What Makes Someone Wise?

Across different cultures and countries, people perceive the wisest people to be logical and reflective, first and foremost, as well as able to consider other people’s feelings and perceptions. The

What Makes Someone Wise?

What Are You Doing for Thanksgiving and Pre-Christmas?

First of all, we’ve cut the prices for three of our workshops to encourage you to visit during the holidays (a 25% discount to $3,600 shared and $4,500 single with

What Are You Doing for Thanksgiving and Pre-Christmas?

Is Health the new Wealth?

For the past year, I’ve been giving speeches about “longevity travel” and the emergence of “longevity resorts” dedicated to helping Boomers and GenXers have a transformational travel experience that extends

Is Health the new Wealth?

The Origins of Your Wisdom

I enjoyed seeing this list of 46 reflections on a life half-over from someone on their 46th birthday. You get extra credit if you can summon-up a piece of wisdom

The Origins of Your Wisdom

 Passing the Torch…to the 60-Somethings!

Never have the signals of what’s appropriate ‘at our age’ been more mixed. Consider the current discourse in American politics. First it was all about the 80-year-olds vying for political

 Passing the Torch…to the 60-Somethings!

Stuff vs. Stories – What Do You Value More?

I’m currently watering the seeds of an idea around memory preservation and collective remembrance. It’s something I’ve been pondering for a while now, after it occurred to me that as

Stuff vs. Stories – What Do You Value More?

Why I Love the Hospitality Business

Hospitality is one of the world’s noblest professions as it allows us to become fully acquainted with both our own and our guests’ humanity . When we are a host,

Why I Love the Hospitality Business

From Testosterone to Philosopher’s Stone

The philosopher’s stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver.  Alchemists believed that it could be used to make an

From Testosterone to Philosopher’s Stone

What is Your Calling?

If we’re fortunate and diligent enough, we might just find that our relationship with work progresses from having a job to pursuing a career to living one’s calling over the

What is Your Calling?

Stressed or Blessed?

So, I spent an hour meditating Thursday morning and came out of that experience in a bit of an altered state. It’s amazing how many of us are frightened by

Stressed or Blessed?

Emulating Richard Branson

I asked Richard if he would write the Foreword for my first book “The Rebel Rules” and he said yes. I was shocked at how open he was to my

Emulating Richard Branson

Rebel or Rejoice?

What I do know is that involuntary retirement hit me like a ton of bricks. All of a sudden it felt like I was invisible. Was it the gray hair?

Rebel or Rejoice?