I know what it feels like to not want to get up in the morning. To feel empty and heavy at the…
Your life is a story, and you are its main character.
Last night I’m minding my own business, just trying to wind down, and I read this from two of my…
The cool-down period refers to that time you wait after committing code, the deliberate delay you introduce before making decisions, the conscious pause you take before… You’ve never heard of the cool-down period have you?
One month ago, I wrapped up the consulting phase of editing for my first book on Values. It was…
Hey guys,
This was originally written on December 1, 2012; one year after having completed a successful brain upgrade to Magnus 2.0.
Today is the 1 year anniversary of getting my life back. Thanks to the exceptional team at Cleveland Clinic…
…there’s an endless supply of power in there.
“So let me get this straight,” I asked my friend Megan as we climbed to the top of Tilden Park, a nature oasis in the hills above Oakland. “You went…
Still — A Gift of Love to My Dying Ex
“Two people lost in a storm. Where did we go? Where’d we go?”
Okay, I almost hesitate to write about this topic right now, because I know a lot of you are gonna read it and be like, “What the fuck? He’s basically telling us it’s all luck.”
4–24–17
Alright team, I’m quite late on this one, so it’ll be a short one and I will make it…
“Most people approach goals and personal improvement the hard…
So, here I am again. I heaved a silent relief on my 27th birthday.
I never thought of myself as being overly sensitive. Emotional, yes; irrational…
How to lose your self and find your way
What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, but I’m going to tell you about a crazy experience I had.
(Note: this is the third issue of my…
Tomorrow I find out if my story won.
All I wanted was for things to never change
“When a resolute young fellow steps up…
I once ran an unbelievable race. It was 800m at my school’s annual sports day and our team had put no runners up. Desperate, the captains called out for someone to put themselves forward. I can’t remember how it happened but 5 minutes later, I was the one kneeling in the red dust of the…
A friend of my mine asked me once, “Ashish, how do you manage to laugh and make other people laugh all the time?” Where she was aware about my reality that I was going through toughest and roughest phase of my life. A volcano was erupting from inside, but how did I manage to maintain my cool?
Do you push others away or do you surround yourself with loved ones when times are heavy? I know that I push…
Monkey Brain. I don’t know where I first heard that phrase, but I envision a half dozen monkeys jumping up and down, swinging from tree to tree, and chattering and screaming at each other.
De dag had niet slechter kunnen beginnen. Nietsvermoedend stapte ik rond kwart over negen de rechtbank binnen en meldde me bij de portier. Ik kwam voor de zaak van half tien. Tenminste, dat dacht ik. De zaak was echter om negen uur begonnen en de man achter het glas maande me snel…
21st century children are more than ever conscious of their appearance especially when it has to do with clothes. I relate with kids often and this topic has been long overdue.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot in the last few weeks. Thinking about it ever since…
May 1 is a special day. On this day, in 1939, Batman comics started selling on the streets. The 1940 Olympics were cancelled. In 1950, the New Marriage Law was passed in China. And in 2006, I was forced to move out of the comforts of Chandigarh.
In Episode 007 of my podcast, The Conversation Factory, I talk with Dave Gray, Author of the classic…
I find myself constantly pondering, what could potentially be the mantra for success. Regardless of the fact that the definition of success varies for everyone, people like to look ahead and create success for themselves. Unsurprisingly, every time I bring in this subject, people relate easily…
There’s a difference.
I’ll admit it, I grew up on Little House on the Prairie. Back in the day when we had 3 to 5 channels to choose from and one decent TV, occasionally my mom got to watch what she wanted to watch and Little House was one of those…
HARNESSING THE POWER OF FEAR TO BECOME FEARLESS
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world”. —…
Week 1 back in London
Spanish phrase of the day: Change gears- cambiar de marcha
I’m back in London. Currently sitting at my usual coffee shop on a side street of Hampstead village. This is weird. It’s a mind shift. I’m back and nothing has changed. But I’m not the same and so much has happened in my…
Bruce Lee
Everybody’s doing a brand new dance now — and I don’t mean The Locomotion. I mean Networking!
Those are the words that everyone says. I know they mean well, and I’m not going to criticize anyone for using those words because I don’t know of anything better to say myself when I’m on the other side of the fence and I’m saying those words to someone else. They’re…
©By Mary Schoessler, Co-Founder & Transition Coach, SacredJoy™ marys@sacredjoy.net; www.facebook.com/liveinjoyallways
Couples fight. It’s natural. A good fight clears the air and the important word here is “good”. The opposite…
We all do it. Including myself. We all get worked up about things in life, even if they are…
Ladies: Here’s The Reason Why Your “Biological Clock” Obsession is Working Against You
I started casting a new film this week. In the days leading up to it, I got extremely anxious. It…
Why I chose To Quit Partying
BEING PRESENT
I woke up this morning feeling some kind of way. Actually, I went to bed feeling some kind of way. I had to travel for work and I didn’t feel prepared or enthused about it. And then for some really odd reason, I thought about being “present.” Now work with me on this because the rationale for where I’m…
Off the Grid
A big storm played around with us yesterday. Parking lots flooded, sump pumps went non stop, and lights flickered their brownout warnings. Cars…
Warning: If you’re looking for answers, you are in the wrong place
The worst date I ever had went something like this — a first date, right after I was reeling from a devastating breakup… to a wedding. Yep.
