#mindset

The reflections community is for people who not only want to reflect on their life experience, but also want to discuss the practical steps they are taking to improve their situation, and that of the people

What is this world turning into? It is crazy to see unspeakable things happening. I don’t want to say they are new, since I believe there is nothing under the sun that is entirely new anymore, except perhaps

Deaths will outstrip the number of births by the mid 2060s, according to a major report mapping out Australia’s economic future over the next 40 years This is the first line of an article I was reading

Spend enough time on X and you will see similar posts like this ; Some other variations include how it is shameful to live with our parents at the age 27 and so on. The other day I also saw similar post

We're going to have some fun tonight :) One of the greatest blessings of keeping our nose in between the pages of Scripture are the absolute gems you discover while searching... One of those said verses

100% of what you don't try. My life experience has taught me that trying to achieve what you dream of is key. Not doing it doesn't really protect you, it just ensures that you don't have the opportunity

How come relationships are so hard? Are they hard? I don't think so. At least, I don't think they need be. However, I think they are getting harder to navigate in the current environment of selfishness,

As human beings, we are creatures that are never satisfied, and I think that is good to a great extent because it makes us evolve. How do we think of making great changes in humanity in terms of development

‎"I better not say anything, so as not to create a problem.""I'm going, even though I don't feel like it, so as not to look bad.""I agree with him, even if it's not what I

I was talking to one of the regulars at the gym this evening, who is in his late fifties. We chat occasionally and he is a small business owner with a relatively physical job, though he has a handful of

After all the work done in the basement throughout the summer, I decided it was finally time to enjoy it a little. That required more work. The shower down there was filled with junk and the floor covered

‎ ‎ ‎Those simple, consistent efforts matters, you don't have to do it all at once. It's still better than procrastinating and waiting for a particular time to get something done or a big breakthrough

There are many different concepts of family today, and there is much talk on the subject; personally, I believe that family is whatever the heart tells you it is, beyond blood ties. My family was very

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

Background Ok, so yes maybe I'm a little OCD at times but I swear of all the 'minor infractions' of mildy frustrating things I've witnessed going on in the kitchen at home this might be the worst for quite

Something happened yesterday and I'm thinking of it ever since. It's not something new, but it's a first time happening to me and I'm trying to learn from it and be smarter next time. I was heading home

I was writing yesterday how what we consume influences our experience by forcing a creative imaginative process, or feeding thoughts directly so we needn't create anything at all. Much of what we choose

I have been asking myself this question over and over again. I often wonder why we get up every morning and work ourselves to death in order to make a living. Why do we stress about paying bills and

I am reading The Fellowship of the Ring to Smallsteps at night and just finished the chapter "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" in which at the end Gandalf is pulled by the Balrog into the chasm to his

Harness the fire. While humans didn't invent it, it could definitely be argued that harnessing fire was the most significant achievement of humanity, as it led to all kinds of capabilities that were previously