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Dream Big

How to Turn Fantasy Into Reality

by Jason 08.15.2010 Dream Big

What makes the imaginary places from our favorite books and movies so special that people would want to visit (or even live there)? And even more importantly, is there anything we can do to make the real world we live in more like those fictional places? I decided that there definitely is, and here’s what I came up with.

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Do Or Do Not. There Is No Try.

by Jason 08.02.2010 Dream Big

It was 1999, but I wasn’t partying like Prince had promised. I had just graduated from college with a degree in art and found myself in the real world. Yikes. I was back at home, living with my parents, and engaged to be married within a year. I was faced with trying to find a [...]

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Take Your Job and Shove It

by Jason 07.11.2010 Be Honest

Do you love going to work every day? Chances are, your answer to that question is either an enthusiastic “yes” or a hearty laugh and a “yeah, right.” I wish there weren’t so many people in the latter camp. Believe it or not, having a job you love is not a pipe dream. If it [...]

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What’s Your Gold Medal?

by Kim 02.25.2010 Dream Big

We’ve had several speaking gigs since the Olympics has started and I’m finding it’s a great conversation piece for people. There seems to be a common denominator of interest: the individual stories and montages. The most inspiring ones are the ones where the Olympian overcame a major adversity to get to where they are today [...]

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The Future of College and The Advantage of the Childlike

by Jason 02.14.2010 Adultitis

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what college will look like when Lucy is ready to graduate high school. It fascinates me, because considering that she’s only fourteen months old as I write this, I only know it will look nothing like it does right now. Degrees earned online used to be the domain [...]

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The Christmas List, Volume XXII

by Jason 11.29.2009 Dream Big

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” –T. E. Lawrence (Click comic [...]

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A Quick Note About All The Things You Can’t Do

by Jason 11.04.2009 Adultitis

I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but the economy is bad. Like, really bad. It’s not a good time to go out and do anything outlandish, like start a business or invest in learning a new skill. You definitely want to keep risk taking to a minimum, that’s for sure. Oh, and the housing market [...]

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Escape the Cube: Free Ebook & Interview with Pamela Slim

by Jason 08.14.2009 Dream Big

Are you in your dream job? Do you sometimes wish you could be like Jerry Maguire and rebelliously leave your current workplace behind and break out on your own? Or are you thinking, “Yeah, right, in this economy? I’m glad I HAVE a job!” We had a chance to interview Pamela Slim, author of the [...]

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The Opposite of Success is Not What You Think

by Jason 07.30.2009 Dream Big

Pop quiz: What is the opposite of success? I’m no psychic, but I’m gonna go ahead and guess that you’d probably say that the opposite of success is failure. That would be wrong. The opposite of success, as Joe Malarkey (the Worst Motivational Speaker in America) recently reminded me, is doing nothing. Failure is actually [...]

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Your Recession-Proof Inner Child

by Jason 02.19.2009 Dream Big

Old people are often accused of being stuck in their ways. “Old” is a relative term, though. It does seem to be that as our age climbs, we tend to get more comfortable and less open to change. But that can begin to happen just as easily when you’re in your twenties as when you’re [...]

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The World’s Tallest Snowman (I Mean Snowwoman)

by Jason 01.08.2009 Dream Big

Is it possible for a whole town to be Adultitis-free? I don’t know about that, but Bethel, Maine sure comes close. In 1999, the ski town of about 2,400 residents set the record for world’s tallest snowman. In 2008, the record was finally broken. By them. This time, they built a “snowwoman” and she was [...]

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What Did YOU Want To Be?

by Jason 12.04.2008 Dream Big

One of the questions that Kim and I almost always ask when we interview someone is, “When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?” Sometimes the answer to that question is the best sound byte of the whole interview. It’s certainly always interesting, and it never ceases to [...]

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