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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Don’t be your own enemy
You undermine yourself when you doubt your ability to accomplish something for no reason other than fear. When you allow the uninformed opinions of others, or their disrespect to define how you feel about yourself, you undermine yourself. When you settle for less because you believe you’re unworthy of better, you undermine yourself. Each time…
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Don’t blame destiny
Most often, it is our belief in what we deserve that limits us more than what we actually deserve or are capable of achieving. It’s like waiting up all night to witness an amazing sunrise only to give up as the first streaks of dawn appear and then convince ourselves that it was our destiny…
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Soul food doesn’t feed the ego
Be careful about advice that makes you feel good but doesn’t 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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Elusive peace…
Peace…that elusive mist that needs to enshroud everything. Its absence creates the need to change the circumstances of our lives, so that we leave no space for nothing, needing every space to be filled with something. Some look to fill those spaces with trinkets and tokens. Others look to fill it with purposeful endeavours. But…
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Emotional health before physical wellbeing
As well-intentioned as this is, it is not true. Our body does not have a mind of its own. And laziness is not about the amount of rest that we need. As is clearly experienced by many, getting enough rest most certainly does not guarantee productivity. Nor does it remedy procrastination. So what is laziness…
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Be what you need
In a world that is demanding attention all the time, it’s easy to get caught up in what we need from others while ignoring what they need from us. Our humanness is often celebrated for ourselves, but set aside in our expectations from others. We all need sympathy and compassion, but are hesitant to give…
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Ingratitude breeds ingratitude
When we’re ungrateful for who we are,When we deny any good in ourselves that others may see,When we ignore our beauty because there may exist some ugly,We protect ourselves from attachment to anything wholesome or beautiful in life. Our need for such protection is a deeply ingrained fear about never being good enough. Not good…
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To be…
Much of life is wasted in the time spent considering if we should or shouldn’t do that thing that we’re passionate about. That consideration is most often based on our doubts about what others will think, and rarely because we doubt the value of doing it. Sometimes, we persevere and find the courage within ourselves…