Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Skinny Line

Discipline will not make you successful

The tortoise wins.


I ran a marathon 30 years ago. While training, my wife, Diane, started casually jogging with me at the end or beginning of my runs. A few weeks before the marathon she ran a half-marathon with me.

Skinny Line

You’re almost certainly a hostage of your business and don’t know it.


During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, I listened to an expert describe why being a hostage for a short period of time was exponentially worse then being sentenced to prison for many years.



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