How to Gain a Sense of Your Own Mortality
I woke up this morning in pain again. I injured my shoulder wrestling a few weeks ago, and it doesn’t seem to be healing. Certainly not as fast as it would have healed when I was in my 30s.
This is one of the many execrable things that happen to you when you reach 60. But it’s hardly the worst.
23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor
MSN Money: Many North Americans are clearly not experts at managing their own finances and end up broke month after month. The cycle of overspending leaves them poor, even if their income means they are considered well above the poverty line. A third of higher-income households — those that bring…
How to Learn the Art of Speed Reading
Caught you looking for a shortcut didn’t I? Don’t worry, it’s an understandable one. Reading is important. We’re all busy. It’s natural that we’d want to do more of it, more quickly. That’s why we google ‘speed reading’, check out apps that supposedly help us and ask other readers for…
Three Men Who Have Made Me Better
During my last visit to Denver I needed a taxi to my hotel. Gary, our former copywriter, convinced me to try a ride with an UberX driver. I was a little nervous as I went outside to meet the driver of a Ford 250 pick up truck that would be…
The Power of Quiet Connectors
A few years back — in an attempt to help two different groups of people connect more meaningfully — I co-hosted a very weird dinner party. Deep in the vaults of a London club, together with two blind men and a brilliant social entrepreneur, Gina Badenoch, we sealed a small room until no trace…
How to Kill Your To-Do List
Have you gotten good at organizing your tasks in a to-do list, but have trouble actually executing them? You’re not alone. Getting things on your to-do list actually done is difficult because it’s really a collection of habits most people don’t think about. Today, we’ll look at addressing those issues…
Success Secrets of America’s Creepiest Man
My relationship with the creepiest man in America began in 1988. At the time he wasn’t going by his real name. On that day, he went by Richard. It was a cloudy Saturday afternoon in April. My uncle was having a garage sale across from the old church where I…
Ten of These Cure a Bad Habit
August 28th, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr’s message was heard by over 200,000 in Washington, D.C. It is considered the most important American speech of the 20th century by many academics. Most of it, like many of your college term papers, was written in the final 12 hours before the deadline.…
How to Be a Better More Productive Person
Today’s essay was written specifically for people who have young children or grandchildren. But looking over it now, I see that it should be of interest to anyone who wants to become a better, more productive person. When I was a young father, I wanted my young children to be…
How to Add a Vital Habit to Your Life
The streak began on Thursday, January 31st, 2013, in the Vinoy Hotel of St. Petersburg, Florida. It continues today, almost 1000 days later, this time from the Westin Hotel in Denver, Colorado. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning of my journey. The Vinoy Hotel is…
10 Rules for Making it as a Writer
The Telegraph Read whatever you can lay your hands on We were working class. There were no books. There were some encyclopaedias – I always say it was the day my father didn’t see the salesman coming. And there was a Bible. I read the Bible from cover to cover…
10 Major Contributions From People With Liberal Arts Degrees
Well, my thoughts on education caused quite a ruckus. I recently wrote: A good formal education, in my view, is one that emphasizes the liberal arts: literature, language, history, and the arts. Some knowledge of science and mathematics is helpful. But these are skills that are not likely to make…