Monday Morning Mojo

My son, Gabe, and I are in the Pacific Northwest for our annual father-son trip. We will drive down to San Francisco by the end of the week. We are visiting a couple of colleges on the way. Today we were in practically the most northwestern part of the continental United States. There we spent

To get in shape, you exercise regularly. To improve your diet, it’s almost every meal. Same for your brain. If you want to adjust your own attitude, improve your mental state or shift your consciousness, you do something every day: listen to new speakers, read different writers, let original artists into your life. Our minds

I attended the wedding of a close friend, Nathania, this weekend with my family. After the rehearsal dinner my son and I were on our way out. As we said good-night to the bride-to-be, she made the time to step away from her guests and speak to my son, Gabe, a rising senior, about what

Interplanetary travel could be a step closer after scientists confirmed that an electromagnetic propulsion drive, which is fast enough to get to the Moon in four hours, actually works. The FDA is approving 3D printed spinal implants. Last week OPM announced the first ever, and currently only, 3D printed polymer, load-bearing device for implantation received

We all know a little about what is going to happen tomorrow, don’t we? There’s the sun coming up for starters. And if you make a list of no-brainer certainties, it’s actually pretty long. Put them all together and it starts to lay out the near term pretty well. But, there’s no surprises in there.

What is it that fuels your fire, turns your nut, infuses you with passion and energy? And how often is it part of your life? I need to turn my inner flywheel daily. There are particular activities that do it for me: walking my dog, Sita; working out; meditating. All of these are special times

Grand Challenges are bold and powerful goals that leaders take on to make the world a better place. I am now working with five leaders helping to define and launch their organization’s Grand Challenges. Our world’s biggest challenges are also our biggest opportunities. My mission is to help launch 100s of Grand Challenges over the

The genesis of Floosh: Ruchi, my 12 yr old daughter, and I are driving home from picking up our dog, Sita. Sita puts her paw on the divider between the passenger and driver seat. I discipline her: “No, Sita.” Ruchi says, “Why can’t she put her paw there?” Me,”Because it is the first step into

I was perusing a book once in a bookstore – cannot remember the name – in which the author said something like, “Family vacations are not about vacations. They are about family dynamics.” It was a reframe that stuck with me. Of course, there are plenty of personal catastrophes that came to mind. But, right