A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are…
Quite a few years ago I found myself in a situation where I wanted to start my own business. I was sick of working at the places I was working at, and I wanted to get out on my own. Problem was… I had no idea what that was. I didn’t have any obvious breakout ideas. The experimental ideas I did have…
Are you a couch potato? Or do you act like one?Has someone ever called you “lazy”?Do you see…
It’s nothing much. Just based on my own life experiences.
I had just finished writing the manuscript of my book and I decided to send it across…
This one will be short. I won’t take much of your time.
Weekly musings from @profgalloway
The traits of successful entrepreneurs haven’t changed much in the digital age: you need more builders than branders, and it’s…
Shame is such an odd feeling. It comes up at the strangest moments.
It’s inevitable. As sure as the sun will rise, you will have days, or in my case a week, of life throwing you punches to see what you are really made of. This relentless…
Corey, too few are blessed so young in life to see their future. I’m thankful for you, that you did. Live Long and Prosper.
"The great tragedy in life is that we grow old too soon, and wise too late." - Benjamin Franklin
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be…
Siempre he sido una mujer de extremos. Mis amigos y gente cercana, siempre que les pido un consejo, me recomiendan tener equilibrio…
Apple has pulled off the near-impossible in the world of business. Their genius alchemy of design, brand, and…
In the past 5 years, my life has changed drastically. For the 5 years before that, I’d been living in a pretty predictable pattern. I worked for my father as a dispatcher for his trucking company. It was stressful. Drivers, by default, are not the most happy or pleasant…
“Did you stick your finger in it?”
The friend of the Hungarian saw me drinking a Corona and startled me from behind with that ice-breaker. As a point of fact, I had not stuck my finger…
“Assumption- a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof ”. Believe me when I say its an art, very few people posses it and who does are bloody good at it.
Let me walk you through a story-There was this guy all busy in his routine life…
I’ve had the idea of writing this article for some time now, but something else always seemed like a…
“Tango is Life.”
Hi Cathy thanks for reading and responding.
Your contentions aren’t mutually exclusive with what I’m proposing.
To be clear, nobody is obligated to do either of two things:
1) non-Muslims need not defend Islam, the religion, and Muslims, a corpus of nearly two billion…
Are you satisfied with where you are in life?
Yesterday seemed to go by so fast, how about last month? A few years ago, I bumped into a graphic of the average person’s life visualised as a series of dots. This simple visualisation affected me, life just looked so short and fickle. It was also around this time that an old friend suddenly passed…
“Er kann es einfach nicht! Geht nicht! Kann man vergessen!” Mein Gegenüber, ein Mann Anfang dreißig, schüttelt heftig mit dem Kopf. Er zieht die Mundwinkel nach unten, während seine Hände nach oben schnellen und auf Schulterhöhe wie eine Waage im Gleichgewicht verharren. Das Ganze hat eine…
This article deals with a particular short-coming of my place of work, it attempts to put the…
Kotryna, Vinted’s Community Support (CS) Project Manager, knows how to get things done. She started at…
Milton H. Erickson was famous for using metaphor and storytelling in his…
“The true value of a human…
If you want a good summary of how W.E.I.R.D. Science thinks about intelligence, you can’t go wrong with watching Jordan…
The relationship between investors / shareholders and firms has largely been the same for a century: We (investors) will fund…
It’s been a year, year and a half. A few improv classes later, a couple hundred or even thousand dollars later, and something feels off. At a house team show, you sit in an audience envious of those on stage and what they are able to accomplish. At a jam, you take the stage…
It’s a scary world out there. Especially for a parent. Especially for a new parent or even a parent-to-be. You find yourself in constant stress. Is she gaining enough weight? Did he just eat a whole tissue? Is it too early for her to sit? Is he pooping the right amount of…
Have you ever felt like your life just seemed to hit a wall?
I think I smacked myself a million times and ran into a wall these past few months. Scratch that, I been running into walls my whole life.
