Life Lessons

A look into the silence of Twitter’s biggest loudmouth. — It might seem silly to even write an article about this: Who cares if Elon tweets, right? Well, even as someone who has “Elon fatigue”, Elon’s sudden absence is meaningful, and there is a reason underneath it. You can rest assured he’s just not taking a casual break. There are…

I can’t force you to do to quit these things. But I’ll try. — By its very definition, “waste” means using your time, money, and resources on things unlikely to return value. It’s an opportunity cost. By inverse, skipping wasteful things spares you from those stupid headaches. You invite more happiness and efficiency into your life. Internet tensions are a vacuum of your time In late 2020, a friend announced on her…

Or what happens when we get excessively attached to stuff — You could hear the rip as the left-hand side of the net curtain detached itself from the right. It was caught in the patio door of our most recent Croatian Airbnb and I hadn’t noticed before trying to move the curtain across. Bugger. As my husband and I were leaving…

“He restored hope to the African people by making an unlikely decision — and became the center of African folk tales forever.” — The belief a decision can change the world is powerful. William Kamkwamba from Kasungu in Africa and his family faced a hunger crisis in 2001. All their crops were lost. So they ate one meal a day. Things got so bad he had to drop out of school. No crops…

Good men live by a code. — There’s an old quote that’s been circulated millions of times, odds are you’ve seen it before: Being a male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentleman is a matter of choice. That choice to be a gentleman — that is…

Take your power back — don’t let your situation define you. — Life gets hard at times. And when it does, we don’t always know the next step. But there‘s always a way forward, even when we don’t have immediate answers. Over the years, many situations have left me feeling helpless. Most recently, my divorce. When I realized my husband was cheating…

Failure and mistakes may be more significant than success. Why is this the case? — As painful as it is, failure is an essential part of life. In reality, failure is required. I’ve made more mistakes than I’d like to acknowledge and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably failed several times. …