Suicide, positivity, and well-being may seem like odd bedfellows – and outside my wheelhouse – but for more years than I wish to remember, I have been confronted with the seeming never-ending cross-section of these three topics.  I urge you to watch the video conversation between myself and Jack Colton, CEO of Silent Rich. As...Read More

by Andrea Goeglein Suicide.  Everyone seems to know and love someone who decided to end their life by means of suicide.  For me, the list is long and spans 30 years.  The list includes a friend’s husband, neighbors, business associates, friend’s children and grandchildren, my cousin, Gary Russo (just to list a few).  With each...Read More

by Andrea Goeglein Literally, don’t die.  It is an idea I am not sure about.  When I teach to literally live the Don’t Die™ spirit, I am suggesting you should strive to live with resilience and perseverance today and everyday.  What I know is living a Don’t Die spirit continually requires responsibility. In this TED talk, Juan...Read More

by Andrea Goeglein Teachings, lessons and life. Recently at a book club gathering I was asked to clarify what exactly it means to ‘teach what you need to learn’.  That, of course, is one of the Don’t Die™ Principles and the reader was attempting to connect the concept as much in her own life as...Read More

by Andrea Goeglein “But I am going to die!” That was the response I received from Lily Salm during a phone conversation that made me burst into laughter.   I had called to check in on the spirited woman who came into my life when I was writing Don’t Die with Your Song Unsung. Lily and...Read More

If someone was willing to tell you the way to joy, would you take the path?  When one of my most admired psychologist, @MarthaBeck recently tweeted “If you sense that joy, freedom & love lie in a direction, go that way no matter”, I had to pause.  My greatest challenge is not attracting joy.  My greatest...Read More

One of  the Don’t Die Principles of Responsibility, you teach what you need to learn, reared its pretty head yesterday as I reviewed Trevor Blake’s, The Physics of Success, Session 3 from The Intelligent Optimist.  Session 3 was about delineating the difference between goals and intentions.  In the middle of listening and taking detailed notes,...Read More

Don’t Die Principles of Responsibility will be the focus of my ‘summer school’ blogs the next few months.  Dana Rizer and I are in the early stages of preparing for potentially quarterly, one-day, Don’t Die Workshops in Las Vegas, paring her knowledge of food, health, nutrition and yoga with participant’s writing their most current Don’t...Read More

For Dr. Wayne Dyer, the perfect Father’s Day Gift this year is creating a book with his daughter, Serena Dyer.  It is also a perfect gift to me too, since their new book is the first Don’t Die ™ title to be licensed to their publisher, Hay House.  The following newsletter arrived today from Dr. Dyer announcing Serena’s...Read More

My first Don’t Die book traversed the true story of business loss and health loss.  The second Don’t Die book recounted the true story of a transformative 31 days of positive life change.  My third book is awaiting a vibrant true story that traverses and recounts a life experience that implores us all not to...Read More