For the last three months, I have got many major lessons and insights from the fellowship experience at AMAL Academy, like embracing your pain, going extramile in achieving your goals, failure is a source of motivation…
If you’re not listening to podcasts on your commute, then you’re definitely missing a…
When the first seven bullets went off, I jumped.
I’ve struggled for the last week trying to find the right words to express my feelings on what has happened. Then this morning I read a Medium post by someone I admire, and it all made sense. I am a lobster.
Recently, I was talking with a friend. She’s a very rules-oriented person, and as such, she always tries to do the…
Morning routines are the on trend these days. It seems like each wealthy and/or famous person has a morning…
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Robert Brault
We all want to have an ideal future full of successes and amazing moments. We sometimes think of all the positive possibilities that could happen in the future based on where you are at now in the present moment and it makes us hopeful and it makes us feel good about…
I said one day I would tell this story and it seems today is a fitting time. 2 years on from the event I find myself with the strength to put these words out there and in doing so feel the emotion…
YOU! Don’t worry, it’s ME too!
Hi, my name is Anthony and I’m an addict! I was addicted to shitty relationships. It has been my story for a longer than I’d like to admit. The truth is I’m really not addicted to relationships, I have just…
Well, mostly.
23/12/2016–24/12/2016
#Smackit Lesson#3: When people show you who they are. Believe them.
In my second post, I came clean about re-engaging with my ex, and how as usual, it ended as quickly as it started in a flaming pile of lies and tears. For the umpteenth time, I had been swept up in his promises and sweet words of love, even though my gut…
I am an only child but I was not a lonely one. I’ve always found strength in solitude, I’ve never turned to the…
You know what’s normal? Shit. A shitty life. Shitty circumstances. Life happens to us every single…
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For May, my goal is to build the software part of a self-driving car.
All of us have something that we do not necessarily share with others. Two years ago, after a long discussion with a Masholandese friend, it was clear to us that confessions have a magical power of…
Apparently, mothers really do know best.
Here are five life lessons my mom has bestowed upon me at various points in my life. It turns out, they may just be the secret to a happy life.
Being friendly and warm to strangers shows good mannerism and etiquette. However, often times, there is a thin line between showing concern, neighbourliness and nosiness. I have many acquaintances, keep few close friends and my inner-circle is quite small — mostly me and…
“Tout Passe, Tout Lasse, Tout Casse” is a french proverb that explains, Everything Passes, Everything Breaks…
I hate to break this to you, but you are not special. And we — all of the rest of us in…
Going Home
Going home today means cutting short our time in Philadelphia. We did what had to be done. Merv cut the ivy off our neighbor’s wall. I stocked…
Why We Can’t Be Left Alone With Our Thoughts
The Battle for Diversity in Theatre Education…
Once you turn 18 years old and become an adult you have about 18,500 more days to live. You will have just above 4000 days…
let’s start a revolution … you, and you, and you, and me, quietly
I went on a street food tour of Hanoi’s Old Quarter with Viet Beauty Tour. My…
Ya hemos hablado del vino evolucionado, ahora esta es la etapa que sigue, cuando el vino, literalmente, ha dado de sí.
Su color no es solo opaco sino muerto. Su nariz no es propiamente desagradable sino muy tenue, muy débil y con cada segundo expuesto al oxígeno en…
Everybody can publish one blog post a day.
Or one video a day.
Or one audio snippet a day.
Or one picture a day.
Or one song a day.
The word “hustle” has a lot of meanings. Nowadays you hear it quite often like in those nauseating Uber ads…
I’m just going to throw it out there today. Here are my current thoughts. This…
Comenzaré esta historia desde que me di cuenta que era una niña.
“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. It’s the only thing that ever has.”…
More Details On The Foods I Used To Meet My Health/Fitness Goals
Yes I need help, more often than not I whine, I get angry, I get defensive but since last few days I am going through one of the worst phases of my life. On the exterior, there is nothing wrong, a good job, no stress, good friends, a lovely wife and an adorable…
Each day, we wake up and decide how to express ourselves. We decide what clothes to wear, what food to eat, what bag to…
Purple Cowboy and Skipper
It was a beautiful spring Sunday morning at the Quarter Diamond Ranch. I walked out on the North facing gallery and saw Purple Cowboy on the East end looking toward a beautiful sunrise that was backlighting three grazing horses…
When it comes to personal and professional development, it’s vital to look at two sides of the story. Most of the time, it makes sense to focus on where we want to go — i.e. the goal of becoming happier, what that looks like, and what practices and behaviors will help us get there.
You are limitless and you just need to awaken from the dream and then anything and everything is possible. Think different, break the rules and the world would be as you shape it. Don’t just exist, challenge the reality, break free and evolve. Don’t live the same day for…
After writing a post on having social anxiety and the incidences from my past and childhood that may have caused it, I was feeling extremely vulnerable because I revealed really intimate…
Of pushers and pushovers
Yesterday I was preparing myself for a presentation called “Be the change”, where I was asked to tell the story about…
Yesterday, while scurrying across the street for the arriving streetcar, we saw a woman on the roof.
