Hira Sameer Ahmed
I come from what we call, The City of Lights – Lahore in Pakistan but I spent my childhood years in a small town far away from the big city life. My mother recalls that I used to play in the garden outside and arrange, rearrange fallen leaves and petals and call her from the inside to
Have you ever heard about what a Philomath is? I didn’t until I googled what a person who loves learning new things is called and learned that there is actually a word for it. How interesting is that? I love it when we stumble upon something that we thought might be so stupid to exist but
So yes, the #100dayproject_letspaint has come to an end. I have done a 100 day project twice in my life now – successfully both times and I certainly have learned a lot from this experience. The first time I did a 100 day project it was about practicing gratitude and counting my blessings as I
I’ve been thinking about how the rise of the internet has given us all the opportunity to connect, share and create new ways of being in the world. In the last decade, a whole bunch of new jobs has come to the surface, jobs that we have made for ourselves. The Internet has given us
A few weeks ago, I asked a question on Instagram to open up a conversation about what really stands in the way of us creating and sharing our best kind of work in the world. A few common and recurring ones that came up were – us doubting our abilities, us being our own worst
Every time I have a new idea that I want to bring to life and every time I sit down to make it happen, I can feel a strong pull to research it first. See if it is already out there. See what is out there already. And this habit doesn’t always work like a
I want to open up a conversation about the guilt that I had been carrying around for a while. I am only now able to share it out loud as I have gone through it and made it to the other side and now I am feeling ready to share it. If you asked me
I signed up to be a part of this workshop out of a happy accident. I had a very different idea about what I was going to learn there. I thought I will get to learn ‘Tips and Tricks to Promote myself better’ rather I got to learn that my own mindset was standing in
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