Front & Back Cover of the SAL Textbook

About this Book's Cover

This book's front COVER PHOTO features the Bank of America Plaza—located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia—sandwiched in between the King and Queen Towers—located in Sandy Springs Georgia. Photo credits go to my dear cousins, Preston & Ashley Bunker, residents of the Greater Atlanta area.

These three buildings hold great personal meaning for me as a human being and self-action leader. When I was a young student attending college in Northern Utah, I had a dream to relocate to the Southern United States—the one major area of my Country I had not yet visited. This dream was spawned by my love of American history as well as a retinue of romantic notions about what the SOUTH might hold for me both personally and professionally.

The day after I graduated from college in July 2003, my dad and I climbed into my car in Utah and embarked upon a cross-country road trip eastward. Our final destination: ATLANTA, Georgia. It was enormously satisfying to follow through in the pursuit of this, my DREAM, and the passage of time would lavishly vindicate my decision to venture forth in FAITH.   

I have always been fascinated and enamored by SKYSCRAPERS. I spent most of the next six years (2003-2009) in the Atlanta, Georgia area, where I became particularly fond of the three buildings featured on the cover of this book. 

I first visited the Bank of America Plaza shortly after arriving in Atlanta in August 2003. I was awed by its dominant and towering presence in the Atlanta skyline then—and continue to feel respect and reverence for its impressive stature today. In time, I would use this particular skyscraper as a visual prototype for the SAL Model, thus icing its place forever in SAL history and lore. 

If you are driving north or south on highway 400—or east or west on Interstate 285—in the Atlanta area, you cannot miss the iconic King and Queen Towers, which were designed to resemble king and queen chess pieces and rise regally above the dense forest of Sandy Springs. After I began dating my wife, Lina, in early 2007, we would sometimes escape to the gorgeous and well-groomed grounds at the base of these towers to spend quality time together. 

This lovely location became "Our Special Place" for quiet walks and romantic retreats. It was at the base of the King and Queen Towers—in the Westin Hotel restaurant adjacent the two buildings—that I dropped to one knee and officially proposed marriage to "my darling, my darling, my life and my bride" (1) on February 22, 2008.     

This peaceful and picturesque corporate campus was also a place where I occasionally stole away on my own to ponder, reflect, and pray. Sometimes I would access an elevated view of the property, gaze out on the beautiful buildings and gorgeous grounds, and dream about the future of Freedom Focused and our own corporate campus that would someday be built.

Suffice it to say, this location was a place where DREAMS—both personal and professional—were spawned and worked on while concurrently serving as a setting where Lina and I (or just myself) could retire to rest, relax, and enjoy each other's company. All self-action leaders ought to have such a place (or places) where they can steal away from time-to-time to regain their bearings, enjoy the peace and quiet of solitude, strengthen their relationships, and otherwise maintain and restore their souls amidst a world increasingly enveloped in crisis, disaster, panic, and turmoil.

As the author of the Self-Action Leadership philosophy, theory, and model, it is my desire that all human beings might come to understand the import and magnitude of their own potential for personal, professional, and Existential Growth through SAL and Serendipity. As a teacher of these subjects, it is my hope and prayer that all students of SAL would come to see themselves as they really are—not as ordinary human beings with little to offer the world, but as potential ROYALTY with remarkable gifts to use, talents to develop, contributions to make, and pleasures, satisfactions, and joys to experience residually throughout their lives.   

Thus, images of the King and Queen Towers are placed upon this textbook's cover as a continual reminder of this important principle and belief that all self-action leaders should embrace and cultivate in their lives, careers, and relationships. It is my hope and prayer that YOU may be similarly inspired in your own life and career as you continually view and reflect upon the image of these special buildings.        

Back Cover Text

The following text will appear on the back cover of the SAL Textbook

Self-Action Leadership: A Textbook and Journal for Life provides the first and only textbook of its kind in the academic world today. This comprehensive work single-handedly carves out a new and unique scholarly niche by providing an unprecedented, comprehensive, and secular manual (or HANDBOOK / WORKBOOK) to holistically address society's universal need for character development, moral instruction, and personal leadership. Its single-minded aim is the global promotion and proliferation of leadership, character, and life skills education, development, and growth in nations, communities, organizations, schools, homes, and individual lives everywhere.

In other words, if you are a living, breathing human being, then this book is for YOU!

