Your Ultimate Success is Being an Exception to the Rules We’ve been taught from birth (most of us, anyway) that success is like winning the lottery, and that all life is a tragedy, filled with dangers and catastrophes. However, this isn’t true. It never has been. There are exceptions to everything considered “normal.” Success depends [...]

Everyone has had some success in their lives. The winning play, that salary raise or bonus for exceptional work, the top score in an exam. For the vast majority of humankind, these are the exception rather than the rule. You can have a win, but they seem few and far between. Out of any training [...]

Living Sensical A Manifesto About 5% of the population know for a fact that the world is filled with endless opportunities and that a person can be and have whatever they want, by learning what they need to know from freely available sources. The other 95% don t believe it and work to make sure [...]

(Now available as an Amazon ebook.) Acres of Diamonds Every kind of work has enormous opportunity lurking within it. The opportunities are there now, clamoring to be noticed. But they cannot speak or print signs for us to read. Our part of the bargain is to look at our work with “intelligent objectivity”. If we [...]

(Now available as an Amazon ebook.) A Time to Risk or Sit In 1965, Robert M. Manry, a copy editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, sailed from the United States to England in a 13-foot sailboat – 3,200 miles across the North Atlantic in a boat so small you’d hesitate to take it out on [...]

(Now available from Amazon – click here.) How to React to Stress Two young boys were raised by an alcoholic father. As they grew older, they moved away from that broken home, each going his own way in the world. Several years later, they happened to be interviewed separately by a psychologist who was analyzing [...]

(Now available as Amazon ebook.) Tips for Setting Goals A clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Dr. Ari Kiev, writes, “Observing the lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noted that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decide to concentrate all their energies [...]

7 Strange Secrets for Winning Big (Now available as an ebook on Amazon, and everywhere else.) 1. The Strangest Secret Becoming As We Think Around the time he turned 12 years old, Earl Nightingale found himself in the Depression-era Tent City of Long Beach, CA. His father had left the family and they had [...]

Why is the world in such awful shape – or is it simply our media which insists on bringing us consistently bad news? Why do politicians and advertisers think we are so stupid to fall for their obvious tricks? How are a minority few really “making it big” but being over-represented as the norm? It [...]

The Profile of a Creative Person REACH FOR IDEAS The creative person realizes that his mind is an inexhaustible storehouse. It can provide anything he earnestly wants in life. But in order to draw from this storehouse, he must constantly augment its stock of information, thoughts, and wisdom. He reaches out for ideas. He respects [...]