I recently visited the home where I was raised – the same house, where as a child, I heard noises upstairs when nobody was there. We all heard it. The sound of footsteps on the stairs, a door shutting or a window closing – all when nobody was present. One morning on my stay, after […]
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 […]
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 […]
It was late. I stared at my computer screen wondering what to do. My business was doing poorly, it seemed as though nobody wanted to talk to me, and my mind was in a fog. This sad state of affairs was not many years ago. It was this past week. Often, when we get down, […]
Wow. It’s hard to believe. But it’s true. Many people today – of all ages – base their degree of self-esteem on how many likes they receive on social media. I know people who become depressed if they don’t receive a text within an hour. So many of us don’t speak to each other anymore. A […]
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 […]
They spoke to me every day – from the time I woke up to the time I fell asleep. My inner demons. Always there to remind me of my unworthiness, my mistakes, my incompetence – the hopelessness of it all. Their voices grew louder the day I was fired from my job as a newspaper […]
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, […]
You might be looking at society and shaking your head. You see people everywhere rushing around, seemingly in a race to nowhere. And you may conclude that society is out of control. Yet – amazingly – those who rush around, speed on the highways, talk fast and check their smartphone every 30 seconds – feel […]
Cory Galbraith 