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2013

June

  • 09 “Choose Yourself”
  • 07 From Thailand To…

    • May

  • 29 Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand

    • April

  • 22 A Slice of Memory: The Chased and Wanted
  • 10 5 Simple Lessons That Will Help You Get Closer Towards Excellence On Autopilot

    • March

  • 12 The Help I Can Give You: Encouragement and Clarity (Mar 2013 Edition)
  • 09 Dear Women (Thank You Note)

    • February

  • 25 Tell Me What’s On Your Mind, I’ll Tell You What’s On My Mind
  • 16 Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, and Onwards

    • 2012

    December

  • 30 2012

    • July

  • 17 How To Escape From Mental Cages
  • 16 Open Relationships, Honesty, Jealousy, and Freedom

    • June

  • 19 From Romance To Love: Narrowing The Focus
  • 08 What Happened After Philippines: Hello from Vietnam

    • May

  • 23 You Can Turn The Tide By Being Grateful For The Shittiest Experiences
  • 22 Time For Lessons: How Not To Lose $1000 In Philippines
  • 14 You Can Be More Creative
  • 09 The Spirit Of No Worries
  • 07 How I’m Doing What I Wanted To Do: Being A Vagabonding Martial Artist
  • 02 You Are Going To Win: Fight and Learn

    • April

  • 30 The Desire To Be A Better Man
  • 28 Two Questions I Find Difficult To Answer
  • 23 What Matters At The End Of Your Life
  • 18 It Ain’t Just A Water Fight, But A Learning Opportunity

    • March

  • 31 Living Like A Lightweight Champion
  • 27 Practice Your Art Here, Life Is A Dojo
  • 26 What It’s Like To Hand An Anonymous Love Letter To Someone
  • 25 Practicing the Art of Getting Lost (and Scoring Free Upgrades)
  • 20 Manipulative Approaches Piss Me Off
  • 19 How to Avoid Failing in Creating Your Own Story and Living It
  • 17 51 Years, 9 Months, and 4 Days of Love
  • 13 What Happens If You Reveal Your Secret Techniques To Others
  • 11 One Year After: Is Today Beautiful For You Too?
  • 10 Women’s Infidelity and Men’s Insecurities
  • 07 What Are You Passionate About?
  • 06 Living A Happy Life and Living A Meaningful Life
  • 05 How Good Are You At Breathing Or Living Your Life?
  • 04 Why Should You Do What You Do When You Die Someday?
  • 03 There’s Always Room For Improvement
  • 02 This Is A Conversation Starter
  • 01 March 2012 Updates from Sydney, Australia

    • February

  • 09 We Are Making Choices Everyday and Sometimes It’s So Visible That It Makes You Laugh
  • 03 On Being Humble and Getting the Hell Out of the ‘Good Enough’ Zone
  • 02 You Must Create Music From That Loneliness

    • January

  • 20 The “Big Changes in Every Third Year” Pattern

    • 2011

    November

  • 25 Love Is Being Stupid Together
  • 15 Know What You’re Looking For and Don’t Be This Guy
  • 08 Have You Ever Wondered About Any of These 47 Questions About Social/Dating/Relationship Skills?
  • 01 How To Bring Out The Beauty In People

    • October

  • 27 Stop Being Self Obsessed and Help Yourself From A Self Help Dilemma
  • 19 How to Make Connections by Sharing Beautiful Moments
  • 17 Keep Watching The Sky
  • 02 Invincible By Choice: A Love Challenge For You

    • September

  • 27 A Little Status Quo About Dating Advice And What You Can Do About It
  • 15 It’s OK To Smile
  • 13 The Brief Guide To Sucking At Romance
  • 05 Anything You Want

    • August

  • 30 Let Go Of Bitterness
  • 23 How To Understand Women (or Men) Better

    • July

  • 25 65 Love and Romance Quotes That Inspire You To Become A Better Lover
  • 21 Let’s Talk About Sex, Love and Liberation
  • 06 What’s Your Story?

    • June

  • 28 Learn To Love Your Body
  • 24 Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself, or Alternative Personal Development
  • 21 How To Get Personal Development Courses Worth $1087 for $97
  • 17 Show Up As Who You Are
  • 14 Do You Have A Great Relationship With Yourself?

    • May

  • 31 On Leaving Smiles: Where I Will Be In June 2011
  • 27 When I Witnessed the Beauty in Her: A Personal Example of Beautiful Moments
  • 19 3 Clues I Wish I Knew and A Mission for An Extraordinary Lover of Women
  • 05 19 Reasons Why You Are Already Attractive

    • April

  • 28 An Epic Manifestation of What Social Media Can Do
  • 25 Stop Looking For Happiness And Be Happier
  • 21 Forget About Being Yourself: Answer 12 Questions And Bring Out The Best In You
  • 18 How To Attract Men/Women – Wait, What Does That Mean?
  • 14 Delightful Lessons Around You
  • 11 One Simple Reason Why You Can’t Get That Girl, Keep That Guy, or Get Your Ex Back
  • 08 Define Your Romance and Live A Romantic Life
  • 04 New Direction

    • March

  • 19 I’m alive
  • 10 Take the champion road
  • 07 There’s something about ‘M’?
  • 04 Going beyond awesomeness: Why I fell in love with a certain blog post
  • 02 Change one, inspire million

    • February

  • 28 Empowerment: Give your strength away and be stronger
  • 25 Revolt against the dictator inside you
  • 23 How do you want your life to make an everlasting impact on others?
  • 21 What is a romantic relationship?
  • 18 Three steps forward, two steps back? No, take five steps forward instead
  • 16 Punk rock attitude and non-resistance strategy
  • 14 On choosing to live a romantic life
  • 11 The badass stand up again and again
  • 09 On being a positive person without self-deception
  • 07 Set free the beauty inside
  • 04 Your life is your art. My life is my art. Your art + my art = our art.
  • 02 Don’t let the world dominate you

