self-growth
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New Year’s Confession
The failure of my debut novel and two other books put my writing career to a halt. For a year or two, I wouldn’t admit it. It took a lot financially, mentally, and emotionally to get to a point where I was pursuing my dream instead of just ‘living.’ Not seeing the results I wanted… Continue reading
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Urban War
Some friends are only friends as long as you keep drinking the same alcohol, eating the same crap food, gossiping ’bout the same people, & moaning ’bout the same damn shit. Continue reading
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The End of an Era
This year, I skipped my regular birthday blog. I will also be abandoning the annual year-end reflection post. These things don’t speak to my heart anymore. Continue reading
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Vulnerability is Not Weakness
Falling in love with our Day Two, I believe, is something everyone should learn. I read on my Twitter timeline someone saying we’re not in an “information age” but rather an “entertainment age”. So living in the entertainment age, everyone’s become more interested in the problem and the solution/the happy ending, but people these days… Continue reading
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How to Attract Synchronicity Into Your Life
Ever since getting in tune with my life’s purpose, things from the past and present became clearer and more significant to me, such as why I worked as a teacher earlier in my career (to understand the feeling of serving people), why I had to get sick (to motivate me to live a healthier lifestyle),… Continue reading
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Do You Celebrate Your Small Victories?
Sometimes, a small step in the right direction can require as much as courage and faith as doing something big. Without taking small, tiny steps, a toddler could not learn to walk. Without small bricks put on top of each other, there would not be a house. Without the small seeds and saplings, a forest… Continue reading
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Why?
How fascinating can life be? If your eyes and mind are both open, you will see a grand design for your life. Things happen for a reason. Series of events are related to each other, no such thing as a coincidence. Every place you’ve been to, every person you’ve met, and everything you have done,… Continue reading
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30 Life Lessons I Learned Before I Turned 30
Every person has two lives. The second begins when they find out their ‘why’. Continue reading
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Old Faces, New Friends
Pool. Food. Drinks. Old jokes and old funny stories. These were the highlights of my Saturday night. I was with a group of familiar faces, those I’ve known for more than a decade. Yet a part of me said they’re strangers to me. I knew their names but I didn’t know who they were. Continue reading
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Types of Gluttony That Rob You of a Purposeful Life (Part 2)
I didn’t have cancer. “The biopsy results are in,” the doctor started. “There were no cancerous cells.” Continue reading
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