Yesterday, I was reminding my oldest daughter that life is not fair. I was facing away from her so that she wouldn’t see my jaw clenching, or the welling up of tears. Sometimes you have to hide things from your kids.
Enlightenment is a sexy word. If you don’t believe me, try whispering it in someone’s ear.
I’ll never forget how weird I felt the first time I visited Romania. I had been out…
by Julian Reisinger
Social connection is the greatest predictor of happiness.
Marriage translates love into live action. Choosing marriage usually means making a life…
Don’t Take It So Seriously, It’s Just A Joke — Or Is It?
In Britain for example, many people find it very hard to say what they really feel or think…
The snow report said 10" had fallen in the past 24-hours on Heavenly Ski Resort. It was 6am on February 4th, and I was up wrestling with the mundane challenges of running a software startup in Silicon…
I am a People-Pleaser, And Here’s Why it Sucks.
I am a people-pleaser and I hate it so much.
Recruiting and retaining talent is the most important piece of any leader’s day. I take a lot of pride in our track…
A communal canvas for quotes, drawings, emotional scribbles, bar stool poetry, friendly advice, and incoherent doodles… Crafted by drunk people.
Have you ever got that feeling where you can’t seem to find that one Thing which you excel at and I…
Something happened a few months ago that I haven’t written about. Actually, I have written about it — several times — and those attempts are all sitting in a drafts folder unfinished. Every time I would try to write about it came off as too privileged, too earnest, or (heaven forbid) too political. It…
Some people would say that is a given fact since everybody is unique in their own way, others would say that everybody is…
Let’s see how many weeks I can blog for.
By Tiffany Yu
I’ve been thinking a lot about last night.
“The prompt is disability,” bestselling author Allie Burke said from the front of the room at Diversability Interactive’s first 557 Block writing meetup, where…
I’ve been doing a lot of research on the psychology of success lately. I really just want to find out what…
Right before turning 2 years old in my first career job, I spotted something. I looked behind and asked myself a question:
Where did my time go, motherfucker?
Back in early 2005 my young music startup was just starting to gain some real traction. As we closed deals we needed to staff up with talent…
“The only thing that is constant is change”
— Heraclitus
Коли я приходжу раніше, ніж волонтери зі спільноти, то намотую навколо Порохівки кола, бездумно клацаючи кнопки телефона, фіксуючи картинку боковим зором. Ну, ви знаєте, як це буває. Але день, несподівано для мене, став довшим, у скверику світло і тепло, вже не випадає ховатись. Тому…
When I was a kid, I wanted to fit in. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t. It took me a long time to…
The Beauty of an Unpolished Brand
The inclination to disguise ourselves is more potent today than ever. Most of us build fake fortresses through social…
“Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!” -Super Mario Adventures
I don’t really know how to start of my blogs lately because of how I have just been feeling so flat. I seem to just be a lump of moods and a…
Hidup ini bukannya kejam. Hidup ini hanya tidak punya belas kasihan. Suka atau tidak, siap ataupun tidak siap…
A friend shared this quote in group message the other day:
I like to look at the flocks of birds as they fly over, but there’s always one or two of them that seem to land while the rest make their way.
What are they thinking? Landing while the rest keep going — I find it a sad notion. Are they ever going to find…
A decade today since I first held my baby girl in my arms and named her; Zoe Michelle.
Yesterday was a bad day
It has been a wonderful and wild ride thus far.
I feel lucky for so many reason, amazing friends, loving (crazy) family, but most profoundly I feel lucky to still be here. I had a few close calls this last year, going to the…
Mindful Authentic Parenting Systems (MAPS) Final Post #15 by Dr. Glenda Wilkes
The term “greatest fear/s” is one that has been bandied around with numerous attached connotations as far as I can remember. Some of those include dark rooms, cavernous spaces like sewers or deep, underground pits, arachnophobia and simply the fear of becoming…
We have a natural yearn to satisfy others. As we want to make them happy, we also want to…
Luck is a matter of perspective
In the short span of one week, my sister has gotten married, my grandma has passed on, and I got into my first car accident. Of course, the first has nothing to do with my streak of bad luck, but it just shows how much can happen in a week.
