Hello and welcome to another edition of Extreme Meditation for Winning, a blog series to help you dominate your insufferable mind. I am an author, psychologist and person of interest in the disappearance of Lawrence Sanchez. Today I want to talk with you about creating new opportunities. They say “opportunity…

Hello and welcome to Extreme Meditation For Winning, a new blog series where I help you take a few moments to step out of the internal chatter and into the realm of titans. In these posts we’ll pause and reflect to consider and ponder what brings us together in this…

Hey, pal, let me give you a little advice. I can tell you’re new to the subway. Let me help you out. You see that ugly freak sitting over there and copying all my movements? That’s my twin brother Moe. He thinks he’s real funny but he’s not. Everybody who…

A template for crafting the perfect social media-culpa. — Dear _____, I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting over the past couple of _____, and it’s clear that those things I _____ were selfish and wrong. I’m disgusted by my _____. I realize a lot of the _____ has already been _____. …

O Lord Let your birds of the sky continue to surround me Let them continue to inspire me But maybe once in a while O Lord Could you have the birds Ease up on the turds? I accept your will in all things, O Lord Including the birds you send to me in zeal So many birds… And always after They’ve had a big meal. Yes, Lord, holy is thy name, But would it kill you to consider Redirecting their aim?

I think my talents are being wasted in this role. — Hi Glenn, I’ve tried calling Mike but keep getting the voice mail. Guess he’s busy! Anyway, I wanted to talk with someone about the role I’ve been assigned in the marriage proposal. I know you’ve kind of swooped in to take over a lot of the planning from Mike. Great…

We took a deep dive to find out what happened to one of the most uninfluential bands of the century. — The Escalator Boys were a doo-wop band of incredibly little importance throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Despite their complete irrelevance, several of the band’s tunes inexplicably topped the charts, among them such hits as, “Stale Breath of the Lonely,” “Pass the Vaseline, Bluebird,” and “Well, What About Your Sister? …

In September of 1906, Elijah Dane Coleridge, heir to the Coleridge pastry fortune, defiantly set out to live in a secluded cabin in Alaska and, aside from continued cartoon caption submissions to the New Yorker, was never heard from again. …