It took me 18 months to write The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck. Over that time…
The argument was heated. You know you messed up but her reaction was uncalled for. Yet…
If you teach long enough you’ll come to learn that the human story never graduates.
I’m a mom to two young boys, but my first baby was furry. We had her for 8 years, and then 10 days ago we held her…
I want to state that, opportunities lost can be recreated, remade, reinvented…
This is one of those old memories when I used to have a crush in the office.
Crushes are those anonymous creatures for whom you are compelled to live in fairy tales. Where you are prince charming with dragon face.
“With great power, comes great responsibility.” — Stan…
Causality, Control & Choice
Mr. Fear,At the deepest part of my heartGnaw StreetRedemption Road
Yes, I am on Bumble…still a year later…but that’s not the point! ;)
I know limbo well, the period between the dream and its realisation, the space between wanting and having. I am familiar with the killer suspense. Throughout the wait, till the last chip of hope becomes dust…
“Stop being a big shot” was the best advice I received as a young entrepreneur and content creator. It came from one of my friends who was one of those hustlers who succeeded early and knew what the…
Throughout our lives, we believe that a bad day is the be all end all and there is no way of recovering from it and making the day turn into a good one. I believe that bad days don’t exist because we have experience only bad moments throughout our lives and we…
Be it big or small, every idea has people behind it. People building it. People selling it. People dreaming it. Humanity drives…
What I Learned from Surviving the” Perfect Storm”
People who don’t fit in are actually the one’s to stand out
I know, I know! But before you judge, why don’t you give it a read first. Do take the time and finish the whole story. I…
Cats and People
Merv, Judge, L’il Orphant Annie and I walked through the woods last evening. To be more precise, Annie walked us. She kept an eye on us from…
There’s a common and pervasive lie we’ve all been told, and one that almost all of us believe without thought or…
Wow .. I loved this post .. no I LOVE it! Really well put together and I found it extremely relevant and helpful to my own situation at the minute. Looking forward to reading more!
I am an introvert. I ADORE being alone. It’s the space in which I retreat to recharge my batteries. I’ve been known to bewilder a lot…
I’m writing this article for myself. But if you’re in the same boat, hopefully it will resonate with you too.
It’s been a while since I’ve published anything in my own name. Close to two years I think (wow, time flies). And I…
“Thank you. That makes me feel better.”
‘Slow and Steady’ is key to being a writer.
Retail: long hours, little pay, terrible work environment… best job ever?
I am sure most of us have played the game where we have either described our ideal roommate or thought of a celebrity we would most like to know. Go back to those conversations and think of the qualities or characteristics you would want in an ideal roommate. Also list some of…
FIVE WEEKS TODAY
The greatest thing about FIVE WEEKS is what a difference the extra week has made in my regular life. I am much more mobile, I can sleep on my side, I can exercise. My limitations right now are working and gardening because standing on my feet, lifting and moving things still gets me and because I feel so…
It was about four days after my c-section that I realized bucket lists are crap.
If you haven’t had a c-section, you might, like I did approximately 10 months ago, think that they can’t be that big…
Sosyal medya canavarıysanız, karşınıza sık sık çıkmıştır. 50’sinden sonra yapmanız gerekenler, keşke 20 yaşındayken…
“The only problems that cannot be solved are imaginary.”
After my Product Design education of four and half years when the companies came for placements I found myself in a puddle of all UX design companies trying to get candidates. Me being from a core product background didn’t have much work in the UX Design department. Well…
On May Day, I was hospitalised.
Over the course of my hospitalisation, I learnt a couple of important lessons — about myself and the people around me — with a central theme of vulnerability.
What exactly are we afraid of in this ever changing world?
Are we destiny changers?
Do we control the narrative of our stories?
I am not a fisherman. Somehow this fact didn’t deter my son’s scout leader from placing me in charge of the…
The strongest inspiration realized to human being is from its own ancestry. We spend our lives seeking role models, people we can look up to, especially in our own family as we relate to them at high levels. Human brain…
Day 3
If we boil down all our problems and worries to one statement, it is that life is not what we want it to…
You know what? A lot of the time I don’t have my shit together. You know what else? Neither do you.
Some people who know me will read my statement about myself and say Ha! Kim, you’re so organized! You’ve got spreadsheets and you’re prepared and present…
Curiosity. In philosophy, there is a term called qualia…
“A house cannot be built on a weak foundation.”
