For most of the 20th century, America bragged about having the biggest and strongest middle class in the world. Work hard, buy a house, send the kids to college. That was the mantra. But the tide has shifted. Globalization moved jobs overseas. Technology automated others. Wages stalled while the cost

A lot of what we do in work and life is truly meaningless. We do these meaningless things because we think that we should do them or we think that we have to do them. But, is this really true? What if we just said no to the useless things

This is how comedian George Burns described a small town in the mid west that he disliked. It also describes how I feel about the current state of the economy. If you are like me, you are getting tired of this economic “ice age” as I have been describing it.

Have you ever confronted a barrier or a problem that stopped you from going forward with your goals and objectives? Maybe it was because you did not have the support from your friends or family. Or, the task itself just seemed insurmountable. Whatever the barrier, it was big enough to