Join me — and the incredible Celebrity DJ Zan the Man The Motivational Entertainer, Author, Speaker, Entertainer — tonight for the last in the series of free events hosted by the Las Vegas Public Library District — Navigating The Crooked Road of Success — 7 p.m. 9600 W. Sahara, Las Vegas.  Come ready to dance, come ready to...Read More

A few weeks ago I wrote several pieces on natural behaviors and how the Everything DiSC self-assessment can help you organize your knowledge about yourself for greater success. Obviously, I am a great advocate of the use and understanding of self-assessment tools. Why else would I invest 25 years learning about them, focusing on a...Read More

In keeping with a few other blogs on marriage, I wanted to post a piece Gay Hendricks posted on 1/18/2010. Gay, among many accomplishments, is also a co founder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle. If you don’t belong to the SCC, you are missing a lot of uplifting films.www.hendricks.com/node/769THE SECRET OF EXPERIENCING MORE GENUINE LOVE...Read More

At a business dinner recently the interim CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment posed the following question to everyone at the table: “If you had 2 minutes face-to-face with President Obama, what would you ask of him or for him to do?” For a moment I really did not know what to say. Two minutes,one request. Even...Read More

December 10th, 2009 by happier.com Researchers Measure Smiles to Predict Who Stays Married The December 13th New York Times Magazines features this piece by Jeff Stryker Say cheese and stay married? Yes, according to Matthew Hertenstein, a psychology professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He and three colleagues recruited more than 600 people for...Read More

Thank You to Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener for the following article. At a recent family gathering my wife wore a T-shirt that read “I moved a heavy piece of furniture, ask me how!” And when my large brother-in-law asked her “how” she recruited him to move the furniture! My wife is, as you might have guessed,...Read More

This post continues a theme started by reading Seth Godin’s blog about jerks and doormats. Being considered a “jerk” may be the opportunity we all share regardless of our natural behavioral style. Yet feeling like a doormat or being referred to as a “doormat”, I will argue, is something only some behaviors experience. Commercial: The...Read More

I always pay attention to what I am asked to explain, or topics that keep reoccurring in client and friend conversations, or behaviors or thoughts that pop up in me that cause me to pause and take notice. Today I read a line from Seth Godin’s about jerks and doormats at work and I knew...Read More

  I’ll be brief. Back in October I recommended a book, ZeroLimits. I am eternally grateful I was introduced to that book, yet I have now found a book I can recommend without the reservations which I had about recommending ZeroLimits. That book is The Easiest Way by Mabel Katz. I can recommend it for...Read More