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Ben Abraham

Why Your Commitment Fails ?

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True commitment is to be available to something without any if's & but's, to be available in your purest form. To be available as you are, ensuring you are acting to your fullest capabilities & leaving the outcome to take its own course. It's a complete surrender.In order to be fully committed you have to first accept yourself in your true ...
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A Lesson About Cultivating Self-Love

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I recently came across a podcast episode that talked about self-love and why it is so important to cultivate in our lives. It was the inspiration for this piece and my hope is that by reading it, you will identify ways to create more self-love in your own life.​ On his podcast, the Model Health Show, I recently heard Shawn Stevenson talk about how ...
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Ben Abraham

Following Your Dreams Takes a Lifetime

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"Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade." -Matthew Kelley​You should always follow your dreams, but don't chase them.​ Because your dreams will still be there no matter how long it takes for you ...
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6 Important Questions That Will Improve The Quality Of Your Life

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It was the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who is credited with saying: "The unexamined life is not worth living." He realised that to live a complete life we must examine it truthfully.​ If you don't make time to examine your motives, it may catch up to you. Why? Many people are dictated by their unconscious desires instead of making conscious cho...
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No Mess, No Clutter For 4 Weeks.

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Today is a special anniversary. It's been four weeks of no mess and no clutter. A few of my work colleagues were fascinated by this achievement when I told them and asked me to write about it. The process to get there was grueling. It made me sick, it was stressful and it was hard. It was worth every second though and it can help everyone reading t...
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You’ll Never Make Up For Your Past

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For most of my life, I tried to "get back to" an imagined time where I felt like I was at this incredible pinnacle. I can name every point in my life where I felt I'd reached new heights: Summer '93, Summer '96, Summer '98, Summer '00, Summer '02, Spring '08, Fall '10, and a surreal two-year stretch between Summer '14 and Spring '16. At each peak, ...
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The Number One Way To Make People Like Your Writing

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For the last two Mondays, I've dropped into a local, weekly storytelling workshop.​ I did it in the way I do many things: with a plan; a goal; an endgame in mind — I want to be better at storytelling. (Because we all could.) I want to be better at identifying and naming and validating my own emotions and experience (ditto.) And then I want to be be...
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Dare to be specific

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Isn't it great when good writing advice overlaps with good overall advice to life?​ I'll take specificity as an example. One thing that makes a piece really great to read is when the writer uses specifics well.​ So, instead of writing…​ The boy loved going to Grandma's house.​ She writes…​ Every time the boy saw that bright...
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The Writer’s Ultimate Productivity Guide

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If you want to grow your influence as a writer, you've got to write consistently.​If you want to grow your influence as a writer, you've got to write consistently.​ That can be a challenge if you have a day job and other commitments. This has been my life for the past year and a half. I had been freelance writing before that, but now I've adde...
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Leonardo da Vinci: How to See the World Like Nobody Else

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In late 2017, Salvator Mundi, one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, sold for $450.3 million.​ For a child born out of wedlock in the 15th century, that's quite an accomplishment. And yet, many would argue that this isn't even close to being his greatest contribution to humanity.​ When the word "Renaissance" is spoken, no one comes to mind faster th...
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Ben Abraham

The Polymath Mindset

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The fundamental element of magic is the ability to manifest or sublimate things, whether they're emotions, states of being, people, or the Statue of Liberty. Magic is the art of making things appear or disappear, out of nowhere or into the void.​ One could indeed interpret the wild fusion of disparate ideas and methods into something emotionally or...
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Founding Myths are Pernicious Propaganda

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Every startup has its founding myth, the story that it uses to help draw in and motivate employees, customers, and investors. In most cases, those myths were cultured years after the company's founding, and bear little relationship to reality. When you dig deeply into a company's true origins, what initially looked like the product of far-sighted g...
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Don’t waste your time with passion

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This was not the first dinner with a hopeful startup founder seeking my advice that would come to a point like this. Nor the last.​ I knew I would have to explain it another way. This time avoiding the phrase 'passion is irrelevant'.​ I often have a hard time explaining this concept because no one wants to hear that passion isn't the secr...
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Ben Abraham

Why Science Is Wrong

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In 1894, Albert Michelson predicted that there were no discoveries left to be made in physics.​ He's remembered as the first American to win the Nobel Prize in the field, and he wasn't the only one to think so. In fact, this wasn't too uncommon of a view among scientists at the time.​ In the 500 years prior, spectacular advances had been made all a...
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Why your programmers just want to code

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When I interviewed Jamie for a position at ZenTech, he seemed like an enthusiastic engineer. With solid tech skills, ideas for process and product improvement, and a great team attitude, he was the obvious choice.​ I should have noticed the signs. He didn't speak up in retrospectives, he didn't contribute process or product ideas like I expected, a...
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Rediscovering South Korea

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Seoul is the capital of Korea and is the heart of Korea's culture and education as well as politics and economy. Seoul is home to many historic sites and places of traditional culture. The shopping and entertainment districts also draw a large number of tourists every year. The Hangang River, which runs through the center of the city, is a distinct...
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Ben Abraham

Elegant patterns in modern JavaScript: RORO

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 I wrote my first few lines of JavaScript not long after the language was invented. If you told me at the time that I would one day be writing a series of articles about elegant patterns in JavaScript, I would have laughed you out of the room. I thought of JavaScript as a strange little language that barely even qualified as "real programming....
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With EasyBlog, you can be assured of quality blogging with the following features:​ Drag and Drop Blocks Add elements to your blog with a simple drag and drop element blocks.​ Blog now, post later You can compose a blog now, suffer temporal writer's block, save and write again, later.​ Social media sharing Automatically post into your Twitter, Face...
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