by Yann Girard
Your twenties are there for getting your heart broken.
For breaking other people’s hearts.
For going out there, experimenting, trying and failing.
In my last post, I wrote about the rise of AppsTech. A meteoric rise it was. With no funding, a young African woman had succeeded in building a global tech business.
ADAM NAMED THE ANIMALS, we were told as kids. And if you heard anything like the version I heard in Sunday school, he was…
This blog may seem like it contradicts my previous blog titled ‘ Don't be afraid to love it makes the world go around’ but what if you just haven't found that person, what if you want to fall in love but haven't stumbled across that intense and wonderful feeling of falling for that one…
The subject got your attention didn't it…I can guarantee so many of you just had to see what I have to say about not being afraid to love. I can guarantee so many of you are reading this right now because when you thought something with…
電影後的心得：令人嫌棄的松子的一生。
松子的一生不是悲劇，而是一場轟轟烈烈，壯烈的犧牲，導演利用松子的一生來提醒我們，何謂人生的意義。
And start pondering how to decide which parts of your stolen fairy tale will…
Clown nose adhesive smells like rubbing alcohol.
Originally published at lmt-lss.com on April 23, 2016.
Try doing something different.
The existential question that everyone faces at some point, at some stage in life.
When you’re mind-fucked, your mind is flooded with negative thoughts. Everything seem to look wrong. You question everything around you. You don’t understand the things you do or that others do. You give the negativity so much power…
When John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Unit, visited the JFK Jr. Forum last year, it…
So 10th is over and you will step into this whole new world of opportunities, although you won’t realize this until you finish your undergrad, but each choice you make, right from your junior college , will have an impact on your life, some big , some small. I don’t mean this in the end-of-the-world-scary…
In case you don’t know already, April is Autism Awareness Month, but it’s known by many as Autism Acceptance Month now, and for good reason. I hope that we all know what autism is by now. There’s a reason the month should turn to acceptance rather than just shallow…
Articles about boosting your productivity have become part of my daily life these days. There is simply no way to avoid them. As I get ready to start the day, I’m certain that a link to an article about productivity will be waiting in my inbox…
“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive,” said Coco Chanel.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Date a Goddess?
Does the world know that you are a goddess? Do you? If we feel happiest wearing baggy beige sweaters, what are we…
Love is crazy.
Ask any mature person and they’ll tell you about a past love. They’re not still in love, but they hold it in high regard.
We do all this work watering the seeds in hopes it sprouts into a tree with roots infinitely deep.
Here I am, trying to gather my thoughts as I write the next best article I’ve ever written. 3 inch heels, fitted dress, dark long hair walks up to the counter, orders coffee. She glances across the room, holds eye contact for about three seconds, I smile, she smiles back, nice white teeth.
I don’t really know how to start this article. My thoughts on this subject are a torrent of something incomprehensible, and though I would like nothing more than to put them into words, if only to clear my head, every attempt so far has ended in failure. I’m hoping this time…
People often say they are travel addicts in a positive manner. Still after researching this topic it got me thinking - is travel addiction a real thing? And if so is it always so innocent and fun as it sounds? Or maybe it can get ugly like all addictions.
Maya Angelou
OMG!! WOW! is sooo!! gooood!!!. Superlatives are thrown about like 'chillar’(loose change which adds weight but has little or no value). A mediocre okayish picture put up on a social site and the compliments make you feel like an award winning ace photographer, its nice to be appreciated, but please no over…
“He told me he loves me and I want to tell him I love him as well” Alice implied. Eyes wide open and a heart as big as times square she was excited to have found someone 10x intrested in her as she was intrested in them. “What do you think I should do, should I tell him”, she asked. “I think you should…
Everyday is a blessing and a gift, not an expectation.
Success comes from failure, analysis, pivots, and dedication. It is not given, bought, or found.
A single moment can propel you into a trajectory that you didn’t ever believe was possible. A moment of…
One of my earliest memories is of walking into a bee’s nest. I was probably three. My dad grew peach trees, and he had…
This week, Justin Trudeau is regarded as a smart politician due to one smart response. Robots start taking over design, while Salone de Mobile provide design trends insights. You do not need to…
You need that one to catch the exception or it slips through.
One day, I will be rich enough to own a super car. Parade it around town, get all the mixed attention. Who cares where I’m driving it to? It’s just a medium to prove how successful I am.
What at is life? How to live?
