How to Make Good Habits Inevitable 1

Do you want to eat better?  Do you struggle with procrastination?  Have you ever wanted to be more focused on the big things in life, like my secrete passion to become master juggler?  Developing good habits and fostering principled virtues are difficult for many of us.  They require continued practice […]


A Workbook that Finally Makes Sense

I was delighted recently by the book I read by Ken West, called Get What You Want!  In this book, you will find the best set of questions ever compiled for answering how to “get what you want” from life.  Starting with your dreams and your passions, this book asks pointed questions […]


How to be as successful as Olympians

A recent article examined 7 reasons why Olympians attain a high level of success.  While it is easy to read this article and see how it relates to the athletes, it can be more difficult to relate these same 7 reasons to our own lives.  Allow me to illustrate how […]


Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkum

Speaking in front of groups, whether in small business meetings or large audiences, is a challenge many of us struggle to do well.  Speaking, however, is a learned skill that can be improved with enough practice.  In this entertaining and educational book, Scott Berkum provides his first hand experience with […]


2500 Reasons for Reason

My wife and I recently took a 3,000 mile road trip, and we became interested in a new car.  We did not fall in love with the idea of a new car, but we thought it would be worth examining possibilities.  When we arrived home from vacation, we found a […]


What Drives You?

In our personal and professional lives, goals must be set in order to know where we are at on the road map of life. Goals can help us not only achieve what we value, but goals can also help us change our perspective, if the goals are set properly. I […]


What does it mean to live a life with a central purpose? 2

“A central purpose serves to integrate all the other concerns of a man’s life. It establishes the hierarchy, the relative importance, of his values, it saves him from pointless inner conflicts, it permits him to enjoy life on a wide scale and to carry that enjoyment into any area open to his […]


Writing 5 year goals

Republished from Try Reason! Look around you. Identify the most successful people you know. Now, ask them if they have a long-term plan or goal for themselves, for their career, or for their business. I did this a number of years ago and found that each and every successful person […]