Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #246
Chosen by the content curators of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium for avid readers
Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we selected a small number of engaging and informative stories from contributors of ILLUMINATION and a few of our other publications compiled in our curated collections of thousand of stories.
This new collection covers eclectic pieces in various writing styles reflecting exciting voices. We ensured to cover multiple topics when selecting.
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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Today, we curated informative and engaging stories, mainly from ILLUMINATION and a few from our other publications as samples.
Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION Publications
7 Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases and How to Tackle Them with Lifestyle Choices Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The Pessimism Age Is Exhausting Us Tim Denning
Jerry Seinfeld’s Meditation Experience Should be a Wakeup Call to the Business World David Gerken
11 Pieces of Good Advice (With a Heavy Dose of Controversy)Ayodeji Awosika
How I Upgraded My Home Office During The Pandemic Sinem Günel
How to Stand Up for Yourself in America Anastasia Frugaard
8 Things to Be Happy for in Your Thirties Jenn Leach
Andrea Bocelli and Soprano Lei Jia Teamed Up With Pianist Lang Lang and Then This Happened Rui Alves
Do Americans Make a Big Deal About Everything? George J. Ziogas
Unraveling The Everyday Telehealth Challenges Should Start With Work Flow Simulation And… Dr. ADAM TABRIZ
How to Move Form Deficiency to Growth in Maslow’s Scheme Mark Sanford, Ph.D.
It has been suggested by CNN televised reports that Donald Trump may consider creating a Patriot’s… Dr. Deborah M. Vereen
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
Write that Letter Cedric Johnson, PhD
Introduction to John Rose BSc, BE(Hons), PhD. John Frederick Rose
The T-Rex That Ate My Medium Revenue Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.
How To Transfer Money From the Patient to the Impatient Max Mask, BSc, MBA.
Am I Wrong to Worry About My Son Adopting a Special Needs Child? Bebe Nicholson
As an Editor, This Is the Top Thing I See Writers Getting Wrong With Their Articles Jennifer Geer
Because I Kept Opportunity Waiting Annelise Lords
Donald Trump’s New Son-In-Law Is From A S***hole Country Rebecca Stevens A.
You Won’t Get Very Far as a Writer if You Don’t Do This Aql
Ever Fallen in Love With A Fictional Character? Argumentative Penguin
Check Out This Officially Licensed Gamepad for The PS5 Aiden (Illumination Gaming)
You Can’t Fail, So Stop Fearing It Bella Martin
Life Isn’t Fair but Radical Acceptance Can Help Benjamin Carter
5 Things I Found In My First 3 Months on Medium Bernie Pullen
When Men Use Their Superpower, They Bring Healing to the World Beth Byfield
Why Bad Boys are Magnets to Women Brooklyn Muse
My Cat Got Diagnosed With Autism Today Bryan Dijkhuizen
Let’s Compare Medium’s New Layout to the Old One (and How You Can Get It) Burk
Nicknames — Where Do They Come From? Calum James
How to Heal your Chakras with Writing. Cee Cee
5 Secrets to Get Through Valentine’s Day if You’re Single David Brühlmann
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The Six Thinking Hats of a Solopodpreneur Derek Oxley
How a Few Extra Stories 10Xed my Views in a Month Don Martin
How a Few Extra Stories 10Xed my Views in a Month
Without feeling too much extra pressure
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In the Reign of Coronaphobia … Elizabeth Emerald
Let’s Talk About Manifestation Maribel Toscano
How To Ensure Success Ephraim Champion
How can I be a good father. A poem Francesco Carrubba
The Telephone Call Harry Hogg
They Mean Well Harry Stefanakis
Seven Tips to Improve Mood Instantly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Gratitude Amidst the Exhaustion HealingLivMama
How Is NMN Better Than NR? Hello100
How Is NMN Better Than NR?
