Category Archives: Life

About anything and everything that’s close to my heart

[Book Review] The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson (@IAmMarkManson)

“Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress—the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.”― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Yesterday I finished reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson it’s a refreshingly honest self-help book filled with practical advice I recommend it to all who don’t mind a little vulgar language   

Improvement Not Perfection

The daily goal is improvement not perfection – that’s what I keep reminding myself

Today I was reminded that the daily goal is improvement not perfection none of us will ever be perfect but each of us can strive to be better people than we were yesterday

World Gratitude Day

  “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” —Henri Frederic Amiel

Today is World Gratitude Day let’s all be grateful for all that we are and all that we have even as we strive to be more do more and have more

Global #ClimateStrike

“The earth will survive, humans won’t.” – Catherine Constantinides

Today marks the beginning of the Global Climate Strike led by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg (one girl’s protest has now become a global movement it’s beautiful to see) the planet is the one thing all of humanity shares and it’s our collective responsibility to care of it before it can no longer take care of us.  

Heaviness

Sometimes you’ve got to sit with the heaviness in your heart and soul– that’s what I’ve realized

Tonight my heart and soul are heavy for many reasons I cannot escape it so I’m going to embrace it.