As we moved through the crosswalk, she moved towards the edge of the building.
I have seen a lot of advice for the new class graduating and entering the workforce. Though there are a lot of great ideas and widely applicable skills and lessons in the other posts, I felt that I should add my two cents based on my experience. Hopefully, you can find…
Mourn for what you have lost…
Your world falls apart and you feel as if you have no direction.
Hello 😊
Yes, as far as writing for an unknown audience is concerned I’m quite a rookie.
Well, I like to introduce myself first of all. My name is Modupe Musa, the petite, super smart,calm and beautiful one 😀😀 Lol.. someone probably has this look 🙄🙄 well that’s good for you, but there’s…
Life hits hard sometimes — harder than we think we can endure. When this happens, we have a choice: stay down and take it, or…
Faz tempo que penso em lhe escrever. Tentaria mensagem em garrafa, mas hoje são tantas garrafas flutuando por aí que me…
In my perfect world. In my perfect world I will be in Harvard Next year pursuing my masters program.
*This article is just a brain dump since the day escaped me more than I wanted!
I woke up on Memorial Day morning thinking that I had a fantastic FREE day ahead of…
Everything works if you unplug it for a while, including you — Anne Lamott
I’ve not written for a while. I’ve not done much of anything for a while. It’s been the kind of week when just tidying my house feels like an insane achievement.
I used to drive home a lot. It was, at that point, about two hours of annoying highway, and after about forty five minutes my throat would…
By Emily Yang
I’m the guy that has an abundance of friends, but on the contrary, I am very much alone.
“A person who can’t see their tomorrow will always remain stuck in the past”
And if someone tells you they don’t, they’re lying.
This story talks about my personal experience with physical fitness.
Prelude: During my time at Draper, I had first thoughts on working out at the Gym to be a healthy person after hearing a speech that spoke of thinking 10x and working 10x.
I don’t want to go home because I can’t talk to my brother. I hardly talk to him and when I ask him to do me a favor…
Today’s post adds to the April 7 post Beginning a Discussion on Unconscious Bias…
Original Post with Audio-Visual reading by author.
Your college career is ending, just as mine did four years ago. And with a four year head start…
Ask yourself this:
IMAGINE THAT YOU MADE A MISTAKE AT WORK. I don’t mean a little one, I mean a real mistake, a doozy. And imagine that the mistake is entirely, and clearly –without a doubt — your fault. You can’t blame anyone else, you can’t point to mitigating…
The way we question things comes from our innate nature to try and protect ourselves. I’ve always found it fascinating to look at…
Clerk or philosopher?
Tonight two of my friends and I were having a girls night and watching movies with hot actors while eating cookies, chips and cherries. One of my friends doesn’t know me as well as the…
Being kind is a way of living and being. It comes from our heart, from the purest place of love. When we are being kind to others, we are also…
Without boundaries, empathy can easily turn into codependency — a life-sucking relationship where one person is expected to be the emotional…
Hey.
Do you believe that being self sacrificing is a good trait?
Here is the reason why it is not.
Debugging is one of the most difficult skills for Software Engineers. It is more difficult to debug a problem then to write the code itself. Sometimes, while fixing a problem, programmers often spend a huge amount of time reading code of a certain module.
So I’ve been having a hard time pulling myself to write in this format.
At age 14 my big sister got married, so a new problems was introduced to my family we shared every problem she had with her husband. it didnt paint a nice picture about marriage life for me from small age, I was determinet to finish my…
You know how the saying goes: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. But what happens when it’s fool me three times, four times, or even more? I like to consider myself a forgiving person. If someone upsets me and apologizes for it- I forgive them. Even if they do the same thing time and time…
Obstreperous.
I just read this word for the first time. Had to stop and look it up:
ob•strep•er•ous: /əbˈstrepərəs/ adjective, noisy and difficult to control)
Everyone of you wants to have those riches and luxuries. Want to live the life that very few actually live. Before…
It happens more often than I wish to admit.
hey to whoever chose to read this. my first blog post is underway ☺️
my friends keep telling me to start a blog because i have a million opinions and poems and ideas that have no outlet. hence, blog post.
Growth will take you by the hand and pull you forward because as much as it seems sometimes like growth walks you through the darkness, it is…
CyberDayze
This is a post that I made in all four of my CyberDayze Facebook Pages, that I share, now, as today’s Blog Posts in all twenty four of my blog sites.
Because.
I am now CERTAIN of my suspicion that is stated within it.
The world is so full of negativity that it can become incredibly easy to get bogged down in a negative…
The Gaia Virus — 30 Day Challenge — Day 2.
I think it is so hilarious when people try to use social media as a passive…
Forgiveness does not always come easily. It can be difficult to let go. However, harbouring the emotional feelings of betrayal, blame, resentment, guilt or anger is destructive to you.
If we have become angry at the state of the world, we must change it, not through protest, but through action.
Rules for improving your life with money.
