7 Ways To LIVE LIFE… Here And Now
To LIVE LIFE or not to live life? … that is the question… a modern rendering of the ever popular Shakespeare saying. Henry David Thoreau said, “I...
5 Ways To Deal With Difficult People
DIFFICULT people aren’t always the easiest people in the world to deal with. Whether it’s in a corporate culture, a private practice, or even at...
37 Questions For Reflection
All QUESTIONS are a quest for the truth. A recent query shows that Google gets about 300 million queries a day. Now Google is turning the...
5 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Trees
TREES are such magnificent things. There are thousands of species of these oldest living organisms in the world. Joyce Kilmer thought so too. He penned this...
8 Ways To Win Out Over Worry
WORRY is something that many people struggle with on a daily basis. If it’s not worry about what the neighbors think, it’s that there’s too...
Laughter Is Still The Best Medicine
LAUGH and LAUGHTER are such beautiful words. Where would the world be without them? Certainly, there are times when we must be serious, and to laugh would...
Turn Your Life Into A Masterpiece
A MASTERPIECE is a crowning achievement. It’s the result of great ingenuity, a stroke of genius, and one worthy of critical acclaim. It takes...
101 Ways To Be All That You Can Be
BE is one of shortest words in the English language. It means to: change and continue exist and endure live and to last persist and...
What Is The Story Of Your Life?
Everyone Loves A Story What rivets us to a story? What so deeply holds our fascination? I think what captures and captivates our interest...
7 Principles That Lead To Achievement
Achievement is the art of accomplishment. Achievement is the: attainment of objectives. fruition of dreams. successful completion of a goal or goals. All great achievements...
How To Count Your Bounty Of Blessings
Noticing your BLESSINGS is an intentional act. It means you are paying attention to mercy and grace extended to you. If there is one there is one thing...
17 Relationship Building Strategies
Every RELATIONSHIP you have is worth building and improving upon. The truth is, none of us are experts at our relationships. None of us is perfect....
12 Ways To Improve Your Self-Confidence
SELF-CONFIDENCE is your ability to trust yourself enough to be successful. It is your core belief that says, “I have what it takes to get...
6 Strategies To Reduce and Control Debt
DEBT is one of the biggest problems in the world. According to National Debt Clocks, world indebtedness is closing in on 51 trillion dollars. DEBT causes many...
Spiritual Complacency: The War Within
It is of prime importance to look after ourselves, for if we neglect to do this, we can easily slip into SPIRITUAL COMPLACENCY. All of...
Mystery To Mastery: Finding Your Purpose
MYSTERY is simply the great unknown. Rather than embracing it, many people fear it. According to Merriam-Webster, the first way to define mystery is a religious truth that...
Did You Have A Hand In Any Of This?
A HAND is more than just an appendage. Like many other body parts like eyes, ears, nostrils, legs and lungs, the HAND is something most people have two...
7 Ways To Always Be Positive
7 Ways To Always Be Positive When you hear the word POSITIVE, you may think of: inspirational affirmations making a real difference in the world...
7 Ways To Live An Authentic Life
Authentic is the genuine article, the real deal, is bona fide. You’ve probably noticed that articles that bear authenticity have more value than those...
7 Ways To Beat Procrastination
PROCRASTINATION holds many people back from living a truly fulfilled life. That’s simply because PROCRASTINATION has never accomplished anything. Don Marquis said that procrastination is “the art of...
What Is Really Worthwhile?
Deciding what is WORTHWHILE is a very subjective thing because it is based upon your values. To ask… What Is Really Worthwhile? … is to ask yourself… What...
The Joy of Reading and How To Speed Read
To READ is to comprehend. One sense of the word means to understand a person’s character, but today I am focusing on the reading of written...
The Power of Writing Your Manifesto
The word manifesto comes from Latin manifestus; to clearly reveal, to make known. It is related to the word manifest; something readily perceived by the eye;...
Blog Customization: Choosing a theme that suits you
A wordpress install through fantastico comes with two default blog themes, or templates. This may seem upsetting at first, but there are dozens of...
What You Need to Host Your Own Blog
There are a few things that you will need to host your own blog. Web Space, and a domain name. There are so many...
This Summer, I’ll Be Biking Across Central Asia
This summer, I’ll be attempting to ride a bicycle across Central Asia, from Istanbul, Turkey–an unofficial divider of the European and Asia continents–to Bishkek,...
A Two Hour Standoff with the Sierra Leonean Bush Police
Our car stopped, and an officer approached. He was dressed in gaudy military fatigues, splashed grey, baby blue, and white, and carried a rusty...
Useful WordPress Plugins
There are so many plugins for wordpress that you can download for free. Type “wordpress plugins” into google and you will find a ton....
What Do I Write About?
It’s been suggested time and time again when writing, to write about something your passionate about, or something you have special expertise in. This...
Instructions to Set Up Your Blog
1st purchase and set up your domain name. Then Log in to cpanel and add on your new domain name. Once your domain name...
Benefits of Hosting Your Own Blog
Endless. The benefits are endless. But the main reason is that it’s Yours. You have total freedom to do anything you like with your...
Don’t Just Trash It – Cash It!
How hard is it for two people to fill a two bedroom apartment with enough belongings to get them through an apocolyps might you...
3 Ways To Pass Time at 8,022 ft Above
Set within the White River National Forest, at the base of Vail Mountain, lies the beautiful town of Vail, Colorado. Vail is home to...
The High’s and Low’s Of Life On The Open Road
Once we made the decision to up and leave our home of four years, the question was how. Are we going to rent a...
DuoTrek’s Camera & Gear List
We have taken a lot of pictures and have a lot of video footage. Everything we use to document and share our stories with...
How To Start A Blog
What is your Passion? What ideas do you have that can make the world a better place? Start a Blog and show us what...
110%
Have you ever heard the phrase…”I gave it 110%” What does that mean to you? “Give 100%, 110% is impossible. Only idiots recommend that.”...
When In Bend
Recently we traveled a ways south to visit Bend, Oregon. It is a beautiful, smaller city that sits on the eastern edge of the...
Photo Essay: Exploring a Diamond Mine in Sierra Leone
Hey all, and happy greetings from Man, Côte d’Ivoire. I write to you from an internet cafe in the library of a hospital, on the...
A Day in Seattle
Welcome, welcome to the amazing city of Seattle! Where the metro is always boomin’ and the coffee is always brewin’. No seriously, they are...
If You Find Yourself In Manzanillo Bay
Off of the coast of Mexico lies a submissive city with spectacular views stretching miles long. It sits between Troncones and La Majahua. During...
An Open Letter..
Oh the things we would tell our younger selves if given the opportunity. There is just so much to learn, to see, to experience!...
The Open Road
Description: I did a lot of bike riding in Guinea, in preparation for my Central Asia bike trip this summer. This is a shot of my...
Trucking Through Mamou
Description: The above shot was taken from a truck in Mamou, Guinea, as I was on my 4th hour of waiting for the bush...