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Elegant & curated articles by Omar M Almahmoud, selected from his daily writings and reading list in life, business and self improvement. All republished articles are owned by their original authors. The articles are reblogged here under Fair Use for educational and non commercial purposes.

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Keeping A Daily Journal Could Change Your Life – Inc. – Pocket

Photo from Getty Images. “The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” – J.M. Barrie You know exactly what you want in life. But you can’t seem to get there. You have all these resolves. You’re going to get healthy. You’re

How the Bullet Journal stopped me lying to myself

I have known my oldest friend since we were eight. Like many old friends, we argue a lot, about matters both important and trivial. But the thing we argue about the most, the thing we have argued about for years, the thing that forms a cleavage as vast as the Grand Canyon, is how to organise the files on our computers. Her method is legible and easily understood by anybody.

Most Books Won't Change Your Life (But You Should Read Them Anyways) | Scott H Young

“If you only put into action half of what you read, you’d already be a millionaire.” I’ve heard many variations of this advice, all making the point that the problem isn’t that we don’t have good ideas, but that we implement little of it and therefore our lives don’t change, we don’t lose weight, grow wealth, improve our relationships or become happier. The implication of this advice is that if