Do you ever drink coffee and feel like it just didn’t work?
Romans 10:3–4 (KJV)For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
It’s August already. Coming back to my home at North Carolina, I instantly started to miss the chill weather in the Bay Area. My internship at Facebook ended a couple of days ago, so I figured it might be a…
And, No, I’m not Talking about Tiny Houses…
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Warning: the following article contains potential spoilers for A Quiet Place.
You can call it whatever you want. The set of rules, The set of constants of which every situation, every problem, every game in-fact everything is consist of.
FORGET PASSION: HOW HATE TURNED THINGS AROUND
In many real life stories of conquest and success,passion is cited as the drivers. Think Warren Buffets who started a business at 13,Bill Gates who quit college to pursue his PC dream and Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook in a hostel. The similarity of their journeys - Passion…
There is a Zen Koan, “My Heart Burns Like Fire,” which lists some rules for living a more…
Hey its Olivia back with another blog post! Today I’m here to give you the 411 on…
All month I’ve been obsessed with buying water shoes. I got fixated on them after a trip to the…
I started working towards setting up my not-for –profit Mithra, in January of 2018. I’m in August now. Almost every…
A mother’s story how a terrible loss of her son, set her on the path she had been trying to find !!!
by Dr. Donna Roberts
(Going to share the experience after talking to the many people and talking about their…
Being a product manager at one of unicorn start up was not easy as we know that this job is one of the most stressful job in fastest growing tech industry nowadays. While tech start ups demand a high profile talents to join the board. The majority of people really really push their…
I've thought about sixty different ways to begin this story but I can't seem to pin…
I’ve had this wallet on my Amazon wish list for some time now.
I like the idea of minimalism.
I adhere to it.
If I had to pack my things and go within the hour, I could fill my backpack and feel…
The ‘mundane’ day to day things. When you look back to a time in your life, you…
She was in pain. Our Golden Retriever, Precious, had torn her cranial cruciate ligament. Surgery was unavoidable. The procedure went better…
“Do not follow where a path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The strength of a person’s spirit…
Dear Sir,
With due respect and humble submission.. I wanted to say that…
A teacher sits in front of a class of 7 year olds and asks, “what would you like to be when you grow up?”. A flurry…
One of the most asinine phrases that can grace my ears is “thats not my job”.
Over a summer trip in Dubai, I recall looking outside of the backseat of a taxi and noticing a large wall working to hide construction on a nearby building. The wall had a large, bold question…
Yurt dışında yaşamaya başladıktan sonra yapmak istediklerimden biri, otomobilden uzaklaşıp bisiklete geçmekti. Neredeyse 20 yıl oldu. Geride…
Do you feel a little bit like scorched earth after the Eclipse? As if you have burned…
There’s this notion out there that we’re all entitled to do what we love.
But the truth is we aren’t.
No one is…
Because to be able to keep doing what you love, to be able to do more of the things you…
Standard asphalt tennis court construction does not support vehicle loads so its adaptive reuse as a parking lot is likely not an option. On really hot days, the tires of a heavy…
Imagine someone in your life who is always positive about you. She talks all the good things about you, making you feel proud. When you make a mistake, she encourages you, “Let’s do it again.” She herself is always cheerful, always optimistic. Wouldn’t you…
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
~Cicero
We’d rather experience failure, loss, and pain than seeing our beliefs invalidated. As a result, our lives…
I encourage you to buy the Book, In Jesus Name. It is all about ‘how’ to get to know Jesus Christ intimately. Knowing begets trust.
Simplify your life
I removed the dark towel from the TV screen and replaced it with a white towel. Suddenly the room feels so much cleaner. The white color…
En la vida vas a encontrar de todo tipo de personas, desde las que te llenan de risas…
“You have to think about stability,” an expat friend advised me over an Indian dinner four years ago. She was 37 at…
I should have been writing earlier but instead, I got sucked into watching the show…
What comes from conversations with clients… I often find a new approach or something cool pops up from my explorations with others and their world. This is a gift from a new…
Everyone has the right to define what is the meaning of life to them. And they can spend their whole life to put those theories…
This is not true. This is one of the sayings of Job for which God reprimanded him in Job 38:2 as:
‘speaking with understanding devoid of knowledge, understanding that darkens God’s counsel’ .
It isn’t always easy, and there are many times when repairs to a relationship seem truly impossible. We…
You can’t control what others do. You can only control what you do.
I’ve had the coffee, checked the email, and took a peek at the schedule. Maybe having access to its progress via Google isn’t such a good thing.
