Junk In Your Trunk – Why Emotional Clutter Is Ruining Your Life
John Patrick Weiss on keeping things simple — and how that will improve your life. _____ Ever notice how easy it is to solve a friend’s problem? Maybe a buddy wants your advice about a career change....
View ArticleEverything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong
What causes addiction? Easy, right? Drugs cause addiction. But maybe it is not that simple. ___ This video is adapted from Johann Hari’s New York Times best-selling book ‘Chasing The Scream: The First...
View ArticleLiving Lightly With the One-Bag Lifestyle
View image | gettyimages.com Love the way you feel on vacation? Try bringing some of your travel habits home. — I’ve been on a handful of long trips this year and in recent years, and on all those...
View ArticleWhen Your Dad Says No to Gifts: A Simple, Minimalist Christmas
Embed from Getty Images Letting go of the urge to buy things as an expression of your love is difficult, especially at Christmas. — Every year since I was a kid, the conversation has been the same....
View ArticleComment of the Day: ‘I don’t know about you, but I’m last on my priority list.’
This comment was made by Daniel on the post 11 Easy Ways to Actually Love Yourself More by Jordan Gray — “Wow man. Just wow. Love yourself? I don’t know about you, but I’m last on my priority list....
View ArticleA Completely Different Version of Life
Embed from Getty Images One couple share how they revamped their life by cutting WAY back. — A friend of mine leaned across the table at a get together and proceeded to ask me various fear based...
View ArticleComment of the Day: “The more I slow down, the more I enjoy the present...
Embed from Getty Images This comment was by Moritzio on the article, “Why Life Is Way Better With a Man Who Takes His Time” by Mia Ranard. I loved this!! I was always a rusher (carpe diem, right? The...
View ArticleDiscover Your Personal Style
Embed from Getty Images Harris O’Malley offers a 5 step approach to figuring out your look. ___ Clothes are an important part of one’s identity. They serve as an outward expression of your innermost...
View ArticleLove Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the...
Jesse Kornbluth on the life of an incredibly inspiring poet. ___ I read “Love Everyone” six months ago. I didn’t write about it then because the purpose of a butler is service and I didn’t want to...
View Article5 Ways To Look Better – Without Going Broke
Embed from Getty Images We all want to look better. The problem is just how to go about doing so. After all, unless you’re willing to undergo expensive, painful surgery, you’re going to have to work...
View Article3 Tips for Making Your Next Move Easier
Embed from Getty Images If you need to find a new house due to a major life change, this means you’ll soon be facing a move. This can be a stressful time if you don’t do all you can to plan. The key to...
View ArticleThis Utterly Baffling Card Trick Has A Super Simple Explanation
Join The Good Men Project Community. “Here’s the thing about The Good Men Project. We are trying to create big, sweeping, societal changes—–overturn stereotypes, eliminate racism, sexism, homophobia,...
View ArticleFather of Mine: Man, oh Man
Dads Throughout History Series – Part 6 A little bit more about me… In this six part series about fathers throughout history, I had wanted to provide profiles about heroic fathers. I wanted to examine...
View ArticleLetters to my Sons … about your Manhood
…and How you Carry it No, I’m not talking about what’s between your legs, although that is part of this discussion. What I’m talking about here, boys, is the very fact that you are males and what the...
View ArticleSprezzatura: The Art Of Making Difficult Things Look Simple
— If there’s one type of person we admire, it’s the person who’s able to get things done without even trying. You know that person. He’s the student who aces the final exam “without even studying”....
View ArticleThe Space Between
Time Lapse We had this joke growing up about the parmesan cheese in our family fridge. It was one of those green plastic Kraft containers, and I happened upon it once when looking to top a slice of...
View ArticleSimple Animals: Sponges, Jellies, & Octopuses – Crash Course Biology #22
— Hank introduces us to the “simplest” of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as “animals” has been called into question because they are so simple)...
View ArticleThe Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations – Crash...
— Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants – liverworts, hornworts & mosses – which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle...
View ArticleSabotage
Get Out of the Sandbox It was right about the time he wanted to buy Greenland. This must be a joke, I thought. It wasn’t. None of this is. We’re all being had at the expense of one person. That...
View ArticleThe 7 Simplest Life-Changing Productivity Ideas Ever
— According to Leonardo da Vinci, “Simplification is the ultimate sophistication.” Seems Einstein agreed with him as he said, “Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.” I...
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