On the Failure of Stoic Ethics
Programmers are readers, they learn new things…
This is not a post against self publishing.
I love self publishing.
But all of my self published books failed.
By Chris Palmer, M.A.
Founder, FigureOutYourLife.com
7 mieszkań i 6 przeprowadzek, 24 odwiedzone kraje, 2 psy, 2 samochody, tysiące kilometrów stopem no i dwie wielkie drogi — od koła…
Everyone of us wants to be the best version of ourselves. Becoming a better professional is…
It’s easy to believe that we are not enough, thoughts about accomplishing too little are with us daily. By comparing ourselves to…
The journey of thousand miles starts with the first step forward. However, do you move forward because you have no other choice? Do you move forward because you are literally pushed? Do you move forward because you are stagnating in life? Do you move forward…
If you are currently struggling with motivation this article might give you a boost.
Old Controversies
I searched my cookbook shelf yesterday for more clues about the big shift in popular foods that happened because of the kind of equipment…
Some people have to face many difficulties, hardships, itches and glitches in life such as family problems, financial crisis, criticism while exploring their career path and passion .I have not faced as much difficulties in my life…
No one can tell your story, so tell it yourself, no one can write your story, so write it yourself.
“… You’ve had amazing encounters and experiences this past few years.. why haven’t you ever blogged about it?!”, he enquires. I pose for a moment, thinking this is…
“I stopped doing a lot of things after Butch left.”
Major American Media outlets decides Trumps political ad has false information in it. The networks have refused…
I just had my birthday. That’s not a fantastic achievement, but I took some time to look back…
Happy 06 May to you, readers! Happy birthday to famous and inspiring ex-UK prime minister Tony…
“We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness” — Daniel Kahneman
I work in Bangalore, a city known, well at least all over South India, as one of the…
PSA: I’ve never made it to an entrepreneurial list before.
Wait Calvin, you’re telling me you lied in the title to get clicks? That’s shameful.
Dear Noe,
It was not easy, but I am very glad that you have gone this far. Who could’ve thought that everything will take you to where you are now? I am not referring to your place in the map, but to where you are in this fast paced rotating ball…
(Based on a true incidence that happened sometime during early years of 2000)
I used to consider myself brave. I can think of instances when all others had withdrawn in concern or fear and I had stepped forward. Or, maybe I cleverly do not remember instances…
Okay, here’s the deal. Maybe I didn’t pick the best day to go to Costco. Apparently it’s…
I shine my light of happiness into the darkness of negativity.- Johnathan Lockwood Huie
(^ Pic of my Dad and I in San Diego — kinda when this journey I’m about to tell…
Are you feeling overwhelmed about starting? Don’t worry many people do. They…
The results for Y2S2 came out today, and I’m proud to say that I’m really pleased with my results!
For one, I’m happy that I managed to strike a balance between honoring my commitments in school, as well as pursuing my passion for climbing. I never took a break from…
These days everyone seems to be busy.
She must always look into her screen. Everywhere she goes her screen is in her hand. She uses her screen for work, for…
It’s funny how all our lives we get so frustrated when our parents try to compare us…
Back in the 90s and early 2000s I wrote code. Mainly in Pascal and Assembly. Later, A bit in C, some perl. I worked with softice and other reverse engineering tools of the time. Although honestly I called it Cracking.
First of all, if you succeed in personal life, you will succeed in your professional life as well.
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
- Moses, Psalm 90
Last week I shared a recipe to make your own DIY odour-busting hand scrub — perfect for use after a day in the garden, kitchen, or any other messy activity really! To follow on from this, Let’s take a look at one of my all time favourite hand creams that you could use to…
It’s all in how we see ourselves.
“So often, we pretend we’ve made a decision, when what we’ve really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.” -Jen Sincero
When there are people involved, it is not just about getting lucky anymore.
