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How Would You Spend Your Last Day?

How would you spend your last 24 hours? This is a thought experiment worth doing for the following reasons: It helps you gear towards what projects you’d rather be doing for a living It helps you filter out the people you’d rather spend time with It helps you do more of the activities that give […]

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What If I’m Not Good at Anything?

We’ve all been there. Your performance is dropping. Your work is starting to dawn on you. Your love for the job is declining ever so slowly while your peers seem to be riding high. You used to be full of promise. Heck, someone even said you used to be one of the best on the […]

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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Deal With Death

“Death smiles at us all, and all a man can do is smile back.” — from the movie, Gladiator I was shivering and sweating profusely. The slightest gush of wind felt like a hurricane. My head weighted so heavy my neck was on its last nerves. “How much longer… till we… reach the hospital..” This was […]

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FOMO: The Anxiety is REAL & How to Deal With It

I “quit” Facebook long before it was cool to do so. I couldn’t stand the amount of envy-inducing imagery it was pushing (my bad for being easily triggered). But Facebook is just the beginning. The real psycho test starts with it’s younger more narcissistic brother, Instagram. Open the app and you will drown in “my-life-is-cooler-than-yours” photos […]

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What is Minimalism & How to Get Started

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“Wait, you wear the same underwear for 3 days?” “How… WHY?!” That’s my friend talking. She couldn’t fathom why I wear the same boxer trunks up to 3 days in a row. I never saw it as a problem. I saw it as a solution to my cluttered life. Hear me out. I once read […]

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The Simplest No-BS Guide to Becoming a Writer

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“What do you do for a living?” I’m a writer. “Oh, I always wanted to become a writer.” Well you can if you want to. You don’t have to get an English degree to become a writer. Most important is that you have decide to write. “Well, easy for you to say. I suck at […]

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Personal Finance and Money Secrets I Learned from Reading 20+ Books

“INSUFFICIENT FUNDS” Those two words flashed before my eyes not too long ago. I have been working for 1.5 years since. Got myself a relatively high paying job + freelanced regularly. And yet here I was. Overdrawn. 2 weeks to go till my next paycheck. After so many months of reading personal finance, “millionaire mindset” […]

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The Biggest Prioritizing Lesson I Learnt All Year

There are many schools of thought on the number of things you ought to have on your to-do list – some say six (the Ivy Lee Method), some say three, some say one, three and five. There are also guides on how to rank your tasks using the Eisenhower Matrix. But I can say is […]

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The Year You Decided to Put Yourself First

Love and work, tenants that psychologist Sigmund Freud would argue was the meaning of life is crucial for your well being. You are the captain of your ship and so that means you better be in top shape. Hence, loving yourself and working for yourself makes you love the day that much more.   Loving […]

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Screw New Year Resolutions, Do These Instead

New Year Resolutions are a cliche. Why wait 365 days before doing a review on how your life is going? Clearly, there are smarter ways to go about this. Writing down your goals on a piece of paper and telling yourself “this time it’s for real” will probably yield the same result as before – […]

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