A book that made me start taking more chances. A book that showed me if I wanted to be more successful I would have to increase my rate of failure as well.   It’s not about the mistakes we make… it’s about what we do with them. And probably my favorite definition of failure is not falling down but staying...

  Here’s a book recommended by Jim Rohn on the basics of economics.  I wish they would teach this to us as kids… so I’m taking it upon myself to teach it to my kids. This book is written as a story so it’s captivating and interesting rather than some boring book on money.  Again, it’s the basics… don’t spend...

    I had been going through some pretty challenging times in my life and somehow a simple notion occurred to me… as I’d worried myself crazy about something that was dominating my life I thought, “What’s the worst thing that can happen? When I thought of the possibilities, if I wasn’t going to die, I could live...

      After reading this book I finally felt not only what it feels like but the benefit of putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes.  The real irony of it all is that when I do that, everybody wins. It’s also amazing to me that, as Jim Rohn puts it, “There are no new fundamentals! If anybody says they have the new...

Here is a book that changed my life. We all procrastinate… but the successful people learn *what* to procrastinate… As Mark Twain once said, “If you have to eat a live frog do it first thing in the morning so nothing is as bad as that for the rest of the day. And if you have to eat 2, eat the biggest, ugliest one first.” That simple...

  Here’s the book that kicked it off for me. In a world where we’ve let ourselves get into so much trouble… finances, health, spirituality… the natural tendency is to want to change it overnight… big things… quantum leaps… impossible… But the good news is that very simple things… small, almost...