And Which of These Molecules Contributes To Higher NAD+ Levels
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How to Fix Burnout When You Can’t Change Your Name, F*ck Off to Another Country, and Never Work… Hope
So, Tell Me About This Metaverse I. Trudie Palmer
Faustian Deals, Faith Leaders, and the Canadian Trucker Conveys Jane Harris
How Being Kind to Others Can Kill Your Love Life Jessica Rabel
To Change The Future, Take Action In The Present Jim McAulay🍁
10 Curious Facts About Animals Jose Luis Ontanon Nunez
Black Lives Still Matter! Justin Stinnett
Poetry Is A Place — Where Words Get Eternalized, In All Their Imperfections Kannan Natesan
Why You Should Never Find Yourself By Using Social Media Khadejah
Are Women Really Better Than Men At Managing Money? Let Me Count The Ways… KL Simmons
The Internet is a Great Place to Buy and Sell Weird Stuff Lawson Wallace
6 Easy Ways You Can Become an Attractive Person Leah Njoki
Can You Pass The CONTRADICTIONS Test? Leonard Tillerman
The One Thing That’s Making You Stay Average Lifestyle With Nina
My Heart is on Lockdown Margie Willis
My Highest Earning Story So Far MarkfromBoston
Is it OK to say I’m broken? Mick
The Simple Guide to Student Debt Cancellation Nick Baker
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz
It’s Definitely A No From Me, Vocal! Nora
You Are as Happy as You Think You Are Øivind H. Solheim
Magazines and Websites Paying Between $200.00–2,000.00 For a Nonfiction Article Pamela Kazmierczak
Grateful and Greedy for the Seconds After paulmartincurry
This One Advice Can Make You More Happy In Life Prince Verma
9 Ways The Covid Pandemic Has Improved The Mental Health Priyam Samantray
Keep at It Rahul Pant
10 Innovative Small Business Ideas for 2022 Richard Appiah
A Programmer’s Poem Rob Dods
There’s No Evidence-Based Personal Training — Why You’re Better Off Avoiding The Mugs Rob Hourmont
Alignment — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
7 Reasons Why I Bought a Flat in Batumi Sergio Guardiola Herrador
The Tyranny of Buzzwords Shashi Sastry
8 Ways to Deal With Failure Shea Cummings
5 Proven Ways To Learn Anything Faster and Better Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
I Write Fiction on Medium T. Mark Mangum
The Ethical Political Continuum 2 Tomas Byrne
Humor, With Interest Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
How Limiting Beliefs Affect Our Reality Tree Langdon
Cleaning your house? How about your colon too! TruHealth by Kasara
Why Biden Goes to War Veritas Civis
Three Simple And Unexpected Lessons On Personal Self-Sabotaging Tendencies Vic Bowling
The World’s Upside Down Victoria Ponte
Earn 200$-600$ Per Article — The Only Website You Need to Know as a Technical Writer Vinicius Monteiro
Ten Reasons Not to Quit Online Writing (When You Want to) Wes Putnam
There Is a New Quora, and Nobody Is Talking About It Up Until Now Napoleon
Chop, Change and Hold on! You, Me and Happiness
Helping Hand Zachary Seda
To Own My Own Story Michael Patanella
Good News: Two Innovative Content Distribution Companies Amalgamate Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Gratitude: Medium Confirmed My Acceptance to Partnership Program Today Illumination Gaming
What Happened with /r/AntiWork and Fox News? Sam Westreich, PhD
3 Must-Have Rules to Write Deep Impact Articles Alex Philippe
10 Great Quotations on Mistakes America Zed⚡
8 Ways with Actionable Plans to Create an Abundance Mindset Amit Kumar
Why is White Fragility So Funny? Amy Sea
Self-Improvement Is Masturbation. Now Self-Destruction Is The Answer. Andrey Pilipets
Your Best Written Material Could be Created During the Toughest Life Moments Ange Dim
Victims of Free Mentality Annelise Lords
4 Reasons You Should Use Microsoft Excel Or Google Sheets To Keep A List Of Your Stories AP Carpen
A Parent’s Brief Guide To School Behavior Support Plans Becca Dorn-Medeiros, EdS
A New Facebook Scam Has Surfaced. It’s A Trap! Bogdan Mtn
Healing? Brooklyn Muse
4 Items That I Always Carry With Me Bryan Dijkhuizen
The More Materialistic You Are the Shorter Your Relationships Will Be Calum James
Being Stuck Carol Chea
First Love Slipping Away Chasing Dreams
How I Understood The Value Of Persistence Christina Sponias
Fat Loss Isn’t Complex. We Make It Mysteries. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
What is Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum? Christina Szeman
Aging Gracefully is an Oxymoron Denise Hedley
Insights from Scrub Daddy Derek Oxley
Feeling Stuck In A Rut? You Won’t Be After Reading This. Destiny S. Harris
Poem: When Life Gives You Less Dharan.M
A Quick Little Empathy Game Diane Gillespie
Are You A Pessimist, If So Then You Must Be Happy Being Miserable Dominic DiFrancesco
What became of Terry Mansfield? Flavio Aliberti
Why Are Black Universities Getting Bomb Threats? Floyd Mori
Why Remarkable Leaders Seek Insights at Every Level Frances Hickmott
The Syrian family of the symbolic photo spoke for the first time Francesco Carrubba
