Category: Lifestyle
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Overcoming Fear: How to Conquer Your Inner Demons and Achieve Your Dreams
Fear is a natural emotion that everyone experiences at some point in their lives. Whether it’s fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of the unknown, or fear of change, it can hold us back from pursuing our dreams and living our lives to the fullest. However, fear is not something that has to control…
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How to Stay Motivated
Unleashing Your Motivation: How to Stay Driven and Achieve Your Goals We all know how important motivation is in our journey towards success. It’s that inner drive that pushes us to take action, overcome challenges, and achieve our dreams. However, staying motivated consistently can be challenging, especially when faced with obstacles or distractions. In this…
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Tips to Learn New Software Faster
As an engineer, I have new software all the time and sometimes I need to learn them fast. Whether you’re learning for fun, school, or work, here are some tips to get you the working knowledge you need. Figure Out What It Does You can save a lot of time if you understand what the…
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Our Experience with New Cuisines
As 2022 ended, the members of my round table—let’s call them D, L, A, and I—decided to try out some new cuisines.We thought this would be a good challenge and it would help us accomplish a few things: Here’s the list of cuisines we have tried or are trying out: I’ll try to update this…
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What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming an Engineer
I’ve been working as an engineer for nearly a year now and my illusions have been shattered. I am sure I will continue to learn more as I gain experience and work on more projects, but this post is about the five things I wish I knew before becoming an engineer. 1. School won’t teach…
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On Surviving Your First Year as An Engineer After College
So, you finished engineering school, and you passed your fundamentals of engineering exam. That’s a great accomplishment and I’m proud of you. Maybe you think things will be easy from now on, that was me about a year ago. As you enter the engineering industry, you might feel as if you’re thrown off a cliff…
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Productivity: How Are We Doing It Wrong?
The purpose of a goal is to be appropriate in the moment. Gary Keller Here are some beliefs that are killing our productivity: Everything matters equally Not everything matters. Don’t spend your best hours doing things that aren’t valuable to achieve your purpose. Multitasking One thing at a time. You’ll be surprised how productive and…
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How I Learned English in One Year
1. Backstory I grew up in a country where they speak two languages Creole and French and I have always been interested in learning a third. When I moved to the Stated, I found myself with both opportunity and motive and I took advantage of my first year to learn English so that I could…
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Making the Best of Your Time
Time is the great equalizer. We all have the same number of hours in the day and the same number of days in a year. Time is not the problem and that is why some people can accomplish many things while others find themselves struggling with fitting the important things in their schedule and being…
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On Motivation | Do What Needs to Be Done
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. Tina Fey You must expect great things of yourself before…
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