Success is a very personal thing.  Strictly applied to my career, to me “success” means working on solving problems that: give me...

Occasionally I’m moved by an advertisement for a product I don’t need. I’m especially annoyed when it’s a competitive product to one I...

You’re a good person, and it counts when you hold the door for a stranger, or return kindness to someone. But it’s exceedingly easy to be...

We’ve all heard that we should commit to and even write down our goals.  We know intellectually that fulfillment comes from achieving or...

I wonder how many people have been let down,  have held themselves and others back, and have limited themselves to doing the least...

The insightful book “Personal Development for Smart People” points out that most of us attach our identities to our jobs, but the way we...

Organizations should hire people because they believe that they are capable and motivated to do the job. If a hiring manager is...

One fascinating truth about Superman is that Clark Kent is actually HIS secret identity, the alter-ego. Kids are always playing and...

600 people were told to pick their signature strength and use it in a unique way every day for two weeks.  Each was significantly happier...

Anything that compounds 1% per day will be 37 TIMES better in one year. This is not always easy to quantify in exact terms. Who knows if...

A study asked if people would rather be gifted a $400k house on a street with all $100k houses, or a million dollar house on a street...

I witness so many personal and online complaints that there aren’t any “great guys/girls” out there. Or that there aren’t any “good jobs”...

A large part of our century-old education system emphasizes rote memorization, which hardly seems useful since our phones (and soon all...

That waiter you’ll never see again…he’s going through a nasty divorce. The woman who picked up your call after 40 minutes on hold…she’s...

The difference between ‘I CAN’T miss a workout’, versus ‘I DON’T miss workouts’ seems trivial. However, studies have shown a 70%...

Our family and friends who truly care about us want us to be safe. Caring about safety is valuable, but often comes at the expense of...

No matter the undesirable situation you find yourself in, you always (and only) have three actionable options: change it, accept it, or...

Work ethic is a value we’re taught to respect, as we should. But working hard on the wrong things is counter-productxive. I would argue...

We often place the heaviest emphasis in making important decisions by answering the internal voice that asks “what will they think of...

Most of us don’t think about what we want in terms of a blank canvas. Ask a middle-aged man what he REALLY wants to do in his career and...