I once met a traveler named Charlie. He came up to me and said something I will never forget. He said,
“Brian, I travel because it makes my life seem longer.”
His statement perplexed me, so I asked him to explain. He continued,
As a fan of startup culture, I’ve been reading a lot about growth hacking.
For those of you who don’t know, “growth hacking” is a strategy a lot of startups use to get their name out…
Notes to self and lessons from the past 12 months, in no particular order.
働くことは自己形成なのだとすれば、自身の全力を注ぐように向き合えない仕事をするべきではないのだと思う。
僕は、働くことが自己を形成する唯一の手段だと考えている。
多くの人は、教育機関を経た時点で自身が使えるエネルギーの大半を仕事に注ぎ込む事になる。活動時間は個人によって違いがあると思うけど、働いている時間は最低でも一日の3分の1を占めると思う。
Straight from the heart!
I used to be that kind of a person who believes that
My guide Mohammed dismounts his camel, takes off his worn leather sandals and steps on the hot desert sand. The onset of dusk…
The best advice I ever received was not even given to me. It was given to one of my best friends Khalil in May 2015. He was seeking a…
Ode to Stuff…
Women who read Health magazines! Pathetic. If vacuuming for 40 minutes and scrubbing the floors for 20 minutes burns 380 calories, why is my…
I’m not sure if you will even get to read this. I would have written this by pen on a letter and put it inside a glass bottle and thrown it out to sea, but those days of acceptable littering are over and putting this out publicly on social media is a better nod to that…
Originally published at lmt-lss.com on December 24, 2015.
It’s the climb as Miley once said and it’s all true.
The Game Of Chance
In our lives there is a blissful morning state each day when the mind is a blank slate. It dreams of being in an idyllic far-off land…
Being a parent isn’t easy. Try telling a 4-year old that not getting milk in a specific…
幸せというのは、現在どれだけのものを持っているかということよりも、未来にどれだけの希望を持っているかにかかっている。そう言った人がいます。人間は100年程度しか生きられません。その生の中で、幸せへのセンサーは常に変化していくのも事実でしょう。
One day while soul searching, it came to me. It’s true -nobody gets out alive. The only thing that we get out of…
Very poignant. I have too much to say in response right now. But yes many of us see this too. I feel 2015 was the year social media truly showed its power to rip our world apart. This needs to change.
America may be becoming permanently damaged, the American Dream, the dream of Martin Luther King, the dreams of freedom and a…
I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of positivity towards the rest of my life.
The first 30 years have been filled with growth, learning, angst, pressure and a bundle of other wonderfully weird things (and people).
If you had a chance to redo life would you want to do it again?
In the next simulated life pre-programmed and ready for you to embark on your next adventure of living fulfilled lives and achieving the targeted ideal. All you needed to do…
This should be sad, but I am happier that we are doing this than I was at starting out. Pinforest came alive on September 10, both in Covenant University and Bells University. In the first week of operations, I was able to rack up to 50 users via direct marketing. This was the…
Contrary to what the title of my story suggests, I do not believe in psychics or fortune telling. I…
So here I am, Christmas eve…..living back home with my crazy but lovable family after 8 years of independence following the break up of a 10 year relationship.
Yes it was my decision, a long, hard, painful decision. But sadly it was the right one. So after…
A close friend and his wife are having their first child. I decided to write a guide to life for the new human. I’ll give them a chapter a year for their first 18 years unless I end up disappearing before I can complete that. If I do, hopefully someone else will pick up the…
Sensitivity and specificity are two widely used terms in healthcare, relating to the characteristic of a test in the diagnosis of a disease.
Lets take a diagnostic test of blood pressure readings in the measurement of somebody who may be hypertensive for example:
Wish I’d knew it then, life becomes more complicated than i thought it would ever become, time becomes an enemy, world becomes a fighting pit, lose my own identity and become a great actor, then lose all my hope and finally became a sheep in the process, following the herd and calling it the meaning of…
The Internet is full of opinions about how to best live a fulfilling, meaningful life. But what if I told you that a study has been underway for the last 75 years to answer this very question?
