How to use the power of belief to your advantage — The idea of manifestation is often tied to charlatanism in our minds. Woohoo, you’ve magically made yourself healthy forever because you simply manifested it, congrats! Except you haven’t. Fool. The thing is, the power of manifestation doesn’t actually lie in attracting success overnight or healing all your chakras so that…

Elon Musk’s daily productivity habit is actually backed by psychology — As a writer, I sometimes run out of ideas. And it feels dreadful. It’s like jumping into a pool of glistening cool water on a hot summer day only to hit the hard bottom. Oops, no more water for you! Come back another time. Luckily for us humans, the brain…

Without having written a single word to begin with — In June 2020, I made a significant change in my life that’s led to my earning thousands of dollars doing what I love — writing. I shifted my mindset. At that point, I didn't have any writing portfolio. I hadn’t had my work featured in any magazines, I hadn’t published…

Successful people live in a pixel, not a picture — I can’t wait to drink margaritas at a beach in Thailand, bathe in the ridiculous amount of money I’ve made doing something I love, and live the best life ever. Thoughts like this keep running through my head as I clean hotel rooms, hoover crushed crisps, strip the beds, empty…

Are women missing out on a chance to have more power by not bothering to learn? — I’ll be honest. I’ve always thought cryptocurrency was way too complicated for me. All the terminology terrified me — I mean, what the hell even is this Web3? …

How to reprogram your brain, according to a therapist — “Ugh, I hate how my mum always rambles on and on about stuff and never asks any questions,” I complained to my boyfriend. “It’s like she doesn’t even know what dialogue is.” An hour later, I went on a rather passionate tangent about how annoying the topic of the university…

Men written by women are the ultimate secret to every girl’s heart — See that girl? The one with the book in her hand, giggling like a 13-year old, her face flushed and her eyes quickly moving across the page as if she can’t stop reading for even a second? Yeah, her. Let me tell you something — she’s probably reading about a…

I made 2 major mistakes every freelance writer should steer away from — I was on a roll. I was earning $1500 per month from Newsbreak and an additional few hundred from Medium — for a 22-year-old student living in a foreign country, this was the biggest amount of money I’d ever made, let alone from doing what I actually loved. Life was…

Why you shouldn’t give up on dating apps just yet. — It’s just one date, it’s no big deal, it’s just one date, it’ll be over soon, I kept chanting in my head as I walked toward the café where I was supposed to have tea with the first guy I’d ever met on a dating app. No matter what I…