Life Lessons

This Is How We Win Everyday

These 10 daily practices can help you overcome your fears.

Do I Have To Give Up One Dream For Another?

How Do I Choose? Won’t I Regret It?

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One of the most important lessons of my life so far

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s welcome Nishan for his two-minutes speech.

The crowd goes……. Nevermind. The crowd didn’t even clap.

My First Roza — A practice on ‘Mindfulness’

I am a foodie since childhood. It was difficult for me to imagine how to spend a day…

Friends! Welcome back. Tmt again. For those who don’t know, that’s short for “Temitayo”. I’m writing the prelude to Jola’s hilarious account of NYSC because she did the same thing for my diary entries but mostly because this is another vanity project for me.

10 Tools You Can Use When You Don’t Like Your Job

Krsna’s flute offers a shifting medley of symbolism at many levels.

One symbolic interpretation around…

Auntie Anne — I owe her my life.

My Aunt Anne passed a way a few hours ago, 10,000 miles away. I owe my life to her.

The Toughest Lesson — 28 of 31

Or “Military School, Failure, and Beyond.”

The One Thing My Mom Taught Me That You Need to Know

5 Steps to Overcoming Overwhelm

HOW TO DEAL WITH CHRONIC COMPLAINERS

Complaining is a no winners game

What I Would Tell My 18-Year-Old Self

Dear younger me.

5 lessons from living away from home

Leaving everyone and everything you know behind to move abroad alone can be the most terrifying…

Meet Piyush Saini: The Enthusiastic Writer of YQ

Our writer, Sneha Dewani caught up with Piyush Saini. Read on this candid interview, even as Piyush shares about his life experiences and the lessons he…

31 Things I Learned From 31

1. Cooked vegetables are much less likely to give you a stomach ache than eating them raw.

There is only one question worth asking

Why are you here?

5 Ways to Cope When Your Heart Is Breaking

How to get to the other side when your heart is hurting.

Oliver Sacks

I read Oliver Sacks’ obituary almost a year ago. He was what he called an “existential neurologist”, a scientist whose clinical work…

The Problem with Perfectionism

I think as a community, we are always chasing perfection. We always want things to be perfect, but lately…

JUST WAIT

I have been teaching and talking the beauty business since I was in my late twenties. I remember like it was yesterday, women who are my age now, saying, “Just wait.” I looked in the mirror as I do everyday and have done for most of my life and realized, it has happened. The “just wait” has happened. The weird…

Whatever You’re Working On, Stop Trying to Make it Perfect

Perfect is the enemy of the good

How I made a mistake by listening to customer feedback

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Detached engagement brings clarity and purpose

6 Things I’ve Learned from Working a Dirty Job

Prerequisites for the position: Willingness to crawl in the damp darkness under a house on your belly, clearing thick old cobwebs with your face.

Sounds nightmarish?

The Only Quote That Ever Changed My Life

I’m not a fan of quotes. I find most of them hollow. They work like drugs. You get a…

What I learned before quitting my job

August 31, 2016: My last email, on my last day of work.

#Smackit Lesson #2 — You can fool yourself but you can’t fool the Universe.

For those of you who read my inaugural blog post, you’ll know I picked up and headed to sunny LA last week. For those of you who didn’t, now you know ;)

Same cog, different system

It’s easy to mistake all of these new, disruptive and sharing economy based platforms for things that allow you to live a life in freedom.

A life where you can work whenever and wherever you want to.

30. ARE WE THERE YET?

We called Hospice the day after our crisis, after David fell, and my struggles to get him up so nearly failed and did me…

Detached but not disengaged

You were never born; you will never die.

You’re Finishing Knowledge, Not Learning — How to Learn And Understand Instead of Finish

Genius

They walk among us, prodigies, people whose abilities are distinctly superior, so remarkable that I find myself retreating to my room, drawing…

The Ingredients of Interaction

What I’ve Learned From Thousands of Conversations

Outdoor session with MY AMAL FAMILY

Unforgettable gathering

I still can’t believe that 3 months with my Amal family has officially completed and as an Amal fellow I am writing my last blog. Time never stops but time never has been so quick for me as it looked during Amal…

Three Volleys for this Memorial Day

Memorial Day could use a reintroduction in certain circles. Too many people fail to understand or…

Faites Comme Abraham Lincoln!

