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Important Things to Know Before You Turn 25

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Dear Intentional Reader,  Actually, there is no age limit for learning, so I hope you find these tips helpful regardless of your age. 1. Normalize being quiet in the morning. 2. Learn to put yourself first. 3. Value results alone, and you lose trust and respect. Invest in relationships, and results follow. 4. Love is as much a tool for peace as war is for destruction. Love builds, but war destroys. 5. Find someone who knows how to love you when you’re sad. 6. It’s okay to let friendships die 7. We all have a friend who never has a clue about what’s going on 8. Normalize honesty. It’ll help you way better than lies would 9. It’s okay to forgive people, and still cut them off. 10. Your tone and delivery matter when it comes to communication 11. It’s on You to get You where You want to be 12. After you waste years with someone, you won’t even be trying to waste a week with nobody else if you truly value your time 13. We will figure it out together” is a love language 14. In...

How To Handle Failure (a short story)

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photo credit : unsplash Dear Intentional Reader,  There was once a highly intelligent boy named Osmond - who always scored 100% in Science. He got selected for a scholarship for uni. Afterwards, he went to the University of California for Masters, got a high paying job, and settled there. He then proceeded to marry a beautiful lady, got a 5 bedroom big house, and luxury cars, and started a family. He had everything that makes one “successful”, but a few years later, he committed suic*de after sho*ting his wife and children. So, WHAT WENT WRONG? California Institute of Clinical Psychology Studied his case, and found out what went wrong. They met Osmond's friends and family, and found out that he lost his job due to the country's economic crisis, and he had to be without a job for a long time. He didn’t have any business idea either. At some point, their house installment broke, and him and his family lost their home. They survived a few months with little money, and then he deci...

SUNSCREENS THAT CAN CAUSE CANCER YOU NEED TO AVOID

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Dear Intentional Reader,  You already know that I'm such a huge fan of sunscreens. I mean I can't talk about skin care without mentioning sunscreen; but the truth is that not all sunscreens are safe to use. One of the most dangerous chemicals to look out for in a sunscreen, is Benzene! Sadly, most of these products won't list Benzene as part of the ingredients. Exposure to Benzene can cause irritation, and blisters on the skin, and when ingested, can lead to death! Recently, a top skin care brand JOHNSON & JOHNSON recalled five of their sunscreens because they found traces of this cancer causing chemical in them. These were spray sunscreens - though I'm not a fan of, but my husband had one of them. Thankfully, he hasn't used it for long. They found this chemical after testing the products in the lab, and according to them, they are investigating to know how these products were contaminated. But for now, they've asked everyone to stop using them, and if ...

17 Thing Every Man Needs To Know Before Getting Married

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Dear Intentional Man,  I strongly believe this will help every man who's planning to get married someday, and even the ones that are already married. Someone shared these points with me, and I thought to edit, add my own points, and share with you guys because he made so much sense. I've always said that parents - especially mothers prepare their daughters for marriage - to be a perfect wife for a man, and little to no efforts are made into grooming the boy child to be a good man or a good husband to their wives. Sometimes, this leads to a man not knowing how to treat a woman, or they believe they're meant to do whatever they want. Other times, they adopt the behaviors of parents - you know like how their dad treated or treats their mum or how they've seen other men treat their women. I hope these help you to know or understand what marriage is about. So read, and share your thoughts with me.. 1. Before marriage, understand your purpose in life - where you're headed...

10 IMPORTANT QUALITIES YOU SHOULDN'T IGNORE WHEN LOOKING FOR A LIFE PARTNER

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Dear Intentional Reader,  I know you’ve read and heard a lot of times that you should marry your friend, but I want to tell you it’s not enough! I mean you have so many friends, so are you going to marry all of them? Have you seen situations where people were so close like they can’t do without each other, got married, and then divorced or separated later? Or even got into a relationship, and it didn’t last?  People say “oh there’s no formula to this thing” “if it’ll crash, it’ll crash” . You may be right if you have this mindset but you and who you marry definitely have a part to play towards the success of your marriage or relationship!

15 Things To Know When Dealing With An Overthinker

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Dear Intentional Reader,  I’m an overthinker. It sucks, right? Even though my beau has made me see reasons why I shouldn't always say that because it enables me to keep being one. Well one thing you need to know about over-thinkers, is that they didn’t just wake up and decide to be one, neither were they created like that.