The best investment you can make
“I am the best investment I can make”, I thought. I had just finished making a payment of $2000 for the membership to an online community around per...
Tag: Personal Development
Ways you exhibit courage
For the last few days, I’ve been obsessing over what courage really means. I recognize that courage has a number of different facets to it. There are so m...
Review: The 7-day ‘Follow the joy’ exploration
It was…an interesting week. 7 days of going with the flow. It was…fun? Yes and no. It was a difficult exploration for me to do. I genuinely thought that the &he...
Day 3 update: The 7 days ‘Follow the joy’ exploration
I’m three days into this exploration and I had a meltdown this afternoon. I woke up this morning feeling super negative. Strangely enough, this whole ‘goi...
Self-acceptance when you have a ‘special brain’
Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You’re a perfectly valuable, creative...
Florian learns Elvish!
Florian was a little wizard who was having trouble learning Elvish. When the monthly test scores were announced, he crowded around the notice board along with h...
Being more ‘you’
It’s my quest this year and decade to start being more ‘me’. To understand what it means to be me, I’ve been taking a raw look at my tho...
Leveraging brain plasticity
Lately, I’ve been reading about the brain and how it works. In the process, I stumbled upon Norman Doidge’s book The Brain That Changes Itself. The ...
Creating an interesting story for yourself
I love viewing life from the lens of a story because it enables me to see it at an overall level rather than just the day-to-day happenings. I often am …...
Let your sorrow be your guide
I was doing some journaling this afternoon. Writing helps me think more clearly so I like giving voice to the thoughts in my head on paper. It was an interestin...