Must-Read: How to Be a Leader

by Bobby Rio on April 23, 2013

While you can work as hard as you can school, and master all of the classes, and be the best in your class by getting nothing but straight A’s, and getting the various accolades from the various honors group in the school… all of that means nothing when it comes to being successful at your job. It’s the whole war between someone who has book smarts versus someone who has street smarts. Having a bunch of the former certainly can’t hurt, and will indeed help you become a master of business. But someone who has the latter can always trick you into doing something you may not want to do. Hence, you need to be a master of both.

So today we head on over to AskMen.com where they have some incredible tips from a CEO for how to be a leader. Among the bits and pieces of knowledge that we can learn from this gentlemen:

6. Stays Focused
A friend who worked for Steve Jobs told me that what really made him different is that Jobs wouldn’t let teams move off their tasks until they really finished them.

7. Speaks Clearly
A great CEO is clear, crisp, concise. Quotable. So many people just aren’t good at telling a story in a way that’s easy to remember. The best are awesome at this. Since it’s the CEO’s job to tell the company’s story, it’s extremely important that this person be able to clearly tell a story about the company and the product.

Head on over to check out the other tips from the trade from the CEO, and then get down to business working on these attributes that will get you far in the corporate world.

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Must-Read: Maximize Your Space

by Bobby Rio on April 16, 2013

Being a college student is great in so many ways. You can sleep as much as you want, and you get to pick what kinds of classes you want to attend, and you can stay out to all hours of the night now that you’ve moved out of your parents place. But one of the ways that being in college sucks is the incredible lack of your own space that you have. Living in the dorms, sharing a shower with 50 other guys, sharing a room with one or two, and there’s not a whole lot of ability to carve our your own space or fit all of your belongings in your room. And then, if you have a lady over, well, good luck trying to find a place to put your dirty clothes/video games/roommates. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways that you can use in order to maximize the space that you have at your disposal.

So today we’re going to be heading over to AskMen.com where they go through how to maximize your space. Here are the best two selections among their 50 hints on how to maximize your space:

Boffi Minikitchen
If your small space comes with nothing but a sink, you might consider the Boffi Minikitchen — a trolley with a stovetop, mini-fridge, drawers and other compartments, outlets and chopping board all built in.

Shower Station Modular Shower Caddy ($70)
Hanging from your shower head, this shower caddy stylishly organizes all of your various hygiene products from shampoo to razors, helping you un-clutter that tiny bathroom of yours.

So head on over and check out the other 48 ways, and then get to maximizing that space!

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Must-Read: How to Cut Calories

April 9, 2013

Losing weight is an easy concept. Calories go in, calories go out. If more calories go in that go out, you gain weight. If it’s the other way, then you lose weight. So, the key if you want to not be a fat-ass in college is by keeping calories from going in. So if you [...]

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Must-Read: Prepping for a Job Interview

April 2, 2013

It all comes down to this. All of your schooling and prepping and learning about the company and learning about what you want to do and studying up on the various ins-and-outs of the business, all of those hours working and nights spent trying to think about work and figuring out what you want to [...]

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Must-Read: Don’t Hurt Your Package

March 26, 2013

There’s a reason that every guy squirms whenever a video goes viral of a kid, or a grown adult male, getting hit in the balls with something: We all know how that feels. Getting hit in the balls is, clearly, one of the least enjoyable experiences around. But the fact of the matter is that [...]

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Must-Read: Dating with Hook-Up Apps

March 19, 2013

Dating is as easy as it ever has been. You don’t need to sweat it out while talking to that girl that you just met at the sock-hop. You don’t even have to leave your apartment. There’s so many different dating sites and social networks that you can browse the catalogs of trying to find [...]

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Must-Read: How Not To Overwork Yourself

March 12, 2013

It’s so easy to get overworked. When you have nothing else going on in your life, and you actually can reasonably stand your job, it’s easy to get sucked into the whole “they are paying me a bunch of money to do this task” mindset and simply neglect everything that is going on in your [...]