The concepts and ideas supporting Self-Action Leadership (or SAL) are rooted in nearly 40 years of extensive and expansive personal and professional education, experience, observation, study, research, analysis, synthesis, and development spanning the fields of self-leadership, leadership, action research, character education, autoethnography, history, literature (including poetry), philosophy, religion, and self-help. In addition to drawing on the scholarship and substance of these existing fields, SAL simultaneously builds upon them by introducing an original THEORY & MODEL that executives, managers, administrators, scholars, teachers, coaches, parents, and student-practitioners alike can universally utilize for the personal and professional growth and progress of themselves and their colleagues and subordinates.

Dr. Jordan Jensen
Founder, CEO, and Master Facilitator
Freedom Focused LLC

In addition to its academic substance and scholarly rigor, the text is further flavored and richly seasoned with a potpourri of highly relevant and deeply emotive autobiographical vignettes drawn from nearly 50 years of personal leadership experience by Dr. JJ—the author—himself. 

 

Jordan R. Jensen, Ed.D. is the Founder, CEO, and Master Facilitator of Freedom Focused LLC. He is the author of nine (9) books and nearly 1,000 articles. He has also facilitated over 600 professional training events throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Utah Valley University (2003) and a doctoral degree in education from Fielding Graduate University (2013). A lifelong athlete, Jordan has completed 13 marathons, two 70.3-mile half IRONMAN triathlons, and one 140.6-mile full IRONMAN triathlon. He is married to Lina (née Tucker) Jensen, a Project Manager for NextEra Energy Resources. They live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with their three (3) children.

—Dr. JJ

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Author's Note: This is the 344th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 163rd consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.   

Click HERE for a compete listing of the other 343 FF Blog Articles 

Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL QUOTES  

Click HERE for a complete listing of Freedom Focused SAL POEMS   

Click HERE to access the FULL TEXT of Dr. JJ's Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection

Click HERE for a complete listing of Self-Action Leadership Articles

Click HERE for a complete listing of Fitness, Heath, & Wellness Articles

Click HERE for a complete listing of Biographical & Historical Articles

Click HERE for a complete listing of Current Events, Cultural, Philosophical, & Miscellaneous Articles

Click HERE for a complete listing of Dr. JJ's Autobiographical Articles

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An Educational Message Everyone Can Embrace

Jordan R. Jensen, Ed.D.
Founder and CEO of Freedom Focused

Lately, disagreements and heated arguments over educational content and processes have been front-and-center in the news in the United States. Said disputes have even played a significant role in the outcome of recent political elections.

Dr. Jordan Jensen—a Doctor of Education—founded Freedom Focused in 2005 with a single-minded focus and objective: To provide a positive, productive, and unifying non-partisan educational message and framework to students of all ages.

The goal of SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP is very basic and fundamental: to empower students everywhere to become their best selves in order to excel in academic, career, and personal pursuits.

At Freedom Focused, we believe that everyone deserves the right to learn and practice how to become the best person they can possibly become—no matter who they are, what they look like, or where they came from.

That is what "Equality of Opportunity" is all about.    

For students to RISE to the summits of their existential potential and maximize their career competitiveness on the global stage, they must be taught how to think creatively, critically, and independently. 

They must also be instructed in vital life leadership topics such as communication, problem solving skills, and emotional intelligence. 

Lastly, they must be disciplined, diligent, determined, and resilient human beings capable of dealing with disappointment, temporary failure, and a variety of other career and life setbacks. In short, they must be prepared to endure whatever life may throw at them to ensure their success in spite of whatever adversity they may face along the way.

That is what Freedom Focused teaches, models, and strives to exemplify. SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP is all about Personal Leadership training, Character development, and the perpetual acquisition of key Life Skills. Everything we teach and promote is focused on these CORE TOPICS.

• PERSONAL  LEADERSHIP
• CHARACTER
• LIFE  SKILLS  

Our nation and world is in desperate need of academic theories that UNIFY rather than divide. Some theories being promoted in schools today are creating anger and division in communities around the country. Freedom Focused does not take sides in said debates, nor do we comment on politically charged pedagogical material or other culturally controversial matters.

The Self-Action Leadership Theory

We do, however, affirm the absolute existential equality of all races, ethnicities, and cultures. And by "Existential Equality," we are not referring to historical events and narratives, present circumstances and socioeconomic statuses, or equality of outcomes, but rather to "Equality of Opportunity" and each human being's innate potential for pursuing and obtaining self-improvement and personal growth within a unique framework of each individual's singular existential makeup. 

