Don’t let the gray hair fool you.  With a membership of 40 million plus, AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, is a force to be reckoned with.  

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, at the exclusive Cavallo Point Resort & Spa, a select group of very bright scholars, innovators, and Fortune 500 executives are sitting down to discuss the “future of the wellbeing movement.”  

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  In his new book Flourish, (Free Press: Simon & Shuster, 2011) Martin Seligman, esteemed psychologist and one of the founders of the Positive Psychology Movement, inspires us to become optimists and to get the most out of the lives we have been given.

MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Jesse Schell one of the world’s top 100 young innovators. Early in his career he was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio where he worked on Disney theme parks and the massively popular kids game Toontown Online. Continue Reading

In an effort to combat the growing obesity problem, especially among children, Michelle Obama unveiled a new design on Thursday called MyPlate.  The new graphic replaces the government’s well known food pyramid which many critics found misleading and difficult to understand.

If you’re at all interested in running you’ve got to meet Dean Karnazes. Which is to say, read his new book Run!  26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss.  It is guaranteed to inspire you.

Ever think it was ironic that some of your “best work” comes to you when you’re engaged in non-work activities? It may be more than just chance.

If our house were burning down and we could grab only one thing, it might well be our photo album.  That’s because it is filled with cherished memories---experiences we have had with family and friends.

Actor Dennis Hopper discusses his passion for collecting modern art. Continue Reading