Happy Monday everyone. I just got back to San Francisco after a fantastic weekend in L.A. My wife was in a group art show down there on Friday, and we spent the rest of the weekend catching up with friends.

In between visiting art galleries and catching a great improv comedy show, I really enjoyed reading the comments and email responses to last week’s post on radical lifestyle transparency. It’s clear that transparency for its own sake is controversial, but everyone seems to agree that we need more authenticity and honesty in the worlds of lifestyle design, personal development and online business.

There are countless thousands of bloggers and consultants out there who tell you how to live a better life, how to be productive, how to build a business or how to realize your potential. Many of those people portray themselves as experts on everything in their field, but few of them are open enough for you to really evaluate who they are.

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Editor’s note: this post is a little longer than I usually publish here, but it is worth the read. I lay everything on the line here, because I believe that transparency will help us all reach our goals. Total read time is less than 10 minutes. Let me know what you think.

I have to say that I’ve been “practicing what I preach” in some areas and not in others lately.

If you read New Economy Superstar, you know that I’m big on finding like-minded people and interacting with them. If you’re trying to reach any uncommon goals, it’s really important to build a support group so that “normal” society doesn’t drag you back into the fold.

That’s the part that I’ve been pretty good about practicing lately. And doing that has helped me realize that I’m not doing other things I should be.

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