There’s something wrong with how we use the expression that has taken over pop culture.
Every time you post a harsh comment on Reddit about something or someone, a developer…
“Your job is not to figure…
On Saturday, February 4th, 2017 my buddy Kyle and I decided to attend Hack Brown at Brown University. Kyle is a…
I recently got out of a relationship that taught me two things. First, everyone does silly…
I’am not much of a politician, neither did I really imagined I would ever run for elections. But life is…
I don’t care much for deadlines and due dates. I recognize their necessity, but…
When productivity tools distract information workers from the work itself.
The Truth about Writing — Writer’s Confession
I am my own foundation
Aujourd’hui j’ai acheté un livre.
Writers suffer from acute nostalgia. This is because we are sensitive to form and thus to changes…
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it…
I have a secret.
Bell’s Palsy diary (7 July – 27 July 2018)
Bell’s day 1: Saturday (7 July 2018)
I fly from Cape Town to Johannesburg on the 9.50. My teeth are sore. I blame a silent migraine that appears to have begun it’s vicious cycle the day before. I drive in a rental car from the airport to the Burgers Park…
This is a story of what I once thought verses the strange opinion that changed my…
The disturbance in the force is at holy fuck levels.
What am I supposed to do when I realize that the relationship we built here, and the person you were here…
Back in early 2000s, my family lived in a small house which had a Guava tree at the backyard. My father had brought the sapling from…
1 year of leaving friendships and I’ve never felt better y’all.
“Cut, one bold long red line.. scratch another line.. a mammoth of a cross.”
You’re a quitter and John Wayne probably wouldn’t like you. Because of this…
Either everything you do gives you some kinds of value, or it would dissolve your value.
I’m going to preface this by saying, this is a more serious entry. If you are not ready to swim the dark waters, I suggest you wait for me to return to a lighter fare. I want to share this though because I think it is better to be true to my feelings, and I hope it will help others…
I woke up briefly at 6:16 AM and looked at my watch. I happily discovered that I had another twenty to…
You’ve been there before, something you need from someone to get what you want.
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING ??
The ultimate truth one must come to digest is that “the world is me and I am the world” having Realized that thoughts, beliefs and…
Ain't there any difference between the verbs, to- rest & quit?
Agreed. They both have the same number of letters.
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Best beautiful collection of happy and smile quotes
You ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile.
Bu sabah çok sevdiğim bir arkadaşımın ölüm haberiyle sarsıldım.
The only way to create meaning in life is to transcend the limitations of the self and its subjective preoccupations. A higher goal need not be a grand project. Even volunteering to…
In 6th grade we were supposed to give a presentation. I have absolutely no…
A few days ago marked my half-birthday, making it 31.5 years spent with my body in this world.
Oh Ohh, I don’t know.
So, I can’t contain my self to write this.
Life was very easy until I face something named quarter life crisis.
There are a few things in life which seem to remain true in life despite age with consistency.
‘Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness –, — service is the secret.’
- Kathleen Norris
I once heard Richard Branson say that something activists and entrepreneurs have in common is that…
My younger cousin is 17 years, 5 months, and 22 days old.
So, as promised, here is the story of how my husband and I got married…
We had been dating for about a year and a half. He had been going to Bloomsburg University and I had just graduated high school. I was planning on…
What do you think?
Afraid you don’t know how to do something? Afraid you may fail? How can you ever expect to learn if you don’t try…
Can’t believe it’s August already. Wow. Where is this year running to? Lol please nobody should ask me what I have achieved so far this year, please let’s behave ourselves lol. I…
Yesterday, my late evening lake walk and telephonic rendezvous with a loved one were both cut…
Your family is one of the few bright lights of hope in these times. There is nothing anyone can say to make your burden lighter, all I can offer is a deep and heart felt thank you for the sacrifices you make for the betterment of all. You have inspired many, given hope to many who were at a loss, and God only knows how many lives you have already…
Do you remember the day you got your first professional job? When the envelope flopped through the letterbox, or the long awaited call finally came, and you knew that this was it, your first step on the ladder.
Today, I woke up to a nagging voice at the back of my head, “what have you done?” it hissed.
Noble souls do not advertise their suffering. They are compassionate because do not want to burden others with need to share their pain. Their self-effacing nature helps them to…
“If you want to love what you…
I was talking with a friend at the gym last night about developing physical…
One of my favorite posts published in the Post-Grad Survival Guide this week was “How To Make A Ton Of Money Without Really Trying” by Sarah Cy.
