Creativity: Combining Two Ideas into One

My corporate work focuses on creativity and innovation. Goal-Free Living is the personal manifestation of that work — creative living. From time to time I will post interesting tidbits on creative thinking in general. As background, my perspective on creativity is very simple. It is not about invention. Rather it is about collecting and connecting […]

Today, Feed the Ducks

Yesterday for lunch I did something I haven’t done in a while. I went to the local park, brought along a book, and watched people feed the ducks on the pond. One guy had several loaves of chopped up bread that he threw to the ducks and birds. I assume he bought week (or month) […]

Attractive = Money?

A Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study found that good looking people make more money – 5% more than their less attractive counterparts. Economists also say that taller white men have a 1.8-percent increase in wages for every additional inch of height over the national median. The reasons? There are many theories. Some say […]

Quote of the Day

“I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.” – George Bernard Shaw Although he says he likes […]

How Bali Made Me Rich

Here is an email I recently received from Jana Stanfield — a talented musician and keynote speaker. It was December, the summer of 2003 in Bali. My beloved friend Holly Steil and I went to Bali because we’d always heard how spiritual and special it is. Trading our money for local currency, we discovered that […]

Never Too Old to Dream

In yesterday’s blog entry, I talked about being too old to dream. Well, guess what…we are never too old. During my travels, I met Paula Kay “P.K.” Beville, Ph.D., and her team from Second Wind Dreams. Second Wind Dreams is a non-profit organization that grants dreams to people in nursing homes. The dreams are vast […]

Quote of the day

“Giving up the pursuit of retirement has a great many practical and psychological advantages. But it also has an added spiritual bonus: by eliminating the finish line, life stops being a race. With all of us on our own path, there’s no way your progress can be compared to anyone else’s. No one–not your parents, […]

The Power of Dreaming

During my travels, an inspiring story about the power of dreams was shared with me by Marcia Wieder, America’s Dream Coach. I met Marcia at her home in Tiberon, California, overlooking San Francisco Bay. As we sat on her patio on a bright summer afternoon, she told me the story of what transpired on the […]

Final Thoughts — Post #5

Here’s another final reflection heard by Professor Tony Komaroff (M.D.), Professor at Harvard Medical School. She was born and raised in Jamaica, had a 5th grade education, and earned a living as a seamstress. When her daughter first brought her to my office in 1972, she was 52, and I was the first doctor she […]

Final Thoughts — Post #4

Here’s another final reflection heard by Professor Tony Komaroff (M.D.), Professor at Harvard Medical School. A 65 man, with end stage lung cancer, leaving the hospital to spend his last days at home. We pushed him in a wheelchair to the front door of the hospital where his family was waiting in the car, their […]