Category: General Life Skills

8 Tips for New Dads During Labor and Delivery

8 Tips for New Dads During Labor and Delivery

For most sane men, seeing their significant other give birth is a mind blowing experience.  My brain, for example, is already beginning to elicit nausea every time I think about my wife’s upcoming labor and delivery.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m terribly excited about the arrival of our first baby, but the birthing process isn’t like renovating a kitchen or bath.  Delivering a baby, at least […]

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How To Achieve Goals: Micro-Goal It And Keep It Simple

How To Achieve Goals: Micro-Goal It And Keep It Simple

For much of Sunday’s epic Wimbledon Final Andy Roddick outplayed Roger Federer.  Roddick out served Federer, played with more intensity, and had a number of incredible winners (including many backhand winners to Federer’s forehand side).  So, how did Federer manage to beat an opponent who played exceptionally well and, in some way, wanted the Wimbledon Championship more than Roger himself? […]

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What To Always Keep in Your Kitchen: Top Ingredients for Great Food

What To Always Keep in Your Kitchen: Top Ingredients for Great Food

I’m kicking myself for missing a great food article by Mark Bittman published back in January.  The article, “Fresh Start for a New Year?  Let’s Begin in the Kitchen”, is a one stop source for what every aspiring cook needs to have in his/her pantry and fridge to cook well and, more importantly, quickly! Let’s get right down to the […]

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7 Tips For Staying Cool in Hot Weather

7 Tips For Staying Cool in Hot Weather

Apparently the Spring season has decided to bypass the East coast this year as the temperature today is expected to reach a record high of 90 degrees!  I broke a sweat just climbing our stairs this morning; ok, I was doing some early morning work but it’s not fun to sweat especially if you have Mediterranean blood in you! Sweating […]

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Moral Intuition or How To Figure Out What is Right and Wrong

Moral Intuition or How To Figure Out What is Right and Wrong

David Brooks has a thought provoking ed-op in the NY Times today called, The End of Philosophy.   Brooks argues that moral judgments are intuitive and not really informed by reason and rationality (as the Western tradition has taught us).  Brooks points to modern research in cognitive science and psychology to argue that, “Moral judgments are…rapid intuitive decisions and involve […]

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Don’t Be Stupid: When It’s Not Appropriate to Be Frugal

Don’t Be Stupid: When It’s Not Appropriate to Be Frugal

Apologies for the short hiatus, life gets in the way of posting at times but I’m fully re-charged and ready to dispense some tips!  Today I’d like to look at when it’s not appropriate to be frugal; after all, you don’t want to put yourself in a zero-sum game situation because you’ve become a mindless pragmatist!  Here are six areas where […]

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5 Reasons Why It’s Important to Have Good Social Skills

5 Reasons Why It’s Important to Have Good Social Skills

5 Reasons Why It’s Important to Have Good Social Skills Italians are  generally viewed as a very social and outgoing.  Italian society puts great emphasis on communications and  personal relationships and its part of the reason why Italians have a reputation for conveying warmth and openess with both native and non-natives alike. In turn, here are five advantages associated with […]

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Benefiting From The Recession

Benefiting From The Recession

(All photos: I posted the three photos above/below for a reason; namely, to demonstrate that, from a US perspective, my family members had a pretty tough life in 1950’s – 60’s Calabria.  However, if you look beyond the conditions in the photos and through the linen shirts that acted as work uniforms, you see happy people in tight knit groups […]

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How to Beat the Winter Blues

How to Beat the Winter Blues

As a teenager, and then well into my late twenties, I didn’t give any thought to the winter months and the brutal cold, lack of consistent sunshine, or the large amount of time spent indoors.  However, now in my mid thirties, I have a deep hatred for the late November through mid-March timeframe.  A neurotransmitter must turn on when you […]

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6 People to Keep Close: Managing Your Life and Relationships

6 People to Keep Close: Managing Your Life and Relationships

If you haven’t figured it out yet, making your way through life is all about relationships and keeping, quoting a cheesy Sun Tzu, your friends close and your enemies closer!  Personally, I don’t like having dinner with enemies, including my old grammar school bullies, mean spirited high school teachers, and the grumpy South American whom I occasionally purchase my coffee from […]

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