That's why you should be seriousbecause this life won't come back
It is widely recognised that as humans we all have a sort of split personality.
At its core, in the limbic system, we have our lesser evolved self, let’s call it our chimp. This deals with emotions or feelings and controls things like our flight reflex which is…
A colleague once said to me, “Nothing’s ever as good or as bad as people expect.”
We are terrible at predicting the future, and by our biases on a particular outcome. When we project a scenario, we expect everyone to play in perfect concerto. Our startups are destined to…
Having a hard time? Everything around you looks black and white? It’s better to just give up, right?
Dancing girl. A young lady who will never read this. A young woman who wants nothing in this world but her happiness. Dancing girl, a…
Ever have the feeling you can’t breathe? Like everyone and everything around you is pressing against you, slowly killing you? The huge lump on your throat which makes swallowing air a tad difficult? Perhaps being completely alone is what gives you that feeling of…
Don’t take my word for it. Let the research…
Have you wondered what your purpose is in life? Have you asked a loved one or someone you respect for…
"Holding Hands with Small Children"
Smiling people,Passing by-Gawking, Staring.Others make no effort-To smile-Just Strangely watching. I hold my…
My fantasies do not wander in the sights of bare-chested muscular men — they never did…
The moth lay, pressed flat against the bricks by the doorBlending with the lines and angles, he figured…
Do I need to trust everything I see or hear? It’s a common question out on the streets, with an increasingly judgemental audience viewing extraordinary events and people. Even though, more often than not, there is a muddy back story to the ‘tale of overcoming odds’ or ‘the trick…
Good communication is key to a successful business.
If the staff is not communicating effectively with each other and with their leader — that’s you — they will struggle to operate as efficiently. This can promote a whole host of…
That resentment. That sudden urge to become violent because you feel that things are…
Be brave, be brave, be brave. Be kind, be kind, be kind. These are things I whisper to myself, all the time. Know your worth. Love yourself. The past month and a half, I have constantly been giving myself a pep talk. I’ve needed it, from myself, and from others. I never would have…
A famous basketball star was once asked what is the secret to success. His answer was profound…
I was at the age of 18 with just the clothes on my back standing in an alley…
As I was growing up in China in the 90s, the perception of someone who is qualified…
This one’s for the confused creatures, the “what am I looking for”, the type of people who can’t put life in order. This one, is for you and me. We have all wondered seeing someone carrying through life so peacefully. Nobody is always happy…
Time does not stop for anyone.
#ThreeThings possible
I think it’s more of a respect to the house hold since you are living with your parents or family. Members I always made it a habit not to come late even if I was intimate with my boyfriend who is now my husband. I just felt I needed to respect the home while I loved there. Especially if the family is old school morals. But yes no matter what people…
Have you got a should problem?
Our lives are bounded and driven by should and should not. For the most part, shoulds are good. I should wear my seatbelt while driving. I should get more exercise. I should learn to be a better listener. I should not have that second piece of chocolate cake.
Each day we have many contacts and connections as we navigate through our personal and professional lives. We are busy, we are…
Lately, I’ve been having severe panic attacks. I used to take medication for them, but in recent times, even medication doesn’t help anymore. My onset for the panic attacks can vary. For the past several months, my panic attacks have been extremely painful that my body could barely move during the…
Healthy organizations are places where you find high levels of communication, consistency, and trust. Open communication. Consistent focus and action. Trust is high.
If you expect to facilitate communication, and maintain focus, you must bring your team…
How to Not Act Your Age, Even With Middle-Age Woman Face
I don’t know when it happened.
