Floored by Travel Exhaustion? 4 Things that Will Get You Over the Travel Wall
Travel is thrilling, inspiring, and fun, but is also exhausting, both physically and mentally. You’re on your feet all day
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Painting Bad Feels So Good: How A Creative Lifestyle Drives Success in Business
Recently I took up painting, and I quickly realized that I am a bad painter. Maybe the worst of painters.
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Why I’m Sick of Building My Personal Brand: And Two Solutions
If you’re an entrepreneur – whether that means you’re a strategist, designer, copywriter, journalist, musician, or whatever your particular hustle
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Traveling with Intention Part II: Mexico Recap
A few months ago I posted a piece on the benefits of traveling with intention before I struck out to
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Get Weird: 11 Real (Strange) Benefits to Taking Hallucinogens
There are some lessons—some pieces of intelligence, if you will—that are seemingly impossible to impart using words. They’re experienced based,
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Interview with Bad Yogi Owner and Instructor Erin Motz
Recently I decided to start bolstering my fitness routine with yoga, but between my hectic work schedule and constant travel, the
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A Brief Eulogy for Boxer, Poet, and Genuine Goddamn Human Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” “Wars of nations are fought to
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Finding Time to Write When You Have a Busy Life
Like many people, I’ve been calling myself a writer on and off for practically all my life. It’s one of
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Make People Care: How to Write About Your Life Without Boring Your Readers
At some point you’ve probably heard someone say it: “My life is so interesting that I ought to write a
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The Seattle #ManInTree Situation: How Iatrogenic Helicopter Culture Is Ruining Everything
“How much taxpayer money are you wasting? It’s not an emergency!” #ManInTree A Quick Word: After 25+ hours in the
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Unexpected Advice for Kids that Will Help Them Forever
Back when I was in college I spent a couple of years working in a preschool classroom. It was one
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The Party Was Great But It’s Winding Down: Why Booze and Drugs Are Losing Their Appeal (For Me, at Least)
I vividly remember my first drink. It was 2000 and I was sixteen. My band had its first show coming
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Thrillist: Can an Interactive Touchscreen Teach Men How to Pleasure Women Once and For All?
“From online dating to robots, technology has completely changed the way people date and have sex. But while these advances
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How to Be Romantic: It Should Be Taught In Schools Because We’re Terrible At It
“It takes technique to make love last.” Ovid, the Art of Love Tom Robbins once wrote that there is only
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Happiness is Here Now: 14 Steps You Can Take Down the Path Toward Happiness TODAY
Happiness can seem like an elusive thing. Try as we might, it often feels like it’s just beyond reach. And
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The Benefits of Madness: How Cultivating (Or At Least Experimenting With) a Fringe Perspective Will Help Save the World
“I stared out to sea and said nothing for a while. But somehow I knew she was right. Yes sir,
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Brief Missive from the Trenches: Coping with Busyness, Business, and Change
In the past year I haven’t spent more than two months living in any one town, and usually significantly less
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You’re Pushing Yourself Too Hard: Signs that You’re Overtraining or Over-working and What to Do About it
People tend to want too much of a good thing. I hate to open by stating something that everyone knows,
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Interview with New York Times Bestselling Writer, Traveler, and Entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau
This week I have another interview to share, this time with writer and entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau. Chris began making a
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I Reached Out to Tom Robbins and Look What Happened: the Benefits of Connecting With Someone You Haven’t in a While (or Never Have Before)
So I wrote a letter the other day. A real letter, on paper, albeit typed then printed. Into an envelope
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I Met a Man With No Face: The True Meaning of Looking on the Bright Side of Life
Paris is one of those 24/7 cities where everything is crazy all the time—or at least that’s been my experience.
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Why Bees and Trees Don’t Concern Themselves With Crises: Losing Expectations and Asking the Right Questions
For better and for worse, human beings end up asking a lot of questions pertaining to who we are and
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A Few Universal Life and Business Lessons I Learned When I Was In a Band
Every experience we have provides us with the opportunity to learn something new. Sometimes the slightest experience provides the most
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Making Big Moves: How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Going Places
Around this same time two years ago, my girlfriend and I decided that we wanted to move to Spain. It
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What Makes the Muskrat Guard His Musk? Courage: the Definition and Path to Bravery
It’s common to have memories that you look back on with a fair level of self-deprecation over having lost your
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Escaping the Escape from the Present Moment: Why Every Few Years I Move to the Middle of Nowhere
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and
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The “Right Mood” Fallacy: Nothing Ever Gets Better if You Wait for the Right Moment
We say or think it all the time: “I’m not in the right mood for [insert activity] now.” Whether we’re
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Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright: How to Reduce Stress by Looking Ahead
First off, I’d like to mention that the inspiration from this post came from a great little book by Dr.
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Join the Great Conversation: the Importance of Having Art in Your Life
Sitting across from one another on opposite banks of the Seine stand the Louvre and Musee d’Orsay. Both are world-class
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How to be Single: Do the Things that Make You Happy
Our culture is rather strange for a variety of reasons, one of which involves how we experience the process of
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Surprise! The World Isn’t Ending. Now What Are You Gonna Do?
Back when I was an angst-ridden teenager I was absolutely, positively, 100% sure that the world was going to end
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The Game is Rigged, So You Might as Well Set the Odds in Your Favor: the Art of Making Your Own Luck
“Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison Around the
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One Year Abroad: Making Changes, Finding Happiness, and Drinking Duff
Cafe Bohemia is situated adjacent to Plaza del Lobos, a small square with a fountain in which the bums cool
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What Makes a Good New Year’s Resolution and How Do You Make it Stick?
Whenever the holiday season rolls around, people tend to start making claims about the upcoming year. As she loads up
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Almost 30: Finding the Time to Accomplish Everything
I’m going to go ahead and be upfront: this post may read as if it lacks in structure. If it
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An Interview with Raptitude Creator David Cain
I’m changing things up with this week’s post. Instead of sharing some of the things I’ve learned along my trek
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Developing Willpower: Denying Yourself Superfluities in Order to Allow Your True Self
There are a number of significant people from throughout history who argue that our sense of will is a rather
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A Word from Vincent Van Gogh: Setting Your Caged Bird Free
Years ago I came across a collection of letters that the master of epileptic sunflowers and starry nights had sent
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Attaining Happiness: How You Can Use Dissatisfaction as a Tool for Finding Balance
Every single person, from the Dali Lama to Dick Cheney (you will probably never again see these two names in
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