Remarkable Stories from writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated on Medium
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Compiled by Dr Mehmet Yildiz – Editor in Chief
It is a pleasure to present these outstanding stories written by our top writers on Medium. These eclectic stories cover many topics. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did while editing.
Recent submissions to ILLUMINATION-Curated
Steve QJ — [Viral story of the day]The Left Still Doesn’t Understand Trump’s Appeal Dismissing Trump’s supporters as racist is way too simplistic medium.com
The Aztecs and Stoics Explain How to Gain in Happiness (Even While Losing Daily Joys) The Key Is To Interrupt Your Thoughts medium.com
Why You Should Write Your Story, Even If You Think Others Won’t Get It How to get past your doubts and give readers what they want. medium.com
You’ve Got Loads Of White Privilege, Start Sharing It! White privilege is like winning billions of dollars in the lottery. You’ll never be able to spend it all in your… medium.com
The More Things Change Why I am so perplexed these days and so very, very tired medium.com
One Core Leadership Capability To Empower Writers How three essential points can get you started, increase your confidence, and sustain your motivation for any… medium.com
When Love is a Pain in the ‘But’ my pre-emptive, retrospective admission to inadvertent plagiarism and copyright infringement — or not medium.com
3 Quick Ways of Setting Ground Rules Set your expectations and stick to them medium.com
The Dream and The Reality Life is duty medium.com
Standing for Yourself Against Toxic People Is Sometimes a Must Defending people who suffer injustice is even more important and should become a no-brainer! medium.com
Trashed A Poem medium.com
College Football Bets for 11/14 Followers of my college football bets this season are up $220 so far. Check out this preview to Saturday’s best bets in… medium.com
Why this Rio Grande Valley Lifer Swerved Off a Secure Career Path to Save Lives at the Border… When victims of Trump & Co’s cruel immigration policies got stranded in Mexico, Gaby Zavala stood up for their rights medium.com
Surprising Things I’ve Learned as a Kenyan Living in Australia What’s it’s like to be Black in the land down under. medium.com
A Birthday, Heart Surgery And The US Elections. Will Biden triumph over the President, and who cares anyway? For sure my wife trumps Trump and Biden. medium.com
Plastic: Wrapped or Trapped! A look at why plastic can be a good servant but a bad master medium.com
Elon Musk Is a Better Marketer than Steve Jobs Three marketing rules from Tesla’s Cybertruck announcement medium.com
The Pathological Liar Sigh medium.com
Granddaughters The best cure for just about anything medium.com
The Psychology of Leaving: Part One A Poem About Domestic Violence medium.com
A Bermudian-American Poem for Thanksgiving We came to America without a clue medium.com
7 Proven Antidote to the Poor Self Discipline 4# Starve Yourself of Bad Options medium.com
Willa Cather Wrote 1,798 Letters Thirty-six Were Written to My Family medium.com
I Spent Seven Years in University and All I Got was a Useless Psychology Degree The story of how university made me lose my mind, and how I got it back and found myself in the process. medium.com
Not Just Afraid A corona haiku. medium.com
My Polish Hill Say it in Polish: Polskie Wzgórze medium.com
How I’ve Found The Key To Successful Relationships What you can do to unlock this door to deeper bonding medium.com
A Tale Of Xavier A poem in honour of a friend on her birthday medium.com
3 Powerful Lessons From Einstein To Make You Healthy Science-based lessons from one of the greatest thinkers of all time. medium.com
6 Ultimate Steps For Success in Life Success is more than money and material things medium.com
Offering, What? A Poem medium.com
Totems poetry and spoken word by Robert Trakofler medium.com
A Top Scientific Journal Just Published a Racist Algorithm How a flawed face recognition AI sparked scientific outrage medium.com
Hey Girls, Can We Please Start Birthing the New World? She is ready to be born! medium.com
#StoptheLies, #StopTheSteal Stop the Trump Supporters’ Shameful Offensive to Discredit the Election medium.com
How To Become A Canadian Had enough with the Ignited States? Then it’s time to break up. Here’s how. medium.com
5 Ways to De-Stress Yourself A guide to living the ‘Happy Life’ medium.com
Geographical Dreamer Moving through cosmic intimate territories medium.com
How To Make Less Fattening Chicken Parmigiana In About 45 Minutes My easy deconstructed version of this classic Italian dish will become your favorite “go-to” dinner medium.com
