Month: September 2017

Mind Set

Mindset

September 29, 2017

In this part of the blog we’ve talked about work ethic, positivity, hustle, goal setting and so on. None of that matters unless you’re mindset is attuned to the correct coordinates for success. Success means different things to different people so we won’t be getting into that too much in this post but having a positive…

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How to Change Eye Color in Photoshop

September 28, 2017

Changing someone’s eye color in Photoshop is one of the easiest things to mess up and look fake. The above tutorial shows you how to correctly make this adjustment in a tasteful fashion so that even at its wildest color it still looks believable. The eyes are a very delicate area for any retouching work…

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Fitbit

September 27, 2017

On the track of staying healthy and motivated, along with Lose It, the Fitbit app and wearable tracker are main stay staples in my daily routine. Every morning during the work week I’m up at 4:30 am to get short forty minute workout where I get about five thousand steps in. For Christmas, my wife…

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LCD Soundsystem “American Dream”

September 26, 2017

LCD Soundsystem is one of those bands that no matter how many times I listen to their albums I take something new away from it. Their song structure from even their first album to this new one has always built on top of the 4 bars before it making some epic sounding song that takes…

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NFL Players Protesting

NFL Players Protesting

September 25, 2017

Currently, NFL players have been standing up to social injustice by either kneeling or putting a fist in the air during the National Anthem at the beginning of games. This has created a lot of discourse between those who believe that they should not be allowed to use their player status as a platform for…

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empathy

Empathy

September 22, 2017

Treat others as you’d treat yourself. Over the last year, I’ve seen people just flat out lump others into categories, pre-judge their actions and intent and completely write them off as if they were never human… You’ve seen this in the current political environment, in areas of racial diversity and even within our law enforcement…

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Photography: Getting Started

September 21, 2017

There are a lot of different opinions on how to become a professional in the field for any creative position. Aaron Nace from PHLEARN give his take on how to become a professional photographer and while a lot of this is photography driven there are definite concepts that being in the field for 13 years…

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Acorns

September 20, 2017

A few weeks back I did a quick review on Robinhood which was an app that provided free trading on the stock market. This week if you’re looking for an app that combines an effortless investing strategy on both sides of funding your account and automatic investment levels from conservative to aggressive then this app…

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How to Get and Stay Motivated by Grant Cardone

September 19, 2017

Grant Cardone is the kind of guy I’d love to sit down and have a conversation with. From his books to his YouTube channel the guy is a solid source of inspiration and energy if you need a pick me up through the day. I read this book via audible on my way to work…

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ISO50

September 18, 2017

Today’s motivation post could easily be merged with an album review, but we’ll leave that for another time. Tycho is an instrumental band that incorporates a post-rock/indie/emo-revival sound that is truly transcendent among interesting genres. Music aside their frontman/only member Scott Hansen also runs a design blog called ISO50. This is a traditional blog set…

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