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September 27, 2020 Lifestyle

8 Grades of Beef: Do You Know All Of Them?

It may be important a couple times in your life to know a little about ordering or making steaks. Storing the grades of beef in your brain somewhere may come in handy at some point. It’s critical to have tidbits of information you can whip out at a moment’s notice when you’re small talking with someone. By talking about something they’re interested in, you can build rapport, trust, and liking, just ask Dale Carnegie. Steve Jobs believed true intelligence wasn’t a deep expertise in one particular field. Rather, those who are most intelligent have an ability to make connections...

August 10, 2020 Lifestyle

11 Best Lowest Calorie Beers That Aren’t Terrible

Although light beers like Bud Light and Miller Light have been around for decades, craft beer has recently been moving into the realm of low calorie beers. These 11 best lowest calorie beers represent some of the best options if you’re watching your dad bod. You’re not alone in your search of the best lowest calorie beers. Light lagers (think Bud Light, Miller Light, Coors Light, Michelob Ultra, Bush “Latte”) are the most popular beer types in the US. What makes a light beer “light”? Typically, the brewer uses lower calorie ingredients, then adds more water to the batch. ...

July 9, 2020 Lifestyle

5 Surprising Benefits of Cold Showers

The further you dive into the realm of self-improvement, you might run across some evidence for the positive effects of cold showers. These 5 benefits of cold showers can help you decide if adding frigid water to your personal development arsenal is worth it. At some point in your Youtube video exploring, you might have come across an individual by the name of Wim Hof. Wim Hof, known as “The Iceman”, has climbed Mount Everest in shorts and has proven that he can stay submerged in ice for one hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature rising....

June 21, 2020 Lifestyle

Natural Homemade Bug Spray That Works!

It’s that time of year again, BBQs, fires, and front porch beers. Unless you live in Antarctica or Iceland, you’ll be battling mosquitoes. This natural homemade bug spray will help keep mosquitoes at bay so you can enjoy your time outside! Store bought bug sprays are okay, but the overly pungent chemical smell is not. As soon as you get inside, you feel obligated to shower, especially if it’s right before bed. This led me to researching a natural homemade bug spray, one that doesn’t smell like chemicals and one that doesn’t make me feel grossed out when I...

December 10, 2019 Lifestyle

12 Gym Bag Essentials Every Man Should Have

It can be hard to get the motivation to hit the gym, especially during big life changes. But, ensuring you have your gym bag essentials is your first step to starting a quality routine. This has been a crazy year for me. Leaving my police job to finish renovating our house, marketing, listing, showing and selling it myself, moving to Wisconsin, staying with my in-laws temporarily, getting a new job, finding a fixer-upper in Milwaukee, moving everything again, managing subcontractors, and running Strictly Man Supply Co., I’ve been neglecting things like the gym and writing for this blog. However,...

November 27, 2019 Lifestyle

10 Cool Christmas Gift Ideas for Men

Christmas is around the corner, so you need to buy presents quickly. But, if you’re buying a gift for that special man in your life – your husbands, boyfriends, partners, fathers, sons or brothers – you need to make sure it’s practical and visually appealing at the same time. So, what are some cool Christmas gift ideas for men? 1. Skincare This is something lots of men have a problem with, because they’re not always ready to admit that skincare is something they actually need in their lives. That’s why you have to do something about it and get...

February 18, 2019 Lifestyle

14 Essential Items to Keep in Your Car this Winter

With what seems to be a very snowy season this year, I thought it was important to share the 14 essential items to keep in your car this winter. These items are meant to help you in case you get stuck in the snow, are involved in some type of collision, or if there is some issue with your vehicle. A couple posts ago, I informed everyone that I’ve been a cop for a few years now. I’m retiring as a Police Officer this Thursday and moving to my wife’s home state in May or June of this year....

February 12, 2019 Lifestyle

5 Fast Smoothie Recipes for a Healthy Body & Mind

On February 1st, I decided enough was enough, and that I was going to start waking up earlier with a rock-solid morning routine. Initially, I started waking up at 5am. Then, I decided that if I could do 5am, I could do 4:30am. I’ll be honest…I feel great! I’ve been following the “S.A.V.E.R.S.” method outlined in my previous article, The Miracle Morning: A Sample Morning Routine to Supercharge Your Day (based on The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod), where I spend time meditating, writing down my goals/affirmations, visualizing the positive things I want to bring into my life, doing beginner...

January 31, 2019 Lifestyle

The Miracle Morning: A Sample Morning Routine to Supercharge Your Day

I’ve been desperately craving a morning routine for a couple years now. Becoming the best possible version of myself has developed into somewhat of an obsession. I’ve known that a good morning routine is crucial to that developmental process, but I haven’t been able to do it. My journey of seeking happiness, feeling fulfilled and being successful started in 2013. For a year, I taught English with my wife on the world’s smallest atoll in the Pacific: Namdrik, Marshall Islands. Although I didn’t have a passion for teaching, I had an abundance of free time to read a lot...

November 8, 2018 Grooming, Lifestyle

Dude Wipes: Are Flushable Wipes Really Flushable?

The flushability of flushable wipes has come under strong scrutiny over the last few weeks. This home experiment on Dude Wipes is meant to answer the question, are flushable wipes really flushable? A lot of negative news articles have surrounded the flushable wipes industry recently. I thought it was a relatively new phenomenon, that municipalities were just now seeing the effects of flushable wipes on their water treatment plants and sewage systems. But in doing research, I found articles dating back to 2013, claiming that flushable wipes should NOT be flushed. I hadn’t put much thought into the flushability...