The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I…
We all know about poor little Joseph. His story takes 14 chapters in Genesis from 37 through 50, a whopping 28% of the entire book. He was his father’s favorite, his mother died in childbirth with his baby brother Benjamin, his…
The more I read online, the more I find myself bombarded by writing that focuses on empowerment. But it tends to…
In our lifetime, we experience moments that make us proud of who we are based on doing…
Whirlwind. When most alumni describe their MBA experience, there is a great deal of it that can be chalked up to that one word. It’s a crazy…
Over the last few years I’ve been thinking and sometimes talking about anchors. ‘Anchors’ is my term for things that keep your personality stuck in a certain place. They may be laws, culture, friends, family…basically any entity that expects you to behave in a certain way…
Something most people don’t talk about are the low points they feel in life. It’s a taboo topic to voice…
Weekly musings from @profgalloway
Too many stores, flat wages, changing tastes, and Amazon have created the perfect storm for retail. Today, all retailers are getting shelled. All, that is, except one.
I completed the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme last week, it was a…
The other day, I decided to buy a new pair of running sneakers and didn’t give it a second thought.
Things Do Change! Or Maybe Not!
Last week we visited an apartment, a loft actually, above the former Variety Store of Forestville. I hadn’t been in the…
Today the natural state of anxiety is high, very high, for good reason. Once the natural flow of anxiety and what interrupts it are understood, Five Tips can…
It’s been a slow process to reach a point where I’m confident to say I follow a “minimalist lifestyle.”…
Unfortunately, we love doing unproductive things. We find browsing Facebook feeds much more interesting than…
BACK TO “NORMAL”
I remember when I first found out I was pregnant with my son, Michael, almost twenty years ago. I knew there was this life changing event forming inside of my body yet as I walked, went to work and moved through my world looking normal on the outside no one knew. There were times I wanted to scream out, “I’m…
This was originally published three weeks ago in my private mailing list. I decided it was just too funny not to share.
My Gen X husband tells me I am a token millennial. I remember not having the…
Sure, some people might think I’m crazy for giving up the opportunity to “do cool shit,” but leaving the program…
The life of the late Dr. Anthony Norman Sabga is nothing short of a testament of hope and triumph. His journey has served to display the ability of the human spirit to persevere in the midst of crisis and setback. The story of Dr. Sabga…
As promised, with a new month comes a new motivational person to pay tribute to. For this month’s installment, I…
Deserve.
Merriam Webster defines it as a transitive verb meaning: to be worthy of.
I want to begin with a quick story and it involves my now, 22-year-old daughter. When she was is in college, she used to often call or text me saying “Mom, the struggle is real!” And for her, it was real. She was trying to be a college athlete AND a Scholar. You noticed I didn’t…
Focused more than ever. I’ve been discovering a frequency where I meet my greater self often. Every time I’m…
At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter how you get to where you want to be.
What matters is that you start getting there.
And it doesn’t really matter whether you have to flip burgers for a while.
All those semi-cute laughs, out of town adventures, movie marathons, late night conversations, awkward staring contest. All those silly things. I miss that. And I wish I could turn back time in that exact moment where l’m still living with you
A Letter From A Lost, Insecure Guy To Her Ex-Girlfriend
Oh, it’s that old cliche, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” As you’re reading this I’m sure you can imagine a parental figure looking down at a younger version of yourself trying to convey these words of wisdom. We’ve heard it a million times, the city of Rome was…
A few days ago, I was in DC at a large, poolside wedding rehearsal party and I bumped my way up to the bar for a bottle of Corona. The young man tending bar, a friend of the bride and groom, was probably about 19 years old. He had black and blonde dreads just long enough…
I’ve recently found myself with unusually large reservoirs of energy. It’s not a new feeling — I’ve always been a talkative…
Brew Projects has fifteen amazing entrepreneurs, leaders, and creators across the United States each…
“Hey, babe I’m sorry, I just need to check my email. I’ll be done in a minute.”Checking your…
A text about a dog and a plant
This story has been waiting to be written for a long time. The long time being purely because so much continued to happen with…
They say: before we find love in a relationship we need to discover it within ourselves. However once you don’t appreciate yourself enough it is very hard to get the positive feelings flowing within you.Here are 3 practical…
What secret expertise have you locked up inside you that you might let out to create value?
