Tons of traffic in multiple niches from one blog – is that possible?

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Is it possible to have a successful blog without content being tied to some particular niche, criteria or category?  It sure is, there are tons of blogs out there that entertain massive audiences with variety of content.  In fact … looking at Tumblr it is pretty obvious.  People just post whatever the hell they want and yet, they still capture … [Read more...]

50 cool scenery images, places and spots

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Kick ass view of islands below   Beautiful Norway   Cathedral made out of beer   View of London from a plane view   Some clear water   Fiery sky   Badass air bubble reflection   House in the middle of nature   Slick tree house   Crooked forest in … [Read more...]

Cool Places: The Museum of Edgar Allan Poe

A digitally manipulated photograph of a bust of Edgar Allan Poe, taken at The Museum of Edgar Allan Poe, 4/21/12.

Richmond, Virginia, is a city full of museums, and a person could spend years exploring all of the art and artifacts that these institutions offer. I must admit that I'm woefully behind on my plan to visit each and every museum here in Virginia's capitol, but I'm making progress. For example, on a recent Saturday I visited The Museum of Edgar … [Read more...]

Cool Places: Wabi-Sabi Sushi in Petersburg, Virginia

The sign for the restaurant, Wabi-Sabi.

I admit, I'm something of a foodie and so I'm always looking for interesting restaurants to check out. One of my recent finds was a great sushi place called Wabi-Sabi, in Petersburg, Virginia. A small town in central Virginia might not seem like the most likely place for awesome sushi, but don't let the location fool you. Wabi-Sabi is a first-class … [Read more...]

Artists Let Imaginations Soar in Street Painting Festival

This is an image of a street painting from February 2012. It depicts the characters Beavis and Butthead.

My advice for any city that wants to give its downtown area an instant upgrade and have a lot of fun in the process - hold a street painting festival like Lake Worth, Florida does every year. Just block off a street, offer some cool prizes for the best creations, and then let a bunch of artist do their thing. Thanks to my friend and amateur … [Read more...]

Blog Commenting Platforms: The Bad and The Good

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I have been recently debating on the best comment system for My Time Matters Blog. Granted there are only three commonly used ones to pick from … well, five if you include the standard WordPress comment system and Echo - won’t be discussing this one as it’s not free and is still a work in progress. What are these main comment platforms? They … [Read more...]

Reminders about Starting New Healthy Habits

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Have you ever decided to make a change in your life to improve your health, only to return to the unhealthy behavior you were doing before?  We've all done it at one time or another – maybe it was trying to improve our sleep routine, giving up cigarettes, or maybe improving our diet. For a time, we’re doing a good job of sticking to our new … [Read more...]

Five Easy and Inexpensive Fitness Tips

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Fitness - it's a word we hear a lot these days, from news stories about the hottest exercise trend to infomercials for the latest workout gadget. Sometimes, it seems like in order to improve our fitness we have to run out and buy a ton of costly equipment or enroll in a pricey exercise class. Unfortunately, these days everyone is tightening their … [Read more...]

Costa Rica, Ed Mercer and Entrepreneurial Acknowledgment

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I’m gonna start off by saying that I wish I recorded my videos holding my iPhone horizontally … and I don’t even feel like editing these beautiful videos of Costa Rica with them being vertical. Next time I’ll know better. Although I’ll still post them up periodically over at YouTube.   The individual sitting next to me on the … [Read more...]

Richard Branson’s Bash at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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On the forefront of things it’s interesting to see how certain events shape themselves into progressive connections. In case you didn’t know. Sir Richard Branson started a chain of record stores called Virgin Records, after that the Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s. At that time Virgin Atlantic Airways was set up and the … [Read more...]

Utopia – The Perfect Government

Utopia - The Perfect Government

In the midst of all this economic crisis and politic corruption I can't stop wondering, what and how would the perfect government be? A few months ago I read a book by Thomas More called Utopia - he imported this word from the Greek - and the book was all about describing a perfect society where the people needed no government and could rule the … [Read more...]

How do you earn cash online? Or do you? Ideas here!

How do you earn cash online? Or do you? Ideas here!

I have been making money online for a while, and it still amazes me to this day of how many people still don’t realize the potential of this bazzilion dollar industry. The number of ways that one can make money online is such a huge margin that I won’t be able to put it all into this one post. But I’ll probably write another ebook … [Read more...]

Some Ways to Attain Peace of Mind and Happiness – Part 1

Some Ways to Attain Peace of Mind and Happiness While Living In a Miserable World

We talked a lot about the miserable nature of this material world, and how happiness in this world only exists in a fool’s paradise. We also learned how everything is caught up in the chain of karma – “actions and reactions”. So we can understand that we are all suffering because of our own wrong deeds. We may remember or not, but the … [Read more...]

Top 15 Time Quotes

Top 15 Time Quotes

15) By the time we've made it, we've had it. - Malcolm Forbes 14) But what minutes!  Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli 13) A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. - John B. Priestly 12) When told the reason for Daylight Saving time … [Read more...]

Happiness in a Fool’s paradise

Happiness in a Fool’s paradise

Continuation of the Nature of Soul We all are looking for love and happiness. No one wants to be sad and unhappy. All our endeavours are but meant for one goal – to be loved and to be happy.  In spite of the fact that everyone wants to be happy, we only find but a little affection and happiness in this world. And unfortunately, even that is … [Read more...]