There are many things that challenge our ideas of success, and I would imagine that most of us don’t perceive ourselves as successful. We place a grave amount of importance on financial success, to the point that we stretch ourselves to the tip of our economic...
You know when you have a conversation with a friend, the ones that leave you ruminating over what you didn’t say? I was chatting with a friend, and I told her, ‘I went away for 2 days and someone came into my house and closed the door to the room where my cat’s litter...
It was a few years ago and I was out for dinner with a dear friend. While I had Pho dripping down my chin – on occasion I lack class when eating in public – he looked at me and said that my steady eye contact was unnerving and intimidating, and then he laughed. I...
“If you don’t spend the time making the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with the life you don’t want.” Kevin Ngo Do you believe that your life circumstances make you who you are? Have you surrendered your dreams – or...
Have you ever had an experience where you thought you knew how you felt about something or someone, but just a single piece of information changed your point of view? I have, and I continue to experience this regularly. When someone presents a new view on a topic, how...
Have you ever woken up early in the morning with a looming sense of dread? Felt suffocated by life and anxiety that made you feel like the whole world was shaking? Even the things in your life that normally bring you joy couldn’t lift you out of that heaviness and...
Currently it feels like humanity is crumbling from within and it's very values and systems are being questioned. As always, there’s immense value in restructuring systems that are no longer working, yet this constant shaming and cancelling of people, businesses and...
If it costs you your joy, it’s too expensive. Unknown. I come from a generation of people raised by those who were brought up in the aftermath of wars, scarcity, and struggle where part of their norm. They were rebuilding (or maybe just building after years of...
This is territory that’s challenging for many of us, myself included: being able to ask for help and knowing when to ask. I’m amazed by people who are able to; most of us know someone who can freely ask for help and, therefore, gets a lot of external support. What’s...
The biggest mistakes I’ve made in the last 25 years of self growth have mostly been around how I treated, reacted and responded to the people in my life. One night, I had just crawled into my bed, snuggled into my cozy grey sheets and pink duvet. I was about to turn...