Expert Perspective

Education is, in my opinion, the best investment we can ever make. No, I’m not talking about going to school and getting a degree. I’m talking about finding what you’re passionate about and learning everything you can about it. Now that’s a real education. We’re unique. Some of us like dancing, others like literature. There […]

The other day my friend hooked me up with Eben Pagan’s Self-Made Wealth and in it he said one thing that stuck in my mind – A friend of his once told him “That making money is much easier than keeping it.” How true that is. So many of us are looking to make more

The other day I ran into a friend at the park who told me that he was leaving Japan. It came as quite a shock as his wife is Japanese and I just figured he’d be around for years. We chatted about what we’d been up to and I mentioned to him that my book

I’ve known people who are poor and I’ve known people who are rich and a lot in-between but I’ve found that there really is no upside to not having money. People might say that they don’t need the hassle of dealing with money and that they like to live a simple life. Well, having money

Life wasn’t meant to be hard and, in fact, many of the secrets to wealth, time, freedom and happiness are incredibly simple. And yet somehow many of us succeed in making things tough for ourselves. There are thousands of people who struggle to pay their bills, keep their weight down or deal with the problems

A while ago I wrote a post about the four things I believe we can invest – our time, our money, our effort and our love. From the feedback I received people tended to agree but they were unclear as to what they could invest in so today I thought I’d take a look at

Yesterday my wife received an email from her sister imploring us to leave Japan. This after her mother asked us to evacuate a few days earlier. As they are closer to the situation they cannot help but worry. The situation is very real to them but over here in Osaka as I said in my

The other day when I was talking with a friend who is interested in marketing and the self-development field he mentioned something to me that I found rather interesting. He told me that he had heard someone say this about his self-development material, “The people who don’t need it, buy it. The people who need

In case you didn’t know it, I’m a big movie fan. Well, I was, until about two years ago when my son became the center of our world. These days it’s hard to find time to squeeze in a movie but we do so whenever we get the chance. The great thing about movies is

We love asking questions. It’s part of being human. Ever since we come into this world we are programmed for learning and therefore want to know. We want to understand how things work. We want to speak. We want to communicate. We want to find out why people do the things they do. And sooner