How to thrive when the world is drowning in chaos
Fermented grapes make wine. Fermented molasses makes rum. Fermented agave makes tequila. But what do you get when you ferment tomatoes? You get tomato wine but only if you have the family recipe passed down to Pascale Miche the owner of Omerto, the world’s only commercial producer of aperitif tomato wine. The wine looks and tastes like white wine. Even professional sommeliers are often fooled into thinking Miche's wines are made from green grapes. Pascale, started this business in 1998 when he moved to Quebec and started planting tomatoes in his back yard. He has since grown it to a [...]
How to evaluate your year to make next year even better
Transcript: Hi, it's Shelly Lefkoe, co-founder of The Lefkoe Institute. The holidays can be a time for celebration, fun, being with loved ones, but it's also a time of reflection and it can be a time where you look back at your year and take stock of your life, and really look at, "What were my wins this year? What are the things that I wished I had done that I hadn't done? Who was I being? Did I step up in the ways that I wanted to? Did I make the contributions I wished I had?" And as you [...]
Re-post: How to thrive when the world is drowning in chaos
Fermented grapes make wine. Fermented molasses makes rum. Fermented agave makes tequila. But what do you get when you ferment tomatoes? You get tomato wine but only if you have the family recipe passed down to Pascale Miche the owner of Omerto, the world’s only commercial producer of aperitif tomato wine. The wine looks and tastes like white wine. Even professional sommeliers are often fooled into thinking Miche's wines are made from green grapes. Pascale, started this business in 1998 when he moved to Quebec and started planting tomatoes in his back yard. He has since grown it to a [...]
Re-post: How to thrive when the world is drowning in chaos
Fermented grapes make wine. Fermented molasses makes rum. Fermented agave makes tequila. But what do you get when you ferment tomatoes? You get tomato wine but only if you have the family recipe passed down to Pascale Miche the owner of Omerto, the world’s only commercial producer of aperitif tomato wine. The wine looks and tastes like white wine. Even professional sommeliers are often fooled into thinking Miche's wines are made from green grapes. Pascale, started this business in 1998 when he moved to Quebec and started planting tomatoes in his back yard. He has since grown it to a [...]
How to thrive when the world is drowning in chaos
Fermented grapes make wine. Fermented molasses makes rum. Fermented agave makes tequila. But what do you get when you ferment tomatoes? You get tomato wine but only if you have the family recipe passed down to Pascale Miche the owner of Omerto, the world’s only commercial producer of aperitif tomato wine. The wine looks and tastes like white wine. Even professional sommeliers are often fooled into thinking Miche's wines are made from green grapes. Pascale, started this business in 1998 when he moved to Quebec and started planting tomatoes in his back yard. He has since grown it to a [...]
How to evaluate your year to make next year even better
Here are the five questions: 1. In the areas of relationship, career, financial and health - what were your wins this year 2. In these areas what would you like to see be different - be specific - use each are of life 3. Who was I being this year - caring? Kind? Generous? 4. Who will I be next year? 5. What will I do next year to produce a different outcome next year at this time. What are my commitments?
Can this photo help you reach your goals in 2016?
We are nearly done with the second month of the new year, and some people who started out the year with a bang have already started to falter on their New Year's Resolution. Don't lose heart because today I'm going to tell you about a technique my husband Morty devised that dissolves the obstacles to achieving your New Year's Resolutions or any goals. But first I want to talk to you about elephants. I recently read an article written by Jorge Bucay, an Argentinian psychologist. He noticed as a young boy that adult elephants at the circus were held in place [...]
What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life?
I’ve always been the youngest person doing whatever I was doing. I was just 16 when I graduated high school. I was working on Wall Street as a securities analyst at 22. I was an Assistant Vice President of a financial firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange at the age of 24. And I already had articles published in Fortune and was an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal by 26. Then one day I woke up and discovered I was 73. Instead of being the youngest person doing what I was doing, I was suddenly one [...]
What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
There are things you don’t know that you don’t know. And that fact, perhaps more than any other single thing, is keeping you from having the best life you could possibly have. If that sounds a bit confusing, please let me explain. When people know they don’t know something and they want to know about that something, they learn about it. So if you know that your relationships could be better, that it is possible stop worrying about the opinions of others, and that it is possible to eliminate the beliefs that keep you from being more successful in [...]
