I’ve been living with alcohol for 60 years, though not in the way you might think. I wasn’t an alcoholic all that time, but alcohol was always there, lurking in the corners of life, shaping moments big and small. My earliest memory of it is … Continue readingLiving with the Shadow for 60 Years
It was a chilly desert night, the kind where the stars blaze bright and the highway stretches like a ribbon of loneliness through the Nevada sands. Melvin Dummar was driving his beat-up pickup truck, humming a little tune to himself, when his headlights caught a … Continue readingQuirk of Fate
Once upon a time, down in the heart of Mississippi, there was a man named Johnny Ray. He was a good man, simple and kind, the sort who would stop to help a stranger with a flat tire or share his last bit of bait … Continue readingPayne Happens
Well friends, ain’t it a curious thing how some of the oddest turns of phrase have wandered through the ages and parked themselves in our everyday chatter? Words and sayings, born from peculiar little moments of history, now roll off our tongues as natural as … Continue readingThe Cat is Out of the Bag
When people talk about inheritance, the conversation almost always drifts to money—who’s getting how much, and what they’ll do with it once it’s theirs. But the truth is, the most valuable inheritance our parents leave us doesn’t sit in a bank or hang on a … Continue readingINHERITANCE
Repetition. The very word might conjure yawns and grimaces, as if it’s the villain of our creative aspirations. But let me tell you, dear reader, it’s no villain—it’s the quiet hero of mastery, the workhorse of genius. Without it, all the creative thinking in the … Continue readingDay. 56 – Repetition: The Unsung Hero of Brilliance
Now, let me tell you something as plain as the nose on your face: there ain’t no point in spending your precious days on God’s green earth trying to make everyone else like you. You could walk on water and some fool would complain you … Continue readingWhy You Ought to Quit Trying to Prove Yourself to Folks Who Don’t Matter
The billions of bacteria living in and on our bodies are the closest thing to aliens we’ll ever have the pleasure—or misfortune—of hosting. They’re foreign travelers with their own peculiar habits and genes, but they’ve been riding along with us for so long they might … Continue readingThe Unsung Heroes Within: How Tiny Aliens Keep Us Alive and Kicking
Life doesn’t come with a guidebook, but here are some simple truths to carry with you. Life’s greatest lessons often come from the simplest truths. In a world that moves fast, we need reminders to pause, reflect, and grow. A piece of advice can have … Continue reading12 Things You Need to Understand & Truths to Follow
The Dickens Process works because it takes a page right out of A Christmas Carol, one of the finest tales ever spun about human change. Old Ebenezer Scrooge didn’t wake up a better man because someone handed him a pamphlet on positivity. No, sir! He … Continue readingPersonal transformation and empowerment using the Dickens Process
No matter how lovely or tempting she is, don’t go messing with another man’s wife. That’s trouble no man needs. A pretty face might catch your eye, but it’s a good heart that’ll make a home. Look for that, not just the shine. Be careful … Continue readingTimeless Advice about Women – Teach this to your boys to avoid heartaches
My friends, let me share a truth about the curious nature of people: their motivations are the lock and key to their hearts and minds. The trouble is, we’re a peculiar bunch—always quick to assume what might not be so. You spot a fat wallet … Continue readingHow People work – ‘Reward,’ ‘Ideology,’ ‘Coercion,’ and ‘Ego’
Bold Dreams, Big Teams, and the Irreplaceable Human Spark There’s dreaming small, the kind that stays snug and safe under a roof of “what’s realistic,” and then there’s dreaming big—the kind that has you standing at the edge of an abyss, staring into what seems … Continue readingBold Dreams, Big Teams, and the Irreplaceable Human Spark
The rise of the “supermen” has begun. Humanity’s final summit convened beneath the shadow of a vast synthetic spire, its edges glowing faintly with the neural hum of artificial intelligence. It was a place of paradox: designed by machines to facilitate the ultimate decisions of … Continue readingSUPERMEN
Ah, the monkey brain. We sure do love our bananas, don’t we? We like things just the way they are—simple, comfortable, and familiar. Why bother changing the toilet or the car or even the airplane? They get the job done, right? Well, good enough might … Continue readingMonkey Brain
How’s coffee. It’s great. Is there love in those words? Maybe, maybe not. Love grows from simplest of things. It is always there if we allowed to be. You give it away and when it comes back it is real. The hard part is your … Continue readingLove is a GIFT
The Art of the Close Look them straight in the eyes — steady, calm — and deliver your line.Then lean in slightly… and whisper the punch line. Pause.Laugh. Turn as if you’re about to walk away — slow, confident, unhurried.Then glance back, just halfway, and … Continue readingLOOK then in the EYES.
We are prisoners of repeating history. We are victims over an over. Blameless perhaps because we follow the same path but tragic just the same. We have to break the chains that bind us to poverty, failed relationships, unsatisfying jobs and on a global scale … Continue readingVictims of insanity
I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, And if by chance we … Continue readingI must confess
Folks like to say we only live once. That’s the kind of sentence sold by people who’ve never looked closely at their own Tuesdays. The truth is plainer and less marketable: we die in small installments and keep waking up anyway. Toby Brown had practiced … Continue readingA New Life for Toby Brown
The world conspire against you or with you, the choice is yours. When it looks like the world is conspiring with us. We have to take the advantage. – Paulo Coelho Folks, life’s a lot like the weather: everybody talks about it, and nobody seems … Continue readingYOUR DESTINY
I saw a little girl walking down the street carrying her whole life in her head. I asked others for her name, they knew her only as ti madam. On second glance she was not a girl but a woman. She had all the desires … Continue readingHaiti
Honesty is such a gray word. One might expect something as simple and virtuous as honesty to be clean-cut, black or white, solid as a preacher’s handshake. But we don’t live in a black-and-white world. All our perceptions are blurred, smudged in shades of gray … Continue readingExplorations in Honesty. The Bright, Blinding Beast
The path to accomplishing anything and everything… Begin with the end in mind, work backwards. In the beginning say yes to everything. Do everything you want. Build a foundation then expand. Eliminate personal history. Celebrate your excellence. Connect, understand, share, accept everyone. Act with detachment, … Continue readingPath to Everything