A Midwest Journal

This site is now mostly a static record of earlier living and research. However, I do update the most popular parts of this site by hand, as occasion presents.

I manage and operate a working Midwestern farm, and freelance web-design to pay other bills, but may be more well-known as an author and sometimes caricaturist.

You'll find my latest books at Midwest Journal Press. After over a decade of dedicated study and research (on top of 20 years as a counselor and consultant) I consider my own path along the travels in Self-Help and Personal Development to be completed. This was mostly written up first with the Go Thunk Yourself series, but then followed by "Freedom Is (period.)".  And any still-unanswered questions (such as "what do you do after enlightenment?") were fulfilled with "Winning Your Infinite Freedom."

Additional to all that research was bringing back certain references which had gone out of print and into the public domain. Hill, Haanel, Troward, Behrend, Wattles, Larson, Brande, Carnegie, Nightingale, Long, Collier - names you may or may not know, but each had a key piece to the puzzle - New Thought famous authors who helped explained the age-old secrets.

As usual, secrets hidden in plain site. Now they can be found via my Lulu Go Thunk Yourself Bookstore.

And with that, my job is done. Now you have a path as some sort of guide (your own mileage will definitely vary) to get you clear/enlightened/cosmic consciousness, etc.  As well as enabling you to decide what to do with your life after that - and perhaps regaining all the native spiritual ablities you could ever want or need. For me and you, it's much as when the wood-cutter finally got to the forest - lots of wood-cutting to do.

One system which came out of this was the "Thrivelearning System", which is a collection of programs that can help you make your own way out. These are the tools I tested and found workable during this research above. While each individually are extremely effective, and some can take you to unbelievable heights of personal achievement, together they more quickly solve the puzzle of making a living with an online business while you go through the perambulations which seem necessary to both making that living and getting your native freedom, peace, and abundance back. These links and data are available in the sidebar and the PDF below. They aren't my programs, having been researched, tested, and proved each on their own research routes by others. And I'm not one to re-invent the wheel or put a spin (or marketing facade) on something which is already workable in its current form.

So, next for me is concentrating on "Cows and Cartoons" - which is to say I'm focusing on raising high-quality grass-fed beef and meanwhile developing my illustrations and cartoons into a regularly syndicated and remunerative line of work. Another approach which aligns with a completely natural way of farm-life is to become a Shaklee distributor. (Of course, I'll be doing this from my farm - both in experiencing and reviewing their products as well as publishing those reviews online - as I continue to improve the farm's capacity as a natural lifestyle resource.)

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Let me leave you, then, with all these links and resources, plus this PDF of that Thrivelearning System.