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Don’t Stop Believing

It’s becoming a Saturday tradition around here for me to share my self-improvement articles and essays. It’s the slowest day of the week, and I realize not everyone feels they need improving. For example, some people have been Internet trolls since the earliest days of the web and still haven’t snapped out of it. Let


Sometimes You Just Gotta Say What The F

Today saw the posting of my latest self-improvement piece for Real Clear Life. The idea came to me after another roller coaster ride at the game of golf (or tennis, I forget which). Why is it, I wondered, that when your game’s not on and you try everything to fix it, it just gets worse,


Are You A Compleat Gentleman?

Recently I plowed through a great book entitled “The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man’s Guide To Chivalry.” It was written in 2004 by Brad Miner, and I was planning to post about it here, since its subject is something I believe many of here would be interested in. Turned out I was able to get


Fakin’ It

As today is Sunday, it seems the ideal day to share something that concerns not just looking you best, but feeling it and acting it. And sometimes acting your best means you need to start play-acting it until you actually get there. Last month I announced that anyone out there struggling with the challenges of