jessa blog
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Disrupted routines
I have to admit that it’s easy to establish a routine and stick to it if you live away from your parents and are without children. But being in a house full of activity all day long and a toddler to top it up, days could stretch like the hustle and bustle in a city… Read more
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How have YOU changed over the past ten years?
You’d be lying if you say nothing has changed. If you’re being honest, you have changed a lot over the past ten years. Simply put, you’re never the same person from ten years ago. Read more
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IFTF Map on post-Covid alternative futures and the deeper disease
Our world seemed to stop in the time of Covid-19. But the spread of Covid-19 doesn’t stop with the virus. It also spreads across the future. The Institute For the Future, the world’s leading futures organization, created alternative futures scenarios after the pandemic, and they are: Economic growth (Saving Capitalists – stimulus without structural change)… Read more
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The young person in the room
Have you ever had the feeling of cluelessness the moment you entered a room filled with older people who seem to know what they are supposed to do? And at the back of your head, you can’t help but think, “What am I doing here?” Instead of hoping to be somewhere else, where you feel… Read more
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Letter No. 1
Dear reader from the future, I hope you are well today. I can only imagine where you are reading this from, but it may not be what I think where you would be. Mainly because my mind is limited to the images I conjure from my memories. If only I can know where you are… Read more
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Ability creates opportunity
First, let us read the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14-30 (NASB1995): “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own… Read more
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Plans and excuses
Have you ever experienced a point in your life where you simply know what to do? Did those plans come vividly to your mind? But now that you finally can do something about them, did you commit to an action plan? Often, it’s so easy to identify what should be done. When it’s time to… Read more