Yesterday my mom texted that her car wouldn’t start & she needed help. Thankfully my schedule is pretty flexible so I was able to go. When I got there, she told me 2 short stories that lifted my spirits. While waiting for me to respond, she had texted, what she thought was my wife Corene’s, cell …
Have you ever noticed yourself being in the moment of a great life experience, and finding yourself being sucked out of the joy of that moment, …because you’re too busy thinking about how you’re going to post the picture of the moment on Facebook & maybe even wondering how people will respond to it? I …
Ray Dalio, in his new book Principles, said, ‘Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones.’ In my first few years of home business I cycled through 14 different companies. That felt crazy. Since 2012, I’ve stayed committed and loyal to a select few. That too, at times has felt …
Arrogance: Conceit, self-importance, egotism. Arrogance cares more about being right than what is right. Arrogance gets more joy out of being seen, reading the book, driving the car or helping the person than actually reading the book, driving the car or helping the person. Arrogance is pointing to goodness and not being able to fully appreciate …
Emerson writes, in compensation, that the fruit is sown in the seed. ‘The Dice of God are always loaded.’ Eternal justice is perfect and while time may separate the blessing or the cursing from the act, as surely as night follows day, a just compensation always comes. If this is true then it’s entirely possible to …
Dope, or dopamine, seems to be a type of chemical messenger that runs between the cells in our brains with pom poms shouting “YAY, Let’s celebrate, this is AWESOME!” When this happens we get a little shot of pleasure, causing us to want to do the thing we just did, again. My friend Todd told me about …
Last night our family watched a short video that my kid’s thought was hilarious. After the laughs my wife told our family a story. When Kayden (our oldest) was 6 or 7 years old, a girl at school had an accident. She didn’t quite make it to the bathroom and the other kid’s were …
The royal Egyptian library of Alexandria is said to have been one of the largest libraries of the ancient world containing anywhere from 40,000 to 400,000 ancient scrolls compiled from 300 BC to 30 BC. A gathering place and repository for all the ancient knowledge of humanity up to that point. When ships would come into the harbor, …
I remember having sushi with a great entrepreneur friend of mine who’d just sold his business and put a couple million in the bank. He was sharing dreams of his next big venture, something massive, something that would become a household name. ‘Why’ I questioned sincerely. Because I haven’t done anything truly huge yet, he …
There’s something irresistibly attractive about the man or woman who just won’t quit. It’s undeniably apparent, and magnetic, to other men and women (stubborn spirits too) cut from the same cloth. In a world where quitters abound, at every glance, the persistent soul shines like a lighthouse in the midst of a dark and stormy …