Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com
Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.
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Your intentions are never enough
There is often an unintended entitlement that sets in for those who are trying to make up for the impact of their behaviour on others. The entitlement comes through in how we expect our efforts to be received. If we apologise, we expect it to be accepted. If we comfort, we expect them to feel…
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What if balance is what bores us to search for life?
When we focus on the gift, we lose sight of the giver. Similarly, when we focus on the kindness that we need, or the privilege that we claim, we lose sight of the human expected to provide it. Harshness and brutality are meted out daily in ways that appear non-violent and even passive. But it…
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Good intentions are not enough
Believing in the universe waiting to serve you is no different than believing that the world revolves around your every need. Good intentions do not automatically result in beneficial outcomes. In fact, it too often results in harm. There’s a reason for the popularity of that old proverb that says that the road to hell…
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Do you remember your dream?
What will you be when you give up? Sadly, too many live their lives this way resulting in them imposing their expectations on their children to fulfil the dreams that they abandoned. Every generation complains about the generation before them and loses sight of such behaviour giving the next generation reason to complain about them.…
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Authentic gratitude
This is for the ‘attitude of gratitude’ crowd. It’s for the ones who believe that gratitude is an act. A gesture. A token word of appreciation. A polite mannerism. A show of acknowledgement. A gift prompted by an event. It’s not. Authentic gratitude is what you do and how you show up for those whom…
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Do you really love yourself?
What does ingratitude towards yourself look like? I think it looks like this… You focus on your aesthetic to feel better about your internal conversation. You live loud with everything you do and possess because you’re concerned about how others perceive you. You beat yourself up in private, but present yourself as confident and bold…
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Break the stigma
I think it was Dr Wayne Dyer who said that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. This is true both positively and negatively. Do you know someone who has a problem for every solution? Who sees doom and gloom at the happiest of moments? Who is…