Your Journey to Happiness

Direction is the path of travel pointing towards a destination where something is better for us. Your path may be financial, educational, emotional or geographical. But it doesn’t have to be just one path that you are on. Your journey most likely consists of several parallel paths which indirectly compliment each other. Hopefully, as you are navigating these paths, they will converge at various po...

Direction is the course along which someone (wink wink) or something moves. It is still the first week of the new decade and most of us are just easing into the new year. And it’s ok that we don’t have our 2020 Playbook typed up with instructions and photos in a big 3 ring binder. But we do need direction: a path or route pointing towards a destination or a goal. For some, it might be financial. Y...

Happy New Year and guess what? Now is the perfect time to start your own podcast. It’s easy and it’s free. Just download the Anchor app to you smartphone and start talking. If you are retired, you have done something for 20 plus years and you are probably an expert who can share issues and pitfalls in accounting, insurance, sales, etc. If you are a cop or military, you can talk about leadership. E...

It is the day before the New Year 2020 and I am excited for all of us because tomorrow will be a fresh start. I not only have my 2020 game plan in place but I have already started executing it. But for those of you who are waiting until tomorrow to kinda maybe start thinking about what you might do differently in 2020. SNAP OUT OF IT!!!! This is your homework for today. 1. Become a practitioner, n...

The noise or as they say in Brooklyn, “Da noise...son.” You can’t teach self-awareness. But the one thing that will prevent you from becoming self-aware, from figuring out who you really are, your truth, is listening to the noise. Noise is all around us. We hear it from our parents, peers, spouse, siblings, our children, boss, co-workers, society and even the voices in our own head. That imaginary...

On Christmas Day, I watched the classic show It’s a Wonderful Life. This show reminds me year after year that I really do have a wonderful life. But some people have a horrible life. 23 years in law enforcement showed me that bad things happen to good people. Many people are living in squalor hoping to just find a warm place to sleep at night. Many of us are living in constant despair unable to se...

Merry Christmas everyone. Hopefully you have given love & joy to everyone around you because Christmas is about giving, not getting, right? I encourage you to keep giving throughout the day and the next and the next. In fact, I challenge you to keep giving. The Holiday season isn’t so joyous for everyone. I challenge you to continue to spread joy regardless of your situation while being empathetic...

‘Twas the day before Xmas and all through the town everyone was scurrying around. Today is Xmas eve 2019 and in Italy, we say Buona Vigilia di Natale. I have 4 quick tips to help you get through this crazy last day of shopping. 1. If you have to buy more gifts, pay with cash or debit. 2. The malls will be crowded so don’t play a game of chicken for that choice parking space and start a road rage i...

My motorcycle story started out by turning 25 years of regret into a fulfilled dream which led to a summer of excitement which turned into a full blown passion fueling a new journey. I put 3000 miles on my new Indian Scout and decided that I want to ride down south and explore America. But my first season of riding made me realize that as sexy and powerful as the Scout was, it is not the right bik...

Let me share with you my first season riding like the wind. April 2018 my Blue Angel finally arrives at the Indian Motorcycle Dealership. I make the inaugural ride on my 2018 Indian Scout filled with fear and excitement after visualizing for 4 weeks each curve, turn and bump in the road I would be faced with on the 50 mile route to my home. I made it home safe even though I suddenly came face to f...

I love motivational speakers and I have been listening to them since 1987 starting with Tony Robbins, then Eric Thomas, Les Brown and my current favorite Gary Vaynerchuk aka Gary Vee. Gary will be the first to tell you he is not a motivational speaker but he is the only one who got me to get off of my ass and actually execute. The other guys are great but they just tell us what we already know. Bu...

I have been retired now for 5 years and I give my self a “C”. In fact, if I was back in Catholic grade school, the nuns would surely smack the back of my hand with that big wooden ruler. I made some leaps and bounds but my overall performance sucked because I wasted the first 4 years of my retirement spinning my wheels. I didn’t stay true to myself, did not respect my DNA, and did not go with my s...

Regret motivated me to break a 25 year pattern. Some regrets you can’t do anything about and shouldn’t dwell on them. Some regrets you can do something about so make a choice, execute and become a practitioner of your destiny. Regrets yet to come are those we face every day. Choices we face that can potentially turn into regret. When you are on the fence with a particular decision, just apply the...

So I am at the Indian Motorcycle dealership sitting on a 2018 Indian Scout feeling all warm and fuzzy while the angels are singing to me from above. The salesman tells me about the cool custom Icon colors available for the Scout. As soon as I saw a picture of the Scout in Brilliant Blue Smoke, listen to see what happened next.

Two years ago I did something for myself that changed my life forever. Something that I have wanted to do for over 25 years but didn’t have the courage to do. It was easier to just drop the ball every time I got the itch. Live your life to the fullest starting right now. Don’t be like me and wait a quarter of a century to fulfill a dream.

When I first retired, I did exactly what I suggest to you and I began enjoying my life. I bought myself a fishing kayak and was on the lake before sunrise several mornings each week. Hear what happens next.

Qui Bono is the Latin term for “Who benefits” so let’s talk about who can benefit from this podcast. This podcast is about living life to the fullest in retirement so it clearly caters to retirees and soon-to-be retirees. But I believe this podcast is even more valuable to those of you who are not even close to retiring. Because I don’t want you to retire like I did and realize that you just waste...

Tony Robbins interviewed the Latin rapper Pit Bull. Pit Bull was sharing his upbringing and said something profound. He said “You don’t make mistakes in life, mistakes make You”. I already made a mistake with this podcast last week when I stated in my intro episode that I possess the only 2 qualities required to speak on this topic. One, that I am retired and two, that I am still breathing. I left...

Once you adjust to your new found abundance of free time upon your retirement, you have to hunker down and formulate a game plan. But before putting pen to paper, you must have a conversation with yourself. You have to figure out who you are now, who do you want to be, and where do you want to be. Life is very different now that you are retired. You can no longer save lives or put out fires on a d...

Now that you are retired you have plenty of well-deserved time on your hands. You don’t have to be anywhere or do anything. No more punching a time clock or signing in. I say go crazy and enjoy. Have at it. Go kayak fishing, ride your motorcycle or have a cup of coffee at your favorite spot and do the daily crossword puzzle. Time management is important for two reasons: 1. Time is precious. It is...

I want to share with you some of the unfortunate pitfalls you may experience at home upon your retirement. This is for those of you who have not yet retired so you know what to look out for. You may not be the king of your castle or the family hero you think you will be. You may just be the new house monkey. My advice to you is to learn how to say “no” as soon as possible. A “honey-do” list is ine...

This is a podcast about living your life to the fullest. It’s about creating a bucket list and checking off the items one by one. It’s about fulfilling your purpose, your destiny, the reason God created you. It’s not about the years in your life, but the life in your years. It is not about the two dates on your tombstone but the dash in between. It’s about the rocking chair test and all the things...