We’ve spent the past few days celebrating 95% More’s FIRST BIRTHDAY, EVER! Today, we’d like to do things a little differently. We want you to know that the only reason we continue to write is for you. We hope that our experiences and the stories we’ve shared inspire you to do more, be more and…
95% More celebrates its first-year anniversary this week. It’s been 50 weeks, and 60 articles since we first started, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. Read what the year has been like for our team of fearless writers! As editor, I have been constantly amazed by Jason’s tenacity in managing deadlines and…
Imagine yourself as a baby, born in the middle of a war. You’ve been exposed to the sounds of people dying all around you; the crumbling of buildings, the explosions of guns and the cries of the wounded. You too, are a victim of this war. Your limbs have been twisted into deformed stubs of…
Being a copywriter is meant to be a fulfilling, creative and exciting. You can step into the shoes of different types of people, you learn trade secrets and a bit of everything from investment banking to diet pills. However, after a while we run out of steam and run out of ideas. Why? Because we…
The single biggest fear that people have is not the fear of failure but the fear of success. – Karthik Siva on BFM 89.9 Well, this is the message that I seem to be getting from the universe at the moment. The thought first came across my mind during an incident at work. After a meeting…
Imagine waking up and having to eat a live frog before going about on your day’s work. It’s pretty much the worst thing that can happen to you for the rest of the day – once you’ve done that, everything seems easier and you can pretty much do anything! Usually, the worst thing you have…
As I was browsing through instagram, I came upon this picture by one of the key leaders in my life. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. I thought that this was extremely powerful because often we live each day forgetting that every moment is a…
Recently, a friend had introduced me to a spoken word artist named Shane Koyczan who had started an anti-bullying project called, ‘To This Day’. In his poem, he tells us his story of how he was bullied as a kid, and how he remembers it to this day. What I love more than the words…
I have always wanted to be inspiring, but my idea of “inspiring” was being a popular figure, standing on a podium, saying the right words that struck people’s hearts, and getting them to cry. That was my idea of inspiring. But Tommy Caldwell taught me different. I remember stumbling upon this video and my eyes…
Learning of “bounce-back muscles” I recently flipped through a book by Lisa Nichols called ‘No Matter What!’ about building, flexing and testing what Lisa called your “bounce-back muscles”. At first I laughed at the names she had come up with, such as the “Faith-In-Myself Muscle” and the “I-Know-Like-I-Know Muscle”, thinking that it was another self-help…
Some time ago, Lance Armstrong confessed that he has been abusing drugs to enable himself to win competitions for years. I followed the news and stumbled upon this article: It’s Not About Lance Armstrong. The writer wrote about how angry he was at Armstrong’s calculated move to come clean, but then he wrote : “……
What I’ve always found really interesting is how although everything is different, the underlying principles of life are the same. Reading widely across a variety of genres tend to yield the same message and same lessons, each given in a different way. So, I really enjoyed reading about how business principles are being applied to…
We’ve read it in stories and we’ve see it in movies – there’s always this one, uptight character who needs to have everything planned in order, as if the world would fall apart without those plans. I am one of those. And for the longest time, I had struggled with being that person. I wanted…
Have you ever felt like life’s stuck at standstill – and things just aren’t moving along as fast as you would like them to? You then become restless and easily annoyed. So much so, that even the slightest things could trigger your inner Hulk and cause you to snap at people. And as soon as…
I recently watched a video of Ananda Shankar Jayant, a classical Indian dancer, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. During the video she looks composed, speaks eloquently and seems at peace, hardly looking like a woman who had been suffering from breast cancer for over a year. It is only the short, quick breaths…
We’ve spent the past few days celebrating 95% More’s FIRST BIRTHDAY, EVER! Today, we’d like to do things a little differently. We want you to know that the only reason we continue to write is for you. We hope that our experiences and the stories we’ve shared inspire you to do more, be more and…