A Liberal Arts Degree Is More Valuable Than Learning Any Trade
56 year-old Rivik Ranadivé is an Indian businessman, engineer, author, speaker and philanthropist. Ranadivé is the founder and CEO of TIBCO, a multi-billion dollar real-timing computing company, and is credited with digitizing Wall Street in the 1980s with his first company, Teknekron Software Systems. I’ve made it a lifelong habit to do things I know nothing […]
Why the Universe Is Trying To Beat You Into Submission
This is an article written by my good friend Steve Palmer and is part of his series of articles entitled Inspirational Weekly. I have a bone to pick with William H. Murray and Paulo Coelho. Murray’s famous quote, written at the beginning of his mountain climbing expedition to the Himalayas, has been misleading adventurers since 1951: […]
ReValue America Tour in Southern California Begins in December
ReValue America Tour Schedule Update Here is the latest schedule update: November 30 Date Open December 3 7:00-9:00pm Conejo Valley Adult Education School 33 Greta Street Thousand Oaks, 91360 Contact: Joelle Mancuso 805-796-9333 joelletjed@gmail.com December 4 1:00-3:00pm Escondido Learning Center 1441 Montiel Road, Ste 145 Escondido, 92026 Contact: Tony Drown 760-716-7505 tdrown@mydehesa.org […]
It’s Just A Game
…..or is it. As of midnight last night, the United States Government has begun the process of shutting down due to lack of funds. The House is delaying a routine funding approval to make a stand for the majority opinion of the American people, who want to shut down Obamacare. Yesterday President Obama stated that […]
Conscious Creator
My friend Kris Krohn has written a new book this year that is a MUST READ. It is called the Conscious Creator: 6 Laws For Manifesting Your Masterpiece Life. Steve Palmer sent me a copy of this book months ago when it first came out and it sat on my shelf until last week when […]
The Importance of Being in Over YOUR HEAD
The following is an excerpt from the book The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson. I was eating lunch with a friend who has a PhD in leadership development. I asked him, “Based on all your research and experience, what would you say is the most important secret to developing world-class leaders?” He put his fork […]
That Which is Seen and That Which is Not
The President of the United States believes that our role in the global community is to punish the Syrian government for military strikes on Syrian civilians resulting in hundreds of deaths and diminishing the Assad regime’s ability to deploy biological agents in the future. Whether or not it is the duty of the U.S. to […]
The Monticello College Campus Construction Progresses In Spite of the Recession
A miracle occurred last month at the Campus of Monticello College. With a very small crew and limited resources, over 130 yards of concrete was poured for the foundation and floor for the 5,000 square foot commercial kitchen and dining hall. We are constructing all of the buildings on campus to last at least […]
Cloward-Piven Strategy
I can’t help it. I seriously tried to make myself shorten this excellent 2005 article by Richard Poe but I can’t. It is 4,500 words but very informative and explanatory of the times. RICHARD POE is an award-winning journalist and a New York Times-bestselling author. His journalistic writings focus on human rights, liberty, abuse of power and the rule of law. His fiction writing is mainly […]
The Present Crisis
This week’s post is the Monticello College Hymn or official poem. Although written 169 years ago, the nature of humanity does not change and the emotional and spiritual state of human beings as a whole rarely changes–which makes this poem as applicable today as it was a century and a half ago. The Present Crisis […]