How is your 2018 going so far? Not what you had hoped? Same old, same old? If you’re like me – your friends and family members have no shortage of complaints. Perhaps you’ve started the year with a litany of your own. It’s a complaining world. And one thing I have concluded is that everyone […]
The best advice for the coming year may very well come from thousands of years ago. These ancient scribes have a lot to say about how we should live and do business in 2018. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Greek Philosopher Plutarch This was a hard lesson for me to learn. […]
I sat staring at my computer recently and the thought struck me: this just doesn’t cut it. I poured over articles on LinkedIn, looking for a bit of inspiration – maybe one idea I could use that day. It was not to happen. Most of the material was self-serving. None of it imparted any wisdom […]
At the end of a seminar I attended recently, the moderator said to me, “People have no clue about money. Most will end up broke.” My accountant always tells me that the majority of people are working for the banks and for the government, even though they don’t know it. In other words, their money […]
In a month from now I will turn 60 years old – an age I once considered “really old”. One of the strangest things about getting older is the realization that other people you once thought of as much more advanced than you – are, in fact, only a few years older. I was shocked […]
At age 9, he was kicked in the head by a horse. He once almost drowned. He suffered from malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that has the power to kill. He disliked his first name, preferring that people refer to him by his last name. A store he owned with a partner went under, […]
He considered himself to be insane, saying he had “long intervals of horrible sanity,” skipped a meeting with the President of the United States because he was drunk, and died under mysterious circumstances. Famous writer Edgar Allan Poe left a legacy of wild, creative thinking. This bizarre, troubled genius of history can teach us today […]
Today, many of us are looking for a savior. We’re looking for that one other special person who will love us. That special person we can talk to. That person who understands us. In a sea of social media verbiage, we yearn for human contact. Recent studies show that the most contented people (and the […]
We are told to be happy, eat less, exercise more, be more open, be better leaders, better employees, and better people. There is just one problem with all of this self-help advice. The emphasis is on getting to a better place, which in turn, reinforces the fact that right now – we’re in a less […]
The headline is a quote from author Gary Bishop and it made me think about my own life. What is it that I am “putting up with” but would rather not? For starters, I have a few friends who are negative, self-centered people – unwilling to hear me out. I put up with them. My […]
Cory Galbraith 