In pursuit of this universally desirable and attainable character movement, we further offer our own THEORY and MODEL—the Self-Action Leadership (SAL) Theory and Model—to administrators, teachers, coaches, parents, and students everywhere who seek personal progress, self-improvement, and existential growth.

The Self-Action Leadership Model

The SAL Theory gives students a vision of their own limitless potential by taking them on a journey through nine (9) different stages of personal leadership growth and progress.

The SAL Model equips students with the practical tools of ACTION needed to succeed. It does so by outlining the principles and practices required to travel to the highest levels outlined in the SAL Theory. 

The combined foci and goal of both frameworks is simple even if it is not always easy. Straight forward and unapologetic in our approach, our aim is HUMAN BETTERNESS—today, tomorrow, and forever.  

Self-Action Leadership has been diligently researched and conscientiously constructed over the course of the past two decades. It is a product of the doctoral work of Dr. Jensen in conjunction with numerous personal and educational action research projects Dr. JJ has conducted over the course of three decades.

The SAL Theory & Model provides educators and students everywhere with a universal framework of personal leadership education and character development that we believe all people may readily embrace. This is possible because it steers clear of controversial subjects such as politics, religion, and culture wars.

In other words, Freedom Focused has no political agenda. Its only aim is the growth and development of all human beings throughout the United States and world.

And we know from personal experience that the key to expanding one's personal and professional freedom lies in study, work, self-discipline, self-reliance, and personal leadership and management; and that is precisely what we teach, model, and strive to exemplify—today, tomorrow, and forever.     

The Self-Action Leadership Theory textbook

So... how exactly does SAL work?

In THREE (3) simple and highly doable, albeit not necessarily easy steps...  

STEP 1. Sign up for our FREE blog to read and study weekly articles on Self-Action Leadership, which are newly published every Wednesday morning. 

STEP 2. Buy the SAL textbooks and then carefully read, study, and re-read them to LEARN, APPLY, and TEACH as much as you (and your students) can about personal leadership and character development.

The SAL textbooks serve as a comprehensive GUIDE FOR LIFE. They are designed to be read and studied over-and-over again on a regular basis over long periods of time (til the end of one's life) to maximize the material's efficacy, since, "Repetition is the key to Reception."    

STEP 3. Complete the SAL Master Challenge to receive your SAL diploma* (certificate), medal, and inclusion on the SAL Wall of Fame.   

That's it!  

Leaders, educators, coaches, mentors, and parents everywhere... what are you waiting for? The time to begin offering this cutting-edge, life-changing material to your students was yesterday. Don't procrastinate this golden opportunity any longer.    

Click HERE to buy the SAL Theory textbook.

Click HERE to buy the SAL Model textbook.  

For more information, or to sign up for our FREE blog, please email Dr. Jensen at: jordan.jensen@freedomfocused.com

-Dr. JJ

November 10, 2021

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Author's Note: This is the 238th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013. 

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Tune in NEXT Wednesday for another article on a Self-Action Leadership related topic.  

And if you liked this blog post, please share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and students—and encourage them to sign up to receive future articles for FREE every Wednesday.

To sign up, please email freedomfocused@gmail.com and say SUBSCRIBE, or just YES, and we will ensure you receive a link to each new blog article every Wednesday.  

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Click HERE to buy the SAL Textbooks

Notes:

* SAL Master Challenge diploma is not academically accredited.

CONSTITUTION Article 13: Dr. JJ's 13 RULES for LIFE

Dr. Jordan R. Jensen
Founder, CEO, and Master Facilitator
Freedom Focused LLC

Last week, I introduced Thomas Jefferson's 10 Rules for Life.  

This week, as promised, I share my own, personal 13 Rules for Life. 

These rules have developed and evolved gradually over the space of several decades. I composed and refined them after spending tens of thousands of hours studying, practicing, and pondering the subject that we at Freedom Focused refer to as SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP. 

RULE 1.

The solutions to most of my problems lie inside, not outside of my world. If I wish to change the world, then I must be willing to acknowledge my personal shortcomings and errors and go to work to change myself.*

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #1

RULE 2. 

