It’s all in the relationship you’re building with your emotions — Simon worked a normal 9–5 job trying to build a life around the corporate world. He topped his class in university, but what did that matter in the real world? The real world was less structured and less certain, and he was trying to find himself in that chaos. As…

Take responsibility for your self-lacerating behaviors before it’s too late — Some months back, I was reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. All of the rules were helpful in their own way, but there was one that stuck with me for reasons I could not explain at the time. Don’t let your kids do things that make you dislike them …

If it happened a few years ago or a few minutes ago — The more we think about our past, the more present it becomes It’s quite interesting how a moment can stay with you long after it is done. There are pieces of it that fade away, but things can live in your memories forever if you want them to. Your first…

For they are your way towards mastering yourself — A flaw is personal. It’s a dark part of us that makes us feel quite low, so it isn’t something that we’d always feel comfortable sharing with people. But whether we choose to share them, we still have them. There will be times when they overpower us(which does feel more…

Your anxiety can be a superpower, if you use it right — Anxiety makes me feel uncomfortable But not in the way you may be thinking. It isn’t for fear or a mild version of PTSD. I feel uncomfortable because it feels self-limiting to use a general explanation you find online to sum up something you feel on a personal level. And…

Because if you don’t bring yourself a better future, who will? — This is not something that’s easy — if it was, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. When you invest your time, energy and effort into something or someone, you trust that everything will work out, you believe that your investment will grow and compound, and continue to bring value to…

Otherwise they will hold you back for the rest of your life — Sometimes it feels impossible to stop yourself from judging someone or something, sometimes it just comes out of you. Like that reckless driver who almost crashes into you Or the frustrating people in your life who only care about themselves Or the unfulfilling job keeping you behind a screen all…

Find a way to make use of everything — What is the best way to face life? What’s the best way to endure suffering and make sense of life’s uncertainty? Everyone has an answer to that and they each live their answers every day. …

Accept your lot of life and turn it into something better — If you could be anyone on this planet, who would you be? It’s an interesting question to consider, don’t you think? This was one of my favorite questions to ask my friends when I was a teenager. I didn’t know why, it just felt like good fun to imagine being…