mindset
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Why Going Silent Mode Can Be the Best Thing to Happen to Your Career
Usually, people spend too much time talking about what they’re going to do, and not enough time doing it. Isn’t it funny that it’s the skills you often excel at, you tend to advertise the least? It has to do with uncertainty. The less certain we feel about a subject,…
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Radical Shifts: Your Life Can Really Change in a Year
Your reality depends on your perception. -NP I’ve always hated transitions. From grade 3 to 4 (the start of the grading system), I got a sea of Cs and minuses. From grade 7 to 8 (elementary to high school), I landed in the hospital…twice. From grade 12 to freshman…
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Four Tips on Living I Learned from Death
Nothing in life will prepare you for death. To the surprise of yourself, and those around you, the traffic lights don’t come to a halt, and people will keep strolling down the street to head to work the next day. The world moves on and the sun shines bright, even…
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Personal Finances: What They Didn’t Tell You in School
The word trauma that is passed around in self-help circles these days mainly covers relationship stemmed trauma— family, friendships, and significant others. They never really talk about a type of trauma that’s actually very prevalent, even in higher-income cities (actually more likely in higher-income per capita cities). Financial trauma, in…
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Invest in these 5 Things While You’re Single
As a formal single girlie, I often look back at that time with an eye of appreciation and fondness. If there’s anything, being single gave me extraordinary strength and the ability to really lean into myself and my powers. Being in a relationship offers a tremendous amount of support (emotionally,…
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6 Acts You Shouldn’t Take for Granted in a Relationship
As we exit old relationships and enter new ones, we will inevitably bring along some “baggage’” from the last. That’s not to say that baggage is always a negative thing. Think of it like this. You’re about to embark on a cross-continental trip, and you either end up going either…
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The Science of Having a Good Day
How to make every day count a bit more in your favour Have you ever glided through the day on a pair of sparkly, mint blue rollerskates—without tripping, once? I’m talking about the days when the aroma of your morning coffee lingers longer, the scent of the pastries smell extra-buttery…
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Practicing Wellness as a Privilege
If you’ve ever attended a yoga class for your mental health or sipped on a sugar-free, oat milk matcha latte because you were reducing your caffeine levels that month, you’ve attempted a go at this ‘wellness’ game. I’ve existed on both ends of the spectrum. One, abiding by a strict,…
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5 Alternative Investments To Stocks
In my parent’s generation, saving took more paramount importance over investing. Investing in itself implies that you have extra income to bet on the stock market, and for my parents, every dollar either went to my education savings, the mortgage, necessities, or the occasional trips back home (to Taiwan). I,…
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On Desire: How I learned to Make Peace with It
Desire is this prevalent, raging force that comes from deep within. It perpetuates our lives in the way of thoughts and behaviors, even in ways we don’t realize. For example, emotions such as envy, which I’ve previously spoken about, I argued come from a place of desire. Often, the term…
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