We’ve all seen and perhaps grown tired of guides and lists that are rife with tedious clichés and full of humdrum regurgitated…
The allure of writing is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can…
The most popular TED Talk ever given was How Great Leaders Inspire Action, presented by Simon Sinek in 2009. Like most budding…
Many people I work with struggle with developing healthy self-regard because they don’t want to…
In order to get where you want to go, you’re going to have to grow as a person.
“Wise thinking leads to right living; Stupid thinking leads to wrong living.” Ecclesiastes 10:2 (MSG)
Somehow, through a hideous lack of planning, my husband and I will have teenagers living in our house for 26 years. In a…
You get a new team, new players, different backgrounds — how do you make them come together as quickly as possible? As famous NBA coach Doug Collins said, trust must always comes before truth. If you want to hold your players accountable, there must be a relationship…
I just took a phone call.
I’ve been overweight since the fourth grade.
Now, this is a story all about howMy life got flipped-turned upside downAnd I'd like to take a…
When I was in the 5th grade in school I learned that life was not always fair. Of course, I’ve seen the unfairness…
“When nothing seems to help I go back and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a…
Too Soon
In my part of the world, when a friend or colleague is bereaved, the words “take heart”, “God knows best”, “accept my condolence”. “I’m sorry about your loss”, “may God console you” are consistently heard via calls and voice notes and seen in writing especially via SMS and Whatsapp.
You cannot change your future, but you…
We all read and watch the speeches and quotes of success-failure shit by prominent people for motivating ourselves…
When I decided to write this post, there were lots of things that came to my…
It seems the potential for pain nearly has no end.
A few days ago my consulting services were booked by a Retired European Pensioner…
Since when excuses were so beautiful?
Perhaps you should read for understanding rather than to respond: “How they treated us was a reflection of their own journey and their own growth experience. It had nothing to do with our worthiness or value or any other quality.” I’m all for a personal growth mindset, but I don’t go for victim blaming. The fallacy is the attitude that if my…
After a night drinking party, for sure, you will wake up with a throbbing headache and stomach rolling…
So he’s come and gone already, two jam packed days of triumphant public appearances and…
“The song is about hyperventilating — kissing and fainting to the floor,” Robert Smith of…
Move forward openly with curiosities and…
Losing your confidence or self-esteem at work, it’s something that happens to everyone…
Being 25, which in the western culture, potrays the adults having fun and struggles, living their best life at the same time finding their footing in life. Ahh how good it is to be worrying about your own self’s goals, to focus on yourself. While in the Asian culture, being…
If you ask a why question to yourself, ask yourself whether you’re really interested in finding an answer or you’re just…
Have you lost your hitchhiking virginity yet?
With all the fun and half the calories, being an aunt really satisfies
“A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels.” — Mother Teresa, born 26…
When I first started writing on Medium, my first publication was Th-Ink Queerly run by Darren Stehle. I…
Between the ordinary and the extraordinary is that little “Extra” we give. By adopting the…
In a perfect world, the people around us and those we spend most of our time with, would be encouraging, supportive and positive people.
However, we know that’s not the case.
Finding new life with a mental illness
Question Number 1 — MONEY TALKSWhen you compare inflation versus increased expenses…
Change is inevitable. It can be good, or bad, but it happens all the time whether we want it to or not. Some are small and hardly noticeable, like the pothole that got filled on your street yesterday. Some are big and demand everyone’s attention, like the invention of the…
Do you ever had a yearly birthday wish list?
Are those wishes you have had ever granted?
Alain de Botton este un filosof modern destul de șmecher pentru că înțelege mediul digital…
You can’t start a sentence with the phrase ‘In therapy today…’ without your conversational partner…
June 2009 : I graduated as an Electronics and Communications Engineer from a private college in Hyderabad, India. A couple of months prior to my convocation, I had got placed in a leading Telecom company. This meant that I wouldn’t be allowed to…
If you’re afraid I’m about to get all “Mindful” on you — no worries. If you want to dive into that topic, talk to my brother. No, I’m about…
I’ll imitate my former mentor in Android Development, Rocky, who recently had taken to writing daily little stuff to be grateful for. Stuff like that from people like him makes my Facebook News Feed more wholesome to look at. I thought I should contribute some positivity.
