In this video blog, I answer a great question from a reader: “How can I find someone like a Jones in my own life? How can I find my own Noticer?” Video Notes: Many times people asking this question are waiting way too long for their “noticer” to appear. In...
Having read several hundred biographies during my adult life, I feel somewhat qualified to comment upon the general concept of adversity. I’ll cut to the chase… The huge common denominator that is present in the lives of great achievers is adversity. In fact, I will...
I’m writing this to you now because something incredible happened a few months ago. I found him again. I found Jones—the Noticer—the old man who changed my life (and perhaps yours too) forever. We had first met during a particularly tough time in my life when I was...
In this video blog, I answer a reader question: How do I be a good influence on friends who aren’t necessarily a good influence on me? Blog Notes: You can be the kind of friend that other people need to be without getting in the pool with them. You don’t have to chain...
“All that is necessary for evil to prosper is that good men do nothing.” That is a paraphrase of the famous quote by Edmund Burke. Knowing this proverb to be true in any form, however, why don’t more of us step forward, raise our voices, and make the difference that...