Hell, no maybes about it. It makes me want to scream.
#disclaimer: this is purely my real life story that i want to share with peoples around the world.I won’t make comparisons about other…
A few months back, I wrote a blog about being happy. Now for those of you who personally know me, that might come…
I haven’t been writing much I think I have been running from it. Writing gets scary sometimes.
I envisioned after my first month of blogging I’d be so accustomed to it that writing everyday wouldn’t be an issue for me.
Cover letter
Mr Ayyub
Manager HR
Amal Academy Lahore
Respected Mr Ayyub,
I am writing to apply for your position in Amal Academy. This exciting opportunity appears to be a wonderful fit with my professional experience…
It was a day when the sun shone well after 9am and i could glance out of my partitioned window, the mad rush of people trying to reach their respective work places and make a living. Little had I realised that this day is going to teach me about myself more than what I actually have known or…
Pretty much all my friends know that I am one of the kindest people they know in their circle. (And I’m not bragging about this, I’m being serious)
And I used to take pride in being kind to people, which reinforces this behavior of…
Why is it important for us to “toot our own horn”??? I was on a conference call earlier and couldn’t help but think that it could be a cultural thing or a sex thing. As a Latina woman, I am considered self-absorbed — but why? Because I know that I work hard and that I must recognize my own…
As of today, I’m on vacation. For a whole ten days I have Me Time. It’s Summer Break — remember those days? Last day of school…
Successful people aren’t like the average person — if they were, everyone would have a billion-dollar business. While each successful CEO has his or her own hacks and tricks, CEOs often follow the same effective habits, day in and day out.
Of late, Zat Rana has been venturing into recondite and abstruse topics of human existence the reading of which considerably taxes my grey cells.
As a believer in rebirth, death holds no fear for me. As the snake sheds its skin, the soul sheds the body and takes another form in the next life.
Written by yours truly
I thought I knew Web Design.
I thought I knew Web Development.
I thought I knew JavaScript.
I thought I was the $h!+.
Enrique Fiallo,
You are right again.
I agree that it is possible to find happiness in the simple things of life.
I think that what Roy Baumeister was talking about, didn’t have anything to do with enjoying the simple things of life. It was more about people who go through…
Have you ever made anyone else uncomfortable? By your words or your actions?By your appearance? By just being yourself? Or existing?
Really we are living in such a materialistic world that we are becoming selfish because we only think about…
I agree that most of us have an instinctive aversion to others’ bodily fluids, and for good reason — diseases spread when these fluids come in contact with shared public surfaces, like at a medical facility, restaurant or retail store, or in a swimming pool, for example.
I got assignment from Amal which is all about to contact with our family, friends r colleagues and ask how they are? what they are doing in these days? What did they do past weekend? Now what plan for the next ? etc. Friends are great blessing.
start feeling absolutely beautiful right now:
1. Smile. It lights up your face. It triggers happiness in your brain. It makes others feel happy.
2. Remember your posture. Stand up straight. Hold your head high. Throw those shoulders back. You look confident, energetic, amazing!
You may know how it feels to be desperately lost. Tangled in bedsheets damp from sweat, huffing my…
Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing — Helen Keller
I was 19 when I “escaped” my mothers’ house. With my fathers’ help I untied the apron strings around my neck and moved into a small apartment, found a new job and started to breathe.
We all have off days every now and then, it’s in our human nature. And when we are in a funk, even the smallest…
We all love winning! We all want to be the best. We want to be picked up like the best strawberry in the…
A better way to phrase this is to say a believer in Jesus Christ must believe that God has plans for bringing good out of all of our circumstances.
A Christian must not love ‘evil’ circumstances, only must believe there is good planned out of the evil circumstances (Romans 8:28).
“Be subject then to…
Alex Tenorio, founder of Dropship Masterminds, has been earning his living through drop-shipping, which…
Year 1925, London
WWI is a past event. Most families are trying to elevate themselves from the poverty and the inhumane living conditions they have been subjected to the past years.
Destination happiness is a real thing and it is something. Your next milestone will not make you happy, if anything it’ll make you more miserable and ready to chase after the next. I understand that this is a hard thing to get to grips with but…
If you’re Indian you might have heard the phrase “bhed-chaal”, to my non-Indian friends, it means Herd Mentality. In laymen terms it’s used for people who follow someone or something blindly.
June 12, 2018.
Route planning for an offroad adventure can be daunting to say the least. Just finding a geographical area to explore is often time consuming, and that doesn’t even take into…
When you look in the mirror what do you see?
