Living Lessons

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Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Enjoy Life Because of What You Bring Into It

Enjoy life because of what you bring into it rather than expecting life to supply the enjoyment for you. Early morning on a trip through...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Purpose or Direction

Your problem is that you simply have no purpose or direction”. One day when I was living in California I realized I had piled way...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Hurt’s My Thing

But hurt's my thing … it's my home, it's the only thing I know. I'm safe and sound and sure of myself when pain's...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

I’ll Hear Jesus

Some evangelists are too emotional for me. They think their way with words, the clever way they coin a phrase and how they say what it is they...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Get Up and Live

All I can remember wanting when I was a kid was to face the day ahead and see my way through it. Early one...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Turn Your Life Around

Don’t underestimate what it took to get you to where you are now so if you want to turn your life around you will...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

A Band of Brothers and a Hall of Fame

In order to confirm how I felt about what I saw, I took a closer look at the purpose of the Hall of Fame...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

I Know Who You Are Little Boy

C’mon Man … I know who you are I know who you are because I've been you. I see the veins popping from your neck. I...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Papillion: A Caterpillar A Butterfly and the Fight To Be Free

Several years ago, I was hired to double Steve McQueen in the movie “Papillion”. It was about a man in France who was put...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

A Step Toward Courage

Bobby played center on our High School football team and had a disease that affected his ability to run. I remember watching him as...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

My Last Arena

  What time in life should you consider yourself a man? Is 'becoming a man' something that just happens to you? Maybe it's after an accomplishment...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Fear Scares Me

I don’t like bugs or cockroaches and I don’t know why. I don’t think they’re going to bite me or hurt me but I’m afraid...
MMA in Malaysia

MMA in Malaysia, The Sport of a New Generation

The bell rings, and Malaysian national san da team member Raymond Tiew flies out of his corner, ready to do battle. His opponent, Kong...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Heading Home

Home is where the heart is. Home is where you hang your hat. Home is just a click or two of Dorothy's red shoes. What a beautiful...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

The Wade’s of Russell Springs

You never know who you're talking with when you're talking to a child. They may be a professional athlete some day, the one who...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Aged To Perfection

A Robert Browning verse has been in my head lately, "The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first...