Self-action leaders allow one's
conscience to be one's guide

Accede the reality of good, evil, and absolute truth. Consistently seek out what is true, good, and selfless and eschew that which is false, evil, and selfish by listening—and then hearkening to—the supernal and eternal edicts of conscience.

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #2

The goal of SAL
is BALANCE

RULE 3.

Truth and virtue are rarely found in extremes, but in a balance between (or among) extremes—in the Golden Mean.

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #3

RULE 4. 

Self-Action Leaders are introspective 
and penitent before Universal Laws

Avoid costly errors and gross iniquity by learning from small mistakes and petty sins. 

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #4

RULE 5. 

Never insult or contend. Focus instead on facts, positive elements of a situation or circumstance, and common beliefs in a never-ending effort to teach true principles and lift others to see broader vistas and obtain firmer footholds along life's continually treacherous physical and metaphysical journeys.

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #5

RULE 6. 

Find my true voice (discover who I really am) as soon as I can, develop that voice with all my heart, and then sing out shamelessly to the best of my ability and opportunities in a way that inspires and empowers others to do the same.

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #6

RULE 7. 

A Freedom Focused Knight imbued by SAL

Be wise as a scholar, but avoid sophistry and selfishness. Be strong and brave as an elite warrior, but do not profane or be vicious. Be clever as a fox and shrewd as a Hollywood actor or corporate lawyer, but never engage in deceit or manipulation. Be as skilled and precise as a world-class surgeon, but eschew ego. Be eloquent as a polished politician, but let my words ever speak the Truth in the sincere service of all human beings. Be ambitious and successful like the famous, but flee hedonism, concupiscence, and substance abuse. Fight, endure, and win like a world-champion athlete, but never mistakenly view myself a demigod. Use my God-given talents like a proactive and productive genius, but never dismiss, nor forget, the Source from whence they sprang. 

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #7

RULE 8. 

In the end, the only real failure is to quit. Learn therefore to Labor and to Wait.** And remember that it is in my preparation, performance, and patience that I ultimately possess my soul (see Luke 21:19). 

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #8

RULE 9. 

Develop reasoned responses to life's two great imposters—Triumph & Disaster.***

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #9

RULE 10.

Be a DOER, not a drag; be a CREATOR, not a critic; be an EXAMPLE, not a judge.****

As a token of my commitment to be an example of a doer and a creator, pick up at least one piece of trash each day that I did not throw down, and read, write, recite, or do at least one thing each day that contributes to my own (or someone else's) personal wisdom, freedom, and Existential Growth. 

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #10

Self-Action Leaders everywhere have
so much to be grateful for.

RULE 11.

Take nothing for granted, and in everything give THANKS. 

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #11

RULE 12. 

Spend all my time and money on things that will either directly or indirectly contribute to the acquisition of wisdom, freedom, and Existential Growth, the accumulation of worthy experiences, memories, and relationships, and the proactive pursuit of meaningful service to others.  

Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. — Proverbs 4:7.

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #12

Cultivating the paradox of my own
insignificance coupled with my limitless potential:
That is the essence of Rule 13.

RULE 13. 

Always remember that my own best efforts are insufficient to help me become all I am capable of becoming. I desperately need continual help from others and the omnipotent Power and Grace of the Almighty to fully engage the utmost existential transmutation of my body, mind, and spirit.  

Click HERE to access complete article on Rule #13

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Beginning NEXT WEEK, I will dedicate ONE article to each of these rules. In so doing, it is my sincere hope that you might derive the same light and motivation from them that I have. More importantly, I hope it will get you to thinking about what your own "Rules for Life" are, and how you might animate them as fully as possible in your own education, career, and life.

Speaking of which, why not begin TODAY on a rough draft of your own rules for life? Time is ticking; what do you have to lose to get busy right now on this enormously worthwhile Life Leadership project?

Go for it!       

NOTE: This article is the 2nd in a series of 22 articles on the subject of LIFE RULES.

Click HERE to access quick links to the other 21 articles.   

-Dr. JJ

September 8, 2021

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Author's Note: This is the 228th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013. 

Click HERE for a compete listing of the other 227 FF Blog Articles.  

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Tune in NEXT Wednesday for another article on a Self-Action Leadership related topic.  

And if you liked this blog post, please share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and students—and encourage them to sign up to receive future articles for FREE every Wednesday.

To sign up, please email freedomfocused@gmail.com and say SUBSCRIBE, or just YES, and we will ensure you receive a link to each new blog article every Wednesday.  

