Would you believe twenty five people living in the same house for years …
Life changes drastically when you look at things through a “writer’s” lens.
In December of 2001, after meditating for only thirty minutes per day, every day, for four months, I…
For many years, I’ve heard a lot of people say “This was not what I expected for my life,” or “Why is this happening to me?” I will never understand those questions or the mindset behind those individuals. How does one begin to formulate an…
Very wise words. I feel I learned a lot about myself from reading this. One thing I especially loved was the the idea of projection you mentioned. I personally have had a lot of trauma in my life and was a very negative person for a long time. I was so afraid of others not liking me and afraid of getting close enough to be hurt. I didn’t like who I…
“The compression of time is not a matter…
Stay here. Stay here, or you’ll forget. Sway slowly, don’t jerk. Hold back your sneeze. Breathe with her. Don’t move except to sway, to…
I’ve mentioned before that I have Type 1 Diabetes. Put simply, that means my pancreas…
Last night I asked myself what is at the root of ways I am getting stuck in life right now.
I have revisited this process, over and over and over again, almost daily, for the past 10 years, for my self and also for those around me. I used to be a therapist. I am now a…
Reflecting on my previous relationships.
I journeyed the world.
A quest for fulfillment. Attempting to enrich my life and eliminate this aching…
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Do you fake it ’til you make it? Do you ask for help? Do you act on your strengths?
In tech, I feel like the typical behavior is to hide what you don’t know. Everyone wants to be the smartest person in the…
The last thing Gavin wanted to do was spend his last Saturday of summer vacation cleaning his grandfather’s…
No. Please. This isn’t about colonics.
Sebagian teman-temanku, berdasarkan diskusi-diskusi dan pengamatanku terhadap mereka, berpikir bahwa menikah…
In a epic book, ‘Brida’ by paulo coelho it all started. A young girl wishes to delve deep in understanding the purpose of life…
“He who has not traveled thinks that his mother is the best cook in the world.” — Ugandan…
The storm has finally started to pass, I don’t think I could ever put into words how nice it is to really feel it start to go. Finally whatever it is has thought “fuck it, this taking more effort then usual lets go hibernate.” Its like a weight off your shoulders, the negatives…
Because the only thing that’s going to happen when you get down on your knees and dig for gold in the dirt is that you’re going to get really, really, really dirty…
People think starting a business is scary. Honestly, the first time around I was too naive to be truly scared. I knew…
這篇文章謝謝一些無意影響我的人，寫給自己看，也給與我同輩的朋友們。
最近一位大我幾歲的學長同事L離職了，我被指派暫時支援他負責的地區與工作。同期進公司的同輩曾跟提到次L在剛進來的報告時，就展現突出的能力，我因為當兵較晚入職，沒有見到L本人，腦海中自己畫著著商業競賽中侃侃而談的樣貌，事後想來實在狹隘。
直到主管找我談L離職、要我暫時支援一事，我才開始跟L因交接一事開始有交集。L被分派到的市場屬開發中國家，雖然消費力不高，但因人口眾多，是競爭者兵家必爭之地，操作困難，加上過去幾年失敗的例子，讓客戶難以信任…
And rise to the life that you were meant to live
Felicitations for trying to hold the line you are doing in public. Just a note on your article Part I & II. I think it important to note that whether arguing against the natural therapies (chemical imbalance, genetic dysfunction, etc.)or the cultural therapies (environment, family, education, etc.) one is always met by certain forms of therapeutic…
One Rule for Life is a concept to live a life of your own rules. Have you ever wonder, what is that one thing that is stopping…
We All Fail — The Key Is To Make It Mean Something
New numbers are coming out showing women occupy approx. 70% of jobs in most corporations, including top jobs. The “unequal pay” concept is based on median numbers meaning, if women hold more of the jobs, your pay median numbers go down (broader cross section melding high and low paying occupations). If you take the top earning female CEOs, they make…
I used to catch myself taking unplanned dates with myself, by myself before a mirror…
I have been continuously meditating almost everyday for the last 6 months. It was one of my resolutions for the year to attain better mental perspectives, and I stumbled upon a few meditation apps & decided to give it a…
Who Are You? What do You Need?
