Brian Weiner

Having the courage to call something for what it is is not always the easiest courage to summon. Whether the devil is a bully on the playground, a workmate, an employer, a teacher, politician, government official, or other, many times the choice to call the devil a devil comes with…

As the indigenous population of the Americas watched European settlers repeatedly arrive, wave after wave, with an entirely different set of values, they watched their natural resources deplete out of ignorance and arrogance. This is a proverb that has been circulating for decades, never more true than it is right…

I thought I would start Monday off with a laugh. Nothing too heavy today. Try to be the former, it pays in spades. I know someone who will cause enormous happiness when he leaves.😊

After nine months of lockdown, I can see that depression is becoming more rampant than ever before. Fears of unemployment and inability to make rent or pay bills are overwhelming people on both sides of the aisle. Taking a few moments to reach out to someone in your world who…

I shortened this quotation from Abraham Lincoln who said, “An old poet, I don’t remember who, said truth is the daughter of time. This would also lend support to the adage, “to the victor remains the spoils.” Truth is an interesting concept. On many levels, truth is perceptual. Yet there…

Empirical knowledge is by definition only learned through direct experience. We all probably had our first taste of that when somebody said, “hot, don’t touch!“ and then, we touch it anyway and get burned. As we progress deeper into our life experience, we are given more than ample opportunity to…

Our country seems to be at the precipice of so many moral dilemmas. The massive amount of misinformation and underhanded behavior from the government at a moment of what has always been a peaceful transfer of power in our country, makes us look like a banana republic to the world…

Gandhi said, “you must be the change you wish to see in the world”. In many cases, people are more than willing to be, “an armchair quarterback”. One who is willing to opine on any topic, yet not willing to embody the principles or behaviors to which they are ascribing.…

Mindset is everything. Without it, one is a ship lost at sea without a rudder. In times of extreme uncertainty, the only option of true value is getting your mind wrapped around the options at your disposal and leveraging them to your greatest benefit. When you find focus, the solutions…

Everybody starts out as a winner. It’s just a biological fact. I’ve often wondered if philosophically, it would be advantageous to allow people to really understand that at the earliest of ages. There is an incredible benefit to having a mindset in which you believe you are a winner. Embracing…