It didn’t so much as creep up on me as it did chase me down and toss an ice cube down my back. Well, maybe not quite that alarming; more like a smooth wave lazily rolling over me. The SO and I were having a…
I wouldn’t call myself a sociopath and I wouldn’t say either I’m very comfortable talking to people. There is always this feeling of fear when someone asks me a question and I’m not sure I will be able to answer. I’m not sure I want to answer. Actually I’m sure I don’t want to answer.I’m…
Its strange how being novice to something can led you to a new road of life which can turn your page of life to a totally new chapter just to getting over it. I remember an experience of my cousin. She was a student of Engineering in Mechanical. She was forced by her college magazine…
There are things that happen to us that change us forever. It doesn’t matter how long time passes, they stay and alter their appearance as we do.
This week has been strange because I’ve taken the step of being integrated into a community that I’ve stood on the outside of. Anytime you start…
I found you, YN, at the Medium as another resonating one to follow (for me, ‘to learn’ is the key word I use nearly always) to learn from. What the Medium shown to me so far alone is to be more than I could have ever imagined, for it lead me to ‘find and absorb what I needed.’ I feel that I can not distance my original grateful heart even after…
Lessons I learned from the ocean today..
Swimming rigioursly against my flow will only exert and waste your creative (manifesting) energy.
Surrender to life and flow freely, just as I carry you with my current.
Some eat meat, some eat vegetable.I do not expect us all to agree about everything.But…
Honestly, number one pet peeve is to be pathetic. It’s just so easy not to be, I don’t understand people who are. Here’s an example that goes hand in hand with another pet peeve of mine: don’t say you are going to do something (as in plan it with another person) and then NOT…
Do I miss it? Do I miss love? That’s the query you want an answer for. Do I miss the unnecessary convulsions, the blind happiness, the ignorance, the true concept that defines life itself? To lovingly answer your question, yes I miss love. I miss it all: the raunchy text messages sent during work hours…
To us, the Breakers.
Actually the list goes on. To us, the Sinners, the Cheaters, the Leavers, the Liars, the Abusers, the Thieves, the Murderers, the Assailants, the all rounder Bad Guys.
The people who help create uplifting moving-on success stories. We Breakers break things, as the name implies…
Have you ever heard the quote: “some people live and some people just breath?”, as a way of saying that some people are living life at its fullest potential and others are just passing by?
I’ve always been a late bloomer. In school I had plenty of my own friends, but they won’t mind me saying that we were a somewhat awkward bunch.
Collectively rather nerdy, and inhabiting bodies that had not yet grown to fit us, we were the Weird Kids. And we were…
I’ve had anxiety as long as I can remember. For a long, long time I didn’t know what to call it. I didn’t even realize it was something that had a name, although I was sure their was something wrong with me. I am a walking contradiction sometimes. Sometimes, i can put on the best show. Laugh loudly, butt…
Express yourself fully, that’s your USP.
Thank you for this. I just hired my first employee for my start up and I am real nervous. Just trusting my gut and reading up lots on leadership. ..
If you’re fortunate enough to know what you’re good at and enjoy than you know that the work is the only thing left do to get you where you want to go.
If you’re not as fortunate and you’re unsure of what pursuit you want to take, than you can be sure that the work…
There are things often that keep bugging me yet I fail to address them. I guess making them public will make me vulnerable and susceptible to take charge of myself and our these things to and end. In a nutshell, these things would be:
YG, I am sorry that I misquoted your sir name. It’s Girad, not Nirad. Could you forgive my error?! How pitiful of me to err in such an important author whose articles so deeply resonate to me?!
So true, writing is the most refreshing practice. It’s like you’re emptying your mind of all the loose, floating thoughts (that keeps one up at Night). Not many people realise how much of a therapy writing is.
I don’t even care if my writing sucks, I usually write anything bothering me down, in whatever words that came to…
Ever made a mistake that you felt super bad about and you wished you could just go back in time and change? Maybe it was something you've even cautioned people about and it's not like you meant to but still,you made the exact mistake. Everyone is suprised and they don't…
Have you ever woke up for work, went to hop in the shower, and couldn’t do anything but feel the water hit you while you thought to yourself “There has to be more than this”? You’re stuck in the lifestyle of the 98%
Are you tapping into the flow of life?
