Valuable Stories You Wrote This Week → January 14 — January 20, 2019
On Micro-Habits, Handling Information Overwhelm, Understanding Oneself, and Making Money Online.
Good evening readers and writers.
We’re already past the third week of this year.
I learned a bit about the Hungarian language during the past few days. An ‘s’ in a word like “sonka” (ham) is usually pronounced as ‘sh’, while ‘sz’ is pronounced as ‘s’.
I know, right…?
Maybe I’ll be able to master it in year or two.
Now that we got that out of the way — you wrote some great stories this week. I took the liberty of collecting a few of those. It’s a good way for me to spend my Sundays and, hopefully, an endeavour that might help you as well.
As I already mentioned last week,
“It is my goal to create a treasury where everyone can spend their time reading striking, emotional and uplifting stories from people all around the globe.”
It doesn’t matter who you are, how many followers you have, where you’re from or how experienced you are. If your story touched me, inspired me, or even kicked me in the arse, then I want to show you my gratitude through supporting and spreading your work.
I thank you.
See you in the next one.
Writing Is Taking Me Back To My Storytelling Roots
It’s just in a different form.
By Brian Kurian
“Grandpa was a soothing voice of the people. His words stayed with me throughout my entire life and because he made me fall in love with words, I wanted to share my words with others.”
Why I’m Quitting my Job to Pursue my Writing, Freelancing, and Travel
How To Chase Your Dream Responsibly Without Being Reckless
By N.A. Turner
“It’s taken me a while to make one point: chase that dream, but do so wisely. Be responsible to yourself and the people around you, try to create opportunities to work on realizing that dream with your head screwed on.”
3 Books With Tremendous Impact On My Creative Life
Why and How You Can Benefit From Them As a Creative
“I have come across many books, and I am yet to write about the 10 most impactful books to me. If you’re reading this, I believe you understand how we build relationships with books and can’t seem to pick one over the other. They’re all like our children.
And like children, deep down, we know our favorites.”
23 Micro-Habits for Changing Your Life in 30 Days or Less
Micro-steps, macro gains
By Danny Forest
“Be consistent in working towards your goals. Don’t skip. Do. Even when you don’t want to. Every small gain builds your momentum. Momentum makes you unstoppable!”
How to Deal with Information Overwhelm in the 21st Century
Cutting back the noise and getting focused to live better
“Practically everything in the world is noise. It is noise designed to distract you, misconstrue your aims, and keep you stuck and confused in life. Thus, if you want to think clearly and powerfully, you need a filtering system. You need a way to purify your thoughts in order to have true clarity and focus.”
Understand Yourself in 15 Questions
Your answers won’t unlock everything, but it’s a start.
“We turn everywhere looking for answers about ourselves. But good answers require good questions.”
How to Grow Emotional Intelligence in Your 20s
Four straightforward ways to build a more connected life.
By Kayli Kunkel
“Emotional intelligence is the ability to cultivate one’s emotions positively. It’s also the act of empathy for the emotions of others.”
Why Partnership is the Best Place for Personal Growth
At a time when many are giving up on relationships altogether, we have to emphasize THIS amazing benefit they hold for fulfilling our personal potential.
“A long-term romantic partnership is exactly the place where one can hone the skills that they need to upgrade their approach to others.”
The 4 Lessons I Learned While Having Dinner With Martin Luther King III
(number 3 is my favorite — transformative lessons I’ll take forward with me forever)
By Jon Brosio
“So, if I can ask you both, you two being people who have clearly attained high levels of success. If you had the opportunity to talk to your 29 year old self (the age I currently am) what type of advice would you give yourself.”
One Lesson A Day Challenge — Striving To Become Better Than Who I Was Yesterday
By William Cho
“We don’t define our dreams and dare to reach for them. Why? As soon as we commit and take responsibility for our lives, the unforgiving face of the unknown appears in front of us. We have to clearly define what success means and what failure means.”
Why Being Your Best Self Matters for Our World
“Your mental health, your presence and involvement where you are matter and make a difference.”
How I Made $1700 in the Month of December
My highest month as a solopreneur to date!
By Iva Ursano
“Making money blogging takes dedication, hard work and perseverance. Nothing good comes easy, especially online income. There is much to learn about it.”
No, You Don’t Need To Be Confident All The Time — And Why You Shouldn’t Even Try
“Confidence is not something you begin with, but something that comes gradually with repeated attempts at doing something successfully, the byproduct of prior performance. It comes after, not before.”
Introversion & Mental Health
The ‘extrovert ideal’ is a norm that permeates our personal and professional lives. Therefore, introverts can feel a lot of pressure to live up to this ‘extrovert ideal’.
