I was watching a gorilla documentary the other day.  The wrap-up included a comment that a gorilla's success is measured by the number of his offspring who survive.  Really?  I know the world has grown more comfortable with anthropomorphizing apes since Jane Goodall began her Gombe chimpanzee studies, but I thought it a bit much to claim that apes measure their success genetically. 

I know, I was choosing not to understand that the writer meant that humans measure gorilla success by number of offspring.  But I started thinking about success measures and what they mean and who decides what they are.  What if it isn't about the number of offspring a gorilla sires?  What if the number of seeds that successfully take root after being evacuated by a particular gorilla measured his success?  There may be a bachelor out there sitting around all day making far more success than any human would care to measure.    read more »

So I am in the process of taking my own personal inventory today. 

A Little History

four years ago I was what I thought was on top of the world.  I had a wife and 2 great kids and a great corporate job making really good money.  I could buy what I want when I wanted.  I had a nice car, a nice house, and all the toys associated with an upper middle income life in america....

So the owner of the company I worked for comes to me and want me to blame a major incident at work on my boss.... Who was a partner in the company.... He had health issues and was causing this smaller companies insurance costs to go up higher then what the owner wanted...  They wanted a good way to get rid of him.  So I was told either write this memo or your fired.... I refused.... thus helping my boss at the time bridge his health care until retirement age.  I on the other hand had to leave the company...  read more »

My 16 Favorite Inspirational Quotes on Life, Action, Purpose, and Success

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Tony Robbins

There is no such thing as failure.  There are only results. - Tony Robbins

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward Phelps

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Tony Robbins

Whether you think you can or can't, you're right. - Henry Ford

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you prove you don't need it. - Bob Hope

Know what you own, and know why you own it. - Peter Lynch

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you. - Wayne Dyer  read more »