Lifestyle Ignition

Burning Man was absolutely fricken incredible!  It was insane! It was crazy!  It was beautiful!  There are no words!  Nothing can prepare you for the profound and complex expression of human creativity, the overwhelming delectable feast for the senses, or the intense rush of emotions.  What is Burning Man? When four of my friends and [...]

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Hello again my fellow lifestyle igniters!  Last month I first took the leap and met David Crandall of Heroic Destiny in person.  Recently I expanded this real world meet up of bloggers in my home city of Chicago to include Joel Runyon and Nina Yau. Brandon James of New Life Travel had started his epic [...]

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I recently returned from Austin, Texas where three friends and I had a reunion.  It had been more than two years since we had all been on a trip together in Australia.  Much had changed, but somehow things felt the same, like no time had passed.  We all felt like we were just as close, [...]

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Hello fellow lifestyle igniters! You’ve already seen me take blogging into the offline world using topless body paint girls for shameless marketing.  I am heading to Texas to meet fellow blogging friend David Crandall of Heroic Destiny.  He recently included me in a post 27 people I can’t wait to meet in person.  I am [...]

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When I was still working at the bank, one of my best friends decided to quit his job and embark on a bike journey from Berlin to Beijing.  It was while living and working with him, we formulated our plans to leave the corporate world and embark on alternative ways of living.  While I haven’t [...]

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Hate work quotes! If you are new here, please read my about page Hate work? Do you hate your job?  Or hate the work you do?  There have been an incredible number of people arriving at my blog searching for I hate work quotes, so I thought I’d compile some a list of work quotes [...]

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If you are new here, please read my about page Why the hell am I doing this?  What’s going on? Do I plan to make money? I’ve gotten a lot of questions like these in one form or another since I started writing this blog.  People have asked “So you’re not working now.  You’re “doing” [...]

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If you are new here, please read my about page Dare to be great.  Not just good but great. There’s this set path that we’re “supposed” to be on.  A template life.  Anyone who strays from this is considered a failure in some way. If you don’t graduate college in 4 years. If you don’t [...]

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If you are new here, please read my about page Have you ever been reading something online and found a typo?  (This is rhetorical, of course you have).  I have found typos in even the most respected of places, like online newspapers and magazines, job applications, and very well respected blogs.  I once saw the [...]

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If you are new here, please read my about page6S55AQWTRHC Notice that picture next to someone’s comment on a blog post?  It’s called a Gravatar.  It’s insanely easy to use and simple to set up.  Gravatars are great because they display a photo or logo on any comment that you leave on a wordpress blog.  [...]

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