Over the holidays, my brother mentioned an article he read about the stress on your neck of looking down at your phone—since, you know, we’re ALL kinda guilty of that. ;) Now that I’m back online from my 2-week macro break, I …

Does looking at your phone wreck your spine? Read more →

  This past Christmas, I spent a week on Maui with my family. This is remarkable for a few reasons: None of us had ever been to that island. My mom and brother had never been out to Hawaii, at …

How I Took My Family to Maui for a Week for $573 Read more →

I wasn’t sure this would happen in 2012. I had such a good time (dare I say “life-changing experience?”) during my Epic Road Trip in 2011 that I just *knew* I wanted to do the same thing this year—and really, every …

Time for Another MACRO Break… Read more →

Production week was crazy, intense, and fun! To film the pilot, we had three shoot days, from 7:30 am – 1:30 pm. We were at two restaurants, and filmed location shots in Santa Monica, Hollywood, Universal City, and Downtown. To …

How I Kept Myself and the Crew Healthy While Filming a Show! Read more →

Thanks to everyone for responding to the recent reader survey about what new course you’d like me to create! Here were the results… (click on any chart for a larger version) What would you *most* want to learn/take part in? …

Survey Results + December Course Special: ‘Tis the Season to RELAX! Read more →

  Are you taking enough time to recover and recharge? Regular recovery, on the micro-, mid-, and macro-levels, can often do the work of psychiatric medicine, only naturally. ~ Tal Ben-Shahar, The Pursuit of Perfect   I talked about this last year …

Why to Take an Offline, Off-Road Trip This Summer (+ 200th Post Round-up!) Read more →

**Quick Travel Update: I’ll be in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Washington DC over the next few weeks – I’m looking for couches/rooms where I could crash. I cook, I clean, I help however I can. If you know of something, …

Getting Clear on My Ideal Day – What’s Yours? Read more →

Update March 2014: The Hawaiian credit cards are now issued by Barclays bank. The steps below will still work. You may find a few outdated links, so here are the current links for the NEW Personal Hawaiian credit card (35K points for …

How to Get a $5 Flight to Hawaii in Three Simple Steps Read more →

  Last month, I embarked on an amazing road trip. I summed up the 10 Practical Lessons learned in Part One of this series here.   Here we go with Part Two, the more reflective and big-picture lessons I took …

21 Life Lessons from an Unplugged Road Trip: 14 Days and 3200 Miles (Part Two) Read more →

  Earlier this month, I embarked on an amazing road trip. While I’ve been traveling for almost a year, there are two experiences from before this new chapter began that still stand out: road trips I took to and from …

21 Life Lessons from an Unplugged Road Trip: 14 Days and 3200 Miles (Part One) Read more →