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Wtf Does Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer Mean?

I was driving around today running a bunch of mindless errands and having a bit of a nostalgia trip before I permanently vacate the Midwest next week and I began to ponder the idea of having friends and enemies in life. Instantly I was transported into every Tom Clancy book ever created and quickly realized [...]

My Guide To Pissing People Off At Restaurants

So I have been pondering something recently that I have seen time and time again, and it has been a reoccurring event in my recent trips to my new found fascination, restaurants. So as many of you know, I have been eating for health and vitality for over a year now, and my diet is [...]

How Not To F@#$ Up Your 2010 Resolutions

So we are drawing close to the final stretch of this holiday season and 2009 will soon be behind us. As I have been browsing the web, I have begun to notice an all too familiar trend that occurs during the NYE week, everyone and their mother is setting goals/reflecting on the past year/talking about [...]

Eat Right This Christmas (Or Don’t at all)

Imagine for a moment the following scenario

You drive up to your annual family holiday event and walk through the front door into the warm embrace of friends and family. You are feeling pretty damn good, albeit form the awkward family member who always treats you in some ambiguous manner involving your cheeks, breaking your hands [...]

Live Curious

I found this ad campaign on one of the many creative website that I visit on a daily basis for inspiration and general awesomeness. National Geographic is touting a brand new ad campaign designed around the idea of living curiously, and this got me thinking about the importance of this in real life.

What does it [...]

Tony Robbins Unleash The Power Within Review

Music, dancing, breaking old patterns, changing your life, getting naked (maybe that was just me)

The Anthony Robbins conference was a truly unique and positive experience, mixed with emotions that resemble something of a daytime soap opera

The whole experienced lasted 50 hours and ran across 4 days, essentially a life overhaul in a single weekend for [...]

How to Kick Your Morning’s Ass without Caffeine

(Photo by Toma01)

Wake up, take a shower, have a cup of coffee

This is the morning philosophy for millions of people around the world

Coffee has become the staple of the breakfast (even late afternoon snack) for many of us, and while the benefits for many are clear, one has to wonder what are the short term [...]

What Everyone Ought to Know About Ambivalence

(Photo by China Doll)

What a glorious day!

When is this day going be over with?

People tend to have mixed emotions in regards to many areas of their lives

From friends to family, relationships to work, and everything in between, people seem to have roller-coaster reactions to the many things that happen in our day to day lives

This [...]

The Integrity Challenge

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

-William Shakespeare

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

-Abraham Lincoln

(This is a exercise developed by my friend Nathan that I truly believe everyone should use from time to time. It is especially useful when you are unsure [...]

7 Reasons Why You Should Go on More Vacations

(Photo by Patrick Smith)

White sand beaches of the Mediterranean

The most delicious and savory meals white sitting on a bungalow in the creoles islands

Going scuba diving in the Bahamas

Everyone loves going on vacations but yet many people don’t have the time, money, or ability to drop everything they are doing and get away for an extended [...]