Previous post “O — Organize your life in preparation for change”
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“Knowing what is right is like deep water in the heart; a wise person…
1. Do the work.
2. Do the right work.
Everyone, all of us, are a mess.
Some are better at hiding it and some are not.
Some are better at letting go of this fact, even embracing it, and some of us are being crushed beneath the weight of expectation.
In wild country or in a boat and when using a map and compass for navigation (before GPS smart phones) there is the concept of aiming off…
With the promise of crabs doing the nasty and turtles laying eggs, I ventured out this week to comb the beach under…
We all have dreams, we all have things we want to accomplish in our short time on Earth.
First day on the job, and I’m already feeling somewhat overwhelmed.
Who knew cashiering could be difficult?
I didn’t, that’s for sure.
As soon as I arrived, they scanned my documents and showed me around the produce section of the store.
If there is one thing I can say for certain about my mom is that she loves to have fun. She told me recently that while I am concerned with everybody being happy, she is concerned with everybody having fun, which is probably the best…
I have a lot of things to be grateful for — many of which I often take for granted.
Of course it’s Fire Truck. Weren’t you ever a kid?
When it comes to life and reality, we must take risks and chances to get what we want in our lives! Cuz if we don’t, nothing changes. Because everything or most things involves taking some risks.
I am 33 and I don’t have my life together and I never will. But I am okay with that. No one has their life together. Living is like surfing, just ride the waves as they come. Sometimes you fall off the board and your lungs fill with salt water. Get up, let your cough reflex kick in and get back on the board. The only reason you feel that way is…
Waffle House Managers Make Bank!
I was just having some ramen, and noodling over some stuff. Stuff meaning, adulting, and how that’s an actual word. Is it a…
Story 2 of 50 on my 12 months of meeting good people…and collecting learning stories.
There was a man, it seems like a long time ago, who lived by himself. He was quiet, but particular; he worked for a printer cutting letters and making type. He liked to make paper on his spare Saturdays. He made many kinds, many exotic and beautiful sheets, speckled with gold, marbled with…
I have a slight problem, it’s called being NOF — Naively Over Familiar, when I meet a person I talk…
Thought for this comic is here!
The fundamental delusion of humanityis to suppose that I am hereand you are out…
One of the charisms of the Franciscan lifestyle is supposed to be simplicity. As most people are inquiring about the Franciscan lifestyle, simplicity is often ellusive. We are such busy, complicated people. It seems like there are 20 places to be at always with multiple things to do. Learning to incorporate simplicity usually works best by…
No, I have not forgetten about my goal to tell you stories of Cuba for 30 days, I guess they may not…
Image: Ian Schneider @ Unsplash
The human brain is an amazing tool.
We take for granted all the thousands of decisions our brain makes for us automatically every day.
Take for example our commute to work. Think about how many micro decisions We have to make to get ourself…
A month ago, I got so fed up with medium’s new partner/member plan that I decided to slap a paypal link on my posts. It was mostly because the blatant devaluation of…
Oh, no, you’re not crazy.
It’s almost impossible, if you have spent any time in traditional schooling, watching any form of media, or lived in our society…
From a 31 to a 72 year old not having their shit together, every one of you has helped me or someone else unknowingly today.
I’m 23 and constantly freak out over making something out of life, which usually ends up in inaction.
Thank you, everyone, for making me see that I’m not alone and that I have more time than I think to figure this out.
I always found unrequited love a funny thing to watch on movie screens. Either you tell this person you…
If you want to build strength start with your mind and not your muscles.
July 20th of this year. Will be the one year mark since my artery bypass. I had a blood clot that completely blocked my superior mesintaric artery. Preventing blood flow to my digestive system.
If ever there is a tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You…
A book written by Randy Pausch, a Professor from Carnegie Mellon.
After working at my job for two years in a secondary educational institution, I have heard and given…
I think you’re overcompensating a bit. Everyone needs to be sensitive to racial or cultural biases we may have cultivated from our environment, but in the end, we need to recognize that people of color are people. They can be biased, judgmental, overly sensitive and misinformed like anyone else. What you are doing is not necessarily racist, but…
Law school is an interesting experience. For most of the classes, the students are graded based on one cumulative exam at the end of the semester. This inevitably…
Most days I feel pretty good and can’t really complain.
