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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
What if We Can Package Fasting as a Therapeutic Pill Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Why Vitamin B12 Matters for Health & How to Address Deficiency Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
What Signs Reveal a Covert Narcissist is Preparing to Devalue and Discard? Melissa Kalt, MD
Collected Stories from Dr John Rose. Dr John Frederick Rose
Be Careful on Social Media: Essential Tips for Social Media Users Afzal Badshah, PhD
168 hours of Netflix without a break! Doctor Ajit
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
How I Got 100,000 Social Media Followers In Less Than A Month Matt Lillywhite
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
Empathy 101. The Effective 4-Steps Method to Feel With People. Matteo Cervelli | People Gardener 🧑🌾
Make 2022 Your Best Saving Year with 3 Easy Tips A A F
Daily Done: Part 3 — a Simple Prioritizing System Alex Philippe
Daily Done: Part 3 — a Simple Prioritizing System
How to tell which tasks to tackle first
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A Homemaker? No, I’m a Housewife. Alex Rosado
The Eternal Curse of Never Being Satisfied Aliou Sidibé
Why Religion Holds Back Science AMIKO
Medium Cats, Please Thank Your Paws for Awesome Every Day Job Andrey Pilipets
Why Shortform Stories Are The Worst Attila Vágó
How Covid Taught Me to Get off My Butt and Create Audrey Stimson
My Medium Most Viewed Stories Augustine Habenga
The Happiest Story I’ve Seen Berna Tural
The Four Agreements — A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Biliz Maharjan
Are you high? Brooklyn Muse
Just When I Didn’t Think It Could Get Any Better KL Simmons
Communication Stresses Me Out Bryan Dijkhuizen
How Majoring in Political Science Improved My Writing Skills Buket Mat
Use This Tactic to Gain Traction On YouTube In 2022 Burk
I Brought a MacBook Pro 3 Years Ago After Fantasizing About One Calum James
Meditation — How To Get Started Carl Poland
Keeping Up With The Joneses Is Stupid, But Not For The Reasons You Think Carrie Kolar
This is How the Audio on Medium is Working Casimiro Designer
How A Simple Haircut Turned Into Something A Whole Lot More. Charles Waters
5 Signs Your Life Is Destined For Bigger Things Chrissie Marie Massey
One Thing You Must Understand About The Securities Market Chun Hao
Michael Jackson: Symbol of Masculinity Coke Francis
Girls like Criminals and Drug Dealers”…and BTS Doesn’t Exist ’Cause I Said So. Coke Francis
How Productivity Will Help You Succeed as An Entrepreneur Crystal Mathews
I Got 99 Problems David Vilentchik
Quote Series #1. Mark Twain about Clarity of Speech Denys Opria
Why I’m Picking More Than 1 Niche as a New Writer Dessy John
This Just In… Don Martin
Blasted for Bias and Negligence Elizabeth Emerald
Old People Can Prepare For Death To Come Knocking Floyd Mori
It’s Getting Harder To Not Despise The World Frank T Bird
Sugar Gabi Oliver
5 Ways to Hone Your Freelance Writing to Meet Your Editor’s Standards George J. Ziogas
Find Discipline in The Present, Reap Big Rewards in The Future Gereon Wellmann
Hack Your Reading Speed Gokhan Yalcuk
Work on Making the Changes You Want to SeeHealingLivMama
Preprogrammed I. Trudie Palmer
Top 5 Sales Hacks to Grow Your Business Inyanam Isioto
How to Easily Succeed Anywhere J.D Rehbein-Wrightstein
You’re Where The Monsters Belong Jade Willow
Everything We Do Boils Down To Either Love Or Fear James Ssekamatte
If You Sliced Off The Top of My Head, it Would Look Like This . . . Janice Macdonald
21 Life Changing Quotes about the Power of Content Jeff Herring
21 Life Changing Quotes about the Power of Content
Which ones will you profit with first?
