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Kick Your Ass Idea #136 – Emulate Yoda

Don’t run to your momma and tell her the experts at KYA said she should buy you a light saber! Everyone knows light sabers don’t exist. Unless you’re a jedi, like we are. And then, they’re only available at ‘Jedis-R-Us’ and they’re very, very expensive. But if you really wanna

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Kick Your Ass Idea #134 – Look Up!

Are you as effective as you want to be? No? Is your business thriving? Not the way you’d like it to be? Are your friendships positive, productive, and rewarding? Nope? It may be time for you to stop looking down. It may be time to learn how to start looking

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Kick Your Ass Idea #132 – Seek the Truth

In this season of political acrimony and persiflage (don’t worry, I had to look it up, too. It means “light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter”) it’s easy to get bogged down worrying about what the lunatics who want to run America are going to say next. TV and radio

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Kick Your Ass Idea #131 – What Do I Look Like, a Comedian?

When you’re having trouble getting in the mood to work, try telling a few jokes. If they’re good enough, you’ll find yourself motivated and in the mood to take action. If they’re bad enough, you’ll get to work just to stop hearing yourself talk! Two guys are walking down the

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Kick Your Ass Idea #129 – Rock What You Got

On the one hand, we’re a society of repressed puritans. On the other hand, we have a thriving pornography culture embodied in the vast world of digital sex-capades and smutty novels like 50 Shades of Ian Gray. Are you a fully actualized human being, capable of enjoying every aspect of

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Kick Your Ass Idea #127 – Celebrate!

Celebrate great flavors. Celebrate the small realizations. Celebrate that hot pair of jeans. Celebrate friendships. Celebrate your existence. Celebrate ten free throws in a row. Celebrate your victories! We’ve often wondered if one of the many reasons we like sports is that we get permission to celebrate. In the rest

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Kick Your Ass Idea #125 – Sprint!

  Did you watch the coverage of the 2012 Olympics? If you did, you’ve seen some of the amazing athletes and you know that years of concentrated practice can help you become almost superhuman. But even if you’re not destined to win gold in Rio in 2016, you can shake

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Kick Your Ass Idea #123 – Reach Out to an Old Friend

Recently I heard from an old girlfriend through (of course) Facebook. It had been at least 33 years since we spoke, and after we caught up on where we’d been and where we are now, I reflected on how much her identity, in my mind, had been made up of

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Kick Your Ass Idea #121 – Draw a WHEN Diagram

Hey, summer’s nearly over, and even though we haven’t been in school since a few gajillion millenia before people ran out of Kryptonite to throw at the ankylosaurs on their way home from alchemy class, we thought we’d lighten things up with a way to make academics a lot more

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Kick Your Ass Idea #118 – Sprint!

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
~Yogi Berra

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