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I know people who “got old” in their 30s. I have friends who in their mid 80s still carry hundred-pound stacks of bricks to do masonry work, because it interests them and they’re good at it. If you fo...
A Framework for Making Good Decisions
I see it all the time. People work hard to achieve their dreams, but can’t seem to get out of their own way. I’m as guilty as anyone; it is a very human tendency...
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin’ star again
There I go
Turn the page
- Bob Seeger, Turn The Page
It is a perfect spring night outside the venue, slight cool breeze and t...
This is a time of tremendous, life-altering transition for many people in my immediate circle. Some are family, some are friends; I love them all deeply. Some are dealing with the end of long-term rel...
The phrase applies to more than you think. Most of us will immediately think of vacation time or paid time off or sick days as dictated by some corporate entity as a form of incentive. But “use it or ...
You are more free than you think. The constraints you feel are more a product of conditioning than actual limitations. You can create your world to an extent much greater than you can probably imagine...
The rock was here, mixed in with thousands of other rocks in the gravel driveway, when the house was built in ’59. It was here when my dad bought the house in 1968, a big house with a big pool in the ...
It happens every year. The end-of-the-year holidays, and most of the birthdays and anniversaries in our family happen in December and January. As soon as those are over and it’s time to get back to “r...
You have heard of “sovereign” nations. Here’s a news flash, if you haven’t yet realized it: people can be sovereign as well.
What’s It All About?
To be “sovereign" means to be completely independent...
It’s like learning to drive a car or land an airplane: you look well ahead of the car or down the runway because you are going to end up where you are looking. Don’t believe me? Try to drive down the ...
I have written hundreds of thousands of words about mindset, and how it can provide you with hardcore happiness - a long-lasting sense of well-being and satisfaction. If you follow my work, you have n...
Life can be chaotic, unpredictable and dangerous. There are no guarantees and frequently no warnings. Breakups happen, jobs end, relocation becomes necessary. Fortunes rise and fall. Sickness. Poverty...
Be a good person even when you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don’t feel like it.
You have a choice in how you react to your life situations - choose to do the right thing.
What Is Good?
Unl...
Here’s something that took me a long time to realize. There is a technique, a practice that can bring and sustain happiness.
It’s easy to be happy when everything is going well, not so easy when life ...
It’s why you’re here. The work, that is. We probably should call it The Work; it’s that important. And it is just as important that you do the work, once you are clear on what that means.