Do you ever look back on how you treated your siblings and wish you had the wisdom…
Please allow me to introduce myself …
My daughter is two-and-a-half years old. She is the light of my life. And before she grows up and…
Day 1of 31. A monthlong experiment to bettering myself by writing a new article everyday. Follow me as I experiment to see what type of progress I can make in 31 days to try and build my magazine, We Were Wanderers.
If you work under a micromanager (most do) it’s a matter of time before you leave your job.
Humans are incredible beings.
فسحة
ولما وجدت في نفسي فسحة، استجبت لهواها في أن أجالسها للحضات،نكسر حاجز السكوت الذي حال بيننا لأسابيع ،نجتمع حول فنجان قهوة غير متكلفين ، ففي مثل تلك الجلسات شفاء للصدر دواء للروح.كعادتها ، ما ان جلسنا نرتشف القهوة حتى وجدتها تغمرني بحضن يدفئ أسئلتي الحائرة ، متجاهلة محاولة اعتذاري عن انقطاعي المتواصل عنها ، منتقلة بي بين…
The above image represents our galactic supercluster, Laniakea. The red dot in the image represents our galaxy, Milky…
Sorry girl, I was with a whole bunch of people when you asked. Here’s the answer. ❤ !
An adult life…is a slowly emerging design, with…
In 1981 my buddy Mark and I didn't have much gas money for my 1974 Chevelle. Not if we also wanted beer. So Mark came up with a brilliant idea… My dad always said, “be careful of the guy that says, hey, I’ve got a good idea!” So Mark says, “hey…
When I turned 20, I printed out a giant message and taped it to my door. I would see it every day before I left my room…
About 2 weeks ago, I’m scrolling on my Instagram feed and I end up looking at a Style Blogger’s…
“wow, you’re working so hard. Don’t you think you should take a break?”
There are two parts to this:
¿Por que queremos más a las personas que están lejos y no apreciamos a los que están cerca?
The usual morning routine includes stretches, yawns and a two-minute scroll in our social media feed…
The last four months have been dreadful. I’m pretty sure I’ve been oozing misery. I’ve experienced periods in…
Prelude
I’m gonna do a random selection of things today because I’m working on this and I only have a couple of productive days this week…
A year and a half ago, I embarked on a mission to become blonde. I started with balayage and had my stylist at the time touch up…
There will come a point in your career when you need to approach those people that will give…
How to beat Depression
First of all, Most people are not aware that they are in Depression.
How you find that you are in Depression:
Today I found out my landlord owns a massive scale lobster farming company. Lobsters are harvested and killed, often boiled alive on a big scale for profit…
“Have you ever noticed that everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac and everyone who drives slower is an idiot?” -George Carlin
Originally published on August 11, 2016 Kendra Mims
~Katie Riley
Since I was a little kid I’ve had nightmares. I remember waking up multiple times a night shrieking until on day, when I was around 12, my dad looked at me and said “Jordan. You’ve got to stop it.”
Would you write for a website for free?
Would you create a logo for someone for free?
Would you let someone pick your brain for free?
Would you do your job for free ?
I’ve been avoiding writing on Medium for a while now. Mainly because I tend to write about my business, and my business isn’t working out…
In honor of the Shark Week, here’s a little family story with no strong message or takeaway, but somehow the experience…
Depression & Vignana Bhairava
Depression & supression happens when you think this is it. This is the end. There are questions but there is no answer. It questions the routine. It is not excited by the routine. Some even go for a quest to find its answer, but the irony is often one searches for the answers to such deep…
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to celebrate turning 30 (for those who’ve yet to experience it, the other side of 30 is amazing) with my closest family and friends. It was an incredible experience that I will remember forever.
The thought for this comic is here.
At the risk of sounding clichéd, I’m going to say that technology truly has grown alongside me. I know, that doesn’t make me special in any way, technology keeps growing as time passes, big deal. But I’m not just talking about new technology being…
Can Writing Really Change Your Life?
Let’s face it, we can’t be great at everything, there are some areas in our lives, where we are…
A little over a week ago I was laid off from work, initially I saw this as the worst possible thing that could happen to me. What I have learned since through the support of family and friends, is that it was the total opposite. Sometimes our initial reaction to events is hard to…
I’ve long struggled with the need to ask for help. I’m rather… Independent, if ya haven’t noticed.
But? The other writers here on Medium who’ve talked about our worth, and how it’s being exploited or just plain ignored?
The call came in on a lazy Saturday morning. As I glanced at the caller ID, I was excited to see the name…
I’m in the midst of a long and admittedly arduous journey. I launched a second…
Mostly everyone has played a sport competitively at some point in their lives. Often times we go through the motions, don’t practice as hard as we should, and become complacent with simply showing up. I played football my entire life and was blessed with the…
Sometimes I wonder if we can compare anything to anything. I mean, you can compare a plane with a bird (duh!? thats where…
Part 5 in a series for aspiring entrepreneurs.
