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Top 5 Reasons to Stop Buying Breakfast Cereals in 2026

Creatix / January 14, 2025 Boxed breakfast cereals are convenient, shelf-stable, and heavily marketed as a “healthy start.” But when you look past the front-of-box claims, a lot of mainstream cereals, especially the sweetened, flavored, colorful ones—come with tradeoffs that many people would rather avoid. Boxed breakfast cereal became popular in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , at the intersection of industrialization, health reform, and modern advertising. As Americans moved from rural, labor-intensive lives to urban factory work, traditional hot breakfasts became less practical, creating demand for foods that were cheap, shelf-stable, and fast to prepare . Early pioneers such as John Harvey Kellogg and C. W. Post promoted grain-based cereals as digestive aids and moral health foods, originally emphasizing blandness and simplicity. Mass production, nationwide rail distribution, and the rise of print and radio advertising then transformed cereal from a n...
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Success Lessons From The Kardashians

Creatix / January 13, 2026 We're working on a Kindle book on the Kardashians for our Amazon collection of consulting books at consultingbooks.com  In this article, we take a quick look at how the Kardashian Empire Was Built and what we can learn from it.  Love them or despise them, the Kardashians are impossible to ignore. That is not an accident. Behind the fame, controversy, and relentless public debate sits a carefully constructed system. At the center of that system is Kris Jenner , who accomplished something rare: she turned a family into a coordinated, long lasting business empire. This article is not a fan page or admiration tribute. It is a collection of early notes for areas to research further for an upcoming book. We figure that the article should help study aspects about modern success. Whether you like what the Kardashians represent or reject it entirely, there are lessons worth studying. Attention Matters Attention Matters Attention is the raw material of the mod...

Best Credit Cards in 2026 and How to Potentially Make Money from Credit Cards in 2026

Creatix | January 12, 2026 In this post, you’ll learn: What a credit card really is and how interest works Why credit card debt is the worst kind of debt The core risks and advantages of using credit cards Why most people choose either travel rewards or cash back Which cards are ranked best overall in each category How interest rates actually affect real users What mistakes to avoid when using credit cards When secured credit cards make more sense The most effective ways to pay off credit card debt The potential best way to make money from credit cards What Is a Credit Card? As the name implies, a credit card is a tool that allows you to make purchases on credit , meaning you are borrowing money. The agreement is simple: you must pay that money back. If you repay the full statement balance within the grace period, typically about 21 to 30 days, no interest is charged. If you do not, interest begins to accrue. When balances are carried month to month, the mathematical effect of compound...

To Cruise or Not To Cruise in 2026. To invest or Not to Invest in Travel in 2026

Creatix / January 11, 2025 Cruising is the best value in travel, but it is not for everybody.  A single fare bundles transportation, lodging, meals, entertainment, and access to multiple destinations into one predictable price, reducing both planning and cost. You unpack once, your “hotel” moves with you, and meals are available around the clock, often with a wide range of options that would be costly on land. For families and multi-generational groups, cruises offer something rare: activities for every age, built-in childcare, shows, pools, and excursions without the logistics of coordinating separate hotels, restaurants, and transit in a foreign destination. From this perspective, dollar per dollar, cruising is all-inclusive vacation that delivers maximum experiences for travelers who value simplicity, predictability, variety, and a sense of safety and security.  In this post, we explore the other side of the story: The Cons of Cruise Vacations (And Why They’re Dea...

Why American Football Is the Most Diverse Sport

Creatix / January 10, 2025 From 150 Pound Speedsters to 380 Pound Giants. No Other Game Comes Close When people talk about diversity, they often think about nationality, ethnicity, or background. That is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about the diversity of body types and raw athletic abilities required to succeed at the highest level of competition. By that standard, American football, embodied by the National Football League, is likely the most diverse sport in the world. No other major professional sport rewards such extreme physical variation within the same league, the same game, and the same field. Nowhere else do athletes with radically different builds not only coexist, but thrive. Consider weight alone. At one extreme stands Trent Brown, an offensive tackle measuring roughly six feet eight inches and weighing around 380 pounds. His body is built for leverage, mass absorption, and stopping elite power athletes charging at full speed. At the other extrem...

SEO Optimization Is Dead. Long Live AI

Creatix / January 7, 2025 For over two decades, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ruled the internet. Entire industries were built around pleasing algorithms, ranking for keywords, and gaming search results. If you wanted attention, traffic, or customers, you optimized for Google. That era is ending. Not because SEO failed, but because the rules of information discovery have fundamentally changed . What SEO Optimization Was At its core, SEO was a workaround. Search engines couldn’t understand content. They could only infer relevance from signals: Keywords placed in titles and headings Backlinks from other sites Page structure and metadata Freshness and publishing cadence Writers were told: “Create original content, optimize it correctly, and hope someone searching finds it.” Success depended less on truth or clarity, and more on algorithm compliance . SEO rewarded: Repetition over insight Volume over depth Optimization tricks over genuine usefulnes...