We are all gifted and talented in our own little ways. If you look around there are as many talents and…
… it hardly ever lasts…
Originally published at yanngirard.typepad.com.
What do Jerry Seinfeld, Anne Lamont’s “Bird by Bird”, and “The One Thing” and Matt Mullenweg all…
Where did all that time go?
You probably stumbled upon this article because you have nothing better to do. Maybe you’ve been searching the midyear sales for the perfect FSHN BNKR / TaroCash outfit to wear to ‘Law Vegas’ Law Ball. Or, you’ve been…
Trying to be a mentor for myself
These inner dialogs I have with myself (and who doesn’t? we surely talk to each other several times a day. wait, we’re supposed to be one person now, typing these lines) — you see the…
The assault on the ego has many guises
Wow!
First things first. Truth be told, coding or anything even remotely related to computer programming, wasn’t my forte. Right from my school days, I always shyed away from trying to program the simplest of problems by myself because I always found it tough to understand and take in the very crux of “programming". The…
Blog #4 The Vigil
It isn’t always a linear process, the end of life. I experienced it 25 years ago when my brother died of cancer. He was a young man, so there were many interventions and actions taken to try and stop the cancer. The chemo, the bone marrow transplant, the operations, the radiation. Until suddenly it was all…
I’m motivated every day to have fun collaborating with others to…
Ease my texture engrave the pain Endure menace forgive disdainPave so I can fancy my motion And rise out-dire,out joy notion
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’ve never really failed at anything.
(Dịch từ bản gốc)
(Phần 1)
Right now, the story you are telling yourself is one of being victimized…
People are there to tell you what to do and what not to do. Society is there to judge your every move and then tell you, you had to be a strong person and not care about anything else. One goes through ups and downs their whole lives. Wouldn’t be wrong to say that we think there are always more downs than ups…
If I write myself down long enough, hard enough, will I finally be permanent?
So here’s a thought….
Make a choice.Make a decision.Make up your mind.Make a move.
Finally, the last day of official interaction with my class and professors. Today was our final show, and Faith and I have spent countless hours screen-printing and planning to come to this point. Here are our final posters:
Let me rant.
When medium tells me to write a story here, I think of millions of opportunities that I’ll miss while choosing one story and not writing the other. When I start to write though, the individual stories try to mix in and what forms is not identical to any one of the…
Dear Self,
Life’s a chore; Life’s a bore.
I have a final speech for a class tomorrow. This is going to be rough and I already know that.
Thank you for this! In my whole lifetime I have had problems, big in small but in reality it’s not that I don’t have “my shit together” it’s because everyone has problems and conflicts daily so basically we all don’t have “our shit together” no matter how old we are or wealthy. But my way out of it is staying positive and content with my life? Would you rather live it a dreary way? :)
You are the most interesting person in the world.
I’m life coach and communication specialist Peter Winslow. After many years of coaching my people for excellence, I have discovered what I believe are the ten essential principles that can make a stupendous difference to you and to the quality of your life. Here they are…
My own writing PROMPT inspired by my internal and external environment. As waves crashed these poetic words came to me at lightening speed.
Rich in knowledge, in adventure, in heath, in laughter and life.
To crush it, you need more than a t-shirt that says “crushing it” although that’s not a bad start.
I forgot to be unhappy lately. I don’t know why its happening to me. But its true, I removed all the toxic people from my life, toxic conversations. I am just trying to be myself the very old me in full flow, the real and…
PURSUE your PASSION with PERSISTENCE and PATIENCE
Set aside the illusion of indulgence for a second, and tell yourself what you are currently a servant of.
If you are a secular person, this might be a new experience, and you may feel that you are no one’s servant, that you are your own person.
Hi Jonas Ellison , 0746 hrs UK, not sure what happened to my daily digest, it didn’t arrive this morning maybe Medium are doing things differently. Thanks for the prayer.
Soul for me , and I am probably repeating others, it the part of me that is me! That part that has existed forever and will forever exist ( I hope , I…
The light dims. I stand there in the middle of the stage with nothing but silence to beckon me back behind the curtains. Nothing but silence…
The invitation is out…
You can travel and see more of the world… if you want
You can write that book or books… if you want…
There are days that I feel old, like, really, old. And there are days where I still feel 25. To frame it up…
E se la vita ti inviasse dei segnali?
