Are you looking for something fun to do with friends? Are you tired of the same old and want to challenge yourself in new social ways? Have you ever considered doing an escape room? I can say from experience that nothing brings people together quite like being trapped in a puzzle. I know it sounds …
Have you ever watched a James Bond movie and during the obligatory poker scene had the thought ‘That looks cool, but what in the hell are they doing?’. Well, then this is the article for you. Poker can be complicated for new players so I’m going to take pains to try and make it as …
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. “ – From: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. We all want to live interesting lives but some of us, perhaps a lot of us, feel that we are unable to …
What if I told you that there was a pill to make you happier, healthier, more confident and more attractive. It’d be a miracle, “Give it to me now!”. Well there is something you can do that will give you all of these benefits and there is no pill required. I’m talking about fixing your …
What is confidence? It’s a sort of emotion and sort of a state of being. It’s something very primal that can be seen in all facets of life and in many different animals and insects. You could even describe some plant life as being more confident than others. To understand confidence we must take a …
Last night I rewatched the movie, Dead Poets Society (1989) written by Tom Schulman and directed by Peter Weir and it’s probably one of the most inspiring movies I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t watched it I recommend that you do, it’s on amazon prime at the time of me writing this article. The film …
How do we judge success? What series of metrics do you use to tell whether or not you’ve won? How do you know you’ve made it? If you were playing a game of football it’s very easy to know whether or not you’ve won the game. It’s the team who’s scored the most goals in …
I met someone recently, let’s call him Tod, who, over lunch, told me that he tries to get out of his comfort zone twice every day. Everyone at the table scoffed at that statement.“It’s true!” He said. So I asked him what he’d done today that got him out of his comfort zone and he …
We’d all like to live meaningful lives. Lives where we feel valued for the things we do as well as making a positive impact on the society around us. It’s not, however, always easy to achieve this. Life is notoriously unbalanced and we all must “bear the whips and scorns of time” (Hamlet). Throughout history, …
We dream of things that are just outside of our reach. Part of what makes us human is wanting to traverse the undiscovered country. But what is it that drives us to strive for our dreams? Why do we long for things that are just outside of our reach and what can we do to …
