Featured Stories Issue #31
Selected stories from 9,000 writers supporting 92,000 readers on ILLUMINATION
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Ryan Justin
Don’t Allow Rest to Become Your Downfall
Falling into a rut of procrastination is easy to do but difficult to escape.medium.com
Boateng Sekyere
I’m Embarking on an Adventurous 30-Under-30 Publishing Challenge
A nod to David Majister’s 30 articles to 30 pubs in 30 days challengemedium.com
Matt Ray
Have you ever flown over a volcano?
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Todd Williams
Wage Garnishment, Student Loans, Social Security, and Collection Agencies Tricks
The reason why I wrote this article is that many do not know their rights.medium.com
Stuart Englander
Day Tripping: April 2
Projectiles, Pop Singers, and Paratroopersmedium.com
Kim McKinney
I Am Selling My House, Moving to an Apartment, and Decluttering
So why did I keep that penis candle for years and years?medium.com
Clive Wilson
What I learned From Reading Every Article in Illumination’s Featured List.
Entertained, irritated, shocked, surprised, humbled and informed are some of the ways I felt after reading 52 random…medium.com
Ayu Johari
Wear Your Truth
In these times we live in it’s hard to wear your Truthmedium.com
A. Nonymous
Eight Reasons To Stop Feeding Your Workplace Bullies
That “Mean Girls” culture is bringing everybody down.medium.com
Randy Wolken
Slow Thinking In A Fast World
How to slowdown and succeedmedium.com
Lisa Richards
5 Ways to Successfully Declutter Your Home
Get closer to a comfortable stress free home.medium.com
Harold Finch
Tim Sussmann
What ethical travel looks like, and what to avoid.
How to make a good impression for the traveler that follows you.medium.com
Ivan Yong Wei Kit
Watching Over Me
A Poem (Rondeau) for Eastermedium.com
Warren Brown
Come Hell or High Water
There will always be a reason to celebrate lifemedium.com
Chandrani Anantharaman
Eight Interesting Qualities That Make You Attractive
Do you want to stand out and be noticed? Take a look at some of the qualities that can make you attractive to the…medium.com
Kaori Mitsui
Sniff, sniff.
woof woof.medium.com
Tracey Folly
4 Ways to Get Emotional Support in a Relationship
How to give and get emotional support from your partnermedium.com
Josh Balerite Acol
What Poetry Means To Me
A poetic prompt for day 13medium.com
Rahul Gopakumar
Revisiting an Urban Solar Energy Start-Up!
What are the obstacles and chances that new energy start-ups should account for?medium.com
Trapper Sherwood
5 Reasons This Skill is Good for Floundering Business Leaders
Do you struggle with communicating effectively with your team or customers in general? Hard to find the right words to…medium.com
Jacquelyn Lynn
Will We Ever Know Why Tiger Crashed?
LA County sheriff refuses to release details of the crash due to privacy concernsmedium.com
Dr. Fatima Imam
Sensorium
Poetry prompt day:-20medium.com
Indra Raj Pathak
There has ever been a controversy between saying and doing, preaching and following, vision and…
Whatever you expect from others, you never do yourselves. Your statement varies from place to place and person to…medium.com
Alice Vuong
These 5 Shows Will Make You Rethink Your Entire Life
Goofy comedies and a drug lord can show you what it means to be humanmedium.com
Caden Strause
Lessons From The Worst Dates Ever
A man’s perspective on horrible datesmedium.com
Khadejah Jones
Americans Have Privilege — You Don’t Have to Remind Us ALL The Time
The white saviors are on their soapbox again.medium.com
William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
Reality Check At The Mexican Border
A lesson in “you reap what you sow”medium.com
Andrew P. Brown III, PhD
To Spank Or Not To Spank: That is the Question
Does sparing the rod spoil the child?medium.com
Nicole Dyer
5 Steps to Engage in Experiences With Satisfaction
…easy peasy!medium.com
Vuyo Ngcakani
4 Parts Of Conversation That I’d Like To Eliminate
Conversation questions that annoy me to no endmedium.com
Terry Trueman
Experiential Knowledge
Alcoholism isn’t a disease
to someone lying in a hospital bed
with 17 seconds of life left
after struggling with cancer…medium.com
Destiny S. Harris
Would You Ever Tell A Baby To Stop Trying To Walk?
It’s An Absurd Thoughtmedium.com
I. Trudie Palmer
Coming Soon: Garden Therapy Near You
Benefits are limited only by your imaginationmedium.com
Sanjukt Saha
A Manual for Myself
And maybe, someone else will have use for it too.medium.com
Floyd Mori
Is Hating Democrats A Worthy Passion?
He seems to think somedium.com
James Jordan
Rethinking Judas as the Bad Guy
Ancient text suggests a different motive for the greatest betrayal in historymedium.com
Benazir San
A letter to “yusuf”
Perhaps I’m never gonna be so proud of memedium.com
Juliano Righetto
Is it Worth Giving a Chance to a Relationship With Someone You Are Not In Love?
Life is too short, you know…medium.com
Mike Orsini
Have We Programmed Ourselves to Continually Wait For the End?
We’re always waiting for the end.medium.com
Charles Mendelson
Who Gets To Be An Influencer?
A discourse on what it means to be an expert vs appearing to be an expertmedium.com
Randy Wolken
Get Vaccinated Please!
Vaccinations offer us a path to a new normalmedium.com
Terry Mansfield
The Winning Entry?