HOW TO IGNORE YOUR HATERS
Dear friend,
There was this Beluga. His name was Shrimp. Don’t ask me why a beluga would be named Shrimp. This one was and I am just telling…
Some people love logic. They attempt to define their life by it, yet they are shorting themselves of so much in life. Logic leads…
I was often spending more than I should — well, that was several years back. I tried real hard to pay off my debts by working harder than I should.
منذ عامين، وبعد قضاء خمسة أشهر من تجنيدي الإجباري، كتبت عن حالة التأمل الجافة التي يعاني منها المجند وهو…
It’s amazing how that happens. When I go back later and look at my (10) wishlists I end up deleting 99.9% of the stuff.
A few years ago I moved from a large house to a smaller town home. I almost lost my mind every time I went to look for something that I needed. I had to struggle through tons of stuff to find the stuff I…
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Linkin Park is blazing on one fine Friday evening… I don’t know whom to trust, no surprise… (everyone feels so…
I once was told there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. After the melancholy of a cloudy rain, and the natures inhabitants were out once more in the world we all share together by our planet Earth, cities, states & countries. Returning to what is seen as normal and civilized. I remember…
It is no secret that I am both non-materialistic and frugal. I own exactly one necklace, I borrow clothing from my roommate, my partner, or my Mom and refuse to shop at malls, I eat almost every single food item I purchase at the grocery store (I’ll be damned if I waste that last…
How Relationships Change after Engagement
Engaged? Congratulations. I meant it.
Engagement is a significant milestone however meaningless until you actually tie the knot. Marriage is a commitment that requires tremendous amount of courage and trust. Courage to get into the unknown, to believe that…
Thank you so much for this piece. I vascilate between total despair and hopeless resignation. I haven’t reached a point when I can be actively involved in the resistance yet except through monetary donations. I am concentrating on my personal life, trying to find bits of happiness to keep me moving forward. Writing on Medium has helped. I feel so…
It’s easy for someone like me to miss things when life is going okay. I’m not really used to life going well, I don’t think anyone is. So when it is I have a very short attention span. I often miss things when I’m in the…
The Best He Could Do!
My rich friend tells me
We’re a tribal species
There is an evil in us all
Waiting for desperate times,
To rear their ugly head
I want to write you a letter on the EGO — how we can kill our personal ego (in a negative way), but also let…
In the series of inspiring volunteering stories, today we are publishing the story of Vamsi Krishna Kuda who mentored the Summer Computing Camp on Day 5.
I think…
It is highly important to establish firm ground in the beginning; some people may not like it, some people may be all for it.
I will tell a person in a heartbeat, “I fight my own battles. I do not want you fighting mine.” This goes for anyone in my life who may feel the need to Joe Frazier…
In my previous post about change I explain how change is really the only thing we can ever…
Doesn’t it feel good being productive? That surge of confidence that flows from your brain down to your toes, empowering you to think you are in full control of your life. A sense of responsibility and uplifting spirits that makes you want to jump up and pump your…
GET RID OF STALKERS! The perfect solution.
Most stalking cases end up in rape or murder.
I heard about The Writing Cooperative’s 52 Week Writing Challange late last year. I decided to join. I certainly have plenty of material — even if I had less time to update tales I had written, hence the weeks gap in publishing these tales, which I called Diary of a Gen X Mom. (That was the…
Bob Marley
Everybody is an Asshole at some point in there lives, whether it was when you were younger and dumber or when you went through an aggressive capitalist phase and stepping down on others was your only way up the ladder of corporate…
“Di sepertiga hari menuju petang, pencarian seputar kehidupan masih terus berjalan. Tapak demi tapak di jejak dengan tegas, meski banyak jerit dalam raga yang berteriak keras. Mengeluhkan segala lemas, dan…
Hey buddy, how are you? :)I am confident that you are doing great; you always have. Today, you are 31 years old, and you have lived a healthy, loved and respected life. You are shaping up to be one of best individuals I have known.
I would have highlighted a section but then I would have ended up highlighting the whole damn article.
Benjamin P. Hardy nails it in this piece of work. I’ve spent years trying to become the best at things according the rules and strategies and it wasn’t until I started feeding the fire of my personal skill — regardless that…
I just got caught up with Grey’s Anatomy.
