Featured Stories
Curated Collection #17
Selected stories for avid readers of Illumination on Medium

Dear Readers,
We selected and compiled interesting stories from ILLUMINATION to give you a quick taste. These stories cover a various topics.
All featured stories are now linked in a single post so that you can find them from this link: Meta Collection of Featured Stories: Easy access to daily selected stories from engaging writers of ILLUMINATION — Volume 3–2022.
We believe you find some valuable and interesting pieces from this and previous collections.
If you missed the other curated lists, you may access them from the following links:
Curated Collection #1, Curated Collection #2, Curated Collection #3, Curated Collection #4, Curated Collection #5, Curated Collection #6, Curated Collection #7, Curated Collection #8, Curated Collection #9, a collection from SYNERGY, Curated Collection #10, Curated Collection #11, Curated Collection #12, Curated Collection #13, Curated Collection #14, Curated Collection #15, Curated Collection #16, Curated Collection #17, Curated Collection #18, Curated Collection #19, Curated Collection #20, Curated Collection #21, Curated Collection #22, Curated Collection #23, Curated Collection #24, Curated Collection #25, Curated Collection #26, Curated Collection #27, Curated Collection #28, Curated Collection #29, Curated Collection #30, Curated Collection #31, Curated Collection #32, Curated Collection #33, Curated Collection #34, Curated Collection #35, Curated Collection #36, Curated Collection #37, Curated Collection #38, Curated Collection #39, Curated Collection #40, Curated Collection #41, Curated Collection #42, Curated Collection #43, Curated Collection #44, Curated Collection #45, Curated Collection #46, Curated Collection #47
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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION
Why Spiritual People Adamant on Fasting Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz ILLUMINATION
4 Items Under $100 That Improved My Life Matt Lillywhite
Sindhutai Sapkal; Mother of Over 1500 Orphans, children of lesser Gods Tara Desai PhD
The Profound Spiritual Lesson Tennis Has Taught Me David Gerken
Any Day in Ground Hog Years, Something Good Can Happen Melinda Blau
In A World Of Fear And Vulnerability Michael Patanella
Massive Credit Card Hack For Flippers! Max Mask, BSc, MBA.
How to Make Your Wishes Come True? Nikola Ojdanić, Ph.M.
I Don’t Know Who I Am Anymore Mandy McElroy
Attention Poetry Readers and Writers Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Our Swan Song…Just One Bottle Of Aptly-Named Villa Maria Maria Rattray
Things You Don’t Know — But Should Know : Hello! I'm Patrick OConnell
Goals Alexandra Duncan
Play to Earn: Star Atas Alexandros Roumpos
Gaslighting — How To Avoid Being Victimized Antonis Iliakis
Singaporeans are not only emotionless but unhappiest in the world Anzum Musharrat
Companies Should Do Better To Retain Employees AP Carpen
How Tony Blair Got Away With His Alleged War Crimes Argumentative Penguin
In Search of the Sexiest Hairstyles for Men Arlo Hennings
Does God Exist? Atheeb Azeem
How the Economy Works, According to Ray Dalio Auré
Where Does Your Bridge in Life Go? Bill Abbate
Reminders Bob Jasper
5 Novels That Disprove The Myth That Horror Isn’t Literary Bryan Dijkhuizen
The Squirrel’s Story CARMEN F MICSA
Less Planning, More Living Cee Cee
At age 27, I Found Out I was Adopted Charles Amemiya
Sound Weaves the Tapestry of Our Lives Chasing Dreams
How I Plan to Select Books in 2022 Chetan Maheshwari
Six Little Known Ways to Make 2022 Significant Chetna Jai
Why Gary Vaynerchuk Says: Stop Living for the Weekend Christian Soschner
Discover The Secret Behind Phobias And A Proven Healing Method Christina Sponias
When I’m Heartbroken, I Start Listening To Matthew Hussey & I Feel A Little Bit Better Christine Lorelie
