I’ve never been a very polarizing person. Actually, for most of my life, my goal was to be anything but polarizing. Growing up as a child and into early adulthood, there’s no way I could have taken the heat that being polarizing creates. I was allergic to conflict and would…

If you long to accomplish great and noble tasks, you first must learn to approach every task as though it were great and noble. Even the grandest project depends on the success of the smallest components. Many people downplay small details, dismissing them as minutia-the “small stuff,” that we’re encouraged…

Almost two years ago, I started martial arts training—a mixture of Eskrima, Pangamot, Pencak Silat. During the first few weeks of training, it became clear to me that there were several things about this art that were completely counter-intuitive. When you have no idea how to fight (I didn’t), your…

In 1983, I was a working as an editor for $35,000 per year at 60 hours per week. By accident (don’t ask), I enrolled in a personal improvement program that changed my life. As a result of that program, I decided to make “getting rich” a priority. A year later,…

Dragon Lady wanted to go on a date with me. Ugh. I was already battling my demons, and now I had to fight a dragon, too? This was not going according to plan. No, I was not traveling through Middle-earth with Frodo and Bilbo. It was November, 2007 and fifty-five…