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The Agony of Defeat and The Sweet Taste of Victory

Want to be awesome? I want you to be awesome! Keep in touch by subscribing to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This year so far has been one of those crazy transitional ones for me.  Its probably the most uncomfortable and challenging time I’ve been through, but also the most rewarding.  Everything I have [...]

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Conventional Wisdom is Many Times Very Wrong

I am pretty sure conventional wisdom has been passed on for the sole purpose of keeping people in check.  You know, don’t walk into oncoming traffic, don’t shower with poison ivy, don’t poop where you eat, if a cheetah is going to eat you you probably shouldn’t let it, etc.  But conventional wisdom is often [...]

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The year of the FAIL. A look back. And forward.

Failed projects. Failed relationships. Rejection letters. More FML moments than I care to admit. Mugged in my investments. Brick walled in my career. Death of friends. Stolen identities and hacked accounts. I look around and see broken glass everywhere, and I can’t help but smile. In a year of more failure than I can shake [...]

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CN Tower Climb for United Way… my thoughts

So I finished the CN Tower Climb for United Way this morning and had a great time!  I didn’t quite make my goal of a sub 15 minute time but I was very close.  15 minutes was an arbitrary number I put out there, and I really think I could have made that easily if [...]

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Weddingpalooza

Tis the season to get married!  Had a lovely wedding in Ottawa this past weekend with a lovely couple and a great group of friends.  Tonight I have a wedding reception in Niagara Falls.  If I didn’t RSVP to that, it would have been a bachelor party in Toronto.  Next weekend I get a [...]

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Clubfoot of Death

I bring your attention to my right foot, which if you haven’t noticed got a lot bigger than my left on the final day’s trek into Machu Picchu.  They think I got bitten by a spider.  Serves me right for going au natural and avoiding any deet infused liquid death spray (which I succumbed to [...]

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time to let go. i surrender to the universe.

“Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!” – Tyler Durden, Fight Club
I am abandoning this blog.  This post will be my last, but also the most personal one I have or will ever write in a public forum anywhere.  I am starting my own business and feel this blog will be [...]

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I write about awesomeness because I believe everybody is capable of it simply by challenging the 3C's: conventional wisdom, conformity and common sense.Read More About Me »