When you feel like you aren’t making progress it’s because you got lost in the daydream of where you’re going. The best thing you can do is look back at how far you’ve come. The difficult task I’ve been tackling for the past year is the 4 skills around learning a new language, specifically learning
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After spending all day in a coworking office in the city, I walked the 30 minutes back to the hostel I was staying at in Zadar, Croatia and thought about what I wanted to do tomorrow on my day off. It was late summer in the Mediterranean and still very hot, I was staying only
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Throughout life I didn’t care much with the quality of the items I purchased, I would try to take good care of my items regardless of their price. This has worked out fairly well, I have items for several years happy with the use I made of them. During this time, I also haven’t had
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In a stunned silence we sat on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over Capitol Hill, we were amazed at what we saw. I find great joy in sharing, especially sharing an experience.To be good at this, you must constantly try new things. This is a skill, it is against human nature, so
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It is important to understand the difference between a Need and a Want. In modern life, we are moving further into comforts (things we Want). Advertising is a billion dollar industry tricking consumers into thinking your Wants are your Needs. We have become so flooded with comforts the tide has risen over necessities, disguising our
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There is an old man who works cleaning up trash on the streets of Cologne outside my apartment. He is dressed just like his colleagues, wearing an orange vest and pants. In his hand he carries the standard trash collecting pole and following him is a wheeled cart where he dumps the detritus discarded by
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