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left,
many people think ordinary is bad. i was recently talking to a friend who said their biggest fear was being ordinary or…
If I was gifted another life I would make more mistakes
Our Boy Scout troop’s first Scoutmaster, Ray Hoyle, taught me one of the most important lessons of my life.
“You’re sure? Thirty dollars is a lot of money,” Dad said folding the bills I handed them in half and offering them back to me.
“Making money is no fun. Contributing…
When it is you holding yourself back
There’s a big difference between values we learn as a kid and values we practice as an adult. Somewhere in between, we change our values to work-practically. So is there even a point of teaching children the impractical values?
It’s been two years since I became a college student in the US. America is a multicultural country, and there is a variety of people with different backgrounds. However, it doesn’t mean I could force my way of thinking onto others. As I was growing up in Japan…
Everything we want is on the other side of fear Then why is it we feel safer to live here?
“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell
A lesson in you can’t give what you don’t have
You are an active person, you love sports, you love the adrenaline rush you get from…
There’s something to be said about being confident. Unshakeable. Deciding to be yourself no matter what.
To stop trying to “show them”
To stop trying to have everyone in your life “like” you.
Some people will like you.
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to…
💭
Maybe I’ll put these into a more coherent form someday…
If you’re enrolled in college, congratulations! Like the rest of us, you took many…
‘‘Shall we book you in again in eight weeks’ time?’’
So a series of mini events happened today that made me realize, sometimes things come and go in patterns, and you simply cannot fight it too much. It’s like when you’re sick or injured, all of a sudden everyone wants to go out and you seem to miss out on the best events of the year…
Someone much, much smarter than I am, once responded to a question I had, with three simple words:
”I don’t know.”
First I was surprised as I expected her to have an answer to my question (otherwise I wouldn’t have asked). But then I realized that she…
There’s lots of talk about expanding consciousness and sometimes I know folk wonder what that really means !
To know that I am worthless garbage but it is the choice of my own making.
As I swallowed those gallons of coke and churn out the gallons of semen from chronic masturbation, I realized that this is my own choice as much as I find no joy in partaking in them, alas I choose it…
Each of us has a set of special set of skills and ideas. Some more scarce (and therefore maybe more noticeable & valuable!) than others but regardless, it’s probably fair to say that we could all do a little bit better or more than what we do today, if we…
Last night I was talking with my twenty one year old daughter, as she had to do her law homework. Somehow she had a small existencial crisis. She was reviewing the relationship she had with her high school friends and concerned, told me, she did not want to belong to the…
Well, I had a concussion. This is an archived letter from The Card Catalog, but it’s still relevant in August.
I think I’m chronically exhausted. ~ Hillary Clinton
One of the beauties of life is that we’re able to learn life lessons from the people and the…
This theme runs rampant in your offerings and I appreciate this message above all else. I’m learning so much about setting the proper environment to achieve goals and your reinforcement in your work is refreshing.
There is a silent killer of dreams within us. Its a behaviour that is hard-wired into our very essence, and I haven’t been able to figure out what it’s actually good for.
My road in life took a sharp turn at age 50. The proverbial small curves, bumps, and forks…never saw them. No turn signals. No road signs. No old fashion traffic officer moving people along. Just hard right, or left, or both if you may.
Like the japanese art of Kintsukuroi “golden repair”, we all should learn to love our faults, our cracks and fill them with gold. Not thinking broken it’s ugly, it is beautiful.
(Originally posted to Persistent Beat on June 7, 2018.)
Looking back,
– > That’s controversial alright Tom. I don’t agree with you on this one, but I can see how your recent interactions have made you feel this way.
I think a person who can offer polite, respectful, constructive criticism; who is coming from a place of wanting to help you improve… they’re worlds away from a hater. People like…
It’s late.
I shouldn’t be telling you this.
Alright, I’ve had enough green tea, I’ll spill the beans.
I’m terrified. I am honest to god scared out of my mind most moments of most days.
