I made the decision to move today.
I called my gramma and told her the plan. She said it felt like I was moving too fast. And to anyone outside of my brain, they would likely agree.
How do you know if you can trust someone? The answer is you must rely on trust-testing. The…
I stepped up to the microphone, palms sweating and heart racing. This was the moment I’d…
This article focuses on recovering from all forms of sexual assault, but it can also help people with other forms of emotional trauma.
We get it. We know he is/was… (insert word of choice here: unavailable, horrible, manipulative, abusive…
Dear Adah,
This is to prove that you don’t really need to be super smart or honest to lead people into thinking that you’re a cool, sophisticated person who looks as if he’s got his shit together and leading a meaningful life.
Sometimes we just stare at the ceiling and wonder what leaves us unconvinced of our ongoing lives. There comes a point of saturation when we feel we have had enough! It can be about anything from career aspirations to personal…
I used to practice origami when I was five. Now I’m seventeen. Whenever I see orgami paper, it reminds me the…
“So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you’re reading?” The man replied, “How can I unless someone guides…
Improv made me quit my job and move halfway across the country. I don’t know what it’ll do to you but take it from me—keep your job. For now.
But let’s say you start taking improv classes to meet new people, have fun, or spend money. Here are some…
I’m Commander Shepard of the Normandy, and I will save Earth. Or, why video games calm me down.
“I’m sorry, but we have to let you go.”
“Unfortunately, that position has been filled.”
“I don’t know how to tell you this, but…”
I’ve noticed something. People who were born in this town stay in this town. Either that, or they leave and come back to raise their family here…
When I was three years old my brother Chris and I snuck into the laundry room. Chris was the instigator of shenanigans and…
Do you ever wish having this one person in your life who always supports you no matter what ?
In my first blog post back in December I used the phrase ‘fake it till you make it’ – shudder! Too often this is the…
I remember
At the age of 12, I changed school in order to be able to learn classical ballet at the same time as my secondary education.
It meant making significant sacrifices, like losing contact with my childhood friends, but my passion for…
Hi Charlie — I am a backslider. I chose numbness after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) a few years ago. MS is an ugly, life-altering, non-curable disease. And, frankly, I don’t know how to handle the tidal wave of emotions I’ve been drowning in… so I put it on pause (also known as being afraidy-cat”).
The same tendencies that helped me qualify for the Olympic Trials…
Randomness is the rule of life and let it be. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. We can’t expect people/thing to be happened at the…
Chameleon or Wolf
Social acceptance, we all crave it on some level. Some of us are more prone to go out of our way to ensure we’re well received while…
So I have continued the challenged for over a week, and now it is getting real. It’s getting more and more difficult for me to write everyday. I have few ideas that I want to write about, but they need time and patience. Both of which I don’t have right now.
For whatever reason, some things just tend to stick. They don’t have to be from anyone famous. The quotes themselves don’t need to be mind-blowingly deep either. I feel like I remember them because at that particular moment in time it was important or it meant something to me.
Better than yesterday, that’s what I am, better than you? Well it depends on who fills you’s shoes. All men are born equal? that’s the sacrosanct…
I am the last person anyone would expect to enter the corporate world.
Hometown Bayou
You know, the older I get the more I have these “ah ha” moments of my hometown on the Gulf Coast bays.
As a child I would look through both of my parents’ yearbooks of the “Kick-Ass Cajun High School of Medium Grain Rice of our Holy Mother.🤔😳” When somebody was absent on picture day…
“A smile can change the world. Or at least it can change your life”
“You should marry him,” My grandmother said with emphasis on the word him.
So I am reading a great book at the moment which is encouraging me to budget my fucks, that is, to not give a fuck about things I genuinely don’t give a fuck about, whilst remaining a decent human being.
My son, Jon, and I were walking along the beach one day imagining ships and monsters in the clouds above. We had just had…
Its been 6 months since you have left. 6 months of me pretending to be fine, suppressing all my emotions in order to be perceived as strong. I did not want anyone to see how vulnerable your departure has made me.
We learn how to say “Mum” and “Dad”. We learn that this weird looking long orange thing is called a “carrot”. That we sit on a “chair”, play with “toys”, read “books”, or that this feeling of butterflies flying around our stomach is called “love”. We can learn an average of 800 words per…
Wow! I know right?
