True Wealth is Control Over Your Own Time

Category: Self Improvement

  • My Sweaty Genius

    My Sweaty Genius
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Friday I wrote a short blog post about one of my favorite quotes:  Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. He (Thomas Edison) should know.  Everyone has heard of him.  As one of the greatest and most prolific American inventors, Edison acquired 1,093 patents.  That’s a hell of a lot of… Read more

  • Inspiration vs Perspiration

    Inspiration vs Perspiration
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my favorite quotes comes from Thomas Edison. He said, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” If I were younger and more ambitious, (in other words, still looking to be more successful) I’d have that quote hanging prominently on one of my walls. That insight is true in… Read more

  • When a Book Isn’t Worth Your Time

    When a Book Isn’t Worth Your Time
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy does it feel so wrong to put a book on the discard pile (or in the trash) if you don’t want to finish it? No matter how appealing a book looks, or the synopsis on its jacket sounds when you acquire it, sometimes it just isn’t worth your time and energy… Read more

  • Hug Me Like You Mean It

    Hug Me Like You Mean It
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears ago an 18 year-old niece came to live with us. We loved her dearly but she and her divorced parents were at odds and she’d had a few rough years finishing high school. Randy and I both come from a family of huggers and it’s standard operating procedure to greet… Read more

  • Breaking Up With Sugar

    Breaking Up With Sugar
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe all have relationships that definitely don’t enhance our lives. I’ve often said that if you are with someone who doesn’t bring out the best in you, that’s not a relationship you want to nurture. In fact, it’s emotionally healthy to minimize or sever those kinds of relationships. Yesterday I had… Read more

  • Bookbait

    Bookbait
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesAs I work through the lessons of this publishing course I signed up for a few weeks ago, there are assignments that help clarify your book idea, audience, and a host of other things necessary to get a book that people actually want to read published. Assignment #1 was writing your “Bookbait.”… Read more

  • Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead

    Resurrecting Thinking 2 Steps Ahead
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesThose of you who’ve known me a very (VERY) long time know that for the past 40 years I’ve been talking about a concept I dubbed Thinking 2 Steps Ahead (T2SA). In the early 2000s I even trademarked the phrase and designed workshops that I taught around the area to audiences of… Read more

  • Where There’s a Will…

    Where There’s a Will…
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesHoly smokes I’ve had a good week. My niece and her family were here most of last week and our time together was delightful.  They’re a nice family who follows directions well.  I asked them to treat our home like an AirBnB, making themselves comfortable and at home because I wasn’t going… Read more

  • What’s Worth Your Energy?

    What’s Worth Your Energy?
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesThe first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) says that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form.   Some days I try to remember that as my energy level flags.  Then I wonder if that’s why the sales of energy drinks these days are so brisk.  Is the energy… Read more

  • Six Months Later

    Six Months Later
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAbout 6 months ago I wrote a post about a book I’d discovered called The Well-Lived Life. Click on its title in the sentence before this and you’ll be taken to that original post. I recommended rereading the book every 6 months as needed. I couldn’t have been more right, if I… Read more