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Bioidentical Hormones For Longevity and Vitality What if there is a good solution to hypogonadism medium.com
Editor’s Choice — Top 10: How To Write More Positive and Inspiring Stories Let’s have a look at our top 10 stories today medium.com
Weekly Wisdom from Karen ILLUMINATION Edition #entrepreneurs #selling #success #YouTube #business medium.com
The Most Important Question in Life What in the world are you working for? medium.com
Want to Be More Innovative? Immersive experiences in your recreational life unlock your creative thinking. Part 1 of 5. medium.com
4 Lessons I Learned by Changing Careers Twice in 4 Years From rocket science to AI to neuroscience medium.com
Why Instagram Will Never Catch up to TikTok The world has discovered what Instagram is missing — and they are going to TikTok for it. medium.com
Climbing to You P o e t r y medium.com
I Am Perpendicular I am perpendicular Backwards Hot funicular medium.com
Book: Philosophy of Life Instinct: Chapter 10: God Who, what and why medium.com
I’m Think I’m Having an Identity Crisis A Perfect Storm of Career Change and Coronavirus medium.com
I Write I write to be seen, I write to be lost. I write to be heard, but at what cost. I write to share the words I cannot say… medium.com
I Don’t Want to Live Forever Well, medium.com
3 Big Fat Lies that Deserve to Die MindSet Shifts coming your way… medium.com
A Twist That Taught Me How To Celebrate Me Commitment to the Blank Pages medium.com
Acquittal Riddle. Don’t ask me. I am after all a GOP. medium.com
3 Ways COVID-19 Has Changed Our World Your Life Will Never Be The Same medium.com
One Trump Fan I Would Rather Not Know She is a little extreme medium.com
Running On Empty 48 solid hours of a dead sleep medium.com
Peaking Into The Mind Of An Addict How mindfulness and spirituality helped me cut ties with addiction medium.com
Satire Version of Hansel & Gretel How did that tale go again? medium.com
Fructose: What It’s Not, What It Is You probably know that fructose is the sugar found in fruit. Here are a few facts about it. medium.com
Using Death To Fight Hatred We must not teach our children hatred. It will backfire on us. medium.com
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#3) A phrase about one simple pleasure in life medium.com
Dear girl across the room I’m writing this to you so I may thank you for some of the best awkward eye contact I have ever graciously received… medium.com
Drifting Motions Together, we tied the knot medium.com
Don’t Get Me Anything for Valentine’s Day! Love wasn’t proved in a day medium.com
Roses are Red. Violets Are Blue, Have You Been Tested, Before I Kiss You? This year’s Valentine may be more than Hallmark can handle. medium.com
How We Create Our Sacred Myths Stories, legends, and more…. From Tolkien to Star Wars and Beyond… medium.com
Laura Clery Is Writing A Second Book! On Instagram, Laury Clery announced she’s working on a second book. She asked her followers what they’d like to see in… medium.com
Walking Out A relationship ends medium.com
Enter The Age of Happiness : Writing Every Day The streak that changed my life: 300 consecutive days of writing in 2020! medium.com
The Silver Lining Finding rest in the midst of life’s hurdles medium.com
Tanka #4 A meadow landscape, Flower, just like a skyscraper. Bee alights, then night. Snap a picture with my mind, Hold it for… medium.com
6 Struggles You Need to Face When You Are Way Smarter Than Average The unexpected downsides of being intelligent medium.com
How to Easily Change the Results You Are Creating in Life Putting the good things of life into your mind medium.com
What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas Sometimes that’s not true. medium.com
Do You Want To Live To Be A Hundred? What Are The Odds? Bear in mind what they say about the best tunes. They’re played on the oldest fiddles! medium.com
How A Restaurant Messed Up My Order and Won My Loyalty A marketing lesson in turning an error into an opportunity medium.com
“Walk Beautifully, Talk Beautifully, Live Beautifully” Tea quote — a path that leads where you want to be. medium.com
You’re a Hell of a Drug A Poem medium.com
60 Minutes with One and Only Are we on the right path? medium.com
How you can be smarter than your smartphone. That’s the trick. There are so many settings and apps on your smartphone that it can be intimidating. Especially when… medium.com
I Am KING Words derived from strength medium.com
I’m Just a Word Maybe two medium.com
Not Getting Younger Poetry about aging medium.com
For Somebody, I Love So Much, But Knows Me Not! We remember their love, when they can no longer remember. medium.com
Break Your Tasks Into Chunks It beats bouncing back and forth medium.com
A Cloud of Reveries A cloud of memories medium.com
Congratulations to Sam Bahour on getting this article published in the New York Times! Medium writer Sam Bahour has a new article about Israeli-Palestinian confederation. medium.com
3 Simple Steps for a Happier and More Fulfilled Morning Your morning doesn’t need a lot to be happy medium.com
