It’s easier to get in a relationship than get out of a habit.
Hace un año tuve la suerte de escuchar a mi gran amigo Billy contar la historia de como llegó a su plan de vida. “Sin querer queriendo”, Billy nos compartió una receta sencilla para encontrar “lo tuyo”. A que me refiero con “lo tuyo”? Me…
“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings”. — Stephen covey
If you’re looking for some useful lessons in business and in life, you could learn a few…
The lights turned on.
Romans 7:18–25 (KJV)
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
I have two little girls. Let’s call them B and E. They are beautiful and…
I’ve had my fair share of break-ups and rebounds. Here’s what I learned.
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” (Warren Buffet)
“One can begin so many things with a new person — even begin to be a better man.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
Before we begin let me remind you its not exactly a love story or about a boy’s crush or the one that got away. Its beyond all that.
“No one goes through life unscathed”
For the life of me I cannot remember where I first heard this said, but I am really glad I did. As concise as this quote is, it says a multiplicity of things –
I finished the worst book I’ve read in recent years.
When you were young, fear was an emotion that was reserved for the duskiness of your bedroom in the…
and why it’s easy to fix it
I used to dream
2015 Coaching U Live Clinic Notes. Ed Tapscott (NBA GM, CEO, Head coach)
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” Elbert Hubbard
“What would you want to be when you were a kid?”
One’s “identity” is is how one likes to think of one’s self made up of one’s life experiences. One tries to coalesce a “continuing self” from these experiences, but there are various “parts” of a person which may not be congruent with the continuing self. These “parts” are used to cope with situations which do not match our continuing self.
On a cold January night this year, I was up at 2 am hunched over my laptop in a dark room, desperate for some community dentistry options. It had been several weeks since I started the job/volunteer hunt and I felt like I was headed nowhere. Call it luck, call it destiny or pure chance, thats when I…
Abdul Sattar Edhi was a great humanitarian who died on July 8th, 2016. He was so humble and a great person. He made our country proud as one of the biggest philanthropists in the world. H founded Edhi foundation in 1951 which become to be one of the…
Be it a relationship that we weren’t quite ready to see end or a friend that no longer returns our phone calls and text…
Beberapa waktu yang lalu aku dapat kesempatan untuk belajar ditempat baru gaes, tempat dimana sarjana teknik informatika seperti aku…
What is the thing? The thing’s a feeling, a sense. The thing’s confidence, security and accomplishment. The thing’s doing…
Thanks, Shane. I really appreciate you wanting to give me 100 claps.
4 years into my first 18 years in jail, I made my first serious suicide attempt in there, and as a result, ended up spending a week in an obs. cell.
All that time alone, with nothing to do but exercise and meditate, made me realise…
A friend once told me while we were on a mini getaway in Jinja by the Nile; “Enjoy your…
When my friend Yao invited me to present in a mini-TED talk one day, I asked her what the topic should be. ‘Whatever,’ she said, ‘we really have no norm or topic restrictions.’
True, that is part of TED talk. Having no restriction is a mean for organisers to encourage more speakers…
Walking into work, I felt an overwhelming sadness come over me. I took a deep breath and tried to mentally prepare myself for the horrible day I was about to…
What does financial health mean? Roughly, it’s how your financial landscape looks in…
The Vulnerability of Honesty
There is so much disillusionment regarding people in their public and private lives these days. We are shocked, disappointed and heart broken when we discover that someone we have loved, befriended, admired, or loved turns out to be a MONSTER! How could we have missed the signs? How did we not…
Yep, here I am again. Trying to date. Or at least getting used to talking to men again. Most people have men in their workplace…
“Whatever happens in our life, happens for good”
A phrase we all have heard multiple times in our lives, from family, friends and even strangers. Surprisingly, this happens to be the most easily given advice to tackle any mild to major inconvenience in our lives.
I was done with my life here in Ontario. I had finished school, worked a well-paying job for…
I have been struggling and thinking about this statement since I got back from South Korea. Do you problem-solve or purpose-find?
The first person I talked to after I got back from South Korea, was my favorite professor. I asked If he was…
It’s surprising — even a little jarring — to see a sidewalk appear out of nowhere and go through…
Your thoughts & actions run your life and destiny.
