Life Lessons

The Rest of Week One: Our Decision Not to Terminate

Our Takeaway: Cherish and invest in our family and friends/community because they will serve a significant role in helping us through the tough times.

Don’t Focus On Your Situation, Focus On Your Trajectory

Biblical Lessons in Project Planning from Nehemiah

Long ago, before the Project Management Institute developed the PMBOK and the PMP certification, project management was debuting as a career in the Old Testament.

‘The Good Man Guide’ — Steps To Become The Perfect Man

I recently came across an interesting article — ‘The Good Woman Guide’, which is being circulated on the social media giving credit to US TV Evangelist and author and speaker Mrs. Joyce Meyer for having written it. I don’t know how…

10 Gifts You Need To Give Your Future Self

…And Why They Matter.

The most thoughtful gifts you can give on a tight budget

How A 7-Month Journey Around the World Changed My Life

My best friend died of cancer. Here’s his guide to living a beautiful life.

Why Do People Act In Opposition To Their Internal Desires? The Theory of Reaction Formation

3 Ways to Discern The Difference Between Patience And Passivity

How I became a Technical Illustrator and what did I learn along the way!

The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha (Book Review)

The greatest discovery of any generation is that…

Don’t Let Your Relationship Become Those Old Pair Of Shoes

Five quick tips to keep your relationship…

11 Pieces of Medium Advice I Ignored

Or Why I Am a Hot Mess and Still Don’t Know How to Code

To The LUMS Graduating Batch of 2017

With the final exams looming above your heads, I understand that you, the class of 2017, are…

Why Everyone Should Try Living and Working Abroad

Accelerating your professional and personal growth.

The Man Behind the Smiley Face!

Harvey Ball might not be a household name, but he created one of the most recognizable icons in the…

I Almost Quit My Job Because Of Stress

A few months ago, I had a breakdown. I was in my car with tears just streaming down my face…

An Untold Chef’s Story

My name is Hunter Henrickson and I have had the privilege of knowing, learning from and working with Executive Chef Donnie Simmons for going on two years now. What I have learned about him are two important things: He is very humble and giving.

Sharpen your Sword

Calm before the storm

You Are Not Failing

You are not failing. You are not hopeless. You are not broken. You are not rubbish.

I’m bringing back the 80's

mainly because the song titles can be used just like a self-help manual

This week, I was happily riding my bike home, (with bike lights on), singing out loud to a super 80's music soundtrack I found on…

The Power of Acceptance

When faced with accusations and blame, deciding to suspend judgment and accept what you’re feeling can deliver a burst of freedom during and after the interaction. Here’s what I’ve learned to make this simple decision less elusive.

How Slowing Down Can Shift Your Perspective

You may find that you see something that you’ve never seen…

BUSY PEOPLE ARE MEDIOCRE

ARE YOU BUSY?

The Reason I Hope You Fail

Fear can make ourselves our own worst enemy

Moving Your Environment

The Traveling Jujitsu

“I wasn’t born for a corner, nor as a tree. My homeland is the entire world.” Seneca

The only thing I will ever strive to optimize!!

I am a confused being! Confusion flows through my blood, and for those very few moments when it stops flowing, I have the most surreal experiences of my life. To live such a surreal experience again and again, for the fear that this ephemeral…

A Tale Of Two Pigeons.

It all started this morning. Since I am on temporary leave from my farm, I stay at my Damascus apartment with my…

How I Flip-Turned Upside Down into Entrepreneurship

To be honest, I’m not sure if anyone will get anything out of this story, but it’s been on my mind a lot lately, and I’d like to get it out there. It’s not polished, it’s not planned, it’s really long (and this is the bare-bones version)…

From Mindless To Mindful: My Journey To Minimalism

Domina tu salud emocional, domina tu vida.

El dominio emocional es la clave para vivir una vida que tú diriges. La capacidad de…

See the World

Staying forever in a small city is a waste of your life

The Power of Positive Reinforcement

Do you respond better if there is something positive at the end of a long and painful road…

Confessions of a Former Chameleon

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — Oscar Wilde

Being Right is Not the Answer

Do we want to be right? Or do we want to be good?