« Cela semble toujours impossible, Jusqu’à ce qu’on le fasse » Nelson…

The Sahara’s Secret

The water rushed over his forehead, but seemed powerless against the fever, being soaked up by the sand below. This costly…

I Got Ripped Off 14+ Hours of Work and It Was All My Fault

My Hollywood Dream

As I sit alone in my expensive sardine can of a bachelor apartment, barely a kilometer away from the office, a few coke and…

Get out of the “Hang in there” mindset.

Live the life which your heart wants you to.

How The International Big Sur Marathon Became a Life-Changing 10.6 Mile Run

Sometimes the universe…

Service to Humanity is Service to Divinity

At the end of soft skills development course at Amal Academy, a Mega Project is being…

15 Quotes From Steven Pressfield’s “Do the Work”

“Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action…

Behind the confidence hides…a shy little girl

Yup, this is me. In a town where I was born. In Croatia.
As you see, I was a…

Imperfect Perfections

Ever walked into an elementary school science fair
To find some perfect ones and some that are made by kids?
Now which exactly is perfection there?

Life Pivot Post #3: Did you regret working so hard, and if so, would you prefer that to the regret of not working…

Seeing is a kindness. Understanding a blessing

Urgency Leads to Action

So go ahead and set yourself a few deadlines

Start Living Like You Were Dying

On Friday I met up with an old friend, I hadn’t seen him in a couple years but oddly enough it seemed…

The Short Term World Ate My Imagination

The trade-off brought to us by Google

In a world where you can Google anything, there’s more access to information than at any point in history.

#SelfLoveSunday

Your Relationship Fights Will Never Be The Same After Reading This

26. Stop trying to be what you aren’t.

You’ll always fail.

A Tale of Two Extremes

Why Moderation, Sometimes, Doesn’t Win Hearts

Fruit Salad

Fruit salad makes me kind of mad for reasons I cannot explain. Oh wait, yes I can.

Summer, 2011

What I Learned Moving Across the Country and Filming One Second A Day

Investing 1.01, don’t forget the basics. Book#80

I’ve personally uncovered that home is within the heart.

There’s a huge difference between being alone and being lonely.

Regardless it happens to offer people what is referred to as an adult time out, as opposed to adults giving children “time outs”. This has been where mindfulness can be found…

True Effects of Meditation: Your Hidden Extraordinary Life

A lot of people start with meditation…

On a wave of motivation

Clear eyes, full hearts…you know the rest

Preserving Memories

On a good day, I live with my camera hanging from my neck. I’ve spent hundreds of hours taking thousands of photos of my best friends, complete strangers, grungy rooms and vibrant memories.

I live for capturing moments.

The Courage to Be Different

Interview with Ohhyun Kwon | Designer and Café Owner / 40 yrs

I felt guilty when…

Living Under House Arrest Gives You Time to Focus on Your Spiritual Well-Being

When you’re under house arrest, family and friends will likely, and hopefully, be your primary source of support. And I’ll tackle that topic in a future post. Other sources can offer support to…

GET CONNECTED — the wifi password for Madrid

Seconds bleed into minutes, which hemorrhage into hours, which petrify into one…

I’m here for the ‘why not?’ people

Reality check

In Conversation with my younger self

Leading a life which constantly runs forward, we hardly find time to look back at our younger…

You are not special.

There is plenty of rhetoric around motivation and getting people off their back sides. You may have heard some of it. I’ve…

How Motion Saved My Day

#299 Create 43 minutes of speech content in one day

Lessons from my 1-Year Old Daughter: Life and Business

My daughter turned one recently. In the past ~year I’ve been fascinated by her development and worldview. I’ve learned more from her than I ever expected; it has been humbling and gratifying. Children don’t carry our biases…

Do Not Protest Too Much

That which you deny so vehemently will come back and bite you in the ass

Activity: Lessons from outdoor session with #amalfamily

The Power Of “I am..”

W
hat follows the ‘I am ‘that comes out of your mind will determine the kind of life you will live. The I am that comes…

Final Note.

Before I begin I would like to make one thing clear. This is not a usual rant. About love or about relations. This is about me and what I and…

I am a student and I don’t know what I want next.

