I subscribe to a marketing newsletter from a guy named Jason Stapleton. His daily emails are ultimately designed to get me to purchase his services, which I may do someday. But, daily, his emails intend to provide value. His email started today with this: “What would you say is the greatest sin someone could commit against themselves? Suicide, maybe? Intentionally destroying your body with a bad diet or other vices? Both would be high on my list, but not #1.

The late great scientist Richard Feynman authored a number of notable quotes in his life.  The one we are going to focus on here today is this:  “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”

All of us are living with illusions about ourselves, our relationships, everything, all the time. An important step in our growth as a human being is to acknowledge it, accept them and then start to live and act with that understanding. 

What is a midlife crisis, and how do you know if you have some of the symptoms or a full-blown affliction? Oh, and what do you do about it?

Let's be clear: I cannot hope to fully address this topic, especially the solution, in this short article. What I hope to bring to it, instead, is a perspective or way of looking at it that is different from what I have seen before. With that said…

At a recent peer group meeting, I did a presentation on the value of the members working to develop their right brain functions. They already have strong, effective left-brain functioning, but most lacked appropriate right-brain balance. This is true of most in our society today.

We all face them at all stages in our life and, what I am discovering with my peer group members is that many of these otherwise hugely successful business people are doing a lousy job of handling them.