About going for the big prizemedium.com
Robert Planz
Here’s How I Made $1,200 My First Month on Medium
Answers to the most searched questionmedium.com
Harry Hogg
One Notable Exception
Bubbles in the bathtub give her awaymedium.com
Dhanaraj Natesan
Why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Is Very Important Than (IQ)
Emotional Intelligence is one that helps to solve problems that come up in the real-life of human beings.medium.com
Hassan
What Hurts More, Time or Rejection?
Both time and rejection hurt but one of these hurts the worstmedium.com
Stela Gineva
Calling Successful Authors ‘Poor Writers’ Only Makes You Look Bitter
Being embroiled in a Twitter argument showed me the arrogance and lack of self-awareness that some aspiring writers…medium.com
Adam J Bell
I Graduated and Hated my Career — Here’s how I Repurposed my Skills
Three years ago today I was shaking hands with the dean and walking out the school doors for the last time. I was…medium.com
Sion Evans
4 Traits of Personal Growth We Take For Granted
Sometimes we need to take a look back to see how far we’ve come.medium.com
GrayMatter
No Longer Waiting for Rain
Learning to be present without fixating on the futuremedium.com
Ed Fernyhough
3 Major Problems With Twitter
A platform with a toxic culture has led to toxic solutionsmedium.com
Terry L. Cooper
Here’s How I’ve Made My Fortune on Medium
I’m two digits to the left, to the left, baby!medium.com
E.P. Hasan
Accumulate Rejection Slips
You only need one yes to win.medium.com
Thewriteyard
A State of Panic in the Garden
of the feathered varietymedium.com
Zachary Seda
Life Below
A short story about family.medium.com
Nasar Karim
Choose
A poem about paths and destinationsmedium.com
EJY
‘Gorilla Vs Kong’ Is Wildly Entertaining
A Movie That Is Insanely Stupid But Is Just Dumb-Funmedium.com
Bill Abbate
How to Find the Best Way to Stretch Your Mind Each Day
What you need to know to expand your mind and enlarge your lifemedium.com
Mira Khatib
Grief
Standing close casting a shadowmedium.com
Shaista Malik
Pause
From a series of prompts by Sahil Patelmedium.com
Noah Nelson
I’m Getting Better at Medium
Slow and steady wins the race.medium.com
Gippolito Ndp
The Idea of Kneeling is in a Absurdly Transformative Phase — From “To and For” to “On”
I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, so I know all about kneeling before God, Jesus and our Beloved Mother Mary.medium.com
Melanie J.
One-Lined Poem: Happiness (#19)
A phrase about one simple pleasure in lifemedium.com
Patrick M. Ohana
DSJT Strikes Back
But we both dislike Star Warsmedium.com
Mike Goldberg
How to Leverage the Law of Attraction
The answer is always within your controlmedium.com
Ilham Esse
5- Micro Habits That Will Help You Live a Healthier Life
The bare minimum. Literally.medium.com
Lori Brown
My First Memory Of Humiliation
A story about assumptions and poor communication between teachers and students.medium.com
Brad Creech
Three Reasons I Love History
And why there is so much to gainmedium.com
Jay Toran
One of the Most Fascinating Reads to be Found
On Embodying Soul: A Return to Wholeness by Keri Mangis on ILLUMINATION Book Chaptersmedium.com
Ivette Cruz
My Poem’s Ink
Sometimes is bluemedium.com
Kevin Lee
If You’re Afraid to Publish, You Need to Cultivate an Imbalance of Fear
When one fear dominates, you can create. When the other prevails, you can’t.medium.com
Tavian Jean-Pierre
Freeing Myself From the Chains of Poverty
Three Things I Had to Overcome Whilst Poormedium.com
Lucia Landini
One Way To Survive A Regret From Childhood
Time Is On Your Sidemedium.com
Melanie J.
I Pause…
Poetry prompt day:-20medium.com
Rosalind Pagan
I Had The AstraZeneca Vaccine: Now I’m Worried Sick
The news reportage is playing havoc with my hypochondria.medium.com
Felix Otoo
7 Life Lessons From a 29-Year-Old
Time keeps going, and we keep growingmedium.com
Nahid Husain-Habib
5 Quotes about Grief to Help You Keep Going After A Loss
Take it day by day with these perspectives you may not have consideredmedium.com
Juliano Righetto
Minor Mistakes, Big Scoldings
Why is it so hard for some people to congratulate others on their excellent work?medium.com
Keri Mangis
Hi, I’m Keri Mangis, Wholeness Advocate
A self-introduction, as much as possible without the dreaded labelsmedium.com
Urfa
Lil Nas X Has Caused Quite The Frenzy With His Satan Shoes
And people are getting madmedium.com
Gary Westfal
3 Easy Steps to Financial Freedom
Common sense advice on a topic most people overcomplicate.medium.com
Shea Hulse
Manifestation Methods That Actually Work to Attract Your Happiest Self
Manifestation Methods that I personally use and have worked for me to become a happier individual.medium.com
Terry L. Cooper
Will Terry Live?
Episode updatemedium.com
The Maverick Files
Hey Animal Loving Meat-eaters — You Might be the Animal Version of Racist
Dogs are oh so cute, but cows are delicious?medium.com
Mila
6 Questions You’ve Always Wanted to Ask Me But Were Too Afraid
Debunking stereotypes about Montenegro and its people.medium.com
Charlie Lukas
Five Keys to Achieving Rock Solid Consistency
Showing up really is half the battle.medium.com
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