by micirox | Jun 3, 2023 | Motivational
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence,” Jim Watkins’s quote encapsulates a powerful metaphor for the virtue of perseverance and the impact it can have on achieving one’s goals. When we think of a...
by micirox | Feb 2, 2023 | Mental Health
Today I was struck with a sudden realization. I can continue being “comfortable” in own my fictional ruminations of what-ifs and missed opportunities, over-turning scenarios of what “actually happened” with “what could have happened” if only I did this or did that… or...
by micirox | Dec 1, 2022 | Art
Once upon a time, people thought that the ‘left’ and ‘right’ sides of the brain were responsible for two different forms of thinking — The left is for problem-solving and logical thinking, while the right is for creativity and intuition. Based on present-day brain...
by micirox | Oct 20, 2022 | Productivity
I love my bed. It’s so soft and comforting, and sometimes, I just don’t want to leave it! In fact, in my old house I had a table I can pull towards my bed that had a computer on it. With this set up, I could wake up and get straight to fiddling away on me...
by micirox | Oct 16, 2022 | Food
You see, I love milk. I pour it everyday on my granola cereal with added banana slices. It’s the perfect nutty and tangy breakfast mix, and it doesn’t even need much preparation. So every week, I pop into Lidl and grab my weekly bottle of milk at only £0.69 ($0.97)....
by micirox | Oct 16, 2022 | Lessons
Ready… hands behind the line… Get set… heels and buttocks up… BANG! And we’re off! Running as fast as our legs could carry us through the 100m track. All nervousness temporarily forgotten as my mind blanks out and my legs propel me forward. Before I knew it, I...
by micirox | Oct 16, 2022 | Lessons
Once upon a morning, I was happily breezing along and contentedly riding my scooter when all of a sudden — disaster struck! My phone somersaulted out of its makeshift phone holder. In that split-second, I said a prayer to the mighty phone gods before quickly picking...
by micirox | Oct 16, 2022 | Productivity
I can be obsessive about certain things, and this is detrimental to all the projects I’m currently working on. It is a case when being a perfectionist can really work against you. You can spend days rumminating over a particular detail and you remain stuck on...
by micirox | Jan 13, 2022 | Food
I don’t like cooking— There I said it. The buying groceries, the actual cooking, the washing up… it all seems like a lot of preparation just to eat one time and then do it over and over again the next day and the day after that… As I’ve said a...
by micirox | Jun 7, 2020 | Savings
At the outset, buying bulk seems like a no brainer. You’re probably going to buy them anyway, why not save yourself the trip of going back to the store and save in the long run? Well, the thing with buying bulk is that just based on human tendencies, the more you have...
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