“I want to Discover myself”

“I don’t know what I…

Why would I start a blog? What could I possibly have to offer that would be any different from the thousands upon thousands of other blogs out there in the world?

IMF- We are HOPE

Alhamdulilah. 
By the grace of Allah Almighty we are done with our mega project assigned to us by AMAL Academy. We collected…

MAINTAINING EMOTIONAL BALANCE

With everything that’s going on in our lives, from work, environment, family, friends, social life, chores……

Mega Project Update Our Idea to Build Amal Library and Collection of Books For Alif Laila institute

Group Name: Trailblazers (Circle 1)

Group members

Muhmmad Noman Zahid

Roshini

Why can’t you be the best?

At work.

In relationships.

On the field.

Why can’t you be the best?

What limiting beliefs hold you back?

are you [frustratingly] stuck in life?

You’re in a place where you don’t know what you want.

Single most important lesson I’ve learned from the fellowship

Work Life Balance-Myth or reality -Part 2

In my last article, I touched upon Work life balance; the result of self-inflicted…

Promised Land

Here is the product of my toil, the result of my Quest.

Cuba Journals

City of Cats

Since we arrived I had noticed so many stray cats and dogs,wondering around the city.

The pitfalls of confronting bigots in the wild

(Especially when you hate conflict)

Why Men Speak through Silence

“Men don’t express their emotions well. It’s as if they lost their passion and empathy in the competitive work culture.” This is how Annam Sun, psychiatrist and author of <Men Who Want to be Alone>, describes typical Korean men. Why do men become more and more apathetic as…

Time for self analysis

It is your self examination. Be truthful with yourself and to yourself.

Great article, Charles. The best things in life are usually simple. A nice cup of coffee. A piece of art a friend gives you. Our favorite books. Nature. Shackleton must have figured that out with his book of poems.

No Repeats

When faced with the choice between experiencing something reliable that you’ve already experienced and something new you’ve never experienced before, always opt for the new experience. Really, why do something you’ve already done when you have the opportunity to try something new? Life is simply too short to…

breathe

Catch it while you can

Everything that’s played up until this point has been picturesque. When we are…

Umbriel, moon of Uranus

Uranus for obvious reasons has been the but of many jokes over time, but as Papa Chuck would say, “…there’s no such…

Conversations with Krishna: Coming Soon

A message from Krishna:

Reason #11: Sport — your favourite teacher

Sport is so much more than a hobby or way to keep fit. You can draw many parallels…

Sleep

Sleep is as critical to your existence as love. Walk with purpose and you will sleep. Sleep with purpose and the next day you will walk further…

PW Activity A: How I plan to become a better learner

Everyone has own life style of life learning. Many techniques were introduced of best way learning at different environment. I have remember that when I was in hostel life at intermediate level there were a student lived with me I have habit to learning better way he was…

The battle of opinions or the lack thereof

I follow a couple of really cool bloggers who talk about body image dilemma, things…

What to Do When You Have to Work with Someone You Don’t Like

Let People Know How Important They’re

#300 Acknowledge the mothers in the family

If You don’t have a GOAL, Read this

Hey there. I work in an IT company doing my daily 9–6 job getting enough salary to live a…

Does Social Media affect Happiness?

With the increased use of social media across all groups of people worldwide, there have been…

My “Aha-Moment” of Diminishing Return

When Economics (Science) Amplify My Belief in Spiritual Concept

For people who gain an economics background, marginal utilities and diminishing return concept is not an “alien” word. In fact it is…

Alley-oop!!

What this monstrous block teaches us about success

Bangkok taste memories: my hood

Day 26

I was a sleeping potato for most of the morning, and I’ll be a couch potato for the rest of the day.

I called Bojangles to see if I had to work on Memorial Day tomorrow. The answer was “yes.”

Frequency

Choose a higher frequency for yourself and you will attract more people, ideas, and opportunities that are in keeping with who you are.

The Sketch

“They sat there holding hands. I sat on the adjacent bench watching them longingly, just like a little girl watching a box full of candies…

On feeling useless — 28/100

All day today and as I get ready to go out tonight, a nagging thought lingers in the back of my mind.

My girls took me to go hiking near the beach, which was just a good time as always. Then we swung by Irvine Spectrum to buy a top for tonight, which was…

Which way will you sway on election day?

There are those who show undivided loyalty and faith to their chosen party, there are…