Category: Happiness
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The bigger picture
It’s easy to get caught up in the minutiae of everyday life. There’s a traffic jam, someone is rude to us, the milk has run out. Understandably annoying. Some problems are a little bigger—ongoing stress from work, money troubles, or finding fulfilment are legitimate concerns. We don’t make things easier for ourselves. The more we…
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The Recipe for Student Success – Ingredient Two : Perseverance
The second ingredient to student success is Perseverance. On the surface, perseverance and passion may seem alike. Perhaps you’ve experienced it before. You quickly develop passion over something, a new hobby, project or interest, and you fervently try to find out as much as you can about it. You buy all of the equipment, the…
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How Minimalism Redefines Success
‘Success’ is a loaded word these days. It can mean anything—fame, fortune, connections, owning a huge house, or a second car, or a walk-in wardrobe. In other words, success nowadays is about what you own. To many people, if you have most, or all, of the above, you’re considered successful. If not, you’re probably a failure. People spend…
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In Praise of Quiet Moments
We tend to measure life by our memories. The most joyful or devastating, exciting or stressful, interesting or hard fought for milestones, from one to the next, they stand out the most in our minds. These are the things we go out of our way to do, to plan for, to work for, to pay for. Advertising…
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On Vanity — How Valuable Things Can Actually Be Worthless
Why do we buy stuff? Not everything we buy is useful, so there must be other reasons why we work so hard to buy things. Maybe it’s because we find a sense of happiness or satisfaction when we buy something new, but we all know that that feeling soon fades (even though we almost never…
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On how to get the most out of life with a dose of reality
Lately it has become fashionable in the media to bash on millennials (people in their late 20s-early 30s today). To be fair, we are an easy target, at least most of us who were raised in developed countries. We grew up being told that we’re unique and exceptional, that we can ‘make an impact’, or if we’re really special,…