5 Reasons Why Men Should Get on That Yoga Mat This is why it’s not just for super bendy females medium.com
My Prediction About Schools During the Pandemic Have I been accurate? medium.com
The Behaviourist and Ringing the Bell What you should know about Performing Arts, Pavlov’s dogs and Skinner’s pigeons medium.com
Shedding my Fear on the Trail Overcoming fear is great, seeing the aftermath is even better medium.com
Not Everything New Is Good for You A story about the pain of innovation medium.com
6 Mayan Sayings To Enhance Your Present State Of Mind Discover the ancient wisdom of the Mayan civilization through proverbs that aren’t meant to fade away medium.com
Did Trump promote ‘Crab-Mentality’? “If I can’t have it neither can you” medium.com
Self Improvement A Poem medium.com
Here is Why Medium is a Successful Online Game (Platform) And how that can help you keep going if you want to medium.com
McConnell and Schumer Get a Pass; All Pelosi Gets Is Sass Is the gender bias still not apparent? medium.com
What’s the Deal With Russian Drivers? Mayhem, crashes and craziness medium.com
Appreciating Our Need to Suffer Suffering is our need, not our absurdity, because we need to know when we have made a mistake or when another person is… medium.com
Who Is Going To Do The Hard Work? Reconstruction Begins. Again. medium.com
Knowing When To Let Go of A Dream I became a Dreamer after listening to ‘Super Trouper’ by Abba medium.com
Signaling The End for Apple The M1 Chip and the unprecedented end of a good run medium.com
My Scottish Fantasy Listening to the Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch. medium.com
400 Pennies I woke up with a three day hangover. I was at the end of my rope. Broke, drunk, and no hope for the future. medium.com
Why do we Need Permission? Stuck between doing what I want and doing what I should medium.com
Rodney King Was Brutally Beaten By Police Another Black man by the name King medium.com
The Importance of Being Picky on Who You Spend Your Time With Be picky because you only have one life and a limited amount of time on Earth — might as well make it count. medium.com
What Are Some Productivity Tips from Various Professions? (This One Is from A Sushi Chef) Work efficient, not fast. medium.com
Fastest Way TO Move A Stove From The Fourth Floor To The First As the stove hit the mattress and the inner spring, falling a height of some 40 feet, it bounced — Oh did it bounce. medium.com
Never Ask This Question In A Job Interview It’s asinine, so please think of something better. medium.com
An Incredible Journey Part Three A strange power is aflight medium.com
Michael Tom Dillon And his big auld haunted house medium.com
The Gut Instinct Is Not a Wild Guess Our gut feelings may be more rational than we think medium.com
The Thanksgiving Exchange A safe way for family and friends to enjoy a delicious meal together medium.com
Seeking Help For Emotional Wellness Hiding is not healing medium.com
The Scheherazade in All of Us Our survival strategies in a world designed by and for men medium.com
Why Trumps Followers Are Just Adult Toddlers And It Has Nothing To Do With Politics Nearly 10 years in the daycare business has explained everything. medium.com
The Sense of Political Entitlement Is Pervasive In The US Children and young people have been paying attention to what has been going on during the election season medium.com
Edified A Poem medium.com
Ode to the Sun God Life Goes On medium.com
Arms Length: Part 1 Reaching from Within medium.com
Stories From My Head. My Thoughts and Meditations on Creating Story Ideas. medium.com
Managing Pandemic Loneliness Thriving during uncertain times medium.com
Why Shiva Lingam Have Earned the Title of God Stone Awakening Kundalini medium.com
Orange is the New White? #57 Real Estate Man medium.com
7 Alex Trebek Inspiring Quotes Alex Trebek Died on the 8th of November 2020 medium.com
In Mila’s Eyes Poetry on Medium ∙ Autism ∙ Child Abuse and Neglect medium.com
Mama Earth Feels the Pain Too A free verse poem on earthquakes medium.com
Karen Madej, a Testimonial When I first encountered Karen Madej on Medium, I felt her warmth and caring come through right away. Some people are… medium.com
My Fantasy Job Writing For Joe Biden Hey, you never know medium.com
What Secrets Lurk In The Shadows? Can we win the ageless war between good and evil? medium.com
Master Bao and the Lessons of Power Spiritual power cannot be taken. It can only be given away medium.com
What My Son’s Death Has Taught Me About Life From grief to gratitude — Lessons learned the hardest way possible medium.com