It’s so much different from the other “how to make money doing _____” articles we see and it’s been quite…
I envy people who have one dream and everything about their life is driving towards it. You want to be a…
After much thought about what my second blog post could be about I’ve decided to explain Nourish to Flourish and the passion behind it a little more, so here goes…
I started this campaign if you like more as a way of getting me to start leading a healthier lifestyle…
(This letter is part of an epistolary series Speaking Our Souls and is a response to…
If that sounds counterintuitive, take a minute to think about it.
I feel good today. I feel loved, i can enjoy both the ups and downs of any given day. Of which there are plenty.
That is such a cool self-reflection. And it tells a lot, not only about karate. Really sorry you couldn’t use this for your exam. But thank you for putting it up here for us to read instead!
Subtitle: All my bags are packed and I’m ready to go………
I’ve always like Lao Tzu’s observation that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. What I think that he…
“Being a business man, it means sometime you have to lie a little.”
From my new favorite song, “Take It One Day at a Time.”
In it, Jennifer Chung (who I believe is Korean or Korean American?) talks about the days you have no…
When we think about philosophy we think about abstract ideas and complicated speeches, but philosophy can be as practical as it gets…
Linear time doesn´t exist, but memories are always there to acess, dreaming into a time space and continuos love life experiences.Flexibility count as a life guard, will be you aware of your non-perfection even if you won´t be perfect?Drowning energies reached my soul, what you´ve learned till…
My great escape was my first job in industry. When my exemption from national service came through I wrote 3 job applications. I got three interviews and subsequently three phone calls offering a job. Stupidly I accepted the first one. This was from a company based in Bristol manufacturing aero-engines and subsequently renamed British Aerospace.
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Life.. Not beautiful, not wonderful, not hopeful, but tough. Tough because we can’t stop thinking what is coming our way. Tough because we spent the past two-three years in denial, in denial that we are growing up, in denial that we want to make it big but don’t know how. The…
我是一個感覺行先、情緒反應主導的人。不擅掩飾情感，經常把情緒放在面上。別人眼中，好聽一點是「大情大性」，難聽一點就是「情緒不定」。
I’ve been called these things before.
While you were busy reading about habits of successful people, they were busy working on their successes.
While you were busy reading other people’s life stories, they were busy creating them.
As with all transitions, today carries with it the bittersweet feeling of loss mingled with a deep appreciation for everyone who I’ve come across during my time here.
Don’t try to change the world, change yourself.
If you are a rugby fan and most of all if you are an All Blacks fan then Richie McCaw is no…
I’m currently staring at ‘I’m going to be 50 next year’ wondering how I feel about it. For one, if I live to be 100, then I’m halfway through my life, and the first 50 years have been relatively long, so another 50 years alive on this magical planet sounds pretty…
Lately, I have been wondering what my teenage self would say to me if she could see and be with me now. If…
Thanks for talking candidly about your dislike of your appearance, while also acknowledging that as a male there is less societal pressure on you to look good. You always do a good job of checking your privilege! And maybe doing so helps you feel better. I know that when I feel terrible about my looks as my 49th birthday approaches, it helps slightly…
Begin now, wherever and whenever you are. Begin to create elegance. Begin to spread it. To seek it out. To…
For the past 21 months I’ve known that I had something amazing inside me to give to the world.
When it’s said and done, the ideas have not been brought to life. I did not execute and therefore I’m frustrated with myself about the lack of new…
Complacency is universal; it's well-versed in every spitting tongue.
❣️Love, what is love? Can we really give a definition? There is different kind of love and there is different way of loving.
Thanks for your courage in discussing this, Shannon. People in general are so clueless about how to hold space for someone who’s struggling with world-weariness. (I hope that doesn’t sound trivializing; it’s meant to communicate that I resonate deeply with those feelings of frustration, worry, and “why bother?” that you described.) I also feel like…
You must have had a million dollar idea in your head at some point in time or the other.
This article was first written for the Talkspace Blog.
“Are you afraid of success?” My therapist asked me, intently.
