Weekly musings from Scott Galloway
Everyone has a different understanding of how something works. It could something as simple as baking a cake…
Divorces and break-ups are so common that people’s reaction to the recently separated and newly single is that…
We were having a great Sunday. My boyfriend and I were leaving worship and we decided to skip out…
Il n’est jamais facile de se lancer. Il faut prendre des décisions qui peuvent parfois changer entièrement le cours de son existence…
Sortir de sa zone de confort n’est pas chose aisée. C’est après plusieurs hésitations et une cinquantaine de…
I can’t believe I said that.
The Distance between Our Dreams and Reality is called Action.
Where does this internal urge come from and how can we free ourselves from it?
Do you put OTHER PEOPLE first?
The poster features a guy on a spin bike, his face contorted. Veins nearly popping off his forehead. Sweat dripping off his chin. In superb…
“I’m loving you so much right now,” she says in her thick accent.
Writing on Medium for the past several months has been more rewarding than I ever imagined…
Is one of the most beautiful things. A rare commodity.
Therein lies a very fine line.
I got permission to tell you the story I’m about to tell you.
In this article, I am going to tell you how the bruce lee philosophy completely…
Did you know that since it’s unveiling, the Golden Gate Bridge has had over 1.6k deaths…
Reintegration period.
Your inner critic lives… and thrives… on your fear…
Plus we talk self love, soulmate theories and getting arrested… everything in moderation, right?
CARES TO THE WIND
It was an average Monday, my standard paperwork day. Wake up, go to the gym, do some gardening and then sit at the computer for about four…
My bike commute was about 85% complete this morning when a car starting barreling down on me.
I’m a year into my journey as an expat in Europe. And I’ve been thinking a lot about progress lately.
I found youAnd I lost youBut I will never loseThe feelingsYou made me feelAnd I’m happyThat I met you
I’ve always been a bit of a hard-ass on myself.
Since I started Népra, almost over three years ago, I have earned less money than a student…
Every day, we deal with several anxieties — big or small. Finding the right job is a big one. I was…
What is the meaning of life, you might ask? Well, quite frankly, I have no idea. But what I do know, is that…
A perfect moon in a perfect sky put us to bed last night. Full, and only a powerful planet…Dad would have known which planet…could be seen in the full moon’s blaze. We went to bed…
幼兒時期，在家中，母親就時常播放各樣的古典音樂，音響中流瀉出各時期的鋼琴曲、交響樂甚至是歌劇，音樂是我的良伴。
在閒暇之餘，母親也會彈著家裡的鋼琴，而我隨著旋律與節奏舞動，還會拿著布助興，那時，聆聽與感受音樂，對我而言是快樂且自然不過的事。
在中班時，就被帶到鋼琴團體班接觸鍵盤，在這段期間，母親觀察到我對於音感的敏感度以及學習速度，較同年齡的孩子來的佳，便在一年後帶我展開一對一的鋼琴學習之旅。
An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican village on doctor’s orders. Unable to…
When love fades
If it wasn’t for my faith, right now I’d probably be dead. Not done in some public way or even a way where loved ones would know what had happened. Just privately, secluded — maybe a fall off some remote cliff. My faith’s hatred of suicide means I’m still here. I’ve not…
Where do I begin. I don’t have much experience in writing so I’m just gonna pour my heart out and maybe…
The human animal has intelligence and consciousness and is capable of reasoning unlike the unfortunate non-human animals. But human perception is limited by the five senses. Let us realize how insignificant we are in the cosmic scheme of things. There are thousands of galaxies. Who knows what lives there?
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — e.e…
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat”
– Napoleon Hill
This year has showered me with plenty of opportunities. ProtoSem is really a one-off opportunity in my life…
Essa semana completou um ano de Suécia e fazia tempo que as coisas não mudavam tanto em um ano.
Recentemente eu estava lendo sobre alguns assuntos relacionados a psicologia e como é importante o “isolamento” para o auto-conhecimento e desenvolvimento pessoal. Acredito que…
I’m going to apply those two what and why questions. Simple and effective. Thank you.
It’s 2006 and I’d just bought a cottage in the centre of rural Ireland. I had a…
Good point. Nice quote.
The book You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney documents a vast collection of irrationalities that…
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” (Henry David Thoreau)
This could quite possibly be the most important post I’ve ever written. It could save a…
A Poem by Bijal Shah
Birds flying high, you know how I feelSun in the sky, you know…
Message:
Our days are numberedAnd so is this love,But the blues,Like longing,They stay.Mother,Will I stop dying,Someday?
Your life. Your heart. Your dreams. Who’s holding space for you?
There sure is a lot of stuff to read on here, isn’t there?!
but in the nude. there’s nothing tostrip out of or wash off. it’s on the skin.
Excellent article Tiffany! I think that comparison with others is a quick way to feeling insecure and depressed.
I wrote about comparison too and love your story that points out the dangers in comparision, namely;
— If you must compare yourself to someone with more experience and practice, then you…
“The greatest opportunities are found within your greatest fears”.