B+: The Power Of Positive Thinking

Have you ever met a person who refuses to get bogged down by negativity? Who always sees the good…

27 CHANGE?…As GOOD as a REST?

Or so goes the adage. I was looking forward to these 8 days in Arizona cheating the bitter winds of New…

I don’t like me when I’m angry. — 7 of 31

Or “Learning to tame the Murray-Fury.”

Sobre a vida da morte

Illustrated life lessons from 18+ months of cooking experiments — Part 1.

Because, Italian DNA.

When do you say NO or Stay the course?

Following your heart vs. Experiencing something new

To Be or Not to Be A Victim

I could paint myself a victim.

A Single Dust Mote Taught Me How to Live

Extraordinary lessons in the ordinary

I Spent A Day in A Prison And Here’s What I Learned

How Patient Are You?

“Patient” comes from the Latin root meaning “to suffer” or “to endure.” Quite appropriate, no? Isn’t it a small bit of…

I never told my children what was my job. I never wanted them to feel shame because of me. When my youngest daughter asked me what I did. I used to tell her hesitantly, I was a…

So far so good here on Yongsan in Seoul. I got to base around midnight Thursday night and had to wake up at 0400 on Friday morning which was a little rough, but it did help me sleep…

The thorn in the arm

Removing the thorn is very painful, yes, but it is only temporary.

The Infinity of Us

Giordano Bruno, a mathematician from Naples, had this to marvel: “If the God he worshipped was infinite, how can creation be anything less?” He was referring to the universe and all its splendor. I want to draw this more closer to humans: We have no idea what the human mind, body, soul, spirit…

The Seniors

are graduating.

Confidence gap

It’s my dream job. So, when I passed the interviews and got the good news, of course I turned it down. I turned it down in favour of uncertainty and the unknown. Why would I do a thing like that? The answer is likely to fluctuate over time depending on the (currently unknown) outcome of my choice.

‘Cricket Fever’ is in Indian Blood.... Injected or Inherited???
With IPL season 10 nearing its verge, we have cricket all-around us. And this Question popped up in my mind looking at my son who is just 10 years old, but as glued to the TV watching Cricket as his father. “Do Not Disturb” is the sign they carry on their faces while watching this…

Maybe the point of life is to keep levelling up.

3 Lessons Writers Can Learn from Kitchen’s Nightmares

If you’ve ever watched Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, the first thing that stands out to you is how addictive the show is. Besides building your awareness on culinary red flags in restaurants — and raising your OCD levels — there…

Seeing Snoopy (Part 1)

How a blind dog taught me to see.

Complete The Difficult Tasks

#279 Start working on a 30-minutes speech

One Realistic Way To Follow Your Dreams (The Story Of A Teacher Who Gave Kids Freedom)

By Chris Palmer, M.A.

Founder, FigureOutYourLife.com

Be able to live disabled

Δυστυχώς στην χώρα που ζούμε τα άτομα με ειδικές ανάγκες ανεξαρτήτως ηλικίας και πάθησης βιώνουμε διάφορα…

The Beautification Project

MANILA — “We’ll need to announce our arrival to the local authorities…

The Slow Down Hustle

Where Punchlines and Mindfulness Meet

I’m not myself. Which is actually good. I feel my Self standing back in awe as connections are made. The ‘me’ I knew just a bit ago has been dragging my heels, but I have nonetheless arrived at this…

How to Make it Through a Difficult Journey with Lauren Morton

At 26 years old, Lauren Morton is a two-time world record holder. She’s rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and survived The Island with Bear Grylls. Lauren came onto the Tough Girl Podcast to talk about her incredible…

Escalators Reveal Two Kinds of People

Those who see it as a chance to do nothing, and those who see it…

Are You Game for Some Introspection

To Seek Some Honest Answers?

How I manage to write every day

(When you have a good Why, the How takes care of itself)

This is the hard part…

Doing what you’re told to.

Following the rules.

Cutting corners.

Doing what you’ve always done.

This is the easy part.

