Failure is a gift.  It tells you how much you care about something.  It measures your ability.  It gives you the chance to try your hardest.  It tells you what you need to do to improve & tees up the opportunity to get at it. It grounds you to reality....

It’s been six years today since I’ve had a drink or taken drugs. I never told the story about the last time I got wrecked so here goes. I met a good buddy of mine in Brooklyn and we were going to see Shabaka Hutchings and his band Sons of Kemet. I...

There is an art to quitting.  I know this is true from my own experiences but it is a little tricky to describe. It is not about research. It is not about discipline or willpower or dedication. It is not about thoughts or feelings or behaviors. It is...

I’m running the Wine Glass Half Marathon in October. The last time I ran one was 3 years ago. I was 55 then and finished in 1:59:31 or 9:07/mile. This time I’ll be 58 and I would like to beat 1:55:00 or 8:46/mile. I punched my details into ChatGPT and it...

I notice that sometimes financial journalists and newsletter writers give good advice at the worst possible time in the stock market. I saw a few of these finger wagging missives near the bottom of what was a 23% drawdown in the Nasdaq 100 and a 19%...

Back in September I presented Thriving Advisor at the Future Proof Festival in Huntington Beach, California. I had no idea they videotaped the session until I saw it pop up on LinkedIn a couple days ago. Thriving Advisor is an extension of my Fitness...

The Food Pyramid was first published in the US in the early 90s by the USDA. It recommended 6-11 servings of carbohydrate heavy breads, cereals, rice & pasta daily which we now understand contributes to energy toxicity, a direct correlate to the...

If America is going to get healthy, it’s going to be a grassroots effort.  We can policy all day long, and hopefully it will help over time, but today, right now, this moment, it will be up to individuals like you and me, to get healthy and to set...

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse featured a whole bunch of Spidermen convening from parallel universes to save the world! A few weeks back, Google announced a quantum computing breakthrough. Google’s new chip Willow solved a problem in less than 5...

I used to think I knew a lot, but over the years I began to realize I actually knew very little. At first, this realization seemed terrible, because I’d studied a lot of stuff and lived many years and yet I didn’t know much. But it turned out to be...