I, like many of my generation, have been aware of Jay-Z for a long time. I remember his…
Once upon the illusion of linear time there stood a white canvas shining in its own stark brightness of pure, infinite creative potential. The boundless nature of creative possibility available for the blank slate to learn and experience made the canvas pulsate in elation, awe, bliss and…
9th January 20158:05 PM
Many things in life are as simple as pressing the delete button but……..
I have been with this candy crush saga obsession for the past 2 years. I would literally be with that game every 20 minutes…
Discomfort is what will make you study the whole night for the end of semester exams. It will…
Do you remember when you were 10 years old? The future seemed like such a wonderful place. Unicorns, leprechauns, and one day you would be Superman. Nothing seemed impossible. The tallest slide on the playground was something to conquer. Your bully was…
I just listened to DailyVee 29 by @garyvee on the dirty little secrets of entrepreneurs…
Vivir la vida de forma convencional tiene su precio en sacrificio, rutina y cotidianidad.
¿Cómo hace alguien para parecerle a todos un hombre religioso y santo cuando en su hogar es un maltratador y en su vida personal es un…
Surviving Cancer With Someone You Love
Surviving cancer with your best friend, husband, or wife starts out a little rough with all the treatment options…
Mindfullness 'they' sayThe latest self-help toolTo keep you going
For what?
Every else wants their timeTo speak and write and perform
You shouldn’t have to fight someone to stay with you,but you better make damn sure that you take right steps in order…
First off, the last time I had a hangover was over 20 years ago, when I was still a partying single. It…
So I was reading this again, then that again, then this, and the thing that is not the thing I think is not the opening of a door. It’s the opening of a door that she was clearly not walking towards. It’s that and a million other ways men (and women, because, c’mon…i think it’s more a personality type than a gender, sometimes…) take actions just to…
It was 9 days ago that Lisa and I celebrated 9 years of marriage. We’ve had a lot of amazing times together, and a lot of really crappy times. As I’ve taken this week and a half to reflect over the near-decade spent as husband and wife, a few things I’ve learned along the way came to mind. Here…
Lessons from leading 28 stranded men to survive 16 months in Antartica, and return home alive.
I’m almost done reading Sir Ernest Shackleton’s failed and yet awe-inspiring Antartica expedition. It’s an incredible…
So life’s got you funked up, does it?
You need to lose some, a little or alot of weight; you work too much, or maybe not enough because you need more cash than what you’ve got; the people at work are negative-ninnies and they’re just up to no-good; you want to…
The story of Motivation begins with you. Deep in thought, in the roots of what makes you…you. The driving force from…
Something from the vault!
10 sure-fire measures to become the boss’s favorite by Benny Umoren (@BennyUmoren)
Any office has two kinds of people, a group that works hard but is never noticed and the other who immediately spring to mind. The second kind are the ones who are noticed and at the forefront of all activities. Career success means more than…
To friends, when words have been spoken too quickly in anger or actions have been taken without proper thinking and you just have that instantaneous unquestionable feeling that you will never be able to fix what you once had. To grudges, when I’ve realized the hurt I am holding…
Note- I write for me, so pardon me if my writing isn’t very stylistic or structured. I have a habit of dumping raw thoughts as you’ll see.
“Do it for you.” You are the architect of your own reality, so no one has to infringe upon your happiness unless you…
At 23, most of us have to face a thing called “crisis at 23". Because at this time, we have to make many choices from many conflicted options such as gap year or job, a stable job at hometown to live near family or seeking opportunies at urban cities, study master at home country or study…
Well, we had the talk I’ve been fearing for weeks now. I’m not sure where I went so wrong to be honest. I’m scared beyond words, hurt more than I ever have and am sick to my stomach. The confusion lies in the fact that I though I was doing it all so right in these past few years. I know things…
It’s been two weeks.
Two weeks of sadness.
I still remember the initial feeling I had two years ago, when I finally made the decision to become sober.
For me, a beer guzzling, sharp-tongued wild child, bidding adieu to alcohol was a shocking turn of events. Even though I had known for years that my…
What am I ?
Am I really that innocent or am I just faking
When you remember the little stories.
When you’re about to laugh and cry at the same moment and think about the values you’ve been taught. When you take yet another leaf out of someone’s book. When you’re grateful for certain things that happened in your life.
