As I stare out my window observing another dark, damp Pacific Northwest day, I’m pondering the future of the middle class. I’m wondering how close to the edge we are. How precarious our current situation might be. I don’t own a crystal ball, so have zero knowledge of a coming doom or a new utopia.…

Do you know someone like this? I know a stand-up guy, someone who would give you the shirt off his back and then ask what else he could do. His wife recently kicked him out of the house because he was helping too many people and not paying enough attention to her. My own late…

Are you denying yourself? Holding that passion at bay? For many years I had this resistance within. And this might sound a wee bit odd coming from someone in the creative business, but I had a resistance to create. This probably needs a bit of an explanation, huh? I’ve had a lifelong attachment to negativity…

Where do your deepest desires originate? And how do you turn those desires into life-changing actions? If you have a powerful vision of where you will be at some future point in time, that is half the battle. BUT mindset is everything. How having the right mindset can change your life. In Daniel Coyle’s book,…

Are you a Walter Mitty? If you don’t know, he’s a fictional character in James Thurber’s short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” A passive, yielding man living in a perpetual dream state—an imaginary world where he’s larger than life. A trip over to dictionary.com brings us this: noun, plural Walter Mittys. an ordinary,…