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This proverb is one of my favorites. It is an excellent rule for a carpenter, but it comes in handy in our day-to-day lives too. Here's a story: The carpenter is building a table. He has to cut a piece of wood for the table's leg; he measures the wood and begins to cut it. He realizes that the part is too short; he had taken the wrong measurements. Now, he must use another piece of wood and repeat the fatiguing process. Thus, wasting resources and time. I'm sure we all relate to this story. Often we rush through our tasks, and as a result, we don't prepare carefully or take the time to be sure. We finish our task with the wrong "measurements" and have to start afresh. This is a pesky process, but avoiding it is easy. Unlike the carpenter, we must be patient and prepare carefully before taking action. This care taken in preparations will prevent errors. This proverb reminds us to take the extra time now to avoid potential disappointment later. Double-checking i...

Couldn't Do Vs. Didn't Do A few days ago, I had started writing a new blog post. I knew the topic would have been fascinating to write and read about. I wrote a sentence and then... nothing. The slide was as blank as it could be, a plain white rectangle. I could have finished writing it and gone to sleep with confidence, but I got distracted and didn't.  With 2021 having just begun, I'm sure all of us plan to achieve the resolutions we have planned despite all the obstacles set in front of us. 365 days isn't as long as one might imagine it to be, and there's only one way to make the best out of it: If you should, Do if you can. Only 2 questions, "Should you?" and "Can you?", if they both answer "yes", don't procrastinate, you might forget to do it later. But sometimes there's another more important task to complete, or it's not possible for you to do X at that moment. In those cases, we should change our priorities. It...

20-20 began with smiling faces but just as soon as it began, we wished for it to end. It has with no doubt been a year of downs and ups. Tragedy struck but miracles happened too. This year has helped many learn so much about not taking things for granted. Spending every living, breathing moment with family, for me, has had its whole different rollercoaster ride. Still, as this year ends, I have understood how important family is, now I can't imagine my parents leaving for work, I don't want them to either. This year, scientists and researchers worldwide have made many life-changing discoveries, all amidst a global pandemic.  We sequenced the coronavirus just a few days after learning about this illness, and we developed its vaccine in under a year; that's record time! NASA launched a new mars rover, a probe to the sun, and the first-ever crewed commercial astronaut mission.  There are so many more incredible things that we have been able to achieve this year. No matter our ...

First, let's start with the word 'Think'. How and what we think determines how we act, talk and what we do. It shapes and makes our reality. Thinking that a book is going to be boring before reading it will make you believe that the book is boring while reading it.  Now, "Thinking Differently". Since no two humans are the same, does that mean we all think differently? No. Our thinking is very much influenced by the people surrounding us.  I wanted to start a blog since I was very young. I had millions of ideas flowing in and I couldn't stop writing. But people told me I was too young and that I wouldn’t know how. So for two years I didn’t try. I have finally started writing a blog, and it’s very overwhelming. I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything.  How many 12-year-olds that you know have written a blog or started a podcast, maybe even joined a band or taken a sport that they like, more seriously? I believed that you are never too young to chase your g...

 We are re-branding! Not sure if that is what you call it but we are no longer going to be "Wonderwithannie" instead, we will go as "LifeOPedia". I have been wanting to change my blog name for quite a while now, and I thought LifeOPedia fits perfectly with my content! Plus, It's catchy! Love, Annanya.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Just reading that line makes us uncomfy, right? I have been brought up being told one line, and one line only: " Practice makes perfect." As I was thinking of topics to write about, I started second-guessing this statement and a quote came to my mind almost immediately.  You see, just practicing isn't the full story...  "Perfect Practice makes Perfect" ... Practicing properly is.  If we practice poorly without corrected our mistakes, we will just get better at making those mistakes.  Practice makes habits. Not Improvements.   Practicing perfectly, on the other hand, improves our performance in any skill. It corrects our mistakes and all in all, makes us better. This is one of the most important things that my ballet teacher has ever taught me. Several factors go into dancing perfectly. In ballet, all of them come with perfect practice. Something as simple as pointing your feet can go wrong in many ways if not paid proper atten...

I never understood the concept on patience. They brought me up, telling me patience was a virtue, but never telling me why.  So today we are going to unravel that mystery and understand how powerful patience is. I was was folding a swan out of origami with my sister one day, and me being me, I took it as a competition and I quickly made a swan out of the origami in just 2 minutes. Seeing that my sister was not yet done, I sat down beside her, looking at how she was making her swan. I eventually got bored and decided to take a nap. When I woke up, my sister enthusiastically came running towards me with her paper swan in her hand, and to be honest, it looked much more majestic than my floppy swan. I went to my mom sobbing and asked her why I couldn't make such a pretty swan. Then she told me something I will never forget. She said, "You have to be patient while working with origami. Some Things Take Time." But then, I never understood what she meant, I was only 6.  Some Thi...