By Amanda Motyka
Oftentimes when you go to see live music, the ambience either detracts from or adds to the music you’re listening to. On March 10, the U-Street Music Hall in Washington, D.C., became…
By John W. Vander Velden
Why are those we watch most closely the ones that make the most mistakes? I believe I…
i was going to say when it is it my turn for happiness… but that wouldn’t be the right thing to say. because happiness is now.
happiness is where i am in the moment i am in right now. not an illusion and not minutes from now, not hours, not days, not weeks, and not…
👏you👏better👏say👏that👏s*it
As planned, the four of us, Naman, Hricha, Pooja and I were headed to eat early morning (5:00 AM) Poha at NAL Stop and then to Sinhagarh fort to watch the sunrise. We left for the fort at around 5:30 AM. Pooja knew the route, or atleast that’s what she told us. I’ve been to Sinhagarh to watch the…
If you want to be successful, than better read failure stories then success stories
The truth is, as much as you think you may know about women, you never know enough. Here are…
This is the essential of hiring people. I have learned this the hard way. In my company I wanted to hitting every sorts of people. Woman, man, older and younger. the focus of of diversely of my staff clouded my focus of the attitude of my staff members.
Absolutely, and funny that level of security can never be achieved. It’s like when some things go right, and no matter how many years you’ve been doing the same thing, you still come out feeling anxious and insecure that it may not live up to expectations or something like that. I’d often just wish it’ll turn out well in the end. I can only worry so…
Living the equation
In life, there comes a point when the equation of life changes its form to being a complicated one with many variables in it and we…
I was thinking about leaving my city and start a new path somewhere else.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
TRUTH.
Let me try to translate the texts first:
Most people in the world aren’t searching for truths that can be confirmed since…
Belly laughs are highly underrated. I wish you one…I’m working on a small collection of funny things my kids have said and though your piece this morning made my eyes sweat a little ( as my youngest would say) I thought this one night make you laugh:
The inner battle of working Vs sleeping is not real. To create quality work we need a good sleep.
That was one of the most concisely insightful articles I’ve read on skill building. Thank you Benjamin P. Hardy, you’re a fantastic writer! I now have less cognitive dissonance and more clarity on the process of what I’m currently applying myself to.
I always say thank you to my echo, and sadly never receive a you’re welcome. However if you say Alexa, thank you she will respond.
I know that my remark is a little out of topic, but one thing should be put into consideration — social context which determines overall satisfaction with life. E.g population density can have a huge impact on it. We can assume that smart people are less likely to socialize because they are focused on some longer term objective, tasks.
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Feeling like you need to rush like a crazy person? Too many things to do?
Ha! Once I posted on Facebook that I was tired but happy. I was at an AA conference in town. He drove over and made a huge scene about what a whore I was and which one of these drunk fucks was I screwing because that is the only reason anyone would be tired but happy.
Ridiculous.
I loved this! This was the kick in the pants I needed. To create my ideal life I must first create my ideal day. So simple. Thank you.
Initially published on: https://lifeisaparadox.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/reality-check/
Well, I consider myself as an atheist, well not actually an atheist but a semi-atheist, if that’s a word. I don’t believe that god exists, but, I cannot deny the existence of some higher…
We live in such a fast paced tumultuous life. The new prosthetic measure of success seems to look at how many things we have going on all at once.
At the end of the day, we are tempted to look at what we have participate in or toiled in to measure the…
Love it!
Thank you
I have been doing vipassana meditation for two months and become more aware when my mind and me myself am fleeing from the present moment. Though I still find it hard to accept or dive into the emotions of which I am scared.
A fight between good and evil- is one for the ages.
Just because you can’t place them in a brown bag, lock them in a box, or seal them in a jar…
I’ve always felt using words, big words in particular, is similar to wearing a wig or being slim: you wear a wig because you believe it will enhance you or you want to be slim because, well, you feel you are likely to look better. And why do we do these things, because we believe if we do, we’d be taken more seriously. The same with big words. An…
Whatever you do, don’t marry the person that makes you lose your mind. You’ll need that to live your life.
When the loss involves the mother to three young children, who have absolutely no psychological support — their father’s “coping” skills are in a bottle (please know this was 1963, and all of the adults thought it best to pretend all was well), by the time these kids are adults, they are…shapeless.
Silences
What often must be felt and shared,
Remains unsaid, buried deep in sheaths waiting to be bared,
Time flies, slays and heals; never stops,
Spare the regret and seize the moment — it’s time we start!
Agree entirely, except, maybe, the leaving part.
Thoughtful, intelligent work is swamped by dross.
My semi-original contributions float around in this churning sea of fake profundity, the same listicles with different authors’ names attached.
