Category: musings

Don’t go where chaos lives. Choose your friends.Choose your workplace.Choose your gym.Choose your neighborhood.Choose your community.Choose which part of the internet you enter.Choose who gets access to your energy. Go where there is peace.Go where the air feels lighter.Go where conversations heal, not harm.Go where silence is safe, not awkward. Go where there is love.Go…

Whenever I work too hard, I always remind myself to have balance. I really like this idea of 5 types of wealth. Financial wealth is the most common and easily measured type of wealth. But the other 4 are equally important.

You can’t convince yourself to be confident. You can’t look at yourself in the mirror and positively tell yourself that you are a confident person.  You can’t fake confidence. The real you comes out when the pressure is on.  I always remember Kobe Bryant saying confidence comes from preparation. But I have to add that…

Being intentional is having a clear vision of what you want and relentlessly executing that vision.  Being intentional is writing down your goals, having an action plan, executing it, getting feedback on the execution, and adjusting in case of failure. Being intentional is cutting off the outside noise and the distractions. Being intentional is being…

I have been using ChatGPT to help me understand code and WordPress deeply. There is no other tool quite like AI. It has helped me tremendously. There’s some downsides, of course.  In my previous post, I asked ChatGPT to help me improve my writing. ChatGPT’s suggestions made me feel like somebody else wrote the article.…

I am quite a pessimist so I always dwell on problems and things that could go wrong. As I was going to sleep, I read this post on X and I instantly shifted to being thankful. I will make it a habit to count my blessings every moment!

Work hard but don’t expect much from that hard work. Your hard work might make you money. Or your hard work might not result to anything. There are many things that are out of your control when you are working on something, so it is quite reasonable to have low expectation. Low expectations relieves the…

One thing I have learned through the years reading Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and other Stoics is that you have to let go of things you cannot control. An athlete could pour millions of dollars to his training and preparation, but he cannot control the outcome of a game. Nor can he control the possibility of…

It recently has dawned on me that it is quite futile to seek advice from people who are not living or have lived through your experience. They could sympathize theoretically but it is way different when you lived through that experience. You really feel what the person is going through. Hence, it is better to…

I admire people who are articulate with what they want out of life. They are sure about who they are. They make choices according to what they think and feel is right. Slowly but surely I want to find that clarity.