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Each week we publish free and non-sucky advice on life, love and work.
Why? Because quite frankly, most of the popular advice out there today sucks — and also, is boring — and we’re here to change that.
Wanna know more about who we are? You can read up right over here.
But first — check out the two steps to awesomeness below.
STEP ONE: GET SOME
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STEP TWO: READ SOME STUFF
Here are just a few smatterings of the stuff I’ve written that people seem to enjoy most.
READER FAVES
- SHOCKINGLY STUPID ADVICE: How Cosmopolitan Magazine is misleading a generation of young women
- Shattering The Illusion of All Alone: Depression, Suicide, and Why The World (Not You) is Effing Insane
- Dearest Sweet Honey Child: Do you know that you’re never alone?
- What a Lost, Wandering Starbucks Addict Can Teach You About Finding Your Way
- The Guaranteed Way to Get Any Guy (Or Girl)
- Why Your College Degree Doesn’t Mean Sh**
- The Derek Zoolander Guide to Finding Yourself
- Why I’m Getting Naked for 3,737 People
- The Suckiness Diaries: How to survive when life gets shitty
- The #1 Relationship Killer: Are you unknowingly sabotaging your chances at love?
- Why It’s OK to be Lost & Confused
- Stuff Stupid College Girls Do
DEALING WITH LIFE’S SUCKINESS
[Breakups, illness, depression, loss... what do you do when life is crappy?]
- The Derek Zoolander Guide to Finding Yourself
- Dealing With Crappiness? The One Thing You Must Know
- Weird But True: The Secret to Dealing With Those Things Called “Feelings”
- Dearest Sweet Honey Child: Do You Know That You’re Never Alone?
- Shattering The Illusion of All Alone: Depression, Suicide, and Why The World (Not You) is Effing Insane
- Tiny Buddha Guest Post: Why Happiness Will Never Come to You
- The Suckiness Diaries: How to survive when life gets shitty
- ROFL! Totally Embarrassing Confessions That Will Crack You Up (& Make You feel Less Alone)
- What a Lost, Wandering Starbucks Addict Can Teach You About Finding Your Way
- Like, Could This Be The Answer You’re Looking For?
- Why Losing Your Boyfriend/Job/Mind is the Best Thing That’s Ever Happened to You
- The Time Tested, Tried and True, Totally Weird Way to Deal With Sucky Feelings
- One Weird Way to Escape Heartbreak, Loneliness, or any Dreaded Feeling
WHAT IN THE HECK SHOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE?
[Finding your passion and your career path]
- The Real Reason You Haven’t Found Work You Love (The Wisdom of Cal Newport)
- Career Planning is A Horrible Idea
- What a Burrito Man Can Teach You About Finding the Work You Love
- It’s Ridiculously Simple: How to Find Your Life’s Freaking Purpose in One Minute or Less
- I Don’t Want You to Live a Good Life. Here’s Why.
- The Ultimate Guide To Figuring Your Life Out (Even If You’re Lost And Confused)
- Why It’s OK to be Lost And Confused
HOW TO BE AWESOME
[Living a life that's on purpose and far from average]
- There’s Nothing Worse Than Self Improvement
- Dear Cubicle, I’m Leaving You
- Will Your College Edumacation Get You a Job?
- Why Your Networking Sucks Balls
- How to Get Hired By Anyone: 5 Foolproof Methods for Landing That J-O-B
- Confessions of a Freakishly Nerdy Blogger: Why I’m Leaving My Job, My House, and My Life As I Know It
- Attention, Whiny Complainers: NOW’s The Time To Make A Diff!
LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS (& SINGLENESS)
[Ya hurdd]
- How to Get Over a Breakup
- The Guaranteed Way to Get Any Guy (Or Girl)
- Why I’m Still Single (Rewriting the Great Love Stories of Our Time)
- Waiting on Love? Two Things You Probably Don’t Know (But Should)
- When it Comes to Love, Could You Have it All Wrong?
- The #1 Relationship Killer: Are you unknowingly sabotaging your chances at love?
- Of Love & of Art [Risk is The Price of Admission]
- The Great Cosmo Hoax: How The Pursuit of “Man-proval” Robs You of Power
- Ladies: Would you turn down the perfect man?
- Why You Will Never Find Your “Other Half”
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