Life Lessons

A true story. — Enron is the glittering goldfish in the moral toilet bowl of capitalism. Like the unkillable walking dead, its memory marches on as a specter of greed and excess. The short version: Enron exploited loose accounting laws and lied about how well it was doing. So when people saw their meteoric…

I just can’t anymore and I feel like an awful person for it. — “Look, I am low on money. I’ll get you the cash for the bill we split, but I’m so low on cash. Give me time.” “Why didn’t you start that business I told you to start?” I asked. “If you had, you would have been able to get a gig.” …

The Archangels Offer Guidance — I’m human, like everyone else, and I have human emotions and reactions like everyone does. I’ve been working hard on nonjudgment and compassion for people who I find aggravating and dangerous. Sometimes I do a good job, and sometimes … not so much. However, I do catch myself and try…

Even though they know they want to — Have you got an itching feeling that you could be doing more? Like life is okay but really, when you think about you racing into the world of work when you first start, this isn’t what you dreamed up? But then when you think of what you want to do…

Stop Worrying About What People Think and Come Real With It — The thing I hear the most often from newer writers, especially those on Medium trying to get noticed is this: “How do you stand out among so many other talented writers on this platform?” There are not as many talented writers here on Medium as you think. Yeah, I said…

Find out if you are on the right path. — Life is like a Jim Carrey movie: it doesn’t seem to make sense, but if you let yourself go, you enjoy the show. The problem is that life is much longer than a two-hour movie. And we get impatient when we spend years, even decades, without knowing what we are…