Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a bit of a science Junkie. One of my favorite topics is physics, largely because of the concept of leverage. The beauty of leverage is that it is a multiplier for the real world. Simply placing a raised object under a…

There’s an old saying that a person usually becomes as successful as the average of her five closest friends. I’ve given this quite a bit of thought recently and now believe I am beginning to understand why this is true. The relationships that you make throughout your life become your…

Do you have a bunch of blank checks laying around your home or office? Before you say “no, silly, of course not”. Take a look at where you keep the stack of business cards we all have laying around. …

How many names and numbers do you have in your phones contact list. Due to the modern convenience of transferring numbers to your new device automatically instead of having to manually reenter them every couple of years, you’ve probably accumulated several hundred if not thousands of contacts in your list…

In 2008, Kevin Kelly wrote a very popular blog post, entitled “1,000 True Fans”. In the post he defined A True Fan as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. The article was groundbreaking because it made clear that you could now make a living using the internet…

“I don’t take cold medicine” is my standard response to concerned friends and family when they hear me cough or sneeze and kindly ask, “what are you taking?” I’m usually greeted with quizzical looks as if I have just uttered the most ridiculous statement in the world. I mean who…

I heard a great analogy this morning about networking and it resonated with me. Tim Ferris talked about why it is much more effective to have a few really good contacts and that you know very well than to have hundreds of contacts that you barely know at all or…

From the time we are born, we are endlessly forced to compete. Even before you knew what was happening, you were being compared with other babies on how quickly you walked or talked. If you could ride a bike or shoot a basketball at three years old it was seen…

From the time we are born, we are endlessly forced to compete. Even before you knew what was happening, you were being compared with other babies on how quickly you walked or talked. If you could ride a bike or shoot a basketball at three years old it was seen…