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jessa

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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • “The Busyness Illusion”

    Here’s a passage most of us from the city can relate to which I quoted from a book i just read, The Cozy Life: Rediscover the Joy of the Simple Things Through the Danish Concept of Hygge by Pia Edberg. As technology advances in our modern world, we find ourselves living in a society that… Read more

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  • When is enough, enough?

    Since we were young, TV ads taught us that having the latest toys would make us happy (just look at those smiling faces of children holding the newest toy in their collection). I want to feel the way those kids feel. So I should tell mom and dad they are buying me that toy. For… Read more

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  • When we pray (doors of opportunities and how to keep them open)

    As long as I can remember, the opportunities I was able to enter were doors opened after I prayed to the Lord of Israel. And from today’s sermon with Pastor David Sumrall, I was reminded that: 1. Doors of opportunities open because we prayed to the Lord. Keep on asking and it will be given… Read more

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  • Getting out in the sun and traveling

    If you had five more minutes under the ruffled sheets, you could have simply brushed the day off in slumber. But if you have set your mind to be somewhere else, then you can push your body to be out on the road even when most of the world sleeps. To be in so many… Read more

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  • “Sometimes, you have to give up to move up”

    While listening to the Career Advice episode of The Minimalist podcast, one of the hosts threw out a quotable phrase that stopped me from what I was doing (and compelled me to write it here and share it with you): “Sometimes, you have to give up to move up” Because there have been so many instances in our lives… Read more

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  • Thinking should be a major part of the job

    But what often happens is we’ve become so focused on ticking off boxes and multitasking, thinking that crossing off everything on our to-do list is just what there is at work.  What happens when all that has run out? I’ll make a new list! And so there’s now a little room for imagination because you’ve filled your… Read more

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  • First, identify the problem

    Living in an area with substandard and demoralizing housing, because living there was what I could only afford at the time, made me realize how our environment affects our way of life and perception of life. And with a meager income, I learned how to dance with lack and need. In times of distress, it’s… Read more

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