Your 6:15 AM alarm goes off, and you impulsively hit the snooze button. 1 hour later, you’re still in bed, feeling unmotivated and unwilling to get up. It’s a Thursday, a weekday where you have to get to work. But nothing feels interesting enough to get you out of bed. You can’t remember the last time you looked forward to a day. Or the last time something challenging excited you enough to face it. It’s been weeks since your last workout session, and you don’t like who you see in the mirror. What worries you is not the extra kilos…
Tips for a better job transition
Transitioning from one job to another always comes with some level of uncertainty. Different team sizes, structures, products, and location can make settling in a challenging feat. The ideal situation we want is to settle in as soon as possible and feel at home at the new place. We begin our first few weeks with the hope that the new office is better, or at least, not worse than the previous organisation.
Looking back at some of my past experiences and mistakes at this type of change, here are some useful tips to keep in mind when joining a new…
From a non-expert
I’ve always considered being physically active to be a crucial part of the lifestyle I want to live. The occasional morning runs, pushups or weekend football games were highlights of my second year in university. But I was never consistent enough for it to make a difference. It wasn’t until my late twenties that I decided to pay proper attention to health and fitness.
The turning point was in December of 2018 when I realised I was 10kg more than the ideal weight necessary to maintain a good body mass index.
About a year later, in December 2019, I checked…
Learning how to be better at relationships
Pop culture sells us the idea that there’s one person in the whole universe who is perfect for us. The belief that we all have a soulmate. Any other person would leave us feeling like something is missing. And when we find the one, everything in our lives will finally make sense. From this lens, we all consider ourselves perfect. If a relationship goes wrong, it’s because the other person was not our soulmate. So we cycle through many people without changing ourselves with the hope that one day, we’ll find someone that fits the bill.
But when we consider…
A Christian response to protests
It’s been an eventful year, to say the least. From rumours of war to a global pandemic and a wave of protests raging in several countries. Yet the year started like many others before it, with cheers, celebrations, and new year resolutions. And to the average person, the world’s problems appear to be more solvable than ever before. Humanity appeared to have found the perfect formula capable of solving any problem — science & technology, democracy, and capitalism.
But here we are at the end of October, and the world is going through a recession caused by a global pandemic…
What happens when it’s all said and done?
No one who lived in 1800 is alive today.
And, certainly, no one alive today will be alive in 2200. We’re all aware of our mortality even if we try to avoid the thought as much as we can. If we consider our mortality and life in hundreds or even thousands of years, things seem to have meaning. Monuments have lasted thousands of years, famous names and people for much longer, and there seems to be something about making a name for ourselves that is inspiring.
But when we stretch the timeline to tens of thousands of years, we have…
How to avoid living like the Pharisees
I grew up in a very conservative church. In the church, jeans for men was considered inappropriate. To serve in the church, your clothing choices were very limited. The typical dressing of a church worker was long-sleeve button-down shirts and tailor-made trousers. But the men had it easier than the women.
For women, earrings or any type of jewellery was not allowed; it was preached against. You weren’t allowed to wear sleeveless tops. As a lady, you also couldn’t wear trousers. It was considered men’s clothing (perhaps justified with Deuteronomy 22:5) and that made it a sin.
I’ve listened to…
And how to survive one
I was in a meeting one day when someone asked their manager a question. “Why do we have too many things prioritised instead of focusing on one at a time?” To which the manager replied, “I hate the word focus. I’m capable of multitasking at a high level as I have genius-level IQ.”
While reviewing the team’s priorities during the same meeting, the manager made this statement: “I want you guys to focus. Don’t get distracted by anything else.”
When the question of focus was a bottom-up question, a request for clarity of purpose, the manager didn’t like it. But…
How could they?
Recently I’ve been reading about the Israelites’ journey from Egypt to the promised land.
Many times in the story there were moments where the children of Israel rebelled against God. They also kept wishing they were back in Egypt. One of the most shocking was the story of the golden calf (Ex. 32). They made the idol not long after hearing the voice of God on Mount Sinai (Ex. 19).
Imagine God Himself speaking to them, showing them He is God but after a while, the same people rebelled against God.
How could they?
While dwelling on how disobedient the…
And my journey to overcoming one of mine
It’s the end of church service on Sunday. The message of the day was different. It was powerful. Both the message and the preacher made such an impact. This is not a message to forget anytime soon.
While reflecting on the message, I couldn’t help but imagine the holy life the preacher must be living. He must be sinless. Perfect in every way. So confident and steadfast in the Lord and unshaken in his determination to serve God. Surely no temptation can be great enough for such a man of God. …
