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Rethink Your To-Do List: How Numbering Tasks Can Boost Your Happiness

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on December 4, 2025January 6, 2026

Feeling overwhelmed by endless todo lists? I created my happiness strategy in dealing with those endless lists by adding numbers next to them!

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Consistency Matters More Than Intensity

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on November 27, 2025November 26, 2025

What looks like intensity to you might just be consistency to someone else. The difference isn’t in the work—it’s in how we see it.

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The Hidden Cost of “Figuring It Out Alone”

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on November 25, 2025November 24, 2025

These days everyone shares their struggles openly—I wish I’d done that a decade ago.

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Being a connector is a character trait

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on November 11, 2025November 11, 2025

Are you a good judge of a character?

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Describe your ideal week

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on November 6, 2025November 6, 2025

The better word for “ideal” is “intensional.”

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Fear of unknown is a real fear

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on October 23, 2025April 4, 2026

Procrastination always seemed like laziness—until recently.

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Unexpected ways blogging has helped me

  • by Guest
  • Posted on September 25, 2025September 25, 2025

Some people only start things when they know exactly how they’ll end. As a former Type A planner, I get it. But what if I told you that life’s biggest breakthroughs happen when you begin without knowing the outcome? Our guest blogger tells you why.

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Summer activities in Toronto for creative souls

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

A creative guide to Toronto summer activities that goes beyond the usual tourist spots.

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Discipline Isn’t Necessary If I Don’t Have This

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on August 26, 2025August 25, 2025

I spent years building discipline muscles. Then I discovered what actually comes first.

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Why Professional Connections Actually Need Personal Chemistry

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on August 21, 2025April 4, 2026

Forget “keep it professional” advice – the best work relationships happen when you click as people first

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Procrastination has a new name: Lateral Thinking

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 24, 2025July 24, 2025

one month to finish all my projects before the Labour Day

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Am I a consumer or a creator?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

Hint, it is not about eating.

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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 24, 2025January 3, 2026

I have two very different approaches: good and bad.

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The Strange Math of 5,000 Friends and Zero Real Connections

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 10, 2025June 9, 2025

How I Accidentally Became a Professional Contact Collector

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The Stranger Effect: Why That Person Everyone Mentions Could Change Your Life

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

A step by step approach to turning a stranger into meaningful connection

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Problem Solving Is Overrated (I Should Know, I Teach It)

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 15, 2025May 14, 2025

Confessions of a Design Thinker: Discovering Systems Thinking revealed the surprising truth about inefficiency in my Problem Solving technique.

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Small Tips for Getting a Better and Simpler Life

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

Time to get back to discipline practice you promised yourself back in January!

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Can You Bee-Live It’s Spring? How to Spring Clean & Decorate

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

How designers spring clean

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Big progress from small progress

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

Progress compounds. Tiny steps build surprising momentum.

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The Weird Time Warp of AI Writing: Why My ‘Quick Drafts’ Now Take Longer Than Ever

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 29, 2025

Less writer’s block, more decision fatigue.

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