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of locations, such as urban landscapes or
rural areas.
5. Catch a Chuckle With Honest Slogans
the website also encourages community
interaction through comments. The site’s
intuitive interface allows browsing by
popularity, category, and date of addition.
Some eye-opening favourites of mine are
HonestSlogans.com is an entertaining and “What Darwin Never Knew”, “Flying
clever website where creator Clif Dickens Objects, A State Secret”, and “The Meat
reimagines the slogans of popular brands Lobby: Big Business Against Health”.
to reflect what customers honestly think
of them. By stripping away the polished 7. Write a Letter With a Letter to My
marketing language, Dickens provides Future Self
a humorous yet brutally honest take on
these brands’ real-world perceptions. For
instance, while HBO Go’s official slogan
is, “It’s HBO, anywhere,” HonestSlogans
reinterprets it as “Hoping your ex-
roommate’s ex-girlfriend’s stepbrother
won’t change the password” — poking
fun at the common practice of sharing With LetterToMyFutureSelf.net, you can
streaming passwords. write a letter to yourself and schedule
This satirical approach extends to other when you’d like to receive it — within
brands. Take Subway, whose slogan, “Eat one week, one month, three months, six
Fresh,” is rebranded as “Because you don’t months, nine months, or one year. Writing
have time to make dinner,” emphasising a letter to yourself is a powerful exercise
Subway’s convenience factor over its so- for capturing your current feelings and
called health benefits. emotions and also for tracking the progress
of your goals.
6. Watch Mind-Blowing Documentaries For instance, if you aim to start a new
With Documentary Heaven fitness routine and reduce your cholesterol
DocumentaryHeaven.com was launched in levels within three months, you could set
2009 and is a platform that houses all the these specific goals in your letter. Three
top documentaries from around the world. months later, when you receive your
The wide array of documentaries is both letter, it’s time to evaluate your progress.
educational and thought-provoking, and If you’ve successfully lowered your
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