Forty years: Business Development Expert - Days / GM, national media company Thirty-Five years: Karate Instructor - Evenings & Weekends As a Karate Instructor Alsted taught volume's of children, teen's and young adults, from whom he learned many lessons. His Personal Development Series of books focus on his learnings and each student's growth; each novel protects names and places while bringing to market a specific lesson; each lesson demonstrating the point of a real personal development realization.