Make Money and Increase The Number of Followers on Twitter Gokhan Yalcuk
There Is Life Beyond Who You Think You Are, Do You Wish To Join? Gregory Reece-Smith
6 Signs You’re Secretly Charming Destiny Femi
5 Things I Love About Making Lists Gulsun Uluer
From Delusion to Reality And Beyond Hala Saneh
What you seek is seeking you — Rumi Hala Saneh
Long Weekend Winter Leaving Harry Hogg
Do We Really Need A Career Goal? Ilam Padmanabhan
You Failed The Test Again. Jade Willow
Hawaii recently became the first state in the U.S. to ban shark fishing. Jake Hilden
Thoughts From An Ancient Feminist Janet Meisel
True Confessions of a Hearing Loss Denier . . Janice Macdonald
Is unexhibited life NOT worth living? Jayla Paul
Article-a-Day List Building System Jeff the Content Coach
I’m Tired of Caring About My Weight Jennifer M. Wilson
She Got 35 Million Dollars for Telling a Men to Fuck off Jessey Anthony
3 Purchases I’m Totally Ready to Stop Being Cheap About Joel Selby
The Warrior’s Way — Keep Going John Cunningham
Keeping Your Children Safe Online John Teehan
Two Days, Too Far Away Jonathan Tasman
5 Gut-Wrenching Realizations From Getting Beat Up Joseph Seifert
What Price Family Unity? Josephine Crispin
NewsBreak Can Pull the Carpet from Under Your Feet Anytime Kirsty Kendall
Full-Time RV Life: 7 Things to Consider Before Taking the Plunge Mary Gallagher
Soto Street Mary Louisa Cappelli
How To Carry On When U Are At the End of Your Rope Max Mask, BSc, MBA.
To Own My Own Story Michael Patanella
My Co-Worker Lost 10 Pounds With This One Simple Change To His Diet Mike Lewis
What’s Like Having To Choose Between Your Parents Mila
10 Life-Changing Lessons From Bhagwad Gita To Illuminate Your Life Krishna V Chaudhary
A Heart-to-Heart About Clichés Kristine Laco
The cats in our life Lassepetter
Entrepreneurship: A Tangible Dream in 30 Days Le Voir N. Lewis
Valentine’s Day Gifts for Her for Under $50 Live Love Quiz
9 Easy Ways to gain 500 followers MarkfromBoston
24 Insensitive Phrases That Mean People Say to Make You Feel Inferior Markus Scorelius
You Had Progress And Now You Don’t Marsha Hamby Savage
Albums, Cassette Tapes, and CDs: Going to the record store Nick Stockton
Puzzle This Tamila McDonald
5 Tips To Distinguish Physiological From Emotional Hunger Teresa Morillas
7 Things That Surprised Me About Spain Tessa Char
The Ethical Political Continuum 3 Tomas Byrne
Signs of Pushback From Divisive Politics Vanessa Gallman
We the people come first, But We Need to Make it So Veritas Civis
Here’s What You Missed Victoria Ponte
Five Reasons You Must Make Your Side Hustle Work Wes Putnam
A Memorable Weekend WrittenMastery
In Defense of Kim Kardashian being called a Gold Digger Y. Vue
My Top 10 Food Sins with Recipes You, Me and Happiness
I Cry Nicole Barden
Why Whoopi Goldberg’s Inflammatory Holocaust Remarks Are Not an Issue of Race or Racism Nova Richards
Here’s How Altering My Diet Solved the Unbearable Teeth Problems Sustainably. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How to support great causes without begging for donations Olivia Fisher
Glittered Patricia Pixie❤
I am a dyed-in-the-wool introvert, that hates to be the first to strike up a conversation with a… Patrick OConnell
5 Reasons Why People Hate James Corden Paul Goodman
Grateful and Greedy for Grass Underfoot paulmartincurry
4 Exercises You Can Do In 10 Minutes That Will Drastically Improve Your Health Prince Verma
Forget The Future; Focus on The Present Rafay Hiraj
It Is Okay To Color Outside the Lines Sarah Marie
How to Take Notes — Tutorial for Professionals Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Everything You Wanted to Know About a Good Nights Sleep But Were Afraid to Ask. T.J. Johansson
Anna Shed 50 Pounds After Fixing Leaky Gut in Five Steps Dr Mehmet Yildiz
A New Puppy Parent’s Guide to Going Overboard in the Name of Puppy Love Crystal Jackson
I Am Amy’s Heart — A Poem Penofgold
12 Steps to International Savvy Douglas Pilarski
There’s A Hippo Sex Problem in Colombia Emily Kingsley
‘Rasslin’ Terry Trueman
Being the New Guy Is Always Painful. but It Gets Better René Junge
Don’t Let the Door Hit You On the Way Out Kristy Lynn
Let’s Talk about Some of These Screwed Up Pardons! Stephen Dalton
How I Became the Victim of a Dutch Prince and Survived Desiree Driesenaar
Grief: A Compelling Short Story — Part 2 Abena D
America, The Raped EP McKnight, MEd
Joe Biden’s Most Pressing Job Is To Cure America’s Obsession With Labels Steve QJ
3 Things I Learned When You Make Your Dreams Come True Tom Handy
How to Use Deadlines to Your Advantage Bill Abbate
Should You Quit Your Job If It Makes You Unhappy, But Pays Well? Jordan Mendiola
Here’s What Happened on One-Meal-a-Day After 15 Years. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Featured Writer Profiles
We included some sample stories from their collections. Please explore and enjoy their engaging pieces. They are regular contributors to Illumination.