I don’t even know where the hell I’m right now. I’m staying just the way too far from my parent, living the life which might be looks harder than others, I’ve lost the one who I’ve loved the most, I throw myself further then ever, I let myself getting better, I work hard but study harder, I…
As kids, we were told about this magical place up at the North Pole.
“Үхэл биднийг салгах хүртэл үүрд хамтдаа байх болно” гэж тангарагладаг гайхалтай хуримыг бид барууны киноноос олонтаа харж байсан. Гэвч Америк болон Европын зарим улс орнуудад гэр бүл салалт өсч байгаа нь анхаарах ёстой асуудлуудын нэг болжээ. АНУ-ын PEW…
Being raised Catholic meant Celebrating Christmas every December 25th for my family. This holiday was magical for…
Listening is an art….it is said that the best conversations happen when people listen more than…
In Part 1 of my series Collapse of the First Global Civilization, which of course is us, I presented some of the A3…
Its not because I dislike the warmth that a partner gave me, it is because I know I’ll eventually like it so much that I’ll be forlorn when it’s finally gone.Its not because I can’t love, it is more so that I love so deeply and recklessly, I don’t think my heart will stay intact…
Who are you? – The Quest to Self-Identify
You wake up tired. Brush your teeth hastily. Eat something you know you shouldn’t. Try to make it to work on time. Deal with your backstabbing peers and impersonal boss. Make it through the day with unsatisfying results. Drive to the gym. Park at the parking lot. Look at the time…
Maybe there is one person more, maybe she prefers that person, maybe she will never love me, MAYBE I’M JUST WASTING TIME IN SOMETHING THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
Left Bank
Mum and I were heading home in our daily walk. It was a brisk walk, windchill and quick. As we turned onto Vienna Parkway, the wind was with us…
So its Christmas eve... what a wonderful time to be alive .... Christmas makes us think about the things we take for granted, which are mainly the important things that really matter in life... So I cant help but wonder why there's such a lack of togetherness among a large no of…
Sometimes I wish I was brave enough to live in the present. An adventure infused with the lure of enchantment. They say:
Are you successful?
Yes?
Then I hate you.
But don’t worry. It’s not you: it’s me.
I have a competitive streak a mile wide and a terrible habit of comparing myself with everybody I meet.
Holaaaa 🎅🏼 creías que ya no iba a venir? Pues aquí estoy «TE QUIERO MUCHISIMO» … Feliz Navidad 🎅🏼 #NanaActitud #Smile 😃 #Tenerife
The Little Things
It’s the little things Matt. It’s the little things. I never really understood that meaning of that phrase. I know what the speaker was trying to convey but it always was just meaningless word groupings. You know what I’m talking about. When someone says something and you hear but comprehension is way out…
Today, I can finally tell myself I am moving on to something better. I am finally helping myself get out the deep, deep hole he made.
I am now putting back the pieces together but still finding the missing pieces but I know eventually it would be fix again. I realize now my real worth…
Have you ever tried to tell your story, but have known that what you have to say might upset the people you love? That’s what I’m struggling with. You see, I just moved back from Scotland after living there a year, and if you’ve read anything that I’ve written on my blog…
Take me. Take me far from where we are, from who I have become. Take me away, take me somewhere, anywhere away from what I’ve become. From who I…
Gizmo: A Microservice Toolkit from The New York Times
“Where are you from?”
By Cancergeek
Good job! Really.
This is a big step, take a deep breath…now take another one.
I can relate to some of what you were talking about. I used to do some similar things. I don’t any more. The good news is you can retrain the negative thinking patterns that get in your way. The bad news is that it takes…
This is just great. Specially the timing of this article. It happened with me when I realized that this last job was actually demanding more than just effort. It was starting to strain my personal relationships with my daughter, my wife and my parents etc. So for the first time in my career, even without another offer in hand I decided to take a…
Christmas message
I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all. It may be that our future may lay upon us more than one stern test. Our past will have taught us how to meet it unshaken. For the present, the work to which we are all equally bound is to arrive at a reasoned tranquillity within ourselves. To regain…
Does our language shape our thoughts, or do our thoughts shape our language?