What do you TRULY see? I can tell you what I see. Your friends and family can tell you what they see, that is obsolete in this moment, what do you see?
Is it so? Can you fight for your love? Can you cheat for your love? Can you get your crush love you with all possible means you can think of; good or bad? Why do they say everything is fair in love and war?
Thank you for sharing your story. I was that daughter too, though the details may differ.
I can relate to your attitude “I’m a freaking Finance Manager..” I was a successful Branch Manager in the corporate world in my early 40s when I started having panic attacks and was diagnosed with depression.
Not starting another business is a waste of your personal experience.
In our everyday lives differences occur. The source of such differences arise from a difference in…
No one will create opportunities for you.
No one will magically find out about you.
No one will come and give you that raise.
No one will tap into your potential.
Tony, this is incredibly validating for me as the mother of two sons. The younger one is cheerful, loving, and open about his feelings. The teenager is only generous in sharing one emotion: anger. I believe he’s repressing a big chunk of who he really is, for the sake of emulating a masculine “ideal” that’s actually poisonous. But it seems like the…
How are you doing my friend?
I agree, we should create meaning so that our life has value and we are not just stumbling through it.
Thanks for your comment,
Steve
while looking around at all the people I usually see in this Windsor Starbucks. Not taking time to look up any…
Janis Cox,
You are absolutely correct.
We should let God take care of it.
God has a plan for our lives and he tells us not to worry. In fact, Peter tells us, “Cast all you anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7.
Thanks for the reminder,
Beating procrastination is a simple matter of exiting the doom loop by taking control of your mood. With the right strategies in place, you can take the reins and get yourself in the mood to get things done. The strategies that follow will help you to make this happen.
Hi
Very interesting articel! Just some Food for thought: looking at the last 10 000 years, and not on the last 50 to 100 what was the normal way for people to live? I mean people who had a “job”, worked on a farm, in a trade, … How close to the next catastrophy did they operate?
Take a break from your routine. Be adventurous. Be Happy. Feel the success from inside.
The people and cars we care about are essentially inseparable.
We’re car people here in the USA. Our memory playback is measured by the car we had, the people riding in the car, and the music coming out of the speakers.
CREATING HEALTHY CONNECTIONS
Time keeps ticking regardless we spend it wisely or we waste it.
The problem is we think we have time. We think we have tomorrow to start something new.
We think we have tomorrow to do something that excites us.
Thanks Nupoor,
I am happy that you found my story insightful. I hope that you also found some nuggets that you can use to level up your life.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for you comment.
By Van & Stuyvesant
Failing At The School of Life
Isn’t it like that all over? It just rots my socks. When we have something to say, something we really believe in, somebody arguing with you raises their voice so we have to shout over them, we are the one doing wrong…
logbook// 11th of august 2018 on #faceyourdemons
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…
An echo was always repeated to my conscious self by my mind…
Who are you to give anyone life advice? You are not that special
“Be more Interested than Interesting”
In this blog, I will discuss the how we make new friends and how to influence by the friends? It’s a very interesting…
We’re only 11 days into August and my current thought process is as follows: Will it be…
Things change, a lot. I used to be really hesitant to move on from certain things, become something different because I felt like I needed to fit a mold that I set for myself in the eyes of others. What I dreamt of being when I was 8 years old is not who I want to become anymore. What I dreamt and thought I’d do for the…
Stephen, I spent 10 years launching and developing support materials for Sinemet CR, the first of the controlled-release Parkinson’s drugs. Along the way, I interviewed and filmed George Dingman, a man who was diagnosed in his early 30s. He was a gym/history teacher, and discovered his first noticable tremors holding his daughter during baptism. By…
Life would be a whole lot easier if we didn’t have problems, right?
Not having problems would mean less stress, things or projects would get done a lot quicker and life would be so much simpler.
According to some, commitment is an obligation that restricts freedom of action. But it’s not true. Commitment is FREEDOM. I say that because commitment helps you focus on what you…
“Loyalty is a consequence of leadership”- Vice-President lady on Designated Survivor.
The Interesting Challenge
Meet with Different Friends And Share Experiences After Discussion:
We All Do
What a defining line M.M. O'Keefe! As fathers, or anyone for that matter, we all have demons we battle. And once we acknowledge it, we can do something about it.
Thank you for sharing your father’s story and how we can apply it to life!
Interesting challenge
I conducted interviews from my friends, family and relatives on Tuesday. It was quite interesting activity. I took interview from 11 persons.
