Change sometimes just means accepting who you are.
I’ve spent a great deal of my life trying to change. Feeling like I was medium rare and not well done. Now, after five decades I’m finally the person I want to be.
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Those baffling interview questions: is honesty the best policy?
I am not the best interviewee. I believe honesty is always best. I sticking to my principles and humbly tell the interviewer how I feel, and what my real thoughts and strengths are.
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Letting go of your inner demons.
“Why don’t you write?” I was asked and my answer came fast and ready “Because hell would break loose.” Now, as I think about it years later I realize that that hell was only mine. As I wrote, the old demons came out and I was able to face them and let them go. The […]
Read More…Finding your very own hero.
We all need guidance and someone to look up to. A roll-model that paves the way and teaches us something we don’t know that might push us on. We do that since childhood. Our parents are our first heroes, and from then on we keep looking for those inspiring people who we’ll try to imitate.
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You are not a victim: Take responsibility for your life and move on.
We seem to feel we are victims of our circumstances, as Ortega y Gasset said, and that we can’t do anything about it. We feel helpless, and find a million excuses to stay stuck in the same place.
Read More…How to change through body language.
We laugh, we chat, we sit, we walk, and we cross our legs, all without realizing the information about ourselves we are giving away to our observers. People watching is fascinating and even better than watching TV for some of us. There is so much to learn about us all, if you pay close attention. […]
Read More…Return to the old philosophers to find hope.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was angry when attending theatre became a bourgeois pastime. He’d feel the same way now, on seeing the rise of social networks. He believed that theatre was a distraction from who we are and the present moment. He was right. Our constant focus seems to be to escape the moment, to escape ourselves, to escape […]
Read More…Those days that suck the life out of you.
There are days when you see your life as a bystander and ask yourself if this is the life chose. As the day progresses the cloud follows you and you can’t seem to shake that feeling of meaninglessness. You want to escape it but can’t. It seems forever to finally get home and hide under […]
Read More…Is it too late?
Even in my twenties I thought it was too late for me to start something new. And so it’s been until recently. I suppose age has a lot to do with it. Now that I am deep into my 40’s, I have come to feel that I have much less to lose. All those what […]
Read More…We are responsible for 40% of our happiness.
Attaining happiness is a common goal. And while each person’s measure of happiness is a very unique and personal experience, we all can attain it. Our individual happiness depends on different factors, some we have no control of and others we are actually responsible for. So how do we steer ourselves towards a happier state of mind?
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