In our effort to continually decode the secrets of success or, more importantly, avoid failure, we provide insightful articles each month containing thought-provoking perspectives on building a successful and sustainable life.
Content is drawn from current events, personal experience, and archives of references from experts in multiple fields, including ancient philosophers. The bottom line consideration is: What works and what doesn’t work … what’s enduring … what’s translatable across all disciplines … what’s applicable to both life and work … and what’s sustainable.
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“Be three before be four before be five!” Early Childhood Aspirational Chant It’s a universal law: Some things just have to happen BEFORE other things can happen. One can’t be ALL of FOUR until completing ALL of THREE. Before a bird can become a bird, is has to become an EGG, it has to HATCH…
In 2025 I had a life challenging experience – confined to a hospital for 70 days with Refractory Inflammatory Colitis, during which, I lost a total of 35 pounds. At one of my lowest points, I actually used the term “euthanasia” in a consultation with my Spiritual advisor. He listened but wasn’t enthusiastic about discussing…
As noted in “Hostage”/21, we may be being HELD HOSTAGE by all sorts of things hidden in the background thwarting our efforts and holding us back … … but it also helps to understand that we are likely being HELD BACK by some things that are actually “for our own good” … like by family,…
Confronted with so many untenably unresolvable circumstances, one has to ask: At what point is a life – or a whole cadre of lives – so lacking in value that it / they should no longer exist or be tolerated … or is that “somebody else’s problem”? Capital punishment – the taking of lives deemed…
Sometimes technicalities get in the way of practicalities. Who cares about the biochemistry if you can cultivate a rose to bloom! We can infer a lot about the universe that we don’t totally understand, but we can also discover or suspect at least enough about it to be able to function meaningfully / operationally as we…
“People are people. Kids are kids. Mosquitos are mosquitos. Squirrels are squirrels. The squirrels … did not mean any harm when they stole the birdseed you put out … the squirrels were simply doing what they do. They were doing what their nature demanded. Some people are thieves. Some people are exaggerators. Some people are…
FACT: High intensity human behavior is unsustainable in “normal” circumstances … never mind “abnormal” circumstances! Acknowledging this fact, baseball games have “innings”. Football games have “Downs”. Boxing matches have “Rounds”. Basketball games have “Time Outs”, etc., and – except for boxing – there are ample opportunities for substitutions. And then there’s “Half-Times” and the…
Ready or not, for better or worse, life keeps moving on! And moving on up to BETTER is much more enlifening than simply drifting with the flotsam and jetsam!! Unfortunately, the means of “getting us there” – and the sense of URGENCY required – is not so obvious, particularly in the unperturbed moment – usually…
Some days – OK, MOST days – things seem to be “out-of-whack” … off balance … it’s hard to “get a grip”: Weeds keep growing, potholes appear, concrete cracks, storms come and go, leadership and agendas keep changing, bankruptcies happen, deals fall through, demands keep soaring, time keeps getting away from us, etc. But, both…
With so much dissonance, discord, dishegience and mental health challenges permeating the early days of a still nascent 21st Century, we seem to have lost sight of any meaning, purpose or zest for living. Some of this comes from a diminished need to fight for mere survival. And, of course, there’s no need or yearning…
Life is TOUGH! But it’s so much more straight forward and manageable when all you have to do is FILL IN THE BLANKS … providing, of course, you have the proper “goods” available to do the filling-in. I was chasing a “change of insurance” form across my desk for several days – because it wasn’t…
Doormat encountered in Sugarcreek, OH. So, what in the world would a “Good Kind of Weird” look like? I have a few suspicions: Does his/her homework … is basically a NERD! Has Boy Scout / Girl Scout tendencies. Isn’t really immersed in Social Media Watches/Listens to TED Talks rather than to cat videos on YouTube…
