The quote “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” has been overused by trying-to-be-catchy pop songs, but the meaning of that quote holds much truth. I’ve recently found out that my long-distance girlfriend isn’t able to visit me during the summer as we’ve previously planned. When you’ve been waiting 13 months for your girl to […]
Read more "Be Tough and Ride Out Life’s Toughest Temporary Challenges!"The concept of Micro-Procrastination is fairly new among millennials. We’ve heard many times that millennials have shorter attention spans. Procrastination is defined as “the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones.” As we’ve moved into a faster and more connected world, what we do now to procrastinate has evolved into […]
Read more "Micro-Procrastination – This is How You’re Wasting Your Time (Without Even Realizing It)"Reactive people are controlled by their feelings. If your feelings are controlling your actions, it’s because you’ve abandoned your responsibility of your own actions and empowered your own feelings to control them. Stephen Covey talks about the Circle of Influence and the Circle of Concern in his book 7 habits of Highly Effective People. This can […]
Read more "Circle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern – How to Use Your Time and Energy More Effectively!"“It is in the improvident use of our leisure, I suspect, that the greatest wastes of American life occur.” – Robert Park Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience is a book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (ranking as the #1 most complicated name on Earth) that discusses how we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the […]
Read more "Stop Wasting Your Free time!"A large part of motivation is to figure out how to push your own buttons to keep yourself motivated to take a specific action consistently. What I want to talk about is understanding what goes on in your brain on a psychological level once you start taking massive amounts of action towards your goal. When you start taking […]
Read more "Gaining Momentum – How to Stay Motivated (PART 1)"This is a concept that I’ve recently been ingraining in my brain: Positive Reframing. Reframing is the concept of looking at, presenting, or thinking in a new or different way. When an event occurs that may effect you negatively, Reframe your perception to focus on the bright side. What you’re essentially doing is refraining your mind from complaining […]
Read more "Positive Reframing – How to Always Stay Positive (No Matter What Happens)"A habit that you perceive as “negative” may not necessarily be perceived as such for another individual. As a male human being in my early 20s, I find myself going on tangents where I’d either rant or lecture to friends of mine about life advice. Recently, I was watching a video by Eliot Hulse… At […]
Read more "A Notion of Bad Habits"This post was written in October 2013 for a Communications class assignment. I decided to post it here as well since I always enjoy re-reading some of my older articles. Enjoy! What matters to me is to develop myself by doing things that are out of my comfort zone. I try to take away […]
Read more "Spontaneous Experiences"In the past, I’ve told myself that long-distance relationships are stupid and I will never be a part of one. Here I am, a part of one. A meta-level thought crossed my mind last night: Every time I heard my phone vibrate it was as if my girlfriend was saying “I know how you feel”, […]
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Marwan AlShafei 