Zaid Ismail's Blog, page 55

Selflessly selfish

Were only as selfless as our need to serve. But our need to serve is the greatest form of selfishness that we can offer the world. Weve heard it all before. There is nothing so selfless that it is not selfish. We serve our ego when we serve others. Or perhaps the one that connects []

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Wisdom with purpose

Acquiring knowledge without implementing it is like hoping to quench your thirst while standing in the rain. Seeking to understand is great, but only if we apply that understanding in the way we treat others. Similarly, acquiring technical knowledge may feed our fascination, but fulfilment lies in using that knowledge to create something of substance []

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Blind rage

Sometimes we get so caught up in our anger at the world that we lose sight of the fact that our anger feeds the very same cycles that weve grown to despise. Dont get angry. If you can influence positive change, do it. If not, walk away. Insisting on rage after youve realised that you []

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Need help to de-stress?

We all need different things at different times in life. Its part of the growth cycle. From beginning to realise what were really dealing with, to finding ways to cope with it, to choosing to rise above it, and finally, to no longer be defined by what was once weighing us down. These are important []

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Don’t celebrate the victim

Can you tell the difference between those who want to improve versus those who want others to see how brave their struggle is? When you wear your heart on your sleeve, it weakens you because your struggle grows to define you. If youre not careful, the sympathy you get from going through a struggle can []

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Choose your advisors carefully

Be careful about advice that makes you feel good but doesnt resolve anything. Things that make us feel good either provides us with an emotional high and feeds our ego, or with a spiritual high and feeds our soul. When we strike a healthy balance between the two, we find peace. So, be careful of []

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When fear serves you poorly

People willingly buy into uninformed theories, or even hearsay, because it validates their fears. We need our fears to be validated when were afraid of appearing incompetent, or feeling insignificant. This is the beginning of the slide towards losing yourself to the opinions of the collective as you focus on belonging more than you focus []

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Is cabin fever getting to you?

Is cabin fever catching up? Need a sounding board that wont make things worse? Or maybe you realised that now is the perfect time to invest in your personal development as you gear up for life after Corona. Whatever your reason is, take advantage of these lock down specials. International clients are welcome. Multiple video []

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Choose your reality

When our circumstances appear unchangeable, we must change our perspective. If we dont, neither will change. Perception shapes our reality, because we can always create an alternate reality, but we can never change reality itself. When we look at something and feel overwhelmed by it, we generally find ourselves choosing between two things. We either []

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Don’t just stay home – introspect

Its a time to rediscover what we lost when we were taking ourselves for granted. This might sound weird, but consider for a second that its in taking ourselves for granted that we find reason to take others for granted. In doing so, we take things around us for granted and end up committing excesses []

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