Brian Weiner

You can only win when your mind is stronger than your emotions. If this is not one of the most difficult lessons in life, I do not know what is. Suppressing an emotion in favor of logic or strategy is unquestionably a learned skillset. Seldom mastered in the earlier years…

If you can’t change a situation, change your perception of it. Remember, most of your stress comes from the way you respond, not from the way life is. When I first read this aphorism, I summarily rejected it because I came up with numerous examples that this Zen perspective does…

Don’t blame people for disappointing you. Blame yourself for expecting too much from them. As soon as we project our expectations on another human being, we are one step closer to feeling let down. This is not to say that most people will let you down,  because in many cases…

Make love, not war. This was the slogan from the Vietnam war in the 60’s. It drove home a core message of disparate values. The world is coming to a boiling point (again) and the haves vs. the have nots is elevating to an unprecedented scale. I have read articles…

What people think about you is not important. What you think about yourself is everything. Ask me if I care what you think about me. The honest answer is yes, of course I do. I care what people think about me, my companies, my reputation and my honor. More important,…

Heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Have you watched someone that seemed as if they were on a meteoric rise to success out of nowhere? In most cases,…

Lots of people will ride with you in the limo. What you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. OPRAH WINFREY Stress is a killer. On all fronts.  It attacks us mentally and that breaks us down physically. In those moments of…

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. As are the rest of us who study history, have learned from it and are living in a world populated by countless billions who have not…

Underestimate me? That’ll be fun. We all have been underestimated at various points in our lives. That usually comes through shallow discourse in which another party is most likely incapable of truly understanding who you are.  They are listening to you with half an ear and sizing you up based…