At various times of my life, I found I was content with my work, with the husband, and with family and friends. I had no real strife with anyone. I was at peace with myself and happy. But, those peaceful and content times were interweaved with other times when I was stressed and unhappy. Pausing…
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Create a nurturing environment for your dreams
Most of us are shells of our full potentials because of the nurture and care we had as children. Children who are nurtured are told that they can do whatever they wanted to do. Their thoughts were respected and they were loved for who they are. They were given tools and books they wanted or…
Goals are not set in stone
Have you set a goal and feel that you have to stick to it because everyone knows about it? Or because you always achieve every goal that you set? Maybe you are afraid to commit to the goals because you are afraid they are like life sentences, locking you in onto one path for months…
You can have it all
Life is meant to be lived and you were meant to have it all. No, don’t laugh, you were really meant to have it all. It’s just that you did not know “what it all” means to you. Your family may have told you to go to college, get a degree, get a job, set…
How to add more gratefulness in your life
In the past month, I have added more gratefulness in my life through a simple practice. Every morning, I wrote what three things I was grateful for, not in bullet points, but in full sentences. I would write, “I’m grateful for X because of Y.” This morning I flipped through my journal and noticed that…
Freewrite to get started with writing
What is freewriting? Anyone who says that writing is easy is a liar! Writers often have to create words out of thin air into a palatable idea. One technique is brainstorming points. But, points do not constitute writing. Writing is a string of words that makes sense to the reader. Peter Elbow, non-fiction author and…
Ensuring my goals align with the stage and state of my life
I reviewed my 2019 annual goals, checked the status of each one, and updated my goals. I came up with a reduced subset of goals, three goals that I think will make a difference in my life. Now I need to assess whether these goals still align with the current stage and state of my…
Living the authentic life of a unitasker
Live an authentic life…discover if you are a unitasker or a multitasker.
Gradual consistent action – quote by van Gogh
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent van Gogh
Here’s how I designed my life to stop procrastinating on my writing
I procrastinated on doing hateful work. I dreaded the one task I had to do for the entire day…read a postgraduate student’s upgrade document and fix it into a working manuscript to submit to a scientific journal. Luckily for me, I got started by first recognizing how big this single ‘task’ really was. This single…