5 Easy Ways To Be Less Frustrated While Working At Home #3: Get Rid Of Perfectionism medium.com
More Medical Madness And you thought stitches were a simple thing! medium.com
Government Testimony: Check Reality Before You Panic Will traffic flow really double & increase golf-cart vs. auto accidents in the retirement community? medium.com
The Relation of Independence to Interindependence A counsellor needs to have empathy, a nonjudgmental attitude, and tolerance, especially of a client’s religious or… medium.com
Finding the Razzle-Dazzle When plain old sobriety just isn’t enough medium.com
Forget About Fixing Your Life: Burn it to Ashes & Start From Rock Bottom You Deserve Better Than What ‘Others’ Say You Deserve medium.com
Fathers. Words Shared. Illumination-Curated writers tell all. medium.com
How to Improve Your writing Cross Crawl to Engage Your Whole Brain medium.com
My Takeaway From the Joker Movie My two friends hated it and were shocked when hearing how much I love it… medium.com
Don’t Study For A Master’s Degree If You Can’t Find Any Job, Here’s Why Do not escape reality. Put your head down, and keep hunting. medium.com
Why the New Silk Roads Matter for Our Future? Some Comments on a Book medium.com
The Planet Where it Rains Rocks On K2–141b it rains rocks and the oceans are lava medium.com
Why Nelson Mandela Can Model Our Way Forward “Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build Nations.′′ Nelson Mandela medium.com
Freeing Myself From The Election Addiction To return to the NaNoWriMo obsession. medium.com
The Power to Say *No* to the Wrong Money And get great things. medium.com
How To Shift From Pride To Love Allow yourself to be imperfect medium.com
The Difference Between Christian Evangelicalism and Religious Nationalism Why it’s important to stop confusing the two. medium.com
Arc Of History Arc of history always being on our side medium.com
Why Are Some Women Still So Afraid Of Personal Power? It’s time to stop asking for it nicely. Just seize it, dammit. And stop voting for The Patriarchy. medium.com
I Tried to Unplug My Family From Devices for One Day Learn from my attempts to disconnect medium.com
Things That Make You Human Are always the things that do not make you needy medium.com
3 Unexpected Advantages of Knowing Your Personality Type How knowing your personality type can help you in personal and professional life medium.com
Stick Bug An excellent and fantastic creature medium.com
Understanding the Value of Your Writing Writing is an art; find your purpose in writing medium.com
8 Stoic Quotes That Can Change Your Life Timeless pearls of wisdom from ancient Athens. medium.com
Intolerance And Defensiveness Are Causing The Real Troubles and you may disagree too, but make it rational medium.com
Ben Carson Positive For COVID Another expensive treatment on the backs of taxpayers medium.com
Pizza Delicious Tanka about pizza. medium.com
Lady Gaga and Elon Musk Have Some Things In Common They are both young and successful and were bullied medium.com
Into the Crypt of Language The secrets of creation medium.com
I Figured Out How To Implement UBI From the Private Sector Here’s How I Am Doing It medium.com
Authentic Happiness Comes From Speaking Your Truth The power of speech generates order from chaos. medium.com
That We May See No Evil, Prepare Here’s how you can avoid becoming another statistic medium.com
Face the Fear and Accelerate Past the Rate of Change The COVID-19 Pandemic sped-up trends that were already happening — reduced office space, digital acceleration, and… medium.com
You Only Need One Diet. It’s the human diet. One size really does fit all. medium.com
7 Surprising Things I’m Grateful for in 2020 The things that help us most are the things we take for granted. medium.com
I Am A Fictional Character At least, my family thinks I am medium.com
Looking for My Father in Emerson’s Essays I recently opened for the first time, a volume of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson from the collection of old books in my… medium.com
A Chance to Be a Celebrity A novel experience at a beauty contest medium.com
Blue Solace Shades of inspiration and peace medium.com
secret sky no one knows we are here medium.com
How Introverts Can Thrive in an Extrovert-Dominant Workplace Good news — there is still a need for your quiet creative approach in solitude. medium.com
A Boy Named Lilac A poem about self-authenticity medium.com
Find Better Reasons Behind Other’s Functioning It will help in avoiding demeaning or even idolizing others. medium.com
Parenting’s Worst Nightmare is Suicide This Too Shall Pass? medium.com
