Staying healthy to stay focused

My nose is a torrent, my head is a pressure-cooker and my lymph nodes are a series of warzones.
Maybe it goes without saying, but I haven’t gotten much studying in today.
From an experiential point of view, we know that when we over-stress our body — through studying, physical exertion, emotional tumult, etc. — our body [...]

Finding flow in your work

Yesturday, I had the pleasure of leading a discussion on ‘how to live in the present moment’ with some lovely ladies at a Goal-Oriented Living Club meeting (you will find this post on the club’s website as well). This post covers the some salient points of the discussion (of those that I remembered or wrote [...]

The Beginnings of Personal Growth

For the longest time, I was always fascinated in how things work and the little intricacies of life’s puzzles. That fascination developed into a burning desire to learn and excel in my academic life. I’d read hundreds of books before I turned the age of 6. That continued into my adolescent [...]

Your life’s direction

Who cares the most about where you end up in life? Whose responsibility is it that you find your direction?
I hope you can see where this is going. Only you have responsibility to find and choose your direction in life. Without getting into philosophy, all the choices you make in life are yours.
So what are [...]

Experiments in learning that don’t explode

As people make the transition from high school to university they find that many aspects of their lives and mindsets change. A newly discovered freedom – or at least awareness – causes people to reassess what they know to be true or good.
Naturally, this leads to a lot of experimentation. In university such experiments may [...]

Finding and Keeping your Motivation

I have to start by apologizing for my long hiatus. Frankly, I have not been placing this site very high on my priorities list for many reasons: MCAT preparation, going to the gym, learning guitar, chillin’, etc. From now on, my posting will be much more frequent and regular as I am placing it [...]

Barriers to Achievement

Wow, I haven’t posted in quite sometime. I’m really sorry. I’ve been getting bogged down in MCAT preparation, Victoria Weekend goodness and a bunch of other silliness I won’t get into.
Frankly, this isn’t even a super-real update, as I will be linking to one of my favourite articles – rather than actually writing my own [...]

Tips for Students from Steve Pavlina

A couple weeks ago I emailed Steve Pavlina about posting an article about tips for college students. I’d like to say he created one just because I emailed him, but he said that it was already on his “to write” list.
His 10 Tips for College Students post tackles general and specific techniques to improve your [...]

Synchronicity and Your Future

Recently, I’ve been pondering what sort of route I should take with my education and eventually career. For me, this sort of thinking is always rooted in preconceptions about what I should do based on what my parents think, what job makes money, etc. There are always problems that seem to arise when this topic [...]

Graciousness

Sometimes we all feel down. “Man, I’m so tired of studying. Why am I doing this anyways?”
I was having one of those moments while lying in my bed after finishing a lecture set. Then I remembered a story I heard from a professor (Dr. Dean Tripp) at my university. I don’t remember the details – [...]