Out of the Mire
…because thriving is the goal
Tag: personal development
Nine Things I’ve Learned
I used to write a lot about trauma and the nature of it largely because I was in the middle of dealing with it. For me, I would try to get outside of my own traumas and inspect them as if I were looking… Continue Reading “Nine Things I’ve Learned”
Could You Give Most of It Away?
I just started reading Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki. Maria Kondo struck a nerve in America with her runaway hit The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. I, however, need to do more than just tidy up. I need to… Continue Reading “Could You Give Most of It Away?”
The Masterpiece Within
As I’ve been taking a brief respite from blogging to gather my thoughts after the sexual harassment problems crescendoed, some interesting things moved to the foreground. And, you can always count on me to share them if there’s something valuable in the mix. My… Continue Reading “The Masterpiece Within”
Jerry Seinfeld on Pain
It might be springtime where you live, but we just got hit with a doozy of a blizzard that dropped over a foot of snow on us. And it’s still snowing. Go home, Mother Nature. You’re clearly drunk. I thought I would use my… Continue Reading “Jerry Seinfeld on Pain”
Being Julius Caesar
Did everyone make it through the Ides of March intact? When I was in high school, I was the only student in the history of my school to study Latin 3 or 4. Nowadays, schools would delete the offering, but I guess the school… Continue Reading “Being Julius Caesar”
The New Year Begins
Happy New Year, y’all! So far, 2018 has been eventful. Two weird things have happened. I shall begin with grad school. I just started my second year at a Traditional Chinese medical school. Only three more to go! Anyway, I have zero complaints about… Continue Reading “The New Year Begins”
Maybe C is for Catalyst
I want to talk about how finding out what motivates you can lead to personal liberation. To do that, I will take you back to my junior year of college. I was something of a fresh-faced know-it-all with something to prove. I didn’t really… Continue Reading “Maybe C is for Catalyst”
Is Multitasking Stealing Your Thunder?
This week has been what I used to call in undergrad “Hell Week”–all the final exams were scheduled successively in a rather discouraging 1-2 punch. It was exhausting when I was just entering my 20s living with little to no responsibilities in terms of… Continue Reading “Is Multitasking Stealing Your Thunder?”
Rebooting for the New Year
One of the broader topics on this blog is mental health and how mental health is defined and experienced in different contexts. The DSM-V has divided and sub-divided the human experience into so many diagnoses that I imagine that every human could find an… Continue Reading “Rebooting for the New Year”
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