Wings Like a Dove To your safe place? medium.com
To Share or Not to Share Is There Such a Thing as Compulsive Sharing? medium.com
Don’t Worry About Not Having a Writing Schedule A schedule limits your creativity. medium.com
Willow Chapter 8: The Picture A serial novel by Claudia Stack medium.com
My Three Sons Coincidental caring medium.com
When You Feel Destroyed By Your Writing Stats, Look Away. We need to find ways to continue writing because it means something to us. medium.com
Broken Hubs and Bent Drag Links January 31, 2021 medium.com
Benefits of Being Stuck in a Rut It’s time to reframe your situation medium.com
If…Then If singing… medium.com
The Cyber CIA Triad A graphic depicting the key elements of Cybersecurity defenses…a metaphor …and a current event. medium.com
Symbiotic Healing, Love & Trees Tree Hugs, Valentine’s Day Edition medium.com
Nietzsche Quotes That Prompt Understanding of Current Events Thoughts for people who think or think they think medium.com
Envisioning The Shape of Our New Lives Ahead — Part 2 Or beginning to embrace the post-pandemic Man medium.com
Use the 8 Essential Parts of Video Scripting To Make Better Commercial Videos – 1. Get their attention medium.com
The Death of Intimacy in Public Schools All the things that were encouraged by schools are no longer allowed medium.com
I Used to Suck at Finishing Projects, but Now I Can Build Routines That Stick The world turning upside down forced me to reflect medium.com
Why did Satoru Iwata cut his salary by half in 2012? The first austerity measure Nintendo’s CEO took, after things went bad, was to halve his own salary. medium.com
How to Talk to the Mountains travelling outside — exploring inside medium.com
THEM Thoughts of THEM make me question who I am. medium.com
The Gathering Gloom: What is fueling our fear? The study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the fictional account of the Salem Witch Trials, invariably leads to the… medium.com
Through the looking glass: A Canadian’s take on the American 2020 elections Much has been said and continues to be said about the 2020 American elections. It was a hot mess of drama, suspense… medium.com
If You’re Not Making Money You’re not a writer. Yet. medium.com
Never Forget You’re Here To Live Out Your Dreams Happiness lies in the joy of achievement medium.com
Python Is Not the Only Snake in My Life Sometimes a snake’s venom is less poisonous. medium.com
Which Cults Do You Belong To? 6 (or more) examples of Modern Day Cults medium.com
How To Deal With Rejections I provide a unique perspective to transform rejections into blessings. medium.com
I Treat My Children Like An Important Client Plus other homeschooling tips for surviving Lockdown 3 medium.com
Why I’m a Fan of Tom Brady Written by someone who doesn’t like football medium.com
I Took Away Her Job A tale of the politically incorrect medium.com
How Long Should You Wait for Somebody to Love You? Turns out there is an exact length of time in which you should pine medium.com
As is Man, As is Woman And now, dancing, I see that I am strong medium.com
How to Develop a Positive Mindset and Thrive Every entrepreneur can improve their mindset so that it can influence everything that they do medium.com
5 Kinds of People Who Misbehaved That I Hate on LinkedIn To marketing and salespeople, please add this to your rulebook medium.com
Get Out Of Your Rut And Into The Sublime Of Nature Seven ways to enhance your focus and quiet you mind medium.com
The painful lesson that shook Singapore Not all REGRETS would allow a RE for you to learn a life lesson again. medium.com
My Kind of Town, Torino Is… An American in Italy: Part 5 medium.com
Cross Country run From Poole To Dorchester medium.com
Scent of a Book Time-travel with your nose in a book medium.com
Peaceful Warrior My Journey into Yoga medium.com
10+ Easy Ways To Build a Small Business That Will Skyrocket by 552% in 1 Year. #3 When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on medium.com
The Grass is Brown Everywhere Don’t sacrifice what you have in pursuit of what you don’t medium.com
Everyone Needs a Side-Hustle But is it all about the money? medium.com
What’s The Hardest Part of School For You Right Now? A poem dedicated to students out there roughing out this pandemic medium.com
Biodiversity Illuminates Us Biodiversity: not just an academic term, but an essential ingredient medium.com
Gone Too Far Dark poetry medium.com
What Happens When You Expect too much from People? And how to tackle that feeling like a pro! medium.com
I love you Simple as that. medium.com
7 Simple Things You Can Do Every Day to Improve Yourself Start to accept help from others in one of them. medium.com
4 Steps To Beat Anxiety At Work How to improve your productivity during the workday medium.com
Illumination is the Most Supportive Publication for Writers “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” — Helen Keller medium.com
Beginner’s Guide to Medium Basics Assembly Manual for title, subtitle, images, and submission to publication medium.com
