Category: 4. Live Less Bad
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Routine – August, 2020
Context: COVID-19. School paused for a while. I have no job. EW demands nothing from me. Working to become a better writer. Trying to promote my business. Bouts with eating disorder, anxiety, depression. Elements of my routine were results of these bouts. I. weigh 63 KG, the heaviest in 10 years. Can’t fit into most…
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44 Things @ 44
COVID-19: 3rd wave in HK. Lock down again. No dine in after 6. COVID-19: Globally, 20.6M confirmed cases, 749K deaths. COVID-19: US was a complete mess. Shocking. HK did ok. HK and China- National Security Law. China is exerting its influence globally, forcefully. Quipping with the Trump US. Messy. We have had many years of…
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How Much Do I Charge My Clients?
( Original Post: https://enlivenworks.com/fees/ ) I charge 2% of Your Monthly Salary. How? Why? Why Are You Sharing This? Most interactions I have had with potential clients always started with the fees, “How much does it cost?” The same is true when clients browse through the website, checking out testimonials, etc. “How much does it…
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Unified Theory of the 10% Me
Some say, on the internet, people only get to see 10% of anyone. Hence, all we need to do, is to make sure this 10% of us is clear and interesting. The opposite of that is the confusion it brings when this “10% me” is a random mixed tape of the “100% me.” Grand Unified…
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Side Effects of Anti-depressants: Accidental Mindfulness
I have been battling with my mind for a few years now. I tried talk therapy, CBT, medication, meditation, exercising, morning routines, dusk routines, pre-sleep shut down routines, mushroom elixir, you name it. What I have learned is some of these might work for some of the time. Hence it is important that I accept…
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Choose Fear 😱
Accept this, and life will be easier. To be human is to go through you entire life getting used to living between these two opposing traits: The fear from uncertainty & The excitement from the unknown. Fear and uncertainties are prepotent. They exist to protect us from getting eaten by lions. But that’s the past.…
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Breathing Out
Hello Derek,Today in Hong Kong, we went into another round of lock down because of the 3rd wave of the coronavirus. No dine-in anywhere, and I could not work in the coffee shop I normally went to. So I decided to listen to the “Hell Yeah or No” book and walked around the city. About…
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What is Empathy without Proximity?
I can’t figure this out. Can you have real empathy for experiences that you have never had? I don’t have a single black friend. If empathy is the ability to step into someone else’s shoes, then, say, growing up as a black person is like wearing a pair of flip flops, and in my world,…
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🗞 The Newsletter Binge 🍽
I have been on a binge lately. I started subscribing to Tim Ferriss’ 5 bullet Friday about a year ago. I didn’t subscribe to any another newsletter, until I came across David Perell’s interview with Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman, the founders of Morning Brew. The podcast episode had all the feel good factors: the…
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Blog Posts, since 1996.
I decided to leave Medium, set up this website, and put almost all the blogs I have written in the last 24 years here. Some asked me why I am putting up a blog again. Do I want traffic and followers? Is it just an ego thing? After going through most of my posts, I…