It is often taught by success coaches and successful people that if you’re unhappy about a particular area in your life, you have to change the story you tell yourself. Read more…
I believe that many people confuse having confidence and having self-esteem as one in the same thing. I used to be one of those people. You can have confidence without having any self esteem and you can have self-esteem without having any confidence in a particular area. Obviously though, it’s good to have BOTH. Read more…
It’s that time of the week where I write about something else I’ve noticed over the years that utterly fascinates me.
Everybody walking this planet has some unique gift or talent that if they harnessed fully can change the person’s immediate surrounding, or his family, community or the world at large, not to mention his (or her) very own life. Read more…
A friend of mine called me the other day from the JFK airport while waiting to board a plane to Europe that was delayed indefinitely due to mechanical issues. The trip he was making was a gift to himself for his 40th birthday. Since he had ample time to spare we had plenty of time to catch up.
During the conversation, one of the subjects we discussed was the fact that he was traveling to Europe totally alone, without the company of family, friends, co-workers or a significant other. 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 above is not the person in the story.
I was the product of a union between a Jewish mother brought up in the Pelham Park section of the Bronx and a Puerto Rican father who was from what was then the predominantly Puerto Rican Co-op City section of the Bronx.
It was a whirlwind romance. My mother, 19 at the time, young, inexperienced and naive, fell head over heels over my father who was eight years older, and within three months of their relationship, she was already pregnant with me. Read more…
As of recent I’ve been thinking a lot about how fame and success, its allure, and how it’s portrayed in the mass media, especially when it comes to “Hollywood success.”
Unless we hear news of a celebrity going into rehab or getting into trouble, most of the time when we hear of celebrities, we see images or footage of them on the red carpet for some movie premier or awards show, or on some ad in a magazine, newspaper or billboard, or in a movie, or in pictures at some high end, VIP celebrity party. Or, we see pictures of them dating some other celebrity, or getting in or out of their luxury sports car or in their multi million dollar mansion. Read more…
I credit the book, “The Way of the Superior Man,” by David Deida as one of the books I’ve read that changed my perspective on life. However, over the years as I’ve reread it, the one chapter I tended to skip was titled, “Live as If Your Father Is Dead.” To me, the title sounded kind of harsh. I mean, after all, who would want to think of one of their parents as being dead? The title made me uncomfortable so despite my desire to soak up knowledge and gain insight, I avoided this one altogether. Read more…
I promise you, this isn’t going to be one of my “longish” rants. This is going to be short and sweet. 😀 Read more…
Many people, especially men, when approached with the concept of learning how to nurture yourself would dismiss it as being “weak.” Read more…
