Life Lessons

Why Having Determination Is Important In Life

Determination is the essences of increasing your chances of being successful in a particular thing or achieving a particular goal, and it can also help you to stay motivated and continue striving towards the one thing you want to achieve. For me…

Most UX Design Portfolios Suck

What makes a bad portfolio and what you can do about it

You Don’t Need To Be Good At Many Things, You Need To Be Great At One

The 5 Traps of Working with Visionary Plant Medicine: What You Need to Know

From “Enlightenment” to…

One of the Greatest Comebacks Ever

What are your biggest fears?

I feel threatened by Christianity

I honestly feel a bit threatened by Christianity. Well, God, to be exact. Is that the same thing…

28 Things to Remember When Life Isn’t Going Your Way

Because you deserve this.

How 8 Successful Business Leaders Unplug

Let’s all take a cue (or two) from them.

In today’s hyperconnected world, it can feel nearly impossible to take a step back from our devices. Luckily we have role models to look to for real-world unplugging…

Insomnia: an open source app that tells you when to sleep based on sleep cycles

If You’re a Single Person in America, Who Touches You?

By Allie Chee

Garden as metaphor for life

8 ways they mirror each other.

It’s the same routine every Tuesday and Wednesday. I am working from home with the dog, Mia, as close as physically possible next to me on the couch. It isn’t uncommon for her to be partially leaning on…

What is the attraction of the ‘Law of Attraction’?

Investigating a popular idea

9 Life Lessons I’ve Learned From Motherhood

Being a mom comes with an advanced degree in life.

Write This Down

And never forget.

You will find kindness in the most unexpected places: in the eyes of a stranger, in the warmth of a home that isn’t yours and beneath the shade of a tree you did not plant.

Three Things I Learned from Living in a Van for a Year

If it’s worth doing it will be hard, if it’s not hard, then it’s probably not worth doing.

Yes, of course, there are exceptions, but the overwhelming rule I have come to learn is that all things that are…

Stories on Authenticity

Thousand Reflections by Sandbox

Issue #32

About Thousand Reflections: Sandbox is full of people from all walks of life and background. Here, we try to tap into this collective wisdom by offering a prompt…

Not An Accomplishment

In April 2011, a mentee of mine suggested that I write a book about my life experiences. As the daughter of Cuban…

Why You Don’t Trust Yourself

The downside of being raised in a civilized society.

Don’t worry about pleasing them all

You never will

Life’s Third Act Doesn’t Have to be a Downward Spiral

It can be an upward spiral staircase.

Real Self

A shortcut to turn co-workers into colleagues

9 Valuable Lessons On The Cost of Survival and The Safe Life

The pain of living life in a box.

The Coach’s Son and The Fungo Bat

Fungo is defined as: the art of tossing a baseball in the air to be struck with a bat for the purpose of hitting fly balls and ground balls during baseball practice sessions or warm-up prior to a game. Yes, “the art”. Sounds like a simple physical act however I’m here…

Don’t Know What to Write? Write What You Know!

The Unending Trauma of ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ (Part 1)

Life is an improvisation…

…and I’m ready for this scene to be over!

My month of April was overwhelming. When I look back on the month I am not sure how or why I got through it still standing. So much happened that I could not have predicted. And that’s…

Does being hungry or thirsty alter your morality?

Introduction

How I Made $2000 My First Month of Freelancing

No, I am not one of the prodigies on the internet that made $10,000 their first month of freelancing, quit their job, and now have a four hour workweek. But I did bust my own butt, committed to a goal, and not only conquered that goal, but utterly…

About helping others… the good, the bad, and the ugly

The totally true story of my crocus tattoo.

There’s a picture of me on my instagram feed from April 30th, 2014.

It’s a selfie. I’m holding my phone out at arm’s length and my right forearm is wrapped in gauze from the tattoo parlor.

What I Learnt From My Terrible, Horrible, Still Not So Bad Year

An Ordinary’s Dreamer’s Tale

How to clean your plastic Hangers

The best way to keep clothes wrinkle-free is to use hangers. They come in different colors and materials. They are made of metal, plastic, wood, etc. Some of these can be used to store your shirt and pants as well. However, these useful substances are given less…

5 Tips to stay motivated when things get tough at work

For those times when working becomes a burden…

Don’t Be Embarrassed

“The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it was a crazy idea.” -Peter Diamandis

Graduate From College, Wind Up In The Emergency Room

What Do You Do When You’re A Bird With One Leg? Fly…

By Chris Palmer, M.A.

