HOW TO BECOME A TOTAL FAILURE

I was reading the March 2, 2009 issue of FORTUNE magazine. The feature article is entitled, How Facebook is taking over our lives. My first reaction, “Here’s another attempt by the media to be alarmist and trying to trick us into reading another boring article that won’t live up to its promise.” See how cynical […]

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Bill blogged about Sean Penn a few days ago and his post reminded me of a “bleeped out” audio clip a morning radio show played that displays Christian Bale literally going psycho on a member of the filming crew working on the new Terminator movie. To read the article and listen to the clip (for […]

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I heard on this morning’s news that AIG is now asking another $300 Billion dollars from the taxpayers. That is on top of the $85 billion already received, and the $37.8 Billion requested in September of this year. Wow! I can’t even begin to comprehend such sums even when put into real world examples like […]

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I watched the Academy Awards on television last night, as did a billion or so others. I don’t know why I watched because I haven’t seen any of the best picture nominees and so I didn’t have any favorites to cheer.
It was a tradition in my wife’s family to tune in. My father-in-law, Cal, worked […]

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They used to call it reverse psychology, but the term seems to have gone out of favor. I haven’t heard it used in twenty-years or so. How To Become A Total Failure is all about reverse psychology. The intention of the book is to startle us into noticing our failure patterns, so we can take […]

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The book, How To Become A Total Failure is a scared straight approach to changing bad habits and negative thinking. We’ve been showing you examples of how these rules of failure work. Have you heard the term “fear of success”? The fear must be real or otherwise why would we set ourselves up to fail?
Many […]

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Lance Armstrong is back and so are the reporters who just can’t resist the urge to tarnish his career accomplishments. Here’s what Lance had to say to one reporter who asked about some other cyclists being let back into the tour:
“The reason why you didn’t get it, Paul … when I decided to come back, […]

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New Hampshire’s Republican Senator, Judd Gregg, lobbied the Obama team to become  Secretary of Commerce. Senator Gregg was a good nominee. He could have brought bipartisan balance to the Cabinet. He has the reputation in the Senate of being a fiscal conservative, just what we needed at the Cabinet level to advise the President. Senator […]

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This person’s going to be one heck of a dancer someday. Or will she? I guess it all depends on how she responds to her “failure.”
I’m watching American Idol for the first time this season and I’m impressed with how many people come back and try out for American Idol after failing the first time. […]

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I have something to say that is a difficult pill to swallow. We all have great hopes that the new blood in the White House will save us from ourselves. It is easy to blame the past administration for the troubles we now face. It is easy to blame Bush for all of our ills […]

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