Cat pilling advice:
If the cat’s on wet food, try NOT crushing the pill. If it tastes bad, all crushing it does is make the whole bowl taste bad. If you don’t crush it, just a little part of the bowl will taste bad, and with luck the cat won’t spit out that bite. This strategy works for a little while, until the cat figures…
In October of last year, I became very sick. It was an abrupt experience. I spent a total of three months in the hospital, within a few weeks lost 50 lbs. to a dangerous 109 lbs, and many of my friends and family thought I might not pull through. I ultimately…
War of Words — Makes your Life a Curse
Through the sword, the body bleeds; and through hurtful words, the mind bleeds!
On a flight last weekend, my 5-year old was busy rattling off numbers in Chinese with a quick shift to Hindi and then she promptly asked me to say it in Malayalam (that’s my mother tongue). She excitedly repeated everything I said. Singapore has been home for both my girls and…
I’m, to put it lightly, a rather forgetful individual. I am constantly losing things, constantly searching for said misplaced items, and constantly scratching my head on why this keeps happening. Here is a quick tale that happened last week to help demonstrate my…
I’m a huge believer in the concept of “faking it ’til you make it.”
I didn’t go to work today because I felt really nauseous. I think it was at least partially due to the stress and anxiety I felt towards working another long day at Bojangles’. Even my therapist had noted that there was a chance one of my jobs would be too stressful for me to take on, given that I’m still…
Henry Ford
So, this was a super-group called The Traveling Wilburys. It’s super-singers were…
Whether it’s weight loss or a campaign at work, you need to measure to improve. I’ll share two examples, one…
Thanks for reading and responding Tomo.
To be clear, they really, truly, don’t, though.
Had any of them bothered to read the Qur’an:
We decreed to the Children of Israel that if anyone kills a person — unless in retribution…
So you think you are special? you think you are smart, creative, a warrior, a humanitarian, an…
I try to do my writing first thing in the morning. On this particular day, Sam wakes up to find me puffy…
The soft skills I learned from cold hard numbers.
Life was never simpler, my love, only our perceptions were.
For Tre L. Loadholt.
Are we all not seeking the truth and clarity in our lives? After soul searching, I have found that Clarity is Within. Warning: the…
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 was over this series before it began.
I’ve heard a lot of things over the years about failure.
It seems in The West there’s an emphasis on a kind of disassociation, not just with regards to failure, but with anything deemed negative.
So, I’ve been a little quiet on here recently, mostly because I don’t think I’ve had much to say. Shabbat has become something I’m more used to with each coming week. Depending on where I am for the day and if people need me more accessible, I may keep my texting on…
I Thought It Was Good To Do It All…
Thanks for reading and responding.
No, it’s not. Without any cliche, pretense, or hyperbole, if 300,000,000 human beings supported extremism, the other 7,200,000,000 most probably wouldn’t be living in overwhelming general peace and security, much less alive and well, right now.
As we move through life, our passions may often change. Almost all of us have had a passion, or are…
How we judge ourselves through the eyes of others
How many of you have heard that before? I’m guessing the majority of you.
We’ve all experienced moments in our lives where it seems like everything and anything you do doesn’t bring you happiness.
I tend to feel empathy and sorrow for people that I read about in news articles, novels, short stories, films…
I usually read or watch something because I’m engaged with it, I’m interested in it, and I feel myself become almost completely one with the…
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong. –Jack Kerouac
To get to my house from the junction, especially when the day is dark, I rely on the services of tricycle riders popularly…
I love my dog. It’s no secret. At times I love my dog more than my children and most of the…
Amal Academy is a best platform that helps youth to realize their aims. “Amal” is an Urdu word for “action” and is derived by Pakistan’s national poet Alama Iqbal phrase,”The world is not something to be merely seen or known through concepts, but something to be made and…
Anyone who is single and available to date is inherently not someone you should date, if you want to be rational.
If they’re single, then either this is their first relationship or all their past relationships have failed. Dating or being in a relationships…
4 Steps to Overcoming Painful Transition
Breakdowns. Messes. Painful transitions.
