About

This site is dedicated to sharing ideas that work. Ideas that have helped successful people accomplish their health goals, achieve wealth, and experience greater happiness and lasting satisfaction in their lives.

I’m confident you will find many of these ideas useful in your life. I don’t know you personally and I don’t know your aspirations or your problems. But fortunately, I don’t need to because these ideas are based on fundamental principles.

Where do these fundamental principles come from? I certainly didn’t make them up. I’ve gathered them over years of study, careful observation, and personal experimentation.

I’ve personally experienced their value and reaped the rewards from putting them into practice. As I share them, I think you’ll see clearly for yourself how these ideas can start making a major difference in your life right away.

My Story

achiveI grew up in suburban Utah, the youngest of six in a loving, middle-class family. My parents instilled in us the importance of education and hard work. My dad was a first generation college graduate and my mother was a devoted stay-at-home mom. Things seemed stable until a series of my father’s investments went south. While I wasn’t aware of the details at the time, the powdered milk and empty pantry shelves were clear indicators of our lean financial circumstances, and those early experiences of scarcity left a lasting impression on me.

By age 11, I started mowing lawns to earn my own money, which became an early lesson in self-reliance. Then came a day I’ll never forget—the day my father asked to borrow $600 from me. I was just 15! We drove to the ATM. While he didn’t tell me what it was for, it was likely for our basic family needs. Handing over that money, I had mixed emotions, proud to help but confused.

Then, when I was 17 and just starting my senior year in high school, my father died from cancer. Only seven years later, my mother also died from cancer. So, there I was at 24, without parents. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has faced such a challenge, and I did have good people around me, but as you can imagine, I felt a great void.

Without my parents, I had to look for other great examples to inspire me and teach me. I started to look for mentors. I became a serious student of success principles. Over time, through slow and steady effort and lots of reading, I developed a personal philosophy for how to achieve success.

Sure enough, these success principles worked for me. I started seeing the dividends. At first small, and then larger and larger. For many years, I honed this philosophy and applied it to my own life and family. Then I started sharing them in my local community. While I’m primarily a physician and not a professional writer or public speaker, recently, I’ve been intrigued with the challenge of sharing these fundamental ideas that can make a real difference in how a person’s life works out.

Now I want to share these ideas with you.