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There are No Secrets to Success
There are no secrets to success… or to happiness; just stuff you don’t want to do! Particularly over and over and over again! The ‘stuff’…
September 14, 2023
Boring, Boring, Boring
What gets a triple boring headline? The Path to Success. Yep, you heard me right: the pathway to the mountaintop is full of ordinary routine,…
September 12, 2023
Life is a Teacher, Every Day is a New Class
When I choose to think of life as one big classroom, it helps me to be less reactive, to take events less personally, to not…
September 5, 2023
Three Secrets to Happiness
One, there is no secret. Generally speaking, there are no hidden, esoteric keys to happiness, just obvious things, the impact of each small and easily…
August 31, 2023
The Lie We Keep Telling Ourselves… Even Though We Know Better
“I’ll be happy when…” is a refrain that echoes around the backroads of our minds, a micro program that runs all so often just beneath…
August 24, 2023
The Fun Superpower Anyone can Cultivate
Curiosity! Curiosity opens wide the doors of the world. To an inquisitive mind there is always something interesting to explore, to investigate, to learn. The…
August 17, 2023
Den of Lions
Nigh on 30 years ago I read the Den of Lions by Terry Anderson, the journalist who was kidnapped by Shiite militants in Beirut, Lebanon…
August 10, 2023
Passing Trees
After having read it years ago, I am now listening to Micky Singer’s ‘Untethered Soul’ on Audible in my car. Micky uses the analogy of…
August 8, 2023
How to Develop Strong EQ
Two prong process; inner and outer: First, know thy self. Gain self-awareness: journaling is very helpful; reflecting back on the day is akin to…
August 3, 2023
Windshield Wipers for the Soul
Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way) once described journaling as “spiritual windshield wipers”. I can personally attest to the power of journaling to calm one’s soul,…
August 1, 2023
Pressure is a Privilege
What does “pressure is a privilege” mean? Yes, it is a post-game quote from Novak Djokovic and the title of Billy Jean King’s memoir but…
July 27, 2023
Top 25% is the Top 1%
Everyone on Wall Street wants to be the “Alpha Dog”, the best of the best, top of the heap, the Top 1%. Well, I want…
July 25, 2023
The Easiest and yet the Hardest Thing
Rome was not built in a day and many an “overnight” success was decades in the making. We all have the same 24 hours; it…
July 20, 2023
I’m Busy Now; Maybe Later
We humans tend to have this incessant inner dialogue going on inside our heads; an endless chatterbox. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes the form of a…
July 4, 2023
You Already Know the Secret
The secret to success, the secret to life… is that there is NO secret. Or at least not one “big” secret; merely dozens, hundreds of…
June 29, 2023
The Upside of a Little Bit of Financial Paranoia
I experienced a period of poverty in my youth and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me, for it instilled…
June 22, 2023
Daily Questions: Road Signs to Your Best Self, Your Best Life
Daily questions are an awesome way to focus your energy, to remain on path, to stay true to yourself. Zig Ziglar used to love to…
June 20, 2023
4 Things to Release to Create Your Best Life
#1 Release Obsession with Possessions: Once beyond that basic level of Maslow’s hierarchy (a roof over our heads that doesn’t leak, reasonably healthy food in…
June 15, 2023
Did I Do My Best?
I was doing my early morning reading one day and this inquiry popped out at me. The question “Did I Do My Best?” resonated deeply…
June 6, 2023
Act Above Yourself
A major challenge in life is to do as well as we know. We all aspire to better ourselves; the test is how to do…
June 1, 2023
Trust and Confidence are Not Synonyms
Trust is about integrity, confidence is about competence. Too often in the workplace, a supervisor will say “I can’t trust you to handle this yet”…
May 30, 2023
Not to Do List
Distractions abound in life: detours and delays that fritter away our time and energy, beguiling diversions that dissipate our focus. A “Not to Do” list…
May 18, 2023
Forget “To-Do Lists”, Instead Create a “Success List”
The fatal flaw of “to-do” lists is that they tend to attract the mundane. When was the last time you had something earth-shattering on your…
May 16, 2023
Success is Just a Skillset
Success, however you personally choose to define it, is just a skillset and a very learnable one at that. To be more precise, anyone can…
April 20, 2023
Just One More! The Power of Persistence and Patient Perseverance
Want success? Want to stand out? Be different/better? Simple! Just do a little bit more than others, just a little bit longer, just try a…
April 11, 2023
Sculpting the Self
I’ve come to believe that one of the most fundamental determinants of a person’s success in life is their Sense of Self, their self-concept. Since…
March 23, 2023