I do this thing on Twitter where a few times a week, I update a long-running piece of fan fiction I call…
by Yann Girard
In the US alone there are more than 600.000 books published every year. That’s more than 1600 books every day. In the US alone! And globally there are more than 2mn blog posts published every day.
Most of us are on repeat. Everyday we live our lives the exact same way eating the…
As December’s last days tick by it’s natural to take a look at the last twelve months. Knowing I’m going to put an annual review together is a decent motivation to ensure the year counts, and it’s a good reminder that however much we have to say no in order to get our focus…
今年個人的に買って良かったものを列挙してみる．
You are meant to be more than who you are currently.
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Dear Dec. 30, 2014 Casey:
Hold on to your ass, girl. You’re not ready for this one. Right now, you’re the happiest you’ve ever been, but because I know you better than anyone, you’re skeptical about it. Great boyfriend, supportive network of people…
I checked for the 10th time that day. At least.
Only ‘change’ is eternal. Yes. ‘Change’ will happen, if not today, then tomorrow or the day after that. It…
Q: My five year year old is going through (well, hopefully passing though) a rebellious phase. She is basically in shared parenting, as I’ve never gone to court but I let her father get her as much as he wants (with a cap of 3 nights a week that up until lately doesn’t…
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness: the freedom of loneliness and the safety from…
I first said this prayer when I was sixteen years old. I was lying in bed one night, listening to a message delivered by Brennan Manning. He closed the talk with these haunting words by Sir Francis Drake. Disturb me, I prayed from the edge of my bed in the dark room. God did not disappoint. Now, six years…
It’s that time of the year when you should be asking yourself, are you the same person that you were last year? If…
Feel less motivation today? Check these quotes. They can surely motivate you.
I’m no psychologist, this is just a weird phenomenon for me and it has been for a long time. Even at a very…
“SUCCESSION PLAN.” All caps.
That’s the name of the folder that lives on the homescreen of my mom’s computer. This folder glares at me the three or four times a year I’m home in Houston sitting in front of her computer doing the…
Something hit me 5 minutes ago. You know when you’re just going about your day and then, suddenly, in an instant you’re completely aware of your breathing, and who you are and all the particles you’re made up of and how fickle life is? It’s kind of an amazing feeling.
I felt alone. Alone, on a planet with now nearly 7.9 billion people wandering it, every single one a unique multiverse of experience unfathomably complex and tantalizingly mysterious. I knew that in our human depths, each of us was equally distinctive, that therein all could lay claim to the legacy of unsealing…
After posting a “hello world” test on medium, my friend Greg Hemmings discovers the post and comments, “write write write…
I recently came across a song. A music piece, simply beautiful, but it had no vocals. A look at the description on Youtube stated this,
‘It is part of my DNA. It conveys all things I can’t put into words…
I used to think I’m a superhuman. I thought I could do everything, all the time and put 100% into…
It’s not about being perfect.
Or being the best.
Or being rich.
Or successful.
Medium asked me to tell my story. I wasn’t going to, I swear. I was just going to pretend like the year wasn’t coming to an end and play with golden-sparklers at night.
“Fair is a place where pigs go to win ribbons”
O Ano é Novo; as Resoluções, nem tanto // The Year is New; the Resolutions, not quite
Hint: It’s about making customer happy with every single iteration. :)
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By Martin B. Copenhaver
Ronald Heifetz, who teaches at the Kennedy School and has written extensively on leadership, makes a distinction I find helpful as Andover Newton seeks a bold new direction: “What people resist is not change, per se, but loss.”
As a girl, many people will tell you to marry rich, marry a doctor, or a lawyer or an engineer or a business man. He will provide security, he can buy you a house and a car and give you the things you’ve always wanted. He can provide.
As we see 2015 come to a close and anticipate bringing in 2016 with a bang, let’s review. Have you ever noticed that 9 times out of 10, the majority of people cannot wait to crawl out of the previous year and jump into the next? We make our lists, we reflect, we breathe a sigh of relief and say to…
I currently live in Toronto, Canada, and it’s my favourite city in the world (Halifax, NS and Austin, TX…
I will always smile on my thirtieth year. Ali and I were married in June. Many of my great friends experienced great life moments: moves, new jobs, engagements, weddings, graduations, children! The year was professionally fulfilling too, much because it was…
A year ago I wrote a review of what 2014 had been like for me. In hindsight it probably wasn’t comfortable reading, it…
It’s Tuesday noon, around 1.30 p.m, and I’m idling between tabs, giggling at a video of a monkey laughing at a party trick. Then, I…
I love the last few days of the year and these moments of reflection. I have seen tremendous growth in myself in 2015 but more time has been spent finding areas where I can improve as a CEO, a thinker, a friend, and a person.