Some say every master was once a mess. And yet the very moment we experience the pain of that mess, those bittersweet and sometimes super sour downfalls, we feel the pain…
You know what makes you feel good. The first step to self-designing your stress-free life is by identifying what works for you. Don’t be afraid to try, and when you find something that helps, keep doing it.
Watch until, and not before, your judgments of him, turn into sensations in you.
But don’t look away, not until you have felt all you have condemned her with, until the sensations have dissolved, and you are left with nothing short of love — for that is the only…
Trust can be tricky for many of us, myself included. It can be scary, seem naïve, and feel vulnerable. We often spend a lot of time and energy shielding ourselves from failure, being taken advantage of, or having our trust violated. What are we really protecting ourselves…
I was asked that question one time when I was dining with our customers twice and thrice my age. Just a quick overview, our community holds an All-You-Can-Eat Vegetarian Buffet for only PHP200 every Friday and Saturday. And yes, you don’t just grab anyone to have a vegetarian…
For a very long time I wanted a well-trained dog that stood guard at the end of the driveway and never wandered, a dog that would follow me anywhere, stop when I stopped and stayed put when I said stay — a loyal companion whose every move was predicated on mine.
I’m currently writing this blog on a plane, making my way back from my home city to where I now live. This trip…
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” — Wernher von Braun — rocket scientistMarch 23, 1912 — June 16, 1977
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain — author…
…to make your own decisions.
…to say “yes” and “no.”
If you’re asking yourself (or other people) this question, then it’s very likely that it’s not a good blog post.
So there are three things to consider here…
Interviewing witnesses to ghostly sightings at an office building in southern Ohio this week I was reminded our eyes do…
That surge of energy and excitement you get at starting a new exercise routine. The high of…
Imagine, it’s 30,000 years ago. You hear a stick break in the woods.
“What was that?” You think to yourself as you pause to hear movement around you. You look around and you see nothing, but all of a sudden you hear more sticks and everything around you seems to all of a…
When you step out from your comfort zone, from your loving home to this fascinating world for your studies or to chase your dreams then you meet different sets of people. And the most important one’s are the person’s with whom you share your room. Sometimes they become the integral part of your…
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Sin City has built it’s identity off that statement. It’s a city of escape…
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Here on Medium there are copious articles about how to be a better writer/lover/extroverted-psychic-bassoonist*, etc. And nearly each one is filled with an exhaustive list of do’s and don’ts.
This is not that kind of article.
The sorry
Whenever I would say sorry to my mother she used to say “one day you’ll out grow it.” I think finally the day has come. I’m not sorry anymore. I’m…
Everything can change in an instant. We all know this but it doesn’t seem to make it any less shocking when it happens to us. Letting go of our youthful arrogance which leaves us…
The cat cafe is so 2016. You can sip some overpriced coffee while shuffling after an annoyed feline that’s been harassed and snapchatted by a dozen millennials in the past hour. Or you can retreat to your own private cat pad at a rental…
You know where you want to go, you can see the destination.
Like a lighthouse rising from the mist, your destination is obvious, but your path is shrouded.
… makes things harder then they need to be.
Waking Up in 5, 10 or 15 years and wondering what the hell I did with My Life
Day 22 of 31.
We all have dreams. We do. Most people take them as what they are, idyllic fantasies to pass the time with. Other people, like me, grab hold onto it’s tail…
How long does it take to find that thing we are all searching for? Why does it elude us? Maybe we look in all the wrong places, maybe we look for all the wrong things…
My father once said something about helter-skelter.
Chemistry lessons Called it entropy.
I learnt it’s the mutiny that comes with life.
As an Amal fellow ,we were the member of Amal Family throughout the fellowship journey. But after the…
Whenever we hear this mysterious word it tends to be associated with unbridled optimism, hearty smiles and cult-like mannerisms that borderline between psychotic and evil.
OR
People who smile like this whenever shit hits the fan.
There were five guys sharing a room at the college. One miserly rich, one rebelliously vocal, one thoughtfully poor, one charismatically lazy and the last, contemplative wise. One fine day, midway into the semester, at the peak of summer, the shower head…
Today’s Focail do a Chara
or: Chillax.