I let out a put-out sigh, and my defense immediately went up. “How dare she ask me that?”…
By Kurt E. Van Stuyvesant
I, Dalton Lewis, claim that society lied to you. Society told you that everything was okay. It said that the people in charge are good people who deserve it more than you. The actors in charge of Hollywood get everything while the rest of us get scraps. They live off of our…
I think I hate you, but I don’t know how to hurt you. Even though I’ve lost count of the amount of times that you’ve hurt me, abused me, taken advantage of my passivity, drowned me in your bullshit, I don’t know how to hurt you back.
Embarrassment is a useless emotion.
Just a few days back we wrote about the new Telegram passport that would allow…
What’s your name? A fellow at Amal Academy asked me. Hifsa, I replied. What’s yours? I asked him. I guess this has…
It took me some years to realize just how important our mind is. The mind is single-handedly the greatest tool we have…
Trust us, not for our obedience to your commands, but for our promise on delivering troubles to you, at your doorstep and in your mental palaces.
They forgive you, by dying. Knowing those who replace them, know why they died and know what to do, to uncover the bully’s insecurities.
Every now and then, on top of the reruns of the most embarrassing moments of your life, a memory of an opportunity squandered smears the back of your eyelids with regret.
Oh no! Look at this! I got OLD! In spite of everything I’ve done, in spite of how far, and fast I’ve run, in spite of positive thinking, living in the moment, and visualizing myself young …I got old.
Spoiler alert! You stop being an “age” like Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, after a…
I have always saw myself as the guy in the Five of swords. My belief of the card to mean I got all the swords from those who wanted to take from me and I sent the people packing taking their swords.
When I pull a card I don’t care for I pull another. Therefore I know I am making the change on the card I want for the day.
Naturally, the past year has flown by. Turning 18 came with the excitement of stepping into adulthood and at a time where I was…
My last 7 years of school spent in one of the most wanted major in my country in the last decade. One day I felt so proud to…
One of my favorite episodes of The Andy Griffith Show is Man in a Hurry. It is an episode that features a traveling…
When the walls seem to be closing in, there is always someone who can listen.
We know God is omnipresence, everywhere, and the truth has been revealed that we each hold this Infinity, this Divine influence, within us and are indivisibly part of It for It exists everywhere all at once. We know that when It has entered into individual consciousness, “the kingdom of God is…
The strong magnificent boy
My name is Myanna Nash and today I went to the shelter called “Feed Clothe and Help the Needy.” I interviewed this boy name Ozzie…
Wow 👏so interesting.
So I was 16. Yes, a long time ago… sixteen, the age where your hair is EVERYTHING to you…
Yesterday my sister was listening to music with her head phones. I asked her something but she could not hear me. After she finished with her music mania I said her jokingly, ‘ It is the best time to scold you or to say bad things about you when you are…
Some curses lie in quiet absence. The blank page, the white canvas, the sleepless night with barren thoughts. The idea curse from the outside appears to be a gift. Elizabeth Gilbert speaks of ancient notions of ideas being living entities floating around looking for a willing recipient. I…
Little…or large…landmines littered everywhere …
I have never been fond of roller coasters. When at an amusement park I’m that person that wonders wtf am I doing here , oh and I turn the other way from watching the people I am with on the roller coaster
“The hardest part about change is not making the same choices you made the day before.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza
In the pursuit of a goal, velocity is undoubtedly more important than speed. However, initially I misunderstood this as an endorsement of inertia — of doing nothing at all.
I’m not a minimalist by any stretch of the imagination. I’m very tidy, but the storage space in my house is…
I don’t have a Tv set or eat out. The car is a tool to work and to take me where I feel myself in the mountains and at the sea. Like your sister, travel is necessary for my well being but every person is different.
Yes, I was called cheap this week too but as you put so well, it’s relative!
Great article!
Jennifer
I haven’t written a novel but both my children’s books’ first drafts were written through inspiration. I believe God gives me that inspiration — for everything I write and paint.
Blessings
Janis
Hey Tom Kuegler! You are probably aware of the expert advice out there that recommends taking a strong enough stand in your subject area to polarize your audience. As much as you seem to dislike negative feedback, your mindset could be that you are simply doing your job well…In my opinion, enjoying your success is the only necessary response or revenge…
Just wrote something similar for a Crunchbase article about the startups that think “We can do X,Y,Z when we have funding” lose. Love this post as always John.
So cool to hear that your strategy is working so well! Love the pushup story!
One of the critical principles of success is asking. It could be asking for help, asking for a raise at work, or asking for the sale if you’re in sales.