Founder, FigureOutYourLife.com

Observations of a Busy Life

What do I really need?

Living Unconventionally Comes at a Cost

Authors, travel writers, singers, actors and other creatives living unconventionally: I understand you.

It Still Hurts.

Yes, life goes on but it’s never the same.

As the weather warms and the flowers bloom I am overwhelmed with sadness knowing the anniversary is approaching. The first thunder storm of the season took me back to those days. The smell of the spring…

How do you stay positive when those around you wallow in self-pity?

Follow the LEADS method and everybody wins.

Thank you for closed doors.

For missed calls, missed flights, 
missed connections. 
Flakes, high stakes, 
oh for goodness sakes.

The Magic Formula and 3 Secrets To Ridiculous Success (In Almost Anything)

Google’s Domination, Warren…

I Became Mentally Free the day I gave up my MBA Dream…

10th Class: Ek saal aur pad lo life set ho jayegi ( Just study for one more year the life will be set)

11th Class: Do saal aur bas, phir toh life pura set hai ( Your life will be set if you study for 2 years)

Do you want to change the world?

This letter is written to the Amani team, to whom I will always be grateful!

Everything happens for a reason.

In February 2017, the fire within me, full of ambition, success and the need for approval, took over, and I…

Hey Grads — What’s Next?

Now — Put yourself out there & learn the landscape. Next — Start building…

How Far Can You Go? Start Reading Or You’ll Never Know..

A short, but hopefully a motivating read

How Anyone Can Be A Superhero And Restore Faith In Humanity

5 Things Bruce Lee Taught Me About Starting a Business

It wouldn’t be ironic if you saw what you were doing. Like if you saw that the con wasn’t apolitical before — you just don’t recognize your own politics when surrounded by it as fish don’t know that they’re wet. There wouldn’t be such bold irony if you realized that you’re asking for a space that is safe from wrong think while claiming that those…

It’s not on the list.

how 5 little words saved my sanity

11 Resources for the Quarter-Life Crisis

During my quarter-life crisis, I would repeatedly come back to the same questions and thoughts. Here are some books, videos, podcasts, and articles that helped me address those recurring thoughts and reduce anxiety about my life trajectory. This is by no…

5 Simple Steps to a Well-Balanced Family Media Diet

Lesson from a 3.5" Floppy Disk

Old tech is too easily forgotten

The Backstory

Spread a Positive Atmosphere and Contagious Optimism

Almost 30

“Just think, you’re now the age that you’ll tell people you are for the rest of your life!”

A Declaration for My Situation

It has been a tough month.

Invisible Factors

Decision-making and the Dark Matter of Knowing.

Leisure time is a new luxury. Who spends yours?

We have started a revolution against the excess…

36 things it’s totally cool to do after you finished your degree

Everyone (or almost everyone) after they graduate, feel like life should be figured out. Everyone else LOOOVES giving you their opinions on what is a ‘right’ thing to do and where you should be heading.

In These Spaces Lies Your Power to Act When Sh*t Hits the Fan

“If we want to overcome our anxiety and feel good…

Never Hate Monday Again By Doing These 7 Things

“When you do something out of duty, is there any love…

Learnings From My Existential Crisis

A few months ago I had a traumatic breakup that spurred an existential crisis in my life. I can say with certainty that I never want to have an existential crisis again, because it is an extremely painful and frustrating process; however, I am very grateful for the…

…and then life happened

A personal story, and an invitation

Story Of My Mentor

Fear of success

Of all of the ways The Resistance can deceive you, the self-deception involved in the fear of success is the most profound.

If I’m successful, I’ll have to keep working on it. I’ll be even more busy! Before you’ve picked up a pencil, or written a line of code, you’ve…

3 Things to Learn From Sports

I was 6 years old. I vividly remember holding the hands of two of my older brothers as I skipped —…

Why I took a 70% pay cut and moved from the startup to the social sector

On picking up the broken pieces in life

Multi-tasking that’s pretty much my — and many other women around the globe — signature. So juggling a book and a glass on one hand and trying to turn on the corridor light with the other is not an uncommon scene with me. A simple task which I expected to execute flawlessly and move on…

Clarity & Fresh Perspectives Come From Strange Places

Access Terminated. Login Denied. Was I Just Fired?

