Happy New Year! Welcome to 2016. This is the time of year when people make their New Year’s resolutions. And usually by January 10th, those resolutions are all but forgotten. This begs the question… why do so few people accomplish their goals? And why do so many people never do anything to make any kind [...]
A story from Joe Zawinul, the leader of the legendary jazz group Weather Report. When Zawinul met Jaco Pastorius, the first thing out of Jaco’s mouth was… “My name is John Francis Pastorius III. I’m the greatest bass player in the world.” Now Zawinul is one of the most luminary figures in jazz. A true [...]
I used to worry a lot. About almost everything. But ESPECIALLY about money. It’s been that way since I was a child. Until fairly recently. It took four decades but I finally found the antidote to worry. It’s the ONLY thing that has ever calmed my mind. Well… a couple martinis would always calm my [...]
Remember the old Candid Camera show? I remember one episode when Allen Funt stood on a street corner telling people that he hated twenty dollars bills. And he hated them so badly, he was willing to trade a twenty dollars bill for a five-dollar bill. Yup, you heard me right. He offered to sell a [...]
In 1950, a new drug named Krebiozen was released. There was a lot of hubbub about this drug because it was being promoted as the cancer cure the world had been waiting for. The American Medical Association and FDA were conducting a study on the drug. One of the doctors participating in the study was [...]