Thanks for this. I recently blogged a starter Italian experience that had several “rose-colored glasses off” moments in it. If you’d like, it’s here: https://medium.com/@7a14996c2ce5/e17eb729365d

Your post just inspired me to go deeper about my experience, to tell the whole of the not-so-pleasant moments. This was something…

Awkward Moment: How To Never Have Awkward Sex Again

5 ways to manage your time judiciously

Arguably time management is one of the difficult task to do for some of you, but definitely…

what a fine mess i’ve made

what it really takes
to love you
is no simple feat
i look at you

Keep Going With Your New Habits

#278 Get in touch with the people I meet at the UPW

Week #5 LeadWise Academy Assignment

The one where we try to sum up

I’m writing this post two days after I was meant to, and my brain is still stubbornly resisting the task of ‘landing’ on one thing I’ve changed my mind about during my experience over the…

The Art Of Leaving the Room

“You don’t have any rights, we are your parents and WE are the authority. You will listen to us, or have NOTHING.”

Parents. The ultimate authority in every young person’s life. The ones who have the final call on everything. Your social life, home life…

Ever Been a Seed like this? Ever Seen a Flower like this?

Living in a community of friends with kids an option?

I spent a day at the weekend with my family at the community of friends from my cousin and was asking myself it this would fit with kids!?! It’s just not common standard to live close to a city in an old farm house with dogs and cats and…

I know You Are but What/Who Am I

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”

I’ve been through this numerous times (not the money part; I never made millions). I’m in my early 60s now and the process continues. I write books, blogs, short stories, children’s books. It’s comforting to work with words. It’s even more conforting to be read (although not always). What we should learn from these dramas is we’re singular. As much…

Spotlighting Your Femininity — Living Life like Sacred Divine Goddess

Joanna Riedl I love your article! I relate to your process 100%. “I’ve always been a hard worker (when motivated) and feel very confident in my masculine, alpha career-driven self. My feminine, woman, body has had a tougher time in her 35 years. Her…

A Life Of Procrastination

Some people spend their whole lives procrastinating. They start out with dreams, and ideas, and a vision for their life. Maybe they want to be a doctor, or a mechanic, or a dancer. Then somewhere along the way their confidence died. As a child you believe you can do anything. I was…

The Eye of the Hurricane

What does it mean to be still?

Inside, at the center, you reside. Around you there are other thoughts and energies that are not yours.

So being in the eye of the hurricane…and being still in there is key.

Letter to my 16-year-old self

I recently read a similar blog from Richard Branson, so I thought to myself, hey, I’d like to do something…

Project 365: Day 365 — We’re here!

Finally we’re here! 365 days of writing every single day.

Things have changed. Really changed. It’s been a whole year writing every single day. Writing everyday isn’t hard. You can write about anything you want. Writing something you’re proud…

Want some fast perspective on your life? Try planning for your death.

Sunday DoneDay

A day to look back upon

Hope that you are relaxing maybe with some tea in your bed, and I hope you enjoy…

Caribbean hygge

In Danish culture the practice of hygge is well-known and has become a hashtag for those moments of pure enjoyment, contentment…

Another “I’m Going to Write Everyday for…”

Did ya click? Whenever I see one of these, I usually do. They draw me in like a…

As An Amends To Myself

I want the best that life has to offer because i’m fairly certain I’ve seen and experienced my fair share of the worst. It’s not that I feel the universe or society owes it to me for what I’ve been through,it’s that I know I owe it to myself for what I’ve put myself through. I give it…

Darker shades- Confusion within

He was sitting in his room and thinking about how has life treated him. He felt cheated and betrayed…

The 3 Lessons All Universities Need to Teach

Some days, I wish I was at university again, so I could naively look forward to…

В записках потом не отыщешь

Зачем это все делаю. Сейчас ответ такой: оказалось, что лучше всего я запоминаю и формулирую тогда, когда записываю. Удивительное, блин, рядом.

Сегодня про удивительную иллюзию. Если коротко и непонятно: “стоит чего-то захотеть, подумать об этом и ненавязчиво начать ждать…

Why we need to leave people behind?

