Dear Tim Ferriss, part two

Dear Tim Ferriss, part two

In part one of this blog (click here if you missed it), I posed a question:

How can I best learn from the wisdom and experience of others without discounting what I’ve learned from my own experience and the wisdom of my soul?….

Dear Tim Ferriss, part one

Dear Tim Ferriss, part one

I have a kind of a love/hate relationship with Tim Ferriss. On the one hand, he impresses the hell out of me, and he’s my son’s favorite writer/podcaster. On the other hand, he’s one of the few people who my thinking goes into overload reading…

The Ultimate Gift of Gratitude

The Ultimate Gift of Gratitude

I’ve never been terribly good at giving thanks. One of the more infamous stories from my childhood involved my saying, “Thank you for the yucky present” to my favorite aunt and uncle which while it does get me points for honesty seems a bit churlish in retrospect….

Does Setting Goals Actually Help?

Does Setting Goals Actually Help?

I am in the midst of a renovation project – the renovation of one of my early books, Supercoach, from how things looked like to me a decade ago to how they look to me now. Here’s a section from the chapter “The Problem With Goals”…

Why Cancer isn’t Scary and Death isn’t Sad

Why Cancer isn’t Scary and Death isn’t Sad

A couple of days ago, I posted one of my favorite Syd Banks quotes to Facebook:
“Mental sickness is created when we put feelings onto objects. But if you can see the objects without the feelings, then you are healthy.”…