Day Tripping: February 15 Banners, belts, and backtracks medium.com
Emoji Bollocks Really! I’m not woke and never likely to be. medium.com
4 Great Alternatives To Binging TV While Stuck At Home There’s more to life than Netflix. Weird, but true. medium.com
After End of The Blockade on Qatar Evaluating the New Balance medium.com
Threads Joins up the dots medium.com
7 Things I’ve Saved Money on During The Pandemic The list is longer than I expected, and I’m grateful medium.com
Will Medium Have a New Motto? There’s a rumor that they will medium.com
Hey Medium, Are 3 Claps Hurtful? If Dr Mehmet Yildiz gave my story 3 claps, I would be over the moon. medium.com
Mornings A poem about mornings medium.com
Winter and Snow Poem of the frozen medium.com
Peaceful moments We twist and turn, Running, hiding, searching, confused. medium.com
Sink or Swim Live between memories and imagination medium.com
I Miss You Short Story medium.com
3 Tricks I Use to Live a Fulfilling Life as an Introvert Yes, you’ll have to socialize. medium.com
How to Celebrate President’s Day Depends who you voted for medium.com
One-lined Poem: Happiness (#14) A phrase about one simple pleasure in life. medium.com
You’re Hiring The Wrong Person Why you should be looking beyond resumes and work culture medium.com
Cricket: Who are the top five greatest players in the history of the game? Cricket has produced some magnificent players over the years, and we have selected the five best of all time. medium.com
Unboxing: Why Keep the Fun to Myself? Opening and checking out photography tools, decorative lighting, and luggage. medium.com
In Life, As In Business, Integrity Is Everything No matter how successful, or well-known you are, without integrity you are nothing. medium.com
How to Be Self-Motivated We’re always motivated in life, but what matters is what we’re being motivated to do. medium.com
The 10 Lessons I Learnt About Courage Today I would like to share about the lessons I learnt about courage. When I say courage or bravery, I mean the same… medium.com@
Do We Create Culture or Does Culture Create Us? The social construction of reality medium.com
3 Reasons Why You Should Continue To Publish Articles On Linkedin. On top of writing in Medium. medium.com
A Different Approach to Build Habits. We live in a time where productivity and building new habits become a trend. This is good but on the other hand, the… medium.com
7 Amazing Proven Ways to Easily Increase Profits Plus Prospects & Publicity, and an Amazing Profitable Case Study medium.com
Binge-Watching is Good For Your Mental Health No, really. It is. medium.com
Finding Your True Calling Will Fill Your Heart- And Your Pockets! Three keys to discovering your roadmap towards success medium.com
You Are Creative And You Don’t Know It The soul’s survival instinct as a human medium.com
Ismael Fernandez Jr. Writer Profile medium.com
The Undo Button Fret not. Many decisions in life have an undo button. It can be liberating. medium.com
Medicine A poem about hypocrisy medium.com
Capable A poem medium.com
A Writer’s Walk The walking does wonders medium.com
One More Year Or Retire Now? Is OMY a sign of procrastination or based on good analysis? medium.com
Experts Say These Are the 5 Things You Should Do to Ensure a Productive Day Every day can be a productive day. Commit yourself and achieve your goals. medium.com
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#8) A phrase about one simple pleasure in life medium.com
Beware the Oblivious Narcissist AKA the bad guy who thinks he’s the good guy. medium.com
Negotiations- How to Excel “Your most important sale is to sell yourself to yourself.” ~Maxwell Maltz medium.com
Why Writing is More Than a Hobby Maybe you don’t need to find your purpose — just find what satisfies your soul. medium.com
My dad was a killer and it’s America’s fault Boy soldiers, the Secret War, and America — the creation of a generation of PTSD. medium.com
Index of Transhumanism Easy access to my stories on health, mental health, fitness, relationships, and lifestyle choices medium.com
Ghost of a Poet “Your Soul?? Pfth!! Sooner guard your crown, your garden and your robe…” medium.com
I Made My First Reel Yesterday and I Am Already Addicted Why Instagram Reels is the next big thing for content creators medium.com
Submit Index Of Your Publications I recommended to create storybooks for your articles. medium.com
Worldbuilding with Magic vs. Science Navigating the landscape of speculative fiction medium.com
Fried Scrambled Eggs and other Disappointments. I like fried eggs, the look of the yellow yolk so clearly defined in the middle of the white and edged with a slightly… medium.com
Are you selling what your customers are buying? The relentless competition for new and repeat customers is, well, relentless, especially on the high street. It has… medium.com
Fake vaccines sounds like a real thing My understanding from this post is FBI is warning about them. medium.com
Questioning Your Identity During the Pandemic Why is your self-image being threatened? medium.com
