I stood in front of the bathroom mirror yesterday, with a pair of scissors in my hand.
When I made the first cut, it was done. There was no going back again.
Within minutes the sink was filled with chunks of black hair. And I started to feel… free.
We women seem to hold so much of our self esteem in our hair. We use it to flirt, to hide behind and to enhance our beauty.
As a child, I used to cry when my hair was cut. One of my earliest memories is …

I’ve never had many girlfriends.  But this year I am striving to change from having a majority of guy friends to spending more time with girls.
So how do you go about making more female friends?
Maybe you’re shy, or you work long or awkward hours. There are ways around every situation. Be creative. If you (like me) spend way too much time on the Internet, use it to your advantage and try an online friends finder or local forums. I follow my local city forum and have had a few Internet …

Everyone wants good service when they go to a bar, restaurant or cafe. But most people have absolutely no idea how to get great table service.
I consider myself an expert on the subject because over the years I have waited on tables and served coffee and beer to thousands, in every hospitality position from kitchen hand through to owner.
Here are the quickest ways to end up with faeces in your food.
When you arrive, announce that you are a regular, have been coming for years, and have never seen your waiter …

“God, I want to be her.”
She has the natural slim, but curvaceous figure. The gorgeous boyfriend, the successful blog, natural fitness, the military career. Everything.
The tightness in my throat is almost overwhelming. Self loathing creeps in from my stomach into my mouth and I can practically taste the hatred.
That bitch. How dare she be better than me.
I take a closer look at my rivals life,.. and realise that I’ve already accomplished over half of what she still wishes she had done. I realise that her life isn’t quite as …

Whether you like it or not, we are all judged on how we look. Personally, I hate putting on a full face of makeup in the morning so I stick to these simple rules for complexion as good as it can be without  having to try to make myself pretty with makeup.
So while drinking alcohol and not smoking aren’t rituals, they will put stress on your body and face which will make you look less than refreshed, and make you feel like you need more makeup than you actually do.
There …

I first heard about Gina Carano (left in the photo) through a mutual friend. I was in Thailand, attending a full-time MMA and Muay Thai Kickboxing training camp when we were discussing females fighters and the tendency for tough girls to end up looking like men. She mentioned Gina to me, and a few of the guys concurred, describing a glamourous, amazon of a woman who happens to kick serious butt in both the ring and the cage. Gina has been an inspiration for me, and she embodies the spirit …

Real leaders are not only prepared to reveal their weaknesses, because they know they are not super-human, but to use them to their advantage. Obviously this doesn’t mean revealing technical weaknesses or functional failings as this would fatally flaw their performance. Instead, what is meant is that leaders can and perhaps should, reveal their personality quirks – maybe they are bad tempered in the morning, are somewhat shy with new people or even a little disorganized. Such admissions show they are human and this resonates with others confirming that the leader is a person – not merely a role-holder.

One of the most fulfilling things in this life is when we are able to achieve our goals and live the life we wanted. If you have that goal in mind that you have been thinking of for so long but you never had started or accomplished it, here is a guide that will help you learn how to achieve your goals.