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How to turn yourself into James Bond, or his femme fatale, in two words.
What’s all the buzz about Argentine Tango and why should you care? It’s simply the best legal way to enter a world of fiery passion. Anyone can do it. Young, old, fit, round, man, woman, tall, short…anyone.
“Let’s Tango”
Those two words raise the ambient temperature, turn a man’s blazer into a tuxedo jacket, and transform a woman’s little black dress into a long satin number slit to the hip more surely than ever did, “shaken, not stirred.”
Excited yet? You should be. Read on to learn how you, yes you, can learn to undergo that metamorphosis at will.
Learn How to Punch Through Walls, Leap from Building to Building, and Dodge Bullets….While Eating Popcorn
Are you stuck in the rat race? Is the biggest question in your life Who Moved My Cheese? If you have a spark of life in you, and want to rise above the conscious level of a rat, read on, buy yourself a copy of The Matrix, and jump to the next level.
This morning I had a spiritual awakening. I’ve been working very hard on my personal development over the last couple of years and it’s been intensifying recently. I now think it’s because I’ve been working towards the experience I had this morning, and I don’t think it’s a surprise that it’s coming now, when it’s at most 7 weeks before my son, my first child, is born. I haven’t reached total spiritual enlightenment or anything, and I’m certainly not done working on myself, but I do think I’ve reached a new awareness that will help me to be enjoy life and to teach my son to do the same.
But why stop at my son? If you’re interested, read on! (more…)
Yeah, ok, so Emily scooped me on that one, twice now. I don’t care - you get to read my writing about it too! It’s amazing what has changed. Let me give you a little timeline: (more…)
Got up at 6:22 AM. I’d actually been awake since about 6 - I didn’t sleep well because it’s been unseasonably warm (70 degrees yesterday - not normal for the DC area in January) and I kept waking up sweating, but I never really woke up enough to actually ditch the down comforter in favor of just the sheet. This is what happens when you go to bed at 2:30 in the morning. Oh well. Hopefully getting up early today will help me get to sleep at a sensible hour tonight.
I weighed in at 189.5 pounds, which is great! That brings my weight loss total to 4 pounds in two days. Some of that is just the diet clearing out the food in my digestive tract, but I hadn’t been eating so heavily before that there was 4 pounds worth to clear out, so I’m pretty sure some of that is fat loss. I don’t, of course, expect this rate to continue - you always lose a few pounds quickly when you first gain control of your eating.
As usual, I have trouble getting to bed when I intend to. Between cleaning up the blog post, taking the dog out, taking care of my neighbor’s cat, and getting ready for bed (and probably some other things I missed), it was nearly 2 AM before I got in bed. I read ’til 2:30.
Also, my current wake-up discipline isn’t great - I didn’t get out of bed ’til 10am, which, at least is better than yesterday.
However, my weight was 192 this morning, which is definitely an improvement. (more…)
I weighed in at 193.5 pounds this morning and it’s unacceptable for that to continue!
Thus, today I start 30 days of The Zone. According to the CrossFit folks, I should have 17 Zone blocks per day, so I’m shooting for 15 blocks per day, and I get one cheat day per week.
I’ll be listing my weight each morning before breakfast. (more…)
I’ve been a member of both. AllAdvantage had one of those deals where you downloaded a tool that showed you ads while you used your computer and paid you for looking.
Then there was FreePC, where they offered you a Free PC and free dial-up Internet service (more…)
My life is good. It always has been. I’ve been surprised about the way it’s gone a number of times, and I’ve lived through plenty of difficult times, but it’s good.
I’ve always felt lucky. My upbringing has taught me to be rational, but my one major exception has been a nagging belief in luck. I remember, as a teenager, saying that I wouldn’t believe in luck except that I always seemed to be so lucky. Maybe it’s just optimism and a positive outlook…if you have a good attitude about whatever happens to you then you will tend to feel that positive things happen to you.
Regardless, life has been good. I went to good schools, I have known some really exceptional and wonderful people, I have had great jobs, and I’m married to an angel.
I mention all of that so you will understand my full meaning when I say that I feel as if the path I have been walking has led to a place where my feet leave the ground, where each step takes me farther and farther until I skip from peak to ridge to jungle in as many steps, the landscape changing around me almost faster than I can believe. And yet I feel unhurried and more peaceful than I have ever been, as if I am still and the landscape streaks past.
My relationship with my wife
I made a leap to change careers and have found myself in my dream job with a bright future.
I’m becoming more involved in my family.
I’ve become acquainted with the concept of spirituality.
Life has become so easy…there are no problems, only bends and twists in the path that I can’t see past. But just because I can’t see around the next bend doesn’t mean it’s hard to walk around it.
And, of course, as all of this happens, I keep encountering influences that accelerate it.
Luck? I don’t believe in luck. 
I’ll be writing about some of those influences in the coming weeks. If any of this resonates with you, then perhaps you might benefit from them as well.