Category: How to know yourself
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How to Know Yourself-59: Exploring Your Vacation Desires
In the previous posts, we asked ourselves how often we take vacations. In this section, we’ll go deeper: Why do we go at this frequency? Could we vacation more often? What obstacles do we face? Do we have any bad memories that influence our desire to travel? Perhaps one of the worst effects of social…
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How to know yourself-58: Travel-Buddy
Travel, Companionship, and Knowing Yourself on the Road As the summer season arrives, vacation requests are in, and everyone is on the move — to unwind, to escape stress, to spend time with loved ones. And yet here I am, ready to disrupt this comfort and nudge you into reflecting on even this moment. As…
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How to know yourself-57: Travelling
Starting Your Journey of Self-Discovery through Travel When embarking on a journey of self-discovery, I mentioned that this is a broad and deep awareness. Being mindful of not just family, relationships, work, money, and physical activity, but also your relationship with travel can enrich your experiences, broaden your horizons, and even help you relax mentally.…
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How to know yourself-56: Understanding Finance and the importance of freedom
In today’s world, investing has become more important than ever — not just to preserve what we earn, but also to access new opportunities. The era of simply finding a job, working until retirement, and buying a house with your savings is over. We are now far more aware of different lifestyles, we have access…
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How to Know Yourself-55: Mastering Your Finances
I took out a loan to consolidate and spread out my debts, and I’m still paying it off. This time, I created a detailed Excel chart, tracking my salary, receivables, debts, credit card balance, loan balance, and expenses. Once I did this, I realized something: my debt isn’t decreasing — but it isn’t increasing either.…
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How to Know Yourself-54: Align Income with Your Passion
Chances are, most of you reading this have worked hard, landed a job, started earning a salary—and now you’re dreaming about what that salary can get you. If that doesn’t describe you and you’re under 25, read this carefully. If you’re older, whatever you’re doing—keep going. As someone born in the 90s, I can say…
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How to Know Yourself-53: The Role of Money in Self-Discovery
We’ve explored obstacles, hardships, and the journey of continuous self-development. Now, in the next few posts, our focus will shift to something just as significant: money. Our financial situation plays a crucial role in the process of self-discovery—just as much as emotional or mental well-being. As the Irish writer Jonathan Swift wisely said: “A wise…
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How to Know Yourself-52: Strategies for Personal Growth
The Roadblock Within: What’s Really Holding You Back? Still trying to figure yourself out? As I said from the beginning—it’s not easy.There are dozens of obstacles and challenges.But with effort, experimentation, and persistence, we keep moving forward.No effort is ever wasted. Every moment you invest in yourself takes you one step closer to where you…
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How to Know Yourself-51: Balancing Growth and Happiness
Why This Obsession with Growth? One thing I’ve noticed in so-called “developed” countries is how event-centered their lifestyles are.Planning everything. Constant activities. Even when friends meet up, they try to turn it into a game. I think there are two reasons for this: Maybe one reason why these “sporty Europeans” are so addicted to working…
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How to Know Yourself-50: Learning as a Path to Growth
Things don’t always go as planned. That’s life. So, ask yourself: What’s the connection between constant learning and constant growth in your life? And more importantly: What do you do each day to support your growth? Why We Drift Away from Our Goals We’ve touched on this in earlier posts. Whether it’s external obstacles, lack…
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