I love to wake up in the morning and read the latest business news, check the markets, see if oil has breached the $100 a barrel point, and generally see what is going on in the world. I am not a professional economist, just a rank amateur with a healthy interest in how our capitalist […]

“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.”
I believe that many of us, myself included, spend more time wishing for change than planning change. Achieving our goals and moving toward our definition of success requires focus and action, and wishing is the antithesis of those things. In Think and […]

This weekend I helped move my wife’s grandmother into a nursing home. She has been living in an assisted living center for the last few years, but she fell and broke her hip recently. After the surgery, she was moved to the home for rehabilitation. The reality is, she may never leave.
I was surprised at […]

Our minds often want to make goal setting and goal attainment complex, intimidating operations. We have to spend a weekend in a sweat lodge spirit trekking to find our true selves. From there, we have to develop a thirty-seven point process for reaching the goals we discovered. Each day we need to write a page […]