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THE AMAZING COUPLE THAT TURNED COUNTLESS TRAGEDIES INTO TRIUMPH! BY A

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Despite being struck with obstacles that would drive most of us to our knees, Georgia’s Chuck and Carolina Cawthon ultimately proved they are world-class survivors. Over a lifetime of adversity that would KO most warriors, like a real-life Rocky Chuck always got up off the g ound and fought for his life. So did his wife. It is what has made them winners in life and in their school business, Contemporary Martial Arts in Hartwell, GA.

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For both customers and prospects, there’s nothing like walking into a sparkling school. Everything appears fresh, clean and new. Just like your own personal appearance, a school’s image sets a tone and is a reflection of the instruc ors and the instruction offered. By using new and updated equipment, wearing neatly-branded apparel and dressing up your pro shop, you can make your school a sparkling showroom that enhances product sales.

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FOCUS, RECOGNITION AND CHANGE

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IN THE KNOW FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK

ASHLEY LUGRAND IS THE MARKETING

F R A N K S I LV E R M A N I S T H E E X E C U T I V E

manager of the Martial Arts Industry Association,

Director of the Martial Arts Industry Association,

based in Oklahoma City, OK. You can contact her at

and the owner & operator of 11 martial arts

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schools in Orlando, Florida. He’s also the author of Business Is Business: Passion and Profit in the Martial Arts Industry. Follow Frank on Twitter and Facebook @franksilverman. Contact him at fsilverman@masuccess.com.

GROWING YOUR SCHOOL BARRY VAN OVER IS PRESIDENT OF

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KYLE YOUNG IS THE DIVISION

art studios, and Premier Management Group,

manager of the Martial Arts Industry Association.

a mentoring and consulting program. He can

He is a practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and

be reached at (877) 613-4900 or email him at

is passionate about helping school owners

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achieve their goals. He can be reached at kyoung@masuccess.com.

IN THE CLASSROOM DAVE KOVAR OWNS AND OPERATES A chain of successful martial art schools. Additionally, he operates Pro-Mac (Professional Martial Arts College), dedicated to helping martial artists become professionals in Business Management, Mat Mastery, Sales Mastery, Wealth Management and Cutting-Edge Classroom Concepts. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Martial Arts Industry Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Contact him at dave.kovar@kovars.com or check out his

TURNING POINT HERB BORKLAND WAS ONE OF Jhoon Rhee’s original white belts at America’s fi st taekwondo school and, later, a closed-door student of Chinese “soft” styles pioneer Robert W. Smith. For three years, starting on ESPN, he hosted the weekly Black Belts TV show. He did the screenplay for Cynthia Rothrock’s HBO-featured Honor and Glory and is an Inside Kung-Fu Hall of Fame martial arts writer. He can be reached at herbork@comcast.net.

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CONSULTANT’S CORNER

KATHY OLEVSKY AND HER HUSBAND,

ANTONIO FOURNIER IS A MAIA ELITE

Rob, own and operate Karate International in

Consultant and Maine-based multi-school owner

North Carolina. Kathy is the managing partner

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in their fiv -school operation. She’s an 8th-

and operating a martial arts business. He’s a

degree black belt with 32 full-time years of

professional life coach and a certified eacher of

teaching and operating martial arts schools. She

the Law of Attraction. He continues his 43 years

can be reached for questions or comments at

of martial arts training and can be reached at

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MASTERFUL RETENTION CHRISTOPHER RAPPOLD IS THE founder of a successful martial arts organization, Personal Best Karate, headquartered in Norton, MA. He’s a fiv -time world karate champion and is currently the executive director of the world-renowned Team Paul Mitchell, a championship team supported by sportkarate’s longest-running sponsorship. Rappold is the author of the landmark MAIA program, Retention-Based Sparring. He can be reached at founder@personalbestkarate.com.

THE KICK YOU NEVER SAW COMING! BETH BLOCK, A 4TH-DEGREE BLACK belt in karate, is the president of Block Insurance in Orlando, FL. Block has protected businesses that serve children for the past 24 years. She is the writer of Martial Arts Minute, a weekly risk-management newsletter. You can reach her at (800) 225-0863 or beth@blockinsurance.net.

THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE PHILIP E. GOSS, JR., ESQ. IS A member of the Florida and several Federal Bar Associations. Phil welcomes any e-mail comments or questions at PhilGosslaw@gmail.com and will attempt to respond personally, time permitting.

INSPIRATION OVATION KAREN EDEN IS A 5TH-DEGREE master of tang soo do. She’s a broadcast journalist who has appeared nationally on CNN, FOX and Animal Planet as well as on local affili es for NBC and PBS. Karen is also a published book author and magazine columnist who has written for or been featured in every major martial arts magazine globally. Contact her at KarenEden@centurylink.net.

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YOU ASKED IN A 100-STUDENT SCHOOL, WHAT IS THE “NORMAL” AMOUNT OF STUDENTS THAT QUIT (FOR WHATEVER REASON) IN ANY GIVEN MONTH? IS THERE A RATIO SCHOOL OWNERS SHOULD STRIVE TO STAY BELOW?

None would be great, but realistically, most schools that I see average between four and six. Is there a ratio school owners should strive to stay below? We try to keep our quit rate at three percent or lower.”

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Schools should strive to stay under a five pe cent quit rate (three or four percent, ideally). So, if you have 100 students, you should not lose more than five per month ” — MIKE METZGER, CHAMPIONSHIP MARTIAL ARTS, ORLANDO, FL

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“Chuck Cawthon’s personal story, a saga so incredible that he is regularly called upon to share it with others in his community, could be condensed into provocative lyrics for one of those big-hit country songs.”

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The future prospects for any pregnant teenager are usually not very good. Statistically speaking, a young woman who becomes pregnant in high school is more likely to: • Not complete high school or achieve any post-secondary-school goals.

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Pregnant at the age of 15, she dropped out of high school, got married and had her first child right after she turned 16. A second child was born when she was 18, but her marriage ended early, at the age of 21. A single mom of two kids with no education, her future looked bleak indeed.

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Carolina knew in her heart that she and she alone, would be the captain of her own ship. Her first stop was obtaining her high-school GED. Her second voyage began when she started college in her mid-40s. This coming May, she’ll be dropping anchor as a 4.0 GPA graduate from the University of Georgia, with a Bachelor's degree in dietetics and a minor in biochemistry and molecular biology!

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She started martial arts under David “Chip” Prather, where she met Chuck Cawthon, her future husband, who was Prather’s assistant. Through dedication and sweat equity, she attained her black belt before the age of 40.

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The process of identifying something that you want to accomplish.

The martial arts belt system is one of the greatest systems created when it comes to setting and reaching goals. It teaches us to set goals, attain them and see the visual results of our achievements. Achieving a Black Belt in martial arts has significant meaning and is associated with excellence. We can understand our goals with the visual aid of the different color belt system. If you are a new student, there are many short terms goals to reach — white belt, yellow belt, etc. The long term goal is to become a Black Belt. If you want to earn your Black Belt, set that as your long-term

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Specific: Your goal needs to be specific (include details) and be stated clearly. A specific goal has a much better chance of being accomplished than a general goal.

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• R – Relevant. Set goals that matter to you. You are martial so setting a goal you related Takeasome timeartist, to refocus yourself stay to focused once you decide getting your next stripe or belt would be a greatand way to motivate yourself. where your priorities lie during this reevaluate the things you are spending time on.

Measurable: How will you know when the goal is achieved? You need specific criteria to measure your progress. Keeping track of your progress gives incentive to keep going.

busy holiday season.

• T – Timely. If you set goals like “Shovel the sidewalk” without giving yourself a deadline, First, deciding what is important Below are four steps to you will probably have a harder time getting started and a harder completing that and determining whattime matters is an staying focused: task. Instead, give yourself a deadline and workinternal to accomplish the goalWe onall schedule, or decision process. have 1. Keep organized. people in our lives who influence that ahead of schedule.

It seems obvious, but as the decision, but ultimately you are the

Attainable: Your goals should be realistic and achievable.

3. Manage your time.

This goes hand in hand with making lists. Keep on track and don’t let others manage your time for you.