It was just a dream. That’s what people will tell you, but we all know it’s much more. It’s your subconscious sorting through your junk…
It is part of your journey
Friends and family hold significant parts of my life, but I have noticed most of my…
A short post today because the waning between Eclipses Moon goes void at 3.24 am Mountain…
I don’t know the exact moment. It was more like a series of actions that kept repeating. From a niggle it grew into a…
When life gives you lemons, make lemonades. Or uncork a bottle of tequila. It’s a personal preference after all. Goes…
Before my great-grandfather, William M. Hurst, died, he self-published a short memoir of his life entitled…
Just like every other time, I walked through the door to my Grandmother’s house, took off my shoes and saw her walking stick rested in the usual place at the bottom of the staircase. It was when I didn’t hear her gleeful voice saying “maroo Pritesh ayvoo (My…
I have been studying in New Zealand for 2 years now but the wish to live independently was still not entirely complete. The life in which i would be on my own, may sound like a dangerous idea but more than that it excites me. It excites…
appeared first in my head
When you keep getting rejected, just keep going.
When you can’t seem to find your better half, just keep going.
Being motivated to be productive, I have planned for another productive Sunday. Yeah, you read it right, a productive Sunday. But isn’t Sunday is the day you are suppose to chill? I am an enterpreneur and…
When someone compliments us, we tend to do one of three things. One — we go out of our way to downplay the praise, no matter how genuine it is. Two — we shift the praise onto someone else. Three — we dive headfirst into self-deprecation mode, probably because it…
Flow, row, grow your boatfearlessly dare to dreamreadily, carefully, cheerfully…
The birth of the ashes
Within the last two weeks, I had a few unexpected health problems, including sun allergy (are we serious, now?), and ankle sprain…
This quote is the absolute worst. I’m sorry. Maybe it’s just me and my happy attitude that I’ve seemed to come across. The last few months I’ve clearly been at a dark spot in my life. But I can only sit there and dwell on it for so long before I’m…
Befriend them, I said not long ago.Why not? They’re everywhere around me.They’re here, sitting with me, on me…
Here’s a short anecdote: a few years ago, my family and I were traveling. We just landed in an airport somewhere in Austria, if I remember correctly, and we went through the process of getting into the country. Everything was going smoothly and we arrived at that conveyor belt…
For me, the hardest kind of toxic person to remove was toxic employee. It takes some doing, but the health of the work environment is at stake.
I really appreciate the viewpoint you are sharing here, Steve, thank you.
Fundamentally water is the most important nutrient.
One hobby I’ve being developing throw the past years was just to allow me to do anything I wanted by my own.
It could be a simple short walk, going out to grab a coffee in a very new place…
John Gorman, you get a full 50 for this ridiculously awesome read: A Medium article that was 30 years in the making! =)
And I have to say that between the maps and the stock market, Little Gorman must have been one precocious kid =)
A recent study done at Stanford, showed that students who believe that passion…
Last night one of my housemates (I won’t say who, but if you’re so inclined you could easily figure it out) asked if I wanted to go to a party. He used varying words to describe it, such as “gathering.” My ears tend to perk up at this, because it indicates to me that it won’t just be a cramped living room…
I agree Michael Shook that is is Incredibly hard to remove a toxic employee. It requires a ton of coaching and documentation, but it is also incredibly important because if you don’t remove them they will destroy the rest of the team.
Thanks for reading and thanks for your comment.
Steve
YOUR HARD WORK HAS NO MEANING
Mini Blog: 100 Seconds Read
Breathe! That’s what I kept telling myself as I was chugging up yet another steep incline. I know I’m…
The next Big Adventure
That pain again! When will it go away? Will it ever go away?
Last night I pushed myself and squeezed an episode of Curb your enthusiasm into…
Life is short.
I often wonder why, which prompts me NOT to take the obvious route or take the first choice…
What an amazing realization to have towards growth and then finding the words to express it and share with others.
For myself I feel torn about what I do and don’t agree with. In the grand scheme of things, the big picture, no one is really important. People such as celebrities, influencers and for the love of God, even our…
I have observed that people have this innate desire of being right and being taken seriously. If they think they know about something, they will argue about it until either they win or you give up.
