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Be Your Own Guru: 34 Essays on Figuring Out Life

Be Your Own Guru: 34 Essays on Figuring Out Life

Break free from mediocrity and misery. Be Your Own Guru inspires self-reflection, challenges assumptions, and empowers meaningful change.

2023

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ILLUMINATION

I had a 37K YouTube audience, and that’s what I earned and learned

I reached 2.6 million views and 37K subscribers on Youtube before I decided to quit.

10 min readOct 1, 2022

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I had a 37K YouTube audience, and that’s what I earned and learned

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Narrowly Avoiding Arrest for Cocaine Smuggling in Russia: My True Story

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16 min readOct 8, 2021

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Narrowly Avoiding Arrest for Cocaine Smuggling in Russia: My True Story

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ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

My stats and takeaways after publishing 100 Medium articles.

In October 2018, I posted my first article on Medium. Now I have 100 articles and 3.4K followers. Here's what I've learned and earned.

8 min readMar 7, 2024

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My stats and takeaways after publishing 100 Medium articles.

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For 16 years, I’ve worked out every morning — here are lessons and results

Arm circles, leg swings, squats, push-ups, and planks — the sequence repeated a thousand times over. Why do I stick to the morning…

6 min readJan 26, 2024

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For 16 years, I’ve worked out every morning — here are lessons and results

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The Writing Cooperative

How I Wrote My First Novel: Challenges, Timeline, and Lessons Learned

I crafted a 108K-word manuscript in a year. Here’s my intimate account of what it was like.

8 min readJan 10, 2024

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How I Wrote My First Novel: Challenges, Timeline, and Lessons Learned

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This will make you quit talking and start doing

Turning intentions into actions.

8 min readDec 30, 2023

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This will make you quit talking and start doing

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How to make choices that you won’t regret

and if you do, at least you did your best.

7 min readNov 12, 2023

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How to make choices that you won’t regret

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I wrote a book that will piss people off

So why did I proceed with publishing it?

4 min readJul 5, 2023

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I wrote a book that will piss people off

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If You Want To Know If They’re Your Soulmate, Ask Yourself These 2 Questions

I once had a conversation with Anna Yusim, MD, a Stanford- and Yale-educated Psychiatrist and the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How…

3 min readJun 23, 2023

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If You Want To Know If They’re Your Soulmate, Ask Yourself These 2 Questions

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Thoughts on the Human Psyche

You do the work and nobody cares

Why bother doing things that nobody else gives a damn about except for you?

1 min readJun 15, 2023

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You do the work and nobody cares

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Anastasia Petrenko

Anastasia Petrenko

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A 🇺🇦 writing in English. I like to challenge my thinking, and yours. Twitter: @anastasiapwhy Website (+books): anastasiawhy.com

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