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Why You Should Live Like You’re Poor {Even Though You’re Not}

I’m not a financial advisor and I’m not wealthy, let’s just get that straight. But common sense tells me that becoming wealthy is a lot like losing weight: Earn more than you spend, burn more calories than you eat. It’s simple math. Seems to me that until one can make this equation fit my life, [...]

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Why I Want to Stop Popping Pills {and DayQuil}

I want to stop using medicine. That’s easier said than done, especially if you’ve grown up in America where we pop pills the first sign of a runny nose. I don’t plan to ween myself off of medicine all at once. Rather, over the course of the next few years I want make a habit [...]

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Oven Roasted Broccoli Recipe

I think I’ve officially found my favorite way to prepare broccoli. THIS is why I love experimenting with food. By just using your intuition and some basic cooking principles, experimenting in the kitchen empowers you to break from the old, sub-par ways of making something and take your meals to the next level. I made [...]

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50 Techniques to Help You Sleep

Sleep deprivation is serious business. In the short run, not getting enough sleep can leave you just plain exhausted, it can impair your memory and cause plenty o’ stress. However, in the long run, sleep deprivation has been linked to strokes, high blood pressure, cancer growth, heart disease, depression, obesity, ADD, and a lot more [...]

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8 Things Not to Say to a Pregnant Woman (and 4 Things To Say Instead)

Guys, this one’s especially for you. While pregnancy is a ‘wonderful and glorious’ time in a woman’s life, a time like no other and it should be cherished and appreciated…(all said in a sweet sing songy voice while the visual of a blissful pregnant lady in a flowy white sundress twirls around in a golden [...]

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7 Ways to Keep Your New Years Resolutions

I don’t mean to sound like Miss Grumpy Pants at such a festive time of year, but hear me out. I don’t like New Years Resolutions, and I’ve stopped making them. People make them because they want to better themselves, which is all good and lovely. But it may be a little trickier than that. [...]

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