Brian Weiner

Wrong people will teach you the right lessons. It is an immutable fact that we learn by example. How very interesting then, that we are able to learn from both positive and negative examples.  It is almost the opposite of learning through empirical knowledge. The precept, “hot don’t touch,“ gives…

Begin each day with optimism and end each day with forgiveness. Happiness in life begins and ends within your heart. Do you consume optimism for breakfast?  Of all the potential ingredients for a balanced daily meal, optimism would sit at the top of the list. In the course of bathing…

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. How often do you visit your own sanctuary?  If you live in a world of cacophony, even if it’s all positive cacophony, there still is a prerequisite in our internal…

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. At face value, this appears to be very true, yet the quick negative response to this aphorism starts with a basic premise such as, “yes, but what if I win the lottery?“  Presumably with a disparate amount…

Don’t prove yourself. Just improve yourself. How many wasted hours have you expended trying to prove yourself to someone else? It might be an employer, coach, casting director, team owner, friend, spouse, lover… regardless of whom you are trying to prove yourself to, you’re truly wasting your time. As soon…

For each of us, there comes a time, when we awaken and we become what we were born to become. I have written on many an occasion about how I do not ascribe to the notion of fate or destiny. And yet, with an aphorism such as this, it is…

In the end, people will judge you anyway. So don’t live your life impressing others, live life impressing yourself. How often do we find ourselves living our lives continuously taking into consideration what other people are going to think about the decisions that we are making?  It has always been…