Category: Books

  • Below is another small excerpt from a rough draft of my “Italy book” (still as yet untitled): I had one more day left with the motorcycle and took an extended ride to savor the last moments with my new friend. It’s surprising the connection a man can develop with a vehicle, but I guess it’s…

  • Writing is the wrestling match you have with yourself to find out if you think what you think you think.

  • Orrin Woodward and I are happy to announce this week's release of our latest collaborative writing project called LIFE: Living Intentionally For Excellence. This graphical book is unlike anything we've ever produced. Packed with almost 600 of our most popular one-liners from Twitter, as well as several top articles and essays on topics covering the…

  • It was a book by Donald Trump I'd picked it up because I had a strong desire to conquer the "money thing." The best I can remember, it was the first book after college I read on my own compulsion. I wish I could say that it sparked a hunger for lifetime learning, but alas,…

  • I am pleased to announce my new book Rascal: Making a Difference by Becoming an Original Character, with a foreword by Orrin Woodward, is now available.  Being a Rascal is a spirit of willfulness and strength, a dynamic force that drives one forward toward a unique path and contribution.  It is character in motion, originality in…

  •  Being decadent is easy.  Evil is everywhere.  It takes nearly nothing to succeed by cheating, lying, stealing, or selling to the profane nature of humanity.  Violence, sex, anger, hatred, victimization, and escapism come easy to entertainers and sell easy to a crowd of nobodies.  The fastest route to tinsel-town success, the empty kind full of…

  • Are you ready for something insightful and remarkably profound?    Ever wonder why many people appear so happy to be enslaved, to one degree or another? Ever wonder why some folks seem to search out mundane jobs and then enjoy complaining about what a dead end they are? Author Steven Pressfield, the creative genius behind…

  • Every once in a while something awesome happens to a reader. Like a treasure hunter discovering some titillating chest of third-century gold Bezants, a book is found that not only teaches, instructs, and entertains, but actually thrills: its content is relevant, its references interesting, and its sentences crafty and witty. I have made such a…

  • Robert Kiyosaki and I share two things: 1. we both have the same excellent editor and publisher (Rick Wolff and Hachette Book Group), and 2. a strong opinion against the state of the current economy.  Kiyosaki conducted a bold experiment in writing his latest book, Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich, by crafting it in…