Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #137
Chosen by the content curators of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium

Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we selected interesting and engaging pieces from our experienced writers for your enjoyment.
These stories represent several topics from our collections. Writers in this selected collection are creative, engaging, and experienced contributors to ILLUMINATION for a while. We love their stories.
It is great pleasure to amplify the stories of our writers and satisfy the reading needs of our loyal readers by giving them many options daily.
Thank you for your time, inspiration, and meaningful engagement in these stories. Our writers are grateful for your valuable feedback and reactions to their stories shared in recent collections #134, #135, and #136 posted before.
Here are the links for those who might have missed the previous collection.
We are delighted several writers joined our publications. We welcome them using these collections and introduce them to our readers.
New writers’ introduction and writing related stories at the end of this post. Let’s please welcome the new contributors who joined us recently. ILLUMINATION is proud to add new contributors daily and support their content.
Please explore and enjoy these great stories.

Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION Publications
This Passive Income Skill Can Enhance Writers’ Lifestyle Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Three Tips to Eliminate Loose Skin Dr Mehmet Yildiz
What the ‘McDonald’s Career Track’ Means for Our Collective Financial Future Richelle Délia, PhD
The Decentraland Effect: Virtual Millionaires or an Anomaly? Nick Sokol, PhD
For This New Year, Just Practice Dr. Alex Krejci
Words of Wisdom from the Realm of Spirituality Tara Desai PhD
Meet Sinem Günel by ILLUMINATION
Self Healing Promises for a Happier 2022 Zeenat Merchant Syal, M.A, M.Sc
New Year Survival Tips for Food Addicts Joan Kent, PhD
“The Law of Attraction” & “Radical Nonduality” Are Powerful Opposite Truths Alan Lew
How To Drive Traffic To Your Medium Stories Ahmed Tarek
Great Stories From 2021 That Are Worth Revisiting Carol Price
When It Comes To Social Support Michael Patanella
Many Good, Innocent People Languish In Our Prison Systems. This Is So Wrong. Maria Rattray
Kim K Unfollows Miley Cyrus Over Pete Pics!? ⭐ Wee Justy ⭐
Cash Not Best Option For 2022 Carlos Pascual
My Toxic Parents Sabotaged My Relationships Carol Chea
Are You Guilty of Christmas Shaming? Would You Break the 7 Holy Commandments of Christmas? Caryn Leach-Smith
5 Aspects of Mindfulness That I Have Found to Be Most Helpful Damian Clark
Elon Musk: Have More Kids or Our Civilization Crumbles DC Crawford
Why It’s Okay Not To Have New Year Resolutions Don Johnson
Why It’s Okay Not To Have New Year Resolutions
Give yourself a break and let them emerge.
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An Ancient and Long-forgotten Practice Is Coming Back. Eduardo Remolins
What We Need to Understand as People trying to be Entrepreneurs Emmanuel A. Anderson
10 Ways to Exercise Your Mind for Mental Fitness Fahim chughtai
It’s Not A Good Time To Visit Washington, D.C. Floyd Mori
Stop Treating Healthcare Providers Badly Alexandra Duncan
Guilt tripping is disgusting, icky Amelie Bauer
Back to Work Scaries — Here are 4 Ways to Transition Fearlessly Into the New Year Ange Dim
Forgetting You! Annelise Lords
5 simple habits to put in place for a more productive & less stressful 2022 Annika Lindberg
Midnight Mass Broke The Penguin Argumentative Penguin
An Engagement at Galaxyland Athena Milios
How to Finally Get To That Dream Bill Abbate
An Art Odyssey in NYC Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson
What I Learned After I Ate the Last Sugar Cookie Brooke Ramey Nelson
My 100th Article on Medium Calum James
America, Trump, Dictatorship, and the Big Lie Gadwall Jackson
7 Important Things To Stop Your Skin Aging Gokhan Yalcuk
Orange juice — Please Haimish Mead
Paranoia Haji
Lessons learned fromTechnology — by a dense woman trying to learn the ropes Jackie Madden Haugh
