Life Tips
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Editorial Guidelines For Life Tips
We only accept 20% of submissions we receive, follow the guidelines below to increase your odds…… ¶ We’d love to accept a higher percentage, but many of the submissions don’t fit what we’re looking to publish. ¶ Keep in mind that this is a labor of love for us, and we receive many submissions every single day. So, we have a limited ability to provide feedback on every submission we receive. ¶ Editorial Guidelines ¶ Focused on improvement. The message conveyed must help people get to the next point in their lives.
Joel MwakasegeFeb 16
A One Minute Life Tips Guide
A guide to make your reading here worth while. This is where you will find all things you need to know about our publication.(Updated) ¶ If you love people and believe in change then this is the right place to be. I believe if a person is loved enough, cared for enough, he will be willing to learn, to change, challenge, improve anything. ¶ This is where you will find all the links that can make your reading and writing experience more rewarding. ¶ How To Be Added As Author And Submit Articles To Life Tips ¶ Send an old fashioned email to [email protected]Joel MwakasegeFeb 26, 2015
Behind the Scenes: How (and Why) Life Tips Exists
It’s time to take a moment to talk about what I’ve learned thus far from curating articles in Life Tips.Medium is a moving target as are all things born from our age. ¶ Meaning things change quickly much more than we know or care to admit. Much has been altered around here, but what I will be sharing with you here, today, are the practices that have stood the test of time for me. ¶ The Beginning ¶ Life Tips was a delightful accident. ¶ At the time, I was reading a lot of stories with thrill and gusto in them.Joel MwakasegeSep 25, 2015
Office job? Can’t I just write in the park or something?
What a mid-30s career crisis looks likeFor most of my career (it still feels weird to call the things I do for money a “career,” but I digress) I was a freelancer. I didn’t have an office, or a formal setting in which I plied my trade(s). I’d work in bed, in the kitchen, at cafés, and a lot of the time, with a full charge and an Americano at Parc La Fontaine. That all changed when I moved to Toronto and got my first real “office job.” ¶ I’d worked in offices before, sure, but starting in September, 2011, I had a bunch of things I…
Dave JafferNov 18, 2013
The Bread Of Our Dreams
When John went to the new health food store that opened up in his neighborhood he had no idea what he was getting himself into…… ¶ His girlfriend had asked him to pick up some “healthy-looking” bread and some heirloom tomatoes and then she wrote down the word “acaí” on the back of his hand and told him that she was only doing that because she really didn’t want him to forget that item. The truth, of course, was that she didn’t know how to pronounce it, but that didn’t matter to John. He loved his girlfriend and he wanted her to have any and all of the stupid berries she desired, from acaí to goji to huckle to bumble.
elan gale5 days ago
Here are two things worth understanding about poverty:
1. Poverty is not just real life but without money.Not if you define “real life” as the life you live right now. ¶ The non-poverty life is about possibility. The possibility of connection, of leveling up, of a tomorrow that’s significantly better than yesterday. ¶ No, the thing that’s possible doesn’t always happen, not for most people, but living with hope is something we take for granted. ¶ A life lived in poverty, though, is always about scrambling.
Seth Godin3 days ago
DO IT ONCE AND MEAN IT.
Thank a person once, and do it sincerely. But don’t thank them again, or they may wonder if you’re worthy of their generosity.Apologize once, with all your heart, but don’t keep apologizing, or they may begin the think your sin is unforgiveable. ¶ Ask a favor once, because it’s hard to say, “I owe you two.” ¶ Ask a girl out just once. She’ll be twice as likely to give you a second chance. ¶ But try everything twice, if you don’t feel you really meant it the first time. ¶ By Sam Hayes
Sam HayesNov 14, 2015
Dreaming of You
Sometimes I wake up and think of you and realize you were in my dream. The dream seems so real that I reach out to embrace you.Sometimes I am sure you are here, but I am unable to find you. It feels too real for it to have been a dream, and if it was I am upset that I am awake and you are not here with me. ¶ I lie back and the sadness sweeps over my soul and the longing won’t leave me alone. I fall back to sleep and awaken once more to the realization that I didn’t dream of you again, and I feel disappointed. ¶ I get out of bed and walk to the window.
Danna Colman3 days ago
A Love Letter For Real People
No frills, just the truth.I believe in you, babe. ¶ I believe in pouring myself out for you, for us. ¶ I believe you’re worth my time, as much of it as you want. ¶ I believe you’re proof that God loves me, even when I let Him down. ¶ I believe in second chances, third ones and several more afterward. We're not perfect. ¶ I believe your flaws are a part of your humanity, and I accept them along with the better parts of you.
Oreoluwa Fakorede4 days ago
What Love Isn’t
For the days you’re not sure.Love is not a prison. ¶ It’s not butterflies in your stomach. That’s just chemistry. ¶ Love isn’t blind; it sees but chooses not to make a fuss. ¶ Love isn’t yesterday’s offences brought forward to support today’s argument. ¶ It doesn’t slam doors or smash things. Call insanity by its name lest it be mistaken for something else. ¶ Love is not convenient. You’ll be fighting your sense of self-preservation regularly.Oreoluwa FakoredeMar 24
14 Things I Didn’t Say To Her
Can we start over?Teach me how to love you. ¶ Tell the truth about the kissing. Don’t endure bad things. ¶ If it is too much, whatever ‘it’ is, say so. Telepathy is too rare to be expected. ¶ Don’t raise your voice. Don’t raise your voice. Just don’t. ¶ Are we really fighting? ‘Cause this feels like pure silliness. Kiss me already or I’ll lick your face. ¶ Cold hands need warm armpits. Let mine be twin furnaces.Oreoluwa FakoredeMar 17
