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Random Awesomeness September 19, 2012

3 Simple Hacks for Increasing Your Life Satisfaction

Why do we have positive emotions? That might seem like a silly question, but really, if you sit down and think about it, how did positive emotions come about? I mean, we know why negative emotions evolved, right? If our ancestors didn’t have fear, anxiety, or dread, we probably wouldn’t be here because they would [...]

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Random Awesomeness September 12, 2012

How To Turn Your Dull Morning Into An Epic One

The morning is a precious time that most people take for granted. It is what separates the men from the boys and the heroes from the cowards. What you do this morning can make all the difference between having a badass day and being super productive, loving life and going on to bigger things versus being lazy, lacking [...]

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Random Awesomeness August 20, 2012

5 Ways To Find Meaning In Your Life

Finding Meaning Of Life

This post is by Juanita Gomez. What is the meaning of life? A question that has been asked an infinite amount of times since conscious life began on this planet. I am not a particularly philosophical person, but if you are, biologist Jeremy Griffith presents the best explanation of the meaning of all things on [...]

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Random Awesomeness August 15, 2012

Speak Any Language Fluently: 6 Study Hacks From Learning German

I started to learn German after a day trip to Berlin 5 years ago. I fell in love with the culture and language immediately and decided that I would be speaking German Fluently by my next birthday. My affair with the German language eventually went from romantic to reality, and we had to work together [...]

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Becoming an Expert, Random Awesomeness July 25, 2012

11 Steps Towards Deliberate Practice

deliberate practice

This post is by Lukas Kyska of The Aspiring Guitarist. Deliberate practice is your highway to becoming an expert. It is the fastest way to become really good at things. If you want to become great, you need to learn how to practice deliberately. But there is a problem… Deliberate practice is not easy. It is not [...]

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Random Awesomeness, Tech and Gadgets July 18, 2012

Hack Your Way to Becoming an HTML Expert

html expert

This post is by Blair de Jong of The Bootstrapped Entrepreneur. I recently read an article in Inc. magazine Leadership: CEOs Learn to Speak in Code, which shares the story of a CEO who learned how to code. The CEO headed up a growing online business and thought of himself as a fairly tech savvy [...]

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Becoming an Expert, Random Awesomeness July 16, 2012

10 Life Changing Ways to Invest in Yourself

This is a guest post by Grant Hensel of Viibrant. If you stripped Bill Gates of his assets and dumped him on the street…he’d be back to living a comfortable life with plenty of income in about a week. Why? Bill Gates has tons of human capital. Wikipedia defines human capital as “The stock of [...]

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Random Awesomeness June 25, 2012

The 5000 Year Old Secret to Becoming an Expert in your Dreams

This is a guest post by Jamie Finlayson of Lucid Ability. If you had the choice to become an expert in anything what would it be? Martial arts? The piano? Public speaking? I want to become an expert at flying. I’m not talking about airplanes or helicopters. I mean flying like superman… literally. Now you’ve either [...]

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Random Awesomeness June 18, 2012

5 Ways to Fight Back Against Resistance

overcome resistance

This is a guest post by Andrew McBeth. No matter the tenacity you put forth to dismiss it, that thought lodged deep at the back of your mind—the life adventure you’re too scared to face—won’t back off. At this point the thought comes on mild, like growing pains. (I recall the summer of 1992: absolute [...]

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Food and Drink, Random Awesomeness June 14, 2012

How to Live a Long, Happy and Healthy Life – Without Moving to a Blue Zone

What? You’ve never heard of a Blue Zone? Don’t worry, most people haven’t. These are regions of the world where the people live to be 100 years old or more and they do it happily and healthily. The cultures in Blue Zones are polar opposites to what we know here in the west. Yeah, I [...]

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Random Awesomeness May 16, 2013

15 Probing Questions to Help You Bust Through Limiting Beliefs

You have great intentions, but you don’t follow through. You tell yourself you want change, but you’re too afraid to [...]

Becoming an Expert April 24, 2013

10 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You a Better Writer

If you’re the student that got highest marks in writing and composition in school, you learned to please a very [...]

Audio / Video April 10, 2013

3 Tips To Help You Create Great Looking Videos

Learning how to create great looking videos is a skill that will prove to be insanely useful during your life. Whether [...]

Random Awesomeness April 3, 2013

Adopt This Mindset On Your Road To Expertise

Golf is fantastic sport. You’re out in nature and socializing with friends and new acquaintances. You might even be using [...]

Becoming an Expert March 19, 2013

14 Tips For A Great Business Plan

Think of running a business like taking a trip. You have a great vision for where you want to take [...]

Random Awesomeness February 25, 2013

11 Steps to Decode the Creative Process

Imagine passing through a metro station in Washington DC at rush hour. Imagine watching a violinist with an open case [...]