At every moment in life, don’t expect the things to happen your way. It is how we take it. Life is too short to make grievances and blame games.
Prompt: Reflect on: your previous learning experiences. Think about one particularly successful and one unsuccessful learning experience. Consider what were the conditions that made this experience successful or unsuccessful for you and what this tells you about…
One of the biggest reasons I joined the Marine Corps was to surf.
I started surfing during high school. It was something I discovered and realized at a young age how spiritual and soulful it was. I grew up in a town where there were a gathering of bays surrounding us. The best waves were down the coast in Galveston. My…
There is music,
Day 25 — Steps
Today’s post is for everyone running the London Marathon tomorrow. Especially first timers.
In the build up this run, you’ve put in an incredible amount of work. The race you run, walk or shuffle through 26.2 is a celebration of that work. Think back to all the steps you’ve made to…
Every day, we need to make a variety of decisions. One of the best ways that helps us make…
A recent study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development found that 39% men and 49% women reported feeling a CRISIS in their twenties.
In a study presented at the British Psychological society, researchers identified 5 key…
7 Key Decisions That Will Make You Rich and Live Longer !
It’s not the college degree that will help you live long or earn more.These SMART decisions will…
Here is what makes this autobiography a compelling and addictive must-read! A quiet little boy is born in a small, rural Jamaican community on a rainy afternoon in the month of May. Starting school, he is labelled a ‘dunce’ and shunted to the back of his class. He goes to primary school without…
Who wants to be mediocre, you ask… I do. As crazy as it is, Thursday night’s episode of Scandal posed an important question… Do you…
I just try to keep my values, no more, no less. If sharing my stories helps anyone, then it was worth dealing with it. No one has a perfect life, but it’s the path to pursuing it that keeps people going. Oh, don’t sweat the joke, it was funny. Still not sure if they meant ‘pet smart' or ‘pets mart' seeing that they smashed it into one word (like Neanderthals) tells me they didn’t know either.
MARKED part 1: The Journey of the Art of Flesh
Being a creative and classically trained in fine arts, I have had a different sensibility to aesthetics throughout my entire life. Even before I had taken art classes or had any studio training, I was the weird little girl sitting in the corner drawing or building something and…
When you know you will never be
When you love them all the more
When it’s a day
A night
Or a even a fateful hour at the airport
When you know you loved them before they…
Another point of view of being boring could simply be having habits or routines. Once you make simple things in your life “boring” and routine it not only frees up your mind from those decisions but also continuously helps provide growth for routines or habits that contribute to what you believe, like Steph Curry practicing his 3s or The Rock working out.
You are most welcome, sister Sura. We are all one family in mourning— especially when one of our great Influencers passes beyond. Peace to your heart… ❤
One of my favorite quotes is “you don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.” I am sure there are several variations of this quote and I do not know who the original one came from but boy did this quote hit home with me. Since I turned 25…
I am thirty. And let me tell you, thirty… fucking is ridiculous. I am expected to act a certain way, be a career woman, be a fantastic mom and wife and own a home. Most days I have no idea what I am doing and tend to battle reality with a thick layer of sarcasm. It works. I am a firm believer in the…
I’m taking a break from packing the old house to move into the new. (next blog…
Do you know what has killed more dreams than anything else?? It is over thinking.
Before taking a start, we tend to have all the answers. Analysis paralysis is the state of over-analyzing a situation such that a decision or action is never…
Is how long we’ve had a baby in our lives. It feels ridiculous and impossible when I add it up like that.
Misunderstanding for hatred
as a male approaching his thirties, I have never really done anything special in life to make me distinct however, I am self-conscious and I think to a fault.
started my professional career around d 2008 and since then been changing jobs about every 1 or 1.5years and it…
I remember the day we brought Oliver home from the hospital as a newborn. After the storm of family walking in and out, cleaning what they could, stocking us with who knows what, and frantically trying to make my house a home, Benny and I found ourselves alone with a sleeping baby.
And here I was expecting a “10 things to do to find/build/grow your confidence”. So simple; it is and always has been within us. That made me a bit more calm but I still wanna find out how can I manifest the confidence in me. I have come to see that it is so important to me, I feel rude when I don’t have confidence, I can’t make friends as easily and I don’t show the same self respect I posses.
Do you know where you want to go in life? I’m sure most will say that they don’t know. I…
Life is not black or white, it is vast greyness! Yet, society tells us there are paths for us to take, roads for us to walk, boxes that we can fit into.
