How to Quit a Job You Hate (And Why You Haven’t Done It Yet)
DO YOU HATE YOUR JOB? Do you find yourself daydreaming constantly about how great it would be to quit? Have you ever psyched yourself up to the point where you were about to do just that, only to have gotten “cold feet” at the last minute? And do you still believe, despite the fact that you haven’t done it yet, that someday—hopefully very soon—you’ll find the courage to quit? Well, I have to break it to you: You probably never will....
Is Happiness Really a Choice? (The Truth About Depression and What You Can Do About It)
“HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE” Never before, in the history of the Internet, have I seen four words set off such a firestorm of debate. On one side, we have those who agree with the above statement and believe that happiness is indeed a choice (or an “inside job”, if you will), and on the other, we have those who vehemently disagree and believe that it is a result of external circumstances (or, in other words, what happens to...
The Kurious Kase of Kylie Jenner (What the Second Richest Kardashian Can Teach Us About Attracting Both Fame and Fortune)
Kylie Jenner: Over 18 million Facebook page likes, nearly 20 million Twitter followers, 80 million+ Instagram followers and, if recent reports are to be believed, a personal net worth rivaled only by that of her big half-sister, Kim Kardashian, as far as Kardashian-Jenner clan members are concerned. How is it exactly that the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan became its second wealthiest, at only 19 years of age? I must...
Words of Wisdom for the Would-Be Wealthy
THE DEFINITION OF WISDOM Dictionary.com defines “wisdom” as “the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment”, but I have a better definition: Knowing that you don’t know anything. And the sooner you (yes, you—the person reading this right now) realize that you, despite all of your schooling and apparent life experience, still don’t know anything, the better off you will be. It doesn’t matter how much schooling you...
You Can’t Say You’ve Made It If You Haven’t Been Hated (The Truth About Haters and Trolls)
I REMEMBER MY FIRST HATERS LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY It was the spring of 2012. I was 29 years old and had just dropped from my all-time high weight of 197 lbs. (at 5’10”) to 156 lbs. (nine lbs. below my weight as a high school junior) before settling in at a very healthy 162-165 lbs.—a feat I’d accomplished in public on my first YouTube channel, which I’d created really as nothing more than a video weight loss...
YouTube is Dead (How Google Killed It and the Dreams of YouTubers Worldwide)
I USED TO BE BIG ON YOUTUBE Okay, well, not BIG big, like PewdiePie big, but pretty big, especially considering that I was working within the confines of what is colloquially known as “the YouTube fitness community”. As Low Carb Cory, I grew my original YouTube channel to over 8,000 subscribers and was pulling in over $600 a month in Google AdSense revenue (from the ads that Google would show before and during my videos),...