Yes my first ever blog is going to open with my own quote.
You can live by your own quote, right??
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in…
I came to realize that every stage of growth in my life has had a theme and so it will continue to manifest in different ways until I move to my next level of understanding and manifesting myself. I have had lessons about kindness, empathy, strength, weakness, survival, detachment, dependency, letting…
Glad it resonated with you! As I said —
It’s your call.
100 followers who eagerly await your posts or 10k who don’t read a single line of what you pour your heart and soul into.
Sometimes you’ve gotta fall out of love to be able to fall in love again.
Just like you sometimes gotta fall out of love with old ideas to give way for new ideas.
The hard part is to figure out when it’s time to fall out of love and when it’s time…
Good God this really resonates with me. I had to accept a lot of favors when I was getting back on my feet after my pregnancy. During pregnancy too. Like living with other people for free because they really wanted to help.
Uh huh. In every situation I learned that it never mattered how much I tried to stay out of the way…
Not all the time at least.
Which one should you pursue?
One thing that holds me back more than anything else is a bad mood. If I’m feeling…
A smile is so simple. It can change a moment, it can change your day, it can change someone else’s day…
Have you ever been to Top Golf?
MIA, The Lyme Story goes International Published in French Charticles
I have days to myself. But all the things that I have to do, in all the different places they happen to be, squeeze my time like fingers…
Facing the choice between following the soul’s path and walking the safe, predictable road favored…
Originally posted on Darwinsgongshow
My older brother came back home with his girlfriend last March and as usual, they brought home…
About 4 years ago I left a well-paying job to live a life based on passion, joy and purpose. I discovered that a huge part…
This is sad. Why don’t these “Geniuses” spend their energy making the World a better place than deciding to eradicate living creatures who have no say in this!
Maybe Mother Nature will intercede and make it right! All we can do is hope for clearer minds to prevail! Thanks for your attention.
We tend to think we do not matter and our time, our energy, our love, is not really noticed. Yet…
I recently sat down to read a short, book titled Lying — which yes was exactly as it insinuates — all about lying. It…
Today’s #Quoteoftheday encourages you to take those dreams and turn them into plans. Dreams are wonderful things to have, but…
I took my first step when I was probably 10-months-old.
I started babbling at 4 months and by 2 years, I was indulging in a full-fledged conversation with kids and adults around me.
I have taken admission in Bachelor of Technology course in Computer Science branch one year ago in one of the renowned university of my state. I have taken Computer Science branch as I successfully developed the first…
I definitely agree with this message, and I really dig the “moving target” idea of what we want to do in life. It definitely boils down to listening to your gut and acting on it. Your preferences change as you mature. Try things, see what works for you and what doesn’t, and a lot of times you’ll find joy in the doing itself. Throughout my life I’ve…
I tend to ask myself this question often. Well to be exact, the question is more like “who am I?”. If asked, I’d say “motivating…
Sometimes I feel like the only people I can “talk” to are you. People on the web. When I record an episode on my podcast I feel better, I feel my pain being split. I feel talked out and talked enough to leave the issue be for now.
Have you felt that you are different than what society asks for? Not in terms of looks or thoughts but strangely different in terms of personality.
Here are symptoms:
It was during the spring of my sophomore year of college when I started calling my Dad in…
Life is really simple and full of opportunities, but as Confucius says, we insist on making it complicated. Sure, we all have a…
When it comes to businesses of all sizes, the funnel is the make and break of the business. The funnel encapsulates…
No matter your upbringing, financial situation, career, or lifestyle, it is incredibly difficult to move forward in life if you do not make the most of the present. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, you cannot possibly reap the full benefits and fulfill your potential in an endeavor without fully being there.
Hello, my dear-dear,I keep thinking about Anthony Bourdain. His death bothers…
How would one know the taste of sweetness if you’ve only had bitter?
My thoughts of late have been focused a lot on desire. My main gripe with desire is how we talk about it our whole lives, and then we directly do things that contradict those desires. How many can conjure up this memory:
When people ask: “How are you?” What do you say? If you’re like 98.68% of us, you say one of…
Most of us don’t have much time to spend imagining. Jobs, families and friends, activities, and all the little mundane tasks of life take up all our time, and there’s just no time to spend thinking about what could be.
If someone is insecure enough to condescend you.
Tease you.
I don’t know about you, but i had to admit that sometimes i am lying. please don’t judge me as a liar because it still within the boundaries (okay i’m making an excuse).
The thought that ‘I could have done better’ always passes through our heads at least once in our lifetime…
“Learn to feel victorious in the uncomfortable moments of…
Last week, I found myself standing on the bank of a lake in the woods near Pawling…
(i.e. Is your stubbornness stopping your evolution?)
There is a part of me that can appreciate a little rebellion. There are times when shaking up the ‘status quo’ is good for the world. But I can also see how we can become stubborn or…
Are you a person that likes a plan.. or can you live day by day? I’ve always had a plan, literally since I can remember…
How I Dared To Be More
“You mustn’t wait until the perfect conditions to begin a task. Rather tackle it boldly until the conditions become perfect.” Tony Fahkry
There are some ideas that reappear repeatedly throughout life, in various contexts. For me, one of those has been…
“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.” — Honore De Balzac
“Umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu” The whole globe could agree with this if all understood Swahili. Comrade faculty, what…
Sounds like your mentor has got a handle on neutral language. That can really help.
