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“During the past three decades…
I feel everything. A lot. All the time. When it is painful. Such as Panic. Despair…
There is a difference between being lonely and alone.
I was sitting in a restaurant with my sister and two old family friends. It was the end of my summer break after my sophomore…
…A pre-requisite for morning
During times of challenge at work, I often see people want to quit jobs immediately. They feverishly apply for all sorts of new jobs. They’re excited when they nail an interview or two. The process is a whirlwind and one that could potentially become…
Advice vs control
Boy: You should really just focus on one thing at a time.
You all heard that to grow you constantly need to go out of your comfort zone…
We all know that societal factors play a huge role in the gender gap within tech…
Dear Jessica Brennan,
We are hearing a lot right now about how we are living in the post-truth era. How sad to even write these words. It is difficult to combat politics and the media when it comes to the truth, and I know that in the purest…
My heart stop, my feet cold and my world fall apart. The moment I heard the news that I’m going to lose…
My first experience with a nanny in China was in August of 2018 when my daughter, Leah, was born in Nanjing. I chose to…
For most of my life, asserting myself has been a struggle. I’ve gotten better at it over time, but…
People always say follow your dream, find your passion. As if it will come screaming in your face, “Its me! Your life…
Me: Do you think that my using the cane is a sign of giving up?
Best Friend: “No. I think it is acceptance and being able to move on.”
It was the perfect response. I’ve had versions of this conversation at least once a month. I have them…
Marie loves smiling. It was something she did a lot. As long as her eyes met yours, she would smile and…
In 2017, James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose underwent a project intended to…
By default, we as human beings will seek out…
7:34 p.m., January 16, 1987, San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines
You know when you get to the end of your day and you’re exhausted? You don’t even want to think about getting dinner ready…
It was March of this year, (2018 for all those from the future reading this) and had…
If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything — Unknown
In this blog post we’re going to dissect the definition of vulnerable. Not the physical…
‘Contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have…
Yes, yes, I know. We don’t like Enterprise. Or we’re not supposed to like Enterprise…
Sepulang dari kantor sekitar jam 7 malem lebih, seperti biasa naik grab. Alhamdulillah……
For some reason people seem to think that being “overwhelmed” is a normal state of being.
Right now, I’m sitting in front of my laptop with 20 minutes before dinner. The perfect little chunk of…
Life doesn’t always work out the way you planned
We create our reality with the choices we make and the actions we take. Our choices and actions are…
“The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of…
I’ll confess — I have absolutely no idea how to start talking about EVA. I guess I’ll explain it the same way I’ve explained it to everyone my whole life — that it is like the Bible to me. (It even has Genesis in its title! and Angels! and crosses!)
In the late 1980s, I decided to open a retail business — to the horror of most of my friends.
I have always seen life as a story of chaos.
I think everyone’s is.
Life is so … random. I can almost compare it to my mood-swings. Now you can feel overflowing happiness running through the back of your spines. The minute after — all you can feel is…
“Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded” 2 Chron 15:7
You’re skilled. You’re accomplished. You’ve done this thing that you do for many…
O dia começa comum, e do conceito de comum eu excluo o efetivo despertar, pois o despertar só vem muito mais tarde. Eu não tomo café, mas coloco um suco dentro de uma das diversas xícaras que eu coleciono — parece mais cool. Em cima da mesa, meu kit sobrevivência: as chaves, documentos, cartões de crédito e…
I am always baffled by the people who will wait overnight outside a store to get a new phone, toy, or electronic…
Zen koan:
Nan-in, a Japanese master, received a university professor who came to inquire about…
I remember attending Alateen growing up, and all the phrases we were taught.
Hello, this is my first time ever doing something like this. Recently I’ve had some traumatic things happen to me and i feel the best way to cope it to write about it. Even if no one is reading. So let’s start with myself. You can call my R. I am a college student trying to figure out where…
I walked into the darkest place I’ve ever knownYour mind, heart and soulSo I lit a match and built a fireAnd called it home
I made way for a stream of water,And then a ray of lightIt became brighterAnd…
I’m starting this second post with a confession & a broken promise at the same time: I said I would publish an article every two weeks; more than two months later all I have is the very same first article. Mi scusi, Signore e Signori!
Forgiveness is bullshit, fight me on this.
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Louis B. Smedes
Today the Virgo Moon makes aspects to Jupiter in Scorpio, Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in…
I dread intimacy because of the feeling of vulnerability that comes with it.
Walking through the parking lot, I saw a young man approaching people as they walked…
There is so much of history, Stoicism and human nature one can learn by listening to the life of…
Conflicts, acceptance, insecurity and relationships…..
I have been reflecting on this for quite some time now — as a human being, as an employee working in my organization, as a female, as a friend, as a sibling and as a care taker of…
There are defining moments, stages and phases in everyone’s lives, years that mold them into…
Life is a fiction we carry around in our heads, made seemingly true when we express it into the outside world, the place we peer into when we awaken each day.
How to discern fact, so called reality, from fiction?