Passion for living is grounded in play.
Where are your play spaces?
4 Questions To Ask Yourself To Ensure You Make An Impact
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
You’ve got to want it.
It doesn’t matter what morning routine you have, goals you’ve setup, nor what habits you build if you don’t want it bad enough.
Dedicated to the memory of “Five”, William Robinson, Sr. Father of William Robinson, Jr. AKA Smokey.
Always ask a busy person. That way, you won’t mind as much when they turn you down.
Is horrible like blind…
Too many options can lead to unfinished business, got it. Thanks!
关于我所发布的内容：大部分来自互联网，仅有少部分是我的个人观点，我尽可能的著名出处，但因为要整理大量的摘抄引用，所以可能有遗漏，请谅解并指出，谢谢！
礼字即是理字。理之发见可见者谓之文。文之隐微不可见者谓之理。只是一物。约礼只是要此心纯是一个天理。要此心纯是天理，须就理之发见处用功。如发见于事亲时，就在事亲上学存此天理。发见于事君时，就在事看上学存此天理。发见于处富贵贫贱时，就在处富贵贫贱上学存此天理。发见于处患难夷狄时，就在处患难夷狄上学存此天理。至于作止语默，无处不然。随他发见处，即就那上面学个存天理。这便是博学之于文，便是约礼的功夫。博文即是惟精。约礼即是惟一。
Time heals everything, so the saying goes. If you told me in my early 20s, I would have scoffed and called bullshit. I was suffering from grief for a very long time, some might even say i was depressed. I wouldn’t want to admit the label, but the consistent mood swings…
I have 3 teens… self entitlement… period
Yes, working at a Cultural Center can sometimes be exciting, and at other time’s mundane.
Today, earlier I was dealing with the mundane part of setting up for a birthday party..Yes, even at 53, I know how to get those chairs and tables around, and it sometimes along…
This is it.
一個很沈重的題目。
當然提到死亡，很自然就會想到一些宗教議題。天堂，地獄，輪迴等等。
可是，我覺得死亡最可怕不是這些（或是對這些的不確定），因為有這些就代表有延續，有延續就代表還“有得玩”。
我覺得死亡最可怕是什麼都沒有。
如果有動過刀的人都會知道，當麻醉藥慢慢生效的時候，接下來就是一片黑。
When I finally get my shit together, everything will finally make sense.
I will have business cards that are of a heavy card stock that they don’t disintegrate in wallets and that have a great position…
I have been taught, advised, and consoled
Tons of anecdodotes I have been told
I’ve been reminded again and again
CLOSE THE DOOR, THIS IS NOT A BARN
The question implies they know the future, that they will fail; “even if I fail”
You don’t know if you’ll fail, so you can’t ask questions like that because they immediately assume that you will, and you’ve already got your answer of course (if you know you’ll fail at it, why try – unless the process is fun?).
Thanks for your response Rula, really appreciate your comments ☺
As a learner and student of life, I found it very mesmerising when I had not any problems but now at worst time of my life. It has taken my everything, my joy, peace, passion and dumped me in black hole. It’s just because of wrong choices I made, wrong people I loved and due to expectations from people.
Is there any cure for broken emotions?
Most of us are subject to self-censorship! We know what we write about and we know what people with opposing or differing opinions might launch/yell at us online. And we know that many are rather willing to listen to those who pose as being offended or in possession of the “real truth” if their narrative is not further away from what they know as is…
YES
YG, I realized I need the third chance to correct an error I made; on the second time, I missed noticing there was an error in the full sir name. I misspelled it as Girad, instead of the correct one, Girard. I am humbled to know that I needed the third attempt to correct an error in spelling. I know I will be checking twice from now on, especially in…
The «just do it» motto that seems so simple is the first one we forget
