Category: motivation
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Failure and success
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Failure has given me some of the most defining experiences of my life. It made me pause in my tracks, question my direction, and challenge the beliefs I once held with certainty. In those moments of disappointment, I was forced to confront what I thought I…
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Not everyone deserves proximity to your purpose
They say that as we grow older, our circles grow smaller. And perhaps that is not loss, but refinement. Yes, I still mourn some friendships. It was never an issue of betrayal or brokenness, but rather distance, time, inevitable change, perhaps the quiet evolution of becoming. And so I hold the memories gently ; they…
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Dear friend
I wish to celebrate you for your existence and presence in a world beyong me because you carry more light than you know into it. Never believe otherwise. Selfishly, let’s focus on my world and make this about your occupancy of a large space in this tiny universe of mine. Man, do you turn it…
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Face to face
Face to face and my tongue is tied. My racing heart and puzzled mind in utter wonder at how in their universe they deserve my meek smile, and I their cruelity. The only image in mind is that of their shouts when they say, “Smear some more… If it the image you have painted is…
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The opposite of love could be fear
Sounds strange, right ? But indulge my rambling ponder for three minutes: I once heard Trevor Noah say he kept his circle very small and didn’t make friends easily because he fears to put someone in a position where they could fail him; and that he in turn didn’t want to put himself in that…
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I see you.
Maybe it’s not all of you, but I see a lot of you, more of you than you purpose to give. The joy, the smiles, the depth. I see the fire, the zeal, the intellect, the wisdom, the hustle, the grind, the power of your will. I see how you knock down walls, how you…
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Take a pause
Life can move so fast; sometimes at my busiest, I don’t remember on Friday what happened on Monday. There have been too many microevents. It’s better to take a pause. Stop and look around before you miss life as it is unfolding. The world as it is today seems to have different settings in this…
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On the good days
There won’t always be good days, but on the good days, I’ll be eternally grateful that I am on this beautiful journey. Every bit and piece, every stop and turn, every encounter is what makes it worthwhile. It’s like the strokes of the artist’s brush, painting the best work of art. It is what makes…
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Context
Everything we see, hear, our encounters, when put in a context under different circumstances, would change completely our view and stand. I believe in context but especially in reason. However, sometimes we don’t get enough time or enough room to share about context. Every statement has a two parts; one is variable. Yesterday, while speaking…
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The moments between moments
The world has so few grand moments when you think of how we describe them The birth of a child, a birthday celebration, the anniversary, a graduation, engagement, wedding, a (desired/wanted) positive pregnancy result, a new job (dreamed of or not), a career milestone, a deal, “a breakthrough”,….. Every day, someone in some corner of…
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My little brother is my inspiration in this season….
…….and quite frankly, he is putting an indelible mark on me. This boy is 12. He has such a strong build for this age and thinks like he’s walked on this earth surface before. Some people get this while others don’t, as they voice observations that come off as completely indifferent to a child’s emotions.…
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The same time will pass anyway
That thing you keep putting off, that thing that’s tedious and takes long… Your desire, a dream that now lingers in the back of your mind like a memory; it now plays like a movie you’ve seen before. It’s because you’ve imagined it so many times it feels like you’ve lived it. It will take…
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Everyone has a story
Everyone has a story, Everyone has been through something (things) that changed them Everyone is hopefully evolving daily and even through moments And hopefully changing in all the ways that make us better and not bitter. So, don’t judge people by the chapter you walked in on
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Happiness in moments
If happy should be a destination, an aspiration, a goal, then what happens after and beyond happy? For something as fleeting, happy should only be enjoyed in moments; small and big ones alike. Like wind, moments sip through our hands. There is no constant grand pristine state of being or existence, unless you should be…
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No one can love you like you…
…cause no one knows you like you. No one knows the baby in you that needs soothing like you. No one has experienced your joy like you have, born your sorrow to its depth, seen life through your lenses, felt the longings of your heart, dreamed the dreams of your mind, lived the insecurities of…
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Joy, be my guest
Come rushing like a hurricane, Come sprinkling like a drizzle, Come calming like a gentle breeze, Come blossoming like a flower, Come soothing like a healer, Come healing like a kiss, Come warming like a blanket, embracing like a hug, Come speaking hope like the good preacher professes, Come touching these dark hollow places and…