Recently my wife and I were preparing to return to Phoenix from a brief vacation. I had made arrangements for a Yellow Cab to pick us up in front of our building at 7:30 in the morning and take us to the airport. At 7:25 a driver from a competing cab company pulled up next…

One thing all successful people have in common is they’re tenacious–they’re able to keep working toward their goal in spite of adversity. This is important because rarely to we achieve any kind of major success on the first try; it normally takes lots of tries. In the current issue of Spirit Magazine, Wolfgang Puck, world…

I recently came across an incredible blog post by Chiara Fucarino titled, 22 Things Happy People do Different. According to Ms. Fucarino, “Happy people are happy because they make themselves happy.” They have cultivated certain habits that enable them to maintain a positive outlook on life and remain at peace with themselves. Some of these habits include:…

The above is a quote from a sermon I heard recently. When you think about it, it’s actually pretty scary–our thoughts determine what we become. This means that we need to choose our thoughts very carefully or we run the risk of becoming something we don’t want to be. As we choose our thoughts, it’s…

​I recently came across an article written by Alex Dixon titled, “Kindness Makes You Happy… And Happiness Makes You Kind.” The article cited two research studies which suggest that once you start doing kind things for other people, you probably won’t want to stop. The reason is that performing acts of kindness makes us happy…

A friend of mine posted on her Facebook a recent article from World Observer Online titled “15 Things You Should Give Up to be Happy.” The last in the list of these 15 items caught my attention. It said we should give up living our life according to other people’s expectations. According to the article,…

Pursuing happiness is one of the major drivers of our behavior. However, an article written by Adam Grant, a Management professor at the University of Pennsylvania, which was recent  posted on Linkedin.com suggests that our “…quest for happiness might be a recipe for misery.” The reason for this is: “Happiness is an individual state, so…

An article about Martha Stewart’s new book, Living the Good Life appeared in a recent issue of USA Today. Among other things, the article presented Martha’s “10 Golden Rules” for aging. Several of these caught my eye because they are the key to living a good and happy life at any age. They are: find…

These words are from a commencement speech that was recently delivered at the University of Michigan by Richard Costolo, the co-founder and current CEO of Twitter. The resilience that comes from doing what you love puts you in a position where you are able deal with the setbacks and obstacles that life throws at you…