Clean off your mind,now!

Have you ever felt oppressed? Have you ever felt there was too much running in your mind? Did you ever feel that you had too much to do and had no clue where to start? 

Feeling oppressed, feeling there is too much to do, too much happening, too much of everything, this is the easy road to stress, this is the easy road to burn out.

It often starts so easily. You feel your boss gives you too much work. You feel the business does not understand you. In your personal life, you feel your partner does not understands you anymore. If you have kids, you start feeling the load. You see them in terms of responsibilities, not treasures. You can’t fix your mind on one idea, one project.  Continuer de lire « Clean off your mind,now! »

Writer’s panic and life lessons

Woooh. What I had dread came so fast in the way. Few days ago, I took this challenge to write everyday for the next 365 days.This supposed for me, to go through my thoughts, and be able to be creative enough (I suppose), to share something  every single day. Plus, as my boo also mentioned it demanded even more RIGOR.

So here I am, one hour to midnight (in Cameroon) and with no clue on what I am going to write on today, or even tomorrow for what it says. What does that say of me? Am I over-ambitious (taking goals I cannot stand), am I everything but rigorous? Continuer de lire « Writer’s panic and life lessons »

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Living your life like a saga

Everyone in the world (ok, that may be too much but not so sure), so everyone in the world including you, reading me, right now (yeah, YOU) so everyone knows Dallas or The Bold And the Beautiful (also called Amour Gloire et Beauté or Top Model).

What does those two TV Programs have in common?  I consider them as sagas, contemporary sagas of well-known families,  characterized by big changes, unexpected adventures, and it just goes on and on and on…and somehow, the public keeps watching them. Let us hold, to this last sentence, « the public keeps watching them » that supposes there is some tension, novelty or expectation in there.

So, based on this, imagine you decided to live your life like a saga? What if, you wrote the story of your life just like a saga? More importantly, what if our lives were already sagas and we just did not realize it? Continuer de lire « Living your life like a saga »