Meet Jussi Luukkonen, MBA on Medium
Senior editor of Illumination Integrated Publications
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Thank you for reading these profiles and exploring their stories.
Let’s welcome the new writers who join us today.
Hashir Ahmed Qureshi, Makemychnce.com, shannon cb, E.I. Sultan, Blanche Durie, Savannah Carreno, Mihaela Roman, Ernestina, The Layman Speaks, Jennifer Pierce, Building Blocks, Adedotun, Jordan S, Sekhar M.
Let’s also please give a warm welcome to recently joined writers. Some of them have already posted their first articles.
Thank you for supporting these new writers’ content. We keep their profiles for a few days in these collections to introduce you.
Danielle Morsberger, Akemi Sagawa, G. Hobson Goff III, Ross McWaters, Annalisa Filippi, Ross McWaters, Annalisa Filippi, Lisa Renard-Spicer, Rosie Stott, Just Jake, Agarwalpurav, Matthew Curtin, Dawn Ulmer, Stephenie Magister ✨, Chris Watson, Tariq Munir, Janet Chui, Mónica Esgueva, Jenna Tidd, Thomas James, Zeraton, Ahmed Okasha, Zoya Marinova, Veronica Llorca-Smith 💎, Kelvin Winter, Suzanna Quintana, Suzanna Quintana, Mitch Peterson, Joyce Nielsen, Monica Ray, Sam Naji, Shae Eloise Lamond, Mani Pathak, Hepza Hart, Lucía, Dave Smith, Simon The Fourteen, Elena Sanchez, Deon Christie, Stefan Pircalabu, Brontë, Malini, Daily Life Escapism, Jonathan R Lovins, Savannah Carreno, Chuck Frey, John Barr, Andrea O’Ferrall, Brett Jenae Tomlin, Jon Torrey, Anna Itzel Cazita, Francis Laleman, Giovanni Zúñiga, Claire Adams, John Crossman, Enda, Hakeem Gunn, Benjamin Marie, Euri Giles | Clareifi, Hernán Bueso, Mark Goblowsky, The Black Working Woman, Cherise Green, Jody Alyn, Prati Kaufman, Kshitij Gaikar, Amani I., Preethi Saravanakumar, Dave Chaimson, Salima Saxton, Hugo Rayne, Patrick Testa, David Castro Piñol, Mike G, Melissa Gray, Kenney Jones, Chris O, Paradigmshftr, Séverin Makengo, Patrick Crawford, Del, Ines Tavares, Hawwa M., Ashley Walker, Nix Noir, Dennis Hester, Michaela DG, Selbi Briggs, Caspar Mahoney, Laura B., Pacifica Goddard, Edoardo Romani, Ras Vasilisin, G. Covolo, Lize Richmond, Thomas Allen Moon, Goddess Matula, Haley Hougardy, Alexander, Irene Chu, Ivy Marie L, Arvind Telharkar, Kayla Hicks, Wennhaywood, Kai, Jeloze Ali, Christa Brian, Konner Blunt, Amy Liu, BK Johnsen, MaryClare StFrancis, M.A., Julie Gaeta, Colin Taisey, Susie Arnett, Robert G. Longpré, Gioia Dalosso, Aisha Ibrahim (ZP), Liz Hunt, Deon Christie, Maha Ahmed, Ibrahim Ali, Ram Musfi, Carolina Smith, Dennis Hester, Michele Cambardella, Yvens Serpa, Mariana Carvalho, Elias K, Glyn Bawden, Vytas Stoskus, AJN.
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Let’s Meet Our Editors Who Published 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
Essential Checklist for Writers and Bloggers
How to Write Content Guaranteed to Get Views and Reads
Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
Helpful Guides for All Contributors
Onboarding Pack for New Writers
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Guiding Posts on our Publications
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Meet Editors of Our Publications
Collection of Editor Bios
Introducing Writers Bios
Curated Writer Bios
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Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Updates from Euphoria by Dr Yildiz, owner of our publications
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Why Writers Need Personal Publications
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