I Always Rise
Unfold Series
To see me, a nearly 60-year-old woman in ill-fitting clothes, no style to my hair, most of my teeth missing, sagging skin, living in a trashy trailer in a trashy trailer park, you might write me off as a nobody,
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A Harmful Or Healthy Social Comparison?
Personal, Psychology
In my previous blog “Understand Your Worth – How You Value Yourself,” I talked about the topic of how much the society places value on outward appearances when defining one's success, whereas little consideration is given to the inner values
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Understand Your Worth – How You Value Yourself
Personal, Psychology
Little consideration is given to the inner values of a person when defining one's success, such as integrity, kindness, love, forgiveness, emotional intelligence and inner balance.
In contrast, an excessive value is placed on the outward appearances of success by society,
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If You Get Tired, Learn To Rest
Personal, Productivity
Our lives have become so packed, so busy, so noisy, and so full of conflict. At the end of the day, we feel drained, cranky and overly judgemental. Some of us numbly pace through our days not knowing how out
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How To Rise In The Face Of Job Termination
Fail Forward Series
Me Fired Like Oprah Winfrey? Never!
Losing a job is a major life event. The thought of losing a job gives most of us a sick feeling deep in the pit of the stomach. The loss of benefits, wages and how
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Changed By Faith
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I find life to be consistently inconsistent. Change is the norm. Look outside your window, take a stroll down the street, you’ll witness that nature is always transitioning. Whether you have extreme or stable seasons, they still experience their own
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Finding Balance In Our Impatience
Personal, Psychology
Have you ever taken the pizza out of the oven two minutes early because you just couldn’t wait? Or left lines that were barely moving, only to get into an even slower one? Or breaking up a good healthy relationship
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The Contrast Of Loving Your Job
Personal, Productivity
Author and anthropologist David Graeber mentioned in his book ‘Bullshit Jobs’, that today’s work features a lot of needless busywork and it’s preventing people from making a meaningful contribution to the world.
Maybe the modern quest for future unemployment comes from
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Achieve True Transformation By Harnessing Your Inner Power
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My life has been a series of small but pivotal changes. Some changes were external, bringing encouraging but temporary results. The most lasting changes were those I initiated from within, invisible to anyone on the outside. This taught me that
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Opposites Attract, But Similarities Bind
Personal, Relationship
This blog post is inspired by a comment on my previous post “The Law Of Attraction – You Attract What You Are”. In the comment, it is mentioned that “opposites attract more than what you are or what is similar
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From Depression to Optimism
Unfold Series
How Change Found Me
Change found me on the bathroom floor, begging my husband to let me die.
I'd done all of the right things. Went to school. Got good grades. Graduated from a university. Landed a steady job with great benefits.
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The Law Of Attraction – You Attract What You Are
Personal, Relationship
The Law of Attraction, I have been fascinated by it for a long time and I rarely come across people who are fully aware of how much the Law of Attraction impacts their day to day life. Regardless of when
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Her Tiny Little Fingers Gave Me A New Direction On Life
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A little over a year ago, I gave birth to the most beautiful little girl I had ever laid eyes on. However, she did not come at the best time. At the time, I was working full-time and completing graduate
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Change, Happiness And Feeling Alive
Unfold Series
I am walking my son, Lars, to school this morning when it hits. A foreboding magnitude begins to press down on me and the looming feeling of fright is palpable. However, there is nothing I can do about it since
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Own It – What Makes You, You?
Personal
This was my last post for 2018, and I wanted to leave you with something of value to start your 2019 even greater. Therefore, this post is dedicated to those who are having a hard time accepting themselves for who
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Why Do We Do ALL The Things?
Unfold Series
It’s odd that this opportunity came along when we are doing our 2019 planning. I say that because up until the change found us in 2016, we had no discernible plans beyond what events pushed and pulled us. We were
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Dear Boss, Thank You For Declining My Leave Request
Unfold Series
Everything has started to become a blur as I try to recall the day I left Malaysia, my life and the rat race I so wanted to be part of. I tried fixing my eyes to the freshly bloomed tulips
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The Liebster Award! So…, What Is it?
Personal
Hi Dear Bloggers,
So, I received a message from Prerana from “Inside Travellers Shoes” and Tanusri from "With Nature," where they nominated me for the Liebster Award!
Thank you Prerana and Tanusri! I feel honoured to be nominated by both of you
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From Small Town Girl To Full-Time World Traveller
Unfold Series
All my life I have dreamed of escaping the small town where I grew up.
The world was calling me to go explore it, but circumstances kept me stuck in that small town in Canada for over 30 years.
When I was
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Time Management Really Is About Self-Management
Personal, Productivity
The idea of time management is typically defined as one’s ability to use time productively and efficiently, especially in cases such as school and work.
