In this article, I don’t intend to judge…
I was touched to be asked back to my old school, Huish Episcopi, a state comp (now an academy) in…
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is…
If you hang out in certain circles, it is inevitable that you eventually start hearing the…
It was 2014.
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true…
I’ve never publicly called for the death of anyone, let alone a child. Yet, here we are. And…
Anyone who knows me knows that a large part of who I am comes from Baba, my dad. Father, friend, sibling, mentor…
It’s about time.
Like a car, with a dying engine, sputtering. Stopping and starting. And stopping…
Blog 094 — July 03, 2018
To all bigots, know that your thoughts are yours and how they got there is from someone else, coupled with life experiences…
This is one in a series of essays that was originally conceived as a book for print publication. If you enjoy it and would like to read more from the collection, you can find a sort of Table of Contents here.
I just want to paint a rough picture for the kid who is going to leave college, about the afterlife which awaits and while doing so — I am going to make some vague generalisations based on my experience, despite knowing that generalisation is a bad thing to do. But I also…
The title name speaks for itself, mainly because I know I have not been as active and writing as much as I…
I was a very sickly child. I had asthma so bad I was never without in inhaler. I…
The day is not quite over yet . . . but I am taking my 6 year old daughter to the beach.
If we close lower without taking out yesterday’s lows, there is a strong likelihood we take out the two week highs…
When I moved to Oregon as a newlywed, I knew very little about the place. I had only ever visited…
There’s money, there’s knowledge, and there’s life itself. A “workaholic” can benefit from realizing there are just things way more…
Over a lazy weekend recently, I have finally stumbled over Netlix’s ‘Chef’s Table’ series and binged my way through most of the culinary tour de force project’s 3 seasons.
Instilling calmness is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.
“You cannot imagine the craving…
One of the great changes I have made in the past few years, under the advice of Steve Ilg, is to organize my mornings better. I…
Throughout the many journeys I have embarked on in life, climbing has always served as a bedrock and guiding…
NOTE: I feel like I knew 10 people who had this line featured in their Facebook profile their freshman year in college, as a means of broadcasting their intellect. I may have been one of them. I will thank you all for not teasing me if you hold a similarly dorky…
“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.” ― Bertrand Russell
Mindset Shifts and Practical Ideas for Finding More Balance
My writing is usually prompted by a title. That’s how my mind works. Not today…
I can’t write on here anymore. I can’t pour my heart out like I used to anymore. I can’t flow…
This blog is a reflection of our law of attraction t-shirt design, There Is Beauty In Everything, If You Decide To Look. We at Eternal Nature t-shirts feel it’s good to let our customers have a deeper interpretation of the product they’re…
I am a 24 year old student of physics and I feel myself demanding for thrive and drive.
The thing you didn’t say, the person you didn’t care about, the hand you didn’t lend…
It was Wednesday afternoon when you broke up with me.
5 Ways To Irritate The F*ck Out Of Me (This isn’t a list, don’t worry).
When I started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (also known as BJJ), I was a junior in college. I was…
There are a lot of ways people can be cruel to each other, but the way I witnessed…
The feeling of fire under your a** is so visceral. The feeling of taking a risk, or that feeling when you…
I hadn’t shared the 3 things I was grateful for last night before bed as I promised my wife, so here I…
Three Aphorism’s One Story… A.A. aphorisms are quite sage, and I don’t mean the spice!
This. This is very true. It was for me at least, and I’m sure it will be for you, too.
So, I married my high school sweetheart after being with him for 8 years. And then the relationship came crashing down in flames about a year later. He left me for a girl who we both worked with (we worked at the same company). The best…
It’s not how much something costs that…
Have you ever felt that what you’re doing today is not going to last a long time?
That note you’ve scribbled down on a piece of paper, the doodle you drew in the margins of a notebook, the letter you sent to a friend, or…
Since you leftThere is silence;I tried two timesTo reach outBut you didn’t respondAnd I can’t do more;I respect your will;Go onDon’t talk to me
African Business School — Fatima’s sermons. 10 Great lessons from my late mother that still ring in my ears.
It’s Monday morning. The alarm clock pulls you out of a deep sleep and the week begins. Four more times and finally, it’s the weekend. In…
Why am I unnecessary? Why am I always the one who gets ignored, cut off, and dismissed?
If there’s any scientific answer to those questions, I would want to know.
