Agenda:
- Purpose = Passion + Expertise + Need
- Finding Purpose is a journey - often painful, always rewarding
- Aligning inner-self with outer-self
- Carl Jung - Individuation
- James Hollis - The Middle Passage
- Journey to Purpose is a path for growth, a rite of passage

The Journey to Purpose

Agenda:
- Observing suffering - family, friends, mine
- Suffering fuels creativity
- Birth of the Nine Pillars of Well-Being
- The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
- All of us are artists
- Are you passively consuming or creating? 
- The phone is poison
- My logo - a strong, centered man
- Suggestions for my c...

Agenda:
- Life in Chiang Mai, Thailand
- My pivot to video 
- The journey a man travels
- Nine Pillars of Well-Being
- Suggestions for men over 50

Well-Being Man – My pivot to video

Hello from Thailand!
I wanted to bring you up to date on what I’m doing now.
First, thank you – to all of you – who r...

Agenda:
- Self-Image - the key
- Psycho-Cybernetics, by Maxwell Maltz, MD
- The mind is a goal-seeking machine
- Provide the image, the machine makes it a reality
- We can change our self-image anytime
- Influential books emphasizing the power of thought

The Science of Self-Image - The Key to Well-Bei...

Agenda:
- Buddhist practice of Making Merit
- What is Making Merit?
- Thai culture of good deeds for good karma
- Video clips at the temple with the monk
- Praying for deceased family members
- Blessings from the temple - reflection, calm, peace, joy

Making Merit in Thailand - A Birthday Blessing

In this newsletter:
- Holidays - Wonderful & Stressful
- Sources of holiday stress
- Holiday Industrial Complex
- Distance brings clarity

Holidays - Wonderful & Stressful

Hello from Ko Tao, Thailand, a tiny island in the Gulf of Thailand.

I hope you are enjoying the holidays. After all,

“It’s the...

In this newsletter:
- Happiness paradox
- Comparison damages happiness
- Living in Chiang Mai
- The downsides

The Happiness Paradox

Side note
I’ll be spending more time pursuing interests in the wellness business, traveling around the Southeast Asia region, educating myself about Asian culture, a...

In this newsletter:
- I moved to Thailand
- To be free is everything
- It's My Life - Bon Jovi
- My Way - Frank Sinatra
- Find your freedom

I moved to Thailand – I am free

This might sound crazy, but I moved from Miami Beach to Chiang Mai, Thailand.

My plan was to spend two months in Southeast A...

In this newsletter:
- My audience
- Albert Camus - Lermontov
- Thoughts can destroy us
- A mental prison
- Thoughts determine happiness
- Taking a break from writing
- Bali research trip

People ask me who is my audience, who am I writing for. Some guys think I’m writing about them, or me, or my decease...

In this newsletter:
- A Man in his Sixties
- Men's Passages
- Estate planning
- Medicare enrollment
- AARP - Brooke Shields
- Top 5 killers in your sixties
- Family photo

A Man in his Sixties

“Life offers many rich and varied seasons through the forties and fifties and into the sixties and seventies and ...

In this newsletter:
- Quiet - The Power of Introverts
- Janus, the god
- Individuality versus mutuality
- Calm, not speed

“In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.”
-Isaiah 30:15 

“Peter, you’re a loner.”

When I was married, my wife said that to me more than once. She didn't mean i...

Last week, I wrote about the Men's Group meeting I attended. One of the guys mentioned something that reminded me of a conversation I had with my friend, Dave, years ago.  

Dave - a true story

Dave:   “Peter, I told my dad I love him.”
Me:      “Seriously, Dave? What did he say?”
Dave:   “He ...