    • January

  • 31 What’s your special move?
  • 28 Coming next: Free 30 minute brainstorming sessions for 50 people
  • 26 Learn travel hacks and get 4 free plane tickets per year
  • 24 Curiosity meets romance: the art of being a hopeful romantic
  • 21 How to keep the fire of your life burning hot and bright: 15 quotes on curiosity
  • 19 How to create a digital stream of inspirations and remind yourself of your life purpose
  • 17 What does it mean to have an awesome life… for you?
  • 14 Dare yourself to do something you fear and change your life for the better
  • 12 Save your inner artist and start creating your own path
  • 10 Take back your creativity
  • 07 Crush your excuses and take that first step
  • 05 Connecting 4 dots: how to live a romantic life and make the world more romantic
  • 01 27 lessons on how to live your life as your art

    • 2010

    December

  • 31 Are you living your story?
  • 29 How to keep evolving and celebrate small things in life
  • 27 On jumping, eating and breathing
  • 24 Cheshire Cat and 3 lessons of the year
  • 22 My future self would point at Latin America
  • 20 On trying, healing and going beyond avoidance
  • 17 Pegasus and the Muses, or why your childhood dream is not ridiculous and how you can achieve it
  • 15 On action, appreciation, and 5 minutes
  • 13 On minimizing, maximizing, and body integration
  • 10 On being beautifully different, party, and wisdom
  • 08 Where I discovered a community of awesome individuals in 2010 and what I will make in 2011 – #Reverb10
  • 06 Having a sense of wonder, letting things go, and making – #Reverb10
  • 03 Reverb 10 – Days 2&3: Writing and Moment
  • 01 On writing a novel, one word and $1,052 for $97

    • November

  • 29 On celebrating relationships
  • 26 Why be positive?
  • 24 Brief updates – 24 Nov 2010 Edition
  • 22 Fundamental moves will take you further
  • 19 “Show Me Japan” photos
  • 17 Who’s afraid of loving and being loved?
  • 15 Brief updates – 15 Nov 2010 Edition
  • 12 Showing your weaknesses… with confidence
  • 10 No more underestimation please!
  • 08 Immersion + confidence + love = ?
  • 05 6 things I have learnt from NaNoWriMo so far
  • 03 Hans Comijn on becoming an attractive man
  • 01 The art of writing shitty first drafts

    • October

  • 29 “Keep going until we stop”
  • 27 Cat vs. Curiosity
  • 25 Let’s make connections with yourself and others
  • 22 Can you count how many things there aren’t in the world?
  • 20 At least you survived
  • 18 Review: The Art of Non-Conformity
  • 15 Letting go of old belongings and creating room for new memories
  • 13 What fascinates me: Hooping tribe
  • 11 Could there be a romantic monkey?
  • 08 What would your ideal self do in your current situation?
  • 06 In search of a nomad cafe
  • 05 Updates: October 2010

    • July

  • 19 Nobody told you to do it: Climbing Mt. Fuji on a rainy day
  • 13 30 day blogging challenge, done. (Day 30)
  • 12 Here's another short post (Day 29)
  • 11 Business idea: Argument Clinic (Day 28)
  • 10 Experiencing through the imagination (Day 27)
  • 09 Japan needs something more than English (Day 26)
  • 08 Come and dance with us (Day 25)
  • 07 In search of a dragon (Day 24)
  • 06 Two free&beautiful spirits I met in Harajuku, Tokyo (Day 23)
  • 05 How I learnt English (Day 22)
  • 04 Now it's the 21st post (Day 21)
  • 03 Year of creativity (Day 20)
  • 02 Another experiment (Day 19)
  • 01 SMENA 8M + iPhone experiment (Day 18)

    • June

  • 30 Slowing down a running frog and how to be absurd (Day 17)
  • 29 Japanese translation of "A Brief Guide to World Domination" (Day 16)
  • 28 A humid Sunday afternoon in which I faced a bigger opponent (Day 15)
  • 27 Let a Hipstamatic photo speak for me (Day 14)
  • 26 A short question with open possibilities (Day 13)
  • 25 A sense of possibilities (Day 12)
  • 24 Letting go of things you own (Day 11)
  • 23 What matters in this competition on Sunday (Day 10)
  • 22 Reading the morning pages (Day 9)
  • 21 Blue, orange, red, dark blue, and black (Day 8)
  • 20 Let there be more romantic and beautiful moments (Day 7)
  • 19 Sharpening awareness through meditating by hand (Day 6)
  • 18 Stop the time and dance in the timeless world (Day 5)
  • 17 4 lessons of the day on humor (Day 4)
  • 16 Blurting is OK (Day 3)
  • 15 Whether you achieve your dreams or not is irrelevant (Day 2)
  • 14 Doing gets you going (Day 1)
  • 11 30 Day Blogging Challenge

    • May

  • 20 Review: Question the Rules by Johnny B. Truant and Lee Stranahan

    • March

  • 19 How to turn Seven Eleven Japan into your personal printing center
  • 18 Baking ANZAC biscuits is an act of creativity.
  • 15 Review: Hipstamatic
  • 01 Tap in sparring of creativity… and stand up again

    • February

  • 18 I will dare you not to read (after you've read this post)
  • 08 Some remarks on $100 Business Forum
  • 07 Do you listen to yourself?

    • January

  • 29 Tetris of the creativity kind
  • 21 How would you use your $100?
  • 18 "What is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu anyway", I thought.
  • 08 If you want to get better at it, you must (insert your answer here).
  • 03 The forgotten first day of 2009 and kick-starting 2010
  • 01 1984.01.01.

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