Kanza
I wrote the first version of this poem for the graduation edition of my high school newspaper. But I’ve iterated on it many times over the last decade as I’ve experienced new things and its words took on new meaning. It was there during a dark time in my life where I felt alone and nothing was what it seemed. I recited its verses to myself during a…
The ‘’Interested challenge’’ was an amazing task for me as I come to know about the happiness and hurdles of the other people or what they are feeling inside. It really forced me to feel about others because it brought the feeling of care and interest. I have…
Ever thought what would have happened if u made that one decision of your life ...one very crucial choice entirely…
Upon realizing they need to overcome life obstacles, most enlightened entrepreneurs run…
My answer to your question is an emphatic NO.
Happiness resides in the heart — not out there somewhere.
Thank you for reminding us of this truth.
It’s here in all the pieces of my shameThat now I find myself again.I yearn to belong…
THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!
Okay, first up honestly there needs to be balance in your life. You need to be able to be comfortable with yourself to go as far as you can sit in the one spot and just think and understand yourself rather than conforming to what “society deems normal”.
Freedom is
an incapacitated composure
Everyone has a dream. Whether it is to go on a vacation around the world or start a new career or buy that dream home, we all know what we’d love to do.
( From Interested Challenge and book “How to Win Friends & Influence People” by Dale Carnegie)
Happiness is not a place, it’s a way of life. I can’t tell you that how many time people come to me and said that they are sad and so lonely. I bend over…
Thanks Selma,
My goal in writing these articles is to use what I have learned to help others improve their lives and to help them become more positive.
I am happy that you enjoyed my article and that you found value in it.
Thanks again,
Today I watched a group of child throwing stones at a sleeping dog.Are they really innocent or are they highly cruel.How do we differentiate..?By age…by education…!every metaphysical system has a veil around it to make it appear more decent and more comprehensible….a thought strikes…
Really useful, Tom Kuegler! “Writing with zero expectations is a surefire way to enjoy blogging.”
I love to write, but writing with zero expectations is still a challenge. I’m still letting go of the need to be heard. Your thoughts?
Another 5 minutes today.
Starbucks in Gurnee is the setting.
Hung out with a good friend today in Kenosha and it was awesome. Good guy and he has a good gal; I’m happy for him.
I like this. Why? Because I have found someone who believes that which I believe. For years I’ve been trying to justify why it is that I only feel content or happy when I’m doing stuff that makes a difference. I’ve been criticised so often by friends and family for chasing work which for me makes me feel that I’m making a positive difference to…
There are three strategies (that I know of) for dealing with pain and suffering. The first is dualist. You can go low and say to yourself, “It could be worse than this.” Or you can go high and chase pleasures until all your dopamine is spent (and the pain will…
Valerie,
How can you sleep? I can’t have a sip of coffee. I can’t even drink green tea. And right now I am not even having my square of chocolate.
Each body is different I guess. Here’s to water — and great refreshing drink. lol :)
Blessings
Janis
Who knew there was so much about nonsense!
The Interested Challenge
Honestly, I was an introvert type of person. Even I wanted to get the job in which I might not communicate with the persons. But many times, my mind asked me either I was completely satisfied with that behavior or it should be changed? My answer was not so clear but somehow, I accepted the fact that…
GRATITUDE : FIRST SIGN OF A THINKING,RATIONAL CREATURE
https://gratitudethenewasset.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/420/
Do you ever look into a mirror and see a stranger?Ever think that you might be just a messenger?Maybe even a figment of someone’s imagination?Or maybe, just maybe, a pointless part of a constellation?Every time I walk past a reflective surface,I see this person who looks like a familiar face…
I never miss a day of making someone smile with a kind word. Thank you for reminding us of that.
Syed,
Thanks for sharing your story with Live Your Life On Purpose readers.
Here I am. Coming out of what is adequately deemed alienation substituted for solitude and quiet time. Quiet time has turned into 3 years of living inside a mind that slowly spiraled out of harmony.
I come from a broken place, shattered fragments of myself left upon empty relationships, unfruitful friendships, and marriage…
He’s Worth the fight
King Solomon was really wise to have been able to settle the argument of two women over a living child. However, I can’t help but to…
Stand Stubbornly In Your Belief. When I was a kid I had this neighbor who would get irritated with me because I would bounce my basketball in the late hours of the night. One day she…
IT IS THE TIME TO REVEAL YOUR INNER STRENGTH
https://gratitudethenewasset.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/438/
I love drawing, when I was a kid. Now, I draw now and then. But I am getting back into it. Because I want to get better at what I am doing.
Right, Now, I am learning Japanese language. It has been on and off. But I realize that my…
