While we focus on masks and vaccinations for recovery we are missing the most important underlying cause of our infection, our poor baseline health.  The U.S. has 4% of the world's population and 25% of Corona deaths. There is a reason and we need to...

We often feel we lack the incentive or motivation to take the next step or a bold step. Business has dealt with this issue since the beginning of time on how to motivate people to better performance. There is a secret shared by all successful people...

If you want your life to feel exciting and purposeful, pursue the difficult. This is a process of continuously challenging yourself to over come obstacles. Man was built for this. His greatest feelings of ecstasy are often experienced in achieving that...

Life has changed since the beginning of the year. We have different ideas about happiness and different sources of stress. One thing that remains constant is how we stimulate happiness brain chemicals through growth, achievement, and caring. This is an...

These are troubling times but need not be boring times. We can have great excitement in our lives by challenging ourselves with a quest to be better or achieve something worthwhile. Life at any time is raised to the highest level of enjoyment when we...

The excess is getting stripped away. We are learning to live with the basics. All the extra curricular activities modern life had created over the last 100 years is reduced to a minimum. We are becoming more self-reliant economically, emotionally,...

The brain has two main modes, stress and happiness. Thriving is living in the happiness mode. We can have happiness behaviors even if we think this is no time to be happy. That is not true. If we are engaged in the behaviors that stimulate happiness we...

We are returning to the lives of past generations when people were isolated because they didn't have the density of cities. What kind of culture did they have? How did they treat each other? What did they think of their own lives and how did they want...

Perfection is high on any achievement scale. How many rewards are there for achieving perfection? In athletics there are 10's for perfection. In commerce there are more customers. In our personal lives there is dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, the...

We are being inundated with too much stimuli as so many difficulties are coming together and forming rogue waves of protest and defiance. We are concerned about the rate of infection, keeping businesses open, socializing, getting our kids back to...