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Setting SMART goals helps you focus on the things you want and make a set plan how to getperformances, them. and the holidays You decide what is important and what is not.

themselves happen, remaining organized will help you stick to your goals.

4. Make time for breaks.

At first this may sound counterintuitive, but breaks allow you to recharge and catch up internally. And remember, staying focused is the key to accomplishment.

2. Make a list.

To-do lists are key to staying focused. They act as a road map to getting important things done.

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– PABLO PICASSO –

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DOWN ARE JUST WISHES.”

1. Flyers/Ad slicks – We must understand that flyers/ad slicks should be used to create enough interest in getting a prospect to pick up a phone and call your facility or to come into your facility. When doing external marketing WHEN you are not present (ads, flyers, mailers, ad cards etc.) we want the phones to be ringing and people walking in the door. The way to do this is to blanket your area with flyers, ad cards, mailers and posters. Get out as many flyers as possible so that when someone wants to do martial arts, they call you first.

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Relevant: Make goals that matter to you.

– FITZHUGH DODSON – When you identify goals that are important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true.

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“ALLSet WHO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED Timely: time frames or blocks of time GREAT HAVE HAD your A GREAT when you THINGS plan to accomplish goal.

AIM, HAVE FIXED THEIR GAZE ON A of A time-bound goal establishes a sense GOAL WHICH WAS HIGH, urgency and prevents goalsONE fromWHICH being SOMETIMES SEEMED pushed to the side from IMPOSSIBLE.” other daily activities.

– ORISON SWETT MARDEN –

Ask Your Students: 1.

What is an example of a SMART goal?

2. Why is it important to create SMART goals?

3. Can we create one SMART goal for everyone in class today?

Dear parents and/or guardians...

This month we will discuss goal setting and why it is important to have goals and write them down. Proper goal setting will help your children decide what they want to achieve in life. Their short-term goals will help keep them motivated and build self-confidence as they successfully achieve their long-term goals.

HOW CAN YOU HELP? • Help your children be S.M.A.R.T. about creating goals. Work with them on setting goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.

• Have your children write down their goals including goals for school, home and in martial arts.

Be Focused!

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“OUR GOALS CAN ONLY BE REACHED THROUGH A VEHICLE OF A PLAN, IN WHICH WE MUST FERVENTLY BELIEVE, AND UPON WHICH WE MUST OUR GOALS CAN ONLY BE REACHED THROUGH A VEHICLE OF A PLAN, VIGOROUSLY ACT. THERE IS NO IN WHICH WE MUST FERVENTLY BELIEVE, AND UPON WE OTHER ROUTE TOWHICH SUCCESS.” MUST VIGOROUSLY ACT. THERE IS NO OTHER ROUTE TO SUCCESS.

GOAL SETTING: Creating and achieving“GOALS goals — Be SMART. THAT ARE NOT WRITTEN

very easysetting to take a your eye the ball to determine • A – Attainable. If you haven’t learned to swim yet, then goal ofoff learning dive isn’t what should be important losegradually focus on the things that really (as the article mentioned before, this attainable right now. Set goals you can achieve,or and work your way up to more matter. As the holidays approach is an internal decision that can only difficult things. and the New Year rolls in, it is easy to be made by you), but we can offer forget where our priorities should lie.

week 2

We want to be smart when setting goals.

SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely. We want to intelligently decide what our goals will be so we can actually accomplish them.

When running a martial arts school, we always have to be aware how to market properly and understand the main objective of what we do. There are times in our industry that we “miss the boat” or try to do too much when marketing our school. There is a time to “sell” and there is a time to market.

I believe marketing has one purpose: to get your phone ringing or get people into your facility. Below are four bullet points, each presenting a different marketing idea and their so-called objective.

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Decide what “better” means to you and focus on that.

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What does goal setting mean to you?

2. Is goal setting important?

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT GOALS IS HAVING ONE.”

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• Allow your children to create a timeline including short-term and longterm goals.

• Help your children place a visual reminder in your home where they can see it every day to remind them to stay active in pursing their goals.

• Discuss with your children why setting goals is important.