Most people like to have things easy. An easy life. Easy job. Easy relationships. Easy tools to use. “Easy” meaning: not in need of much of an effort. Let’s talk about different paths to accomplishing stuff.
The fixation of society with the notion of economic growth has become a cultural and political phenomenon. From one generation to the next, the measure of a country’s prosperity appears to be heavily skewed towards its financial status.
If you were here today
I’d confess my love to you
I wouldn’t talk about the weather
And my dog, wait - I don’t have one
For most of you reading this blog, you must have lived 365 days of Gregorian MMXV or in common speak, year 2015. You must have experienced joy, happiness, euphoria, sadness, boredom and a plethora of human emotions which could fill up this entire page. I did experience a lot of those…
I understand no subject, I master no skill, and I have nothing. Hence, there is nothing I desire. Why? Because I am no one.
If you understand what I’m saying, then you are getting nowhere. If you don’t, then you are going a wrong direction.
I have realised that there are two kinds of people who have truly understood the meaning of life. They know that life is beyond your designer clothes, advance gadgets and your perfume scent.
Was taken by : Sansia BW
You have my lover, although that sentence shatters me, I want what’s best for him. If you are planning to run the whole mile, I hope you read this.
There are very few moments in a year where you’re given some time to stop and think. No distractions. No…
or WILL DO TERRIBLE WORK FOR FUTURE CAREER.
I have a friend, both strong in artistic talent and wisdom. We would strum guitars into the night. When picks would tire, wisdom would often take the stage.
Give or Receive?
So I’m walking home after work taking a not so usual route to get home earlier than I usually would. I use walking as a form of relaxation because it allows me the alone time to brainstorm ideas or reflect on issues of the day. Half way to my destination I get a glimpse of two kids standing by their gate…
About seven years ago I was jobless and crushed by the realization that I might be shitty at doing the one thing I loved. Of course, I smiled and told everyone I was fine.
One day a friend needed something I’d borrowed, so I dropped by his place to return it. This guy is in the independent film scene, and we’d worked on a…
That is wonderful, noble and entirely unrealistic! There is no recognition that the bar is set in infancy during the period of greatest growth and for many of us, disfigurement. Your message is a receipt for failure addiction, Ill health. It is enough surely to recognise the reality of your condition and to aim to be just human, comfortable in your skin; now that is excellence.
Mistakes it’s okay to make in your twenties
We all make mistakes, especially in our twenties. Believe me, I’ve made more than my fair share of blunders these past few years. The thing is, you really shouldn’t beat yourself up about it. We’re young and we still have to learn.
Over the last year I’ve noticed I have become pretty clouded when it came to being true to who I was, true to my right path and…
I LOVE IT.. BUT DO I NEED IT?
In our day to day life we see lot of new products and would feel great to own some cool gadgets. The recently released iPhone…
I would love to agree with you , but the truth is that my gut feeling is that you are wrong, at it got me through too many dark places to deny it.
First of all twitter is a social tool, so if you say it’s quiet it must be that your social circle is quiet, I can’t agree with you on that because mine is more active than ever…
It has been 5 years…5 really long, tiresome, years that I have been struggling in my marital life.No, I am not a victim of a forced arranged marriage, nor my was marriage was a happy ending of a…
Today I’m 30, tomorrow I’ll be 40; What should I do in the meantime?
One of the hardest parts about becoming an adult is losing the ability to dream uninhibited.
As a kid I said things like:
“One day I’ll write a best seller! One…
There is truth in the words that I’ve read today.
There are things in the books I’ve seen and the things I’ve read, but they’re not all the things I believe.
I believe that life is meant to be lived our way, not how someone believes it to be.
With the coming of yet another year in our lives. With the reaching to yet another milestone in our lives, I think it’s time to chalk out the list of all the dos and don’ts for the upcoming year (which we call resolutions). I think it’s that time of the year that entitles us to promise ourselves…
Eliminated would be the days involving escort iquique reserving your priced in addition to advancing towards a great…
Hi all! Can you believe the end of 2015 is almost upon us? It’s been quite a dynamic year for me and I have had…
a lesson for me
My father loves gardening. In his aging he has slowed and can no longer do so, but when he was younger he would garden every day. He would…
It is not often that I find a story in my daily mundane chores. But a genetic trait i.e., feeling relaxed after a long…
More times than not we’re not afraid of the experience but more-so our own preconceived ideas about the experience. Now how silly does that sound? There you have it ladies and…
Les veines ouvertes, le cul par terre. J’ai vu des vertes et des pas top. Bon vivant, je désinfecte mes plaies avec du Yop. N’en parlons pas, je serais infect, la mort est une amie, mais je m’en tape, moi, de ta secte, allez voir où je ne suis. Je me suis retrouvé au fond alors j’ai arrêté de…
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
We are two pieces of a complicated puzzle.