Clarity It sweeps through you like a sudden wind gust medium.com
Why We Voted Down Right-Wing Populism But we’re not done medium.com
Illumination Curated: Alternative Healing Similia Similibus Curentur: The Gift of Homeopathy medium.com
To Look Through the Eyes of Love It’s a NEW way for us to see… medium.com
12 Major Reasons Why You Cannot Sleep and How To Deal With It Understand your sleep better. medium.com
Still Looking for That Dream Job? Maybe I Can Save You Some Time 3 truths I learned after searching for fifty years medium.com
Only A Writer Would Have This List A list of places I’ve been, things I’ve done and that have happened to me over 72 years that is of interest to no one. medium.com
Letter of Gratitude to Dr. Mehmet Yildiz and Illumination-Curated You’re making a difference, Sir; I thought you should know medium.com
55 Viral Stories That Attracted A Million+ Views Readers can enjoy and writers can learn from these outstanding stories. medium.comPoems of Popular Poets Selected poetry pieces from ILLUMINATION-Curated medium.com
ILLUMINATION Fiction Club An invitation to fiction writers to unite and collaborate for productive fun medium.com
How to Make Information the Most Manageable Help your readers experience your writing medium.com
Dropping the Fart A chaotic response to “chaos” medium.com
Space A poem medium.com
Snowed In A Haiku medium.com
12 Thoughts When Spooning at Dawn How to know if the choice was right, a review when cuddling after 40 years. medium.com
Medicare Mayhem Dad fell last weekend and wound up with eight stitches on his head. I think the paramedics must have been smoking weed… medium.com
Heal An Ill Eat this haiku medium.com
Reclaim your Rhythm in life Pause!! medium.com
Four Insanely Simple Strategies For Freelance Success Little things go a long way. medium.com
Plant Immunity: Qualitative and Quantitative Resistance Plant immunity consists of dual resistance mechanisms that are qualitative and quantitative in nature. medium.com
Authors: Are You a One-Trick Pony? If you’re writing a book, don’t be a one-trick pony. medium.com
You Shall Not Pass: Common Law Rights To Privacy In Your Home A History medium.com
American Elections 2020 How our world sees it medium.com
3 Ideas on How to Use the Time Wisely While Getting an MRI Especially if you’re claustrophobic medium.com
13 Unconventional Wisdoms for Spiritual Living Timeless Words, Empowering Lives medium.com
Find Inspiration In Your Creative Family Tree Think like your creative heroes to find untapped creativity medium.com
Dear White Women: Now That We Have Your Attention, May I Have a Word? (Part Four) Five more thoughts from the heart of a Black woman medium.com
China Is Keeping A Close Watch On The 2020 US Elections The sleeping dragon is waiting for his moment to strike medium.com
How To Get Yourself Out Of A Rut It’s more than just taking a break medium.com
How to End the Cycle of Relationship Self-Sabotage Work on yourself before you delve into a serious relationship. It might help you. medium.com
The Journey of Traveling Ailments The Battle of “Old-trition” medium.com
How to Become Employee of the Year? Anger shares his proven strategies medium.com
The Separation Game Longing for unity medium.com
We Desperately Need Election Reform It’s easy to do and it must be done medium.com
5 Interesting Ways to Travel From Your Living Room Traveling back in time to journeys from long ago is a great way to experience old travels in a new light! medium.com
“I Traded My Couch for a Mouse” How a Counseling Psychologist Became One of the Good Guys Online medium.com
A University Of Utah Co-ed Was Murdered On Campus It happened in 2018 medium.com
5 Ways to Build Resilience During Tough Times Resiliency is your belief in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals. medium.com
The Easiest Buddhist Practice To Hammer Down Stress and Anxiety It’s called “Changing the Peg” medium.com
How My African Identity Was Erased By White Supremacy Colonialism is another form of white supremacy that seeks to establish white culture as superior to black and brown… medium.com
What Jeff Bezos Can Teach Us About Success and Innovation
Empathy, the Emperor of All Virtues, Has a Dark Side Rational compassion seems a better choice than empathy in making a difference in the world medium.com
Breakthrough Stories Make All the Difference A couple of popular pieces can really raise your profile as a social media writer. Here’s my story, as well as my… medium.com
Do You Need A Quitting Coach To Help You Help Other People Exit? Firings can be drama-free & allow the fired person keep their dignity medium.com
