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How to Appreciate More by Owning Less
How to Appreciate More by Owning Less
In an age of planned obsolescence and dynamic obsolescence, it is very difficult to shut out the temptations to buy and acquire more things
Yuan Sommer
Aug 1, 2019
How to Get Rid of Things You Don’t Need
How to Get Rid of Things You Don’t Need
One of the most liberating and therapeutic things you can do for yourself is to get rid of clutter and donate things that you don’t need…
Yuan Sommer
Jul 31, 2019
Why You’re Nothing but Your Context
Why You’re Nothing but Your Context
Context is like a trampoline, a knitted net of accumulated life experiences, strung on the hooks of pre-existing circumstances, upon which…
Yuan Sommer
Feb 14, 2018
At Sea
At Sea
Thought we were drifting together my dear. Away from quotidian, the shore disappeared. I thought that it was only us out here. Gave myself…
Yuan Sommer
Oct 4, 2017
Why Fix Yourself
Why Fix Yourself
Because in the end, no one cares about you as much as you do.
Yuan Sommer
Oct 2, 2017
Why Risk & Repeat
Why Risk & Repeat
In the past few years, I have gotten to know many daring risk-takers in the startup world and through Yunika (a women’s leadership…
Yuan Sommer
Sep 28, 2017
Why Give of Yourself
Why Give of Yourself
I spent much of my childhood in Africa, as my family followed my father’s work to Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa…
Yuan Sommer
Sep 15, 2017
Why Take a Stand
Why Take a Stand
It is easier said than done to “stand up for yourself” or “be yourself”, especially when it is not 100% clear what constitutes standing up…
Yuan Sommer
Jul 22, 2017
Why Pack Less
Why Pack Less
Yesterday, I landed from one of my trips and found that the otherwise neat and organized baggage claim area at Copenhagen airport looked…
Yuan Sommer
Jul 19, 2017
Why Own Less
Why Own Less
For as long as I can remember, I have had an insatiable itch for making lists and databases out of everything. Some call it my special…
Yuan Sommer
Jul 12, 2017
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