100 Things To Be Grateful For in My Life
In 2014, my housemate in Malaysia gave me a red journal for Christmas because he knows that I love writing. I didn’t know what to do with it then. But when I’m back in Singapore, I started using it as a gratitude journal. Every morning, I list down at...
7 Joyful Reasons Why You Need to Have a Gratitude Journal
Do you keep a gratitude journal? Do you have a habit of appreciating the things around you? Why is gratitude so important? The theme this month for my 2016 self-love project is gratitude. Gratitude isn’t something just for the religious or spiritual people....
How to Not Control Everything and Be Free
Are you trying to control everything? Do you need everything to be just the way you want it to be? Do you find it difficult to let go even though you know it’s holding you back from freedom? I used to have this repeated dream when I was young: I dreamed that I...
How to Forgive Yourself for Hurting Someone
Most of us understand the logic behind the famous saying, “the past is the past”. We could never go back to the past, so why bother about the past? It makes sense for someone who is hurt to let go of the past so that they don’t suffer. But what if...
How to Forgive Someone When You Are Feeling Hurt
Forgiving someone isn’t always easy. To most people, to forgive means to stop feeling angry or to stop having resentment towards someone. It means to pardon someone for their mistakes and what they did to us. When we are feeling hurt, this doesn’t seem...
Why It’s Important to Trust the Timing of Your Life?
Have you heard of the phrases or quotes that tell you to “trust the timing of your life” and “trust the process of life”? What do they mean? These quotes remind me of a scene in the movie, Shrek 2, where Princess Fiona, Shrek, and Donkey are on...
Why Sometimes Feeling Angry Is A Good Thing?
I hate feeling angry. Whenever I feel angry, my mind is like a broken record that never stops replaying the things that make me angry. And I don’t like to express my anger in front of others because I felt embarrassed every time I blew up. It felt as...
How I Stopped Feeling Depressed
For the past month, I was feeling depressed. I hadn’t felt that depressed ever since I left my audit job six years ago. It was as though I was meant to experience depression again so that I could write this post and help those who are feeling depressed too....
Does Life Really Have to Be So Busy?
Are you always too busy for anything? Do you lead a busy lifestyle and feel a need to be busy all the time? Do you get depressed when you are not busy? Well, you may be addicted to being busy. Lately, I found it difficult to write anything or do anything that...Struggling with Your Physical Appearance or Illness?
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