But not sarcasm.
It was once said that “the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”. In the world that we live…
A lie is an intentionally false statement generally told with an intent to deceive someone. Commonly, a lie has a negative connotation which is told to create a false or misleading impression. There are varying degrees of lies from little white lies to bold and brazen lies told to hurt…
DGAF a.k.a. Don’t Give A Fuck
Last year, my husband Jon wanted me to do something that I did NOT want to do. Since Jon had promised his aging father that they would speak on the phone at a specific time, and we had no…
I was teaching in T’bilisi, Georgia when I was told by my employer that I (and all of the other…
Notes on Vibes.
Words, I think, are powerful. But they are also limited, abstract and downright disgraceful, especially when you’re trying to describe something that few has ever ventured to do before. It is easy to communicate ideas about popular notions, such as sports teams and scrambled eggs. You simply say that the play…
I'm sorry that I “ruined” your afternoon when I called you upset.
SEVEN WEEKS
The only thing about life returning to normal, is that normal is no longer. Sure, I can move through my day speckling it with my concept of normal ‘BC’ (before cancer, before brch2, before Ann not speaking to me). I can fill my days with what used to be the norm of normal and those things are still in this…
There are quite a few versions of the “10 Commandments,” but I’ll address a common set of them.
Mark Zuckerberg touched on this at Harvard.
Our society rewards the successful and shames those that take a leap and get it wrong.
Even if many of those people go on to achieve great success later on in the process.
Like a river I flowthrough the night and darkSometimes gushing, Sometimes calmleaving its mark
Dad was such a stranger to me still, but sharing time with him here in his own element, a coffee shop, I…
Here’s to the multipassionate, the ones whom heart only smile in delight when following more than…
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: fake it til you make it.
Create for you, in a way you find therapeutic. One that others may find value or strength…
May 27, 2017
Dearest Solomon,
”Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
The summer sun is not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belong to the rain. Being a pluviophile, I feel content during rainy days. Not from the earthly riches but from reading a book by the window, when it’s raining comes true beatitude for…
“Ok, I’ll get into it in a few minutes,” I said, as the account executive was leaving a…
One day I will die
And the world won’t blink an eye
想像一下，這一天還是終於到來了，你忽然感到不舒服，於是去醫院檢查，幾天後醫生告訴你，你被診斷出了癌症，而且已經是末期了，這個時候你會怎麼做？接下來生活應該怎麼過？
你最害怕的是什麼？如何才能讓你活得有意義？每個手術都有風險，假如你要動手術，手術卻你癱瘓了，只能躺在病床上，慢慢地死去，這樣是你要的嗎？凡事都得依賴他人時，這樣是你要的嗎？
有人說，照顧小孩跟老人最大的差別就是一個讓越來越感到充滿希望，另一個卻是越來越陷入絕望，因為小孩子是一天一天的的茁壯，老人家卻是一天一天衰老。
Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let’s go shopping!-Khloe Kardashian
A while back, a photographer made a splash when he published a series of photos…
R.B.F.
My younger brother, Ben was in town over the holidays this past year. He and I went to dinner at my favorite restaurant in Portland and parked…
Living In The Present Can Be So Dextrous.
So, this isn’t the beginning of the year…this is prior to the mid month. And i am pretty unsure of everything around and about me. I kept on talking to myself…not exactly finding solutions to my self-made issues but just thinking that i have those issues. Not exactly answering myself…
This post is dedicated to all those girls and women who are facing the same things that I am.
What is slut shaming?
Slut shaming is an unfortunate phenomenon where people are mocked for the following things:
When you are a kid every swimming pool is only half its actual size because one half was the always the ominous deep…
A (remarkably intelligent and nice) friend of mine tweeted something a while ago:
I particularly resonated with the part about how we’re all in this together.
I firmly believe that we’ve all got the same needs, wants, thoughts and emotions. We’re human and were not that different.
