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3 years ago in Life 

Why We Can’t Stay Afraid Of Constructive Criticism

I stared at the bathroom mirror in horror. I had just arrived home from a formal dinner to discover, firmly wedged between my front teeth, a substantially-sized salad leaf. Salad had been part of the entrée, meaning this piece of greenery had been stuck between my incisors for the last three hours. It had been present through least a dozen...

4 years ago in Life 

13 Things You Need To Do In Your Twenties To Massively Benefit Your Future Self

While we are in our twenties, we have an incredible opportunity to benefit our future self. This isn’t just because we’re probably making big life decisions, like the degree we will study or the person we’ll marry. It’s because the choices we make now have the potential, over the next 50+ years, to have a massive benefit. If you’ve ever...

4 years ago in Life 

Are You Making Time In Your Twenties To Massively Benefit Your Future Self?

With a baby on the way and the looming prospect of supporting our little family on a single income, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time recently reading personal finance books. Mostly, this has been in the hopes of finding one where the pages are stuffed with $100 bills. Alas. Invariably, the core principle of these books is that...

4 years ago in Life 

5 Money Habits Every Christian Young Adult Should Have

I write a lot about relationships. Relationships are important. Unless your parents had a great relationship and they educated you on this topic, you probably weren’t well-equipped for healthy relationships. It’s not a topic that usually gets covered well at school or church.

6 years ago in Life 

Do You Ever Just Hate Other People’s Success?

I do. I find myself looking at people who have the kind of success I want and thinking “they don’t deserve it,” “they aren’t even that good,” or even “think of everything I could do if I had what they had.”

6 years ago in Life 

Struggling With Motivation? Do It For The One

When I was in high school, I had an incredible history teacher. She would begin every lesson with a short story; a story intended to make us think, to challenge our assumptions and to inspire us. My favourite was always the Starfish Story.

6 years ago in Life 

What’s Stopping You From Following Your Dreams?

On the last day of your life, what will your greatest regret be? Will you wish you hadn't worked so hard? That you had stayed in better touch with your friends and family? That you’d had the courage to express your feelings?

7 years ago in Life 

Forget Your Weaknesses, Play Up Your Strengths

I’m not a genius or a prodigy. That’s not an attempt to win you over with my humility, it’s just a fact. But it’s actually something that took me a really long time to get my head around. Like most kids, I grew up thinking I was destined for greatness.