Introverts vs. Extroverts on writing Jay aware
Customer Service Come Home Jennifer Pierce
A Tribute to Joanne Jesse Bramani
How to Motivate Yourself to Workout When You Don’t Want To Jessey Anthony
10 Powerful Quotes To Calm Your Mind Letters from E.K.
You Don’t Need to Be Perfect to Be Loved Lilian Poon
The Five Problems with Joyful Movement Lorrae - Loving My AUTISTRY
Why Do You Need A Successful Hero To Identify With A Character? Lucia Landini
Black Life-If It Happened Then It’s a Fact Maryam Ismail
More Insomniatic Ramblings Misty Rae
5 Ways My Faith Has Changed During the Pandemic Nahid Husain-Habib
The Price Of Not Pursuing Your Passions Nico Sifiso
Broken Thoughts NIDAA
5 Top Limitations of A Sustainable Supply Chain Nora
What If It’s Not Meant For Me?” Nova Binx
Want to Keep Your Resolutions? Here’s How. Oliver W. Johnson
Writing on Medium is a Trapeze Without a Net Paul Coogan
Self-Awareness — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Fethi Sekin: The Turkish Police Officer Life and Heroic Death Rui Alves
Copy the Thought Process, Don’t Copy the Content! Sara Marium
Upon Greeting The Return of Wildlife At A Pond By A Grove Sav Map
Is the Real World as Evil as the Internet Appears? Shannon Piérre
How You Can Increase Your Income With KDP Low Content Books Shea Hulse
How 3 Weeks of Meditation Rewired My Brain Tammy Bergstrom
Tech Stories on Technology Hits #2 ILLUMINATION Amplifier
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Kristina Segarra
Why Does Your website have little or no traffic? Patrick OConnell
How To Drive Traffic To Your Medium Stories Ahmed Tarek
The Miracle of Life Libby Shively McAvoy
Healing Meditation for My Country Blair Abee
A Stripped Back Description of Buddhism Frank T Bird
For Those Who Are Thinking of Attaining an APA Accredited Ph.D. Joshua J. Lyon
I Bought A Baby Camera To Help My Friend “Capture” How His Wife Beats Him Up Mila
A 2-Minute Rant on the Problem with Computer Science Education Murtaza Ali
Freelance Writing on Synergy ILLUMINATION
3 Painful Myths of Email Marketing Jeff the Content Coach
Influence the Whole Brain for Success Dr Mehmet Yildiz
What is Your Ikigai and How Can You Achieve Success With It John Cunningham
4 Ways To Stop Thinking About Someone Above The Middle
My Anxiety Spiked During My Productivity Detox Alina Vrabie
The Long View America Zed⚡
Outstanding Stories — Volume 84 ILLUMINATION-Curated
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New Year’s Resolutions Suck Joe Merkle
30 Freelance Business Ideas You Can Start Now Johnathan Reeper
Boom! Why I’ll Leave Medium And Start My Own Newsletter Kristina God
10 REASONS TO INNOVATE Lakshmi Shree
Employees Don’t Want to Return to the Office, Why Not? Lawson Wallace
Why I Choose to Live in Australia Dr Mehmet Yildiz
New Year, Same Me Leanne Mullan
Instead of Blaming Men for Relationships Problems, I Took A Long, Hard Look at Myself Beth Byfield
Morning Rituals Brooklyn Muse
What’s The Difference Between Your True Personality And Your Persona? Christina Sponias
Six Engaging YouTube Channels about Religion Danielle Hestand
The Secret To Avoid Struggling, Worrying, Or Doubting It’s Going To Happen Dave Richards
A Prayer For Our Family Jade Willow
Don’t Let Some One Come Between You Jim McAulay🍁
Why Alignment Matters In Dungeons & Dragons John Teehan
Craft and Depression Judson Vereen
Create a Roadmap for Your Life Today! Justin Stinnett
The Illusion of Life: Balinese Style Kathryn Eriksen
The Illusion of Life: Balinese Style
There is so much more to life than what we perceive.
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I No Longer Know How to Socialize Kyra Bussanich
It’s amazing to me, How some Kids survive their Parents Lawson Wallace
3 Simple Tricks To Get Out of Your Head, and Enjoy the Moment Instead Letters from E.K.
Grasping to Understand The Reasoning Behind How Alberta Is Handling Covid Linda Osipow
Pilot Turned Travel Blogger Turned Freelance Content Writer Lola Rosario
One Thing a Personal Experience of an Ordinary British Girl Can Teach You Lucia Landini
Don’t Be Fooled. Impatience Can Also Be A Virtue. Mary Liga
Black Diamond Series: These 10 Slides Raised More Than 7 M$ Including Our Series A Round Mika Tienhaara
The Importance Of Performing TOWS Analysis To Grow Your Brand Nora
The Battle of Los Angeles — 80 Year Anniversary Otis Adams
Writing More Starts With The First Word Pamela Kazmierczak
Why Is December So Beautiful, Yet Ugly & Mean? Pius Adejumobi
You Don’t Need To Be Depressed To Think About Your Mental Health Ram Vegiraju
The Sacrifice of a Traveler’s Feet Rosa de Saron C.