I’ve tried for so long
Ramblings of a believer.
I am a believer. Not religious, but a believer. I have long wondered about the origin of religions…the origin of god. Or the…
Passion is the opposite of rational thought. You don’t discover it, you realize it.
a wise man who always makes sense, once said.
You are doing exactly what you wanna do, what nobody else can offer you.
I am one of the happy backers of the “Self Journal” — a tool that seemed to want to be the Everlasting Gobstopper of journals. At first their mission — “to create something that lends itself to making success inevitable — through planning, execution and measurement”…
At this point in my life I don’t know what to think. My life is amazing and it’s horrible. My ex cheated on me, so I let him go. I found a new guy. A better one. The best one I have ever had. He has been what I have wanted for a very long time. That’s the amazing part of my life right now. Now the horrible part. My job environment sucks, and everyone…
Не стою планов на год. Не загадываю желаний под бой курантов: или открыть шампанское, или желание правильное вспомнить. Чаще первое. Но итоги года — добрая традиция.
This is almost exactly what I’m trying to do with my life. To find peace, to make peace, with myself and my surrounding. I just haven’t found my “moment” yet. And I’m still looking for it. How was the journey to someone else’s mind? Does it affect you in any kind?
Powerful, well said and absolutely concur. A mere glance at history, lends it’s validity to much of what is said here. Thanks for so eloquently putting into words what continues to be an on-going discussion of obtaining one’s true self potential for those of us “Not Kevin.” As well as for those who “Are Kevin.”
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
It doesn’t really matter if you go after energies and karmas thanks to your faith. Doesn’t matter if you receive blessings coming…
Sometimes, Satisfaction Can Be an Enemy
Ever ask yourself why you’re satisfied?
It’s the only thing that keeps the world turning,
You feel good when it’s burning,
Devastated at its loss,
But everything has its cost,
Day 2
Better day. Caught up on sleep and read a little bit. Also was able to do some reading and understanding what I went over today. Actually a good feeling to have after learning something. Been some time to sit down and comprehend something for once. Last couple of weeks have been the most I’ve done especially the time…
Sometimes we make decisions, all the while thinking…
“I’m not sure, I’m not sure, I’m not sure. I am just not sure.”
We put one foot down, follow it with the next foot and move forward.
Today’s blog post is a bit of a sad one. Recently I have been having a really hard time with life. Things like family crisis’, things going wrong at school and just horrible things in general.
I feel very stagnant. Daily life is going alright; I now have a job temporarily that I really do enjoy. I enjoy my co-workers. I enjoy when I can help people with their makeup or fragrance needs. I enjoy liberally spritzing myself with YSL Black Opium and Dior Addict or whatever scent I’m feeling. And yet I suppose it’s nothing really to do with the…
Yeah… truly said… Without pain there is no happiness.
Sometimes, we think of giving up... we reach our limits... we can’t take it more... Bt still... we should go for it n feel the pain... Take that pain n play with it... coz it’s worth it...
The dead doesn’t feel pain, pain is for living... this…
I will stay,
In this hell I call life,
Because I made a promise to someone who means so much to me that I could never break a promise to her,
If I go by no fault of my own then I let her down,
I think you are right… cuz generally I know pressure and working hard kills innovative thinking and above all creativity.
I Have No Words
A dear friend had to take an HIV test, and we waited together, and apart, for the results. It was the most agonizing time of my life. For…
Sales season…
Makes me wonder if the empty-decisive look on the faces of these manikins in the vitrines, reflects in our faces while we passionately storm the shops past Christmas..
Wow CamMi Pham you are awesome ☺
I really like this post, but I think it’s wrong to call it stealing. You are borrowing. What’s important is how you share what you’ve done with the knowledge…new ideas for others to “steal” ☺
This is well written, concise and beautiful. I couldn’t have imagined reading a wonderful piece like this today. Great job.
Mind Travel
Mind travel, its allowed. Since man is incapable of time traveling yet why not try mind traveling, that moment when you think about where you are presently then you subsequently think of things you’ve been throw with asking yourself any question, just relishing the moment (sometimes music helps). As for me I get…
It’s a puzzle I can’t piece togetherIt’s been years I’m tryingI think you took a piece the last time we playedI’ve built the rest of it backWith the pieces strewn around accidentally by your feetAs you walked out a long time agoI tried reaching you a thousand timesBut you were busy I…
Don’t think, just do it. I will consider to take more action from now. Thanks. ☺
I think people should take this into thought and action.
It rages picking up throwing things
Whistling at windows as an angry wasp
Banging
On doors and walls
I’m coming in it’s telling you laughingly
When life gives you lemons make lemonade, if only everyone could grasp the concept of that saying. Point blank life isn’t fair, things will not go your way when you need them to. When life isn’t fair what can you do? Getting upset and angry only makes you more miserable.