The first time I was humiliatedI told no oneuntil I learnedthe shame wasn’t mine to carrythen I found my voiceno one has humiliated…
What is your true power?
Is it money?
Is it connections?
This is going to be the first actual response showing up on my profile because I've never written another one but oh well, here goes.
I did enjoy reading this article, partly because I agreed with a couple of points and mainly because of the author's hilarious comments.
The top of the first verse of Perm has been playing over and over in my head.
We hear this from motivators: “You are the average of the 5 people that you surround yourself with.”
Cue the racing mental inventory of your friendships: are your homies “successful” enough? Is their mojo…
by Guillermo Vidal | Jul 16, 2018 | Life, Life Lessons, Self Fulfillment, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I try and live a stripped back, simple life. I say try, because it’s not always easy — particularly when you…
A poignant ending. Sometimes, you only get one chance to help someone who really needs it… you had many chances, and still left it too late. If you want to make a difference, you need to act immediately, instead of over-thinking it. One night, a man and a woman noticed some homeless people in a park, suffering in the cold and the rain. On impulse…
From time to timeI stop to notice
My pristine canvasOnce clean and spotless
Now splashed hereAnd splotched there
This is only a short one because its a school night and I’ve been meaning to talk for a while now…
There a moments in your life where you are happy with what you have, now that’s not to say what you have is any good, I mean sure its better then what…
12 Then said he also to him that bade him…
Blog #10
Nothing in this world can take the place…
We Are Condemned to be Free
As Jean-Paul Sartre said:
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown…
Life is hard. Or at least it is at times. There are interpersonal issues, financial disasters, health concerns…I could go…
Choose Your Story Wisely
Reincarnated many times
Here’s a list of a few things my father used to say to us when we were younger. It…
Daily, I hear people share with me about their struggles with their self-worth whether it is not…
“If you love what you do for a living, you’ll never work a day in your life.” I don’t know who first said this, but it sure has stuck in my mind since I first heard it. If you love what you do for a living, it’s like getting paid to play — it’s the things outside your job that become work. If you don’t love what you do for a living, you’ve got the…
這個時代的青年人因為生存而疲於奔命，不是為了替自己工作賺錢，就是為了幫別人工作賺錢，我們一樣的忙碌在不一樣的選擇裡，重要的是理解自己適合的，察覺不適合的。
在前往與小職會面的路途，天空晴朗金黃色的陽光曬出一身汗，人行道旁的欖仁樹灑落了一地綠葉，有深有淺，有枯有青，但是，最堅強的最剛毅的還是樹叢上迎風搖曳的綠色生命。
這條路會是值得的，無論周遭的風景是從艱難曲折到柳暗花明，或是從無邊無際到海市蜃樓，只要走過去就會明白。藍天白雲的隙縫透出光芒跟著你，直到踏進黑色油漆與木頭質地混搭的房子空間，才漸漸消逝。
At the end of our podcast session, I was moved when Caroline thanked me for giving…
I need to write this Blog for cathartic reasons, digging and releasing the negativity from my ocean floor. This is my dark tale of returning to work for someone else, post maternity leave, post self-employment for 10 years and with 4 1/2 years of ill and ongoing…
Sometimes in life you make mistakes, most of the time they are small, inconsequential, and minor embarrassments. The…
Putting Your Needs First to Make Your Business Work
It’s like the beginning of foreplay. Your needs have to come first…
For those of you not too familiar with Goa, it’s a little slice of paradise that somehow found itself joined at the hip to the rest of India. It wasn’t exactly a voluntary joining — Goa was a Portuguese colony while the rest of India was under British rule. The little idyllic state…
Over the past 12 months I’ve spent my life learning, building and growing my first Start Up. It’s been an incredible journey and one that I originally documented religiously until life got busy and I dropped the…
I’ve only worked for startups.
However, there were days where I would sit at my laptop and send resumes to big companies. I sat dozens of interviews and received a handful of offers. I…
Magic exists and it has disguised itself in what we call “Art”.
Need some help finding your purpose? Then look no further.
No one is a mind reader.
Everybody you know who’s big now once came out of nowhere.
But to be able to come out of nowhere you first gotta go somewhere.
So get going…
Originally published at yanngirard.typepad.com.
30 weeks yesterday, 10 more to go. As the time nears for me to fully embrace this new life…
Hey Girl,
There are a few things as satiating such as taking the shot, or trying something new. It all boils down…
Varied beings sprinkled all around
Wearing different fabrics of life,
I just let the air conditioner repairman out of the house. He was a nice, middle-aged dude who was very mild-mannered. When…
“Believe those who are seeking the truth, doubt those who find it” — André Gide
If you’ll allow me, let me tell you a story about my friend Craig. Married at 18, didn’t finish high school. Divorced at 23, remarried at 25, divorced again at 30. Single now, pushing 55. And as broke as it’s possible to be for a twice divorced, middle aged man living in America.
It was a cold winter morning when I decided to leave from Chandigarh to Delhi in my car since had to be in the city for an important business meeting. I usually start while its dark to avoid traffic on the highway and save time.
