Rick Smith

Her name was Consuela.  She was blond, latin, and HOT.  It was my first week of my freshman year of college, and I was fully committed to the process of reinventing myself. I would be a dork no longer. Instead I’d be cool.  Confident.  Sexy.  And this, New Rick, better ...

I am done with “blogging”.  Well, let’s say I am done with blogging as a profession.  I got into blogging for false reasons.  And I was so wrong. It was early in 2009, and I had a big new book deal.  My new book, The Leap, would be coming out in ...

I want to go to Maine with the family for the summer. Well, actually, I don’t really want to go to Maine. I just want to be one of those people who go to Maine for the summer. It’s February, the time of year where we always plan our ...

Procrasturbation. noun. prə-ˈkras-tər-ˌbā-shən -When delaying the performance of a task feels so good, it results in… euphoria. Why does procrastination feel SOOOO good? We are stressed about a task. There is uncertainty in the outcome and we creatively come up with a perfectly good excuse to postpone what we do ...

The happiness movement is dying, and I say it’s about time. 9-11 ushered us fearfully into a brave new world. The great recession caused us to question even the most fundamental rules of economics, not to mention the rules by which we live our lives. Our reaction was to sit ...

When you want to accomplish something you think is close to impossible, follow a program that others have used to succeed. This thought came to me a few months ago at the dinner table. My wife, an accomplished and enthusiastic runner, had just signed up for her 12th marathon (having raised ...