2-20-14 | One of the great “hidden” truths of happiness is this: when it comes to creating more happiness in our lives, the biggest difference is made by the smallest, simplest things.

2-17-14 | Much of what I’ve learned about the ability to savor life’s delicious moments, whenever and wherever they occur, came from my mother. This includes the capacity to savor food, music, irony, humor, the absurd, the profound … and the conscious spending of money even when you have hardly any to spare.

2-11-14 | “Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.” — Phil Connors (Bill Murray) in Groundhog Day

12-29-13 | Someone asked the other day, how do I switch mindsets from writing something like The Go-Giver to being inside the head of a Navy SEAL sniper? Actually, they’re not so different as you’d think.

11-21-13 | A brand new magazine just hit the newsstands, and if you look close, you’ll find my byline peeking out at you.

5-14-13 | Working on a magazine article on the power of staying in the present. Wondering how much longer it will take.

2-27-13 | A few months ago I posted an open letter, reprinted from the New York Times, by my friend and Red Circle coauthor Brandon Webb, saying goodbye to his best friend Glen Doherty, who was killed in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.

1-15-13 | Last night, for no particular reason, I was suddenly seized with the impulse to go read Neil Gaiman’s blog. Now I know why.

11-19-12 | My friend Bob Burg and I share something in common: we really dislike it when people say things that just ain’t so. Especially in print, or from positions of influence where their words are liable to be passed on widely.

11-18-12 | Working on a piece about happiness and positive thinking. Today, have to write a section on rumination. Been thinking about it all day… Tomorrow: catastrophic thinking. Ohmigod, just occurred to me: what if I start, and my mind is a complete blank?!