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Must-Read: What CrossFit Means

March 5, 2013

By now, no doubt, you’d heard all about CrossFit. How it’s kind of a cult, and kind of weird, and maybe a bit too full of themselves in order to take them seriously, and maybe you’re better off just getting a less expensive gym membership and just head on out there as much as possible. [...]

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Must-Read: Spice Up Game Night

February 26, 2013

Sometimes, if you can believe it, heading over to the bar gets old. Going out to parties get old. Honestly, simply drinking over and over, and drowning your sorrows and lifting your spirits by heading out and hitting on girls just gets old. Instead, you have to rally the troops, bring them all over to [...]

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Must-Read: Beat Some Stress

February 19, 2013

Think about the last time that you went through a difficult time, whether it was a break-up, or maybe some tough times at work, or perhaps someone just pissing you off at a party. Now remember how you got past that, and at the end of the journey you felt better than before. There’s that [...]

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Must-Read: How to Booty Text

February 12, 2013

Texting has made life, at the exact same time, so easy and so difficult. Because of texting, you can actually talk to more girls at once, you don’t have to invest as much time or effort as you used to, you can even flirt easier than ever because you can couch everything in a “oh, [...]

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Must-Read: How to Really Diet

February 5, 2013

Right now, there are about five people in our lives who have suddenly, out of nowhere, started trying that paleo diet that everyone is all a-flutter about. And it makes sense, seeing as New Years has just passed and everyone is still in their “we need to make resolutions in order to help out our [...]

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Must-Read: Manage Your Weight

January 29, 2013

It is so easy to get fat. In fact, with all of the junk food, the various ways to sit on your ass and watch a wide variety of things while doing so, it has almost become our natural state to be non-active and full of fat. But that’s not the way it is supposed [...]

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Must-Read: How To Talk to Women

January 22, 2013

Think back on the last time you scored with a woman. Think about the night, and everything that happened during it, if there was alcohol involved, and where it was at. Now think about how you’d try to replicate that moment in order to make it work again with a different woman. Perhaps she won’t [...]

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Must-Read: What to Learn from Pro Athletes

January 15, 2013

There’s a reason we all sit around our TVs and watch professional sports in record numbers on a regular basis. Sure, it has somewhat to do with watching simple acts of amazing athleticism, and sure there’s an element to the fact that we have certain “home teams” that are there to distinguish one region of [...]

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Must-Read: Meeting the Parents

January 8, 2013

So, you have been dating this girl who you are really into. You like her, she likes you, and you’re starting to get your life in order together. But there’s still one stumbling block before getting her entire acceptance. No, not her friends. Not, not her coworkers or whoever. No, not her siblings. But the [...]

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Must-Read: Don’t Be Creepy in 2013

January 2, 2013

The champagne’s all gone, the ball has completed its descent, and Ryan Seacrest is done counting down the last few moments of 2012. Which means that it’s time for everyone to think ahead as to what they want from 2013. Go ahead and take a few moments to write a few thoughts and hopes and [...]

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Must-Read: More Career Advice!

December 26, 2012

While it may seem like, right now in your college career, your actual job is simply trying to get as many “life experiences” as you can — meaning banging girls, drinking as much as possible, learning just what kinds of hard alcohol you enjoy, and watching a ton of sports in between playing a bunch [...]

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Must-Read: Finding Someone for the Holidays

December 18, 2012

While the saying goes that the holidays “are the most wonderful time of the year,” that’s not the way it is for a lot of people out there who don’t have anyone. Having to head over to family gatherings, going out with friends who are all attached, going out for dinner for one… these are [...]

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Must-Read: How To Get The Right Career

December 11, 2012

Right now, you’re settled into your college life. You study during the day, go out at night, maybe do a little drinking, maybe go out on a few dates. You’re kind of comfortable with where your life is at and where it’s going. But there’s also this nagging feeling gnawing at you. Are you on [...]

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