Potential and rumination are not friends. Rumination takes a situation causing useless stress, and overthinks it. Obsessing, amplifies the stress, distorts reality, and magnifies its importance. If you have ever played something back in your mind over and over,...
The potential of hope during these days of a global pandemic involves developing the ability to think about the future expecting that desired events and outcomes will occur. For this to happen, we must take action in ways that make them more likely. Hope, optimism,...
What makes life worth living? Well being and flourishing. When your personal life, family, community service, career, and business are flourishing, well being, happiness and, most often, prosperity are the result. “The science of psychology has been far more...
The Potential Generation. We are at a turning point in world history–the design-plan-build of a new, better civilisation. This morning, as I got my two young children up and out of bed, I looked at them and said, “I am going to do my best as your father...
Why are governments killing their economies to suppress the spread of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19? That is the question I have been grappling with since the pandemic began to attack the nations of the earth. Brainstorming Why Governments Are Killing Their Own Economy A...
COVID-19 propaganda, fake news, and questions are on my mind today. American cable TV opinion shows are a festival of yellow journalism and fake news. Governments are a fountain of propaganda. Politicians are famously bullshitters, as are many businesses, and every...
Summary: Curiosity and potential. In this session of the podcast, we learn how curiosity will help you reach the Peak of Potential. Curiosity drives the potential of individual creators, explorers, inventors, innovators, flourishing businesses to seek the new. ...
Summary: Creative potential. In this session of the podcast, we launch into what I believe is the very first of all the foundations of potential—creativity. Creativity is also known as originality and ingenuity. Please review us on iTunes so others can find us!...
Summary: Mindfulness exercises is the topic of today’s training session for the climb to the Peak of Potential. The journey to the summit of life potential eventually leads us to discover that we must master our own minds. As I say in every podcast, “It’s time...
Today I am thinking about the upward spiral of happiness marriage and other important relationships in our lives. What is it that makes our most important relationships excellent versus bad? Yesterday, I was reading Martin Seligman’s website. I came across...
A Fast Three Years Three years has raced by! A quick note to let everyone know my website is going through a much needed complete rebuild for a new look and experience. When I moved from New York to Sydney, I started off in Australia as a consultant, focused on...
As I say in every podcast, “It’s time to free your mind.” To reach the peak of life potential, the ultimate summit of our personal and professional purpose, flourishing, flow state, and well-being, you eventually discover that we must master our own minds. Mastering...
Gratitude and being thankful fill my head with thoughts to counteract the negativity that can so easily move in and take over. As it is holiday time, and my residence in The Blue Mountains in Western Sydney, Australia is surrounded by the worst bush fires in a...
The wealthy know every economic downturn or recession “recovers” when people decide the risks of loss are not a concern anymore. It’s just that they decide to spend when everyone else is hunkered down in fear not spending. The wealthy, the contrarians, know...
Several years ago, I read The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Stanford Professor Robert Sutton. At the time, I was President of Monks’ Bread, an Upstate, New York baking company and subsidiary of a parent company...
