How To Feel Successful What is success? What’s your favorite word or definition for it? My definition is: Success equals happiness. Show me someone who’s miserable and not enjoying life, I don’t care what they bank account shows: they’re not successful. Show me someone who’s truly joyful and I’ll show you someone who’s succeeded in …
This has been a tough year for my love story with the USA. Between racial turmoil, the Capitol attack and political division around the pandemics. But even a decade after I wrote this love letter and said “I do,” our romance stands strong. A Love Letter to the United States on my Naturalization Day (November …
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Opening The Mind and Overcoming Fear Opening the mind to new experiences can transform our lives. One of the biggest psychological triumphs of my adult life— which I’m convinced helped propel me toward finding love—was learning to eat sushi. All my life I had a love/hate, fascination/terror relationship with sushi. In …
We’re All Faking It (And It’s Okay): Stepping Out of your Comfort Zone Sometimes a very small decision can change the course of your life. Especially if that decision requires stepping out of your comfort zone. I was fifteen years old. I was afraid of needles and terrified of the sight of blood. Even the …
The Contradictory Rules: Modern Dating After Divorce. Between double standards and old-fashioned rules, dating after divorce didn’t come natural to me. It required re-connecting with instincts I had lost many years ago. My mother used to say, “Daring the Devil isn’t the same as seeing him arrive.” Her advice crossed my …
The Naked Man (Overcoming Sexual Taboos with Humor) “If your transition to adulthood and the world of sex was completely free of taboos or small traumas you later on had to heal, you’re my hero, and I hope you understand how lucky and rare you are. Yet, if you’re like the rest of the world …
