The Michel Fortin Blog

If you've been wondering why I haven't blogged lately, there's a reason. It's a reason I wish I would never have to use. But it's also an honor and a privilege. It started when my mother decided to take some time off. She's 67 and retired now,...

The last month has been riddled with challenges. The most significant of which was a nasty flu bug that knocked me off of my feet for over a week. I felt absolutely horrible. Plus, that nasty little virus made its rounds with the entire family. I...

After 30 years, yesterday, which was Independence Day, I declared my own independence... from cigarette smoke. If you're a non-smoker, this may not be a big issue. But for me, it's huge. And it's all because of one ingenious little tool I would...

Last night while watching TV, my wife and I had an interesting debate on the whole "The Secret" phenomena. And we came to the very same conclusions. I believe in the law of attraction. I also like the premise behind the book, which is largely...

If you've spent much time at all here, you'll know Michel's a fanatical tester. But he's not alone in his passion for quantifiable results. For instance our friend Alex Mandossian preaches to anyone with ears to hear that, "Nothing is true or...

Drop Your Goals (And Manage Your Life) by Michel Fortin is a book written over a decade ago as the author was going through some tough times. The result is a powerful look at how to stop setting goals and to start looking at your priorities and...

What I have said in the last chapter applies as well to the professional person and the wage-earner as to the person who is engaged in selling or any other form of business. No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you...

To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself. You have no right to do so, anyway. It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women in order to get them to do what you...

You must get rid of the last vestige of the old idea that there is a deity whose will it is that you should be poor or whose purposes may be served by keeping you in poverty. The intelligent substance which is all, and in all, and which lives in...