August 17, 2015
Kory's Story | The Teacher Salary Project
The pinnacle of a teacher's career is to change students' lives by empowering them with knowledge and life skills. What if a teacher who pours into their students' lives...
August 16, 2015
How to Go to Bed Tonight Happier (and Feeling Richer)
Seeing Steve Jobs's life slip away was breathtaking, but the lessons offered can be life changing. It struck me as strange that I’d never seen him happier more often than in...
August 15, 2015
Fired-Up for the New School Year
You wonder where your summer went? Me, too! If you’re a parent, you probably devoted endless hours shuttling your kids to different activities. I know my wife feels like the...
August 13, 2015
Plan ahead -- way ahead -- for creative kids parties
Thanks to Pinterest and its endless inspiration, planning a fun kids birthday party is easier than it used to be. However, this access to thousands of ideas and DIY tutorials...
August 13, 2015
Executive Coaching High Achievers: Do People Ever Really Change?
A year before his death, Steve Jobs told me, with intentional irony, that one of the only things that ever got him to consider a behavior change was facing his own mortality....
August 12, 2015
The Grapes of Resistance
The trail held treasures for those willing to stop and look. Yet, the most delicious fruit was within reach - but untouched. Most were willing to comfortably pick low-hanging...
August 06, 2015
Hackers are the internet's immune system.
There is a spotlight on cybersecurity like there hasn’t been in quite a while. Report after report streams into the public eye about the vulnerability of embedded health...
August 03, 2015
Why I Let Him Beat Me
I was 16, an honor student, and hung around the nerdy girls. He was 17, charming, and one of the cutest boys I’d ever met. I was smitten.
He knew how to say just the...
August 03, 2015
Head Held High
I've always prided myself in the fact that when I blog I try to share a real and honest portrayal of education and who I am. I've been passionate about sharing the good as well...
August 03, 2015
Are you prepared for the coming retirement storm?
Stop complaining about the demise of pensions, and start preparing.
As with a category 5 hurricane, Americans are in for catastrophic problems if we fail to address the looming...
August 03, 2015
The Opportunity of Circumstance
Despite having been in my field for 31 years I remain a simple apprentice, still learning my trade.
I attend and participate in a great number of meetings, conferences and...
July 31, 2015
Say Goodbye To The Ethanol Mandate; Time To Gorge On Restaurant Stocks
As I’ve written several times here, I believe a dramatic collapse in food prices is already underway and will continue over the next several years benefitting restaurants and...