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How to Get Flat Abs, Have Amazing Sex and Rule the World in 8 Easy Steps

How to Get Flat Abs, Have Amazing Sex and Rule the World in 8 Easy Steps
The covers of most men's and women's magazines have similar headlines: "Get Great Abs" and "Have Amazing Sex." From the looks of it, these two issues have been recycled over and over (with some other stereotypically gender-relevant articles thrown in) on every Men's Health, Maxim, Cosmopolitan and Glamour cover since the dawn of time. In fact, I'd bet that if we could get a better translation of cave drawings, they would read something like "Grok get flat belly. And we keep buying them. We chase this idea of "I will be happy when I will be happy when I have a new car. If you can read this, your life is pretty awesome. Setting aside our first-world problems and pettiness, if you are online reading this, you have both electricity and WiFi or access to them. Because you are alive, everything is possible. 1. All that stuff you tell yourself about how you are a commitment phobe or a coward or lazy or not creative or unlucky? 2. Not because The Secret says so. 3. It won't fix the economy. 4.

farewell letter of gabriel garcia marquez [ Back to Issue Contents ] Farewell Letter by Gabriel Garcia Marquez For reasons of health, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia’s illustrious Nobel Laureate for literature, has declared his retirement from public life. If God, for a second, forgot what I have become and granted me a little bit more of life, I would use it to the best of my ability. I wouldn’t, possibly, say everything that is in my mind, but I would be more thoughtful l of all I say. I would give merit to things not for what they are worth, but for what they mean to express. I would sleep little, I would dream more, because I know that for every minute that we close our eyes, we waste 60 seconds of light. I would walk while others stop; I would awake while others sleep. If God would give me a little bit more of life, I would dress in a simple manner, I would place myself in front of the sun, leaving not only my body, but my soul naked at its mercy. Say always what you feel, not what you think. Send this letter to those you love.

PostSecret Why Generation Y is unhappy Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She’s also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term for yuppies in the Gen Y age group—I call them Gen Y Protagonists & Special Yuppies, or GYPSYs. A GYPSY is a unique brand of yuppie, one who thinks they are the main character of a very special story. So Lucy’s enjoying her GYPSY life, and she’s very pleased to be Lucy. Lucy’s kind of unhappy. To get to the bottom of why, we need to define what makes someone happy or unhappy in the first place. It’s pretty straightforward—when the reality of someone’s life is better than they had expected, they’re happy. To provide some context, let’s start by bringing Lucy’s parents into the discussion: Lucy’s parents were born in the 50s—they’re Baby Boomers. Lucy’s Depression Era grandparents were obsessed with economic security and raised her parents to build practical, secure careers. GYPSYs Are Delusional

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