I’ve always been different. When I was younger, sometimes that fact that I was different made me feel uncomfortable and ill at ease. Not anymore. I revel in being different…I love the fact that I think differently than most…that I see the world from a different slant…it makes me who I am. Dr. David Weeks, Read More

Imagination and humor are two of the most important elements of human development. The healthiest and happiest people possess both these traits in abundance. Dr. Norman cousins in his book Anatomy of an Illness describes how laughter helped him recover from ankylosing spondylitis, a painful and crippling collagen disease that attacks the connective tissues of Read More

We need leadership today more than ever before in America. We need more courageous leadership from parents in the home…more honest and focused leadership from business…and, more principled and moral leadership from government. The great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: “there are three types of people, there are people who make things Read More

Recently I was sitting in a local restaurant, talking with the owner discussing a business possibility. After describing some of the difficulties I had endured during the late eighties and early nineties, he noted that I had turned my life around dramatically. I agreed and he asked me why did I think God had blessed Read More

We are now living in a golden age. An era we’ve worked towards for thousands of years. America presents endless opportunity for everyone living here. Let’s take 100 men and women starting even at the age of 25. All of them want to be successful. If you ask them they would tell you that they Read More

Being a basketball fan, I’m aware that when a player makes a pass that leads directly to a goal being scored, that player is credited with an ‘assist’. These ‘assists’ are sometimes called ‘droppin’ dimes’. After games in the locker rooms you often hear players chatting among themselves, saying things like; “how many dimes did Read More

I’ll always remember the story about faith and respect told to me by my first Taekwon-Do instructor, Mr Sang Ki Eun, then of Rockford, Illinois. I also think he was trying to teach me about effective decision-making, as well. It’s an old Zen story about two monks strolling through the forest near their monastery one Read More

One of the worst rationalizations I’ve ever used in the past is that “it’s okay to tell a lie because only I know I lied. Only I know I didn’t fulfill my promise.” That idea states loud and clear that my opinion about me and what I do is unimportant and only the opinion of Read More

Negative thinking or negative expectations can prevent you seeing the good things or the things that are working in your life. Negative thinking turns good things into less of good things and eventually into nothing. Positive thinking or grateful thinking makes everything better.

Love is not a matter of falling in love and staying in love, it’s more like falling in love and then developing a deep respect and a sincere liking. The sincere liking is what keeps you together when you fall out of love. You may fall in and out of love with the same person Read More