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What Are Your Secret Talents?

Couch potatoes never know what muscles they could build if they spent their couch time at the gym. On the couch, even repetitive bench pressing of the biggest, baddest universal remote won't build a noticeable muscle. And the same holds true for exerci... Read >

Throwing Your Life Away

Life comes one to a customer. We're all in the middle of a one-time event. We get one shot to do it right. When it's over, it's over. No rehearsals, no retakes. Why, then, do we so casually give our lives away? How do we do that? We give our life aw... Read >

Emotional Strength Through Muscle Building

It's a much mourned fact of life that watching exercise videos doesn't build muscles. Couch potatoes who can legitimately boast about six-pack abs don't exist. Reading bodybuilding books doesn't get the job done, either. Reading can take us on many wo... Read >

Death by Label

The whole world's in the label business. Every time we turn around, somebody's jamming a label on us. Not those "Hi, My name is" stick-ums, Not any sort of tangible, visible label, in fact, but psychological Post-It® notes. Even early on in life, we'... Read >

The Perfection Myth

You're not perfect. I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. Give it up. Nobody likes their nose. Or their knees, for that matter. Everybody finds annoying lumps, bumps and wrinkles, typically invisible to others, in various and sundry locations on their bod... Read >