I finally figured out how to break a bad habit and create a new one without going back into therapy for feeling like a failure! It’s so simple really. So I am going to share.
Last month I decided AGAIN to lose weight. UNLIKE the past 200 times I made this decision I opted to try something different - the 80/20 rule. Instead of “perfection or nothing” - meaning if I slipped and drank a soda, or had a burger and fries then the whole diet was off and I was …

Dennis and Michael Moss are my new heroes. They get it. When the father/son duo decided to enter the lucrative bagel cutting invention market a couple of years ago, they did what those who have gone before them failed to do. They noticed a pattern, then they entered an already glutted bagel cutting device market with a new invention and a new take on an old problem.
By taking into account patterns of human behavior and examining the how/why of cutting accidents, they created something people might actually USE. Sure, the …

Okay, come Thursday thousands, if not millions of people will get up and head down to their local homeless shelter to help “feed the homeless.” There will be more volunteers and people wanting to help than there are homeless people on Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s suddenly very hip and cool to care for the less fortunate on the holidays.
But while the 20% of the homeless and those who are down on their luck may crowd the shelters this year, there are millions of homeless and impoverished people who won’t, …

It’s been a little over nine years since I’ve been here. And back then, this place was a dry cleaners. For the past nine years or so it’s been a hot little coffee shop called “C’Ville Coffee.” It ranks as the TOP coffee shop I’ve ever been in. The owner, Toan Nguyen, not only greets you when you walk in, he has a conversation with you, finds out what brought you here. Very friendly guy!
When I explained my “year long adventure,” and told him I was writing and posting about …