I’ve compiled a list of lessons learned from my (31) years. It’s an amalgam of personal reflections and quotes from others. I…
Most of us change our Facebook profile pictures all the time. When there is a celebration, when we…
When you cannot untangle success from happiness, even though they do not guarantee one another.
The problem is that these days there are just way too many choices out there.
And when there are way too many choices out there it gets harder and harder to choose and consequently it gets harder and harder to find your one thing.
5 Rules of Engagement for the Coaching Relationship
Sólo ES lo que se manifiesta dice Sartre en las primeras páginas de un libro muy tedioso que ocupó varias de mis tardes en Gili…
A brief history of my life:
Go to school. Do well.
Go to college. Major in music.
Not great at music. Finish degree. Music industry crashes.
Get crap job. Get two…
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By Bob Craig
I don’t giggle, I laugh. Giggling I consider is a profession of people who want attention. Giggling I consider to be forceful laughter…
‘Do you think you need to see someone’? My husband asked me as I ugly-cried on his shoulder for the fifth night in a row. With two children, three house moves and eight years of marriage under my (considerably wider) belt I had somehow fallen into a place of…
Back in the day, everyone owned what they used.
Lessons from 25 years since leaving university.
As we are programmed for growth, our natural inclination is to improve things in our lives. It could be through new goals or projects, aiming for new experiences or just wanting to feel the best we ever have.
As I close the book on my business school career (thanks NYU Stern) I find myself…
How I changed from click-bait to yes-and
As a child I played pretend constantly. We lived in a neighborhood without many children so I was left to creating my own…
I know that I missed the very first day of my challenge, but trust me I did write yesterday. You’ll see the friuts of my labor with tomorrow’s post.
I was thinking about this after driving around yesterday, and feel like it’s a great metaphor for life. My tendency to…
Great advice, Anthony!
I can relate so much on the notion of acquired confidence. It is definitely something we can work on, and that should be encouraging; I always encourage people to believe in it because I’ve seen and felt the transformation through my first-hand experience. I used to be cynical regarding “boring”…
Nunca é tarde para mudar!
Números de pessoas bem sucedidas e realizadas aumentam quando vejo o tempo passar, pessoas com grandes escolhas e novas…
Resilience or ignorance
Survival or existence
Serge Abi Raad, ex-Chef de Groupe at Groupe St. Joseph Cornet Chehwan, decmped in 2005…
This was clearly stated by Jesus when he said “My Kingdom is not of this world”. This astounding revelation underlines the truth that has been revealed in the Pathway to Happiness writings that our human nature cannot receive the things of God, cannot understand the things of God, and…
What a gorgeously visceral and wise story, Antonia Crane . What fascinates me is the ironic juxtaposition of it all. That your career in sex work — which so many on the outside might regard as seamy and dangerous — could provide a safe celibate haven from the hamster wheel of dating and the pathology of romance gone sour. Refuge, truly, is where we…
Sometimes, life just finds a way.
I’ve had my fair share of trying to blog. I rocked a MySpace back in the day, even though my parents wouldn’t buy me skinny jeans or a hair-straightener. I created and maintained a Tumblr for a few years, and eventually found my way…
A real small town boy with big dreams wanted to fly high, never had doubts about success in the future. Too many hurdles and set backs but some success and great experience on the way.
human lives inside of this world that is so unpredictable. Like a ferris wheel, one minute you’re at top of the world then the next…
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams…
A call to action; a shout into the void
Acts 10:1 (KJV)There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
The seat of Rome was in Italy. A person might think many if not all bands of Roman soldiers might be called Italian…
Despite the heat, I chose to walk the extra mile.
An extra few miles, that is. With my car borrowed down in the Negev, I faced a few days of anxious uncertainty. For someone who’s had her own car since college, I know I’m spoiled. It’s almost always sitting there, ready and…
The past few weeks have been numb.
It’s the first time I’ve ever felt like this before. I felt so distant from reality, even physically. I felt like I wasn’t aware and present anymore. I felt uncomfortable with my life.
Most people would answer: of course we do!
