Do Anything

POSTED BY Joel on Oct 19 under Advice

If you could do anything, be anyone and live anywhere with whoever you wished, what would you choose?
Why aren’t you doing it?
People make many excuses to themselves why they aren’t living their dreams:
“I need to pay off my mortgage.”
“I’ll wait till my kids are out of school.”
“I’m not good enough.”
I think that if most people [...]

Regrets

POSTED BY Joel on Oct 18 under Advice

Do you have regrets?
I think we all do.
My strongest regrets are not for things I did, but for things I didn’t do:

Being afraid of girls and not talking to them till I was older
Not starting to exercise till I was 16
Not having a better high school GPA
Not turning off my television sooner

I don’t regret actions [...]

Decisions

POSTED BY Joel on Oct 18 under Advice

Few people are willing to make hard decisions.  Oftentimes, people will tell themselves that there isn’t even a decision to make.  Those who continue to work at a big company as a default option are great examples.  They haven’t been offered another job (but aren’t looking) and they don’t create new businesses (they haven’t tried). [...]

Smoking During Pregnancy

POSTED BY Joel on Oct 16 under Advice

What are the potential problems that arise from smoking during pregnancy?

Ectopic pregnancy: Fetus implants itself in the wrong spot, resulting in miscarriage
Smoking causes 115,000 miscarriages and 5,600 stillbirths each year
Increased risk of placental abruption: this condition is where the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus and the baby suffocates from lack of oxygen
Increased [...]

Persistence Power

POSTED BY Joel on Sep 8 under Advice

Persistence is the number one factor in whether someone is successful in business and other areas of life or not.  Persistence is far more important than intelligence, looks, physical strength, or anything else.  Below is a simple, but 100% accurate article from Trizle on how to be successful:
Take Jimbo.

Jimbo takes years to build his business.
The economy [...]

Number One Mistake in Online Marketing

POSTED BY Joel on Sep 6 under Advice

The biggest mistake I see being made by online marketers today is pursuing only one tactic to the exclusion of others.  Some people focus only on SEM and ignore social media, some who focus on analytics optimization ignore viral content, and some focus only on PR to the exclusion of SEO.  Each tactic has its [...]

Fun Ways To Pass The Slow Seattle Time

POSTED BY Joel on Aug 28 under Advice

Seattle may be a sleepy city, but here are 5 ways to pass the time like a rockstar:

Start a business selling prayer
Meet up with interesting people
Text a girl and say, “I love you”.  Follow it up with a text saying “Oops, meant that for Girl #2
Watch Metalocalypse Season 2 with a case of fine French [...]

5 Activities for Seattle’s Summer Heat

POSTED BY Joel on Jul 28 under Advice

The weather is scorching in Seattle this week and since most Seattlites lack air conditioning, we are doing anything we can to stay cool. If you are running low on ideas of how to avoid sweating in your home/sauna, check out my 5 suggestions to beat the heat:

If you’re an office drone, work longer [...]

Home By Midnight?

POSTED BY Joel on May 7 under Advice

Old post written a while back, but not posted.
Like Cinderella, I have decided that going home at midnight is my best option.  Going out is a lot of fun and I meet many interesting people, but it seems that the only thing that happens after 12:30 is that I get more drunk or get myself [...]

Age Segmentation

POSTED BY Joel on Apr 27 under Advice

Today’s world is unfortunately strongly segmented by age group.  Instead of the traditional tribe style family group where young and old are together all the time, the young stick together with their peers and older people move to retirement communities in Arizona and Florida or hide out with their friends in their home towns.  I [...]

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