A common quote attributed to Henry David Thoreau sums up a foreigner’s Indian experience, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Living in India can be an intimidating feat, as most of the environment is of such a foreign nature that the mind yearns to…
My concerns are not so much about financials and more about finding a place to stay. Regretting moving away, contemplating choices and options, dreaming and pondering on ways to return. It’s messy and tough and the more I look into the past the harder it is. But the future is blank like a canvas and looking at it gives me hope, even if sometimes the world says otherwise
How we communicate with the outside world changes our views about ourselves
Tough is not something you become through winning your first fist fight or the punches you throw during it. It is a state of mind and being that is attained through decades of successfully enduring the collection of everyday struggles we call life.
Breathing is something we don’t think about. We just do it, right?
During guided meditation practice, I’m often reminded to come back to the breath. When my thoughts…
Seeking balance is a never ending story.
I study his face like there’s some kind of secret I can uncover. He’s about my height with brown eyes…
I’ve been getting my butt kicked while putting my daughter to bed. The other night, I had the ultimate struggle with whining on both sides. Her whining and struggling to listen to daddy, and daddy whining and asking, “Why won’t you lay down?” So…
I recently read something that put me into a reflective mood: “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to…
“What are your standards?”
I’m a massive promoter of self love. Love yourself before you love someone else, or even let them love you. But sometimes I don’t even know what self love is. I have days where I don’t even recognise myself, I have days where I hate myself beyond belief, it’s very rare for me to have a day where I think…
Amarendra Baahubali is a well known name these days. The famous character in the movie ‘Baahubali: The beginning & The conclusion’ has gained immense popularity in the whole world, especially in India.
In the end,
Just before Dennis Hopper shot the bird at twoShit faced rednecks who shot back with…
The person who says it’s impossible should not interrupt the person doing it.
As the majority of filmmakers will tell you, when we first start out, we do every job by ourselves. We’re the makeup artist, producer, writer, director, chef and the list goes on and on.
So, there are people who tryna make you happy,
And there are some people who can make you happy without even trying.
Thank God, you’re both.
Thanks to you..
22/04/17 Journal Describe yourself at seventy. What do you look like? What have you learned?
When I have 70 years old insted of going with my freinds I would taking a coffe with my family. As the years go by in my life time I would be abled to run play socer all that stuff The thing that I could do is walk.
There is only today- keep this outlook in your mind and your heart.
“Universal Love is an extraordinary journey of my life” by Vladimiro Di Vito
Universal Love is an extraordinary journey of my life full of up and down…
Hey you
Yes, you.
Just hear me out. Once. Please.
Look at you. Young, healthy, rich. You have great relationship with beautiful partner. Your family…
It is just after 9 AM. Normally I am writing between 6–630 AM. That’s different. All three of my kids are awake. One of them is riding his bike around the house, whooshing by me periodically as I write. The other is having a story read to her my mommy. There is lots going on around here…
Again.
This is the 20th time the exact same words are coming out of my mouth and it’s alright. It’s not like I’ve been slacking off. I’m back to blogging.
Nor will your data.
Chelsea, this “little thing” you’ve built is a big deal.
I’ve launched a number of fast-growth companies, and its not all fun (well, unless you like critically managing cash flow. If so, then it’s a blast!)
Growth sucks capital. Peripheral markets can eat you alive.
Have you ever been in a situation where your body was literally telling you that something is wrong? Literally screaming it to you but your brain wanted to try and make it work because that is what everyone is telling you and our culture tells us it is the…
“What are you doing Saturday?”I’m trying not to laugh, really I am. Tami should know better. She’s been here in the office with me for more Saturdays than I can count. But I’ll bite. “Why?”“We’re heading out winery hopping to celebrate Rebecca’s divorce. Want to tag along?” Tami leaned against my office…
Stewart, thank you for sharing your post. You’re an amazing person and so happy to have come in San Francisco and to be lucky to have met you and Valerie. I send you plenty of good vibes (“ plein de bonnes ondes “as we say in French ), big hug 😘 Odile
Sorry to disappoint but my perspective is little different than yours, take a simple example, you have a friend and he/she is always behaving like indecisive, It will create a level of frustration and people will start neglecting.
Being sometimes indecisive is good but it has the least chances of success and any decision…
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