Everything happens for a reason.
The Classic saying that can be easily found everywhere.Just last year, when almost every time something bad happened. I would reflectively say that everything happens for a reason. well…
Year after year I tell myself that this is my year, a new beginning, a chance to do all of those things that I told myself I would get around to but never did. I thought that graduating college and moving to a new city would…
Crushed one more time by the weight of an exhausting day. Carrying the expectations and choices made for you without…
In this sacred life, we need many things for living. We have many things which are in excess amount. Even though buy it more and more. We have one carve that made us to buy many things. We have ego that, we are earning and we are using it.
“Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles…
«Who are you?»
Yes, you concerned readers, I’m still playing my baritone saxophone. I’m taking lessons every two weeks via Skype. No…
Today is the day that I’m supposed to be old. Black balloons, funeral dirges, and a tombstone with my youth buried 6 feet under. I don’t get it. True, I’m not young anymore. But if I’m being honest, I didn’t feel all that young even as a…
Although I have been technically “homeless” for just a little under a month, I have wrestled with feeling like I don’t have a home for almost 5 months now. Immediately after things disintegrated with her, it was crystal clear that I had no space to call my home. Home really is where the heart is. I always considered…
Cori-Leigh,
I am happy that you enjoyed this story, and thanks for sharing.
Manusia memang sudah ditakdirkan untuk tidak pernah puas, seringkali meminta lebih. Tapi pernahkah kita sedikit saja berhenti sejenak…
To balance the compulsion to make a living with the zeal to tap into one’s own uniqueness is an everyday battle that none of us can escape.
Sometimes, the urge to dance to the society’s tunes gets better of us. Paying obeisance at the altar of conventional wisdom seems more important than embarking on the journey of…
Day 4 : Write about someone who inspires you
Mom. She is the one who inspires me most. She really cares about my future like she wants the best for me even if it’s very idk maybe expensive, hard to get, nonsense, etc. She knows what’s best for me. She never minds…
Everyday, a great food product made in the U.S.A.
As a young individual, I’ve been trying the best that I can to achieve my dreams in any way — just like any other person out there.
However, one of the biggest problems that I see everyone has, including myself, is the lack of consistency. It hinders…
I don’t know anyone else who can say that line and actually mean it XD
Our lives separated, outdated, times waited, but either love faded, or we’re both crazy, time made it, that we both hate this, both patient, but…
By Kurt E. Van Stuyvesant
Finding Your Voice amidst the Noise — A Tale of an INFP
Very cool topic and title, Mitch!
I can see we think a lot about similar things.
I think this line is spot on.
Our thoughts about reality constitute our perception of it. And it is to this perception of the world that we react.
I suppose there was a lot I learned from Winnie the Pooh. As I read it aloud to my youngest, I realize how much A.A Milne…
In theory, we master a new skill almost immediately, right? In reality… as beginners — we suck. If we’re a perfectionist, we often don’t won’t even dare to try.
Well put. We all need space to share things that are important to us, or work through issues that are preoccupying us. The role of the listener is to be fully present for them in both heart and mind, and acknowlege what the other person is saying without judgement.
. . . a sequel to “Life Has Strange Ways”
Khudi and Self Learning through your own Blog
I have read somehow about the Eidi shb life,his childhood,his family etc.I was already inspired with the Eidi shb but after reading the book about Eidi shb,I am very much impressed with the Eidi shb. His life is a role model for many of us to follow, his life is just a candle in…
I always hear and read in articles that you should invest in yourself, so that you can grow and…
Having suffered with insomnia, I’ve found myself typing this exact question into Google several times over the years — because let’s face it, once we identify the root cause of a problem it becomes easier to come to the right solution.
I have no arms to stand on.
He is a richest poor man. He serve the humanity by taking simple steps of helping people by…
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A large dose of stupidity
Life really is simple…
I was standing in a very long queue to get ride the roller coaster in front of me. Then I read some articles and still be in the middle of this tiring queue. But why? Why did I still standing, exhaling my breath, and aim to ride this annoying and scary thing? I wonder why.
