“Why” do you want to succeed? What is the one thing that drives you with a burning desire to be your absolute best? If you don’t know what your “why” is, keep searching until you find it. Then you will succeed. Guaranteed.

We have all been hit by difficulties and misfortunes in our lives. Very often these difficulties arise because of mistakes we made in the past. Unfortunately, we can’t change the past. We can try to forgive ourselves but the pain lingers on for a long time. The most difficult aspect of mistakes is when we hurt others unintentionally. That’s incredibly painful for those that were hurt and ourselves. There is no simple solution for if there was, this post would not have been written.

This is the Museum of Modern Art – MUMOK (MUseum MOderner Kunst), located in Vienna, Austria…This photo was taken in 2006 when the MUMOK Museum dedicated an exhibition to Erwin Wurm, and placed a single-family house in original size diagonally and upside down on the roof of the MUMOK building…EPIC!!

Whilst nobody fails intentionally the lessons are brutally forceful and change one’s life forever; sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse as many lose purpose and experience severe loneliness through the incredible mental and social toll of failing.

The only good thing about this presidency is that it will end, whether we survive is another matter.

He handled her scarf gently and lovingly. Tears dripped from his eyes as his fingers got lost in the fabric. She was alive in his mind, yet she was now owned by a memory greater than herself. Mass shootings not only kill people, they consume victims memories and become their last names.

Remember a conversation in New York some years ago. We were discussing how the US elects its president. A well-informed person said during this discussion that it would be unthinkable that someone as crooked as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi could be elected president in America.