“El conejo de chocolate”
Hace 3 meses y medio, 105 días para ser exactos, probe mi ultimo chocolate (un menjurje de chocolate caliente con agua y canela…
How It Ends
I no longer peer into the distance with a heart and mind filled with optimism. The beaten path behind me, with scattered footsteps in disarray…
(Co-written by my Pet Rock)
Sentient beings, including humans, are mostly motivated by the principle of pain and pleasure. I want to add two variables to…
The passive aggressive boss who never lets you have a day off.
What are you looking for while working? Well, I don’t want to preach you. I only want to…
This story is about the Usability of learning new things, and how “How To” is not.
“For the love of Christ compels us…” (2 Cor. 5:14).
Through the last year, my answer for most of my friends and work-mates problems is…
“As you sow, so shall you reap”, the saying has been ingrained in our minds owing to our conditioning and exposure. But let me tell you something, you may or may not.
I have had a lifelong interest in learning languages. When I was a teen, I used to borrow…
I went out with my mom for coffee today, and we started talking about the days when we would walk to the market together, buying second hand books from the local vendor and observing keenly the celebrated chaos in the market at the time of…
A General Reflection on the Assumptions We Make
We are responsible for ourselves. If I want my life to be a certain way, I have to make it that way. I have to take charge of my actions. I cannot blame others. I cannot drown in self-pity. There is a part of all of us that does not want us to become who we aspire to be. It is…
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your…
In anticipation of my upcoming move, a few weeks ago I had a yard sale with my neighbor. We each…
Hey Martin, totally agree with the emphasis on discovery. You need to know the problem as intimately as possible. It gives you the possibility to look at it from different angles.
I also think that one should not be afraid if the design fails. You need to be ready to tweak it and make it better so it doesn’t fail again.
Because Someone Ate It.
Writing is rewarding. You may not reap the rewards right away. But, if you stick with it and get over your fears, then you can see the benefits. I think that fear of not being ‘good enough’ is something that can be a show stopper.
I remember being told by one of my university professors that my writing was the worst she saw…
You do know that YOU are the product of your online business, right?
My humble suggestion is please don’t try to repeat this burst of overexertion. The brain is not equipped to cope with non-stop activity. You were lucky to have escaped serious harm to your mental and physical well-being in your maiden foray into the world of uninterrupted work.
Remember that book All I need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? It’s a nice sentiment, but the truth is that life goes on and sometimes we have to learn things we never wanted to learn. The other fact of the matter is that not everyone learned those basic human skills…
Everybody tells you that you should work your passion. Fight for it! make a living out of it!. We truly believe in that, but we don’t listen to ourselves as much as we listen to others.
My book review of this terrific inspirational book about the life of Nelson Mandela.
If love is gravity, having kids anchors your heart to the soul of your offspring.
I’ll try.
I hate those words.
Human being is capable of do impressive things. We have astronauts conquering the space, programmers developing applications allowing you to see through the layers of your body, biotechnologists growing replacement human ears inside a mice bodies… We can do all of those. But yet we cannot do one simple thing: sit down and enjoy the life.
Cricket is the most celebrated sport in India. For this country, it’s not just a sport, it’s a religion. It…
Irrespective of you are doing and what your goals in live are, it might be that…
What is distracting you?
tonight he played his song for mekilled me with the softness of itand as I…
If you wait until you’re 100% ready, you won’t do it. Being 100% ready never happens. There’s no such thing.
To see yourself in the image of a radical other, of another person of yourself, fully flesh out outside yourself as a…
I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t know how to be a Girlfriend. I don’t have what it…
It took me a long time to learn this lesson. When I was a child I wanted to be an illustrator for comic books. When I stared to get good at it, the comic industry crashed. Then I wanted to create hand drawn animations. I was struck with wonder when I came out of the theater for Princess Monoke…
Two days ago, a good friend of mine received an offer from a top 4 company.
It was an amazing moment and I almost cried.
I’ve been lamenting the past 2 years about how unsatisfied I was with my social life.