I got to give credit to Rocky Balboa for this quote that I live by the first time I heard about it:
It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving…
Life is not the bed of roses it is full of thrones and those thrones are called pain and struggle which you have to face in your life. No one can say in this world that I haven’t faced any problem; everyone tastes some pains, some challenges and difficulties because no one can have…
Force: (n) strength or power exerted upon an object; physical coercion; violence; intensity
Power: (n) the ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something
Znate kako kažu da vreme leči sve. Ono što nas boli, što nas muči i tišti, nekom magijom ispari posle određenog vremena. I kao da nije ni postojalo, kao da se nije ni desilo i kao da nije onoliko veliko bilo, kao što se činilo da jeste. Jednostavno nestane i ispari i više se ne sećaš.Nije više bitno šta je bilo tog…
A virus has the motivation of making sure that it succeeds and thrives, even if it is at the cost of the host.
Theres a good argument that ideas are viruses. They infect our brains and then we spread…
This is what I have to listen to… all day long (various levels of intensity). It never ends. It never turns off.
“Are you kidding me?” “Author PenDragon” “Holy Toledo Batman” “I don’t believe (click)” (click) “What about” (click)
I write for days like today. Days when sometimes my heart and mind are so heavy, I have no choice but to release some of the anxiety building in my chest.
I write for days when I am so obsessed with being successful that I become stuck in a cycle of unhealthy thoughts.
A decision tree model (or graph) without assigning probabilities. Do you think that is correct ( yes 100%, no 0%). Can we discuss the %, or will we be called “deniers” for taking time to think. Who is making the straw man argument now. Try apply your model to other decisions in your life and then lets see how that goes. Stop telling others to think…
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” — Carl Sagan
In Tim Hartford’s book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, he expresses a key idea:
On Being Visible…
Visibility is a variant thing. Sometimes it feels easy, sometimes it feels impossible. There are times when being visible doesn’t feel like an act of subversion or an act that requires more courage than you can possibly muster up and use.
This article is part of the series “What is like to attempt suicide and fail”. Start there, if you have not read it yet.
For budding writers like me, this post is a post I know I will come back to every few months when I’m feeling down or unmotivated.
Ever since I started reading on Medium, I’ve adored your posts Johnson. They were always scattered, random, and imperfect — in short, the most down-to-earth pieces I found on this website. I hope…
X and Y are mandatory.
Most of us have many expectations of ourselves and others. These expectations are often rooted in our…
I hate you. No, I love you. No, I hate you. No. No. NO NO NO! I can’t do it without you. I…I can’t live without you. NO. GO THE…
To some of us because we didn’t get the love we should have gotten from our parents,
This might seem a bit random…almost has been a ‘lil secret I’ve kept for a while…
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. “ — Ferris Bueller
Getting out of your comfort zone is scary, right? Well, this article will take a lot of the fear factor out of it, and the course it offers a link to is free, fun, and an excellent way to start — though giving up coffee for a day might well turn out to be a challenge… 😄
Seriously, do give it a try. It just might change your life!
From beginning me and my family too much criticize from the relatives and others people, due to not intelligent and poor in studies. All said to my family that why you want to spare and waste your money on your children. Went to any…
I’m happy to see you doing this. Honestly, I wish that all my favorite writers would. There are things I’ve read since coming here that have helped me to become someone I actually (usually) like now. Before, not working in my old profession and therefore not being productive as I once defined it was a really hard adjustment. Now that I recognize how…
I hate myself.
I hate the fact of where I am and what I do on the daily.
I hate the fear of change I feel.
I hate the fact that I can be more expressive talking to a fucking white screen, then I can with the people I share a…
“This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.” — King Solomon
Uncertainty is the best gift that anyone can have, it gives you the power to make bold decisions and choose a life of your own rules and define success by your own terms. When nothing is certain, everything is possible. Take an example of a dark place connected to multiple roads and you standing there with…
I traveled to Las Vegas last week for business, had some free time before the meeting, so I visited my sister in LA. I was shocked when I stepped into her apartment. The place looked like it had been robbed. Worn clothing everywhere, piles of used dishes in the sink, bills…
an account on everyday information
A couple of weeks ago I was hit by the acute feeling of having my life slide through my fingers — a destabilizing sensation, an awareness of my own lack of control — .
So the story starts off this way ladies and gentlemen, I’m here to tell you the growing process and begin a new chapter of this new hobby I love called, writing. Everything is new and most might come out late but information am I right or am I right?
There are stories of life.
And there are regrets.
Momma taught me good.
Very well said.
I think Trump is definitely more entertaining than any other politician and I say that even though I might have ended up getting banned if he had stuck to his original plans!
I might not like him or think he is a great humanitarian but I think I…
A little bit of philosophy today. It happened to me when I was flying over Alps, heading to Milan. The forecast promised cloudy and rainy day. Over mountains turbulence is often expected. Bad weather just increases chance of it.