Wisdom on Embracing the World With Love and Understanding Meet Amma, the mother of millions medium.com
The Party Never Stops in Madrid Why we love Madrid so much! medium.com
Clichés May Be Annoying but They Persist Because They’re True Here is my take on one of them. medium.com
The Last Day of Freedom The story about the last hike before they took our freedom medium.com
How Expectation Shapes Our Life Expectations create our reality and change our future medium.com
10 Simple Things You Can Do Today to Become Smarter The secret lies in your daily habits not how much time you have medium.com
Here’s A Little Ditty About A True Story You wanna hear gruesome medium.com
5 Ways to Stomp Out Anxiety and Win Back Your Happiness Every now and then we all need a little help finding our smile medium.com
Holidays & Cultural Traditions-The 2020 Difference Making the most amidst of all of it medium.com
Overcoming the Booby Traps of Predigested Questions And how to stop groupthink from destroying your team medium.com
4 Squares by Gary Vaynerchuk About Career and Happiness as always, Gary tries to lead us to happiness instead of empty wealth, often called “success” nowadays. medium.com
Don’t You Dare Open Another Browser Tab, App, or Document A Strategy to Reclaim Your Time, Focus, and Confidence medium.com
The Moment The One That Was The Truest By Far medium.com
Treating the Poison of American Masculinity with American Literature How can diverse male literary voices help us have conversations about positive masculinity? medium.com
How to Effectively Lose All Your Friends and Destroy Your Relationships in 7 Different Ways A warning from the perspective of a former scumbag that has succeeded in trashing and crippling his past relationships medium.com
Give the precious gift of your attention Stop talking and really listen medium.com
Editorial Spotlight on ILLUMINATION-Curated — #1 20 selected stories by editorial team for discerning readers medium.com
Editorial Spotlight on ILLUMINATION-Curated — #2 Curated stories by editorial team for discerning readers medium.com
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7 Effective Night Habits That Will Ensure Morning Success A productive morning starts the night before medium.com
Shall We Talk Politics Without Politics? Hint: The origin of politics medium.com
5 Best Deepak Chopra Advice For Awakening Your Consciousness “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the… medium.com
Who I Am Led To Why I Write Introducing Lucia Siochi, Writer medium.com
A Social Media Tip For Dealing With Toxic Trumpsters Don’t engage. It’s really that simple. medium.com
The Real Reason You Never Get What You Think You Want Goals are best achieved when the method and process aren’t cast in stone. medium.com
Is Populism riding over the Free Speech? The use of populist in various sociopolitical domains as a nickname to debunk discord or rationalize suppressing… medium.com
Hat Engineering Project for Elementary Education For illumination of 2D, 3D, 4D transformation engineering medium.com
How to Become the Machiavellian Prince at Work Put on your ‘ungodly’ hat to preserve your integrity medium.com
Success Starts With Gratitude Unlocking the power of appreciation medium.com
Happy National Donut Day! November 5 is the most delicious day of the year. medium.com
COVID-19 — Welcome to the Hunger Games! Life is a double-entry system where every loss is someone else’s gain medium.com
The Dirty F-Word An exploration of the word ‘feminist’ and what that should mean to you. medium.com
My Farewell to Being A Smith We had a long run, but we needed to part ways medium.com
How to Stand Out as a New Writer on a Crowded Platform Think of yourself as a small business trying to survive the competition medium.com
The US 2020 Election of the Century A day of much anticipation, every vote needs to be counted to tell the truth of the people and by the people medium.com
Gut Microbes Could Provide Protection Against Radiation Damage These could potentially benefit cancer patients who are receiving radiotherapy. medium.com
Days Like Today You May Need A Bowl Of Comfort Here’s how to make a satisfying chicken noodle soup in less than an hour medium.com
The First Question to Ask When Your Relationship Hits a Wall This instantly sets your bottom line. medium.com
Teenage Intuition He knew how to strike a match! medium.com
6 Signs You Are in the Right Company How to spot them working remotely — first impressions matter! medium.com
Collection of Curated Stories on ILLUMINATION Selected stories by Debbie Walker hosted on ILLUMINATION-Curated. medium.com
This Is My 100th Medium Article The good and the bad of a two-year-long journey medium.com