There was a time you wanted this life… Or at least, you thought it was all you could have… But now, you are hungry for something more…
Except you feel like you need to be reasonable and sensible and thankful for what you…
And so does life
It has been over two years since my last post here. A sudden shortage of activity on…
The same reason a man buying a car may think to himself is it’s for the purpose of “transportation” yet the true underlying reason he buys stems from this…
Taking charge of my life
There comes a time in one’s life when happiness doesn’t only mean clubbing and partying all night. Four years ago I woke up to the legal side of life where I tied the knot and give up the “me" side of me and picked up the “us" side.
So, what are the negatives? Let’s be radically honest.
There are times when I realise that my life is not full of …
Love and intimacy as I thought it was,
I’ve been a little absent from this blog recently, and I’m working on not letting that…
Something my sister always says is growing truer in my mind every day. “Salvation is in your hands, and in your hands…
It seems that owning and buying new stuff makes us happy these days. But does it really make us…
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for following me, I’ve followed you back after reading your article. I liked the questions you offered and the suggestions to take small steps towards a goal, especially if it seems overwhelming.
Just out of curiosity, where are you from?
All the best,
Marjorie
In It For The Long Haul
A mother was seeing her 8 year-old son off to school one morning. She walked him to the bus stop where they waited patiently; the…
There will always be people who are better than you.
Be it that famous writer.
That prolilic blogger.
That public speaker.
That marketer.
“Why did you choose to believe things unkind?
As I write this, my heart is beating a little faster and my chest is feeling just a little tighter. A sense of panic is setting in. I am a control freak and the idea of letting go of control scares me to death (or so it feels). The truth is that I actually have very little…
You have to accept the way life works. The problem is, you have the option not to.
Once upon a time, there was an old king whose monarchy was encircled by powerful opponents, waiting for him to die and apprehend his throne. When his only son, rightful to the throne, became 12 years old, he decided to start his combat training. He challenged all the…
Neurological studies have shown that when a pattern of thinking is repeated over and over it creates a “rut” in the brain…
You sit down at your keyboard, a title pops into your head and you wonder “now what do I do with this?”.
Dear Mike,
I am sorry for not staying at the hospital, that last night you were alive, until after they took the breathing tube out — so we could just sit, watching bad tv with eachother. Truth is…my “I’ve got paddling practice” excuse was just that to get me out of that hospital — away from you — in the hospital — again —…
Great article!!
It reminded me of my first Amazon Royalty payment from selling Kindle eBooks. (Free Hot Writers Tip: If you wrote 10 articles on the same theme and they were connected, you may have a Kindle eBook)
My wife had a good chuckle at how much I received.
Capitalism is not a social construct. It’s an economic one.
The social construct is individualism.
It came about as a result of the Enlightenment.
It ended feudalism.
Individualism has capitalism as its economic tenet.
Hi Violeta,
I too liked your writing style and tone of the article. Going to checkout your blog… one little thing I noticed though near the top was “wining you…” which I think was meant to be “within you…”… Anyway, loved your writing and I can definitely relate to you and the things you shared!
Hey Daniel,
This was on point. Thanks for saying what needed to be said. Oddly enough I used a similar analogy about the airplane oxygen masks in a piece I wrote today about mental health. Anyway, I agree — one of the best gifts you can give someone is to actually listen to them— and shut the f**k up.
Wind and solar are a waste of money.
Build modular 4th generation nuclear reactors everywhere. You don’t need all the transmission lines and you have a reliable, sustainable energy supply.
It’s the only true alternative to fossil fuels.
You don’t have to see if it’s been done or find out who’s doing it. Live your own life. Do it yourself.
George, this is fantastic! I got so tired of hearing how you HAVE to have a morning routine to be successful. I’m not a morning person, don’t want to be one and never will be one. Nice to have some support for not having a precious morning routine.
This is TRUTH. I use this in my psychotherapy practice with my patients. I remember the day I decided to change the emotional, spiritual and psychological direction I was facing for consultation on my life.