Smoking is a classic example of this. Today, most people know that smoking is harmful. So do they smoke because they don’t care about the consequences or because it’s too hard to quit? Or a bit of both? Nice article by the way Adam 👍
It’s the 19th September 1981, two days after I entered this crazy world in the heart of a bustling city of Joburg in the…
A review of Meg Jay’s The Defining Decade and commentary on life as a twentysomething
If you’ve ever felt a little lost about life, I’d highly encourage you to consider picking up The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter — and how to make the most of them now. It’s…
This is perhaps the sentence of the millennium… I love it. And that’s how I feel about work and play and everything else in my life. I’ve never given a fuck (well since the last 25 months, after a financial crisis, that was my own doing). At that point I realized that the world however big, is filled with people with pea sized hearts. I’ve always had…
I wasted time, money, and energy seeking a solution for visibility and niche positioning. After a tedious and costly process of trial and error, I made it and things are now great, but have a few tips to save you trouble and…
We don’t want it. Take it elsewhere.
Long long ago, some twenty odd billion years ago, according to physicists., a…
This article is part of the series “What is like to attempt suicide and fail”. Start there, if you have not read it yet.
I met my long time close friend today who told me about his wife’s surgery. I was shocked to see how much weight she lost. She had fibroids and was operated on twice.
Be the Best. Forget the Rest.
I’ve been following Jordan Peterson for some months now. And just so we’re clear, I’m a fan…
People want to be so certain that it will be an outright success before they begin doing their purpose-work…
So they don’t begin…
They don’t write the books…
As an addict the one thing that is talked about constantly is recovery. Recovery for an addict is like…
Often quoted “big brands are not allowed to make mistakes but startups…” this is the reason of their defensive action and small learnings. I experienced that this is not quite true!
What if we were like birds.
What I refer to by this is how I felt while I was in Paris. That ecstatic feeling of joy and all the beauty around me which made me get up at five in the morning everyday for no reason besides to follow my passion and take photographs. While I’m not in Paris anymore, I should “create my…
My life seems to gravitate towards the month of May for some reason.
13 years ago this month, I graduated high school with a diploma AND community college with an Associate’s degree in Mass Communications, and big dreams.
Here is the change nobody thought we would achieve 100 years before and probably in next 100 years there will more such changes which will continue to baffle us.
I am talking about a shift from montonous simple life wherein there were no cellphones, no ipads, no…
Amal’s Mega Project challenged its fellows to do an activity that could be anything, with the aim of learning teamwork and other skills like communication, leadership etc. I and my team members changed the project four times in terms of the activity involved. I am glad…
Sometimes you just have to get up from the desk and go outside. Especially when the Sun is out, the air is warm and…
Young one, you command, ‘Go to sleep!’ Your confidence is humorous. Instinctively, you mistrust me…
Having the esteem to capture the cream, living a dream within a nightmare!
Yo swear that I’m tired of hearing the words I don’t care, I chill in the lair with an idle mind, beware, the grind is like a pretzel, niggas actin’ salty, sour as a lime. Double time, the…
We are all indifferent, it is impossible for everyone to be the same, we look different…
When the sun is out and it’s a beautiful day outside, slipping into a nice cool swimming…
“If you can’t enjoy a sunrise without doing the math, you’re missing the point“ — jsl”
What’s this goof up? The same article was published in the name of Alex yesterday…Anyway I would like to thank Niklas this time for interesting dissection of this topic :)
Shoutout to Lizzie
Ask young people what their favorite movie is, and they’ll generally tell you that it’s either Fight Club or Donnie Darko, which somewhat speaks of their transcendence, or, at least, lets you know that they push pretty much everyone’s…
Ah, The problem of noise.
I’m often overwhelmed by all the thoughts trying to take charge inside my mind.
