.
2. If a child has a long history of not paying attention and just can’t seem to get the information right no matter how many times it’s explained, it might be time to have the child tested for some type of learning challenge. Sure none of us want to feel that our kids might have learning difficulties, but how fare is it to them if they do and we don’t take steps to help them cure the issue.

 
Kids do not know how to act unless they are taught. Parenting is not a spectator sport. It’s an all the time, get involved and help your kids occupation Rudeness, lack of respect, inappropriate behavior, and entitlement. All of these are things that must be nipped in the bud and not tolerated.
I feel for teachers today.
Many of these people have chosen their profession because they love kids and want to teach them things that will change their lives. It’s a big time sacrifice and the good teachers are to be commended.
So why are so many teachers frustrated and why do many choose to find other fields of work after short times on the job.
What would happen if government would mind their own business and not create ridiculous rules and paperwork for teachers to live up to. Case in point
No Child Left Behind.
Whose bright idea was this. Do you know that we are graduating kids from our high schools who can’t read? How does that qualify as not being left behind. Seems to me that beefing up our graduating statistics is more important than giving kids an education.
How about keeping lawyers off of the playground and make some laws to stop some of them from running around looking for ridiculous cases to try that only jam up our legal system and spend money foolishly
Case in point. Not so long ago I read a news story that told about one set of parents who was taking a 5 year old child to court because that 5 year old had gotten in a fist fight with theirs.
Here’s what should happen. Case comes to court. Judge hears that it’s parents and a lawyer of one 5 year old taking another 5 year old to court for a fight on the playground and judge says:
“This is too ridiculous to try and by the way you stupid parents and stupid lawyer will also be fined $xxxxx for even bringing this in front of me.”
There’s a thought. Hold someone accountable for being stupid and spreading their stupidity around the town.
We live in a strange world. It’s a world where many kids do not respect authority. It’s a world where lack of common sense is common place. It’s a world where people are restricted from doing their best jobs because there are too many dumb rules and regulations stopping them from doing what’s right. It’s a world where some people are afraid to do or say what’s right because they are afraid that they might upset someone who in turn will bring them unneeded legal pains.
The cure for all of this insanity seems simple:

1.  Say or do something if there’s a wrong being done. Speak up. Take action
2.  Teach kids how to do the right things by setting an example
3. Make laws that make sense
4. Reward creativity and resourcefulness and frown on entitlement and stupidity

It’s high time we start making sense and helping our kids and our world come back to the basics.
Common sense makes good sense even though it may not be common. We need a bunch more of it.
 
Fred Nicklaus 

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Seems that the more we create things the more things pop up for us to do. There always seems to be an opportunity to improve your station in life if you keep moving and looking for opportunities.

If you saw my video this past weekend you heard that things are really ramping up around here. We’re busy redoing our old website and creating new ones.

I’m very excited about our new www.WomenStrengthTraining.com website. I know that there are many women, especially those over 40, who are looking for ways to stay healthy and live their best lives. This will be fun.

The kids at the grade school are doing great and I started shooting video this morning. Our next step is to keep gathering video and written data for this program with the intention to send some of this already proven program evidence to our politicians so they can stop wondering what to do and just do what’s already working for kids and fitness.

Here’s my latest opportunity and I can use your help if you are available tomorrow morning at 8:30 am CST.

I’m going to be the featured speaker on the Bicycle Nut Radio Show. You can listen in at the following location www.blogtalkradio.com/the-bicycle-nut If you’d like to do more than listen you can also be on the show.

I’m going to be talking about core strength and proper breathing as my main topics. If you would like to call in and give some feedback on any of my Combat Endurance Training programs for other listeners to hear about I would really appreciate it.

As always, having you give proof to show that what I talk about works is better than if I say it. It would be great if you could do this live radio testimonial. Here’s the phone # for you to call if you are interested 1-347-324-3835

My friend Jerry Goodwin is the host of the program and from what I understand he and I will talk about certain topics to help bike riders improve their riding between 8:30 and 9:10. At that time we will open up the phone lines to answer questions and to have you call in with your Combat Success Stories.

I hope you can make it to the call. If you don’t want to make the whole call then try to get in on the last 20 minutes. Your help would be appreciated.

Talk soon
 
Fred Nicklaus

www.CombatEnduranceTraining.com- Martial Arts Champion & Fitness Expert, Fred Nicklaus, who specializes in Women & Men Strength Programs for men & women over 40.

Don’t you just get sick of it. Last year I stopped getting the local newspaper. Why do you suppose. You got it. It’s nothing but a negative mess.

Front page, middle pages, and every other page full of junk.

Seems to me that it would actually help those who read the newspaper and watch the tv news if our media people would make it a point to cover more of the good stuff than the bad stuff. Hmmm…

So here is how it works in my estimation.

Every day someone hears and is fed this ridiculous sky is falling propaganda.

Government does it. School systems do it. Businesses do it.

It’s a constant bombardment of things are bad and the only way to get out of it is to MAKE CUTS. That’s not enough, MAKE MORE CUTS. Soon enough there will be nothing left to cut.

Let me clarify. Sometimes cuts have to be made. Sometimes businesses have to be closed. Sometimes bad things happen.

But here’s the point.

When it’s over MOVE ON.. We’ve all had bad things happen to us. Did it do any of us any good to keep dwelling on the negative? Me thinks it much better to learn from those negative experiences so we don’t do the same dumb things all over again.

It drives me absolutely wild the people who continually try to cram this Doomsday mentality down our throats.

I suggest that those in government, school systems, businesses try this.

Believe that a solution will be found that will make you prosper and start talking about and working on that. Get your people to start talking and thinking about it too. Share the Wealth.

Here’s a hint. The solution may not be found in doing the same old worn out stuff that got you in a mess in the first place.

We really become what we think and talk about. It’s much more productive to think that we and those we are connected with will make some really great things happen.

Cut mentality be damned. Negative thinking be damned.

Turning ourselves, our country, our schools, our businesses around depends on us and how and what we think about and then what we do after we think it. It’s a great feeling to be in control of our own destinies.

Make it a point to listen to and spend time with people and ideas that can lift you up not bring you down. Life is too short and too precious

Get yourself a piece of the good living pie. Lord knows, there’s more than enough for everybody if we only believe.
 
Fred Nicklaus

Over the past few days I’ve received emails from different people saying that they are making it a point to do something about their fitness. They want to do something to improve it.
One of the emails that I received was from a man who said that he is about to turn 50 and feels that he has to lose the extra 50 lbs that he has managed to put on. He went on to say that it’s been a very stressful year and he knows it’s time for positive change.
Good for him and good for everyone who is willing to take the necessary steps to improve in some way. Earlier today I wrote a message on my Facebook account about how Entitlement is a robber of the spirit.
Those who feel that they should just be given everything without earning the right or working for something will never know the satisfaction of achieving.
Achievement comes because of the effort and energy that the individual is willing to put forth.
Achievement never happens to those who sit on their arses and complain about why the world is so tough on them.
Movement often times requires that we go through pain. It’s the pain of learning something new, stumbling, and not knowing all of the answers.
Those who continue through the pain come out on the other end better and more able to face even bigger challenges.
The challenge to be in shape and fight through whatever barriers or distractions we might encounter is well worth our effort. It’s in the effort and pain that we achieve things that many will never know.
 
Fred Nicklaus 

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