This story originally appeared on Quora by Phil Callaghan.
Have you ever been single for so long it came to a point that you just don’t know how to love anymore? Yet…
It’s a Tuesday afternoon in the first week of May and I am writing this piece instead of…
If you are creating something meaningful and personal, chances are you will be a…
When it comes down to doing what’s best for us, many of those people we have in our life, tell us what’s best for us without considering or asking what we believe is best for us.
And on top do that, being open and able to walk in our shoes or even viewing it…
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“You seem like a fraud”
Hi, I’m Amy and I’m addicted to self-improvement. It all started about five years ago…
When I left home yesterday morning at 5.45am, the bottom of my road leading onto the seafront had a police cordon blocking it. I…
“You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life what you…
that’s a dad joke, right there. my dad, in particular. childhood friends often told me he looked like Val Kilmer in The Saint when he disguised himself as the professor. And while he’s since shaved the mustache, not much else has changed.
How To Build A House When You Don’t Have The Tools
Imagine that you are given the task of building a house. Not just any house, one that is magnificent with…
Welcome to my first day at my new job.
Working for me.
I’ve freelanced before, but never with so much intention. Both times as a temporary measure. A client hired me, an opportunity…
Fantastic, Ellie. Especially love #2
Best advice I ever received as an entrepreneur: breathe
Best advice I ever received as a screenwriter: breathe
Sometimes simply allowing yourself a few moments to remove yourself from the storm to dry off provides more clarity than any meeting or brainstorming session.
Top post man! Really interesting experiment and looking forward to more content like this!
I’ve decided to get my arse in gear and submit!
Today is a very important day of my life. 18 hours from now, I am going see him again. Am I nervous? Yes. I wasn’t quite prepared for this. I don’t know how it’s going to be. Heck I don’t even know how he’s going to look. I haven’t seen him for so long.
and …they believe in our future!
“No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. It’s what you choose to believe that makes you the…
A lesson on mentality learned through “From Nothin’ To Somethin’ (Intro)” by Fabolous…
Or “I might as well call it a day.”
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I’m a patron of Ninja Writers and this is day seven of the May Medium Post-a-Day Challenge of blogging for 30 consecutive days.
Start with yourself first
She babbled on and on. Small diversions…
The first job I ever had was forced down my throat by a loving father who surprisingly didn’t strike me…
Our relationshipwas a strengthI relied on.
We all find ourselves thinking or wondering “what if I fail?” “What if I don’t succeed?” “What if I make mistakes?”. Well we think and wonder what if we…the bad things but don’t think or wonder about the possibilities of succeeding.
Over the past year, I have found myself very jaded by social media as a whole.
So, the gf got called for another interview, this time in the exact opposite direction of where we were planning to go. She hadn’t applied…
Got a serious question for you…
I reclaim my hands and feet from the restraints of your protection. My arm from your grasp to keep me from falling. I am grateful…
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.
When you possess great treasures within you, and you try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
(of my conversations with Zhuang Zhou)
Do you want to know how to be positive in every situation? Well, one good way is seeing the positive side in everything and keeping negative aspects at bay. No matter how complex a situation is, it always has something to teach and that’s the best thing.
It’s not hard.
#Th1rteenR3easonsHow to stay alive and get what you want
A lot of ‘literate’ people object to the content of the series: #Th1rteenR3asonsWhy The literates who pose away at gawdy parties. The literates lost in the glimmer of daily lives. The literates who bully each other with their awkward display of possessions undermining…
Living in The Grey- Embrace the Ambiguity.
How often do we encounter situations when there is no clear path or right or wrong decision? I’ll say this.. in my daily life…that’s the common denominator and I strongly suspect that many others identify. So, what about it and why is the lack of clarity one of life’s greatest…
In which I make a non-scholarly case for vocabulary — linguistic, emotional, or…
The loyalty of a dog is the greatest reward I’ve earned in my tiny existence of 21…
How a blind dog taught me to see.
