One Good Idea is Sufficient

"One Good Idea is enough, if you nurture it like you would your favorite house plant."
- R.D. Lewis



“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, 
dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of 
your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is 
the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.” 
-Swami Vivekananda

I have taken the idea of habit change or habit acquisition as my One Good Idea.   To develop the idea, I  have spent many hours reading and thinking about the topic.  Habits are responsible for our character which helps determine our destiny by instilling us with belief in our ideas, perseverance to stay with our business idea and willingness to set clear priorities that will see that we work to achieve our goals and follow the plans we made for goal achievement.

Life does not give guarantees but you will manage to create more with an optimistic attitude towards the path you have chosen.  We are not preaching the "fast buck gospel" on this site.  We are certain that a few   specific behaviors will improve your chances of creating a prosperous outcome for your efforts if you adopt some simple success habits.  Life is after all a bit of a gamble being ruled by chance from your conception forward.

My formal education in Personnel Management exposed me to the concepts of job satisfaction and human motivation; all employers want motivated employees.  We want to motivate ourselves to do great things with our lives; sports coaches are all about firing up thier athletes to win.  Michael Milken wanted his partners to change the face of Financial Markets and pirated companies from the employees, managers and owners with his financial engineering tricks.  Taking "Junk" bonds and buying perfectly good companies and stripping thier value not for the owners and employee but for his predatory corporate raiders financed with his "junk".  Milken, Boesky, and that group are old news.  Lately we have seen the birth of an old idea called the Ponzi Schemme prerpetrated by Madoff on a guargantuan scale.  We have enjoyed the spectacle of trillions of dollars moved around to cover-up the mistakes of an over heated housing market gutting banks fo obscene amounts of money by another Wall Street big idea - mortagage back securities with lousy loans bundled together and flogged to pension funds all over the world.  Everyone knows about the kind of money generated  for the partners of Goldman Sacs, the bankruptcy of Merrill Lynch and other and other investment banking icons.  Mine is not the kind of original"Big Idea"   Mr. Paulson brought to Goldman Sac's attention one fateful day in banking history.

My focus is on habits we can all acquire.  No junk bonds, derivatives or any bundled mortgages required here. It is not my invention or my "Secret" to offer you for copious and ongoing fees guaranteeing myself the money and fame you might want.

My big idea is a very humble result of a good deal of thought and reading about the topic.  I am passing onto my readers the outcome of time I spent observing people I have worked with in various jobs, people I read about in books or watched on stage at T.E.D. or give acceptance speeches for a Pulitzer or Nobel Prize - this is all available on the WWW.   These people have influenced my thinking because I'm an average person who paid attention to what other people do.  Because human behavior fascinates me, my observations were just my casual attempts at making sense of what I see.  Riots in Britain, dictators getting overthrown in Egypt, Libya, and so on.   Black Tuesday crowds and mayhem or the introduction of the Ipad.  This is the kind of big events that say lots about human behavior and the madness of crowds.  We can watch it on T.V. or the Internet 'real time'.

Back to habits.  Habits are repetitive actions, situational and unspectacular.  At the same time, habits might hold the key to saving the planet, losing weight, finding God, being Mindful or overcoming clutter.  This brings me to the types of habits can be habits of thought or habits of behavior.


I have taken the idea of habit change or acquisition as one Good Idea and have spent many hours reading about the topic.  Habits are responsible for our character which helps determine our destiny by instilling us with belief in our ideas, perseverance to stay with our business idea and willingness to set clear priorities that will see that we work to achieve our goals and follow the plans we made for goal achievement.

Life does not give guarantees but you will manage to create more with an optimistic attitude towards the path you have chosen.  We are not preaching the "fast - buck - gospel" on this site.  Just the same we are certain some behaviors of thought and action will improve you chances of creating a prosperous outcome for your efforts.

 If you adopt some simple success habits, you are not buying my invention or my "Secret" being offered to you for copious and ongoing fees giving myself the money and fame you might want.  I am just passing onto my readers the outcome of my time spent observing people like fellow workers or people studied by the professional psychologists  who write the results of thier work in books.  Books of all kinds  have influenced my thinking.   One Good Idea is enough, if you stay with it and nurture it like your favorite house plant.