You Have Something That Someone Else Needs.
One life…that’s all you get. There’s no coming back later, there’s no free trial before you have to download the real deal. This…
Coping Adulthood with How I Met Your Mother
For young adult viewers, How I Met Your Mother can be a way to understand adulthold. The main theme tied the whole story is a pursuit of true love of the protagonist, Ted Mosby. However, the show have several subtheme about life that is not less important namely friendship, family…
Many people become so obsessed with their goals that the entire journey becomes a dreary, miserable plight. Much like a horse with blinders on, these people lose their peripheral vision and plow forward in a frenzy to reach their goals — never stopping to smell the roses along the way.
It’s been a pleasure working with my polar opposite. Everyone should do it at some point. You sure learn a lot about yourself. The mind is a wild machine, and when you surround yourself with other wild machines that work differently than yours, your machine rewires itself in a remarkable way.
Cori,
Great ideas. I have trouble planning my day. Being retired means hubby has plans too. I try to mix with his plans.
I did buy a standup desk. I find it’s very good if I will be at my desk for an extended period of time.
A long road with a lot of trees around, the wind blows through my helmet to my face. Soft but cold. With the motorcycle I…
Ya hace mucho tiempo que he querido ingresar al bello mundo de la escritura online, pero nunca supe que escribir hasta que…
Tal como otro día cualquiera estaba leyendo unos cuantos posts en blogs a los que estoy suscrito, nada fuera de lo común…
If you want to be good at anything, you have to set your own standard and continually raise it…
“…do not use God’s favours to you against him who has received none,” triggered a debate within myself that I never expected. Yesterday…
Yoga and The Body Eclectic
I have become somewhat long in the tooth. I am amazed to realize that I have witnessed events on the planet that have taken place almost one hundred years ago. So it goes without saying that I can attest to significant changes…
Success is extremely subjective, but however you define success for yourself, in order to be successful you need to…
My mind has become my prison
Once so free I am now plagued with uncertainty and unease
I am trapped
The pressure I feel to make those closest to me unashamed of my looks or nature stifles me
The connection happened once again by reading your article, Michael!!!! 😉
Wife.........
I've never thoughtI would say this to youBut I'm distraughtAfter knowing you
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the concept of madness. More specifically, in those who…
Acts 26:2 (KJV)I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
Feel Good to Regain Focus.
This write up springs from my personal experience. I thought of shari it here. Readers may find it a little helpful
I was for the past few days not able to concentrate on my work, which is to study. I need to study a lot. And it takes up much of my day. I was for most time…
logbook// 28th of july 2018 on #beinghuman
hello lovely world people out there, decided to finally start writing little stories, honest stories, stories i go on and on about in my head and sometimes stories that i don’t have an answer to.. hope you like reading it and get a bit of a spin for your own day by day// life story
It’s only been in the last couple of years that I’ve really started taking time out for Iva and her soul. I never used to be able to sit still long enough to listen to it and realize it needed love and attention.
This was a great read Shannon ❤ I wonder if more people took time to do these things, would the world be a happier more loving place?
Yes! Sometimes there is nothing like ice cream to “cure” what is hurting me. I’m so lucky ice cream is legal….
I joined the Medium Mastery — might not be the same one. But it was excellent and I still have videos I have to watch.
Learned so much from Tom.
Blessings
Janis
“I Created It, No Body Made Me Play” — My Addiction: How to conquer who you truly want to be. Day 3
Does it really make a difference? (for kids)
With pets, with animals
Hungry today, bellyache tomorrow
Do Your Best, Jessabella
Thanks again Syed A. Idrees!
7 years in the making …
7 years ago (on July 1, 2011 to be precise), I left the United States to work in…
Just for today.
Selma,
Miracles are all around us. We just have to search, look, listen and see them. I loved Mr. Rogers. He taught kids with such a gentle spirit and soul.
Blessings to you as you write,
What are the newer roadblocks an entrepreneurs faces today that make it harder for them to get going, is it…
I definitely believe that attachment starts at the earliest of ages in someway or another. I am not sure about the six categories, I would have to think about it for a while. Attachment issues, not that I can think of. I have actually been thinking about people I was around in high school that I am…
