Tag: Self improvement
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Three Signs That You Are Not Becoming the Person You Are Destined to Be
Find out if you are on the wrong track. People like to say that all roads lead to Rome (your destination), but… It’s not true! Two or three routes lead you to Rome; the rest of the roads are dead ends of this labyrinth called life. I know because I have spent decades wandering through them…
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The Unsettling Paradoxe That Will Blow Your Mind
And will change your view of your faults. Your faults are your virtues. Because when you’re a cactus, your thorns are your flowers. You may not be a damn tulip or even a sunflower, but you don’t need to be. Your weakness is your strength. Your ignorance is your wisdom. The scarcity of means, skills, and…
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Three Subtle Ways I Was Ruining My Life Without Realizing It
Learn from my mistakes before it’s too late. There are many ways to ruin your life, but not all are obvious. When I smoked three packs a day, drank a bottle of whiskey every night, and slept with any stranger who said something nice to me. I knew I would pay for all of that. But…
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Three Things You Should Stop Apologizing for if You Want to Get Out of Hell Fast
#3. Stop apologizing when you finally get something right. When you stop anesthetizing your emotions with junk food, tobacco, alcohol, video games, and compulsive shopping on Amazon [Insert your Achilles heel here], it’s easy to get into what I’ve coined as the great guilt-shame cycle. And it’s normal because you can’t see how dirty the…
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Three Signs You’re an Antifragile Person, and You Don’t Even Know It
#1. Anty-fragile people quit the “If only” Syndrome. My grandfather never cried. And one day, I asked him why. He replied that there were two reasons. After listening to him, I realized that my mom, who lives in bone pain 24/7, is just like her dad; she never cries, she always keeps moving forward, no…
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Three Subtle Signs You Have Survived the Flames of Hell and Now Heaven Awaits
Trust the universe’s perfect timing (Good things are coming). Invisible ties connect people who have been through hell. As if deep inside each one of us, there is a tunnel that takes us directly to a specific part of the collective unconscious, and there, we mingle with each other to share and understand our joint pain.…
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Three Invaluable Lessons I Learned in My Forties That I Would Have Paid Millions to Know Early in Life
“Beauty is overrated.” There are things that money can’t buy. — But only when you have the money will you know what they are. One of them is happiness, understood as a state of peace of mind and not of euphoria, a form of serene joy, which in your twenties would seem boring to you, but when…
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The Disturbing Life Lesson I Learned From Reading the Bible That I Wish I Had Known at 20
Millennial wisdom for today’s life. Sometimes, it’s not about things making sense; it’s about the reason you make things. In my twenties, I did it all the wrong way. I remember those years as living constantly with my glasses fogged up. My gaze distorted everything I did: good things seemed terrible and boring, and bad things…
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10 Disturbing Lessons I Learned Giving Advice to Thousands of Readers for 8 Years
These are real lessons for real life. I had a nightmare tonight. I was a cashier at a supermarket, and my job was to teach customers how to use an electronic machine that would eventually replace me. The machine (instead of cashing out) was giving people advice. Then I time-traveled in the dream to 2027 and…
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Three Signs That You Are Not “a Loner”: You Are an Old Soul
#3. You don’t fall into the trap of materialism. As a kid, we all like to be seen as too mature for our age. As you get older, it sucks. They tell you things like, “You used to be cool,” “You’re turning into your dad,” or my favorite, “You’re going to end up being the old…