How many of you have faced a situation where you need to get something done, but you dread doing it because you’re worried about messing up, or its unpleasant and you’d rather not have to do it. So then, you go to a friend or family member to talk about it and then they say, …
Continue reading Things that get me stressed out: People telling me to just do it
This is appropriate, especially since I have been facing this problem recently, not just for this blog but in my job as well. You see, my work involves creating digital content for the company that work for, which means coming up with new ideas almost constantly, something that I have been struggling with especially lately. …
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How many of you have had the unfortunate experience of being micromanaged? It's my sincerest hope that no one here has had to face this but if you have, I know your pain. Alright, let's step back a bit and ask: what is micromanagement? The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines the word micromanage as: transitive verb …
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Here’s a very common thing that gets a lot of people stressed: new things or something unfamiliar. Of course, this is relative for everyone and not every new thing will cause the same amount of stress. For example, my father loves maths and is more than happy to learn and solve new math problems like …
I think of myself as what the internet calls, a socially awkward penguin. I don't know why the people of the internet call it that but hey it’s the internet, its filled with weird stuff. So anyway, socially awkward penguin. I'm not so good at social interaction. I mean I'm okay at it, I've been …
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This is more of a past thing but I feel it is still relevant to me and that is why I decided to write about it. I didn’t have that many good experiences with teachers. You know the school bullies who make school life miserable? For me those were my teachers. I suffer from dyslexia …
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I like vacations as much as the next guy and I like seeing new places too; in my life so far I have been to Nepal, China, Thailand, Cambodia and various parts of India, some parts of Europe (although the European places I travelled to were when I was a toddler so I’m not sure …
I like to think that I am easy enough to get along with and that I can carry on a conversation pretty well. Mind you, this has come after years of practice and awkward pauses in conversations. When I was a teenager, if I was forced to talk to strangers (because for some reason grown-ups …
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By Picture taken by Justin McIntosh, [CC BY 2.0 or CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons My life has been such that I have had to move house a few times, not a lot but still enough to know how stressful it is. The thing about moving is that it’s not just one big event/task …
By U.S. Navy photo by Airman Ricardo J. Reyes. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Back in 2016 there was a long period of time when I was unemployed. Luckily I had the support of my family at the time so I was okay financially, but still I couldn’t mooch off them forever so I knew …
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