I loved this for so many reasons. First, because I too love this kind of writing. Other people’s stories are relevant to me. I love books and novels — if they are about success, they are about a different definition of success. Or, better yet, a questioning of success. Here on Medium I sometimes feel at home — other times, I’ve actually seen people…
Have you ever felt like you were just not good enough? That somehow everyone had received the handbook for life, except you? Do you keep waiting for the moment when you will finally arrive and feel like you have made it?
Yes, I have been there too. When I was younger, I was sure that age 35 was when I would definitely arrive…
A common struggle that many people are bound to be the syndrome called “I will…
A NEW INCONVENIENT TRUTH
One can only keep their blinders on for so long. If you’ve been in denial about the state of our economy and the effects it’s…
Mark,
Welcome to Live Your Life On Purpose. I have added you as a writer and I am looking forward to reading your stories! :)’
Steve
It’s not possible to legally buy military grade weapons.
An AR15 is nowhere near military grade and the AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle.
As an observer, I saw people are doing amazing things to help others. Why? Why are they helping others? You ask?Yesterday, I witness something beautiful. I was gonna make a video! But I stay up late trying to do an interview. But we gonna do it on sunday.
Especially if that designation is self-ascribed. I’ve always kind of thought that sounds like talking about power.
If you have to tell somebody you’re powerful, you’re not.
This is a great piece, Jeff, thank you.
“Then what did you do?” Ask yourself that question about the last time you endured a setback or challenge. The answer will tell you a lot about whether you are on a path to mediocrity or prosperity. Average people will bounce back after a few challenges or setbacks, but eventually fold…
Michael,
Saving your instructions for next year. I remember doing something similar on bristol board or heavy cardboard. Thanks.
I am a former teacher and I know exactly what you mean. Those who are “artists” are not necessarily good teacher candidates. They get impatient when a child doesn’t “do it…
Currently I have an uncle.
He has a good life. The man is a millionaire. He made his money from a very profitable accounting firm that he started 21 years ago. This business has…
My mother tells me
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Sometimes when I learn a new thing I get excited about doing it and go at it full force. Then, there’s a point where things get super difficult and all of a sudden I question my whole life up to the point and wonder if I was meant to do what I had convinced myself I would have fun…
But how to encourage them to push past the fear? What are they afraid of? Someone not liking it? Failure? I don’t know.
Blessings
Janis
This is exactly true, Mike. Each of us chooses pretty much everything. I think maybe we forget we can make different choices because we have chosen exactly the same thing for so long.
But the ability to select something different is always there.
I am digging deep.
I’m flying far.
Every week I walk wider,
I’ve got no maximum bar.
The Left never think their Presidents are authoritarian because they like the policies. And the Right don’t whine about everything. The Left are very different. They seem to take everything personal.
I was working on this post and just saw Peter Strzok was “fired” on Friday. When you hear those words what are your initial thoughts? Mine used to be that the person probably did something wrong. No more. Being an investigator for more than 20 years I have seen a lot of people who have…
“Suffering ends as we see life as it is in hidden truth.”
What do we deny ourselves?
I am challenging myself as an absolute novice writer with no idea about…
Anytime Glenna Gill,
Please let me know what you think about it after you have had a chance to read it.
That is the item that impressed me the most. I know you wish to desire to speak on something that doesn’t really clarify NutraHer Lean. Perhaps you’ve decided to be for NutraHer Lean…
This counts so much in her development not only as an artist but as a human being.
Create, then edit works across all humanities disciplines, not just writing.
An intelligence, lifestyle shall lead up to knowledge. Bringing that sign of it into a whole different aspect…
I believe that is true. If you don’t vote Democrat when you are young, you have no heart. If you don’t vote Republican when you are older, you have no brains.
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CONTENTMENT IS THE WORTHIER AIM
Outstanding advice. I’d just add one thought: sometimes it’s not clear what you should focus on — which means jumping around a bit and trying different things. So maybe that should be Slot #1: do some exploring and experimenting and find your vocation — what you’re being called to do. Then go all in on it. Thanks for sharing.
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TODAY FILL YOUR CUP OF LIFE WITH LITTLE LAUGHTER
Ride the respective vessel for it's intended purpose. Life is meant to be lived with intent for the individual.
Without love the heart is simply an organ, but with it, it can cure all the woes of the world.
