Getting better one day at a time
For a while now I have been thinking about the dynamics of today’s society and their impacts on social relationships. We move away from home at the age of eighteen, often far away. We strive to obtain demanding jobs and work long hours to impress …
It seems like this is the month of admitting that I’m wrong about everything. There is something beautiful about being wrong and expanding your mind to possibilities you had previously not been able to imagine. But, enough waxing poetic, what was I wrong about this …
On June 24th before I launched this blog, when I was still having some doubts about even creating it or putting it out into the world in the first place I wrote this message to myself as motivation: I will not quit on myself. I …
When I first decided to create this blog, I drafted up a short description of what I wanted it to be about. You can find that description in the sidebar on the home page. The first line in this description was as follows: Humans have …
About a year ago I started reading the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. I never finished the book, but one concept from it that has stuck with me since is the concept of play. In the first couple of chapters the …
(See what I did there? Since my goal for the month was reading) All puns aside, I’m a bit disappointed with my progress in June. I only ended up completing two books, one of which was given to me by my mother. And just yesterday …
Sometimes it can be hard to know how to help a friend who is struggling so I thought I’d compile a short list simple ways my friends have helped me through. I’ve been lucky to find a really supportive group of friends so I’d like …
Last week I wrote about what depression feels like to me, so I wanted to also write about the other side of things. Because inevitably, I always come out of it and start to feel better and I want to have a record of that. …
One of the main reasons I decided to start this blog was because I was stuck. Stuck in a cycle of negative thinking that left me feeling extremely hopeless. I decided to try something that would give me a goal, a tiny thing to work …
I’m so pumped that it’s already been a month and I’ve managed to complete my first goal. I think what’s especially fun about this project is that when you set yourself a specific time frame, it allows you to reflect back on the process. So, …