In my practice, working with amazing people recovering from all sorts of traumatic events or lifestyles, I see a battle for freedom. Fear creates a bondage that strips away the control to be real and to choose how to…
You could come up with an invention that would instantly change society. Something like a…
Long hours at work can take a toll on our energy, creativity, mood and enthusiasm. It seems pretty harmless, but the…
Class of 2007 and Class of 2013 for her PhD, Teri moved from New Zealand to Montreal with her partner and is currently working at an edtech startup
Well, I did not claim to have done any great research on the guy but was relating my tangential discovery of him as a lesson in bad interviewing techniques so I wasn’t making a final judgement. After more research, secondary, I’ve decided it isn’t worth my time to do any primary research. The man is an interesting product of social media and Patreon…
Everyone is fighting for something.Everyone seem to have motives. Everyone is trying. Keep trying.
Drown in the mud of problems, trapped by the mundane cycle every day without a second to spare, living and dying at the same time, fighting for some space to breath in our own life. People keep working on something, surviving…
Do you have a park nearby? Have you taken a walk lately? If not, would you have the possibility of going to a…
Mrs. Out of My League and I were walking the dogs through the park on Sunday afternoon. As we walked…
Traveled to Stockholm, worked with Sophie on the graduation presentation, Faraz brought me a Latte, I spilled the Latte over my laptop, we all panicked and tried to…, I don’t know what tbh, laptop died, we all watched football, we all had an AW and celebrated, end of…
An architect of any repute can look at any hole that has been excavated for construction and tell you how tall the building is going to be. He is gauging his expertise and staking his reputation on his analysis of the foundation. He can accurately…
I am made of titillating material. I am the cotton-poly blend of titillating materials. :D
My longest relationship, so far, has been about 3.5 years, and during that time, aside from the expected stuff like that inevitable first non-sneaky oops! fart, dirty socks, her pit and pube hair in my razor, etc. I found the deepening…
Ok, you should probably not fail your courses as your school likely won’t grant credit for…
Blog 093 — July 02, 2018
I was talking to one of my bestest (yes, I know it’s not a real word, and no, I don’t care) friends…
Tatyana Rarasati INA AFS to ITA (YP 17/18)
Our journey is almost finished. Soon. I stopped for a second and look back where and when did this journey start. Feeling, savoring, bringing back every moments and emotions I had for these past two years — since the beginning of…
I want an award, a ribbon, a medal
Or maybe a statue, a fountain, a bench
What for? No reason, really. Although…
My walls are blank and I am afraid of the white space. There, I said it.
Do you feel that the power of tolerance and patience in people is reducing at a great speed? We all play so many roles in our lives on a daily basis – that of being a daughter or a son, wife or a husband, a friend, a colleague, a sibling – that it is undoubtedly tough to be a star performer in all…
Nope. You don’t get to perpetuate the same false statement, AJ Butler.
I previously addressed that. I am not shallow nor do I use men for money/financial gain.
It is important to me that someone be my equal. This does not make me shallow or vapid.
Date: 06/09/2018Time: 20:02 hrsLocation: We Haven’t Located Us Yet!
I woke up today on the couch of my kind friend, who happily put up with another of…
I just wanted to chime in that I appreciate your responses, Fred!
It’s so refreshing to hear guys’ voices, too, who confirm what I know to be true: that there are men out there looking for a fuller connection.
I realize that online dating is a tricky place, but I have definitely met great guys…
I will start by narrating the story of Oprah Winfrey , she is the richest African American of the 20th century, she comes…
What can you do right now, that Future You will thank you for?
Back in my life, I don’t have any experience that is similar to life in ITI.
I think ITI is fresh start for me.
I need to follow the EOP, I pick up economic knowledge…
Very often I have found that people who define themselves as pragmatists are diametrically opposed to those who by their nature are optimists. As if being an optimist is somehow unrealistic, Pollyanna, a skewed way to regard the world. If that’s the case then Buddhism is optimistic as it regards all human beings as fundamentally good.
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be…
In the corporate world, the concept of “work-life balance” is something that is often highlighted as being important and encouraged.
Day 2 at the hospital. I saw Dr. Armstrong first thing this morning. A tall Black guy that reminds me of Jay-Z. He’s cool, calm and collected.
We think of becoming rich or happy , but the day never comes, and we get angry at ourselves for not achieving something in our life. But, does it really happen the way as we think? It rarely happens as we think.If I were to…
One thing that used to start my blood boiling was when our children would be crying hysterically or fighting right in front of my husband, and…
Endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up. — Rick Warren
Sigh. Most people read this, but it looks like you missed it (or intentionally ignored it, but I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt).