This is the war the rational adult inside us fights with the broken little kid damaged by all pain in my life
It’s hard to stay positive when we don’t see changes right away on our path to a better way of living. We are trained in our society to want results, and results now! But the process of personal transformation doesn’t work this way. Just as with anything, plants growing from…
Economics is the sort of topic where an enthusiast thinks he knows what he’s doing, but really doesn’t. In itself, it’s a very strange science about dealing with scarcity using efficiency, and in order to reach peak efficiency you must have a mastery of mathematics and…
Susan stumbled out of the bar. Her knees buckled, and the stilettos scorched her feet from within.
“How do you do that? Still travel despite the job?”
HERE’S TO YOU
Then there’s the hearse –
a blackbird curse –
As I sat at home this Saturday afternoon I began thinking about how myself and others seem to constantly be working…
There is a saying “when you need a professional advice, get it from professionals not from your friends” I always implement this Quote in my life and whenever I need…
Do you cave in and STOP
OR
Do you meet the resistance and KEEP GOING?
In the War of Art by Steven Pressfield (a must read if you haven’t already), he says that the stronger…
First of all, thank you for this. You know why I think we are struggling to find articles with substance is because people are afraid to be honest. I’m victim of this myself. There are a lot of things I want to write about but I’m afraid of putting my name out there with this content because I’m worried that it might be redundant or that it might be…
Golden opportunities are sprinkled all around. Not often the glamorous types of…
The secret to making progress
Making progress in life boils down to a simple practice: chasing the pain. This is the best way we can set ourselves up for future success. For example:
Lacking Conviction
The world is constructed around beliefs. The beliefs which drive us down the formidable path of trust. When we start trusting we stop thinking. So is living in a world of unquestioned belief a must?
One of the best things I’ve ever done for myself is keep a Daily Record.
Fairmount Behavioral Health
i am sitting in
I came clean yesterday. In reference to quitting the green herb that used to soothe my soul when inhaled. Although it’s only been a short time, the positive outcome that came with sleeping was my saving grace. I still have to work on sleeping for seven hours or more, but falling asleep hasn’t been too difficult. I…
These days, I’m doing a lot of writing. I write six days a week, a minimum of six pages a…
Mine is writing. In the last one year, 100 Naked Words has taught me exactly what I love about writing, what comes easily to me and what I’m best at writing about.
Life is the defense mechanism for death (and vice versa).
Chairman
HEC
Pakistan
Yesterday I came to know a few fellows of Amal foundation. I had a little discussion with them in which I came to know about the problems they were facing. The problems were quite…
So recently I’ve been living a bit of an empty life. Things that were objectively happy didn’t feel happy. Things that should have been fulfilling, weren’t. Interesting things just penetrated my line of vision, nothing more.
One of my class fellows she is my very good friend of mine. We are talking on WhatsApp related…
Become a Fear free certified professional
As I sit here in my happy place, a quiet little park in the middle of Mumbai, I was thinking to myself, “ Is liking someone very dearly the same as loving them?”
They can’t bring you down!
Sometimes all is going well for you, and yet, people will go out of their way to try and diminish you in front of other people. They will say hurtful things that will depress you, but you can’t take it personally. Follow the Four Agreements (as in the book series by Don Miguel Ruiz with fidelity…
Interesting, I feel that way too. Once when I was younger I was checking my bell work and realized I only got ONE right. I cringed to think what other people would think- she’s so dumb or laugh at me deep inside but I really didn’t care on the outside because I wasn’t doing anything wrong, my teacher is nice, and most of my friends are in that class…
Everyone wants to change the world.
That’s not very ambitious.
We change the world every day. We breathe, we talk with people, we post photos… All our actions in some way change something in our surroundings, which are all part…
Amen.
A writers’ platform must have infinite space for diverging and diverse content. I’d think Medium.com would desire that. After all, the more communities they attract, the wider their reach and opportunities for capitalization.
The reason I have created House of Ebba is because I would really like to share my fascination on how our mind, body and soul works. I have started to combine spiritual techniques…
The hedonist within.
Nature could not operate without desire. So, this explains the hedonist (within).