4 Psychological Tricks To Avoid Feeling Guilty About Taking Breaks Chun Hao
5 Important Lessons I Learned From Trying To Start a Business Cosmin Firta
Change Your Morning, Change Your Life Crystal Garrett
What Is Inflation? Dani2404
Your profile picture doesn’t matter on medium Doctor Ajit
Front Row Seat of How a School Operates Don Sabado
How I Got Myself to Exercise with this One Simple Trick Doug Timberlake
Why is hard to succeed in freelancing Eduard Sebastian
If Spanx Is Worth Over a Billion After Twenty Years, We Can Create a Billion-Dollar Business Too Emmanuel A. Anderson
Fitness Goals Are Common, but They Aren’t All Created Equal Eugene Albano
Do You Know The Symptoms of COVID? Floyd Mori
Purpose through Direct Experience Frank Ontario
No-one Can Predict the Future Frank Parker
Lessons Loneliness Taught me About Being Lonely Gagan Gandhi
Want To Accelerate Your Business And Align To The Vision For Your Life? Gregory Reece-Smith
An Open Letter to Anyone Struggling with Their Mental Health Hamza El Bouzekraoui
What I Learnt from Dancing Naked In Front of 10 Women I Barely Knew Ida Johannesen
I Let You Use Me Jade Willow
Breaking News: ILLUMINATION Publication Accepts Already Published Stories! Jaja Requa
3 Earliest Signs of Burnout That You Should Know About James Ssekamatte
Will We Ever Be Free Again? Javier Menéndez
Fill in the Blank Email Profits Jeff Herring
Civil War…Really? Jennifer Pierce
If You Want An Amazing Day, Prime Yourself The Night Before Jennifer Thompson
Hard Work is Overrated Jess Rohloff
Kazakhstan John Couper
Should You Work When You’re Sick John Cunningham
Reading Is About More Than… Reading John Reel
This Story of How Ayahuasca Was Discovered Will Blow Your Mind Julia Blum
Letter to my Followers & Other Medium Writers Julius Evans
How Can I Recognize… Kage Lockhart
What’s Your Impact in this World? Liliana Nakamura
New Year Fasting Michelle Scorziello
Why Successful People Will Struggle to be Wise Midori by the Sea
Stop Making Excuses Mike Lewis
How to Hustle When You Hate The Hustle Naomi Boshari
Damn… I Need to Stop Checking My Stats Nia RoMi
5 Ways To Cope With Your Grief Niharika Chhabra
I Invest in the Stocks I Like and Use Noah Nelson
3 Oils I Use to Regrow My Hair Nora
The Growth Mindset Octopus Explorer
My Number One New Year Promise to Myself Øivind H. Solheim
How to Make Money as a Student in Nigeria 2022 Owolabi Judah
Grateful Though Medicated (Again) paulmartincurry
Getting older. Wiser. Better. Happier. Paulo Laureano
2 Minutes Please: Are The Quick Tests Still Working? Pisoglou
My One Year Journey on Medium Prince Verma
Empowering 2022 pst tomowo
My Neighbors Are Making Incredibly Loud Noise While Renovating Purbita Chakraborty
Engine Room Rumble — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Even as a Parent, You Have to Fill Your Own Cup First Sally Prag
You Can Still Go Back to Chapter 1 — Rewrite Your Life Sara Marium
How to Market Content For Social Media Savytech articles
The next step Shameer Hasan
Step By Step How to Format Your Book for Amazon KDP Shea Hulse
Monday, The Resolution Day Simone Imurah
20 Tips To Improve Your Focus This Year Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Beware: This Medium Publication Makes Big Promises Tamil
Our Space Journey, part 15 The Universe and Life
A Perfect Day Thesilkroads
Your Home Page = Planet Earth Tricia Schimpp
Cillan’s sacrifice Uzi Landsmann
The Power Of Mourning And Healing Trauma Vickie Trancho
Can Really Cannabis Improve Athletic Performance & Recovery? Viktor Marchev
Don’t Compare Your Inner Thoughts to Other People’s Media Profiles Wendy Scott
YouTube As My Wingman William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
Trans Joy and Finding it Through Schitt’s Creek Xin Xin
Bob Saget’s death shocked my system. Y. Vue
Signature of Portals You, Me and Happiness
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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