True history is remarkable and complicated with incredible characters and eccentrics who, most of the time, made things up as they went along. History looks back at events and finds patterns of behaviors that seem to line up as if it was all a carefully planned campaign. It never was…

Here’s where the future (and possibly your fortune) is headed — There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street today, and another tomorrow, and so on, day after day. He may do so once in his life…

How to solve any crisis in your life using these 3 key components — If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too So begins Kipling’s famous poem If — which he wrote as advice to his son…

It’s not a pipedream… there’s a smarter way to start and run your company — From what I can tell, there’s never been a better time to start a company and achieve results that blow these statistics out of the water. According to the IRS, there are more than 27 million registered sole proprietorship businesses (defined as a business owned by a single person who…

How to deal effectively with naysayers and doomsayers — Look out! The sky is falling… Oh wait, no it isn’t… Yes, it is or it will someday… But not today… Nor ever. Does this feel like anything you’re listening to right now? Let’s pick any topic: economy, aging, pandemics, climate change. But, just for giggles, let’s pick the latter. …

Where your intention and focus go… so goes your connection — One profound learning I took from him [Steve Jobs] is that we don’t have to accept the world we are born into as something that is fixed and impermeable. When you zoom in it is just atoms like us and they move all the time. And through energy and force…

Why you shouldn’t believe everything you read or hear (otherwise known as how to get out of your own quicksand and get ahead in life) — It’s easy to take up pitchforks against the rich, but it’s a road strewn with, well, just that — pitchforks I read an article on Medium recently claiming that the super-rich have such a dim view of the world’s future that they’re building bunkers at an alarming rate.

The science and real-life benefits of learning to like yourself — The more positive you feel about yourself, the more abundance that will naturally flow your way as a by-product of these positive feelings. So, in essence, to give yourself more money… you need to identify, change or decharge anything in your mental environment that doesn’t contribute to the highest degree…

And why every day should be International Women’s Day — A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let’s all choose to challenge. ~ 2021 International Women’s Day As a man who took his life’s inspiration from two powerful women, it saddens me that there is still a need to set out a day to…