What Would You Tell Your Children On Your Deathbed?

You’re enmeshed in tubes, breathing shallowly, preparing for the bright light.

Your teary-eyed children shuffle into the room.

You have one final chance to convey the most valuable lessons you want them to remember.

What would you say?

That’s the scene I envisioned when I wrote the “Live Extraordinary” Manifesto.

“This, my dearest children, is how to live the masterpiece life. This is how to look yourself in the eye without regret at the end of each day.”

Don’t wait for your deathbed to inscribe these consequential lessons into their souls.

Purchase the 16″ x 20″ manifesto now and display it prominently in your home.

Let it saturate their subconscious mind. Watch with pride as it manifests in their actions.

Manifesto …

How Republics Sow the Seeds of Their Own Destruction

By Stan Szczesny
“The ruler must not reveal his desires; for if he reveals his desires his ministers will put on the mask that pleases him.” —Han Fei Tzu, chapter 5, translated by Burton Watson
The ruling masses must not reveal their desires; for if they reveal their desires, their representatives will put on masks to please them.

The representatives will not fear the masses, and they will manipulate them with great ease, for knowledge of a people’s desires gives cunning men the means to control them.

The masses will fear their representatives, for they will sense that they know only the masks.

They will vote …

Mini-Factories: The Greatest Freedom Trend of Our Time

By Oliver DeMille

The following is an excerpt from Oliver’s recent book, The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom.

If freedom is to reverse the onslaught of American and global aristocracy, it will likely do so through the greatest freedom trend of our time.

This trend is revolutionizing institutions, organizations, relationships, society and even nations around the world. It is still in its infancy, and many have yet to realize its potential.

The experts tend to overlook it because it seems small. It will likely always seem small because it is a “bottom-up” trend with no “top-down” organizations, alliances, or even affiliations.

Truthfully, …

Leaders Break the Cycle of Learned Helplessness

By Orrin Woodward

Here is a portion of the Adversity Quotient Resolution chapter from my new book RESOLVED: 13 Resolutions for LIFE.

Learned Helplessness, by definition, is a learned behavior; therefore, it can also be an unlearned behavior.

This is exactly what leaders do for other people, helping them unlearn poor attitudes, expectations, and thoughts.

Let’s make 2012 the year you breakthrough, leaving learned helplessness and mediocrity behind!

Sincerely, Orrin Woodward

One such compromise was discovered Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, in 1965, when he stumbled across what the American Psychological Association has called the Landmark Theory of the …

Choose your Money View; Don’t let it Choose You

By Chris Brady

“World View” is a term recently popularized by philosophers and media pundits who debate spiritual and political matters.

It refers to the lens through which people see (and therefore interpret) the world around them.

All information and observations must pass through this lens and be colored by one’s World View.

Similarly, there is another “View” I would like to propose for consideration, and I’m calling this the “Money View.”

In my nearly two decades of dealing with people and their finances I have slowly awakened to the fact that how people are doing financially is often a direct result of their “Money View.”

Just as with World Views, there are several …