This was one of my favorite topics or I can say one of my favorite questions, that I had talked a lot about it with my English teacher when I was in 11th grade. My argument was that our thoughts shape our language, but my teacher was saying that…
It’s the night before Christmas Eve, and I’m finally winding down and getting ready to have a few days off. I wanted to write something this week, even though I know most folk will have shut down their inboxes by now (although most of my entrepreneurial buddies are still hard at…
There is a place, deep in my heart,that this life, has torn apart.
Originally published at ealdenandlhiza.tumblr.com.
“Can we live in a world without labels?” She screams
“Without them everything would be better… right?” She asked
“ Maybe in our Society but not the generation or the time we live in.” She said to her.
Life is better than non-life. And love is better than non-love.
By “non-life”, I don’t necessarily mean “death” — I mean the state of non-existence (including the state of never having lived). I think living is better than not living.
I absolutely agree with this!
As much as possible, I try to write everyday. I also try to take weekend breaks to avoid burning out. But more often than not, I find my mind wandering to different things I could write about at that minute — usually I indulge in it.
Thank you for commenting. ☺ I really appreciate it!
You have a happy holiday as well. Have a good Christmas and a Happy New Year! ❤
I’m afraid of every day we don’t talk — the distance the silence puts between us.Have we ever talked?
I’m afraid of every night that we do talkTo say nothing but pleasantries and “till tomorrow.”Till…
One of the meanings of 'yoga' is variously to concentrate or harness a thing or action. I can see an argument for that here.
All he ever dreamed of was affection.Affection from his parents.Affection from friends.Affection from his cute classmate.
Every night I doze off on the couch. Watching TV or reading a book. Sleeping there till my neck hurts from being in a strange position. I change my position to ease the neck a bit and tell myself that I will sleep here only for another 5 mins before I drag myself to bed. I am too tired…
Do you mean a song？😋
I only recently realised this too.
Very well put. I’m going to use this angle in my ongoing, mortifying (to them) dialogue about porn with my teenage sons. Thank you!
Hope you reach your goals I could use your advice in the future.
You’ve written all the things above just the way too true. : ) awesome!
Why is it that these days everything is measured on the balance of religion and politics…It seems that humanity has indeed taken a backseat and that indeed is not a good indicator for one and all. If the world is one family..can we not rise above all this and try to become good human beings…righteous sincere and humane. Can we not start thinking good and doing good ..Will that not mean good for all.
Reading through your work and it’s like stepping inside of your body and feeling what you’re feeling. #excelenté
Man, the days go by here so fast. It’s incredible how much one can do in a day. I am literally exhausted on my vacation. I guess that’s how I roll. Woke up around 7:40, and wanted to finish reading le petit prince. It’s a story about how a little prince (on his own little planet) makes his…
I don’t know why it takes a death to realize how many things we hold dear that are not even necessary. Beautiful story.
Sir, this is a fascinating, amazing and sensible at the same time. It’s been sometime since I found the combination in something I read.
A month wasn’t enough timeHalf a decade wasn’t enough timeAround and around we go, the same song and danceChildish games, silly chucklesAn elementary-like crushLike a hawk, I patiently watchedMy keen peripheral glances at your reflection as you dissipate homeWondrous thoughts play through my mindAn…
Oh how powerful the mind is--it can author its own misery, and sometimes, even happiness.
Stress? Worry?How about anticipation?Are you waiting for Santa?
Honestly, this was an outstanding way to start off my day, I’m so happy I was able to read this!
This is for 2016
Ignore the sound that negative people make about you and your tribulations. Focus instead on the positive dreams drumming inside your head and heart.
Life is too short to spend worrying over the clattering sound of crickets. Leave behind the dissapointments of 2015, and take youthful optimism to the New Year.
You are very welcome! I believe you are a rare and wonderful talent. I look forward to more!
We put way too much emphasis, or pressure, in defining ourself as just one characteristic of a specific category. For instance, I have always considered myself and introvert. I am an introvert. But there are frequent moments, by myself or surrounded by people who I am comfortable…
Love them both. It was through Tim I think I discovered morning pages. Journaling is a really good way to start your day and end your day. It clears the fog in the morning and then clears your mind for the night. Great writeup.
Thx that might be another cartoon
Beautiful sentence ☺
Yann you are so sweet a thousand kisses to you 💑 jill & mike…
thank you..a morning thought on such day…Namaste
