Category: advice
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I Want You to Become So Uncomfortable You’re Forced to Grow
If you were to gather my closest friends and family and ask them, “What is the one thing you can expect when you’re at a point where you’re needing to take a leap of faith?” They all would tell you with a smile, and possibly a sigh, “She’s going to say that she prays you…
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How My Writing Journey Started
My writing journey started about four years ago. My boyfriend and I, at the time, spent the weekends going off in his caravan. I needed something to do that I could easily pick up and put down, and wouldn’t take up too much room in such a small space. I remembered I’d dabbled in writing…
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Collaboration, Not Competition!
I’m not gonna lie, being a writer can be a little lonely sometimes. My workday is mostly spent on my laptop with my imaginary friends, AKA the characters in my next project! I do have virtual meets with my writing community, ‘The Write Tribe’, a few times a week, but other than that, I’m pretty…
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Search For A Job: It’s Not You, Stop Gaslighting Yourself
It’s well known that the job market is really bad. Despite the unemployment rate is 4.3%, a lot of people are struggling to find jobs. Many are listed on job sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, etc., but you don’t really know who’s actually hiring. There’s been an overflow of ghost jobs clogging up the job sites.…
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What Working With Children Has Taught Me About Adults
During my teacher training, I remember observing a Year 5 lesson on enlightenment in Buddhism. Sat on a small chair at the back of the classroom, I heard a student say something that would eventually give me a lot to think about: “I’m changing religion! I wanna be a Buddhist and reach enlightenment!” Now, there’s…
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The Pressure Of Having A Dream
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question we’re asked before we know how taxes work, before we’ve paid a bill, before we’ve lived enough life to know what matters to us. At five years old, the question is harmless. The answers are ambitious: astronaut, veterinarian, movie star. At sixteen,…
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Sometimes It’s Not Worth The Fight
You will encounter people who try to provoke you. They enjoy fighting, they enjoy ruining your day, and they probably hate themselves. Not as much as they hate, you not responding to the invitation to argue. They feed off making you upset. Somehow, making others miserable makes them extremely happy. Learning when to walk away…
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Relentless Reinvention: Why Becoming Must Be a Daily Discipline
Written by Dhylles Victoria, Writer and Author of Relentless Reinvention: From Breaking Point to Breakthrough There’s a persistent myth woven into the way we talk about growth—the idea that one day, we will finally “figure ourselves out.” That we will arrive at a complete, stable version of who we are, and from there, life will…
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I Second That Emotion
Emotions are tools of the mind. They are neither positive nor negative. They just are. It’s how we acknowledge, manage, and express them that makes them helpful or unhelpful. I learned this the hard way over years of being told that I was too emotional. This typically came from men (bosses and husbands), and more…
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Read, Write, Or Both?
Are you a reader? Are you a writer? Are you both? I’m both! I love words, pure and simple. I love reading them, watching them dance across the page, conjuring images in my mind. I love writing them, ideas from my mind flowing through me, out of my fingers onto the page! How about you? …