Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.
Throughout the day, we experience many situations where we react on an emotional basis. When we encounter situations we consider bad, we tend to mismanage our lives, and we often don’t consciously realize our behavior.
When we’re soaked up in negative emotions, we tend to say things we don’t mean, act unwisely, and make poor decisions.
Emotionally intelligent people know specific ways to handle emotional charges healthily. They know that every time they feel angry, hopeless, jealous, or regretful is a possibility to transform their lives.
Understanding emotions.
Every mental activity results in a specific physical sensation. This is what we call…
Embracing difficult and busy days is your secret superpower.
A few months ago, I encountered a peak in workload. To stay on track, I chose to make more time for productive work. I decreased time for writing, creative tasks, exercise, and friends and family.
What a mess. After a few days, I already felt miserable.
I lied to myself every time I said: “Next week will be less busy.” or “Tomorrow I won’t stay longer.”
The amount of work didn’t decrease. In fact, it got more. I sacrificed my fundamental happiness routines in hopes of getting more work done. Unfortunately, it led to the opposite. I got slow and…
You don’t change in breakthroughs. You change in small shifts.
One of those days again: You sit at your desk, want to achieve something worthwhile, but you can’t just start. An invisible force seems to hold you back.
Instead, you grab your phone, scroll a bit, and wait for inspiration that rarely comes.
If you recognize yourself in this scenario, you’re not alone. When I fell in love with writing, I wrote page after page for 1,5 years without publishing any. I felt more comfortable in my bubble than exposing my writing to the world. Eventually, I allowed my irrational fears to stop me from writing.
Back then, reading the…
An in-depth look at mastering choices.
Most of us know that aiming in one direction in life has become the new secret superpower. We live in a highly distracting world and barely learned to pursue one path at a time. We so often walk in circles and wonder why we barely move forward.
Here’s the truth: You’re never stagnant. You’re always moving. The question is: Are you moving in an upwards spiral towards a greater life or spinning downwards?
I was slowly spinning in a downward spiral, but I couldn’t title what’s wrong. Everything seemed to be ok, but still, I lacked energy. My repetitive usage…
And what to do instead.
Life can be excruciatingly hard, especially when you become the prisoner of your own mind. I had a strong sports routine, a job I enjoyed, good friends, a good diet, but I still felt dejected. The most challenging thing every day was to wake up, even when I was physically fit and healthy.
I realized that I was in a toxic relationship for almost 8 years, but I wasn’t ready to face it until that one day, when I gathered my last energy reserves to write down what bugged me and left me feeling so empty.
Four years later, everything’s…
You already have everything you need to reach your goals. You’re just letting certain things get in your way.
Let me take a guess: You have some level of ambition. This above-average level of seriousness about your future puts you miles ahead. You want more, and you feel like your supposed to be doing more with your life.
Here’s the truth: You already have everything you need to reach your goals. You’re just letting certain things get in your way.
You don’t need to watch another inspirational video, read another book, have another brainstorming session, or write another to-do list. But in reality, we often rely on these things to build ourselves up after a setback. …
Worrying is not a good defense system. Do this instead.
Life can be overwhelming. It can be frigging hard. It takes one moment and suddenly, everything’s different. Sometimes it is going so fast you cannot even think clearly and reflect rationally. You’re totally exhausted, and you desperately want to change the situation, but you can’t change because you don’t think you have a choice.
If you find yourself in such a worst-case scenario, it is important to take care of it, even though we barely learned to deal with such situations healthily.
First off: We are meant to go through times of hardship. It forces us to adjust our concept…
Space travel is a personal growth booster once we apply these learnings to our lives.
Let’s pretend it’s the year 2030, and a friend hands you a free one-way ticket to the latest Mars colony. Your cruise will only take seven months with a travel distance of 300 million miles. Would you take it?
It might sound alluring for some of us to escape the problems here on Earth. But let’s be real — most of us will never be experienced space travelers. The amount of demanded astronauts is extremely slight. It takes years of training and preparation to put your feet on another planet. …
You’re leveling up way more often than you realize.
Growth is hard. It can be so frightening because it requires us to be honest with ourselves. It requires us to deal with emotions we’d love to lock away for just another day. It requires us to push ourselves into uncertainty where we can only guess our next step. It demands from us to put effort into the things we want to build even though we lack energy after a debilitating day.
Probably you don’t realize how often you’ve evolved after a day you consider as “worst day ever”. These terrifying, harrowing days reveal the highest potential to learn from…
A gentle reminder to make more time for the things that you love
Life can be overwhelming. Maybe you went through a break-up recently or you moved to a new place. Maybe you changed your job recently or feel overworked. Maybe you just started a business or a new project that doesn’t work out as you expected it.
You’ve gone through life-changing times. Suddenly you’re in your new life, and so many parts are different from how they were before. Sometimes everything's going so fast you cannot even think clearly about what will happen next.
Nevertheless, you made it to the here and now. Not everyone did.
You don’t need to understand everything…
