Ohhhh, Monday Morning Mojo slipped this week! But today’s issue is no less potent — an opportunity to lift the energy and deliver results this week! BIG decision at my house this last weekend to bring a second dog into our family. It will be a rescue, and my daughter, Ruchi, who turns 20 this […]
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You know I love camping and the season is upon us! I have short trips planned to the Shennandoahs and Catoctin, both within 90 minutes of my home. Longer trips coming up this summer in Wisconsin and the Adirondacks. I love backcountry camping, off the grid, surrounded by wilderness! Here are three secrets that make
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles started performing in 1955, four years before I was born. Today Smokey is 83 and as you can see above he has a concert scheduled this June. He is releasing his next album, Gasms, in just eleven days, on April 28. My best friend is 92. We talk regularly. He
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One of the wonderful things about living near Washington, DC, is the cherry blossoms. The first cherry trees were planted in DC in 1912 as a gift of friendship to the people of the United States from the people of Japan. Cherry blossoms are a symbolic flower of spring, a time of renewal, and the
I’ve got some thrilling news to share! I’m currently knee-deep in the creation of my fifth book, it’s all about tackling Grand Challenges head-on. I’ve been mulling over the best way to share this groundbreaking content with the world…
Back from a 2-day workshop in Miami-Dade to study their highly esteemed criminal mental health program and Ft Lauderdale, where the first mental health court in America was established and is still being run by Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren. Both are “diversion” programs, pulling people with serious mental illness from the criminal justice system to provide
Did you know our country’s largest population of seriously mentally ill people is in our jails and prisons? Clearly not a good thing for them. They deserve better, but our society has not learned how to handle them. And this is true all across our country. This Thursday and Friday, I will be traveling to
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It is time for me to revisit basic business processes and figure out how to scale, i.e., increase my impact and lower my labor intensity. This is all happening because of (a) the success of the Grand Challenge to eliminate the stigma around mental health and substance use disorders for our country and (b) new
I live very close to the Potomac River, where it is thin enough that you can easily see the other side. I am on the Maryland shore, and the opposite bank is Virginia. Whenever I have the chance, I like to walk with my family along the C&O Canal, where we can see the great
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Last week, I was in Tucson, Arizona, with Dr. Mark Rapaport, CEO of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute. Together we presented the Grand Challenge to eliminate the stigma around mental health, and substance use disorders to many of the psychiatrists gathered there. We had an excellent turnout for our session. I enjoyed the psychiatrists. I
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