Today! Where do I start. Some days the emotions are so raw I feel like you can…
The Runner
By: Crystal Steward
In the depth of the night the runner ran with the best of them and the worst of them.
My name is Umair Zahid and today I am going to share that what was the most thoughtful and important lesson which I learned during the whole fellowship.
Writer’s block? No. I just don’t know what to talk about anymore.
Do You Feel Helpless And Fearful When you Hear About Bombs Exploding??
These days we seem to be bombarded with news of some terrorist blowing up more…
Failures is not the opposite of success, it is a part of success.
(Arianna Huffington)
Whenever we go through the ocean of memories that we could build in the time which we spent at our best, indeed the best part of our life till…
Don’t let hurt from your past cause you to spend your life trying to prove something.
“You are not your body. Within us all is the choice to create new dreams. Be…
During three months of fellowship, I learned many things. This fellowship helps me…
Lessons from outdoor session with Amal family
Change is the only true constant. But real change is a choice. A decision — a commitment to do something…
Many new artists worry about creating their own “style.” Trust me, it will come. And it will change…
The other day I waited on a lady, she is a board member for an organization that my grandfather helped build basically from the ground up in our area. As we talked she half way listened and honestly I am not surprised she has no idea who he was. It got me to thinking about life and somethings that I…
Also, I would add that like other addictions, being overly busy is an unconscious…
Answer: You don’t…but someone else probably does.
I got a phone call today from someone in their very first semester of university. They’d seen one of my job ads and wanted to find out what they could do right now so that…
Here candle being a metaphor for people who work hard to achieve great things in life and who create their own path towards…
Holy sh*t we can make our lives difficult when we want to, can’t we? And when I say “we”, I mean…
Here they are:
Didn’t expect that did ya? Feel free to stop reading now if you like, but I’m about to explain what I mean so…
Voglio raccontarvi di Jim Denevan.
What I was told was thought to gold/until I challenged the premise about glittering…
Focus on the small important things, for I think “time and effort put into our biggest gouls right away without taking the small things into account will leave u with nothing more other than being knowlagable in that moment in time”,, “where if time and effort is put into the small important goals you’ve set for urself before jumping straight to your…
Overcommitted leads to being over everything.
It leads to a rat race you can’t possibly keep up wih. It puts my mind on overdrive and sends me into an indefinite stress cycle.
But I also find a huge underlying cause of this is what my goals are. Goal setting can be just as much of a crutch as it can…
My site stats tracker is telling me that I have a (very small) readership in Alaska. This is probably due to…
Photo taken at the Apple Museum in Prague
We have guides for our refrigerators, our computers, our cars. But nobody is handed a guide to the most powerful…
One is a number on its own. It has many meanings. It’s the first number of all numbers, it implies a winning position (he came in first place), and it refers to a quantity of something or said person (one apple; she was the only one there).
Outdoor education can be simply defined as experiential learning in, for, or about the outdoors. The…
We have a serious problem.
If these blocks could talk.
Recently I found myself in an area I’ve not walked in for 10 years. I was startled at how easily the memories flooded my mind.
The Lifelong Learners are conversations with people regarding their work experiences, what keeps…
If you’re reading this…congratulations…you made it through another year in full health, I hope. I don’t really have to go into deep detail in regards to 2016, we all lived it in our own way but I’m fairly certain this year has been quite tough on all of us. As the conclusion of every…
LOVE
6 23, 2017
I was very excited about our final outdoor tour which was in fact a study tour to Neela wahan. But Unfortunately I was unable to go for the outdoor session with my amal family and ultimately I missed that tour.
Blog #7. Love
One of my beliefs is that love is what provides our lives with meaning. To badly paraphrase Brene Brown, leaning in to the big emotions is…
I’ve tried real hard not to discuss this with her. There is one friend, only one, that she has that I do not approve of. Up until now I’ve bit my tongue. But today, I couldn’t hold it in anymore.
How many ideas have you stifled today?
How much time have you wasted overthinking and second-guessing?
How many times can I tell you — This is a FAITH WALK!
