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Creativity & 5 Ways To Achieve Flow State
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Creativity & 5 Ways to Achieve Flow State

If you’ve ever studied creativity, you would know creativity happens when you create connections that are normally never correlated. For these wonderful moments of insights to happen, you have to have a calm and clear mind— when your mind isn’t cluttered with thoughts of the past or the future, and

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21 Lessons I Learned In 2021
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21 lessons I learned in 2021

At the end of every year, I sit down to reflect on what I learned, what I did well, and my goals and plans for the next year. The past few years have been in my journal where there is a section to do a post-mortem of your year, but

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34 Lessons I’ve Learned In Life
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34 Lessons I’ve Learned in Life

Today, I turn 34. Unlike some people, I LOVE aging because life seems to get better every year, partly because I know I am also getting wiser! My book is also getting thicker because I cherish every single experience. Four years ago, I wrote the 28 lessons I’ve Learned in

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My Journey

I had an Epiphany…

epiphany : a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way While riding my bike to work one cold, albeit sunny October morning in 2015, I suddenly had an epiphany and decided I had to quit my job that day. The idea

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Spirituality

Take a Risk, Live a Meaningful Life

Let’s say… You don’t ride a bicycle because you are scared of traffic.It’s too dangerous, you tell yourself.Everyone reminds you the same thing… and you listen to them. So like the millions of unfortunate people who never take risks,you sit in a metal box for an hour a day commuting to

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the first wealth is health
Spirituality

The #2 Pillar in Life: Physical Well-Being

I workout for aesthetics, not athletics. I don’t care about hitting PR’s or lifting heavier weights.In fact, I’ve barely progressed in weights for the last two years.Guess what? I don’t care. I workout to maintain my figure.I workout to look good…it is something I’ve always shamelessly admitted. When I look good, I am

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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
My Journey

The #1 Pillar in Life: Spirituality

I am not religious.I do not believe in god.Well I do… but I believe we are each our own God. Life is what YOU make of it. I do not depend on a deity to make my day good.Nor do I blame it when something goes wrong.I don’t pray to will

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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
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28 Lessons I’ve Learned in Life

2015 has been a magical year as I paraded through a new chapter in my life and although I’m sad that it’s coming to an end, I am so excited about the future! When you welcome life with open arms, you become happier, less judgmental and your views of the world expands when

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Lighten Up! Enjoy the Journey!

I’m fortunate to have never encountered assholes on bikes (only in cars and on foot) but this story made me fume in disgust! Two cyclists come past me quite fast, one in black and red Castelli, the other in black and yellow Castelli cafe kit. ‘…off the fucking road you

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cycling + twentyfourcarat.net // cycling is the closest To Flying
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20 More Reasons to Love Cycling

My friend and I were riding a few weekends ago and we came to a profound realization: Cycling makes us nicer people … when we are not riding!! When you are doing 6+ hour rides, conversations subject around the most random of topics ranging from stupid things we’ve seen, shit other cyclists do that

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Fitness

More Reasons to Love Cycling

I love cycling and the reasons are endless! Here are a few more feel-good moments on the bike: When the skies suddenly open up and the sun comes out of hiding, on what was forecasted to be a cloudy day. When you get to a light that turns green right

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