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A Grimm Day in the City – part 2

Lights glittered like fallen stars from the windows of the uptown mansion that dwelled, safe and isolated from the rest of the city, behind a wrought iron gate and a duo of heavily armed guardsman. The contraptions the guards held menacingly in their hands might once...

Work or Play?

     Work has always been a trial for me; it has always been something that I did because I had to do it to survive. I never found the joy in work that other people seem to have, the closest I ever got to joy in work was to be happy that I had a job, but apathetic, at...

Dealing with Pain

Dealing with Pain: Sometimes we will feel pain.  The only place where people live that they never experience pain is in graveyards.  We know that we will experience pain in our lives and we cannot avoid it. When we feel pain there are several routes we could take; the...

Insurmountable odds?

  Many of us sit around looking at our dreams and what we want to do with our life and think that we don’t really have the ability to achieve it, that our dreams are outside our own reach because of who we are, we where we have been in our lives. We believe that...

Digging In

  Digging In: Productivity can be a very hard thing to measure many times. How do you define if you are being productive or not? Is it by the number of things that you get done or the size of the thing you got done? What counts as a normal maintenance task and...

4 Great Life Hacks for Success

4 Keys to Achieve Goals:               Success isn’t about getting other people to do what you want. Success comes from the mindset that we take into our day to day lives as we move forward in our world. This isn’t just something we can turn on, but is rather a set of...

A Grimm Day in the City – part 1

A Grimm Day in the City By Ming Drake   The dingy light emanating from the streetlamp did little to break through the ash falling from the darkened sky and illuminate the dirty streets. His knee high black leather boots made firm imprints in the drifts that the...

Creating More Hours in the Day!!! Tell me how!

As we approach spring break and get ready for the insanity of March, there is nothing more important than having time to spend with those we love. As such, today I will share a way to actually create time in our lives so that we can have more of it for our breaks. The...

Battling Our Own Demons

There are times in our lives, in living our dreams, when the demons that hide in the back of our mind and heart come out to try and send us into a spiral of depression and self-doubt. These are the days that our goals in life are the hardest to accomplish. For...