How One Should Define Success In Their Life?
How do we as individuals measure the accomplishment of our aim or purpose? Simple, how long can one sustain the lifestyle they are currently living if they suddenly stopped going to work? To many this may seem like nothing more than a dream, to which I say how can you accomplish…
Interestingly enough I would read a book with that exact same title that year. (Chinua Achebe’s seminal work, to be precise.) In retrospect things had already fallen apart, it’s just that we were clinging onto the illusion that they hadn’t. But what happened to me when I was fifteen shattered all…
Some things are not worth my time, some people won’t last a decade by my side, some moments will…
Why do you need to deal with them? Enjoy it!!!
This is the most enjoyable thing that most of the people are drooling for. People…
KesSpeaks. Turning Your Passion into a Job.
If we are not doing the hard stuff then we are not moving towards our own freedom.
Great work. Thank you!!
Happiness is hard to come by for some people. I think you have to let it live within you. You can’t force it. If you have to force it then your trying to hard. If something is eating at you, take care of it. In the end we will always have problems or things that we can or can’t control. One thing you…
When I was a kid my father’s uncle built a cabin on Sugar Creek.It takes months to transform a stickered pile of rough cut lumber…
“They got 18 months. I’ll do that.
Your honor. I don’t have education.
Acts 17:4 (KJV)And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Genuinely successful mediocre people wisely compartmentalize their strengths and let their…
I will go on record and say no. I see most of the other responses say no as well. Yet, how many of us track our Amazon or UPS, or postal packages? We track our Lyft and Uber drivers when we want a ride. We watch the little car on our screen. We know that Amazon distribution workers are tracked. It is okay for someone else to be tracked but, not us…
The 21st century man lives a life of dilemma plagued by the portrayal of his external and internal identity. Contemporary man’s identity is encumbered by pseudo-modernity, westernization and rejection of traditional value system. In the ancient or…
Thank you for your kindness, xerxes aga ! I definitely run quirky, so dating has some unique challenges for me!
I am off to musical and art adventures. I smile at your words as my adventure begins! More tales to follow…
Fighting with your friends is never fun. But it happens. Just like any…
07/16/2018 (841 AM)
If my previous posts have sounded a bit “obsessive” I truly apologize. My mental health issues have really taken the driver’s seat as of late & I’ve kinda’ just been riding along. Throughout the day it’s damn near bi-polar feelings for me. I can be super motivated & ready to take on the world… then out of…
Ali estava eu e a responsabilidade de decidir pela vida dele. com uma assinatura.
You’re nobody? Yes, so am I! “Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell, Jonathan! they’d advertise — you know!”
I appreciate the Dickinson reference =)
You served up a big slice of Humble pie today and it’s delicious. I think about these ideas a lot as well — Life’s just better when you’re constantly standing at the edge of an existential crisis XD
Here’s a recipe for a predictable life: Play it safe. Stick to the rules. Hang close to what’s been tried and…
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the…
Happy Ness doesn’t mean that I need to be surrounded by 100’s of people around me all the time. I can still feel lonely. I can have everyone standing by me but I can still feel lonely. Happy Ness comes when I am in gratitude to have those people around me to support me. I need to be contented…
Training Wheels Not Required
Yesterday I taught my daughter how to ride a bike. This might seem insignificant to some, but for me it meant the world. To see her smile spread across her face as she put her foot on the pedal and kept going without falling. To see her power through as she reached an uphill and couldn’t coast…
Changing Ourselves
I’ve driven for Uber in the past; it was a great way to supplement my income when I was a freelance writer. I met plenty of amazing, kind people; I even met people who I ended up doing writing work for.
I had a few weird trips, but none was more unsettling than when I picked up a young guy who looked like an 1980s metal band…
Approach Towards Philanthropy → Alms To Beggars?
As soon as a child is born he imbibes matters in his mind through his surroundings and what gets inculcated in him is dependent upon his inherent personality, and hence it is not always that a…
Thanks Tim. I just sent your buddy Jordan Gross a message that you highlighted the parts I want to write more about in the future so thanks for that. BTW I sent you a Linkedin message asking if you want to hop on a call one day. I spoke to Jordan last week and like the two of yours style and would love to learn more about what you are up to and see…
Let’s no longer be satisfied with whatever we’ve been doing, however much we’ve been doing. We’re capable of much, much more. It’s…
I read somewhere that flight attendants walk up and down the plane aisles farting. With all that they put up with, I can see the appeal to farting in someone annoying’s face.
School Days
During all this time normal life continued, and that meant going to school. What was school like? In a word, horrible. Actually, beyond horrible.
I’ve said a bit about it in my previous chapters but yeah, I hated it. I just couldn’t really…
“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.”
- Lindsey Vonn
Hidden beneath what seems an apparentis what some will claim my life source.Lifeless was I a whilebut now, I sprouted not only,I bless the…
Dia yang selalu membuatku tersenyum dengan semua bercandaannya, selalu membuatku kesal dengan tingkah konyolnya…Ku terlalu rindu kepadamu a…
