Can You Choose Joy?

Joy does not always arrive when everything is finally perfect. Sometimes it appears in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday, between a difficult conversation and an unfinished assignment, or during a Sunday evening when the breeze feels just right.

Can you choose joy even when life isn’t perfect? Explore what joy really means, why small moments matter, and why happiness can’t always be forced. … More Can You Choose Joy?

The Myth of an Untiring Passion

Passion fuels a desire that creates a special drive within you to achieve those goals in your path and become better. However, I find that we might have romanticised the idea of following your passion as being an untiring, unyielding, constantly motivated journey.

I for one grew up expecting to discover something I would love so much, I would go to classes everyday with a spring in my step while in school, bag a first class degree because studying would be so enjoyable, and things would just fall in place to get me to the peak of my career all because of my untiring passion. Thinking about that utopian dream now is decidedly funny. Life really said “lol, hold my beer” as I entered my late teens, didn’t it? … More The Myth of an Untiring Passion