What impact do you want to have on others right now? In a year? In 10 years?
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An interesting thing I’ve noticed with the articles I’ve written is that longevity can often vary.
Some articles tackle current news and go viral, immediately.
Yet others fall silent, unread and forgotten for the first 6 months, seemingly useless. Months later, it reaches the people it needs to reach out to. Unlike those initial viral articles, these people write to me across social media to tell me how those words have touched them in ways that changed their life.
It makes me reflect on value and how sometimes, even if it seems like no one is listening, you should write. Sometimes that writing needs some time to finally reach someone, and will impact them for the next ten years rather than the next 10 seconds that a viral article might.
So, let me know:
What impact do you want to have on others right now? In a year? In 10 years?
Until next week,
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🍜 Piping Hot New(dle) Pieces of the Week
Challenge: *highlight* the ones you bookmarked/ read and make sure everyone gets highlighted at least once! ❤
🧠🍜 [1] Stuffed Emotions by Rachella Angel Page ‘The beginning of emotional health is to let yourself feel. If not, unresolved feelings and thoughts build. We often think we are helping ourselves by not focusing on the feeling or the pain. In time though, it becomes a killer.’
🧠🍜 [2] It’s Time to Change Your Limiting Beliefs by Isabel Young ‘Many people believe that they can’t change their beliefs. ‘
🧠🍜 [3] Tongue, You Can’t Have it Both Ways by Karen Schwartz ‘Folks, Lucy Dan, has done it again. While I’m having my first-morning stretch along with drinking my soothing cup of coffee, there sits her prompt on my screen, begging me to play along.’
🧠🍜 [4] Magic — A Drop by Kyomi O'Connor ‘A fall dove from the universe The small drip of water awakened me Through mountains and valleys, I did traverse Lost in time and space, it did strike me out of the blue’
🧠🍜 [5] Love. by Sai Kiran Ramarapu ‘I did not believe in Love previously, I dismissed the very thought of it, I even dared of saying that it is what losers do, but everything changed at the moment, I met her.’
🧠🍜 [6] Becoming One by Rebecca Herz ‘O sacred pulse of universes take me in’
🧠🍜 [7] Chasing Love Is Destructive by Tarun Gupta ‘Chasing in love happens because of infatuation. It starts after meeting someone new, getting smitten, and only wanting to spend more time with them. This is a very tricky situation to navigate.’
🧠🍜 [8] How We Receive Shapes How We Reject by Yan Huang ‘I didn’t know the art of receiving and rejection. Many rejections shaped how I receive. Many receiving shaped how I reject.’
🧠🍜 [9] Good Is The Enemy Of Great by Kevin Alexander ‘It’s easy for people to get tripped up on perfection. The rise of social media has only made that worse. Few things are more effective at making one feel “lesser” than an endless scroll through perfectly curated photos. It’s the same with writing.’
🧠🍜 [10] Homophones and Homographs — The English Language Often Lends Itself to Confusion Yet Lots of Laughs by Caroline de Braganza ‘I could wear a bonnet Or I could slam it shut My brain may be an engine But doesn’t use lock nuts’
🧠🍜 [11] Hair Today Gone Tomorrow by Warren Brown ‘There are some who have long locks, There are some who have it cut short, There are some who wish they had hair. That has disappeared like a March hare.’
🧠🍜 [12] Impressions by Tarun Gupta ‘When we meet someone new, we can’t know enough about them to pass a decree about them.’
🧠🍜 [13] Time For Tea? Need to Pee? by Barb Dalton ‘Coming to Canada from down under Twice, words used caused quite the blunder I’d invited my neighbours over for tea What happened, I did not quite foresee They’d already eaten their supper Thinking they were coming just for a cuppa!’
🧠🍜 [14] Notice the Power of Nature by Las siete y más ‘Pouring rain can come by Nurturing everything it touches Streams of water gliding around Rainbows following behind’
🧠🍜 [15] Facing Emotions Isn’t For the Faint of Heart by Karen Schwartz ‘I once hid my sorrow, buried it far deep inside, Thought it best to ignore it, used my tears as a guide. If anyone asked what was wrong, I would say, These droplets are pleasure, now please go away.’
🧠🍜 [16] You Have The Power To Be Happy! by Isabel Young ‘It is never too late to start being happier. We must be grateful for what we have and who we are, instead of focusing on all the negative things in our lives. We can choose to be happy.’
🧠🍜 [17] Flattened by Jenine Bsharah Baines ‘The wicked witch of the west got off easy. A bucket of water put an end to her sufferings. You know the expression, hurt people hurt people.’
🔊 Voices to Amplify
We don’t have to leave it to the algorithm to suggest our favourite pieces! Here are some of my archived faves!
Thank you to Jenine Bsharah Baines, Ravyne Hawke, CARMEN F MICSA, I. Trudie Palmer and A.M. Radulescu for writing these pieces! ♥
🧠🍜 Thank you to the Noodle Team!
challenge: pick 3 writers you haven’t met yet and get acquainted with their pieces!
