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Rules For Life – A Toast To Those Who Are Gone
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. For most of my life, I didn’t really understand loss. I understood the trivial kind of loss, such as when you lose your keys or...
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Rules For Life – Focus on the Virtue
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. A few years ago, my optometrist gave me the kind of news you hear from a doctor that sounds so bad your first impulse is to...
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Rules For Life – Common Sense is not Cowardice
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. As part of my preparation for returning to the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017, I’ve already begun hiking about as much as I can....
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Finding a Better Reason
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. I was out walking through one of our regional parks the other day, enjoying the morning and the still serenity of nature. And as...
View ArticleRules For Life – Recovery Party
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. While it has not been my policy during this series to trademark or, in any way, brand my ideas or definitions, consider that most...
View ArticleRules For Life – Answers or Excuses
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Most of these essays are inspired by personal experience and this one is no different, because I spent my Christmas holiday…...
View ArticleRules For Life – People Are Happy To Tell You
Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. I thought I would open this article with a little good news. This is for anyone hesitating to follow their dream, take a risk, or just to do...
View ArticleRules For Life – If You Want Your Life to Have Meaning
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. And I’m surprised to see that we’re nearly at the end of our list of rules. That’s right. I began this list just under three...
View ArticleRules For Life – One Last Rule
by Ken La Salle For the last three years, I’ve been welcoming you back each month as I’ve analyzed a series of rules we can use to help us through life with as little pain, as little regret, and as...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Best Medical Real Estate Services
Guest Blog Healthcare is one of the most important industries in the world. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fragility of many healthcare systems and facilities in the world has become...
View ArticleWhy Have Rules For Life?
by Ken La Salle In my last article, I shared with you my plan to examine some of the rules we each have that guide us in our everyday behavior. These rules aren’t the dogmatic, societal rules imposed...
View ArticleFirst Do No Harm
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. If we’re going to establish some rules for life, rules that make life easier, that make living with others easier and make our...
View ArticleAnd Still, There Is Water
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. This month, I would like to talk about something that was missing for much of my life. Like many people, I made it through many...
View ArticleThou Art That
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. One important element in every life that I’ve been leaving out of these articles so far has been the fact that you won’t be...
View ArticleRules For Life – Beyond Boredom
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. When I was a boy, I was highly susceptible to boredom. My eyes would gloss over at the drop of a hat. In fact, haberdashery or...
View ArticleRules For Life – Isolation is Illusion
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. This month, I’d like you to take a moment, stop whatever you’re doing, and take in the world around you. Just listen to the world...
View ArticleRules For Life – Life is a One-Way Trip
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Recently, I’ve been working on a new book about growing up in the 1970s. It’s been a lot of fun remembering the good and the bad,...
View ArticleRules For Life – No ‘Backsies’
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Last month, I wrote about life’s perpetual and inescapable move forward. Once you’re born, there’s no turning around. This month,...
View ArticleRules For Life – Some Days
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. As writing has become my full-time career, I’ve utilized systems to help me do my job more efficiently and in a more disciplined...
View ArticleRules For Life – The World Can Inspire You
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. You know what I don’t understand? People who lack passion. I simply don’t understand it. Worse than simply lacking passion, I...
View ArticleRules For Life – Testing the Rules
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. I began this series just one year ago and, in that time, we’ve discussed some of the most important rules to help make sense of...
View ArticleRules For Life – Don’t Confuse Yourself For Selfish
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Last year, I wrote about some of the big rules, rules that help us understand the big picture of life. Things are going to change...
View ArticleRules For Life – Honor Yourself
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. In the course of my writing career, I have had occasion to sign a variety of contracts –contracts both short and long, broad and...
View ArticleRules For Life – That Door Won’t Open Itself
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. It’s a situation some of us are faced with every day. You are walking into a building with other people and must decide if you’ll...
View ArticleRules For Life – Drawing Your Bottom Line
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Yesterday, I found myself waiting at my auto mechanic’s shop. I had taken my wife’s car in for a tune-up, only to discover that...
View ArticleRules For Life – Making Us think
by Ken La Salle You see it happen every year, a chorus rising out of homes and schools around the country and even around the world. “Why do I have to learn algebra?” it asks. “Why is this important?...
View ArticleRules For Life – Knowing Where
by Ken La Salle Look to your left. Now, look to your right. Now, consider this. Most of the problems we face in life originate from an inadequate understanding of where we are in life and knowing this,...
View ArticleRules For Life – What’s Your Plan B?
by Ken La Salle Last week, I took a hike along the Pacific Crest Trail with a backpack that was far too heavy, with maps that weren’t very good, with a water bladder that leaked at high altitudes, and...
View ArticleRules For Life – Enjoy it
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. This month, my goal is to help you enjoy those moments of your life that may not be so great. Obviously, we may not enjoy those...
View ArticleRules For Life – Letting Go Of Dissatisfaction
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. The new year wouldn’t be complete without a resolution and here’s what I’m proposing today: Letting go of your dissatisfaction....
View ArticleRules For Life – Stay Hungry
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Since I wrote about letting go of dissatisfaction last month, this month I thought I would advocate for just the opposite....
View ArticleRules For Life – Sharing Again
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Do you remember sharing? When was the last time you shared? Sharing is usually a large part of childhood. We shared toys and...
View ArticleNothing Is Protected
by Ken La Salle Some years ago, before my father died in Chandler, Arizona, he and I would drive through the desert, looking out at the saguaro cactus and he would tell me, “Those are protected, you...
View ArticleRules For Life – April’s Fooled
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. April Fools’ Day (or April 1st to those not “in the know”) is our yearly opportunity to turn things upside-down, reinvent the...
View ArticleRules For Life – Live Hard
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Recently, I’ve had a number of doctors tell me about various parts of my body that are, basically, falling apart. First, I tore...
View ArticleRules For Life – Everything is a Blessing
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. Late last month, I set foot on the Pacific Crest Trail for what turned out to be a short backpacking trip. As I began, I assumed...
View ArticleRules For Life – Everything is a Blessing (Part Two)
by Ken La Salle Welcome back to my continuing series of Rules For Life. When I wrote last month about everything being a blessing, I had no idea about the terrible news waiting for me just around the...
View ArticleBS Incorporated – A Book Excerpt
Business Solutions, Inc. is in a state of chaos. While the employees spend their time rendezvousing in the stairwells, the CEOs are running their business into the ground through the use of shady...
View ArticleEnhancing Financial Stability during Periods of Unemployment
by Lance Cody-Valdez In today’s evolving job market, you may find yourself facing unemployment more often than expected. To navigate this successfully, you need strong financial strategies. This guide...
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