When Stress Leads To The Cookie Jar
Reading time: 6 minutes Emotional eating, who among us hasn’t reached for a bag of chips after an exhausting day at work or a jar of cookies during a painful breakup? Emotional eating can be defined as eating salty, fatty, or sugary foods to calm negative emotions. It’s a…
Shift FOMO to Focus On My Objective
Reading time: 6 minutes The fear of missing out, also known as FOMO, is the feeling of anxiety, envy, insecurity, or regret we have when other people are having positive and exciting experiences in their lives and we are not. The term may be new, but the feeling itself…
Social Media, A Wide Surface With A Lonely Depth
Reading time: 5 minutes I can’t help but notice people around me having their face pushed unto their mobile screen, myself included. Whether we’re waiting for the bus, sitting on the couch, or even studying for an exam, somehow, we reach into our pocket and check every social media…
Of The Deadly Sins, Only Envy Is No Fun At All
Reading time: 5 minutes Envy is the pain caused by the desire for the advantage of others, such as superior quality, achievement, or possession. We desire those qualities for ourselves, or we wish that other people lack them. Our strong desire can set off a painful overwhelming emotion seeded…
Our pain, Insecurities, And Challenges Are A Part Of Us
Reading time: 4 minutes Numbing yourself with alcohol and drugs won’t make these feelings go away. Moving to another city or flying to another planet won’t keep you safe. And pushing yourself to work past the point of human exhaustion won’t make you forget anything. Wherever you go, as…
Change The Story You Tell Yourself, And You Change Your Life
Reading time: 5 minutes “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale Yesterday, I saw this quote by accident in a bookstore near where I live. As I was walking to a bus station, a nostalgic feeling popped up from when I used…
Tough Love For Extreme Introverts And Extroverts
Reading time: 4 minutes A week ago, I had a conversation with friends about how they see me as being an extrovert and the “outgoing” type of guy. As you can imagine, I felt a bit puzzled and asked out of curiosity: “Based on what do you think I’m…
Confirmation Bias, Stop Wishful Thinking
Reading time: 4 minutes Confirmation bias, also known as wishful thinking, is your tendency to seek and interpret information that confirms your existing belief or ideas. When you would like a certain idea to be true, you end up believing it to be true because you are motivated by…
The Privilege Of Having Too Many Choices
Reading time: 5 minutes You have a choice to either read this blog post or not. Simple choice, right? Or you can choose reading one of 100 other blog posts on the same topic. Then, which one to choose? I’m sure you are familiar with this feeling of having…
Bye-Bye Stuff, Hello Minimalism
Reading time: 5 minutes I didn’t really think about it until I was scrolling through Unsplash.com searching for some photos for my previous article. I came across the theme of minimalism and it caught my attention with its simplicity and cleanness. This made me reflect on how I used…
My Sense Of Entitlement, When Right is Wrong
Reading time: 5 minutes We are all entitled to something. There is nothing wrong with expectations that we have towards psychological and safety needs (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) when we work hard to deserve them. There are also legal entitlements from our government and legal system such as the…
Your Intuition Will Whisper To You
Reading time: 6 minutes So, what is intuition really? Intuition is a “knowing” that cannot be explained by fact or thought, but through a deep inner feeling. It’s those “I feel it in my gut” and “something doesn’t feel quite right” moments and you can’t explain why. And my…