I’m one of those people that like to strike conversations with random people. I enjoy learning about…
Fear of success is the fear of the unknown. Too often we cling it to failure because we are familiar with it. Fear of success is somewhat similar to the fear of failure, they have many symptoms in common, and both fears hold you back from achieving your goals. The most important difference…
A day full of memories and emotions. From inside, I was not feeling good by any means because…
When’s the last time you gave a compliment?
I have a passion for finding solutions. Right now, I’m a teacher’s assistant/tutor for…
It would be an interesting as well as exciting occurrence if the sun ever rises in the west. But, I…
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…the hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” -Jacob Bronowski
A couple days ago I went walking in the rain and I had three startling discoveries.
Entrepreneurship is a long and unpredictable journey, a journey that everyone has something to say, whether you ask for it or not.
“One of the best skills to develop as an entrepreneur? Ignorance. I think a lot of folks are spending way too much energy trying to…
Y’all. I’ve been waiting a year or two to read this book, ever since the show came out, only because I was too lazy to figure out how to use the library system at school. Sue me, college is hard! I finally got a library card out here in Utah and this was the first book I looked up. I…
Are you feeling full of it today?
I am a native in a foreign land,
What I’m about to write isn’t necessarily anything new or particularly groundbreaking to many…
3 years … since I embarked on this journey with Zify. It has been nothing but an amazing adventure…
We planned to start our mega project with “IRAM-MANZOOR Foundation” (IMF). It is a Non-profit…
9 months ago I cut out caffeinated coffee from my life. Cold turkey.
The reason for the change? Dependency.
At the time I drank 6–8 cups of coffee just to remain functional.
I turn 28 tonight. To "celebrate" this superficial event I am headed to the hills.
I look back to the last year. It has been awesomely exciting to say the least.
The year prior to this year had been a mess. Most of you know why. If you are reading this and don’t know why. Then this is good time to…
I find this inconsistant. You ask her for advise and she recommends to marry a cheating,uncaring man for money. A sure recipe of a loveless, superficial and usatory marriage.
Somehow that translates a few sentences down into her looking out and protecting her daughters from bad men/bad choices? While directly suggesting for…
“Say yes to everything!” According to colorful motivational posters, a popular book, and even the hit movie…
Perhaps the best advice is to simply do something you love doing.
I’ve never been racked with anxiety at the prospect of doing something that I am genuinely excited to do.
If the “normal stress of 9–5 is a match on my simmering anxiety” then I totally get why you wouldn’t want to bring that level of…
"BELIEVING IN LOVE”
A painful past made me lose faith in love. The relationship trauma had affected me so badly that the nightmare never seemed to end. Then…
I am shaken And feel so numbBut I feel your painAs it is mine
I feel helplessAnd feel betrayed…
‘I am dragged along by a strange new…
We’ve had much joy, no doubt at all, we know.
Beautifully shared!
The Self-Help industry is a business, which has deceived many and created more victims rather than helping. It provides get-happy quick schemes that unfortunately offer instant “solutions” without having to do the work.
It’s what we Jews say when we raise a glass, hopefully filled with wine, or in the case of my husband’s family, a good single malt scotch…
Do your bestThat’s all you can beGive through love‘cause love is free
If you’re looking for the magic bullet to become a better writer, you’ve come to…
Hello, my dears :) What’s up? How’s your life? Mine? I cannot compain about it. Ain’t great, but I’m healthy. Have you ever…
All That You Love
I moved and said I'd never return, To the city I was born, Also the place, At which to remain I yearn.
Good for you, Ron. Sounds like you figured out the game early on. Sorry you haven’t found someone with whom to share the life you built.
I think we, or most of us, are sold the idea of what a good life is. We buy that because we don’t know anything else or because we trust those who are selling the story — parents, teachers…
The handbag. The precious handbag. Sometimes pretty, sometimes womanly, sometimes chic, often huge enough to keep your family in there…
When I walk around every day, I wonder what people see when they see me sometimes. I wish that they could see my story. Could…
Mathew Arnold, the Victorian poet in his poem Scholar Gypsy published in 1853 spoke about of modern life’s rootlessness, aimlessness and its mad rush.