How To Cultivate Your Free Time and Have Less Stuff to Do Rosa Diaz
The Little Story of a Playful Little Rat Rose Malana
7 Sins of Terrible Job Candidate Denys Opria
Firm Goals With Flexible Methods Divya Yerraguntla
Expressions Dr. Fatima Imam
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
You Want to Write Online in 2022? Publish Your Articles Here Eva Keiffenheim
Why would you ‘unclap’ an article? Fit$
Foreigners — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Cultivating Kindness Ruks Moreea
4 Tips to Take Action on Your Projects in 2022 Sahana
Proven by Science: Kindness Is Good for Your Health Sally Prag
“Don’t-Air-Our-Dirty-Laundry” Syndrome is Hurting Our Minority Communities Sarah Mostafa
Why Optimism Always Wins Toyin Zuleiha
How I Beat The Covid Test Lines William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
7 Steps to Relieve Chronic Pain You, Me and Happiness
Crush Your Ego to Pieces with a Sledgehammer or Something Stronger Zak
Google Is Overthrown as the World’s Most Popular Website The Dozen
How to Completely Change Your Life With Travel Savytech articles
Why We Do Bad Things… Steve C
Journey into Silence Discover if You Are a Slave to Ego or Know The True Self. Lady Jhershierra
Investing With Small Sums of Money Thijs Nijenhuis
The Blacklisted Dominican Sales Funnel Abandoned Trapper Sherwood
How to Organise and Manage Emails Like a Spartan Trisha Dunbar (She/Her)
We Didn’t Need Police In Schools. We Had Teachers Vuyo Ngcakani
Review of A Quiet Place and Its Sequel Movie Napoleon
Pain Sucks, So I Decided To Buy and Try This New Massager For My Partner KL Simmons
Mountain Yonke54
Hidden Messages in Elon’s Ex-wife’s TedTalk You, Me and Happiness
Prototype For Success Allison Bonilla
Grateful Though I Am No Billionaire paulmartincurry
How Do You Use The ‘Fear Setting’ Octopus Explorer
Let’s welcome the new writers who join us today.
Pamela Oglesby, Michael Okafor, Wealthly, Ideas To Grow, Carlos Gonzalez, RAW, srinivasan Metta, Monomit Bhowmik, Julian Lawrence, Trey Natherson, Natalie Wilmet, Cynthia love❤️, 𝕭𝖆𝖉 🩸 𝕽𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖈.
Let’s also give a warm welcome to recently joined writers. Some of them have already posted their first articles. Let’s support their content!
TheConchLife.com, Benazir Albashir, Dhruv Hegde, Modern Eremite, Pierre Matile, Ashley Hague, Tiffany Ventic, Emma Granha piati, Jam Pel, Riyaaddison, J. Rafid Siddiqui, PhD, The Paul Lee Hub, Bernhard Mueller, Tabs, Presh marvis, Sherri Donohue, Jessica H., Glodean Champion, Anugrahgupta, JaseDMF, Dianne M. Daniels, Abby R, Lea, Vincent, Dash.
Meet new writers joined when this collection originally prepared by ILLUMINATION editors
Let’s welcome these relatively new writers and explore their stories by clicking on the profile links below. Most of them already contribute to our publications.
Collaboration between writers and readers is a success factor on Medium.
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The key consideration for new contributors is to review the onboarding pack quickly, as it includes publication-specific information for a smooth transition. I attached it below.
As a benefit of fast publishing, your stories will start earning income and finding more readers quickly.
Please caption your photos and ensure that that they are not copyrighted: either belong to you or from free sources. Not captioning and using copyrighted photos waste our editors’ precious time and cause delays in publishing your stories.
Please Note that not captioning images and using copyrighted photos will lead to rejection of stories.
ILLUMINATION provided guidance to new writers on collection #128.
We are sorry for the publishing delays. Thank you for your understanding and patience. Your stories will be published eventually.
You may also consider self-publishing as we accept them. However, draft submissions might bring more readers so it is up to you.
ILLUMINATION publications accepts both draft and self-published stories. But, editors give priority to drafts as these stories need to find readers waiting in the queue for a while.
Let’s Meet Our Editors Who Publish These Stories
The following stories cover the profiles of our volunteer editors.
These volunteer editors are the ones reviewing and publishing the stories in these collections. They are from various time zones clearing the publication queue on their precious time daily.
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Dr Mehmet Yildiz Chief Editor and Owner
Helpful References for New Writers
New writers might check out these stories as they are designed to guide them.
Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
Helpful Guides for All Contributors
Guiding Posts on our Publications
Publication-related stories can be accessed via this collection.
Onboarding Pack for New Writers
New writers, please read this pack before submitting your stories.
Meet Editors of Our Publications
Introducing Writers Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Publications by Our Writers on Medium
Updates from Euphoria
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication
Invitation: Join ILLUMINATION Gaming Publication as a Writer
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
Illumination Fiction Club
Invitation to Potential Writers
If you wish to join Illumination Integration publications, please send a request via this link.
We will help you gain visibility and succeed as a top writer on Medium. Please point out the publication name with your Medium account ID in the request.
If you are new to Medium, you can join via this link. Readers can read thousands of stories, and writers may monetize self-published content.
As our chief editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz says “opportunities are endless on this platform”.