One of the harsh reallities of life is that we have to leave people behind.

What i mean by that?

If you are actively improving yourself,every day/week/year,eventually people in your life will fall…

You are stronger than you think

Last week I had a week 12 exam: it is like a final exam but before finals start. I was completely afraid because during the master I used to take a vacation from my job to study for my exams. But this course I can’t because I’m new employee! So I told myself don’t tell…

Perfect Palace

Man is the great paradox.

He walks around an enormous palace, with gold and silver laying about, diamonds…

On Motivation and Intimidation

I’ve always been the big fish in the little pond. I mean, in the beginning it wasn't like that. But as I progressed as a Chef; and as I learned how good for how young I am, it made me confident.

Hard to gain, Easy to lose, Impossible to truly regain.

The path we follow is lined with many a insignificant characters and periods, and an occasional dot of asterisks and exclamations. It seems like in the ambiguity of life, our real goal is to make the best of those important times and…

Thought Of The Day! To Be True.

With my visit to todays Sunrise, I give thought or shall I say,“My Feeling,” To Be True To Ones Being…

I am happiest when I’m writing

I know I’m happiest when I write — the stories, the notes, anything.

But I have a fear of success. I have a fear of failure. The only way to get past the fear is develop the manuscripts. I have to keep writing and write more often. All the other crap…

Weddings come and babies grow. Life happens whether we’re ready for it or not. Fathers age and mothers die. Brothers build houses and sisters build communities. Are you the grown up you that you always wanted to be? Remember days when time seemed to go on forever? On those days I’d find bullfrogs in black marshes and pick wildflower bouquets of…

Life, What I Believe

Life isn’t what we think it is, its mere illusion, It’s always about what we…

Now. (Saturday, 11:32 pm)

The value of a moment is something I have had the opportunity to ponder many times in the past year, as this is…

It’s never too late…

The subconscious mind is a very beautiful place for someone to wander around. You could be on the Alps on one moment and the very next moment you could land yourself behind the bars , everything seems quite superfluous most of the time yet certain minute details of a particular minuscule…

Meditation: Day 11 / 100 — Adding ‘No’ To My Vocabulary

Fragile

We sit here in our bubble, walk in our bubble. Saturday afternoon, and the neighborhood is buzzing, alive. So many people, young people…

Magical Little Lonely

I love loneliness.

And I’m not someone who wants to be alone in life.

I don’t want to live my life autonomously. Quite the contrary, I want to have a partnership and a family… and have rare, incredible and intimate connections with them.

Cry baby role models?

Why are some driven by empathy while others have limited ability to hurt or share joy for people or animals that are outside their circle?

I cry when someone else gets their feelings hurt, I am ecstatic when others succeed, even when they pass me up. Why do I…

Vive el momento.

En mi vida, todo está rodeado de vivir el día a día; una vez conocí a alguien con quien luego de un tiempo, llegamos a un acuerdo de vivir nuestros días como si no hubiese un mañana.

Todos los días eran nuevos para nosotros, sin pensar en la incógnita del mañana; luego de…

While there is much wisdom in this article, there are also some things I found troubling. I disagree that belief in human progress is a myth that is no longer serving us. Trump and his Republican enablers would like nothing better than for the resistance to abandon its belief that a better world is possible. Besides, there is actually considerable…

What’s the best life lesson you’ve ever learned from a fictional character?

RUN FOREST!! RUN FOREST!! RUN!!

To Run for no apparent reason

It is OK if you do certain things for no reason. It is OK if you work on something for…

AMALian for One Day

Knowledge is like a guiding lantern and it should be shared in the same way as it is done by the people who use to walk in the form of ‘carvaans’ and share the light which is lit by one traveler. It eventually makes every one reach the destination. Same goes for knowledge, if it is shared by…

Writing a book was the hardest thing — and greatest thing — I’ve ever done

When I was a little girl, my parents had a nickname for me: cabeça dura. It’s pronounced KAH-beh-sah DOO-rah, and it means “hard-headed” in Portuguese. That’s because when I decided I could or would do…

Autism 2, Me 0

52 Week Writing Challenge