2. Offsite booths – Offsite booths are very powerful because it gets you in front of your prospects. Most times we will use the same flyers that we use for our normal marketing, but the difference is we can

Goal Setting GOAL SETTING IS THE PROCESS OF DECIDING WHAT YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AND DEVISING A PLAN TO ACHIEVE THE RESULT YOU DESIRE.

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speak to our prospects and build more value in what we offer. We need to understand that there are a lot of people out there that don’t realize they have an interest in martial arts, but when you can talk about the benefits, it may create interest in people that otherwise wouldn’t think twice about joining a martial arts facility or noticing a martial arts flyer. When running an offsite booth, I like to advertise a trial special or a no-obligation special to come and try our program. I like to give an incentive to prospects at the booth to set an appointment NOW to come and try us out. I may advertise a fourweeks-for-$49 special at the booth but let people know that if they set an appointment NOW, I will give them half off the special price. This will create urgency.

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dren your only goal is to get them excited about going to your school.

We can’t create a lot of emotion by just giving them a free week pass.

We create the emotion by inviting them to an “event”. An event is an easier “sell” than offering a free week. When you invite someone to try a week, they know that it’s to see if this is something they will want to eventually sign up for.

When you invite someone to an event (bully buster seminar, goal setting seminar, etc.), it is more of a community service as opposed to a “trial”, but it gets a lot more people into your school.

4. Info Calls – When taking an info call, you should try to keep the call to under a minute. Often times when people are taking an info call, they try to sell themselves over the phone. We must remember that IF YOUR ACTIONS INSPIRE if someone is calling for informa3. School Talks/Daycare Talks – When OTHERS TO DREAM MORE, tion, they are already interested. we talk about school talks or LEARN MORE, DOThe MORE main objective when taking daycare talks, we need to underAND BECOME MORE, YOU an info call is to get them to set stand this can consist of talking ARE A LEADER. an appointment and come into to a group of kids about a certain the building. Once your prospect topic such as stranger danger, – JOHN QUINCY ADAMS – comes into your facility, then you goal setting or focus, or it can be Hopefully you have had a relaxing can sell your program. It is never teaching a mini class. The reason winter good to start answering all kindsbreak and are ready to we like getting into schools and go into the New Year. To get our of questions over the phone as this daycares is because our biggest MAIA can only create objections.

Get members off to the right market (children) are all together the appointment and get start, the we are asking a very simple, in one spot. You must keep in mind yet important question: were you prospect in! that when you are in front of chilhappy with your 2015 financial results? If so, the next two tasks are to 1) Set your 2016 goals, and 2) A LEADER IS ONE WHO Write down all the things you did KNOWS THE WAY, GOES THE last year to accomplish your 2015 WAY, AND SHOWS THE WAY. goals and repeat them.

WELCOME TO JANUARY

– JOHN C. MAXWELL –

• Make sure your children understand that goals are part of teamwork and leadership not just individual accomplishments.

• Have your children get a buddy that has a similar or same goal so they can help and support each other.

OUTSTANDING LEADERS GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO BOOST THE SELF-ESTEEM OF THEIR PERSONNEL. IF PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES, IT’S AMAZING WHAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH.

• Set family goals to help your children learn the importance of goal setting.

• Be a role model — set a personal goal along with your children so they can watch you achieve. There is no better way to learn than by following an example.

• Decide as a family what the celebration will be upon reaching every shortterm goal.

If you didn’t do as well as you would have liked, then your two action items are a little different.

1) Make a list of where you fell short. Be brutally honest with yourself and, if you aren’t sure, consult with your staff. 2) Make a list of the things you believe you could have done better.

No matter where you are, selfreflection is just as important as goal setting. It is important to

reflect on what you did, when you did it, how you reached the place you find yourself in and why you were or were not successful in your previous endeavors.

For example, we have a goal for MAIA and for the MASuperShow.

For 2016, we want to grow the event to over 3,000 members.

This will take both reflection and planning. We will spend time identifying the things that worked for us in the past, and we will use that information to set a course for the future.

So, let’s work on our goals together. Let MAIA continue to help you reach your 2016 goals.

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