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Joshua Spodek, bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step, is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., and founder of SpodekAcademy.com. He lives in Greenwich Village and blogs daily at www.joshuaspodek.com.

This is a really inspiring conversation about how to become your best leader in life and in the process, as you align yourself with your values and create greater integrity, discover more purpose, meaning, and happiness. (more…)

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat

“More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. —Woody Allen”

We all think about the future, but perhaps we are too often narrow in our vision. The future excites me, and I think the reason why is because of a significant amount of uncertainty that exists. (more…)

432 A Life With No Regrets 

“If I were to look back on my life would I have regret for how I am living my life today?”

Not so long ago for me, life didn’t make much sense. I couldn’t make sense of what I was doing or where I was heading. I really started to wonder that if this is how my life would continue for the next 5, 10, 20 or even 30 what would be the point of it all.

And as I pondered this thought I knew I had to do something to change. The paths that I was on weren’t giving me a great deal to be excited about and I didn’t want to look back on my life regretting it. I may be absolutely wrong but I get the feeling that I am not alone. (more…)

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Scott Turner is Professor of Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, New York. His principal research focus is the emergence of superorganismal structure and function in the mound building termites of southern Africa, but this is motivated by a larger interest in the interface between physiology, evolution, and design. He is the author of two acclaimed books: The Extended Organism. The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures (2000) and The Tinkerer’s Accomplice. How Design Emerges from Life Itself (2007), both published by Harvard University Press. (more…)

5 Benefits That Come from Discovering Your Why & Living It

“Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you. Katori Hall

I believe life’s goal is to live with greater freedom, fulfilment, and happiness. To do this, we ultimately need to decide on what that looks like for us and then go about discovering and developing our ‘Why’ from there.

Today I want to touch on 5 reasons, not the only ones, that you will benefit from by connecting with your why and using it to navigate you on your journey in this beautiful existence. I hope it brings you some value.

Adapted from a blog I wrote – Read the full version here.

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Are you a man who longs to live a life of Success and Significance?

This is my original chat with Aaron Walker who is without question a veteran entrepreneur. Starting his first business at 18 and selling to a Fortune 500 company nine short years later demonstrates Aaron’s passion for succeeding. Unwilling to rest on past success, Aaron started, bought and sold twelve successful companies over the past 38 years.

Today Aaron spends the majority of his time HELPING MEN GROW IN SUCCESS AND SIGNIFICANCE as President and Founder of VIEW FROM THE TOP, a premier life and business coaching resource. (more…)

Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast with John Lee Dumas (JLD)

If you are a podcaster, entrepreneur, business owner or just like to hear about others success with the desire to inspire your own, you’ll get some value from the “value bombs” JLD is dropping in his podcast, EOFire.

What attracted me to this podcast was John’s passion and story. Head over to his website to get his take – Entrepreneurs on Fire, however, for what it’s worth, here’s mine.

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Not Sure of Your Life’s Purpose? Don’t worry – No One Is! We Create it.

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Do you find yourself stagnant in life? Wondering what it is that you are supposed to be doing with your life?

As we look around us we see all these people doing and achieving great things and as we reflect on our own lives not sure of our purpose. Sound familiar?

I this short 3 minutes thought I explore this feeling and as I have discovered non-of us are born with purpose we create it. Everything in our life is a creation of the mind. If you want more purpose in life, expose yourself to more experiences. (more…)

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“A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.” John Foster Dulles

The cumulative effect. Accumulation derives from the Latin work “pile up.” The cumulative effect is essentially that, the accumulation of an effect caused by repeated action, behaviors, or thoughts that become more pronounced as time progresses.

Think of it as the snowball effect. As the small ball begins to roll down the hill it expands in size at an ever increasing rate until it becomes a large mass of accumulated snow. Everything in life that we repeatedly do can have this effect with results both favorable in unfavorable outcomes.  (more…)