Republished from September 3, 2001 Make Your Work a Labor of Love… Love What You Do, Until You Do What You Love! Every Labor Day, I think about and reflect on my labor for the year; what I’m doing, how I’m doing it, who I’m doing it with, and why I do it at all. […]

On December 27, 1995 I started a book called “The Power of Threes.” Five years later on 01/01/01 I finally wrote an Introduction and assembled the 33 chapters into a Table of Contents. Nine months later 9/11 rocked the world. It forever changed life as we know it. I never wrote the book. Today, I […]

Being quiet does not mean being idle. Nor does it mean being passive or reactive. A lot can get done while being quiet. Notice, I didn’t say you can do a lot. I said a lot can GET DONE. Big difference. We like to think being busy is a sign of success. You’ve heard these […]

(This is a bit of a rant I first published two years ago.) I can’t stands it no more. I’ve seen enough, read enough, heard enough and had enough of the “SUCCESS BS™” spewing forth on the subject of winners and “losers.” A lot of this blather comes from the ranks of self-anointed experts who […]

Reprinted as Originally published March 21, 2004 Today, I’d like to talk about a different game. It’s a game none of us look forward to, yet each one of us will play one day: The end game. We face this finality with our Mom, Ann Axelrod. Today, my brother and I fly to Fort Lauderdale […]

Go Inside… I’ve been running silent and deep this past month like a submarine 20,000 leagues under the sea. I say, “Good riddance” to 2005, for me a gut wrenching and life-altering year. How about you? Do you feel a sense of new possibility? What would you like to be feeling, doing, and saying about […]

Today, Pope John Paul II is laid to rest. Be at peace, Your Holiness. It’s likely Pope John Paul II will become a saint. Although I am not Catholic, he gets my vote. He was a man of peace, love and understanding. Peoples of all faiths mourn his passing. He was more than a religious […]

A Tribute to Ann Axelrod… September 11, 1916 – March 22, 2004 (Reprinted as written March 21, 2004) I’ve been immersed in playing the NEW Game. Today, I’d like to talk about a different game. It’s a game none of us look forward to, yet each one of us will play one day: The end […]

It’s said that imitation is the highest form of flattery. Flattery, it seems, is everywhere. There have never been so many people writing so many things they have learned from others. Spreading education is a great thing. Unfortunately, many people write without reference, credit, attribution or acknowledgment of their sources. They co-opt sayings, phrases, language […]

Theft is anti-wealth. It destroys the human spirit and reduces market potential for everyone. Theft is anti-ecological, corrupts the market, increases injustice, and reduces potential for order and wealth in the world. Theft causes scarcity by taking something that belongs to someone else. Scarcity results when you are robbed of one or more of five […]