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” Miguel de Cervantes
Remember opening fortune cookies with friends? We’d break our cookies open, read our fortunes out loud and at the end of each fortune…
It has been exactly 2 weeks since I was told my position was eliminated, effective immediately.
How many boxes do you need?
Throughout my 20 year career moving between classrooms, schools, districts, grade levels, and professions I…
And you should take another look at it
Take a minute and reflect on life. Not your life, or any life in particular, but the journey of life itself…
At times she felt unworthy of the love she received, other times she found herself worried to ultimately accept a love she thinks she…
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It’s not yet one o’clock and we don’t know that it’s coming,We just know we like ceiling fans…
Here it is. On my final day of writing, I rip off a dialogue from the new Blade Runner 2049 trailer. Watch it. It’s worth it.
Blog #3 Possessions
Someone once told me possessions are an attachment to the past. If you can’t let go of the shirt, that broken mug, that childhood toy, it is because of the memories the item provides. And we want to hold onto the memories. Nothing wrong with that at all.
The meaning of one man’s suffering. My father’s story.
World War II passed through the lives of millions leaving behind pain, suffering, death and grief. My…
I have been traveling today.
We seem to believe that more in life is better. We are constantly in a fight for more. For more money, more happiness, more joy, more friends, more things. This search is constant, but do we need to strive for more?
I have heard this statement thrown around so many times in my short lifetime. And yes, in most cases, it is meant simply to encourage patience and to make people understand the value of allowing things to happen and develop overtime instead of…
I have a confession to make. I am a generalist. At various points in my life I thought I would be: an entomologist, a novelist, an artist, a graphic designer, a web designer, a programmer, and a game developer. Naturally as my interests changed I changed, and there were many…
Everybody wants to be happy don’t they? everybody is seeking happiness on some level are they not? I woke up…
On the third week working with my current company, back in 2014, the VP of Expansion and I took a walk near a…
Quite a few people think that you can’t do business, and be a conscious, compassionate person. One of the hardest, perhaps most courageous things to do while being an entrepreneur is…
By BM Blogger @anaiskin
“I’m here to see Cathy Brtis,” I say to the elderly clerk sitting at the ER admissions desk. As she averts my eyes my stomach sinks and nausea threatens. My legs lose control as I begin my descent to the marbled floor. Halfway down…
Every time you put something positive into the universe, the world changes. Your kindness invites miracles to show up, not just in your world, but in the whole world.
A little over two months ago I woke up to a swollen oil gland on my left eye lid. I didn’t know what it was at the time. I could barely open my left eye and the slightly throbbing pain felt like pressure was being applied from someone other than me. I went to my primary care…
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” - Albert Einstein
Like every other self-respecting, Bengali, middle class woman, my mother ensured that I grew up idolising my…
I gave twenty dollars to a woman on the side of the road today.
Wow! I just ended my day with what I would describe as ‘amalende.’ well, don’t worry about the term, it means more than any…
Four months after I graduated college, I found myself without a job and debating rather I should continue applying for…
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice…
The waters in which we navigate these days are interesting to say the least. There are different tides…
Last weekend, I wrote a post about a really unsettling incident I witnessed. In case you missed it, the post can be found HERE — but…
No-Ever do I consciously allow the “N” word [never] in my speech as I have learned my intentions should be mentioned, but doubting…
I am guilty of the same faulty reasoning Jonas Ellison.
My family chose to often act with very little thinking behind their actions. And it led to a breakdown of the family.
So I resolved to grow in ways they never did. The only problem in this strategy was that it led me to think too much and act…
Most people go through life in a walking daze. We are just reacting to stuff, having no specific clue about what…
As she kept drinking, other guys seemed to notice and wanted to see if they could get…
The thought for this comic is here.
