Author: John Hawkins

Is life hard for you? Do you struggle all the time? Do you wish things were easier? If so, that puts you in exactly the same boat as EVERYONE ELSE on the entire planet. Many people don’t realize this because we trick ourselves. We think, “If I had ‘X,’ everything would be fantastic! If I […]

I spent last week-end at Freedomworks’ Blog Con in Denver, Colorado. It was an extraordinary event, in part because Tabitha Hale, Sarah Desprat, Kristina Ribali, Celia Bigelow, Matt Kibbe and the rest of the crew at Freedomworks did such a wonderful job and in part because we spent an inordinate amount of time interacting with […]

With a few exceptions, foremost among them the New York Post, the coverage of OWS protests compared to the coverage of tea-party protests is the worst media double standard in recent history. Nothing compares, because nothing else involves this much distortion on both ends of the coverage. It’s not just that most press outlets (like […]

I don’t like Mitt Romney. I never have and I probably never will. You see, politicians like Mitt Romney have a history of screwing over movement conservatives. You know the type. Lincoln Chafee. Arlen Specter. Charlie Crist. You might say, “No way! Romney’s more conservative than those guys!” Is he really? What gives you that […]

Over the course of my life, I’ve read hundreds of books about how to better your life and I’ve been fortunate enough to converse with an enormous number of extremely successful people. What I’ve learned is that for most people, success is no accident. Winners are winners for a reason just as losers are losers […]

There are a lot of fine candidates running for President who are not Mitt Romney. You can certainly say fantastic things about Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and some of the other candidates who are reaching for that brass ring. Like everyone running, Newt Gingrich has his flaws, but given the state of the […]