Dear reader you can grow wings if you believe. I am not sure whether that is true, but I hope you will make sense out of it by the end of this blog. Going back to believing whether I can fly, history has taught us lessons. Some are memorable, others sorrowful, amazing, and interesting. One…
Understanding Feeling and Problems
I agree with you and the research! My wife and I don’t spank, and we work very hard on our self control when it comes to the unruliness and problems of our little girls.
I’ve noticed how spanking goes too ways:
I am 46 and on the crux of this myself. I am contemplating dropping someone very special to me and my boys because he doesn’t seem to understand that his inaction has hurt us. I am used to this myself, but hurting my kids is a different ballgame. I am leaving it up to him to reach out, but I long to leave everyone else in this city that I drive to…
Aah, that familiar foe to critical thinking — confirmation bias.
I hated school because writing exams consisted of, as you say, regurgitating information. This was in the 60s, long before the internet, and I had to lug around huge, heavy hard cover text books which apparently contained all the information I needed to get…
A role-play on a private property is all right.
Yes, it is
Have you never experienced an anxiety attack before?
I remember how that felt...
When someone would explain their anxiety attack to me, I was always skeptical. Was it real or were…
We’re all a bunch of startups.
You forgot to mention all of us lucky people who are retired… there’s less shit to have together, and fewer people who care if you do. I can enjoy reading your Medium articles at 2 in the morning! It doesn’t get any better than this, and I don’t want it to.
My bucket list is shrinking, because I’m removing things I will never do… skydiving? I don’t think so.
Rachel Khona funny stuff! How unfortunate that it happens to be true. I’m tweeting this!
I love the 5-step exercise for being present.
Thank you for explaining so well the separation of brain and mind.
Utilize your public library system. Never underestimate the power of your library. I purchase a fair share of books but I also utilize my public library all the time. Not only do libraries have books, and cds and DVDs, larger systems have access to electronic resources. Such as my system allows you access to Anceestry.com. Which if you performing…
I don’t avoid revisiting the past. After all, whatever happened is part of who I was and who I have become today.
The key is the emotion attached to a particular memory — dark and grey or bright and sunny. From personal experience, we can rewrite that emotion rather than the memory itself. Whatever happened doesn’t change…
Here’s one for you. You do someone a favor, with no strings attached, and they tell you much later it made them feel guilty and that they owed you something for it… Doing a good deed helped end that relationship. Maybe it was for the best, but it sure punctured my balloon of altruism.
Brilliant and beautiful article. It certainly reflects the state of our messy lives and indicative of the path to peace.
And my message is one of love and hope and optimism…
I need that on a damn t-shirt or tatoo. Well, the Love, hope and optimism part. 😝😎💜
Another brilliant insightful post Kris!
I think it is the giving of value, true value, something the customer really wants and needs that makes businesses stand out in a favorable way.
This is great way to foster a continuing relationship that works for all parties all the way around.
Adversity is a spiritual teacher. It tries to teach lessons to us through pain and suffering. Every adverse event fills a gap in our evolutionary journey to reach a higher state of consciousness. Resistance only will prolong the agony. Refusal to learn the right lessons is defiance of the Universal law of spirituality.
So my sister is in the FBI, and if you ever accuse her again of allowing personal bias to affect the way she does her job, I’m going to take that really personally. You know, waiting for you in the parking lot after school seriously. You will not insult her in that way. You have no idea what you’re talking about. This is why listening to Fox News and…
If I were somehow visited by a magical wizard one day that would let me go back in time to…
“You have to hold on your beautyThere’s no one can take this from youJust believe in, what you thinkJust believe in, what you doJust believe…
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John 19:12 (KJV)And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar’s friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
”It’s in our blood to live to the extreme.” is the perspective of how susceptible we are to give into our natural triggers in resistance and our potential vices, especially for those of us that are highly sensitive to our environments, to the point that we are considered disordered or mentally ill.
John 20:1–6 (KJV)The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them…
Part 5 — Repentance
Can being positive really help? I would say certainly, I know for certain that others agree with me.
Life is complex and stressful pulling us every which way. We juggle work, family, relationships…
It was some time later on in the evening on Saturday when the stalls were quiet and I was just putting up my last horse of…
Start with a nice rug. Not one that is “nice” in handcrafted or price sense, just one that makes you feel slightly…
Jesus said “I of my own self can do nothing” meaning I the human way of thinking, I the human ego nature, I the human state of consciousness, is my only problem in life. The only solution to my only problem is to replace this I, this me, with my spiritual nature, my spiritual way of…
If one is willing to change the world, they should start with themselves. In other words, changes begin with you. But is it really so?
A friend of mine mentioned the other day that his ex-girlfriend was the first one of the very many, whom he considered worth…
