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Monthly Challenge: Random Acts of Awesome

This month’s challenge is to do wildly random acts of beauty. Or random acts of kindness, random acts of love, random acts of amazing, random acts of awesome. Surprise people. Do amazing and cool stuff for absolutely no reason.  If anybody asks you, just say: “Random acts of awesome.” Suggestions: Leave a huge (anonymous?) tip [...]

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Super Simple Sleep Hack

Ever feel like you need 10 hours of sleep? Don’t be ashamed. There’s such pressure in our society to sleep, or say that you sleep very little. So we walk around like zombies–incompetent zombies (that’s the definition of zombies, in fact, other than the brain eating part.) But whatever your sleep requirement is, if you [...]

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Lifestyle Improvement Series: #3 Get the Girl (Part 2)

I remember the first time I decided to go out with the intention to talk to a girl.  I was freaked out but sick of not being able to handle myself in front of a woman. I had been reading books and watching videos on what I should be saying and doing to get a [...]

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Monthly Challenge: Meditation Challenge

We challenge ourselves to produce new ideas and things, become stronger and healthier, develop mentally and emotionally, increase the breadth, depth, and positivity of our relationships, and acquire the skills needed to live how we desire. Do the 30 day challenge and you’ll either decide you love it and want to continue it for the [...]

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The Awesome Test (Part Three) – The Final Exam Of Awesomeness

This is The Awesome Test, Part III – The Final Exam of Awesomeness If you haven’t taken The Awesome Test Part I, take it here. If you haven’t taken the Awesome Test Part II, take it here. Then return and take this test. Warning, this is the hardest test of all three. Requiring the most [...]

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Lifestyle Improvement Series: #2 Get The Girl. (My Story)

My story begins in high school.   This is me being the center of attention. Thinking the attention from the wild hair style and the guitar would get me girls. I went through elementary and middle school a very shy kid, who got bullied a lot, played videogames and flew under the radar. I would [...]

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The Positivity Challenge – Monthly Challenge for March 2013

We challenge ourselves to produce new ideas and things, become stronger and healthier, develop mentally and emotionally, increase the breadth, depth, and positivity of our relationships, and acquire the skills needed to live how we desire. Do the 30 day challenge and you’ll either decide you love it and want to continue it for the [...]

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Stop F***ing Around and Get Real – While Still Being Nice to Yourself

The Problem Let’s admit it. When it’s time to stop f***ing around and get real, usually you don’t. You may tell (scream at?) yourself: Get in shape! Clean out the back room! Learn a language! Start a new hobby! Become a vegetarian! Eat better! Wake up earlier! Exercise more! Pay off my debt! Cook more [...]

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Lifestyle Improvement Series: Moving to a Big City

  Moving to the Big City Did you ever have a sudden drive to do something? You felt a purpose behind it and that is exactly what needs to happen come rain or sleet? For me that was moving to downtown Chicago from an hour and a half away in a tiny middle class suburban [...]

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Monthly Challenges – Why We Do Them, Why They Work – How You Can Have Fun Changing Your Life in 2013

Change Your Life a Month at a Time 30 day challenges. Why do we do them? It’s the tinker theory of progress. It’s the one foot in front of the other theory.  Baby steps. Poco a poco. Play around, test, fiddle, correct. It’s the theory that says I’m already over-taxed and have very little extra [...]

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Cold Shower Challenge

We challenge ourselves every month to produce new ideas and things, become stronger and healthier physically, develop ourselves mentally and emotionally, increase the breadth, depth, and positivity of our social interactions, and acquire the skills needed to live how we desire. Do the challenges for 30 days and you’ll either decide you love it and want to continue it for the rest [...]

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Join the Forum – Junkies of Self Improvement – Live Amazing

Hack your life, dream big, come alive. Join the (world’s best!) forum for personal development and self coaching: challenge, play, and live your dreams.   Announcement: The Super Life Forum is Live! Self improvement junkies: les do dis!!! We are bold, bare, and optimistic and want you to join us in enriching your life and changing [...]

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