myTakes

1. Ask them to do you a small favor : If they perform a minor act of service for you, they will unconsciously associate feelings of approval and positivity with you. 2. Laugh at their jokes : “The more we laugh with...

I don't want to live in a world where its all about getting money. Where me being me isn't enough. Where the only way I'm entitled to have an opinion is if I look, earn, dress or know the right people. I don't want...

The short answer to how I stay happy while being single is that I kept myself busy. On Friday, 2 days before Valentine’s Day, I read around 900 pages and finished a very long book compilation I had been trying to finish...

You got into a fight with your boyfriend? Don't know if you guys should stay together even after the hurtful exchanges of words you had? Fighting in a relationship is normal and there's absolutely no way you can avoid...

Right okay, I'm doing online school and honestly, I couldn't tell you what I did in my last lesson, I at least am not learning anything from this. The work is always too long or too short so I either can't be bothered to...

So this is something I hear all the time. And I’m starting to believe it may be true, especially in my love life. Or I will say lack of. It makes me wonder if I’m not in that category. Hear me out, I’ve been single...

In my head I was rolling my eyes as one of my last customers for the day asked to see the price of one of the home decor pieces high on the wall next to the register. I knew from my nearly three year long experience...

To me a lot of therapy and remedial groups are an insulting waste of resources because they teach people to engage their selfish instincts instead of granting them the dignity and self esteem of a hard and honest day’s...

I’m totally #BoyCrazy and love talking about my celeb crushes 🤣 So today, I’m making a mytake about the Top 8 (out of 186 lol) that I’ve stood by for the longest. Feel free to check em out and then tell me in the...

1. The first rule: The Rule of Delayed Gratification The less greedy and self indulgent you are and the more you take your time, practice patience and sacrifice for the future, the more successful you will be. 2. The...

I thought I'd share some light on the topic as I feel the hijab is very misunderstood and in rarer cases, looked upon as a symbol of oppression. I will try to answer this question as best as I can as a Norwegian Muslim...

A terminally oil boy with an incurable disease and a big heart, began an enduring friendship with Oprah Winfrey through letters and emails up until the day he died. On his death bed, his last words, which his mother...

I believe you can track a person’s past and their future by looking at their desires and interests. Somebody who desires food and sensation and hates service and responsibility made choices that led to those desires....

Here I will describe three people in my circle who changed after they became rich to point out why God said money challenges your loyalties. When my cousin first came to America, her parents were poor, my uncle was...

I believe that it takes love and understanding and compassion to mature somebody into independence and self reliance. And also, that it takes cleansing through resistance and unhappiness or discomfort to remove us from...

I remember my university professor told us scientific research indicates that children are more creative than adults and that creativity always declines with age. I know that when I was a child I viewed the capacity for...

This image is not necessarily accurate because it suggests that some issues are more expansive than others and that is not how I view the issue, but all the other images I found had labels on them so I am using this one....

In my early 20s, while grappling with the difficult task of avoiding controversy in my writing, I had a dream that gave me advice about how to attract readers to my work. The message I got from the symbols in my dream is...

While attending zoom groups in my unemployment I see a daily problem on an almost constant basis which is a lack of humility. People promote themselves by discussing their good deeds when Jesus said to exact in secret....

What is it that determines personality? Our future health, wealth, and happiness? Why do some people endure such hardships physically, emotionally, and economically, while others lead a relatively well-adjusted, healthy,...