To paraphrase Seneca in his little book ‘On the Shortness of Life’: “It is not that life is short, but that…
Materialism can turn people into “candle watchers”. Candles really have nothing to do with it — it’s just something that helps visualise this idea. People are going about their life and can sometimes get captured by the allure of materialism. When this happens, they are more likely to hang out with…
I’ve decided that the day to day news that you get, even from “reliable” sources like the NYTimes or Wall St Journal, is usually low quality compared to what you will read about those events in 5 years.
Through much of life, we must lead the charge and actively steer our own lives toward a desired outcome. If we seek joy or some other objective, no one else can dependably deliver that for us always. Other people simply lack the bandwidth or awareness of your needs to provide for you…
I see an updated version of myself the moment I realized the true meaning of life. But this was not so easy. After working relentlessly for 7 years , all those sweat palms, hard work, I ended up no where. Because I was not living my life, perhaps only surviving. I quit my job as I was overloaded with my own self and came back to my hometown. I only…
Week 13-This Week in Review
Every minute spent worrying about the way things were is a moment stolen from creating the way things can be
You could be changing lives RIGHT NOW
Do your actions actually match your values? That is a question that many of us have to ask ourselves in order to…
I love speaking to people who understand how life works, people who have had interesting life experiences and who learned interesting things from it. What’s even better, is when those people are your everyday…
You can’t have all the good things in life without suffering a little bit
I met an employee where I did internship. He was working in a hospital from the past 15 years. He was an experienced person. First of all, I thanked…
This will probably be the shortest article you will ever read but it will sure be the most effective one if you pause for a while and give it some thought.
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.”― Thomas…
A large chunk of young people wants to find a meaningful career, a career with a purpose. But most…
It’s easier than ever to get distracted from focusing on the things that matter most to us. Important things like honing our craft, whatever that may be. To be great, we must dedicate an enormous amount of time to that pursuit.
In continuation…
DO NOT TELL ME ABOUT YOUR LIES
What about the lies people find to tell people makes you wonder what is really going on every time you are approached with lies that people feel more comfortable to hear a lie than the truth of a matter most people believes in lies before believing in the truths a good lie being told sounds…
Let me tell you where it is.
Thought Bubble: This post was made out of randomness and boredom (no substance, you’ve been warned! :) )
Apparently, this is going to be my first post ever, and I asked myself, how cool can this get? I think, it’s the adrenaline you let loose in your bloodstream whenever you try something for the very first time and that…
My cousin is my mentor. He is chemical engineer and working in Packages Power Plant that is well reputed company in Pakistan. I was just a student who did not have any goal, I just know one thing that I have to read books of class. When I completed my intermediate, he judged my abilities and my…
You’re not the first college student to be overly ambitious and you won’t be the last. Know that life never really slows down. Don’t let college be an excuse. Don’t be busy “just for a season.” This is a reflection that will have merit for decades. 👍🏽
Waiting. Waiting for the right time is something we give ourselves permission to do. Something we don’t mind allowing our feelings, thoughts, or problems to drag out longer than they should because we assume it will give us a better outcome. It validates that you’re not impulsive and relentless. But…
By John W. Vander Velden
Too often we feel limited, unsure of ourselves, locked into our present reality…fearing to…
Hey there,
I’ve never ever dared to share my creative writeups with anyone until now. May be because I was scared of being judged, labelled and criticized. But thanks to my impulsive brain waves I had this sudden change of mind and here I’m on medium literally giving it all out to the world with an ‘I don’t care at all.I’m…
… the last instalment of my journal, chronicling a year of change
Starbucks Asia Afrika, Bandung
May 5th 2017
04.23 PM.
Amaroossa Hotel, Bandung
May 6th 2017
10.06 PM.
Wigs- — human, manufactured or horse-hair- — are ordinarily worn by individuals for form or who are encountering male pattern baldness in light of medicinal predicaments (particularly tumor patients that are experiencing chemotherapy or people enduring alopecia areata). In men, the most normal reason for hairlessness is “male example sparseness”…