He lied. He misled me. When I connected the dots the next day, THAT is when I made it clear what I was comfortable with. He was not interested in what I viewed as a compromise, so I told…
Acts 9:13–14 (KJV)Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
The quest for seeking meaning in our lives is a solitary enterprise. Every person has to find the purpose of life on their terms and pace. At the same it is not a blind and directionless pursuit. Inner talk with our selves is one way of finding out the purpose of life.We need to ask what makes us happy, peaceful and contented.Being open minded is a…
Meh, I don’t know... You are a poet. Not a lot of titillating material in the middle. Beginnings are addictive. And oddly enough, so are endings. We all think we long for the comfort of familiarity; of waking up every morning and being sure of what we’ll find there. But the truth is that in the middle, her snores seem a lot less adorable. Its hard…
“To be the best, you have to beat…
Yes, Franklin was a great, human being. Someone who should be emulated. I read his autobiography about 3 weeks ago. His writing, for someone with only a 3rd grade education, was outstanding. I too, was intrigued by his method of self-improvement. He had self-discipline to the nth degree.
I have completed mine from DAIICT, in July ’17 and I am still practicing and looking for my first job. So first year after college went just numb for me I would say. ( nothing like shameless plug though I really enjoy your writing )
As it has to-if it didn’t then nothing would ever last and I have been to too many 60th anniversary celebrations to think nothing ever lasts.
So what’s up with you? I confess to ghosting social media this past year, almost entirely, and losing track of what’s going on with whom. Email me if its more appropriate that way.
I hate when some opinion, lecture, or any other serious and complex material is only available as a video or an audio and not in a written form. While reading you need to make a conscious effort to continue. Contrary, while listening you need to make a conscious effort to make a break. For me…
It was all dream
Used to serving like machine
Seeing Xizhi at 4A.M.
regular night shift got paid less
Slipping coffee aint no sleep
Cali: Wonderful, heartfelt advice! While I’m not struggling right now with my work, there is a constant finetuning and rebalancing going on ALL THE TIME — near constant internal coaching to keep going and adjust to what each day has to offer. All the very best with your novel — am in the throes of writing one myself. Relied (as in leaned really hard…
7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests.
from Varlam Shamalov in https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-things-i-learned-in-the-gulag/
Here is a bit of my experience of a bad DATE I think is worth sharing with you 😁
Travelled to some 400 kilometres to the city of my girl. Took her to the most exotic restaurant of the whole country ( because i was going to propose her for marriage) , ordered the best french toast I have had ever in my life…. And just when I…
Learning takes a lot of determination and drive,because it means you have to first accept that you don't know something and…
Vienna De Vega — Those cock-tail parties are someplace to shake your tail feathers and kick your heels together. Thank you so much for reading and commenting! I’ve been trying to play with different scenarios and play time explorations. ♥️
‘’A man is born free but everywhere he’s within chains’’ An open heart is the natural state of a man. As…
I have lived enough to love life.
Loved enough to love life.
Blogging can feel pretty damn vain at times. On the worst days, you are sure it isn’t art, and it isn’t creativity, and…
Thanks for this piece, Nir Eyal
It is very easy to get into the black hole of using our cell phones repeatedly. One thing that I personally do is i simply have a conversation with some friends for a short amount of time when I feel lethargic.
The Holy Ghost.
The darkness beneath.
The shadows.
By Van Stuyvesant Consulting
Dear Abby,
We’ve never met before, so this may seem a bit odd, but I feel this is necessary. My name’s Jay for starters, I work the checkout line at the grocery store up on 67th Street. You know the one with the parking lot that’s way too big for the the store itself? Yeah, that one. I’m 24, fairly tall and have a rather…
Day 27: List an insecurity, then refute it by reminding yourself how great you are 🙂
“Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world… He who understands it…
I think the broader meaning of “ be true to yourself” is “don’t be a hypocrite”.
You miss your fasting month. It’s over a month behind you now. It’s been a great cover to calm you down, like it always is. Once it’s gone, you go back to facing your old demons. People who continually test your patience and piss you off. Your own temper.
“You’ve been through a lot,” he says.
“I spent a lot of years in a lot of pain,” I reply through the tears.
Yes, I am crying at the doctor’s office again. But in my defense, I am visiting a new rheumatologist and…
Have you noticed that when you set a goal, everything that you once knew takes on new meaning?
Let’s say you set a goal to write a poem. You’re not sure where to start. All you know is that you enjoy reading poetry.
