Maryam Rezaei
Chrissoula Manolakaki
Panos Chreppas
Stamatis Tsagias
Asimeni Tounta
Articles
Listening…How important is it in your job?
Can you think of misunderstandings or painful situations you have faced or are facing at your work? (And I say work as we are on a “professional platform” but this, of course, can be applied to every aspect of your...
The importance of appreciating the experience of failure in our lives...
In order to appreciate “failure”, we have to first understand it! Failure is when we have set a goal and we don’t achieve it…right? Or not? If we set a goal just based on what we think we want or what we think we...
The Value of You — Start Your Journey
Where are you going? Where have you been? What are you doing about it NOW? I ask you these questions because I find that in order to know how to live the life of our dreams, we need to make peace with where we’ve been,...
What I tell myself when life is beating me down
I’ll be honest with you. I’m 33 years old and still find life hard. I still feel like a beginner. I still feel mostly clueless. I still get scared and dread things. For the most part, things are hopeful. I’m...
Do you work hard every day? And do you also feel drained at the end of the day?
If so, there’s something wrong that needs fixing. And the solution is easier than you might think. I know this because I used to plant myself in front of the TV every evening with a bag of potato chips. I often felt...
Forgetting Yourself to Find Yourself!
... People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. — Thomas Szasz I knew something was off. Caught in the midst of a busy...
Why do we fall… and how can we get back up?
Going uphill is very difficult and it needs a lot of stamina… it’s much easier and faster to go down! It’s quite the same in our everyday lives; when we set a goal, we have to work hard, have persistence and patience...
Make Decisions with Ease Starting Now!
When faced with making a decision, we feel like we don’t know what would be best, so we end up doing nothing. However, there actually is a way out of this haze of confusion!!! One simple way to prevent living in a...
4 Ways to Find Your Happiness… Feeling happy makes going through life’s difficulties much more manageable.
Being in a state of happiness is an awesome feeling. However, when you get into a cycle where nothing feels like it is going right and negative thoughts are popping up ALL the time, it can feel like happiness is beyond...
It Takes Strength To Be Vulnerable!
Vulnerability = Courage Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of...
The Reason You Feel Motivated at Night But Lose It By Morning
It was May in 1930. A man with a fabulous mustache sat upright in his favorite chair, seconds away from dozing off. Just as his head dipped into dream world, the ball bearings plummeted from his hand and onto a metal...
How to be yourself… to be your authentic self!
Authentic… what does it mean? Does it mean to be yourself? But what does “yourself” mean? Doesn’t it mean to say and do as you wish? But how do we know what we want and if the things we want to say and do are truly...
Be a good person no matter what!
Let me get that straight I don’t believe in angels and I don’t believe in miracles either but last week I had the chance to meet real life angels who not only are working under the most unpropitious circumstances but...
Can smiling make a positive change in our world?
When I first heard almost 6-7 years ago that a smile can change the world I couldn’t stop laughing, because I found it besides funny an extreme statement! As time passed, I started to put it to action and to smile as it...
5 Zen Principles To Live By...Practical wisdom that instantly improves your life
I love practical advice that you can immediately apply to your life. And Zen, a school of Mahayana Buddhism, is full of practical wisdom. When I tell my friends, colleagues, and people I work with that I like reading...
To Get What You Need, You Have To Do What You Don’t Want
You Have To Do What You Don’t Want... You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes well you just might find, you get what you need. — Mick Jagger To be successful, we’re all going to have to...
Why Doesn’t Your Job Keep You Motivated?
Most people typically get hired for one of three reasons: - To make a button - To push the button several times an hour - To watch other people and make sure they don’t push the button incorrectly A job — that...
Fear is my bff: why you should tell your brain to STFU!
Recently, everup reached out + asked me if I’d be willing to do an interview with them about my relationship to fear. The idea made me uncomfortable for a few reasons, so I said yes. Here’s a wrap up of our...
To Everyone Who Feels Behind: Your Work Matters
Sometimes you sit down somewhere — maybe in a coffee shop, at the office, or in front of your TV — and out of nowhere, a thought pops up in your mind: Why am I not farther in life than now? Maybe you thought...
How to *Not* Waste Your Life
I thought I wasted a lot of my college years. Journalism was the only career for me. I just knew it. I couldn’t bear the thought of doing anything else. I loved the work. I loved the interviews. I loved to feel smart....
To Everyone Who’s Just Barely Holding It Together
I remember a lot of days feeling like an egg; an intact shell that looked smooth and clean, with an inside that was messy and maybe even rotten. You’d have to break it to find out, I guess, but it never quite broke. A...
How a Password Changed My Life...
“How could she do something like this to me?” said a voice in my head. All the time. Every day. Back in 2011, when everything had gradients, iOS icons made sense, and people used deodorants, I was stuck in middle of a...
How to be happy when you have no idea what is going on...
I keep looking for the answer. I keep wondering if the next person, job, and opportunity that crosses my path is gonna be the Thing. The Thing that quiets my anxious mind once and for all: the Prince (or Princess)...
The One Thing You Need to Adjust to Every Change in Your Life!
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” — Robin Sharma Relax. You and I will get through this. It’s change, I speak of. Big moves, new jobs, new relationships, new bosses. Fear....