Changed By Faith
Reading time: 6 minutes 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 cycles of birth, growth, development,…
Finding Balance In Our Impatience
Reading time: 5 minutes 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 because you weren’t sure where…
Achieve True Transformation By Harnessing Your Inner Power
Reading time: 5 minutes 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 true transformation occurs when you…
Change, Happiness And Feeling Alive
Reading time: 5 minutes 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 I’ve played my own key…
You Aren’t Stuck In Life, You Just Haven’t Started
Reading time: 4 minutes You and me, we all have dreams, goals, and ideas on what we think our life should look like, or how we think life should end up being. While some of us drift away daydreaming, some of us try to accurately plan out our lives,…
Dear Boss, Thank You For Declining My Leave Request
Reading time: 6 minutes 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 in front of me but…
From Small Town Girl To Full-Time World Traveller
Reading time: 8 minutes 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 19, I had…
The True Sense Of Freedom
Reading time: 4 minutes I am a career girl and I have always dreamt of a working adult life. Getting a job soon after college seemed to be the only ticket that I needed for launching my career and I assumed that there would be no hiccoughs going forward….
Better Odds Await The Risk Taker
Reading time: 5 minutes Life just keeps presenting us with tough choices. Should I accept this new job? Should I ask her out? Should I tell him how I feel? Should I start my own business? Should we launch this month? Should I travel alone? Should I post this…
Dealing With Toxic Family Members
Reading time: 5 minutes I recently received a question on my previous blog ‘Don’t Compromise Yourself For Toxic People‘: “What can one do to avoid this kind of toxicity if it is your loved ones or those close to you? And what is the best way to keep yourself…
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…
Is Self-Consciousness A Bad Thing?
Reading time: 4 minutes After I finished writing one of my previous stories about perfectionism ‘If I Was Perfect, I Wouldn’t Be‘, I had a fascinating talk with a close friend about her experience with self-conscious perfectionism. When she was modelling, she wanted to become the perfect model. She raised…