The Ongoing Plot Against John Lewis And the Tireless Struggle to Stop It medium.com
How to Train Your Mind to be More Proactive In Life It starts with a simple change like — Instead of saying I can’t do this, say I chose not to do this medium.com
The Secret Suffering of C.S. Lewis Coping with grief through story medium.com
A Sad Way To Be: Feynman And Frida On Becoming Somebody Unsurprisingly for such a serendipitous moment, I read a letter that the brilliant physicist Richard P. Feynman (May… medium.com
How To Be A Better Person To Others And Yourself It’s normal to feel like you could be doing more when it comes to self-improvement. medium.com
Power of Loving Those Who dislike You — My Life Experience Hate is too great a burden to bear medium.com
The Meaning of Life is The Meaning You Decide to Give it Take no less than 100% responsibility for your meaning medium.com
Finding Love Is A Scavenger Hunt, Not A Coin Toss Life gives you clues to create order from chaos. You need to follow them to find love. medium.com
Lessons Learned From Childhood Shows Why songs like “I’m Mad At Disney” are created in the first place medium.com
Why You Should Stop Calling People Talented Simply put, it’s offensive. medium.com
My Daughter Succeeded Where Marie Kondo Failed I ditched my hard-copy dictionaries for digital medium.com
3 Key Takeaways From Kanye West’s Interview With Joe Rogan An incredible conversation between two of the most powerful men in the world medium.com
What If You Couldn’t Do What You Love Anymore? You are many things medium.com
Vote Like You Care About The People Around You It’s not blue or red. It’s decency. medium.com
Embrace Your Past No Matter How Checkered You and you alone are in control of your narrative. medium.com
What Would Emily Say? I published my first children’s book. medium.com
Limoncello Unsuspected sweetness, rich bitterness, shivering vibrato singing strings of profound intense humanity, warm syrupy… medium.com
Are Books Getting Longer? The short answer is yes. But why? medium.com
I’m a Democrat Poll Worker in Texas — I Feel Like a Blueberry in a Bowl of Tomato Soup A few words to my fellow election clerks and voters medium.com
Forced Change Could A COVID-19 Layoff Be Exactly What You Need? medium.com
All Hell’s Broke Loose Writer’s Bias and the destruction of free-thinking medium.com
Nuclear power and doomsday scenarios connected Nuclear power seems to be a relatively clean energy source. But when something happens, the situation can get very… medium.com
The iPhone 12 Pro is the Attention-Seeker’s Smartphone You can have the most clout in the room for just $999 medium.com
5 Facts I Learned From Making $112.67 in October Tips to build your writing empire you need to know medium.com
Sometimes You Just Need a Cookie for Breakfast The sanctity of the soft cocoa cookie. medium.com
I Have Forty-Four Titles Waiting To Be Written About, But Can’t Remember Why I Wrote The Titles So I decided to write about the titles. medium.com
Stay Unhealthy To Stay Patriotic!! So you are not a party animal who is out on street till the early hours of the morning, you don’t like to smoke or… medium.com
What It Was like Earning a Living 20 Years ago I’m a millennial that is about to put on his “boomer” shoes to tell you a short story about how work-life was back in… medium.com
The War After the Election Scenarios of a Stolen Election, Mass Protest and Even Violence and Civil War Afterwards — And What We Can Do to Prevent… medium.com
Your Desire to Be Normal Is Holding You Back The normal thing to do isn’t always the right thing to do medium.com
November 11, 1968 Lest we forget indeed medium.com
Reflections After the End of My First Month on Medium I failed to meet my writing targets for the better part of the month medium.com
How You Can Cosplay a Popular Black Character Without Terror We can cosplay without disrespecting others medium.com
7 Subtle Signs You’re in the Wrong Relationship That sinking gut feeling you can’t seem to shake isn’t the only sign they’re not the one for you. medium.com
6 Poisonous Thoughts About Medium and How To Reframe Them Don’t accept defeat by your own doubts. medium.com
Great Gents: My MENtors Some superheros don’t wear capes. medium.com
How to Sort Out the Truth From the Lies and Live a Happier Life How much of the crazy do we let in? medium.com
One More Empty Chair at the Table Tonight A COVID-19 story medium.com
Fiction or the Bugs Suck on Medium? A preliminary assessment with disappointing results for both medium.com
Your Strong Friends are Getting the Short End of the Stick How to support emotionally strong people medium.com
