Make each day a masterpiece. When is the last time you made your day a masterpiece day? Why so long ago, if at all? Tomorrow is a gift from God — don’t waste it. Plan how your will live that gift the night before. Stick to the plan from dawn until dusk. Does it not feel great to have such a good day? For one person it might be a day of awesome strategic progress on key initiatives. For another [more...]
We all lose momentum on our endeavors. It is intoxicatingly easy to get excited with a sparkling new idea. It is often easy enough to plunge in headfirst and get started. But most — if not all — of our important projects will hit a wall, where part of our beautiful vision transforms into hard work and drudgery right before our eyes. There is no magic pill to take to overcome that moment where you don’t want to continue. It [more...]
It is easy to fall into a rut of not helping others. “I’ve got too much on my plate already!” Help one person this week, someone that doesn’t expect it, someone who will never know that you did. How does it make you feel to have made a little difference? If you have never read about Mother Teresa, it is well worth the five minutes. Click here for the Wikipedia entry on this extraordinary woman. Little things add up. Few [more...]
Generosity is a forgotten key to your own happiness. A lot of my articles focus on happiness because I see that happiness, though sincerely sought, is often elusive to many. Too many people pursue happiness by seeking in the wrong places — most people do not find genuine happiness in money or the things money buys — but it is hard to see that fallacy when corporations spend billions to convince you that the newest BMW or a blue box [more...]
We all understand generosity at a small, person level. But have you ever considered impacting 100 M lives through generosity? This video may not be the most entertaining, but it is well worth watching and thinking about:
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison
There are a lot of doomsday people. It sells magazines. It sells newspapers. It sells on T.V. and in the movies. Unfortunately, our minds pay rapt attention to the doom and gloom because we are wired from birth to stay alert to danger. Sure, we have some short-term problems, some of them serious enough, but they will be solved. I don’t believe all the progress we have enjoyed in the last 100 years will reverse — I believe progress will accelerate. [more...]
The world is full of wishful dreamers. They dream of their first book, their first product, their first business, their first million, their tenth million. Within this vast multitude of dreamers are a minority of people who are both optimistic and action-oriented. These two qualities, more than any others, ignite the engine of achievement. Starting something is far easier to do than finishing a project with gusto. I’ve personally have plenty of experience at starting without finishing. I have outlined nearly [more...]
There is so much debate today about taxes — the question always framed as “who should the government tax” for more Benjis — so that the government can reap more money that it can subsequently spend it on all kinds of “worthy” things. This is the wrong question. The imbalance is unsustainable and taxes are not the answer. Here is the math in easy to understand terms: For every $100 Ben Franklin that the United States government spends today, $60 [more...]
If you read any paper or magazine, few writers find anything good about the United States economy and its financial system. The election year has every candidate saying that this car wreck of a country has to be fixed. But is America really a car wreck? Yes, we endured a scary, stormy night. The United States financial system had dark days a few years ago, and we survived the difficult test. Today, banks and corporations have greatly reduced their risk [more...]
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