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Click HERE to buy the SAL Textbooks

Notes:

*  "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" (Mohandas Gandhi).

**  See Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, A Psalm of Life (last stanza).

***  See Rudyard Kipling's poem, If. 

****  "Be a light, not a judge" (Stephen R. Covey). 

Exciting Announcement!

Attention: Family, Friends, Neighbors, Students, Colleagues, and Fellow Citizens: 

As the Founder and CEO of Freedom Focused LLC, I am pleased to announce some exciting news regarding the Freedom Focused Blog.

The Freedom Focused BLOG 

is now a Standardized WEEKLY Publication!

Beginning last Wednesday, the Freedom Focused BLOG is now published Once-Per-Week, EVERY WEDNESDAY.

We are living through a time of great trouble and turmoil. Moving forward, the Freedom Focused BLOG will serve as a weekly pedagogical proclamation of Peace, Positivity, Productivity, and Possibility.

Previously, the FF Blog served an ancillary and peripheral role in the growth and progress of the organization and was published more randomly and sporadically as corporate needs arose.

No more!  

From this point onward, this platform will serve a seminal and fundamental role in the message and mission of Freedom Focused.

As such, you can expect to receive a  FREE  Self-Action Leadership-oriented article in your email inbox EVERY WEDNESDAY morning forever into the future—or for as long as I have something to say about it; and I plan to serve in my current role until the year 2040. 

Our Vision and Mission at Freedom Focused is simple in theory, even if it is not always easy in actual practice: we aim to change the world by qualitatively and substantively increasing the personal and professional GROWTH and FREEDOM of individuals everywhere. How do we plan to accomplish this? Through life-changing character education initiatives and substantive life leadership and personal management training.

Meaningful macro changes don't happen overnight. I've been working to build Freedom Focused since 2003, and am personally committed to at least two more decades at the helm of this exciting new training organization. Big changes occur only when individuals take many small, but meaningful actions over long-periods of time.   

Nearly three-quarters of a century ago, my Grandfather spoke to a group of university students at the end of World War II—another time of great trouble and turmoil.

In his speech, he said something of great significance. 

And I quote: 

"Not infrequently you hear this: 'What can I do to help world peace? Here I am, one lone, miserable individual. I cannot have any influence. I cannot do anything which will help. I am powerless.' 

"That, of course, is just nonsense, for the peace of the world rests upon the collective individuals in the world; it does not rest upon nations; it rests upon the individuals in those nations. Do not think that your lives are unimportant. Do not think for a moment that you can exert no influence because you are young or because you are few. 

"We have got to get away from the foolish notion that quantity is the important thing in influence. You know you can go into the laboratories on this campus and you will find that very minute amounts of particular substances can exert tremendous influences. One individual courageously choosing his own conduct in face of all odds, doing right, can exert a tremendous influence. Let us choose so that every event that comes into our lives will be enriching so that we will be bigger than any event, come whatever calamity may. We can so choose that it will not destroy us. [Each of us] can have FREEDOM in his own sphere. Each can contribute importantly to FREEDOM."  

Have you ever felt that way? That you are one, lone, miserable individual and there is nothing you can do to help world peace, or any other macro movement leading to positive change? If so, I invite you to become acquainted with the message of Self-Action Leadership and FREEDOM by reading this BLOG each Wednesday moving forward into the future. And if you want to take a BIG step beyond that, then I invite you to SHARE this BLOG with your family members, friends, neighbors, and colleagues and invite them to sign up for it also.

It's a pretty good deal when you think about it.  For the price of $0.00, you can access a weekly blog written by an author who: has published SIX (6) books and hundreds of articles in newsprint, academic, and other periodicals, has a bachelor's degree in English, a doctoral degree in education, over 4,000 hours of professional training experience throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and 41 years of varied and unique life experiences, including successfully confronting and managing mental illness, deep relational obstacles, and profound professional difficulties.

To sign up, please email freedomfocused@gmail.com and say SUBSCRIBE, or just YES, and we will ensure you receive a link to each new blog article every Wednesday.    

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Tune in NEXT Wednesday for another article on a Self-Action Leadership related topic.  

And if you liked this blog post, please share it with your family, friends, colleagues, and students—and encourage them to sign up to receive future articles for FREE every Wednesday.