However, David Allen, productivity consultant and the inventor of the “Getting Things Done” method, says time
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How My Parents Disowning Me Saved My Life
Unfold Series
Ever since I was a teenager, I craved change. I wanted to change my identity. I wanted to construct my own life. I wanted to set my own standards and expectations. I wanted to create my own life. I was
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One Lifelong Dream Fulfilled In A Foreign Country
Unfold Series
We aspire to possess boundless generosity. We desire a more promising situation. We dream of a better life. We hope to fulfil that one lifelong dream. Achieving them may be taxing at times but believe me when I say it
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The Key To Finding Your Inspiration
Personal, Productivity
How often do you sit behind your laptop to get your work done? Whether it is for your job or school, somehow, it’s just not happening. The ideas are there… somewhere… you sort of know what you want to do,
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Change Is Hard, But With It Comes Opportunity
Unfold Series
Life comes at you fast and apparently without prior notice or any warning. I never expected my life to make a complete U-turn, but it did in the summer of 2014. I lived and breathed politics during my college years.
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What We Forget When Giving Advice
Personal, Relationship
We all know someone who is in need of a little advice, and maybe even yourself.
The issue that comes with offering advice is that it’s easy to be perceived as a know-it-all and that has led many to be consumed
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Growing Through Depression With The Right Mindset
Unfold Series
Hey, my name’s Peter.
I run my own blog and email list, and I feel accomplished doing so!
But it wasn’t always like this. It took a lot of determination and perseverance. I went through hardship after hardship, even going as far
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The Sunshine Blogger Award
Personal
To my surprise, Glen McKenzie – from the amazing “justabitfurther” weblog about getting outdoor, discovering yourself, and finding inspiration – nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. I’m really honoured and thankful to be nominated for this award by Glen.
I
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Turning Adversities Into Victories
Unfold Series
There are two kinds of people when it comes to change for the worse: those who are ready for it and those who are not. I have always belonged to the latter group. To be exact, I am the kind
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Discover Your Own Writing Process
Personal, Productivity
Every writer has his or her own writing process. I have mine and you have yours – no two are the same. Often, the process comes naturally and is not a step-by-step guide to which writers refer. And eventually, after
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The Birth Of A Mother
Unfold Series
I thought my soul was dying a very slow painful death, but my soul will live on long after my body dies. It was my spirit dying, my sense of self, my individuality. I didn’t need to be a person,
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Reading time: 6minutes For years I have been struggling to accept some things of myself. Things such as accepting that I make mistakes and that I can fail. Or, that other people do it better than me while I don’t understand why. And always having the urge to…
Reading time: 4minutes My journey to natural living began in late 2008. It started when my husband became sick. The visit to the doctor informed him he had reoccurring mono (it is a viral infection that causes symptoms like fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and a severe sore throat)….
Reading time: 4minutes For this week, I have a question that will draw in many different people with different answers. “What keeps you from sitting down and writing?” What is stopping that next killer blog post, mind-blowing novel, informative white paper or life-changing e-books from pouring…
Reading time: 5minutes I used to be a banker, not the perfect job, a lot of stress and not so much to look forward to. But I was earning good money, my job offered me medical insurance, housing allowance… well for sure the most important thing is having…
Reading time: 6minutes We all have these days where it’s hard to get anything done. We let all the pop-up push notifications pull us into other directions or we can find something else to do or think about at any given second, right? But maybe the distractions aren’t…
Reading time: 5minutes Tests. I pride myself in always being well-prepared for them. Especially the prep. It must have something to do with my adoration for words, paper, pens and the like. I am a queen of preparing for examinations and quizzes. The ones I am not a…
Reading time: 5minutes Throughout the last decade, psychology researchers identified practices that can help us gain great social, mental, and physical health benefits that come from giving thanks. These benefits are particularly earned in the practice of gratitude journaling. Studies have drawn a range of striking benefits to…
Reading time: 6minutes Let me tell you my story. This is the story that changed me forever. I went to university to study Musical Theatre. It’s not usually what people expect to hear when they ask you what you do, but it makes me happier than anything else…
Reading time: 5minutes Optimism is often seen to be the reason entrepreneurs start businesses, but optimism is not what makes them successful. Many success stories have a similar classical theme: the “overnight success” built over years, where large doses of determination and persistence save the day. So, psychologists…
Reading time: 8minutes Sometimes, you struggle with the way family sees you. Maybe you are the black sheep that is doing everything wrong. Or maybe you have some conservative family members that love you but consider you a failure because you are not married and with children. Being…
Reading time: 5minutes We all love to complain. It won’t take an extensive observation to reason that it’s something we love to do as human beings. We tend to feel better once we have a good moan. Getting things off our chests seems to relieve a burden or…
Reading time: 5minutes Author Neil Gaiman said in his book The Ocean at the End of the Lane “As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.” Some of us hear this and think “Become like my parents? NO! PLEASE! ANYTHING BUT…
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