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Curated Collection #57
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We keep our featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days. Here are the last three collections full of interesting stories covering many topics.Curated
The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
We believe you find some valuable and enjoyable pieces on this collection and previous collections.
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
How Solving Three Mental Issues Tripled Ariana’s Happiness Dr Mehmet Yildiz #mental-health
Three Practical Postural Tips Learned from a Physiotherapist to Beat Back Pain Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
How Does an Educated Empath Become a Narcissist’s Worst Nightmare? Melissa Kalt, MD
Bourgeois Revaluation Raises, if not Praises, the Merchants Ellen Clardy, PhD
Is Social Media the Root Cause for Distraction? Dr. Ming
I Made $100k In 30 Days From Selling An Online Course Matt Lillywhite
Daily Done: Part 5 — Maximize Your Productivity With 90 Minutes Work Intervals Alex Philippe
35 Questions that Told Me What I Want in Life Alexander Thomas
Substance America Zed⚡
Putin Is A Tsarist, Not A Leftist… AMIKO
On dreaming Ananya Ashok
Eliminate Brain Fog and Improve your Memory by Doing this One Thing Ange Dim
Ph.D. in Escapism Ankit Nagar
The Birth of #Iintend2survive Annelise Lords
The 6 Personality Types You Should Avoid Antonis Iliakis
The 6 Personality Types You Should Avoid
… and limit your time around them to the minimum
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A Problem With Remote Working That No-one Saw Coming Ashfaq Framewala
Music, Musical and Film Recommendations From Fellow Writers I’ve Read This Week Ashley
The Abandoned Railway track Aswathi Ashok
What Should I Do To Marry a Rich Guy? (U’ll Be Amazed After Reading The Reply) Atheeb Azeem
Are We Really Born To Run? Australian Foodie on Running
Healing Meditation On Ukraine Blair Abee
The Desk is Empty Brooklyn Muse
5 Online ‘Passive’ Income Sources That I Have Actually Tried Calum James
I Finally Met With a Neurosurgeon That Will Do My DBS Surgery! Carole Olsen
What Happens If Russia Invades Ukraine? Cedric Boogaerts
Why Your Natural Reactions in an Argument Can End Your Marriage and What You Can Do About It Chad Gates
Do You Want To Learn About The Health Benefits Of Pilates? Chasing Dreams
Divorce Made My Ex-Husband an Expert Liar Colleen Sheehy Orme
4 Simple Ways To Transform Yourself Into A Better Person Crystal Mathews
How Two Hamsters Tragically Died in My Elementary School Danielle Hestand
Fancy Bears Metaverse or How I 4x My ROI In NFT David K.
House Cats of the African Savuti Deborah Camp
My Mom Taught me How to Get More Reads Back When I Was Six Don Martin
Think of The School Year as Time Intervals Don Sabado
Hard Penis In The Morning- Truth & Myth Dr. NRB Shuvo
Redesigning A New World From E-Wedding To Metaverse Weddings. Dr. Preeti Singh
I’m Infected with Covid 19 on The Island Of Langkawi, Now What? Elvie Lins❤️
9 Dark Kinds of Selfish Parents Fahim chughtai
Do You Think These People Are Racist Or Not? Floyd Mori
The best series of the last year, apart from Squid Game Francesco Carrubba
Alternate Dimensions Frank Ontario
The “Q-anon” Deal From the Mountain ~ Stories & Photos of JD Adams
Ten Paradoxes by Mark Manson That Make Perfect Sense Out of Your Life Gereon Wellmann
4 Hardcore Signs She Isn’t Interested In You Growth Lodge
The Primitive Smile Hala Saneh
How Did I Get 4K Medium Followers? Hidayatullah
Give Up Trying I. Trudie Palmer
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Cosmic Inflation, Sex and Cheerios® Improv Cowboy
Cosmic Inflation, Sex and Cheerios®
Or, How To Avoid Living a Meager Life and Dying Alone
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All My Stories and Articles Were Destroyed Ira Robinson
Some of the Best Tips to $100 Jacob K Thomas
Black Spots on a Cat’s Gums: Should You Be Concerned? Jade Augustine
My Story was a Success: The World’s Richest People are Problem Solvers Jaja Requa
To Men Preaching Conventional Masculinity James Ssekamatte
Should I Have Done A Little More Advance Planning Before I Plunged Into The Deep End? Janice Macdonald
The Top 10 Highest Paying Most in-demand IT Jobs for 2022 Jason Aro
Welcome to Medium! Jay aware
5 Things To Do Before You Lose Everything Jayven Knight
5 Things To Do Before You Lose Everything
Enjoy both the highs and the lows in your life.
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Smart Content Income: From Article to “Mini-Workbook” Jeff Herring
Smart Content Income: From Article to “Mini-Workbook”
Do so much more with your articles…
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Congrats, you secured a job interview! Now what? Jeff Peirish
Congrats, you secured a job interview! Now what?
If you do one thing right, make it this.
