The Art of Living

Write Down Your Goals and Stare At Them Every Day

Life can either happen to us or we can purpose to live our life. I find that by writing down my goals I am more purposeful about achieving them. I post them […]

Form an Alliance with Consistency

A lot of people talk a good game about consistency, but in reality they have a lot of false starts. Why is it so difficult to consistently do the work that […]

Career “Success” and Your Lonely Victory Party

When my friend turned thirty, he decided to interview older men about their life experiences, regrets and life-lessons garnered during the decade of the thirties. His hunch was that he might possibly […]

Commence Reboot: How We Rebooted Our Life and Started Over

We thought about buying a zoo. Our second option was to live in a tour bus. Our life was in need of a reboot. We thought Anne Lamott’s prescription just […]

Self-Respect and Dignity Are Easy to Ignore But Difficult to Regain

I have a friend who served a thirteen months sentence in Federal prison for an SEC (Security Exchange Commission) violation. Concurrent with the US market collapse of 2007, the US […]

Why My Daughter and I Are Restoring Our 1974 VW Joy Bus

It all started when my daughter Averi blurted out this dreamy statement, “When I graduate from high school, Maya and I are going to buy a VW Bus, road trip […]

Adventure Titles Worth a Read

A couple of buddies recently asked me for a few recommendations of “epic stories”. Here is my list of favorite books and audio title that qualify as epic adventures, survival, resilience […]

Why Serve Forty Years of Hard Labor?

In medieval times, indentured servants worked the land of a king for a fixed number of years until their debt was paid in full. The king owned the field, the crop and […]

Why Our Nanosecond Love Affairs Won’t Last?

We live in a world where time is now measured in nanoseconds. Every few nanoseconds, a new alert pops up on our screen and our attention is diverted to this […]

Free eBook: Don’t Quit Your Job. Fire Your Boss.

This is an invitation to unravel what the world has taught you. Early praise for Don’t Quit Your Job. Fire Your Boss. “This absolutely beautiful book is a true whack of the truth on […]