Category: musings

Feel like Christmas every morning

It’s your natural state. You’re an explorer. Don’t realize it fully? Maybe you’ve spent too much time living like a corpse, mouldering around in graves and mausoleums with other corpses. My friend Claude (author of Just Because Club and the Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased) and I were talking about this the other day.…
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What Chris Cornell and Robin Williams can teach us

The lesson goes like this: Those who don’t unleash and master the imagination will suffer unto death. And die you will anyways, so cut out the suffering. Like one of the guys at last year’s U.K. Workshop. He saw that the only way other people’s actions could hurt him was in his own mind. He…
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Will Self-Improvement Drive Your Friends Away?

Ever feel alone in wanting to rapidly advance your life on your terms? I sure have. Even the closest people in my life have turned to haters at the most painful moments. Example: the first time we ever put on an online workshop for command z, there was a forum I belonged to. I won’t…
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Is Social Media Trying To Hypnotize You?

We all know how it goes. One minute you’re sitting there working…and flash forward 5 hours later… And there you sit, hunched over the keyboard or craning your neck like a turtle over the phone, the cool glowing screen painting your face like Halloween (yeah, the sun set at some point) and on and on.…
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Stop using the news to victimize yourself

“Anyone else have PTSD from Facebook lately?” That’s what one of my good friends posted lately. Now, I know him to sometimes thrive on complaining, and I’ve called him out on it before, so he’s no stranger to getting schooled in the Art of NGF. So when I saw that post of his, I starred…
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NGF20: From fat and sad in a cubicle to Fabulously Fit and Free with Misty Mozejko

In this episode of the Art of NGF: Victim to Adventurer podcast, we welcome Teresa “Misty” Mozejko–the often talked-about and reported on Canadian fitness pro who went from 305 pounds, sad, and lost in a cubicle among cubicles–to a fitness and nutrition expert, running bootcamps, a gym, and her own dream business helping women fitness…
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