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The 2 Most Overly Used Job Requirements in Technology Hide an Ugly Truth Jesse Bramani
Me — At Least a Part Of Me Joachim Guth
I Became an Online Piano Teacher Because of COVID Joanna Funk
A Really Effective Four-Letter Word For When Someone Is Being A Total Jerk Joel Selby
22 Life Lessons From Twenty-Two Years as a Human Being Joseph Seifert
Man Might Miss Birth of Baby to Watch New Batman Judson Hurd
The 2,000-Year-Old Vigil Of The Sickle-Nosed Kannan Natesan
Cold War Kids Like Me Grew Up in Fear Karen Lynn
Cold War Kids Like Me Grew Up in Fear
Let Our Children and Grandchildren grow up in Peace
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‘How Much Should I Save For Retirement?’ is the Wrong Question Katie Reierson
4 Steps To Move From Planning To Execution Kay Bee
It’s Time to Stop Calling Out Kanye West Khadejah
A Secret Message from Emerson or My Future Self? Kim Byrne
7 Days Left Of February’s Fiction Challenge/Contest — Gift Card Prize For Top 3 Winners KL Simmons
Two One-page sites at no cost Lassepetter
Power of the Mind Little Monster
YouTube is a Super Power. Lori Ballen
How an Autistic Info Dump Happens Lorrae G.
How to rewire your brain Luca Tognon
You are responsible for your own happiness (and those around you) Mark Eid
A Day In The Life Of A Six-Figure Entrepreneur Matt Lillywhite
How to Boost Your Self-Confidence and Rock Out Your Blog Post Melissa Herb
Are You Living with Regret? Michele Thill
5 Things Everybody Should Consider Before Starting a Side Hustle Mihai Baluta-Cujba
When You Say Yes To Something, You’re Also Saying No To Something Mike Lewis
How do you know what you know? Miss Daisy
Waiting at Midnight N. A. Kazi
The Impact Narcissism Has On Our Emotions Nanna
Everything that’s wrong Nasar Karim
5 Truths Competent People Know Nick Birthday
Complaining Nicole Barden
Dating and Reincardating Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
The Love We Had, a Contemporary Novel Øivind H. Solheim
The Emotional Neglect Epidemic Facing Men Across The Country Ossiana Tepfenhart
Websites and Magazines Paying Freelance Writers up to $1,200.00 Per Article Pamela Kazmierczak
The Way I Present a Perfect Seminar With Some Idiotic Tactics. Prakash
I Want to Be Rich and Live Poor Rafay Hiraj
How to Make $1000 or More Online Using Google Search Richard Appiah
What If You Were God? Richard Landeau
Find your life’s purpose by developing these eight qualities Robert Howe
3 Subtle Signs That You’ve Become a Slave of Your Boss (or Job) S M Mamunur Rahman
5 Steps to Take Before Investing in Cryptocurrency for the First Time in 2022 Sam Maiyaki
Wait! Hold Off on the Eraser! Sarah Marie
These Three Magical Words Ended a Friendship Shannon Piérre
Making Moves at Work Simmy
5 Ways Sensory Play Can Help Your Child Sonya Philip
What Nature Can Really Do For You Spencer Ellis
How Cognitive Therapy and Nonviolent Communication Can Improve our Daily Life Story Taller
I Did 2-Minute Plank Every Day for 35 Days Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
The Man I Live With: Part 3 Suma Narayan
The Glory of Imagination Within the Flock Of Words Suntonu Bhadra
You’ll Have More Money But It Won’t Go As Far Susan F Weimer
Why saying “no” to all you thought you ever wanted might be your best decision yet Tamunoala
4 Companies Offering Scholarships For Non-White Americans The Sinfeld Times
I Was Free When I Overcame The Fear Of Judgment The Sinfeld Times
Confessions Of An Online Shopping Junkie Tom C
Why You Can’t Seem to Commit to Anything Anymore (hint: it’s not your fault) Tom Greene
3 Steps On How You Can Easily Analyze Your Best Medium Articles Tom Handy
Life and Death 2 Tomas Byrne
WHY CHARLES DICKENS ENDURES Trisha Ready
Eliminate Fungus Issues in Your Body TruHealth by Kasara
Making Love Last Un-Traditional Mother
How To Protect Your Incentive-Based Marketing Strategy From Fraud Varsha Lalwani
5 FREE Apps To Make Money From Your Phone in 2022 Vicky Hui
Why Hate on the Big Companies? Waseh Ahmad
Here Comes The Sun William Vincent Carleton
True Responsibility Yeeve Rayne
How This Model Can Help You Solve Problems You, Me and Happiness
How to Get Rid of Negative Thoughts? Yousuf Rafi
Which tool need before starting the machine learning journey zen
Invitation to “ILLUMINATION on YouTube” Publication on Medium
When Australia Tried to Charge Facebook for Content Steven Effendi Halim
Beginner’s Guide to Reinforcement Learning Niklas Lang
New Writer Starter Pack! Wahyuni Sapri
Relationship between Me and Myself Wahyuni Sapri
4 Best Places To Visit in Norway Bryan
One Word Made My Article Go Viral Wes Putnam
Selected Stories from Previously Featured Stories
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
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
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
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
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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