Last Sunday night, I appeared on the radio show, “Livin’ Large” with Geoff Pinkus. I told “The 
Pinker” that Ageless and The Got Spot were running a contest that will help the winner keep their New Year’s resolutions.
“Livin Large” is a man’s show. As a guest of the show, I figured the bit was that “men” don’t make resolutions. Especially men who are livin’ large and want to smoke cigars, eat red meat, drink wine and spirits, talk about and perhaps have sex, and are REAL MEN.
My clever retort was going to be that resolutions are just another word for change or goal setting. And that there are ways to make constructive changes in your life. These include: Continue reading “The North Shore: Mirror or Mirage” »
Moses Maimonides (1120-1190) was a Sephardic Jewish scholar, philosopher and physician who lived in Spain and Egypt. He wrote the Guide for the Perplexed, delving into the most difficult questions of theology and reality itself; did the universe have a beginning? Will it ever end? What is the nature of evil? Does the complexity of organic life imply some kind of rational design?
Okay, now substitute Google and YouTube for scholarship and philosophy, and you’ve got the “Guide for the Newly Perplexed.”
Recently, an acquantance asked me to send “thoughts of abundance” his way. I turned immediately to Google Search. Here is what I found for “abundance”…
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Last week, I had lunch with a friend who after 13 years of working for a large company was now starting his own business. We talked about the mixture of freedom and anxiety that accompanies that kind of change. It is a familiar topic for me, as I have been either on commission or self-employed over 25 years. While you may not have a boss or supervisor telling you what to do, there are voices in your head that eagerly fill this gap. And often, that voice is NOT your biggest fan.
Mendel the Doom Sayer (artist's conception)
My voice is “Mendel the Doom Sayer.” Mendel always seems to pop up when business is slow, I’ve made a mistake, or someone or something has triggered a negative emotion. Then Mendel is all over me. Mendel particularly enjoys berating me over things that I can’t control. Like time-travel. Why didn’t you go to graduate school in education? Or move to LA in 1973 and become a screenwriter? Or stay in the family business in Chicago? Or keep working for the government in the 80s? Then, Mendel says, you would be retired by now.
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