Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

One of my favorite things in the world is telling people that I love them. Whether it’s a friend, relative, coworker, my wife, or a complete stranger; and whether it’s in person, over the phone or via text or email, few acts make me feel more human and alive that expressing love, from my mouth to another person’s ears, every single day. Because if you think about it, that…

Here is perhaps our society’s most widely debated aphorism. Can money buy happiness? There are thousands articles, studies, books research papers, message boards, speeches, even organizations dedicated to arguing it one way or another. But what if we’re asking the wrong question? What if we’ve all been measuring the wrong currency? Because in my experience, although money may not make you happy, being happy may increase your chances of…

Since high school, I’ve been lucky enough to have numerous influential mentoring relationships. The amount of time, money and energy these mentors have saved me is immeasurable. It’s proof to me that mentoring is more than just a relationship, it’s an inheritance. But the piece most people miss about this exchange is, mentors don’t always show up in human form. When you come from a curious constitution, searching out…

Black holes have a gravitational acceleration so strong, that they destroy everything that falls into them. Whether it’s the remnants of giant stars, electromagnetic radiation, or the clouds of interstellar dust and gas, nothing makes it out of a black hole alive. Hawking proved that even if someone did jump into a black hole, and their mass energy was returned to our universe, it would be in a mangled…

Heliotropism is a biological term that describes the motion of flowers or leaves in response to the direction of the sun. If you’ve ever noticed plants turning and growing toward the light, that’s called the heliotrope effect. What’s fascinating is, human beings apparently took a page from the plant bible. Cameron writes in his book about positive leadership that the tendency in all living systems is to move toward positive energy…