How to Use a Crisis to Reframe Your Life
When I was a new mom I fought hard to control everything I could think of. I penned my son into the living room with tall pillows to protect him against falls. I used dye-free soaps on his smooth...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Ways to Get Healthier Right Now
The New Year has just arrived and most of us celebrated by making a sincere commitment to get healthier and lead a better lifestyle. Unfortunately, many of the resolutions we made either fell by the...
View ArticleThe 9 Most Dangerous Beauty Trends
We all want to look good, and sometimes we are willing to pour extraordinary amounts of money and time into our quest for beauty. However, some of the most popular ways of enhancing our looks carry...
View Article5 Easy Weekend Honeymoon Ideas
A honeymoon is intended to be a relaxing, enjoyable getaway after the planning stress and hectic schedule of the wedding day itself. Couples who choose an elaborate honeymoon, however, may have even...
View Article10 Things Every Person Should Bring on a Camping Trip
A large majority of my life has been spent in the wilderness. My father raised me to be capable and prepared for whatever may come, whether I found myself in the woods or in the desert. Over the...
View ArticleHow to Use Self-Talk Successfully
Affirmations have become a trendy topic in the past decade. It was once practiced only by New Age-y types and satirists. Remember Stewart Smalley on Saturday Night Live in the 80s? “I’m good enough....
View Article15 Ways to get in Your Boss’ Good Books
So, you want to shine that bit brighter at work? Or feel the heady glow of well-deserved recognition? Perhaps you love your work and want to progress? Being a boss is hard work, if your staff make...
View ArticleHow to Cope with Exam Failure
The exam hall may be a distant memory as the results are posted. Your stomach churns in anticipation. Loved ones, peers and tutors join the throng. It isn’t what you expected. It isn’t what you hoped...
View ArticleWhat Does Happiness Mean to You?
Poets, philosophers and theologians, not to mention almost every person in the world, has thought about happiness. What is it? Can we define it? Whilst these are important questions, perhaps a more...
View ArticleHow to Pick Up Girls in a Coffee Shop
Approach any girl in a coffee shop with the blatant intention of picking her up, and you will fail. I’m not a fan of the term ‘picking up girls’. I am a woman, I have many female friends, trust me......
View ArticleHow to Have a Zombie Wedding
Are you dying to get married? A zombie wedding theme can be a fun, unusual theme that transcends the “till death do us part” verse of the classic wedding vows. Whether you want to add just a few...
View ArticleCan You Really Find Romance at the Grocery Store?
My research into this time honored venue was disappointing. I found reference to a Forbes article from 2006 which gives the percentage of people finding love in the grocery store at 5%, below online...
View ArticleHow to Win a Free Honeymoon
With the average wedding running a total price of $25,000-$30,000, many couples find that after the dress, flowers, rings, photographer, and cake, they don’t have much of a budget left for a...
View Article15 Worst Date Foods
Different people’s idea of great food and a great date experience varies dramatically. There are people who love food in all it’s messy glory, and the thought of devouring a shared plate of sloppy...
View ArticleHow Do you Determine if your House is Haunted?
A haunted house is defined by Wikipedia as “a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased”. In other words, a house thought to have ghosts. Not...
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