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Advice that will put you on the path to success; tips, tricks and nuggets of wisdom from trusted experts and motivational mentors.
When you lose everything, you find yourself
When You Lose Everything, You Find Yourself There is a moment — and if you have lived long enough, you have felt it — when the ground beneath your feet simply disappears. It might happen in a single phone call. It might happen slowly, over months, like water carving through stone. One day you look around and the life you built, the person you loved, the job you defined yourself by, the health you took for granted, the dream you sacrificed for — it is gone. And you are left standing in the ruin of what used to be, wondering how you are supposed to breathe through something this heavy.
By Zidane6 months ago in Motivation
Ideas and Inspiration
Introduction I write these pieces often in the hope that people may get ideas from them and feel free to ask for advice. I always try and vary my writing but recently I have written three poems in succession plus a playlist and a piece of fiction, one of those was an entry to the Vocal "Sensational" Challenge. That makes me feel a bit lazy even though one of the poems has taken a couple of months of thought before I finally got it down. Neil Diamond said he took eight weeks to nail down the phrase "I Am...I Said", but my imposter syndrome traits still make me feel I am not putting in enough effort and I am being lazy.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Motivation
Why AI Is Shaking Up My Investment Strategy - And What You Can Learn From It. AI-Generated.
I've been investing for over 35 years. Millions of dollars later, and I've realized something that might shock you: the strategy that made me wealthy is no longer enough.
By Wealthy moves6 months ago in Motivation
From $200 to a Lamborghini: Brandon’s Relentless Climb
At 22 years old, Brandon didn’t look like someone destined to own a Lamborghini. He drove a rusty sedan that rattled every time he pressed the brakes. The driver’s side window only rolled halfway down, and the paint had faded so badly that strangers often mistook it for primer. Brandon didn’t mind much. The car got him to work, and at that point in his life, that was enough.
By MIGrowth6 months ago in Motivation
How to Be Present with Yourself When You'd Rather Disappear
There are moments, or entire seasons, when being present with yourself feels impossible. Maybe you’ve survived trauma that taught you to check out to stay safe. Maybe your emotions feel too heavy. Maybe shame, fear, or exhaustion makes it unbearable to sit with your thoughts. Maybe you’ve spent years disappearing because it felt easier than facing the truth of what you carry.
By Stacy Valentine6 months ago in Motivation
The Language
Why Japanese People See a Color That Doesn't Exist in English THE COLOR THAT ENGLISH DOESN'T HAVE 🎨 In the Japanese language there is a word, mizuiro, that describes a specific shade of light blue that Japanese speakers perceive as categorically distinct from other blues in the same way that English speakers perceive red as categorically distinct from orange, meaning that for Japanese speakers this particular shade is not a variation of blue but is its own separate color with its own name and its own perceptual identity, and research has demonstrated that Japanese speakers can distinguish mizuiro from other blues faster and more accurately than English speakers who lack a specific word for this shade, and this difference which persists even when the specific hues being compared are physically identical demonstrates something profound about the relationship between language and perception: that the words you have available for describing reality actually change how your brain processes that reality, meaning you do not just describe the world with language but literally see a different world depending on which language you speak 🌍🔬
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Motivation
The Mind-Bending
The Mind-Bending Truth About How Your Brain Distorts Reality THE CLOCK THAT LIES TO YOU 🕐 The experience of time is one of the most fundamental aspects of human consciousness, organizing every thought, memory, and plan into a framework of past, present, and future that feels as objective and as universal as gravity, but neuroscience has revealed that time perception is not objective at all but rather is a construction of your brain that varies dramatically based on your emotional state, your age, your level of attention, your body temperature, and even the speed at which you are physically moving, meaning that the clock on the wall may show the same time for everyone in the room but the subjective experience of that time, how fast it seems to pass, how much content it seems to contain, and how it feels in the body, is genuinely different for each person and can vary dramatically for the same person across different circumstances 🧠✨
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Motivation
You're Not Lazy
The Hidden Reason Behind Your Procrastination and Paralysis THE LIE YOU TELL YOURSELF EVERY DAY 🤥 Every morning you wake up with plans and intentions and a to-do list that represents the gap between who you are and who you want to become, and by evening most of those plans remain unexecuted and the familiar shame descends, the specific self-contempt of someone who knows what they should do and cannot make themselves do it, and you label this failure with the word that has been applied to you since childhood: lazy, a word that carries moral judgment suggesting not just behavioral deficiency but character deficiency, implying that you are not just failing to act but are fundamentally defective in your capacity for effort and that your inaction reflects not a problem to be solved but a flaw to be condemned, and this label which you have internalized so completely that it feels like objective self-description rather than cultural judgment is almost certainly wrong because laziness as a personality trait essentially does not exist in the way that popular understanding frames it, and what you are experiencing when you cannot motivate yourself to act is not moral failure but rather your brain's protective response to perceived threats that your conscious mind may not even recognize 🧠💡
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Motivation