School life in the US (First semester of the Master’s program)

The Paradox of the Emotional Customer Experience and the Bottom Line

Making A Difference

Why I care about helping everyone, and how to actually do it

You Need to do This to Truly Know Your Goals in Life.

Paralysing Fear of Offending Is Bad For You

Guilt doesn’t help you to be a better ally

Christianity Lost Me. Why?

The hang-ups didn’t happen like I expected them to. It didn’t begin with a forbidden temptation, a burning…

I deserve this…

I deserve to get noticed.

I deserve to get a raise.

I deserve a better life.

I deserve a better job.

I deserve…

Gold Deposits

A good friend of mine once told me:

“I don’t like to deposits pieces of myself…

*My* goal for today was to use my favorite vocab word in the first panel of this comic.

Why Are We Scared of Aliens?

(Not the extraterrestrial kind) — My thoughts on immigration

Making Close Friends

It’s about building intimacy and feelings of connection

The Grapes Behind the House

Just about everybody in our village has grapes behind their house. We have our own little rows just beyond the barn and our…

Your Inner ‘Oprah Winfrey’ Is Not Suddenly Going To Emerge…

The drudgery of daily life.

Can make the simplest of tasks seem monumental, even if it is something you want to do, daily life gets in the way. I work (get paid for) 60+ hours a week. But that doesn’t include the time spent at my parents house helping them out, or the time I’m now putting into my sisters garden, and I still…

Do people ever change?

This question has been bothering me lately.

Can we trust someone who has broken it once before? Can we believe somebody who says they have changed but their actions don’t back up what they say? Is it really possible that someone who did something once wont do it…

I Can’t Get a Job Because I was a Bully in High School

Your favorite weekly advice column is back with a vengeance.

(As seen on EntryRevel.com)

Sitting in your own shit

Warning: This blog entry has an excessive amount of cuss words. If that type of thing offends you, you might want to skip this post.

I fucking hate being in this sandwich generation. I hate that I don’t make enough money to buy a decent car. I despise the…

13 Things I Do 10 Minutes A Day That Changed My Life Forever

Do you know that I was (yes, past tense) a firm believer that there’s nothing much that can be done in 10 minutes?

Yes, I was wrong previously. Now, I accidentally developed an overthinking mindset…

The “Wilder Gene” of Successful Entrepreneurs.

Positivity Doesn’t Work, Consciousness Does | JustLav

Goed voor elkaar

‘Mam, jij hebt dingen toch wel goed voor elkaar. Als ik denk dat de knakworst op is, heb jij gewoon nieuwe gekocht.’

Tevreden maakt hij nog een broodje knak en zit gezellig keuvelend over ditjes en datjes aan tafel. Met een glimlach beantwoord ik zijn kinderlijk eenvoudige…

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (Book 4:29)

If one who does not recognise the contents of the universe is a stranger in it, no less a stranger is the one who fails to recognise what happens in it. He is a fugitive if he runs away from social principle; blind, if he shuts the eye of the mind; a…

10 things NOT to say to someone who has just lost their job

Six days ago I was planning for a number of future big projects at work and then my life changed in an instant when I was told:

“Unfortunately your position has been eliminated.”

Monday’s Mindful Moment: Why a Mastermind Makes a Difference in Creating Critical Breakthroughts

Stop Asking Me If I’m Grumpy

Spoiler Alert: Of course I am. No one is rainbows and butterflies 100% of the time.

Happy New Month — May 1

Time to get a hold of our lives before the year runs out

The Fyre Festival Fiasco is a Great Refresher in Self-Reliance

My Life is Mess But I Embrace the Lesson.

How my Mess of a Life will teach me about myself.

Living With a Non-existent Comfort Zone: As Told by Buck

Hey, it’s me. Spillin’ some person stuff bc once a year I express emotion; don’t get used to this :)

Know Thyself

As many of us are aware, we are all fallible and every self-defence situation is unpredictable. Anything can happen. Someone who has…

Don’t Chase People. Chase Your Own Dreams

I’ve always wanted to be an author, however, honestly, I’ve to do a lot more to be one…

Does Money Really Bring You Happiness?

What would you do if your salary doubled this very instant?’

4 morning habits that can make your day!

If you have read on medium as much as most people do, you would have landed to at least…

12 Business Lessons I Learned When Surfing

I’m not very good at surfing. I will probably never surf big waves like this. Or…

Your brain doesn’t process the word “don’t”

How we can stop being our own worst enemy with one simple realization