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A Harvard Educated Angela Duckworth said the greatest determinant in your ability to succeed is your grit which is your ability to persevere and conquer and trouble shoot difficult and challenging situations but I believe...

I am reading a book right now and they discussed how one city had an unusually higher number of people who had lived past 100 years. The researcher spent tons of money researching their diet and their lifestyle and their...

Since I love rap and haven't written a take featuring some new German rap songs, here you go. Most of these songs have foreign languages mixed in , but each song includes German bits, so I hope you enjoy my compilation....

After realising that my life would soon change completely, I reached out to my therapist and my ex, mainly because those were the most important people in my life at one point. Why my ex? I had high expectations with my...

The woman’s initials are R.V. And she wrote a book called “Finding the woman of valour,” which is the Jewish translation of a word that in English is substituted with the term, “Godly.” In this book she talks about how...

Today, during my weekly creative writers group, we were asked to write about a hero in our lives and even though I usually have no difficulty with prompts, I realized I could not find somebody in my past or current life...

1. Maybe he wanted something natural and not cosmetically constructed: When your making millions and everybody is trying to win your approval and tell you what you want to hear, the one who resists your will and tells you...

Jesus said you cannot serve both money and God and gave a story about the rich man who lived comfortably and beautifully and than died while the wounded victim at his gate died and received everlasting peace. But Abraham...

I’ve read over 54 books in the last 40 weeks on positive psychology and I also read 2-4 journal articles on physical and mental and interpersonal health each day and these are some of the things I learned through my...

Jesus said in Matthew 5 that you are the salt of the earth and salt is good but if a salt losses it’s saltiness, how can it’s saltiness be restored? It is good neither for the soil, nor for the manure pile, it is good...

Abortion isn’t murder, and there is medical, factual evidence to back this up. If you are pro life because you think abortion is murder well; 1. Women should have a choice and 2. It’s not. And if you just think abortion...

snitches get stitches... ...so what happens to thieves?? Does the punishment fit the crime? In Australia theft is classed as an indictable offence and carries a max of around 1000 penalty credits so therefore you could...

*names have been changed for obvious reasons. ━━━━❊━━━━ Sapphic Take O N E Well, below are listed some of the women that made me tingle. Note that I'm not objectifying any of them here. 1. Katie This one I met in seventh...

I began developing my life timeline in high school. I've only realized in this past year that I may be a bit of a perfectionist, but anyways, that results in feeling the need to have a solid, laid out plan for the future....

After returning from my parents after what happened (read this: How telling my parents about my 6mo boyfriend went (they hate him for religious reasons) ), I met my boyfriend's brother (read this: Don't yell at your...

Let me just start by saying that there is nothing wrong with being confident! I feel like everyone should be confident in themselves. But the line that separates confidence from cockiness and arrogance is a thin one, and...

I believe two ingredients make happiness: (1) The first is humility and respect and purpose and meaning and service and excellence and work (2) The second is kindness and sympathy and affection and mercy and sweetness and...

The bible says “Once has the Lord spoken, twice have I heard.” What I believe this verse means is that more is implied by God in the bible than what is directly said, so if God says “do not bear false witness,” what God...

TIP 1: Foster a Sense of Vision A) There are multiple keys to achieving this, the first is to follow the 12 visionary ideals that lead to inspiration 1 - Do not judge or assess people by physical or intellectual qualities...

Background Due to my parents' bad reaction to telling them I have a boyfriend, I decided to go home early (I no longer live with them). I hadn't slept or eaten properly (6h of sleep and 3 meals over 2.5 days) and it...