“Are you building something powerful?” Benjamin P. Hardy, that’s a great question that really inspires! Why not activate all our potential and become a force for good in the world? Got anything better to do?
I’m personally am inspired by the power of unconditional LOVE. In aligning with my vision of a world where…
“Yes” to everything you wrote!
It’s really rare that I find someone that I think might even possibly be a potential beau. Ah, well. Things work out as they should, though, and I’m 100% cool with both of us moving on. And I’m really not sure I would have seen my growth without things ending exactly the way they did.
There is nothing that cuts like condescension.
Dedicação. Não me surpreende mais que as coisas não sejam balanceadas, que tudo pareça estar ótimo, e ao mesmo tempo, uma bagunça, com todos os possíveis desastres em mente a um segundo de acontecerem. Isso gera desconforto, angústia e outros infinitos sentimentos que nós nem conseguimos…
self Great article, very powerful in my opinion. The featured quote I like most addressed the “stories you tell yourself” which is quite poignant, especially upon honest self-analysis.
The real deniers are the ones that deny a historical event, like the holocaust, ever occurred.
The real climate deniers are the ones who deny that recent past climates, hotter or colder than now, existed.
The millions of people who were affected by extreme heat and prolonged droughts in the 30s have…
I started playing floorball some eight years ago. Floorball is like ice hockey minus the skating. It is played on an indoor court, with a ball…
If I’m not creating content, taking client and business calls, working out, or sleeping, I’m studying the community. Okay… I’ll admit it… That basically translates to: ‘For four minutes and twenty-seven seconds a night, before I fall asleep…
1- Hello Michael! Thank you for taking time to give this interview. Intro Hojaye :D?
GUNS — This could be click-bait
Click the safety, Click-Click to chamber, Click the trigger.
Americans, and maybe everyone else…
It does feel strange, doesn’t it! The Church telling everyone, “Do as I say, Not as I do!” All powerful organizations tend to have corruption in them, and the corruption must be covered up and people need to be re-assured that it will all be Okay. Even the Catholic Church!
It’s sad that anyone would insist on this.
First, and not in order of importance, been there done that. It’s not that great. Get over it.
Second, when your partner says no to anything about you doing something to their body that should be the end of the discussion.
So glad it resonated, Jeff!
I have worked very hard on the “chill out” portion of my dating life for about 9 months now. How I handled this situation (as well another one earlier this summer) showed me that this specific work is on track!
Didn’t she tell you she had a boyfriend? Why then did you keep disturbing her? She rejected your calls and you sent her text that made her pity you, she finally picks and you said…
“I mean, you know, I guess you did what you had to but I won’t ever be in that a position,” he said.
Home | Blog | How Your Self-Sabotage Gets Started
By Randy Gage in Uncategorized, Success, Prosperity.
Last post we explored how your well-meaning parents (or others) probably screwed up your life. This is usually…
Throughout life we often find others making decisions that affect us- parents when we’re children, politicians when…
Living behind a screen with anonymity provides people with a sense of pride and strength…
During any football game in which I specialized in for quite sometime, I’ve seen many…
From the makers of wine come a few lessons on how to achieve an excellent end result. Lesson 1…
Good People, we’ve all heard it, time and time again — “success doesn’t come over night,” “there is no substitute for hard…
It looks like a simple question but it isn’t. I asked some of my frineds, so i could get someperspective on young…
This is a great article, and I agree that the world would be 100%, maybe even 1000% better place if people could learn something from each other especially when they disagree.
For example, I 100% disagree with Alain De Botton who was quoted in your article ““Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably…
I feel as though the “feel good friends” are perhaps more of an acquaintance than a true friend. I love Aristotle’s thoughts on the enduring and value that’s brought to real and true friendships. I understand that implication of shared hardship and the permanent residue and bonds that they create. They are foundational and enduring. They stand for…
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 27, 2018 | American values, Government, Immigration Reform, Leadership, Life Lessons, Politics, Self Fulfillment, US/Cuba Relationship
Absolutely right! now at this moment, at this time I feel uncertain about my pile of expectations, hopeless stories, all the fantasies, every damn thing appears just vague and hard to believe that they are unreal. Currently, my answer to every question asked for…
