I was a very short kid for my age. Other kids seemed to grow steadily, but I was a late-bloomer, as my parents called it. Read more…
I’ve recounted in several past blogs how discovering the concept of self appointment, one of the four pillars of The Viable Alternative, at the age of 20 changed me from an angry, miserable, bitter, hateful teen who felt like he was shut out of the party called life and was always on the outside looking in to a man who felt a sense of empowerment over his own destiny and that the world was his. Read more…
I’ve always been inspired by the story of the meteoric rise of Japan in the 19th and early 20th century.
It’s one of the inspirations for The Viable Alternative. Read more…
NOTE: The story below is a TRUE story but at the request of the main character of the story, the names have been changed. Also, the person in the picture is not the subject of the story.
Desmond Miguel grew up poor in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City in the. James W. Johnson Housing projects where he lived with grandmother and mother for the majority of his youth, Read more…
With all the upheaval going on in the world, I’ve been recently thinking a lot about what it is to have a “purpose” in life.
As it is often said, most people are walking around fully asleep, carrying on the same old mundane routine of going to work everyday, buying things they can’t afford to impress people they don’t like, paying bills, getting manipulated by the messages of the media, without even questioning what they’re doing or why they’re here on this Earth. Read more…
Imagine if you lived on 34th Street in Manhattan (just to let you know if you’ve never been to Manhattan in New York City before, most of the streets in the borough are numbered), and you had a desire to go downtown to 14th Street because you had something really important to pick up there. Read more…
