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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Is cabin fever getting to you?
Is cabin fever catching up? Need a sounding board that won’t 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 don’t, 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
It’s a time to rediscover what we lost when we were taking ourselves for granted. This might sound weird, but consider for a second that it’s 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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What is it about toilet paper?
What is it about this toilet paper binge? I think we lost our humanity long before Corona. And if our response and attitude towards each other during this crisis is anything to go by, we won’t re-find our humanity anytime soon either.
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Be lazy
We need more lazy people. People too lazy to be insincere. Too lazy to be fake. Too lazy to be attention whores. Too lazy to live double lives. Too lazy to be angry. Because face it. All of that requires a whole lot more effort than the alternative. Imagine what life would be like if…
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Worship me
Don’t use religion to elevate your ego. By doing so, you use God to worship your ego, rather than subduing your ego to worship God. The appearance of religiosity in others misleads many to assume that they possess piety. Piety cannot be measured through outward appearance, only through experiencing a sincerity of action. Sincerity, if…
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Awakening beauty
There is a beauty in awakening the soul that is only ever experienced by those who have the courage to stir it from its slumber. Fear doesn’t only make us aggressive towards those that don’t deserve it, it also convinces us that what we have is all we’ll ever be capable of achieving. Courage results…