Life Advice

Maintaining Friendships While Breaking Away From 'The Group'

Noah Kass | Posted 05.14.2012

Noah Kass

To be an essential member of a personally fulfilling group can be very empowering. However, it can also keep you stuck. In order to experience real growth, we need to challenge the sometimes staid comfort of staying put.

Reunion Retrospective: Life After Law School

Millie Kerr | Posted 04.20.2012

Millie Kerr

After networking with people in countless industries, I began to learn that the most successful people -- those who earn satisfaction from their careers -- don't arrive anywhere via plans. There is no entryway to adulthood or happiness or success.

Gavin McInnes' How to Piss in Public

Toni Nagy | Posted 05.28.2012

Toni Nagy

Gavin McInnes's memoir How To Piss in Public is one that I highly recommend. It's not only insanely hilarious in a mental hospital sort of way but it's also so outlandishly offensive that you get tricked into thinking it is totally politically correct.

WATCH: Mom and Dad's Advice, From Katie Couric

Posted 03.19.2012

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One Life to Live

The Technician | Posted 05.16.2012

The Technician

Life is far too short to waste. Enjoy your life to the fullest. Don't wait for some arbitrary time in the future to do these things -- start now.

It’s Never Too Late

Mrs. Moneypenny | Posted 04.23.2012

Mrs. Moneypenny

The truth is, it is never "too late" for anything -- to go into politics, to write your first novel, to tweet, to climb Everest, or to learn to swim.

7 Ways to Make the Best of a Bad Day

Amy Spencer | Posted 04.18.2012

Amy Spencer

Our experience is relative. And while we may not have a choice about the matter, we do have a choice about the mindset.

Thoughts On Letting Go

Jeanine Celeste Pang | Posted 03.11.2012

Jeanine Celeste Pang

Why are we afraid to let go of something which could not be grasped in the first place?

What Looking For A Lover And Finding A Career You Love Have In Common

Sasha Cagen | Posted 01.04.2012

Sasha Cagen

Choose a word, believe in its power and see what happens.

Get Messy...Make Mistakes

Dike Drummond, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2012

Dike Drummond, M.D.

How can a kid learn anything new without making a mess of it at first? And yet how often do we let our grown-up selves get messy or be in a situation where we might make a "mistake"?

How Happy Is Your Love Life?

Sophie Keller | Posted 02.04.2012

Sophie Keller

ANYWHERE. ANYTIME. That is where you can meet your life partner, and that is when.

The Most Important Thing I Never Learned in School

Jeff Gitterman | Posted 12.26.2011

Jeff Gitterman

Most of us have been taught to focus on getting the big dollars and the big job, whatever it is, but we rarely come to understand that what we get really has nothing to do with what we want to get.

Life Is What You Do

Rita Schiano | Posted 01.21.2012

Rita Schiano

Get started on your bucket list. Add to it often. Make a promise to yourself to try doing one of the desires on your list each day or week.

Do What You Love! How to Identify and Pursue Your Passions

Posted 12.04.2011

By Ruth Zive | The Daily Muse I spent nearly 15 years working in nonprofit management, mostly in fundraising and marketing. I was good at it—peop...

Cat's Call: Actress Is Confused About Her Life, and Girlfriend Turned Cold When He Needed Her Most

Catherine Specter | Posted 08.08.2011

Catherine Specter

Whether you hit the big time or fall on your face, life is less scary when you share it with people you love.

Life Advice From Your Favorite Authors

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.25.2011

One of our go-to Monday morning reads (seriously, bookmark it) is The Days of Yore, a stellar blog that interviews artists of all stripes about the ti...

If You Love Something, You Have to Protect It

Chris Guillebeau | Posted 11.17.2011

Chris Guillebeau

Every day you have to make choices that ensure the thing you love continues to thrive. So if you find a way of life that is good for you, do whatever it takes to keep it.

How Britney Spears Prepared Me for Grown-Up Life

Katie Hawkes | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Hawkes

I'm going to propose that Britney's debut album taught me some important lessons about how to navigate the post-college world.

Balanced Life: The Things That Go Wrong Often Make the Best Memories

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Gretchen Rubin

Here are my latest Secrets of Adulthood. Although these items may not seem particularly profound, each one was a revelation when I finally figured it out.

3 Essential Keys to Living a Healthy, Peace-Filled Life

Jan Shepherd | Posted 11.17.2011

Jan Shepherd

Inner peace was a far off concept when I weighed 350 pounds. Now that I have been of normal weight for a decade I can say that inner healing was the major reason for maintaining wieght loss.

Shaq's Mom Shares 10 Tips On How To Live A Great Life

beliefnet.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Although she's the mother of one of the sports world's most shining stars, Shaquille O'Neal, Lucille O'Neal didn't always have it all. ...

Yesterday's History, Tomorrow's A Mystery

David Wygant | Posted 11.17.2011

David Wygant

You need to make mistakes every day. You also need to embrace every one of those mistakes, because it is when you embrace your mistakes that you will learn from them.

Intense Realism: Seeing Things for What They Are

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson | Posted 11.17.2011

Curtis

Realists are not afraid to look at the harsh circumstances of life. They sharpen their eye by paying keen attention to details, to people's intentions, to the dark realities hiding behind any glamorous surface.

Turn Shit Into Sugar

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson | Posted 11.17.2011

Curtis

We live in a society of relative prosperity, but in many ways this turns out to be a detriment to our spirit. We come to feel that we naturally deserve good things, that we have certain privileges due to us.

Are You Doomed By Your Circumstances?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011

Russell Bishop

Many people feel trapped by their circumstances. The main problem we need to address when feeling trapped, is the feeling of being trapped - not the circumstances, per se, but what we tell ourselves when we find ourselves in that trapped set of feelings.