by Vincent Novak | Oct 23, 2017 | Life Change, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
Some call it, failure porn. The proliferation of failure-to-success stories and the overwhelming desire to write about it. As if failing was another life experience that only caused a brief pause in your life before you bounced back wealthier than before. Much less...
by Vincent Novak | Apr 28, 2017 | Faith, Life Change, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
Have you wondered what you’re supposed to learn from personal catastrophic loss? Or, how you’re supposed to grow from the experience? Is there some hidden meaning behind the loss of a career, the lost ability to find the next job, the draining of all your...
by Vincent Novak | Apr 16, 2017 | Faith, Personal Growth, Religion
It’s astonishing to find the number of books and memoirs that promote the path to financial wealth is to be found through the development of faith. Faith found through a religion or through the practice of meditative prayer. I bet if you took a poll...
by Vincent Novak | Apr 11, 2017 | Anxiety, Mindfulness, Personal Growth
Few understand the depths of social anxiety. In simple terms, it’s fear with a capital “F.” It’s fear that someone will find out that you can’t do the things that are so natural for everyone else. The fear of talking to an authority figure. The fear...
by Vincent Novak | Apr 3, 2017 | Personal Growth
I didn’t know uncle Ralph all that well. I knew he was educated and a businessman. He drove a black Mercedes and, at the time, lived in Washington, DC. Whenever I saw him, he was always dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and tie, and suspenders. I can’t remember...
by Vincent Novak | Mar 27, 2017 | Life Change
A 58-year old marketing manager knelt in my office as if I were the pope and begged through tears to keep his job. I was in my early forties and Vice President of Marketing for a medical device startup. We hit a major technology hiccup and canceled...
by Vincent Novak | Mar 20, 2017 | Life Change, Mindfulness
I’m flat out busted. I’d be bankrupt if I filed for it. I’m back in the court system determining my new alimony payment, which whatever my former spouse wants at the moment is too much. I’m worried about the car payment. Worried about health insurance. Worried...
by Vincent Novak | Mar 11, 2017 | Entrepreneurship, Mindfulness
If you haven’t lived through a business failure, suffered enormous financial loss, or as founder been pushed out of your own company by investors, you probably don’t know what entrepreneurial shame feels like, tastes like, or smells like. Shame is typically...
by Vincent Novak | Mar 7, 2017 | Mindfulness
There’s a faint audible voice trying to get louder. It speaks to your aspirations in life. Its whisper tells you to get moving before it gets too late. But the voice is quickly squashed by the fear of not doing what’s expected. You want to buy a bigger house, a new...
