Life's not about quick fixes

From Cramming to Consistency: A Journey of Personal Growth

As students, we’re often pushed to excel in school, and success is often measured by our ability to memorize rather than truly understand. The pressure to achieve perfection, or at least close to it, is ingrained in us from a young age. Yet, upon reflection, I realized that for me this approach doesn’t lead to…
Be the Support You Needed: Sharing Growth from Hard Times

In times of adversity, it’s often difficult to find the support we need. Many of us have been shaped by negative experiences that linger, affecting how we navigate the world. Whether these scars remain raw or have gradually healed, they imprint upon us valuable lessons. Yet, healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it signifies growth and understanding…
Curating Positivity: A Path to Mental Wellness

Healing from trauma and childhood struggles is a journey that unfolds gradually, requiring deliberate intentions. My own path to recovery began during an exchange program in Shanghai, where I learned valuable lessons about self-care and resilience in a foreign environment. Living in China exposed me to a culture vastly different from my own, presenting unique…
What’s so great about solo leveling?

It’s a classic underdog story. The weakest of a group goes through a massive transformation and learns the tools to grow. Personally, games have been an effective way for me to learn about real life, so the setting of this series resonated deeply with me. The description of the world of Solo Leveling that stood…
Problem Solving: Break it Down

Aspiring to be a good rock climber taught me a valuable lesson: break big problems into small pieces. Like any challenging skill, I hit a point where I wasn’t improving even though I was training a lot. Up to that point, I had only seen the point of climbing as completing the full route from…
Embracing Vulnerability: Transforming Communication for Deeper Connections

Communication is really hard. To me, communication is to say something that you’re thinking to someone else, and in order to do that, you have to be less focused on how they respond, and instead more focused on letting them know things inside you that they couldn’t know otherwise. Unfortunately, this part is purely one-way.…
Working out = Building willpower

Many people struggle with working out, and it usually comes down to finding the motivation to get through the pain. In this post, I will share my perspective on how working out is actually a means to build willpower, and can improve all areas of life. Let’s start with understanding a basic approach to how…
Routines: the Foundation for Success

Many sports team share the saying, “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training”. This statement easily applies to all areas of life. Most people know they need to train and practice, but why don’t most of us take it seriously? Personally, to this day I…
Finding Flow

Flow, or ‘being in the zone’, is a large part of high level sports performance. Being well trained and strategic isn’t enough to succeed. These athletes also need to find a way to be fully present mentally and physically during critical moments. So, just like training for strength or strategy, they also train to find…
How Working Out as a Lifestyle improved my life

power of slow growth – patience, perseverance, belief in self I’m over 2 years into working out as a lifestyle. To me, working out as a lifestyle means that I don’t have an end goal. I set short, medium, and long term goals the same as other things, however, once I finish a goal, I…