MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

Creativity comes in bursts. If you work in a creative field, you may have noticed that. Creativity has this special character; it comes in bursts. Lately it made me wonder why? Sometimes it is really annoying when a creative outburst happens when I am in the middle of a serious project working together with my Boss. What am I supposed to do? Stop everything I am doing and start writing poems during a cooperate meeting? Why doesn't creativity occur when I want it? Like during

Defaults. What you do automatically are basically your default. What do you do when you wake up early in the morning? Just curse yourself for getting late? Then that is your default. How about the first app you start when you get your hands on your phone? YouTube? then that is your default. How about the first thing you say when you meet your loved ones in your kitchen in the morning? That is your default too. Defaults are powerful when properly planned and placed, but they c

Jim Rhon philosophy of working on yourself. If you are into self-development and generating wealth, you cannot avoid this guy. He is an internet sensation, even after his death in 2009. To be honest I am not a big fan, as his philosophy of getting rich lacks the answers to the fundamental question of why. But as you can see, I write about him as there is some truth, in what he preaches. If you wonder after working hard on your job for decades and you are not wealthy enough to

Tragic of Jack - the Crow and the carcass story Once upon a time there was a crow. Who happened to be starving from the previous day, it was searching for food from early morning. And on its way saw an elephant's carcass, floating on the river. Half eaten by animals, yet plenty of meat left, the crow landed on the carcass and started eating it. Soon there were other crows. They all were having a nice breakfast feast. However, the Elephant was so huge, that there was enough me

Origins. I heard this nice metaphor, of course it originated from you tube. Some psychiatrist used it to describe what happens in a narcissistic relationship. Example goes like this. In a narcissistic relationship the victimized partner will get sunny days, rare and occasional these may seem, only happens when his/her intensions are aligned with the narcissistic person. However, when the victim lets, his or her guard down, they will again fall into the same exhausting routine

Curiosity Curiosity came first. Curiosity came even before wonder when we were first born, into this world. I am sure we were so curious of our surroundings, we sniffed the first fresh breath of air once we were out from our mother's womb like a man gasping for the last breath on his deathbed. We looked at everything with cute little curious eyes. These were the eyes of every criminal, every lawyer, every doctor and every teacher whom we had become, yet only planted with curi

I was fascinated by habits, from early in my life. When there was no internet, I still was learning about them from the books the hard way. I wondered how doing something productive becomes effortless and easy. But paradoxically doing anything productive is hard and tiresome. Specially when initial motivation of novelty is no longer there, the mind will wonder into the next new thing instead of continuely trying to do the same boring task. Piano players Consider playing an in