What I have not learned ? Amal Fellowship taught me so many things. From Just Start to Team Working, Amal Fellowship is what I think I was missing my whole life in order to realize my hidden powers.
I’m obsessed with offering value because the world is bigger than we think it is, more broken than we could ever imagine, and in need of more love than we could ever give. My capacity to make a difference is greater than ever before.
Cut while shaving. Feel stupid. Used band aid. But band aid don’t come in black. Now have pink-brown stripe across face. Like I was failed drawing and they started crossing me out. Wonder how D-corp assholes are gonna take it.
“Youth and Useful!” That was the theme of Chapel of Faith Youth Fellowship (CYF) for 2005. The student fellowship I attended…
You want to add so much value to people that they believe they couldn’t not support you because of the value they receive from you.
My grandfather said that when he was close to his deathbed. I must have been about ten years old, and I was fascinated.
My grandfather (from my mothers’ side) was a relatively well known classical composer, and probably an even bigger nerd than I am…
Long eyelashes — -when they’re long, you can forgo mascara on those rush days which run many a dozen. Every girl dreams of them. I used to have long lashes but along the way, somehow they started to shrink. Or so it seemed.
This morning during my prayer and meditation… I stopped when I realized that I was being insincere with God. I had once again fallen into the trap of automaticity, praying to God as something distant and incomprehensible, far removed from my own consciousness; as I had been taught as a kid. Then Jonas Ellison puts together this succinct article that…
Jack of All Trades, Master of None. A valuable lesson to be reminded of.
Looking for a few life tips on the eve of your birthday?Here’s some advice that I would give. Read through and act on…
I refer to this as pursuing love — relentlessly going in the direction of your True North. Life is lived to the fullest when you’re not looking to live somebody else’s life, but rather looking to enjoy the journey you’re on and not trying to force a path that’s not your own.
That’s some real heartbreak man😢
You got your scars, and it’s awful too. The pain you feel keeps an open wound. Those injuries need to breathe; they need to heal naturally. It’s cliche of me to say that time will heal you because death can come much sooner. Wounds will bleed as long as you let them, unless it’s a biological…
It was never something I was really taught.
I usually was surrounded by those that sought to dunk there heads in a pool of good, even if bad was all around.
It has brought so much resentment. And yet, the last couple years I realized they were merely doing what they were taught as well.
It’s true! I discussed this a couple weeks ago on my blog and it is something I think about constantly. Feel free to check out my blog post here: https://anelephantinthesky.com/2017/05/09/questioning-enough/
When I was younger, I couldn’t find the right word for those whom I met seemed arrogant with their knowledge. While it’s…
I have some piece of advice that my husband said to me: If you want to be successful, act on it and play the part. No one wants to see or hear somebody begging. I know and understand what’s you’re going through but don’t sell yourself so low. One way or the other, people would notice you and even without asking, they’re willing to give you money…
Remember when you promised the very best of yourself every single day in rest of your life?
Be true to yourself, Be true to the universe about your abilities, about your truth, about your everything.
Most of us have at least one thing that you do every single day without which you feel incomplete. These little habits you pick up…
I appreciate the ancient as much as I admire the moderns who have chosen to preserve as from here we are empowered to spring…
Random poetry
Dear Cofounder,
What are you up to right now? Are you a specialist or a generalist? Are you a programming prodigy, a dashing designer, or a sales star? Or do you jump around from project to project, skill to skill, like me?
“Don’t hide your magic.
Please share your gift.
Seeing you shine gives the whole world a lift!” — Brad Montague
Every society is a mirror reflecting its…
Every morning, you wake up to the same routine.
Investors thinking about exit strategies before the product is even launched is a big part of that sixty percent failure rate. If investors don’t have the courage or spine to allow a product or service to grow over time, they shouldn’t be investing in start-ups. They should stick to blue chips like the rest of us cowards. Thanks for the post.
In an infinite universe, all things are possible but not all things are probable.
I detest upgrades yet crave growth. But isn’t this one of life’s conundrums? The desire to be great coupled with the fear…
Ben Lerer y Radiate Team muestran una aproximación, desde mi perspectiva de ángel inversionista y una persona que está incursionando en la inversión en emprendimientos tiene mucho sentido.
