PinnedTime Management and The Infinite Power of NoCongratulations, you made it to another year. I raise my glass of apple juice to you and yours. But before you start to write down your New Year’s Resolution in your bullet journal. …Say No3 min readSay No3 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·PinnedFox HuntingA fox rests on the shoulder of a mountain Taking in the rays of the sun It raises its head Footsteps draw near On the edge of the forest Creeping along the undergrowth A hunter draws near With a gun in hand With a look of vengeance in her eyes The fox tilts his head in amusement Another ghost yet to die It chuckles and steps into the light Chest high, he gazes down on his prey Gun aimed And FIRE! He skips to the edge and tips over deadPersonification1 min readPersonification1 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Apr 18Member-only3 Reasons Why You Need An Overthinking Board For Personal PeaceHint: It gets the gerbils out of your head Hi, I’m Jona, and I am a professional overthinker. You know the drill, pretend this is an AA meeting, and we are here to confess and relate to the people we are and hope to become. I didn’t use to overthink…Personal3 min readPersonal3 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Mar 30Member-only11 Bad Life Advice to Spark Your Gremlin EnergyYour internal villain needs to be fed Good advice is often ignored, but bad advice, the little devil on your shoulder, sign me up. I want to share bad advice or the crux of it all and see what happens when you listen to the enabler. It’s me; I am…Pyschology8 min readPyschology8 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Mar 27Member-onlyThe Rare and Subtle Art of Productive B!tchingLet’s get it off your chest A friend sits before me, complaining about how hard it is to keep going in this economy. And I listen while adding my two cents. In 15 minutes, she’ll head back to work with lighter shoulders. Some people will call it complaining, but I…Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Mar 1Member-onlyThrow Away Your Grammar Tools For A Better Writing ExperienceMaya Angelou would rent a room and write. Ernest Hemingway wrote in a bathtub. And me? I spent the four and a quarter years without fail with Grammarly at my side. That’s more than 220 weeks of consistent writing toward one goal or another. And Grammarly was with me until…Writing Tips4 min readWriting Tips4 min read
Jan 11Member-onlyMy Mother Sews Her Concerns Like Old FabricA Poem Mother sits at her sewing machine and questions the world She attaches a button, then a zipper, and the seams of a dress There she sits and counts the stitches between each frill Mother frowns, counting again the number she should remember But she doesn’t seem to hold them…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Jan 10Member-only3 Ways to Ask for Help in a Changing WorldThere’s no shame in needing a helping hand I ask myself one question daily. Why is it so hard to ask for help when you’re in pain? After doing some research on this topic, there were three consistent reasons. We don’t want to be considered a burden. We don’t believe…Asking For Help3 min readAsking For Help3 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Jan 1Member-onlyOde to A Year Gone ByA Poem — I used to think I understood time Knew the direction in which to turn Watched the clock change its hours But now, that the year has ended I begin to believe, time is still a mystery Still, the thing I wonder most about Sure, I can’t rewind and try again I…Ode1 min readOde1 min read
Published inILLUMINATION·Dec 18, 2022Member-onlyHunch Theory and The Launched of The InternetWhen the psychology of intuition and the world collide In 1961, Leonard Kleinrock published his Ph.D. thesis on packet switching theory, later published as a book in 1964. But he wasn’t the only one with a similar idea; from 1961 -1967, two other groups worked on the same concept —…Intuition3 min readIntuition3 min read
