Category: THOUGHTS

Reading is an incredible tool to help us grow, reframe our thinking by learning new things and sometimes transports us to a whole new world. I started to like reading first a few years back to improve my English writing and grammar. Today, I opted to read more if I want to know about anything that interests me.  

This list is not a crazy goal of how many books I can read in a year, but merely the list to follow through. 

I hope any of these will spark interest in you. 

Happy reading!

1. IKIGAI The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life – currently reading
2. Myths of Happiness
3. Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon 
4. It Ends with Us 
5. Tiny Beautiful Things 
6. The Only Street in Paris 
7. Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion 
8. Public Speaking for Success, Dale Carnegie 
9. What Everybody Is Saying by Jose Navarro 
10. The Influential Mind 
11. Quit 
12. The Artist’s Way 
13. The Dance of Anger
14. Invisible Women 
15. #futureboards 
16. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid 
17. 3 Women by Lisa Taddeo 
18. For One More Day; The Atomic of Habits 
19. Soulful Simplicity 
20. The Mighty Thor by Jason Aaron 
21. The Good and Beautiful God 
22. I’m Not Your Baby Mother 
23. Woman Code 
24. The Joy of Less 
25. Essentialism 
26. The Power of How 
27. The Story of my Experiments with Truth 
28. Project 333
29. You can Heal your Life 
30. Demian by Hermann Hesse 

The last 30 days was a pure act of self-care. Went for multiple rounds of decluttering physical things, digital and mental. My main goal for taking a break is to ground me or to calm me for the past 12 months was violent so to speak. And that I am truly grateful for the opportunity to reflect on so many things going on around me and within myself.

I slept for a total of 15 days (I’d like to think), permitted myself to just be lazy, ate whatever I wanted, and binge-watched TED Talks and TV series.

I also reformed old habits that for some reason I have forgotten. One is being selective about what I should spend my time doing or thinking. I have forgotten how cosy it feels to be present and never worry about anything you don’t have control over i.e., the past, the future, and other people’s beliefs, thoughts and feelings. Another habit is being able to shake off any negative vibrations coming along when you have to deal with people and react only if you absolutely need to.

As tomorrow slowly unfolds, I vow to live each day intentionally. To continue to be a wild, cool, and complex person but with less anxiety. LOL.

The major takeaway is the realisation of how important rest truly is.

Sending virtual hugs your way,

Jinky

Whenever I imagine my truest self, I picture someone who overthinks a lot, cries when happy and cries when sad.

This reminds me of when one of our docs shouted at me with dets we spare to share. I cried so much and hardly convinced myself that, it shouldn’t affect me anymore considering I’m doing nursing for a decade already.

Being highly sensitive is my trait and it is my weakness as much as my strength. Weakness in the sense that I often put others demands first before mine and ends up saying yes all the time and no matter how hard I try to put up boundaries, they are still being crossed. In the case of the latter, it is my gentle power, I can deeply analyze everything and I can feel what you feel. It might not be 100% accurate, but I’m pretty sure I will know. I might don’t have steel elbows but I keep the condition balance for the people who say no and outspoken.

There are so many instances that I am told to toughen up, you’re an adult, be a b*, say no, etc etc. Those pieces of advice in addition to being too emotional made me think something is wrong with me. Then I started reading about it to understand it better. Of course, the world is still painful sometimes. But I don’t believe you need to be sensitive to care.

I am essentially born to be mild and would love to take your hand to make the world gentler.

1. You have wrinkles but it’s okay.
2. Don’t compare YOUR success to someone else’s OWN definition of success.
3. Turn your panic into prayers.
4. Stop chasing after people for you don’t need to chase what belongs to you.
5. Always go for quality over quantity. Be it physical things, people or relationships.
6. You will take care of yourself first before you can take care of others. You can’t give what you don’t have.
7. Follow what feels good.
8. Invest on memories not on things.
9. It’s not all about you, don’t always take things personally.
10. Don’t lower your standards, instead wait for someone to rise up for it.
11. Money or things will not solve your real problems.
12. There’s an advantage in not knowing.
13. Perspective is a beautiful thing.
14. Perfectionism is a mask that we all wear when we are afraid of failure.
15. Sometimes it is better to fall asleep in pain than to fall asleep knowing that you were the cause of someone else’s pain.
16. You can be in the worst position possible but you’ll figure it out.
17. Happy whole people are drawn to happy whole people. 
18. Try not to please everyone.
19. The world changes with your example not your opinion.
20. People may talk bad about you, crash you, and walk over you but you will always keep your value.
21. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven or hell.
22. When you love, you love hard. If you don’t get it back, there’s nothing wrong with you.
23. Judgement is but a mirror that reflects the insecurities of the person who’s doing the judging.
24. Your values determine the nature of your problems and your problems determine the quality of your life.
25. Keep things private until you know it’s permanent.
26. Seek what sets your soul on fire.
27. Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.
28. Other people’s opinions do not define you. You do you.
29. Your life experiences mattered in equal measures in making you a better YOU.
30. Eat your veggies, be kind to animals, and use less plastic.
31. Always have a safe space.
32. It is your sensitivity to others’ wrongful treatment that stops you from treating others wrongly.
33. Be kind with a spine!

Had an impromptu life-lessons-exchange with Jam and Kim. They are not 33 though so 80% of what they are saying they don’t know yet.

Read about my 31 Gifts of Gratitude to my 31 Year Old Self and 30 Things I Learned at 30 through these links.

Hope this adds value.

Love,

Jinky xx