Your conscious and unconscious minds may act like adversaries, attempting to pull you in two directions. They are meant to work together to enrich your life. Proving that you are more than your thoughts David Brooks, past senior editor at The Weekly Standard, contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, now New York Times [...]

As men and women, we can struggle with relationships. Emily V. Gordon wrote an excellent post on Did You Know, Deep Down, That You’d Get Divorced One Day? She lays out some good questions to ask about marriage. I would add for any relationship, even a business relationship. Here are my takeaways. Take time by [...]

What do you want to change? What keeps tripping you up? After 35 years of study, changing myself and teaching it to others, I have come to learn a few things about change – don’t be impressed. I had a lot to accept and change. First the obvious, change doesn’t stop. But you knew that. [...]

Guys, we think we have the goals thing nailed, right? We have been out making it happen for thousands of years. Well, it seems women have learned a few things staying home taking care of the family. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer an international survey of 4,690 people by Leadership IQ, a [...]

Macho is dead—but so is the nice guy. Our new masculinity is something between the two: a man who can be emotionally demonstrative, and still stand strong as a man. It’s a man who can cherish his woman and say no to her. It’s a man who adores his woman, and also has a life [...]

Are you born to fight? Maybe – you are born to hunt. As men, we are the hunters of the hunter-gathers. We are born to provide and protect. If need be, we will fight. It is in that fight we see the worst and best of men. We see what men will do in the [...]

Halla Tomasdottir in her TED talk speaks about how we need to do emotional due diligence. “It is people who make money, not Excel spreadsheets…” As the executive chairman and co-founder of Audur Capital she led this Icelandic investment company firm through Iceland’s economic collapse without losing money. The company’s orientation is – “a financial [...]

The upside and downside of loss When is the last time you experienced loss? Was it a relationship? I know over the decades I felt several times the grief from a relationship ending. It is tough. You feel like you will never be better. You might not be sure you want to be better. In [...]