I want to share with you a website that will make planning your Secret Santa event so much easier this year. The site is called Elfster.com. If you have ever put together a Secret Santa, you know that it’s a pain in the neck to get everyone together to draw names. Everyone that wants to participate are not always there, people swap names with each other because they don’t like the person they got, and the gifts bought for each other are usually way off from what the receiver actually wants.

I know, to some of you, all of those inefficiencies make the exchange fun. However, not to me…

This guest post comes from Brian Feldmeier, a good friend and owner of Motivation Me, a nutrition counseling company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Priorities.
If you made a list of your top ten priorities, where would “living a healthy lifestyle” fit in that list? I’m sure that keeping your health “tip-top” would be on that list – probably somewhere near the top.
Managing your priorities can be difficult, especially in this tough economy.  More specifically, as the cost of food continues to increase steadily, keeping up your healthy lifestyle and …

It’s true.  The Zen Capitalist is a CrossFitter.
I’m all about efficiency within reason.  These days, why send an invite the old-fashioned way through snail mail when you can easily send an evite? Why check your emails every 10-15 minutes when you can check it every few hours? Finally, why the heck would you spend an hour and a half at the gym when you can get the same workout, if not better, in half the time.
Having an active lifestyle, the gym is a second home to me.  However spending one …

Every Tuesday I will highlight something that inspires me to be creative.   It could be something that I believe is awesome, funny, well-thought, and/or memorable.
I enjoy the world too much.  This is my opportunity to show you what beautiful is, in the eyes of The Zen Capitalist.  Also, it’ll show you where I get my inspiration to write!

Parkour is the art of maneuvering your body around objects in an environment to reach one point to another in the fastest and most efficient manner. (source)
Free Running is simply urban gymnastics …

I figured it out! I know the magical reason as to why people that are habitually late, are well, always late.  Follow me with this one.
Between time X and when the task needs to be done, the late bird works at his/her most efficient output capacity towards the WRONG actions.
Here’s what I mean. I analyzed a friend of mine that never fails to be late.  If you tell her that she needs to be at movie theater in one hour, her thought process plays …