Getting better at dating is hard enough. It gets even harder when it feels like your own mind is fighting back against your attempts to improve yourself. When I was younger, I used to be a chronic insomniac. I’d be physically tired, but I could never actually get to sleep; my body would be exhausted…
Self-Improvement
Just Be Yourself
In the course of trying to get better at dating, there will inevitably be times where someone in your life is going to give you what is possibly the most useless dating advice ever: “Just be yourself”. After all, presumably you want someone who wants you for you and not whatever dubious achievements you may…
What Is The “It” Factor?
I was in Los Angeles last week while I was on vacation – a mix of professional development, visiting friends, chilling out (literally!) on the beach at Malibu and indulging my lifelong love of the Disney theme parks. I spent a great deal of time with my friend Bert, a working actor, a born showman…
Leaving The Past Behind
So it’s come to this… (I’ve always wanted to say that) The dawn of a new year approaches, full of potential and possibility… and the chance to make a better future for ourselves. But having just gotten done telling you about the problems with making the wrong promises and resolutions for the new year, I…
No Resolutions
Now that the Christmas holidays are over, it’s time for my second favorite holiday of the year: New Year’s Eve. Who doesn’t love a night dedicated to celebrating the end of a year (or a giving it a swift kick in the ass out the door, depending on how your year went) and the infinite possibilities that…
Short Cuts and Magic Bullets
I get a lot of marketing emails from various dating gurus. Call it a professional hazard; sometimes it’s because I get someone who wants me to “review” (i.e. plug) their product or service, sometimes it’s because bots harvested my email, sometimes it’s because I was interested in seeing what they had to say. Now while…