I am a public speaker and I frequently used the example of a hamster on a wheel to illustrate our tendency to get caught up in frantic activity while going nowhere. Virtually everybody could relate to the example. In fact, hamster-on-a-wheel has become shorthand for a meaningless life filled with …
When everything goes wrong and it’s every day
I am reading a moving, sad-funny-inspirational account of someone who hit rock-bottom and then bounced back. Of course, the depth that he reached does not compare to the really destitute in a third world country, but let that pass for now. He was a 52-year-old attorney whose practice was …
What do people really think of you?
My capstone program – Creativity and Personal Mastery – gives you very powerful tools that will absolutely transform your life for the better. An early assignment, before we meet for the first time, calls for admitted participants to list what they would like to get from it. A surprisingly large …