I don’t always bound out of bed with grand expectations about the day ahead, but when I can hear my grandmother saying, “This is a day the Lord has made: I will rejoice and be glad in it,” it helps. And when I get up at the early side of morning instead of the snooze-alarm…

One of the first self-development books I ever read — years before I even dreamed I’d be writing these kinds of books myself — was Psycho-Cybernetics. The author was Maxwell Maltz, MD, a plastic surgeon who had noticed that some of his patients were dissatisfied, even if their surgery took them from deformity to normality,…

Not only is a revival of the quintessential ’60s musical Hair opening on Broadway this spring, but many astrologers agree that the “dawning” is finally over and the arrival is nearly here – happening, ever so delightfully, on Valentine’s Day. When I wrote last Friday that I’d have a Valentine’s Week surprise today, I didn’t…

As Valentine’s Day approaches (and Valentine’s week continues!), there’s a lot of thought extant about falling in love with somebody. But how about falling in your with yourself, your life, and your very own company? I write about this in my book, Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: “Fall in Love with Your Own Company”from…

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