Category: life lessons
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Every Year I Have Less Energy
As I get older, I have less energy; the best part is that it’s great. No, I haven’t gone crazy. I finally understood the value of experience: learning to save and manage my energy wisely. Let me explain… Over the years, I have discovered that the quantity and quality of my energy are not the…
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Three Subtle Signs Someone is a Spiritual Vampire (And You Don’t Even Realize It)
Learn to spot them before it’s too late. They could be your mother or your partner. They could be a childhood friend or your boss. They could be your neighbor across the street. They could be anyone. Spiritual vampires, unlike Dracula, walk among us in broad daylight. How do you recognize them? Here are three signs…
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The Brutal Life Lesson I Learned From a Monk Who Helped Me Achieve Inner Peace
Discover the difference between organic and processed peace. The priest in my neighborhood is a Franciscan monk of Hindu origin. His life story is crazy. He was born in a small village in India. He studied in Europe and the United States. He got a job in a multinational company in Canada. After a few…
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Three Hippie Lessons To Live a Wealthy Life
2. Every injustice is a market opportunity. In the 2000’s, I was in the disco world. At that time, I lived like the Vin Diesel movies Fast and Furious. Every summer, I would travel to Ibiza to get ideas for the club I worked at. My girlfriend at the time had an uncle living on…
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Three Mind-blowing Lessons I Wish I Had Known at the Bitter Moments of My Life
My secret toolbox. They say that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. It is metira. Pain and suffering are Siamese twins that are impossible to separate. What you can do is have a good toolbox with life lessons that will minimize the time you are exposed to pain or make it bearable. These are the four…
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Four Brutal Truths I Know at 42 That I Wish I Knew at 33
Because the truth hurts more if you don’t know it. At 33, my life exploded into millions of pieces, and nothing was left of what I had built: partner, money, company, house; I lost everything. I managed to emerge from the ashes like a phoenix. But if I could return, I would have liked to be…
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Three Things More Important Than Money That You Don’t Value Enough
Learn to appreciate what matters. “Don’t think money does everything or you’ll end up doing everything for money.” — Voltaire Money is just a tool. But people pursue it as if it were an end in itself.And money won’t hug you at night, take care of you when you’re sick, or miss you when you’re far away. Money…
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I Lost 17 Years of My Life by Not Losing a Couple of Hours
(Learn from my mistakes.) The other day, some readers asked me about the relationship between doing nothing and being creative. Reader 1 How does the nothingness become filled with creativity? I feel so lost! Reader 2 Every one of these points is right on target! The hardest part for me is relaxing into non-productivity. I…
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The Most Valuable Lesson the Universe Taught Me After Turning My Life Into a Living Hell
Listening to the universe is not sexy. Desire is the salt of life. Without desire, no matter how well you do, your life will be like the food they give you in hospitals: insipid. We know, but we still lose the desire along the way. It’s normal, shit happens to all of us: divorces, funerals, illnesses. — Whoever…
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Three Quick Quotes From Ordinary People to Live an Out-of-the-ordinary Life
The power of the daily wisdom. The best wisdom is daily wisdom from real people. That is why sayings are passed from generation to generation: because they work. I love to collect these little pearls of wisdom in my daily life. Here are the ones that have had the most significant impact on my life in…