Sometimes when people don’t support what you’re doing, it may be more about them than you.

It could be plain ignorance or even jealousy, but some people tend to attack things that are new to them.

So again, don’t take their words to heart. If their criticism isn’t constructive in any way, they may be discouraging you because of their own fears and insecurities.

If you try to please everyone, it’s going to be next to impossible. So don’t bother. Keep your focus on what you want to do and why.

In an ideal world, we could constantly surround ourselves with positivity. We can’t do that, but we can work on ourselves so that we stay committed and positive.

It’s natural to want support and encouragement from the people around you, but it is possible to do what you want to do without it.

Just think of how many successful, inspiring people took the road less traveled.

You’re a very powerful being, just by yourself. Believe in that, don’t give up, and you’ll go a long way, whichever road you take.

Nobody can predict the future for certain.

The people who don’t support you might paint a gloomy picture of what’s to come if you do what you want to do.

Don’t let objections from others become your truth and limit you from creating what you want in life.

Anything is possible if you believe in yourself and work hard.

People who don’t support you and discourage you may not actually be bad people who intentionally want to destroy your dreams.

Sometimes they just don’t understand why you do what you do, so they voice out their concerns, which may make them seem dissenting.

If anything, since they don’t fully understand, I don’t see why it’s something to be upset over.

It may be a little disheartening to have people around you discourage you, but remember, life is short.

Remember that life is short, and it will be easier to stick to your own convictions when other people disagree with your choices or put you down.

Whether people support you or not,

1. Do you really want to look back in regret one day down the line?
2. To not know what could have happened if you tried to do what you really wanted to do?

This love of yours is one of the most important things in your life. Follow your heart, and not the words of others just to live up to their expectations.

1. Nightmares and night terrors typically happen at different points in the sleep cycle. Nightmares occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the stage of sleep when vivid dreaming is most likely to happen. Night terrors typically happen during non-REM sleep, specifically stage-three sleep. This stage is also called deep sleep.
2. how you might react when you wake up-

• With nightmares, you may wake up easily and still feel scared but ultimately be able to think clearly. But when it comes to night terrors, you may be hard to wake up, and be confused if someone does manage to wake you.

When it comes to comparing night terrors and nightmares, you might assume that they’re both bad dreams of varying intensities. But night terrors AKA sleep terrors are more than just super-intense nightmares . These are actually two separate sleep conditions with some major differences.

Unlike nightmares, night terrors are considered a parasomnia , a type of disorder marked by abnormal occurrences during sleep. These episodes involve sudden bouts of intense fear, screaming, and thrashing around while you’re asleep. Night terrors are more common in people with mood or anxiety disorders or PTSD.

It won't be easy, but will be worth it!

1. Recognize unhealthy perfectionism: Signs are: Being extremely fearful of failure and criticism, constantly worried about making mistakes or disappointing people, or tending to brood over past mistakes. Slowly, work to reduce these.
2. Realistically assess yourself: We have areas where we're quite smart and areas where we're not so smart. Write down the areas in which you're good, and ones in which work is needed.
3. Express out: Talking to other people about their struggles can help prove that other people aren't perfect, and they too do make mistakes.

As you might have thought, imposter syndrome can very well effect you emotionally. But that's not the only way it presens itself. It can also affect the way you approach your work.

People experiencing this also suffer through Unnecessary Perfectionism, leading to fear of failure, and expectations that can't be met. This, in turn, can lead to procrastination.

Not only that, a study of over 200 professionals at the University of Salzburg found those experiencing imposter phenomenon tended to be paid less, were less likely to be promoted, and felt less committed and satisfied at work.

What is Imposter Syndrome?

Have you ever felt that you're just not enough? Even when there are evidences that they are not, but have you ever felt that your successes, was rather luck?

The imposter phenomenon refers to feelings of inadequacy, feeling like a fraud, attributing success to luck rather than skill and effort, and worrying about being found out. All these feelings occur in those with imposter phenomenon (or, syndrome) despite evidence of success.

Imposter syndrome, is not a syndrome, but rather, an experience! It happens with almost everyone at some point.

1. Your pace is based on factors like your current level of fitness.
2. You can improve your running pace by participating in high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or speed workouts.
3. Try performing them on a track near your home. Sign up for a local 5K race or two to stay motivated to improve your time.
4. Remember, it’s important to build up speed gradually to stay injury-free.
5. Never push yourself to the point of total exhaustion.
6. Always check with your doctor before starting any new running workouts.

Your running pace is usually determined by how fast you run 1 mile, on average. To determine your best running pace:

• Go to a nearby track.
• Warm up for at least 5 to 10 minutes.
• Time yourself and run 1 mile. Go at a pace where you push yourself, but don’t run all out.