Sherry, I believe your husband may well be the most productive person in the history of Medium, and that’s saying something, what with all the Productivity-Hack, 8-Things-I-Do-Before-8-am Self-Helpers who are moved to crow from the rooftops about their own astounding productive awesomeness. Maybe that’s the secret of being truly productive: If we…
Intelligence: where did it go?
There was a time long ago, when the word intelligence had a meaning. The man who embodied that meaning was special and…
So I created a new bucket list because my old one was like 7 years ago and a lot of the people that I wanted to meet has passed away like Maya Angelou, one of the members from Slipknot, and Michael Jackson have all passed away so I decided to create a new bucket list I’m…
And another Sunday is spent at the firehouse, and with it, the promise of less radio chatter, fewer…
You might have heard the story of the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: “So…
DPA = Discover, Pursue, and Achieve
Welcome back to week 3 of the Leap Year, where I will share helpful tips on how you can start your own DPA process to achieve your dreams this year. I am currently a little farther along in my process, but I wanted to…
Such an inspiring story. “Every day we make the choice of who we are. And the choices today turn into your biography tomorrow.”
The small choices we make every day do not seem like a big deal, but they can keep us stuck in an endless look of failure or help us rise to meet our calling. Powerful stuff.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m not a blogger but it is nothing different then talking for a crowd. And how to keep them interest.
I think you have to think on these thinks before you ask “Why?”:
Do you know answer? If yes, don’t waste your and others time
Do they know answer? If not, don’t ask them. If you know the answer just tell them. But again think about time, some people don’t listen and they waste your time which you can…
You have better taste in music than in flavors of potato chips.
Thank you, Orisirisi and you are welcome. May it be so - their peace is well deserved. 💝
1. Sharing meal:
I shared my meal with my friend as we were on lunch. Especially when I have drink, I share it with my friends. This makes better attachment with my friends. Many friends of mine do not share their meal and specially their drink but when…
I think Ms Campbell was trying really hard not to upset too many fans. :-)
Other than the one that [possibly] created us, there is no Big Bang.
As I sit here at work on what is my last scheduled overnight, I am wondering if life will be better. Who am I kidding. Normal sleep and family time. I have been doing overnights for basically my whole adult working life. With my health not in good condition this will be the best change. oh what do I do, well I am a Hospice aide. I am thr one who…
Beautiful. Like a poetic diary entry we’ve all once written.
For most of my life I have been self employed choosing to pursue a difficult career in sales. My dream has always been to be a pilot and I am taking slow steady steps to accomplish my dream. No matter what happens I do want my life to be meaningful and help others. I don’t have the luxury of making mistakes at 50 years old. Over the years, I have…
Such kind of people does not deserve even a minute in our life — they are good to be ignored.
It’s an unconventional Seder.
The wine (Malbec, not Manischewitz) flows freely well before we are instructed to bless and drink the first cup. Our Humanist Jewish Haggadah mixes modern plagues, like terrorism, with the frogs and locusts. For as long as I can remember…
Captured perfectly. #heavenonearth
Heart touching !! Just loved it .
We have dreams, goals, wants, needs. The problem is, our dreams are what drives us. Then we think about what we need to do. This is wrong. It is not something you do, it’s something you become. If you look around, and really look at where you are in your pursuit of your…
Play every shot in life well, Put more dedication to everything you do!
I have been reading Medium since last few months & I am finding it very interesting , daily I can read new articles about anything. So, this prompted me to take this chance to pen down my opinion on few things as well.
True…
But the best move is the next move.
Or is it the next move is the best move?
That might make the next best move the last move. Right?
For a good part of my life, I am a typical Type A go-getter who have gone to the right schools and worked my way up the ranks to a position that made my parents proud.
But not for long. Something in me started revolting against the framework of comfort…
hope that fits :)
April 23, 2016–17 miles
There are so many different things that go on in my brain it’s like having an inner conflict all the time thankfully I don’t always act on the comments or thoughts that I have but it is it’s like having an inner voice always second-guessing and questioning what you’re doing I feel like all the pressure is on me to do good to keep everything in one…
Thank for sharing.
On of the great things that I understood from my life is that the fear is nothing but you have stopped by it. Your fear lives only in your’s imagination but you always can intergrate it into your real power to create something really important for you. You are greater than your fears.
