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Where to go from here
Additional resource: Here’s where you can read more about the book Life is in the Transitions. And you can check out my book notes here. Podcast highlights: If you are caught up between choices, you might be tempted to dwell on what’s comfortable and familiar rather than do what’s promising and life-changing. Because change, most Read more
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Here’s how your thoughts run your life
At church, we were taught that we need to be careful what we think because it runs our life. Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.Proverbs 4:23 NCV But if you insist that it doesn’t, it’s interesting to note that not only does the Hebrew Bible tells us about it, modern Read more
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Neither here nor there
If you are going through major life transitions, especially in these times where you feel like holding your breath is the only thing you can control, you might feel like you’re in a state of in-between. And you’re not just floating. It feels like you’re being nowhere, unsure of where to go or where opportunities Read more
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To all my friends who drink coffee way too much
When you are young, you think you are invincible. That even if you sleep late at night (or even early in the morning the next day) to catch up with never-ending work or an episode of your favorite movie series, it won’t adversely affect you in some way. From yesterday’s post, we learned that seven Read more
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Sleep — the easiest corner to cut?
I am born into a generation who thinks that sleep is leisure which hinders ticking off one more thing from the never-ending to-do list. That’s why it is okay to stay up late for work or for another movie episode. Because with all the things we want to do and experience in life, sleep seems Read more
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Exceptional talent and purposeful practice
If you’ve been thinking lately about how other people get so creative and you pale in contrast, you might have assumed that you simply don’t have the talent gene. You assumed that you need to be like Iron Man with a strike of genius before you can come up with the most innovative and novel Read more
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Ideas and meaningless pursuits
Your frame of thought depends on your exposure to various ideas. Not just any idea but ideas that add value to you and the people around you. And it shows. If that’s the case, you need to be purposive on what ideas you expose yourself to. Instead of mindlessly consuming information (that gets increasingly available Read more
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