Good Clean Reads

Today I had a conversation with a long-time investment lawyer about my investment strategy. I have come to recognize in a visceral way how it is impossible to experience fear and gratitude at the same time. Keeping my focus on the wonder and abundance of what I already have is the only thoughts that have any teeth compared with the low-grade anxiety that can catch me like a creeping malaise when I...

“To reach heights, one must stop to help others.”  -Carolyn  Chambers

Our community of Eugene, Oregon lost one of its pioneering leaders on Saturday. For close to eight decades, Carolyn Chamberslead the way in television, film production, real estate and countless community development projects. She spent her life fully invested and, I am proud to say, that Good Clean Love saw her light shine in...

“For having lived long, I have experiences many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”  -Benjamin Franklin

One lesson that I didn’t expect to learn from focusing on receiving is how little opinions actually matter. This is surprising, as I have long relied on...

Ever wonder about the twilight years of human sexuality? Listen as Joan Price, senior sexpert and author of Better than I ever expected and Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex dispels the myths of aging sexuality and replaces the current medicalized notions of sexual dysfunction with a candid conversation about how sex lives and intimate relationships can change and heal us over time. Inspired by her...

Here is the remarkable truth about focusing your life on gratitude- you attract people who live the same way. Yesterday, my meetings felt more like the reuniting of my tribe than they did business meetings. The business was the context, but the gratitude consciousness was the true exchange. There was no convincing or selling any ideas, just a true and resonant sharing that what is most real and...

Ever wonder about the other side of the adult entertainment industry? What motivates women to strip for money?  Are they used by the system or using it to create the life of their dreams. Listen to Bad Girl Liz, a provocative voice who is shifting the paradigm for dozens of female strippers and helping them to use their adult entertainment earnings to create a future of their choosing. A former...

“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.” -Hafiz of Persia

Gratitude is actually the most basic and simple of all positive practices, but most of us want to complicate the simple; we just can’t believe it is that simple. A recent revelation in my summer of gratitude demonstrated this clearly. It seems so basic as to...

It was an honor to be named recently as a finalist for a state wide entrepreneurial award, named for Tom Holce who is known as Oregon’s quintessential entrepreneur. He started and invested in 25 businesses in Oregon, which were the impetuses for thousands of jobs. Prior to his wife’s death, he was married for 44 years. Ray King, one of the CEO’s that Tom invested in said this about him: “He was...

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”     -Albert Schweitzer

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