Why Countries Rich with Resources can be so Poor and How to Prevent It A Discussion of “Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique” medium.com
Practice Kindness Three Things You Can Do Today To Help Your Fellow Man medium.com
Self-differentiation It’s affecting your relationships medium.com
Paying for the priesthood A bargain medium.com
An Open Letter to the Critic of my Views on the Trump Car Rally I Witnessed Thank you so much for setting me on the right path. You’re making Michael great again. medium.com
Once You Go Over the Edge — It’s Not Nearly as Scary #4 — Finding the artist in you is a matter of trusting yourself medium.com
How I Turned $900 into More Than a Quarter Million Dollars The smartest, laziest financial move of my life came from watching Netflix medium.com
Social Awkwardness: You’re Thinking About It Wrong It doesn’t need to hold you back. medium.com
When You Try Too Hard to Fit In, You Forget What’s Right Don’t let yourself be a puppet unless you’re the puppeteer. medium.com
Master Bao and the Loaded Sleeves Desire is the nourishment that does not nourish medium.com
How to Change Your Role in Your Unhappiness Learn about the four basic pillars of a happy attitude medium.com
Why You Should Stop Waiting for 2021 COVID-19 doesn’t have a calendar. medium.com
How We Can Create Meaning Is there a simple answer to a difficult question? medium.com
What *One* Gift Would You Give Humanity? Except world peace. Try not to answer like a beauty pageant contestant. medium.com
Mentoring on ILLUMINATION Peer support is essential for success. medium.com
Should You Lie To Motivate Your Peers Dissecting the philosophy behind manipulating motivation in others. medium.com
Stop Asking If I Was Close To Her Some tips to support me as I grieve medium.com
The Duty Which Lies Nearest Hildegarde sensed something moving in the darkness. medium.com
I’m Making My Vote Count You should do the same medium.com
How to Be Happy And Practice Gratitude Daily Even if you feel unworthy and unhappy medium.com
How to Do the Right Things and Do Things Right Being more effective and efficient in life medium.com
LinkedIn Isn’t Facebook or Twitter, and Surely Not Tinder The blurring lines between professional and social networking medium.com
In Middle Earth I Am Illiterate A free verse poem medium.com
How To Emphasize Clarity In Your Writing Understand the ladder of abstraction. medium.com
What Do Your ‘Evergreen Quotes’ Say About You? Some quotes motivate you. Others reveal you. medium.com
Entrepreneurship 101: lessons from S. Walton, J. Bezos, H. Ford, H. Schultz Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Henry Ford, and Howard Schultz all applied these principles, grew them into habits. You can… medium.com
Are School Meals Designed with Kids Health in Mind or Big Food Industry Interests? I checked out the nutrition of my local area’s school breakfast to find out. medium.com
How to Write a College Paper The secret formula that guarantees success medium.com
Keep Your Home Clean with these 4 Quick and Easy Routines And seven great hacks to make it extra easy medium.com
How Facial Recognition Software Became a Disastrous Tool For Law Enforcement Assessing the technological advancement of racial discrimination medium.com
9 Inspiring Speakers Reveal Our Hidden Biases Without exception, everybody has them. medium.com
Understanding Bracketing Effects To Make Better Decisions You don’t realise the full consequences of your actions medium.com
7 Ways to Feel Like a Child Again Who needs a fountain of youth? medium.com
Hiking in the Snow An adventure in the alps medium.com
Our Love for MyLibooks How these books have helped my child learn to read medium.com
Relaunching #twittle 100-letter micropoems to #twittletweet and #twittleonTwitter medium.com
The Best Thing I Can Do for My Marriage Is Wash the Dishes Happy Wife, Happy Life. medium.com
3 Lessons You Can Learn From Robbert Pattinson’s Career It is all about proving your point medium.com
Please Don’t Change the World. We kind of like it as it is. medium.com
Is One Simple Mistake in Diet Apps Causing More Harm Than Good? New expert guidance suggests app developers have a golden opportunity to improve lives. medium.com
Would You Vote for a President Who Channels Ascended Masters? Is it time for 4th Dimensional psychic political leaders? medium.com
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Love I You? This little poem kicked off a writing legacy medium.com
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Bittersweet The taste of a life well-lived. medium.com
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