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The life changing magic of the humble checklist
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed; forgetting important tasks; or feel like you’re constantly spinning your wheels but getting nowhere? What you need is a simple daily checklist. If you already use to-do lists or tried task lists but found they didn’t work for you, this approach is almost guaranteed to make a meaningful impact on your…
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Why you need to reclaim your power to choose
The standard advice of ‘keeping your options open’ leads to an inability to focus and hone down what you’re really interested in. Instead, you end up hedging all your bets, which leads to an overflowing inbox, an inability to choose, and overwhelm. So how do you figure out what is really important to you? And…
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Overcoming creative blocks: in search of divine inspiration
The creative process is endlessly fascinating, with a wide variety of thoughts and perspectives on what drives the creative process. This is one such perspective — a psycho-philosophical view on the creative process, on why we get creatively blocked, and some suggestions on overcoming a creative block.
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The dark underbelly of the creator economy
The creator economy promises to help creatives turn their passion to profit, by giving them the tools they need to monetize their communities and fans. But is the reality of the creator economy as rosy as it is projected? And what are things that creatives need to be aware of before jumping in to profit…
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How to live a meaningful life
Most of us would agree that we want our lives to feel meaningful. And yet, we take a rather bleak view of the meaning of our individual lives. So what does it take to live a life meaning? Drawing from philosophy and my own answers to this question, I offer some suggestions on what could…
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What Alan Watts can teach you about finding your purpose
How do you find your purpose? The thing that calls to you – that you would do regardless of the money or the fame that may or may not come your way? Philosopher Alan Watts may have one key to help you answer that question.
Shinjini Mehrotra 