Money is good.  Happiness is better.  Both of them together…well, that can really make life rock (especially if you add coffee!  :)  ).

Thus, let me now as you:

What inspires you to make things happen and excel past all possible predictions? 

It can be many things.  Consider the:

• Desire to better your financial position.
• Love for your family.
• Love for your true friends.
• Passion for a cause.
• Desire to teach by example money-making skills to your family

Many, many many MANY reasons [Read more]

Morning!

Have you ever embraced pain?

No, wait, nix that question, let me ask you this one instead:

"Have you ever been faced with imminent damage….and chosen to TAKE that hit because you knew the knowledge you’d gain would far offset any short-term undying soul-searing agony?"

Let me tell you, this is THE epitomy of character-building. 

I was reminded of this earlier [Read more]

I’ve been following Liz Strauss’s blog now ever since I started my AskOwlbert.com blog; she’s a super writer with plenty of savvy insights into business online.

Quite happy was I (she said in Yoda Speak  ) to see my site listed in the Week 127 roundup of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers!

Thanks Liz!

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<YAWN!> it’s SOOOOO nice to actually achieve a solid 8 hours of uninteruppted sleep.  Okay, that’s a lie, as my son came in at 1am to sleep on various/sundry pillows on the floor…but luckily he wandered back when he realized the Pokemon comforter was much more appealing than the parents’ room.  Ah well, these things happen.

But as I was sleep-walking to the Machine of Worship (ie, my coffeemaker), I was having an intense (as intense as you can achieve when you’re half-awake) discussion with myself about my work online.  Do I love it?  Do I do it only to make money?  Is it sustainable?  Will Luke marry Laura?  You know, those kinds of questions.

It reminded me of Steve Job’s commencement speech back in 2005.  This is required [Read more]

Morning all,

Today is Easter and Purim!

And you know what that means:

Family!

At the holidays!

In other words, possible (dare I breathe it)

STRESS!

Oh, just THINK on the ecstatic joys of spending 18 hours cooking the Easter dinner! or the Purim feast! only to encounter family members with children who could double as surly Minotaurs, relatives whose idea of helping out is NOT stepping on the dropped salad flung their by their darling children, people whose idea of Live and Let Live ends when [Read more]

Quick!  Imagine….Soul-devouring FEAR

Pretty scary, right?  Now imagine something even worse….

Your child experiencing that same body-freezing paralyzing fear.

Utterly horrible, don’t you think?  Entirely unimaginable; any parent would choose storm the gates of bloody Hell rather than let their child get hurt.  But the sad reality is, life - it happens.  There’s a high probability that [Read more]

You know, nothing says "Utter agonizing hellfire torment" like attending a swimming party for a bunch of 7 year old hyperactive male beings.

Nothing else on this planet gives new meaning to soul-searing torture than watching said 7 year old hyperactive male beings trying to defy gravity, mutate into alien life forms, or otherwise compel parents to [Read more]

Yesterday was my second class of Brazilian Jui-jitsu!

Now, if you’re not familiar with this awesome sport of kings, macho dudes and all-powerful mother units, let me explain a bit about it - basically you grapple with your opponent and try to pin/immobilize/win the bout.

Doesn’t that sound simply heavenly?  I mean, think about it - after hours and hours of typing at your keyboard and watching your children fling their cheerios heavenwards in order to test out if removing them from the box FIRST makes them fall faster….what else [Read more]

It never fails to astound me!  I can draw parallels regarding blogging to just about any event that happens to me!

Take yesterday….at adult karate sparring.  Now, I adore sparring - there’s something about gearing up with a chest protector, helmet, hand/foot pads, etc., and taking one person after person; after 8 hours of typing in front of a computer, it’s a great stress relaxer!   

So there I was; ’twas my second day back from  my insane work pace of the last 4 weeks.  Over the weekend, mind you, I had invested in awesomely magnificent new headgear (that actually allowed me to use my peripheral vision!  What a concept to actually SEE [Read more]

Blogging ideas can come from the most unique sources online!

There I was, waiting for the beginning of a performance of excited 6 year olds.   Now, if you’re not familiar with this particular breed of exotic human beans, 6 year olds have the uncanny ability to make their whispers register an 8.9 on the Richter Scale.   And one of the comments from the adults, I believe, was "if you even DARE to make a peep before the show starts, you shall regret it!"

Instant silence ensued…..for at least 17 seconds.   That was a record, I think. 

But it reminded me [Read more]