9 Strategies for Effective Donors
You're generous and kind. You care about other people and want to help them have great lives. You want to make a positive impact...
The Smart Way to Work With Purpose
Jerome is desperate. He drags himself to his office job every day, the one he’s had for 4 years now. He clocks in at...
Video: How To Reach Your Personal and Societal Goals
Author’s photo with an earring, which he got intentionally to project an image to others so as to achieve his social goals
The science of...
How Can You Be Safer From Terrorism?
How do we make America safer from suffering the same kind of terrible terrorist attacks committed by ISIS in Brussels? Donald Trump proposed closing...
Video: The Truth About My Mental Illness
Author’s photo depicting a state of anxiety
In this video, I describe how I used Intentional Insights-informed strategies, namely orienting toward what world I want...
12 Tips For Happy, Long-Lasting Relationships
My wife and I when we met in 1998 in Miami, FL, and a similar more recent photo
Have you ever made silly mistakes that...
How Effective Giving Defends Us From Another Wounded Warrior
Anger and dismay greeted the March 10 announcement that the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit that helps wounded veterans, fired its top staff. So...
How I Escaped The Darkness of Mental Illness
Hot tears were streaming down my face. My chest heaved up and down with heavy sobs. I couldn’t stop them, no matter what I...
The Most Romantic Valentine’s Day Gift
Last year, my wife gave me the most romantic Valentine's Day gift ever.
We had previously been very traditional with our Valentine's Day gifts, such...
Is Spirituality Irrational?
Spirituality and rationality seem completely opposed. But are they really?
To get at this question, let's start with a little thought experiment. Consider the following...