New writers: Yume Suki | Jacob Flanders | Simão Cunha
Francine Fallara | Scot Butwell | Kristina God |Hirdesh Matta | Edward Riley | Anthony David Vernon | Evergreen Eden | Teresa Young | Geeta Anjali | Alina Vrabie | Maia Sham | John Rehg | Anthony V. Lombardo | Anne Chisom | Cristi Ackerman Wells | Listy Jumar | Rane Kelze | Isabel Young | Ali | AK (Aaska Aejaz) | Matt Inman | Penny Grubb | Anastasia S. Manyonga | Nicole Sponsel | Brian Gilmore (aka — Bumpy J) | Asma | Leese Wright | Samah Fadil | Mittu Ravi | Lubna Yusuf | Deeksha Agrawal | Julladonna Park | Gauri Sirur | Ann Syson | Ellie Jacobson | Hogan Torah | Q U I N T E S S A | Misty Rae | Ravyne Hawke | Sai Kiran Ramarapu | Lola Sense | Glad Doggett | Dominick Bernard Francois | Colm Clark | Damilola Abiola | Penelope Mayfield | Pierce McIntyre | Abbey Streett | Kathy Jacobs | Mihai Brinas | Margie Willis | Jeanne-Erin | Troy B. Jordan | Zsófia Sáfár | Hal H. Harris | Greg Proffit | Rebecca Herz | Winston | Natasha Kurien | K S Fielding | Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles | Cori Holmes | Jee Young Park | Caroline de Braganza | Kate Lynch | Assumpta Nalubowa | Lisa Gerard Braun | Nes Laidler | Reanna Szeszol | The Positive Journal | Medomfo Owusu | Sh*t Happens — Lost Girl Travel | Obinna Uruakpa | Sean Peck | Susan Alison | Kevin Alexander | Sharing Randomly | Brenda Covarrubias | Jimmy Misner Jr. | Stevie Wright | Disha Choksi | Roselyn Violet | Dazzling Shene | Jennifer Leth | John Gobins | Karen Falcon | America Zed | CARMEN F MICSA | Karen Schwartz | MIGHTY MISCELLANY | Ajah Hales | Gisel La Fleur | Roselyn Violet | Marcus Chan | Jennifer Dunne | Cameron Sidhe | Earl Grey Sea | Rakshita Upadhyay | O.M. Fernandes | Beth Nintzel | Barbara Dalton | George Cloake | Nhi Diep | Tarun Gupta | HerPrivateLife | Sohrab Khandelwal | Nerissa Talique | Gracia Kleijnen | Betsy Denson | KSHernandez | Luke DeLalio | Rachella Angel Page | Teressa P. | VV Valentine | Bhavya Mehta | Suntonu Bhadra | Noah Levy | Suzy Hazelwood | Ashlea Morgan | LS | Jessie Waddell | Dave Logan | Candy Marie | Himanshi B | Zihan | Elle How | K.S. | Sherry McGuinn | Diana Dee | Rambling Rose | Doran Lamb | Avi Kotzer | A.M. Radulescu | Laurie Perez | Paul Mansfield | B.R. Shenoy | Nada Chehade| Coco Joan | Bingz Huang | Shreya Badonia | Kimberly Carter | Las siete y más | Warren Brown | Trista Signe Ainswort | Kyomi O’Connor | Kay Bee | MaggieLaFae | Alex Godley | Haider Jamal | Josie Elbiry | Anthony Jackson | Hannah M. 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Edwards | David Majister | JF | Zach Neuman | Chris Mooney-Singh | Toya Qualls-Barnette | Karen Lappa Haas | Alan Henley | Michelle Bonfils | Zach Klebaner | Anna | Deepshikha Bhagat | Carlos Garbiras | Katrina Bos | Lisa Bolin | Sohaib Roomi | The Dozen | Malik Bellamy | Olivia Th | Shaista Malik | Emily Wilcox | Brajendra | Eva Rotolo | Bhavna Narula | Shannon Hugman | Ryan DeJonghe | Ryan DeJonghe | Dennett | Swagat Choudhury | Vivian | Mark Tulin | Arslan Mirza | Amber Carlson | Urfa | Whatsinanaim | Amy Pierovich, Ed.D. | Carolyn Riker | Tally | Shivangi Patel | Giulia | ScienceDuuude | Rachael Ann Sand | Divina Grey | Sarah Paris | DISHA GARG | Jen Kleinknecht | janny’s heart | Penofgold | Blank Voice | Kele Mogotsi | Jessie London | Indubala Kachhawa | Radhika Ghose | Mil H. | Zeno Faber | Maziar Ghaderi | Julia Appa | Campbell Christensen | Allison Gaines | Lori Lamothe | Tima Loku | Kim McKinney | Baye Amina | Tom Fenske | Johannes Mudi | Kasun Ranasinghe | Just a Slytherin hissing | Dr. Fatima Imam | Ntathu Allen | Somsubhra Banerjee | Veronica Georgieva | Life is Amazing with Books and Writers | Dandy Lioness 🌻 | Mindsmatter | Michael Ranjitsingh | Anjali Samaraweera | Krupesh Raikar | Rusty Alderson | Dr. Preeti Singh | Punch Drunk Cola | Melissa Speed | Ntathu Allen | Denise G | Carolyn Hastings | Tej | Vijini Mallawaarachchi | Amy Marley | Jac Gautreau | Erivaldo Ricardo | Roz Warren | Melissa Bee | Pretheesh Presannan | Daniel A. Teo | Anuradha Wickramarachchi | Niru | Priyanka Mane | Em Hoccane | Synthia S. | Alexandra Forsyth | R. Rangan PhD | Jacobo the First | Connie Song | Fathiyah Zb | Not quite Steve Fisher | Amna Asif | Aimée Gramblin | A Fresh Pot of Coffee | Rebecca Stevens A. | Imad | James G Brennan | Mary Keating | Jay Avery | h.a wadi | Pablo Pereyra | Isaac | jenine bsharah baines | Rochelle Silva | Jade-Ceres Violet D. Munoz | Ruchi Thalwal | Clare Almand | Dana Sanford | Naomi Leilani Acosta | Dr. Jackie Greenwood | Fathiyah Zb |
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