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SAVE the DATE! Freedom Focused Corporate Ribbon Cutting

On Friday, January 13, 2017, Freedom Focused will officially be "Cutting the Ribbon" in celebration of our entrance into the professional seminar training industry.


This event signals the beginning of a new phase of our corporate development.


We extend a special invitation to our friends, colleagues, and readers to attend this special commemoration ceremony.


Those in attendance will get to share in the celebration of our company's first official ribbon cutting ceremony.  The event will be highlighted by a few words from Dr. Jordan R. Jensen, our Founder and CEO, as well as from our Chief Financial Officer and a surprise VIP guest.  

We invite YOU to SAVE the DATE of January 13, 2017 for this special occasion.  The ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 1:45 p.m. and will last for 15-20 minutes.  Light refreshments will be served afterward.


This event will be held at The Woodlands Chamber of Commerce in The Woodlands (North Houston), TX.  The address is:


9320 Lakeside Boulevard
The Woodlands, TX
77381.


Those attending will receive a raffle ticket which will be entered into a drawing to receive a FREE copy of Dr. Jordan Jensen's new book, Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal, Professional, & Global Freedom, a $30 retail value.

To RSVP for this Commemorative Event, please e-mail us at info@freedomfocused.com, or call us at 832-618-5451.   

In celebration of this new phase of our corporate development, we invite you to review a summary of our company activities to date.  This timeline provides a synopsis of the most important events in our history, which is still in the beginning stages.

A Brief History of Freedom Focused LLC

1987-1988 School Year:  Eight-year old Jordan Jensen attends his first time management seminars taught by his Uncle and Father.  He also begins using his first Franklin Day Planner as a second grader at Nathan Hale Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona.


2001-2003: As a young college student, Jensen reads Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and completes a personal leadership statement (a forerunner to his self-constitution) in a leadership class at Brigham Young University.  Jensen graduates with a bachelor's degree in English from Utah Valley University.


November 3, 2003:  First Freedom Focused seminar — a pro bono gig to a student group at Lassiter High School in Marietta, GA.

Click HERE to buy a Copy of I Am Sovereign
for Your Teenage Student

September 13, 2005:  Officially incorporated as "Freedom Focus," an LLC registered in the State of Utah.  The name would later change to "Freedom Focused," the result of a clerical error made by the Hartford Company.  Jensen liked the derivative form and decided to stick with it.  Thank you, Hartford Insurance, for this fortuitous error!


October 12, 2005:  First paid seminar to 300 ninth graders at Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


April 2006:  First shipment of I Am Sovereign: The Power of Personal Leadership (Jensen's first published book) arrives at home office in Woodstock, Georgia.  (565 copies)


October 1, 2007:  First professional contract seminar for Fred Pryor Seminars in College Station, TX, on the topic of Mistake-Free Grammar and Proofreading.


November 17, 2007:  First keynote address at the FBLA/PBL National Student's Conference in Birmingham, AL, with 1,300 students in attendance.


June 20, 2009:  Jensen begins doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at Fielding Graduate University where he would eventually study under the tutelage of Rodney J. Beaulieu, Ph.D.  Beaulieu is credited as being the first to coin Freedom Focused's all-important phrase, Self-Action Leadership, which is a hybrid term that combines "Self-Leadership" and "Action Research."

Click HERE to buy a copy of Psalms of Life

2012:  Jensen publishes his second book, Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection



May 9, 2013:  First contract seminar for SkillPath Seminars in Lufkin, TX.


August 22, 2013:  Jensen awarded doctoral degree in Educational Leadership from Fielding Graduate University.


October 2015:  Jensen publishes fourth book, Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal, Professional, & Global Freedom


October 18, 2016:  First professional, all-day, corporate seminars booked for December 2016 on the topics of Grammar, Proofreading, and E-mail Etiquette.


January 13, 2017:  Official Freedom Focused Ribbon Cutting at The Woodlands Chamber of Commerce.


What will the future bring for Freedom Focused?  We don't know for sure; the end of our story is yet unwritten.


However, we work each day to write a little bit more of its unfolding story, and are confident that as we remain committed and persistent, we will yet tell a tale that will someday be retold around the globe for the educational services and benefits of freedom it provides to individuals, organizations, communities, nations, and even the world-at-large.


We invite you to join us today in this movement of freedom that begins, in constructed by, and ends in an education in—and application of—true principles rooted in universal laws of nature.


