Wealthy, successful people understand that building and maintaining relationships is one of the many keys to success. To the wealthy, relationships are like gold. How you communicate with your relationships will help strengthen or weaken them. Here are some tips I uncovered from my Rich Habits study: [Read more…]

Because two out of the three parts of our brain (limbic and brain stem, or subconscious) are hard wired to be on the lookout for anything negative, we are in a sense hardwired for negativity. Everyone, rich or poor, experiences negative events in their lives which drag us all down and cause us to become negative. This is where the third part of our brain, the neocortex (our executive brain, or conscious), can intervene and rescue us from this negative abyss. [Read more…]

In my five-year study of the daily habits of the rich and poor I discovered six common triggers that lead to either termination or promotion: [Read more…]

Parents who mentor their kids by teaching them good daily success habits, set their kids up to achieve far more than 95% of their peers and go on to achieve great success in life. In my study of the daily habits of the rich and the poor I uncovered certain success habits that the wealthy learned from their parents as children. [Read more…]

When we think of geniuses most of us automatically think of Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison. Interestingly, neither was particularly gifted intellectually as a child. So how did they become geniuses so late in life? Numerous research studies on intelligence have identified certain common traits among adult geniuses: [Read more…]

Success does not just manifest itself. It is an evolution, a process. You attract success by the person you become. Those who set out in pursuit of success are very different people at the end of their journey. They attract success by the way they think and the actions they take.  [Read more…]

Worrying is a stress trigger. When stress is triggered, the hypothalamus kicks into action setting off a domino effect of all sorts of neurochemicals which turn on specific bodily processes.  If the worrying continues, the stress trigger remains in the on position and a gene on the 10th chromosome is activated, converting cholesterol to cortisol. A negative side effect of cortisol is a reduction in the production of white blood cells and, thus, a suppression in the immune system opening the door to all sorts of diseases like cancer.

But worry is not necessarily a bad thing. There are two two types of worrying: [Read more…]

If I were to tell you that your thinking habits can create or prevent not only cancer, but a host of other diseases, you would probably disregard it as new age mumbo jumbo. But there is a great deal of science behind thinking and disease prevention. Neurologists and geneticists around the world are beginning to unlock the keys to how our brains work in preventing and causing diseases that plague mankind. Many of their discoveries have led them to the conclusion that habitual negative thinking leads to long-term stress which is very bad for our health, while habitual positive thinking reduces stress and is very good for our health. [Read more…]

You know it when you feel it. That feeling of being stuck, with every day feeling like you are on a treadmill, getting nowhere.  What can you do? If you want to get off that treadmill and move in a positive direction you need to do four things: [Read more…]

My Dad passed away in June of 2013 at the age of 91. He was an exceptional man. We learned at the wake, from an old friend, that my Dad was the youngest Sergeant in the Army during World War II. We also learned that my father was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the same year he was also drafted by the Army. During the 1960’s my father was viewed by most on Staten Island as the head of the Democratic Party, although he never held any public office. His unpaid side job, as a campaign manager, was getting politicians elected to Congress, Mayor (NYC) and Borough President.  We learned at his wake that he even ran the Staten Island Presidential campaign for Robert F. Kennedy. [Read more…]