How Using Mindfulness Made Me Double My Productivity 5 techniques I didn’t believe in until I tried them and saw they do work medium.com
What to Do When You Dread the Next Workday Tell-tale signs that will tell you it’s time to quit your job medium.com
3 Highly Effective But Not Highly Taught Steps to Accelerate Success in Your Life Success means different things to different people but at its core, it’s about living life at a higher level. Follow… medium.com
Meme Stocks: Is Conventional Investing Dead? How Elon Musk influences the stock market and a new type of investor emergers: the meme investor medium.com
You Deserve Success, So Use These 3 Facts to Help You Get It Faster There’s a special spot for you in the universe, but you have to claim it medium.com
I’m Giving Up the Indoors for Lent Time to get out and about after a pandemic-focused year medium.com
Clubhouse Might Be a Game Changer for Freelancers, Here’s Why Your audience is your podcast guest on Clubhouse prateekdasgupta1.medium.com
“How Does It Feel? To Be On Your Own. Like A Complete Unknown. Like A Rolling Stone.”-Bob Dylan Song by Dylan. medium.com
The Most Important Skill to Develop, ever A 10x multiplier on the value and quality of your time and work. medium.com
Making A Murderer: He Didn’t Do The Crime, But He’ll Do The Time The Steven Avery Case: Criminal social injustice on an institutional level medium.com
9 Habits That Can Significantly Improve Your Life Upgrade your life by adopting these few simple habits medium.com
The illusion of a perfect world. Perfection is subjective. Each individual mind can strive to live a life of perfection on their own terms, but where… medium.com
3 Ways to Increase Your Creativity The truth about new ideas medium.com
Is Tolerance A Virtue? Does Tolerance promote equality or subconsciously accentuate our differences? medium.com
Stranger Things Is Set in the Past — Before the Rise of Modern Conspiracy Theories In Stranger Things, they had to water down the truth about Hawkins Lab. Now, the crazier the conspiracy theory, the… medium.com
To Be Ecologically Responsible Is Mandatory We can only improve the world we live medium.com
Can One Create His Own Values? The God, Übermensch, and psyche. medium.com
Would you hire Trump to run your business? People with a high impact on our lives should have a recruiting process too. medium.com
How A Mistaken Swinger’s Party Taught Me To Trust My Instincts The mistakes we make when desperate for love medium.com
Crappy Career Moments. Don’t bury them. Savor those awful, stinky moments. medium.com
5 Reasons I’m Glad I Write on Medium Teaching an old dog new tricks is not an easy task, but Medium has. medium.com
What Working In TV News Taught Me As anyone who works in television news will tell you, it is definitely not an easy job. But it teaches you many… medium.com
How to Handle Marketing Challenges in 2021 Adapting to new trends is key to keep your customers smiling in our current fast-changing digital environment medium.com
Beyoncé and Michael Jackson: Compared And Contrasted. Superstars. Electrifying performers and phenomenal entertainers. Gifted voices, inspirational human beings that have… medium.com
How To Not Let Other People’s Productivity Intimidate You Living with low productivity in a highly productive world medium.com
Even If You Do Everything Right You’re still Wrong medium.com
Routine A poem medium.com
Magic Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? We all have a Magic Mirror. medium.com
My Moniker’s Josh! And You? “I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.” — Jerry Spinelli medium.com
Fight facts with fiction how to tell the truth with fiction medium.com
Celebrating The Festival Of Spring In India Spring is a promise of happiness, color, and festivities medium.com
How to Use an Activity As Your Meditation The power of motion to create peace medium.com
I Healed From an Autoimmune Disease That Nearly Took My Vision. Here’s What I Learned It’s been over a year since I healed from a severe autoimmune disease called Uveitis that nearly took my vision. It was… medium.com
3 Traits of Highly Productive People That You Can Steal To Jumpstart Your Productivity Learn to activate the productivity guru inside of you. medium.com
The Medical Hoax That Still Haunts Us Today It wasn’t just the inability to replicate Wakefield’s study that got his paper retracted medium.com
Publications Are Adding Embeds to Your Stories Has this happened to you? medium.com
If you want to find the right person Love yourself first medium.com
2 Thoughts to Think When You Feel Stuck Mental jumpstarters to keep you productive medium.com
Bush Of Ghosts The haunted music of Kate Bush medium.com
5 Leadership Qualities You Need In Order To Be Great Manager. Listening is an important part of conversation techniques that we sometimes want to ignore. medium.com
This is your life — Nobody else’s It’s never too late to let go of everything and find yourself medium.com
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