What can YOU do to help?  First, you can sign up to receive this weekly blog in your e-mail inbox. To do so, just enter your e-mail address in the white box on the right hand side of this webpage where it says, "Follow by Email." Then click on the "Submit" button.


Second, you can buy a copy of Dr. Jordan Jensen's new book, Self-Action Leadership: The Key to Personal, Professional, & Global Freedom.  Third, you can encourage your personal and professional networks to do the same.


Alone, there is little we can do to bring about the authentic hope and change that so many persons of character and integrity seek to realize in our nation and beyond.  Working together in harmonized unity there is little we cannot do in accomplishing these worthy, long-term objectives. We invite YOU to add your voice to ours as we seek to increase the volume of a message whose time has come, and that has the power to transform individuals lives, families, neighborhoods, communities, schools, organizations, States, Nation, and even the world-at-large.


Click HERE to buy a copy of Self-Action Leadership.

Current Edition of Self-Action Leadership:
A Textbook for Life

SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP is the key catalyst for initiating transformational leadership that lasts in any organization. The truth of the matter really is that simple; and the transformation of organizations through the holistic development of individuals really is that difficult—yet altogether possible for anyone willing to invest the time, effort, and sacrifice required to achieve authentic, transformational results.

Unlike any training program that has ever preceded it, Self-Action Leadership provides a single vehicle wherewith individual self-leaders can discover—and then act—upon the great truth that HOLISTIC personal development and growth spanning the mental, moral, spiritual, physical, emotional, social, and financial elements of our individual natures is within the grasp of each one of us.


Note: Freedom Focused is a non-partisan, for-profit, educational corporation. As such, we do not endorse or embrace political figures. We do, however, comment from time-to-time on historical or political events that provide pedagogical backdrops to illuminating principles contained in the SAL Theory & Model.

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E-Communication Webinar Coming December 15

E-Communication Etiquette is essential to your
Personal & Professional Success

Freedom Focused is pleased to inform you of an upcoming live webinar on December 15 featuring Dr. Jordan R. Jensen.

The topic is Electronic Communication Etiquette.  This course is designed for anyone who emails, talks on the phone, text messages, or uses social media.

Because this program may be of particular interest to YOU, we would like to personally invite you to attend.  And as our special guest, you are eligible for 50% off the regular registration fee!  The details to this webinar are below.

Electronic Communication Etiquette: What Every Customer Service Professional Should Know

December 15, 2015

1:00PM EST - 2:00PM EST (1:00 CST)

Call or register online to attend this live webinar today!

Please click on the web link below to view the details of this seminar.

Register Online: Click HERE for Webinar details & to Register
Call: 866-352-9539
Discount code: G5279868
Priority code: 15999

We look forward to having you in attendance and providing you with the latest information on this topic!

Webinar Agenda:  

•       E-Communication & Professional Relationships

•       A means of effective intra- and inter-office communication

•       Makes for ease & convenience, but not a cure-all

•       Tools for building quality interpersonal office and client relationships

•       E-Communication Best Practices & Etiquette

•       Phone & voice messaging

•       E-mail

•       Text and instant messaging

•       Social Media Mediums

•       LinkedIn

•       Twitter

•       Facebook

•       Instagram

•       Other

•       E-Communication Practices to Avoid

•       Common Pet Peeves

•       The “Courtroom Test”

Drafting Your Own Declaration of Independence & Constitution

The past few months, we have been posting video clips of Dr. Jordan Jensen's recent live seminar taught at Lone Star College of the Woodlands (Houston), Texas.  Today's post features the final three clips that have not yet been highlighted on the Freedom Focused blog.  The FIRST CLIP, Fire & Ice, offers a word or two on the precarious times in which we live.

SAL Seminar: The Light Within

In today's video post, Dr. Jordan Jensen talks about conscience, or the light within each of us that prompts us to think, speak, and act in ways that lead to Existential Growth.

The goal of Freedom Focused is not to start a new religion; nor is its aim to provide specific direction regarding moral behavior. Rather, its design is to remind self-leaders of the reality of a REAL right and wrong as well as the existence of an innate light within, or conscience, with which every human being possesses upon entrance into this world. By tuning into your own conscience, YOU can become better at making wise decisions all on your own. This light inevitably grows either brighter or dimmer with time--depending on the heed, or lack thereof, you pay it.