Motivation feeds on results. When people notice your progress and start asking for advice, that seeps into your identity -- and maintaining the identity becomes self-sustaining motivation.
The way you increase your ability to make mental leaps is not actually by jumping farther, but rather, by building bridges that reduce the distance you need to jump.
Nobody tells you how hard it is to rewire your brain so you can allow amazing things to happen to you after so much trauma or hurt. Blessings exist, good people exist, a softer life exists. Let it happen.
A mistake that cost me 5 years: Thinking preparation was progress. Reading every book. Taking every course. Planning every detail. Meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. Preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. You learn to swim by getting in the water, not by studying water.
An underrated cheat code in life: being incredibly reliable. Show up on time. Do what you say you will. Own your mistakes. It goes so much further than you think.
There are companies out here surviving on interns. Mimi nilijionea hadi nikashtuka. They are always recruiting interns but never any actual employees. The only full time employees are the director and finance officer
—to raise the cost in time as my condition goes from bad to worse.I cannot eat without flinching, and woe is me if I manage to chew wrong—the migraines and ache I'll nurse are things I'll never wish on anyone.
So here I am...in dire need of two, perhaps three root canal treatments, fillings and a couple of dental crowning. The clinic I had my diagnosis and x-rays is generous enough to accept instalment payments. However much slack that was supposed to give me though, I've been unable—