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Episode 64: How to Mingle Like a Pro

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Mingling can be painfully difficult. I am one extrovert woman and I have struggled with it on too many occasions. Mingling seems innocent on the surface, but it has an underhanded way of bringing out every emotion known to us humans, from fear, paranoia, anxiety, nervousness, vulnerability, embarrassment, excitement, joy, laughter, compassion, closeness, and the list goes on. How does it manage to do this and how can we out-stmart the darn thing so we get the massive benefits of mingling like a pro? [Read more…] about Episode 64: How to Mingle Like a Pro

8 Secrets to Balancing Your Side-Hustle with A Full-time Job

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Why Passion and Balance Do Not Go Together

Balance is one overrated myth for passionate people. How can you teach balance to a burning fire like passion? How can you tell someone to do less of what they love when it pulls them in like a magnet and commands their attention?

I mean, do you honestly believe the fine experts in any field – whether it’s musicians or copy writers or marketers or film directors – had balance and achieved this level of proficiency and knowledge? Or is it more likely that they put in insane hours and crazy effort, way too much time and sweat, and lived in an underworld void of all semblance of balance and normalcy until they had paid their dues to their dreams? [Read more…] about 8 Secrets to Balancing Your Side-Hustle with A Full-time Job

Yes You Can: How to Stop Saying You Can’t Do Something

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Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” Henry Ford

Personal growth is a funny journey.

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The things that you yourself used to do and then stopped in your growing wisdom now begin to annoy you when you notice them in others. Of course, you are not so much annoyed with them as you are with the old you who did the same darn thing. Because these were the same things that held you back even as you fit in better with the pop culture of the times. Because it is the same nonsense that you kept telling yourself so you could be excused from moving toward your real potential. And because these are the lies that still creep in now and again subconsciously, despite all the work you have done to make them vanish. [Read more…] about Yes You Can: How to Stop Saying You Can’t Do Something

Episode 63: To Share or Not to Share Your Fragile Dream

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Grabbed your own copy of the Rumi inspiration photography book yet?

Welcome back to Episode #63 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s podcast asks you a deep question: Should you or should not share your fragile dream with others?

I have written about how dreams have no age limit, you must not let such things get in the way. I have talked about guarding your dreams. AND I also explained how luck has nothing to do with dreams. That’s right. You build it, lucky or not. [Read more…] about Episode 63: To Share or Not to Share Your Fragile Dream

A Gallery of Inspiration from Rumi: Why Love Is the Way

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You were born with wings; why prefer to crawl through life?
~Rumi

Who but us the current generation to preserve, cherish, and treasure the gems that our ancestors left us? Our rich heritage is not something that we should take lightly. Then again, who am I to say anything when in my own case, it was a long time before I even accepted my Persian roots, much less appreciate them properly!

What you seek is seeking you.
~Rumi

But when I did accept, the unexpected happened. [Read more…] about A Gallery of Inspiration from Rumi: Why Love Is the Way