This is the most important question, and will improve your life the most. Removing negatives is…
Thought for this comic is here!
~ Jeff Foster
I wish I’d loved less.
Kept my heart closed to intimacy.
I wish I’d been more distracted more in my head, less in my body.
Suffering is a state of mind and it is impermanent, just as life is impermanent.
The ones who sit comfortably with Cain.
Life is transition, whether we realize it or not. To think it is static is to buck up against a hard reality. To believe that things will never change — whether good things or bad things — belies the truth.
Seldom do we realise, take note or pay attention to the words that come out of our mouths. Some are kind, some are not…
on your neck,red, reck,recklesspoint.
How should you treat others?
The tricky dilemma of how to treat others. I had a thought the other day, of how we treat others. I had a nagging feeling that, I was close to the answer. There are always lines and thoughts circulating around like “treat people the way you want to be treated” and the other way around, “treat…
The world is a book and those who do not travel…
Someone said something really nice and uplifting to me today.
They were words of encouragement that I wasn’t expecting nor seeking.
The words came at the right time, and it was in reference to how I come across on video…
This is a petty thing for someone to hate. I am someone who prefers to use the words “Strongly Dislike” when talking about people or things. But I can honestly say, from the bottom of my soul, that I HATE auto-play.
PrologueFirst published in the fall of 2014 on my dear friend’s website, Iseejoy.org.
Muốn hát cho ai đó nghe, ngân nga vài giai điệu quen thuộc như e, như a..
In my case, I know there are people, from my past, that will huff and puff about me wanting to get ahead. I spent a long time, seeing myself through their eyes and as a result considered myself not worthy. I even imagined scenarios of me surpassing them in whichever shape or form and therefore deriving a fake gratification from it.
See nature for the imperfect perfection that it is and know that you are also imperfectly perfect.
Without goals, we are like ships floating with the breeze, with no engine or direction. However, a life too full of goals means no rest and no time…
I don’t know when it started, maybe long before I joined the Medium community last…
So true. Just like the Bible says, “bad company corrupts good morals” - 1 Corinthians 15:33. It is all about the environment which is why I change my circle of friends every few years to reflect where I am heading. Now, I have tight inner circle of about 3 to 4 friends who rarely change but everyone else is on a rotation.
Hello this is my first post here. I have already had three blogs before. You can check one on heyitsekatheresia.blogspot.com. This is my second day working as an intern in GDP Labs. Here is my temporary desk since I will move to other company tomorrow. Ohh I just realize that you can not put photos anywhere you want. I dont know why people are using…
Gratitude should be practised daily in either prayer or as being mindful (if you are not spiritual) of what you consume and the life you’re…
A few years ago I sat by myself in my new found favorite taco spot (shout out to Por que No) having a second round of guac and chips along with a…
I have talked a lot about self worth on my blog but there’s a difference in loving yourself and knowing yourself.
Loving yourself is a big step for most people. It’s to know society is wrong and that you are beautiful and strong no matter what your scale says or what the new trend is this…
How do you measure your worth? What outlets, resources, or insights do you draw upon to measure the value that you give to this…
The Earth is big enough for all of us to exist happily, healthily, with our own space to have our own beliefs and way of life. There is no need for…
We live in dread
Anxieties
First published on July 26th, 2011 at 4:49AM
Maybe I was too naive, maybe I was just in love or maybe I was just optimistic. Too optimistic. For 20 years, I’ve always believe that good things will happen to people who want good…
It’s not about you. And, even if it is about you; it’s still not about you. It very rarely is.
After attending countless graduations in my lifetime, I have listened to many wise and humorous commencement speeches whether by former presidents, world-renowned musicians, or peer authors. The goal of each speech has been to celebrate the accomplishments of the students…
(Lis cet article en Français, bébé!)
I’m sick of failing. It is like I can’t be good at anything. Good personality: Nope. Confidence: Nope. Being attractive: Nope. Intelligence: Nope. It seems I’m only good at the bench and on the sidelines. I’m invisible and not important. I’m nothing.
Another day is here,
So sunny and so clear.
And as we walk into it,
Don’t think about it,
DO IT!
It’s going to pass so fast,
“You should write.”
For who? About what? It was something I had been told on and off for the last 5 years of my existence. I began my university career as an English undergrad. That changed upon my arrival as quickly as my 117lb figure.
The past few months have been interesting, both personally and professionally. Remarkable because of the…
If you have woken, you must seek to find those who have also woken, as everything you are becoming aware of is what they have become aware of.
Take a second. Breathe. You don’t know how they actually meant what they said (unless it’s a pretty clear f^&k you… then that’s a topic for another time :) ). Respond with no emotion and be very matter-of-fact. After you’ve…
Purpose, reason,adoration,inspiration,soulful,encouragement or praise for short. I need to praise God more. He has enabled me to live to so far through my especially difficult time in my life right now. If I focus more on Him, I won’t feel so depressed. I have already made enough mistakes and don’t want to make…
This post originally appeared on my blog, Michael Marcon Tweets.
