Two Day Magazine

This is twodaymag's weekly look at the real issues of the day: celebrity gossip and goings on written by a guy who thinks "Hannah" is an actual town in Montana.

I know for me, I try to fit in way too many self-improvements at once. What if, instead, I took two things or maybe just one thing at a time, and focused on improving those aspects of my life before moving to another set of issues?

There's something about names and titles of things that grab our attention and that is the first enticement of The South Beach Diet. South Beach? Woo-hoo! So, yes, I admit it, I love Miami, love South Beach, and wanted to try the diet with the hot name.

In the heart of Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood is an increasingly chain-store oriented shopping district on Walnut Street.  But there are still a few Mom and Pop stores, like Schiller's Pharmacy and Cosmetique.

While some of the components of narcissism can be healthy, the fragile views narcissists have of themselves can actually lead to increased stress levels, defensive actions and aggression.

Twisted though my relationship with online daily deals may be, I feel like they can't be all that bad, as long as I keep my wits about me and exercise a bit of something we all struggle with in our culture: self control.

Now, almost ten years later, I have a difficult time sharing myself because I don’t have the same little girl courage. I don’t posses the naivety that allowed me to be courageous.

What one person will love and declare the greatest new diet lifestyle of all time may be seriously lacking for someone else on the diet bandwagon.  I found this to be true when I began doing research last year for my series of articles on dieting in America.

What keeps me from buying this lamp that I lust over?  And what keeps me from going in to these antiques stores that are right in my backyard?