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Why I’m Following Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps to Financial Peace Jennifer Pierce
James Comey And The Great Dental Floss Escape. Jim McAulay🍁
What is the future of Education? John Archer
You Can Become the Writer You Always Wanted To Be John Teehan
They Are Trying to Kick Me Out of the Medium Partner Program Joseph Seifert
Scots-Irish, Appalachia and the imprint of Cousin America Judy Owens
My Own Eyes K.B. Bailey
Day 8 • ProFest at Parliament: Navigating the Uneasy Feelings and the Fear of Judgement Kara-Leah
I Certainly Hope Journalists Start Getting Better at Referencing Others Kevin Zuccherato
Improve Any Skill by Doing This One Thing Kylie van Gelder
Millennials don’t listen to you | here’s how to change it Larenzo
I Hated Odessa Texas So Much, I Tried to Enlist in the Navy To Escape Lawson Wallace
The Last Week in my Dad’s House that Almost Killed me, and my Uncle Lawson Wallace
I earned $6.19 on Medium Leah-Ashley McCauley
Blessing In The Skies Lee Mont
I’m a Therapist but Anxiety Still Plagues Me Leeann Pennington M.ed LPC
3 Methods I Use to Never Lack Inspiration for My Articles Letters from E.K.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Linda Osipow
Neurotypical Stims vs. ASD Stims: NTs’ Are Weirder Lorrae G.
Honey, cancel the grocery store. I can’t write today… MarkfromBoston
Before War Against China Read These Insights from an American Who Lived there for 2 Years Markus Scorelius
Discovering My Yang in My Yin Michelle Marie Writes
My crippling fear of success Mick
Five Questions about Life Choices We Must Ask Ourselves Today Midori by the Sea
All good things Nasar Karim
How I Manifested $500 In 24 Hours Neha Sonney, Author
You And Only You Nicole Barden
Adding an Extra Hand Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Be Yourself. Be the Person Standing Right In Front of You In the Mirror. Nishith Goyal
5 Websites That Pay $200 And More To Make Money Online (Per Article) Oguz Bayata
Emotional Safety Is The Term Everyone Needs To Know But Doesn’t Ossiana Tepfenhart
So, you want a fail-safe way to connect with anyone. Patrick OConnell
People Fail To Achieve Their Goals Because They Ask The Wrong Question Prince Verma
A Life Without Regret Is One Of Constant Learning Rafay Hiraj
A Life Without Regret Is One Of Constant Learning
Legend has it you have to break a glass
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My ADHD Symptoms Hid in Previous Articles Rose Malana
Every Real Travel Job Must Have These 3 Traits Ryan Scott Shannon
It’s All About The Story/ Pitch/ Sell Sarah Marie
Differences between APU, CPU & GPU Sebastian Calderon
Happy Twos Day Soul Dancer
WE GET SCAMMED BY OUR OWN EMOTIONS! Story Taller
Use These Tags Consistently To Increase Your Views Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
I often get stood up but I can’t help getting stood up SURYASH KUMAR
Not Feeling Passionate About Your 9-to-5 Job? Start here Tamar Meisels
Hand-Picked Articles #17 Technology Hits
5 Perks of Embracing A Quiet Life Terence Kong
The 3 Things I Wish I Learned Before Becoming A Landlord The Introspective One
Simple Travel Advice: Don’t Pay for Wi-Fi at Airports Todd Dosenberry
Come on, Medium — Why Are You Making Me Fight This Hard for Views? Toni Crowe
This is Why… Trish MacEnulty
3 Reasons Why Data Scientists and Data Engineers Should be Best Friends Valentin Mucke
My First Ever Encounter With Beings From The Other Dimension Vivek Naskar
Song of the Sky Wenqi Glantz
Don’t Let the Society Teach You Whom You Should Hate Wide Writer
I Don’t Wish to Startle You, But…William Vincent Carleton
Is There a Right Time To Move On From the Pandemic? Xin Xin
The Ride Up from Batopilas, Part 1 Yonke54
What to Do with Memories You, Me and Happiness
From Breakup to True Love with Eckhart Tolle And Dr. Joe Dispenza You, Me and Happiness
Selected Stories from Previously Featured Stories
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Magnesium Is Not Just Another Mineral Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show David Gerken #life-lessons
Squeeze the Juice Out of the Present Stop Daydreaming About the Future Ayodeji Awosika #self-improvement
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Lanu Pitan
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
Breakups: 7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need Your Ex Back Rodolfo Urbano, CPA
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Stop the Screen Wars: How to Make Screen Transitions a Little Less Painful Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Julius Evans by ILLUMINATION
Meet Sufyan Maan by ILLUMINATION
Invitation to My New Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Trending Stories on Publication
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t) Tim Denning
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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