Get rid of inhibitions that constrain and disguise your fullest possibilities as a highly evolved human. Doing so will get you in shape for the real challenge -- overcoming the norms and customs that reinforce mediocre levels of health, happiness and freedom. I have five proposals to guide you in...

Expand wellness programs beyond a prevention and medical management orientation. How and why to address preseentism and boost personal and organizational effectiveness with five strategies:

1. Teach critical thinking skills;
2. Introduce positive psychology about human happiness;
3. Promote new...

Some topics should be avoided in polite society, but not these three!

"Those of us gathered here tonight have been called to govern in extraordinary times. It is a tremendous burden, but also a great privilege, one that has been entrusted to few generations of Americans, for in our hands lies the ability to shape our world, for good or for ill."

President Barack...

Outline followed for keynote at the Health Care and Business Roundtable in Boise, ID sponsored by Saint Alphonsus Health Systems.

* We (America) are not # 1 in the world in terms of health status (though we are #1 in spending on medical care, most of it for chronic diseases that could and should...