February 2012
5 posts
9 Rituals for Making Your Day Better →
21 Suggestions for Success
Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Be forgiving of yourself and others.
Be generous.
Have a grateful heart.
Persistence, persistence, persistence.
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31 Life Lessons
1. Trust your gut. Really.
If you think he likes you, you’re probably right. If you think he’s cheating, you’re probably right. If you think she’s going to be your new BFF, (this time with feeling!) you’re probably right.
2. Sunscreen. Always.
SPF 15 indoors, SPF 30 outdoors. I’ve been wearing sunscreen everyday since I was 19 and I still get carded. I think this actually has more to do with...
January 2012
11 posts
3 Things I Would Gladly Sacrifice for Success
Blood
Sweat
Tears
3 Things I Will Never Sacrifice for Success
My Health
My Relationships
My Youth
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when,
through no fault...
How I View Friendships
“It is very important to plant new trees and protect the ones already growing around you” -Dalai Lama
December 2011
3 posts
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself →
Here’s what I’m going to do…everyday, I’m going to focus on one of the 30
12 Things Happy People Do →
Blogging
It’s like finding a damn Halloween Costume. When it’s not the right time, you always think about the best costume. But when the time comes to actually think about it, you can never remember the things you thought of.
November 2011
3 posts
How people in your life are like Television...
Ive come to find that people in your life are like TV shows. There are plenty of great and entertaining shows out there. But sometimes you just can’t watch them all. You just have to try to follow them the best you can or try to DVR it. It’s not taking away from the quality of the shows you are missing, but sometimes you just can’t fit them into your lives.
Remember that movie Hitch with Will Smith?
I would like to find his business plan…maybe I can tailor it for a career search coach or something
July 2011
1 post
Late night insight on...whatever this is
If you’re dating someone mutually inexclusively (did I make that word up?) and she tip toes around the topic of what she did last night, there are 2 ways to look at it.
You can look at it as if she’s got another guy and that you’re competing for her affection
She really likes you that she doesn’t want you to know what guys she talked to last night or what stupid thing she did. I mean really when...
June 2011
8 posts
Common Mistakes Before Starting Your Career →
Blog Format
I’m thinking going back to my roots and blogging about marketing campaigns that I like (not necessarily.effective however)
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
2 posts
Why people should listen to Country Music...
I think people who listen to country music are generally genuinely much happier.
Country music has this reputation of being whiny, downer, redneck music. In someways or another it actually does fit that reputation.
But think about it. The things that are the topics of Country songs are simple things, and what gives you more comfort than something thats simple? Songs about, hanging out on the...
Top Rainy Day Movies
These are my favorite Comfort Movies…especially when it’s raining
1. Almost Famous
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Scott Pilgrim VS. The World
4. (500) Days of Summer
5. Dazed and Confused/Fast Times at Ridgemont High
6. Anchor Man
7. Eurotrip
8. Top Gun
(Up and Comers: Get Him to the Greek, She’s Out of My League, I Love You Man)
March 2011
1 post
Top 5 Best Played Out Songs
1. I Gotta Feeling- Black Eyed Peas
2. I’m Your’s-Jason Mraz
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gotta think about this a little more
December 2010
2 posts
How To Be 20-Something- by Ryan O'Connell
Be really attractive. Your acne is gone, your face has matured without having wrinkles and everything on your body is lifted naturally. Eat bagels seven days a week, binge-drink and do drugs: you’ll still look like a babe. When you turn thirty, it’ll become a different story but that’s, like, not for a really long time.
Reestablish a relationship with your parents. You don’t live with them...
Dispelling Dodger Fan Myths
Being from LA, I was born and bred a Dodger Fan. I am very proud of that. However, living in an area heavily populated by Angel fans for 4 years of my life, I realized Angel fans have a perception of Dodger Fans that really irritates me.
They would stereotype us as ‘ghetto’. (What exactly constitutes ghetto?)
“I don’t want to go to a Dodger game because I don’t want...
November 2010
2 posts
My Top 5 Favorite Movies w/ Zooey Deschanel
I have a big crush on Zooey Deschanel and is probably one of my favorite people in the movie business. Here are my favorite roles.
1.) Summer Finn- “(500) Days of Summer”
2.) Trillian- “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”
3.) Allison-“Yes Man”
4.) Jovie-“Elf”
5.) Anita Miller- “Almost Famous”
Too much happening on Facebook for 11/2/10
I.) I voted…and you’re dumb if you didn’t for 2 reasons 1.) Its dumb if you don’t vote period and 2.) Voting is sometimes a valid excuse to leave work early
II.) RIP Andy Irons…I grew up with your poster on my wall of you surfing on the North Shore
III.) It’s a day late…but Happy Founders Day Sigma Phi Epsilon! I still love being a SigEp!
March 2010
3 posts
January 2010
7 posts
Gym People
Its not my fault that the gym is prime people watching. I live in LA, so you know there’s always something interesting everytime I go to the gym. Here’s the type of people I always encounter. Mind you, I’m talking about the types of people, not the way they work out.
The 60 y/o gym rat (who always seems to have a mullett)
The pornstar (you can tell she’s a pornstar for...
Recent Developement
I just re-discovered a certificate from my years volunteering at the church in my early teens stating that I have been blessed as a Youth Minister. So after all these years, of meditating and pondering, I have finally discovered…my rapper name: Rev Abary (Run DMC reference for those who dont know)
“She’s good. I can tell just by listening to her, I don’t even need...”
– My Dad…as he watches American Idol
Favorite Song Lyric Probably Ever...
…comes from Pearl Jam’s Just Breath
“I’m a lucky man to count on both hands the one’s I love/some folks just have one/ and others have none”
My Top Guiltiest Television Pleasures
After following “Jersey Shore” and watching every episode at least twice, I started thinking about the shows that I love to watch, but other people consider it so corny and horrible script wise, story wise and/or premise wise.
Sidenote; After writing this, I realize that I have a weak spot for show with good music, no matter how horrible the show is.
Disclaimer: You will judge me...
My Top 5 Beautiful Songs
After watching “High Fidelity” I decided to make my Top 5 lists of stuff…oh the power of television on the creative mind.
These songs definitely aesthetically and lyrcially beautiful, I mean lyrically and aesthetically
1.) “Until The End of Time”- Justin Timberlake and Beyonce
2.) “No Woman No Cry” -Bob Marley
3.) “Somewhere Over the...
First Entry of the Year...and in 2 Months
Here’s to a New Year and more good times.
So here is my blanket New Year’s resolution stated by a legendary band (which really I’ve been trying to do forever)…
….”I’m gonna get my back into my livin’”- The Who.
and along the way…
1. Go to a Dodger game outside of L.A. (and not get my ass kicked)
2. Help my dog lose weight cuz...