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“I’m fed up with life. I feel miserable. It’s like everything is against me,” he said, “my doctor has had to up the dosage of my anti-depressants.” Listening to my friend talk about his hardships made my blood boil. This guy had everything going for him—money, a great wife and kids, several homes all over […]

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Lately, I’m feeling restless. My mind is everywhere. I can’t focus for long on any task. What makes it worse is that I feel down whenever I don’t concentrate on the given task. These glum feelings are low-key, more like a decrease in positive emotions and not outright negative ones. Perhaps the new term, languishing, […]

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Wayne Dyer was speaking at an “I Can Do It” Conference when he brought out an orange and asked a bright twelve-year-old what was inside it. The boy insisted it could only be orange juice, not apple or grapefruit juice. When pushed to explain why, the boy said: “Well, it’s an orange, and that’s what’s inside.” […]

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“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert “I’m at work and listening to one of our suppliers. It’s an important meeting. He is highly critical of our performance this year and doesn’t accept that the country’s economic woes hurt purchasing power. Instead, he lays the blame on our […]

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“There’s a guy in my head, and all he wants to do is lay in bed all day long, smoke pot, and watch old movies and cartoons. My life is a series of stratagems, to avoid, and outwit that guy.”—Anthony Bourdain I’ve been thinking of quitting writing altogether. I can feel relief even when I […]

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I smashed the phone against the wall, and it shattered into pieces. I dropped to my knees and prayed to be released from this thing called love. It was our third big fight in one month. I was in my last year of college and 18 months into a relationship. The earlier passion had long […]

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There is one book I carry with me wherever I go: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Every time I read a few pages, I start to feel an inner tingling in my heart, and my soul starts chirping like the nightingale he so lyrically describes. It’s true that I cling to his words harder than the average […]

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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”― E. B. White I’ve always been a goal-chaser. Most years, I set too many goals. I accomplish many of them but end up […]

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  2015 was one of the saddest of my life as my mother passed away. However, it was also one of the most exciting years of my life, as I had intentionally set it up to be so. I wanted to do more joyful activities that made me release the handbrake within me, allowing me […]

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“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.” ~ Jack Hanna. Approaching the end of the year, I like to review it so that I can reflect and start the new one with a bang. Doing so helps clarify what […]

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