I’ve been present for many business meetings where Risk Assessment information technology is discussed. “They” are examining everything we do from the way that we blow our noses, to the way we um… “blow” our “nose”. This information…
When was the last time you stopped to smell the flowers? The last time you…
I’ve gone through so many possibilities in my mind, played out so many scenarios it’s insane. I should write movies. My storylines are far more interesting than most of what I see on screen. They…
Focus more on exploring the things you’re good at rather than trying to become good at the things you’re not good at.
And How to Replace Society’s Version of What Security means
Whenever you go through something new like an adventurous one, you gotta learn something eventually as a return on investment. Based on my venture with Amal Academy, I got something, the most important in life and that is “Positive Thinking”.
My Poetry
Thinking Out Loud to Myself: Trusting Self
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-poetry-marquis-harmon?published=t
Men cannot hug/cry/back down from a fightwithout being judgedas weak, touchy-feely, and quite frankly a bit girly, And let’s throw in queer, just to make sureto brand hugging, feeling, as a no go zoneBut to hell with thisI ain’t living with thisThis ain’t my love, norWay of loving
Woke up. Sore throat from whisky. Had to do it again. Had to drink.
Blame Donald. After doing stupid cartoon with him always need to blow off steam. Said he could use it too. Pulled him in my messy world. Duck is a fool. But at least now not alone.
In the mindful moments of a beautiful morning, I walked the sun across the sky.
You may be blind to what lies ahead but God has a crystal clear view. This is what blind faith is, not knowing where the provision or…
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
You Need to take regular Faith Jumps (Video)
Let me tell you something about giving up… it’s a choice. You never have to give up, no matter how many times you fail, no matter what your failing at. You can give up, but you shouldn’t. Giving up isn’t something you should ever do. Whether you’re sick in a hospital bed, and the doctor says you’ll die…
Being stuck in a rut can be difficult. Not just because you feel trapped, but sometimes, maybe most of the time, you’re not…
This is really hard to actually do.
From a young age we are brainwashed to follow rules, show discipline, and not challenge teachers. To be a cog in a machine. Wear the same uniform. Think in the same way. Those that don’t are often treated as outsiders.
By Joe Casey
How very true, being a grown up is not as what we think it is and it’s all depend on ourselves what we want to be. We are all like worker bees and society dictates us what to do and behave. If you want to be rich in spirituality, try to he awake and just do good to others. It is in your heart, and live what your conscience dictates. Hope that you…
Probably the biggest mistake I’ve done in my business years and years ago…
Thank you! Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “The best speech of a philosopher is his dance”. I always admired my mentors (the milongueros) not only because of their dance but also because of their wisdom. I realized that their dance expressed that knowledge of life. If you ever come to San Francisco Bay Area or Buenos Aires it would be great to meet you in…
My parents are alive
They love me with all their heart
They don’t hit me,
Beat me up
They at least try to understand me
And they’re proud
I get that sometimes, it may seem that there is nothing left for you. You’ve made too many mistakes, nobody will give you that job offer, nobody will accept you because of your past. I get it. Believe me. But never let anybody tell you that you can’t change. There is always…
Today.
Might not be:
Tomorrow,
The day after,
The day after that,
After a year,
After two,
You get to realize that the moves you have been taking for some moment ago get stick to your heart and brain which always…
If you're new to Frugal Staying, you may be wondering exactly what that is actually, well, you reside in the best spot! I bear in mind when I was actually a kid, my buddies and I would certainly go swimming at a nearby pool…
For an Artist to have a long and celebrated career they will have grow and evolve and this will be very evident in the body of their work.Improving at your craft is not an option it is a necessity and this will involve hard work and patience.
Trying to convince people of a new way of thinking or doing their jobs is often difficult. Some people get on the bandwagon easily and quickly because they are open to new things. Some need to just keep being presented the information until it finally sinks in, some need hands on info, and some need the research figures. So, when doing safety or…