You can also do this on any flat running trail or path.

Use your mile time as a goal for training. Every few weeks, go back to the track and time your mile pace again as a way to track your progress.

• Work on your turnover. Runners need a fast stride to increase their pace. As you train, work on increasing your steps per minute. Use a pedometer to keep track.
• Maintain a healthy lifestyle. Talk to your doctor or nutritionist about a healthy eating plan that’s optimal for your goals, such as running faster, building more muscle, or losing weight.
• Dress appropriately. Wear lightweight, wind-resistant clothing when you run.
• Focus on form. Keep your hands and shoulders relaxed. Your arms should be swinging comfortably at your sides like a pendulum.

1. If you’re planning on running a race that has hills, it’s important to train on them.
2. Pick a hill that’s of similar length and incline to the one you’ll encounter in the race.
3. Or, if you have access to the course, train on the hills there.
4. Run at tempo pace up the hill, and then jog back down. Repeat several times.

1. The goal is to run at a tempo pace, or a comfortably hard pace.
2. It should be slightly faster than your target goal time.
3. Run at this pace for a few minutes, followed by several minutes of jogging.
4. Work up to 10 to 15 minutes of tempo pace for a 5K and 20 to 30 minutes of running at your tempo pace for longer races.

1. Warm up for 10 minutes by jogging slowly.
2. Then run a high-intensity pace (where you can’t hold a conversation comfortably) for 2 to 5 minutes.
3. Jog for the same amount of time to recover.
4. Repeat 4 to 6 times.
5. Do this a minimum of once or twice per week until you’ve comfortably reached your desired speed.

1. Average running speeds, or pace, are based on a number of factors. These include current fitness level and genetics.
2. In 2015, Strava, an international running and cycling tracking app, reported :

• The average speed for men in the United States was 9:03 minutes per mile (1.6 kilometers).
• The average pace for women was 10:21 per mile.
• That data is based on over 14 million logged runs.

**If you want to improve your average pace per mile, try the following workouts to increase your speed and build up endurance.

• You don't want peace of mind, you want peach from mind. Remove the mind's chattering and you will get peace.
• Use meditation, exercise and music to reset your mood.
• For every annoyance, build a habit of thinking what is the positive thing about it.
• A busy mind accelerates the passage of subjective time.
• If you don’t want the 100% swap with the person, there is no point in being jealous.
• If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term. Short term suffering, long time gain.

• Happiness is really a default state, happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.
• More desires, less happiness if you can’t fulfil them. Choose one big desire in life at any given time to give yourself purpose and motivation.
• The more present you are, the more happy you are.
• Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert them anytime you want.
• Try to eliminate as many 'shoulds' in your life, real happiness is when you do everything you want to do not should do.
• The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.

• Creating more opportunities through hard work and persistence.
• Becoming good at spotting luck like a lucky break or building a unique character/brand when luck/opportunities find you.

• Things to think most about: where to live, with whom to be in relationship with, what job to do.
• Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary future.
• Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.
• A metric of good life or freedom: how much of the day is spent doing things out of interest rather than out of obligation.
• Wisdom is understanding the long term consequences of your actions.

• Teaching forces learning.
• If you’re memorizing advanced concepts without being able to re-derive them as needed, you’re lost.

• Value your time by hourly rate, if a work costs more than your hourly rate, outsource it or don’t do it.
• Bigger the creative/non-repetitive component of a work, more the opportunity of the gap between input (efforts/time) and output (returns).

• Arm yourself with your specific knowledge, accountability and leverage.
• Specific knowledge is generally a highly technical or a creative skill.
• Your specific knowledge will help you to escape competition through authenticity.
• Earn with your mind not time.

• Seek wealth not money or Status - Status and money is zero-sum game but creating wealth is not zero-sum game. Wealth is having assets that make money while you sleep.
• You’ll get rich by giving society what it wants but doesn’t know yet how to get, at scale.
• All the returns in life be it wealth, relationships, knowledge (should) compounds over time.
• Don’t upgrade your lifestyle right after or frequently after increasing income.

Knowing the dangers of conversion therapy is important.

If you are heterosexual & someone in your life is gay, then you should do your best to accept them for who they are because their sexuality does nothing to diminish their value as a person.

Do your part in educating people about the dangers of conversion therapy.

Eventhough, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has taken a strong stance against conversion therapy, it still continues to be practiced today because of homophobia stemming from:

• religious justifications
• ignorance.

1. Homosexuality is a natural extension of human sexuality, and thus does not need to be "cured" or changed.
2. There is no evidence that conversion therapy is effective & actually changes a person's sexuality.
3. Conversion therapy causes extreme psychological harm of the people who have to endure it.
4. Conversion therapy may cause social harm by disseminating unscientific views about sexual orientation.