Sometime ago, in high school, I had a simple assignment — write a persuasive essay. As a teenager, who was relatively sheltered, I wanted to question convention and tradition. I was probably that annoying kid who always asked “why?” — Though far fewer times, just because of my…
So many times we find ourselves wondering why we are doing something. Whether it is working a nine to five, playing a game, or even having a particular conversation (usually for the fifteenth hundredth time), that nagging why comes up. We live in such times that we are expected to constantly be progressing, to be…
Not the viral one which you always dreamed off. You won’t get the million of views overnight — even if what you produce is of insanely high quality.
Take the time to let this thing make sense to you. For example, you can be a writer and produce something…
Find best and suitable images to say anyone sorry
In our life, we hurt others many times and this is just because we do not know about the situation that we are creating and another person gets hurt by them. In such conditions, when we realize about our mistakes, it is too late and we have not enough idea how to say sorry to…
When you are looking for your next idea, and you think you’ve found it, take a second and stop.
First, ask yourself this question: why do I want a million dollars?
As a former teacher, Creative Director and parent I have been recently reminded that many of us with strong opinions share advice with younger minds that leaves them conflicted because it directly contradicts advice from another person they may respect or admire…
So many years of my past life, I’ve found that I would overthink about why many things in my life didn’t work out and that many things I did are why I’m still single for example, these are the reasons (list of many items) why and what exactly I’m not worth loving, that no guy out there would…
Don’t take high school for granted. I remember taking final exams in high school and being so lackadaisical…
At the end of some days, I feel that I’ve perfected the practice of unlearning joy. And it’s frustrating because I have been so diligent about being intentionally positive that these moments of despair often catch me off guard.
You have been created to live. Not merely to exist, but rather, you have been created for LIFE.Within each one us exists an inner urge and desire towards life. This truth is best seen in children.
Never live your life based on people expectations, build your own expectation.
There is always one joker in every group, which is good.
We all go through periods in life when things are a bit of a mess.
Thanks for your great response to the I Can’t UnSee That post on March 21…
As my business grows, I continue to meet fascinating people experimenting with interesting ideas, events and…
Recently I started working at Vérios Invest, a Brazilian startup that brings investment solution, using an algorithm that manages our clientes applications automatically…. but anyway… I’m here to…
If Buddhist insight could be boiled down to fortune cookie size, I’d swear you’ve accomplished the Western equivalent of Eastern enlightenment, Jonas.
Bask in that for a cosmic second…
…and, by reaffirming you positing of two things here, the results of this insight are:
When it comes to whether its good or not to care so much or enough of anything, we must evaluate the situation. The pros and cons of both sides: good or bad idea to care or not to as its those things in life that are a waste of our time.
We have a challenge for you. Try to explain why you’re who, what, or where you are…
Great article, even if you’re a little too tough on the “Zero to Software Engineer in 12 Months” guy.
I am just learning to code, and have been dreading the cubicle portion of “paying my dues”. But thanks to your article, I think I may have found a way around that.
Don’t plan your life around some sort of arrival, some end goal, no destination. Don’t really plan your life so much as point it in a direction.
Diversions are likely and even desirable. The path you could not have imagined might appear right in…
Hace poco tiempo, tal vez por tonto o inocente, pensé que las conexiones que lograbas con…
Why wait? I’ll just walk into these feels right now.
The thing that no one tells you of heartbreak, but you will surely discover for yourself, is that your heart does not break in one moment. The first blow is probably the hardest (For me at least), then after that I am still struck, sometimes so hard that I can't get up for a while. All this is intensified if your significant other was the first to…
I was sitting at my desk when I received three messages on Facebook. They were from people from the distant past (high school), the recent past (post college), and someone younger than I (still in college). I got tough love, supportive encouragement, and an inquiry for advice.
By Marie Woods, LMFT, CSAT, Primary Therapist, Gentle Path at the Meadows
In light of some of the recent public disclosures of millions of individuals’ personal indiscretions online, one question many people may be asking is…
There ARE worse things in life than being interrupted in the bathroom when you REALLY want your privacy.
It goes like this:About six years or so; learn to read early, do good in school, stay out of trouble and pay attention during class, sit still…
I love that in the end, delivering words of value, consistently and with consideration of the people you are writing for, is such an important part of all of this. Thank you for your thoughtful article.
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“Who does not know what foodie means, and who…
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