Once again we’re seeing the empires of business “leaders” crumble, and once again the blowback from these events is impacting your life in ways that may be squeezing your heart with fear.
But of course, it’s the same old cycle of overreaching, then stumbling, that repeats every ten or twenty or thirty years. Here’s a golden [...]

Here’s a great article that you need to read. It’s by long-time friend Adrian Ling about how to thrive in a recession. (Not just survive, mind you, but to actually thrive.) Coincidentally it’s titled “Opportunities in Recession.

As you move yourself forward toward increased success, if you’re doing your work right, you’re going to meet expanding opportunities to serve a wider community, market or audience.
And at each stage of that growth, one side of you is going to dig in its heels and protest desperately, with self-talk such as:
“Who am I [...]

Although the details vary, there’s really only one way to influence the future — the active and vivid imagining of events.
If we’re imagining desirable events, we call this attraction work, doing affirmations, praying, doing requests or programming our minds.
Whichever term you use, this is the method you’ve been trying to master for some time now.
But [...]

Only five more days in sunny Japan, then my wife and I will be living in Thailand. As I wrote earlier, we’ll be flying out of Osaka airport on Thursday the 14th of February.
Valentine’s Day.
And talk about synchronicity! Things have fallen in our favor again and again. The latest “coincidence” was when a [...]

Building up your own self confidence isn’t any great mystery. It isn’t even particularly difficult.
Yes, I know that when your life turns dark, and despair grabs you by the gut, it can seem like you’ll never see sunshine again. But that’s an illusion. And like most illusions in life, despair is mostly self-induced.
If you’ve been [...]

It was a simple question on a business forum run by a large U.S. bank:
I am planning an ecommerce website to retail paintball products. I’m looking for a name, but the one I came up with is already registered. So I’m stuck, which puts me back at the start. I want a memorable [...]

Went back to high school today — the old school I attended nearly 50 years ago.
It’s still standing, still serving the community well, and its students are, unlike the kids in my day, incredibly young for their age… or so it seemed to this old geezer. And that goes double for the teachers.
It was nice [...]

Recently I stumbled upon Donald Latumahina’s excellent Life Optimizer blog, and this article in particular grabbed my attention:
15 Tips to Stay Positive in Negative Situations
Though it’s not easy, it’s important to stay positive in negative situations. Latumahina recommends 15 positive things you can do so you don’t succomb to the negative that may be going [...]

I lived for a couple of years with my grandparents on a farm in North Georgia, and in addition to his other businesses and holdings, my grandaddy also grew several acres of corn.
If you’ve ever seen corn in the field, you’ll know that all the stalks grow tall except for the ones along the edge [...]