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[400] Promote Your Blog + 4 Blogging Lessons I Learned

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[400] Promote Your Blog + 4 Blogging Lessons I Learned

To mark the occasion of my 400th post and 4 years of blogging, I wanted to write this post to share the 4 lessons I've learned from blogging for this long. --- Also, you guys are free to comment here your blog links or one post that you’d like everyone to read. Let’s make this [...]

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[392] Keys to Living Life

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[392] Keys to Living Life

There are three modes of living life. ⁣⁣First is living through the mind. The mind is the rational and analytical switch of our body. When you need to see things as they are, you use your mind to confirm it.⁣⁣Second is living through the heart. The heart is the idealism and the moral switch of [...]

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[388] A New World Dawns

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[388] A New World Dawns

Inconsistency is something I have been battling lately. I give too much power to my mind to wreak havoc with its lazy and destructive patterns. Control is what I seek and the more I seek it, the more it evades me.⁣⁣⁣⁣The next step in my development would be to capture consistency in my writing and [...]

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[381] Why We Write

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[381] Why We Write

I write what I deny to think in my own head. I surprise myself as I watch these thoughts become real. It feels like someone else holds the pen and writes things I didn’t know I feel. He writes all that I thought I conquered but all I did was, lose to it.⁣⁣It’s a reminder [...]

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[339] Lost Truth

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[339] Lost Truth

In the evening I see shapes of people attempting to get fit from my window. I see in them familiar shapes and faces, enough for me to feel the urge to go outside and meet them. My eyes focus on one such familiar-looking individual.⁣ ⁣ He drags himself slowly with his head down, unaware of [...]

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[335] Promote Your Blog

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[335] Promote Your Blog

3000 followers. It's been a self-reflective journey of almost 4 years of writing consistently on this blog. While reach this milestone I have slowly and steadily built a community who are so sharp with their words and gentle with their feedback. When I didn't have this blog, everything about the people here compelled me to [...]

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[271] Making of The Truth

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[271] Making of The Truth

What pushes a person from knowing something to be true to believing something to be true? It's the journey between knowledge and feeling that knowledge. The gap between thinking and doing. To understand this is to know yourself. You are gradually learning the things that shape you and you begin to create these surroundings by [...]

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[269] Lying To Myself

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[269] Lying To Myself

All that I’ve written previously are thoughts that I no longer remember, words that I didn’t act upon and feelings that I don’t relate to. Is all we are the thoughts that we hold then? Or are the ones I’m writing out now going to become a part of my subconscious soon? Will these thoughts [...]

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[266] 42.

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[266] 42.

Naturally, we're all filled with self-doubt in every waking moment. A feeling that normally stays dormant till we're faced with the mountain of expectations. Either from us or from others. What we need to understand is that these expectations are given articulation by our own mind. So in a sense, these expectations are self-made. But [...]