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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Revisiting my thoughts from two years ago

    Two years ago, I wrote about what I learned after spending 19 years in school. I even tried to make a podcast out of it, too (I still need to make the time to finish Season 2).  And revisiting the eBook reminded me of many things that helped me where I am today. Everything I wrote there Read more

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  • The unstructured freedom of a five-year-old

    I could remember what a day was like as a five-year-old. I wake up (either with excitement or protest), eat breakfast, shower, and dream about life for the rest of the day. Usually, the grown-ups dictate what I ought to do in the day, but my internal goal is always the same, to enjoy and Read more

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  • Ambition and self-worth

    It’s nice to have ambition because, like fuel, it drives us to pursue whatever we want to achieve in life. But ambition requires us to actively work for those goals, which means that as we make our way towards meeting our ambitions, our self-worth should match that goal. So what comes next after having an Read more

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  • Your mind is a garden

    You already understand that what you sow, we reap. The same is true with whatever thoughts you plant in your mind. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, whichever of them you cultivate grows. Hence, Proverbs 4:23 (NASB1995) reminds us to: Watch over your heart with all diligence,For from it flow the springs of life. because where you put your Read more

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  • Waking up from a reactive life

    Why did you wake up today? If you woke up just right on time to prepare yourself for work, thinking that you just needed that extra minute of sleep to get through the day, then you could be living a reactive life.  What does a reactive life look like? You need to make deliberate choices Read more

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  • Are you ready for a world in which you can’t trust what you read, see, and hear?

    You probably heard the buzz words like fake news and post-truth. And living in a world where truth could be proclaimed a lie, and lie screamed as the truth, how can we trust everything we interact with? The Institute for the Future identified seven future forces reshaping our familiar building blocks of trust and a map Read more

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  • The pre-dawn hours

    It’s usually calm and quiet, allowing you to contemplate the things you want to pursue for the day, to dream. And in these peaceful hours, you can indulge in envisioning and designing your next steps to move forward in life. It depends on where you live, but at least where I live, this distraction-free moment Read more

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jessa

Everyday Stories, Lived

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