Good one, but all the throes in life makes us practical in stages bit-by-bit, and to survive in this golgatha, sometimes we should welcome the unaccepted truth.! ☺
Keep smiling be & stay happy.! ☺
This… is so relevant in work, in society, in life. It’s incredibly disheartening.
This hits too close to home.
This puts my feelings into words so perfectly.
Although in some ways I agree with you but I also think not all smart ideas actually succeed, also not all ideas that sound stupid are actually stupid, people don’t always know what they want until they see a graphical representation of it. A quick example is the touch screen technology on our phones, in its early days Microsoft laughed off the idea…
What. The. Fu…ture holds scares me.
I always wanted to hold onto her and never let her go. Just like a kite carries around it’s string as high as it flies, I dreamt of flying along with her.
Little did I realize that I was limiting her flight, that I was stopping her from being liberated and free, all that she ever wanted to be.
I generally try not to spend a lot of time scrolling through streams of information. Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. It’s too easy to get sucked in, giving more than it gives back. Scrolling and scrolling to find interesting or…
This fact is true and scary.
Beautiful words.
BBC obituary:
Perceptions
I have had a bad perception of people without getting to know them and I know many of us have had the same experience. My understanding of perception is what you make of someone even though you cannot prove it’s really what you think it is. We often stand far to judge who a person is, we refuse to go closer and…
She sits.
Her stomach making little monster noises.
Gurgling
Her eyelids crawling up and down.
In and out of f o c u s
She is waiting.
Some days are gray and others are lively. But I was born a rebel and in defiance of all that is gray and monotone — like an American accent, or sadness, or too much joy. How would we appreciate life were it not for the occasional heartbreak, and how would we survive…
Could the two things be thought differently (a) vision, which is broad and ambitious (b) mission, which is measurable, specific and series of missions define how to lay the road to the vision.
A lot has happened in 2015. The world has seen tragedy and disaster, hope and rebirth. We saw world leaders come together, old…
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” -Muhammad Ali
This quote is powerful to me.
I did nothing to have the opportunity to live on this planet, not to mentioned to be born a human, the greatest species of all time.
Hi, my name is Ashley, I am a daughter, a sister, a niece, granddaughter, and a mother. I have a beautiful daughter who I have been blessed with by the grace of God. She is the most precious gift I have ever received. I have faced many challenges in life, many obstacles and struggles. That I have conquered and overcome.
Yes i agree with you ,i have also notice one post similar to yann’s post.
“When we seek the positives in people they return their delight to reward us with their help!”
I’m finishing up my 4th year in college, and during that time I’ve seen the higher educational system catch a bad wrap.
Many would argue that spending 4 years in college to get a business degree is too long and I don’t disagree.
Being yourself may be the toughest part but it is also the most beautiful part of life. As we go through life and experience our uniqueness, we realize our true strengths and the beauty that lies within us. Being ourselves frees us from being a copy and gives us the power to be real and authentic. To truly enjoy “our”lives. To truly enjoy “my” life.
After the last year has shown me a lot of ups and almost more downs, I think back and wonder how it has all shaped me. I…
I have the same issues, but I’m still fighting and struggling to overcome them
entire-universe is political-area, working on entire-universe is highest politics
In Aaytha Ezhuthu 2004 tamil film(yuva-2004-hindi), In students-meeting-scene, suchitra asks siddharth, “unakku politics pathi yenna theriyum?”, siddharth replies, “ theriyaadhu, but kathukulaam” (person-1: what do u know about politics…
Thank you alot for inspiration Cammi.
I’m not a writter i am an animator and for the past two years ‘ve been giving up alot of stuff i do and that kept on ruining my creativity.
Your words inspired me alot and now i feel like i need to put more energy on what i do.
Thank you alot.
The fall was hard. A battle I honestly fought, knowing deep inside I was bound to lose — that losing it was the way through it. Emptiness was moving in, wiping out my aspirations and illusions, and as they were leaving, grief upon grief took its place. So many tears that I desperately tried to keep under…
This happens to me as well. I sit trying to write in my journal but I keep self-censuring myself. I don’t know why. I can never do more then a page because it takes so long to just write that page, about an hour if not more, that by the end of it I am so frustrated that i just walk of and do something else.
Siempre me gustó la humedad de los rincones en aquella casa. El juego de grises. Las luces encendidas a pleno día provocaban un…
I enjoyed the message in this post; I guess we need to learn to get better at making mistakes, and seeing them as stepping stones with vital lessons attached.
Dear Friends, Here we are approaching the New Year of 2016.As the holidays wind down, it is natural to do just that, relax and enjoy some time off. Of course, as one does so, you can’t help but think about your future. As I ponder this past…
But what if you’ve never had anyone break your heart and salsa over the remaining chunks a la #3?
