My Life Startup journey is taking an exciting turn. Life Startup is not just a blog where I am sharing my journey anymore. We are a platform for ambitious, daring and brave trailblazers like myself. Check it out: https://www.yourlifestartup.com/ It’s already exciting and will be even more exciting as we have a lot of amazingContinue reading “We are moving!”
Author Archives: Natalya Permyakova
Making Important Life Decisions: Overcoming the Fear of Failure
Are you afraid to follow your heart because you are afraid you won’t succeed? Or you will never ‘make it’ doing what you love? Fear of failure is one of the biggest barriers preventing you to live your dream life. But your life is too short to let your fear make decisions for you.
Making Important Life Decisions: How to Overcome the Fear of Change?
One of the biggest barriers preventing us to making important life decisions is the fear of change. Why do we get stuck in the fear cycle and how to break from it? How to overcome inaction and make the next step?
How to Make Important Life Decisions
How do you choose whether to leave a marriage or not? Whether or not to have a child? How do you decide to quit your job and go back to school? How do you decide whether the freedom of entrepreneurship is worth the risk of the uncertainty?
Why I Decided to Change My Life and Build a Portfolio Career
For this post I recorded a video where I am sharing my story behind life start-up. I am sharing why I decided to completely change my life and build a portfolio career.
3 Things to Do to Make the Most of COVID-19 Isolation
Were you asked to work from home or feel socially isolated during COVID-19 outbreak? Here are 3 things to make the most of your alone time.
Keep calm and use these turbulent times to reflect on your life purpose
In the time of mass hysteria, social isolation and uncertainty, it is easy to lose emotional balance. But you don’t have to. Instead, you can use this time as an opportunity to look inwards.
Building a portfolio career: where to begin
If you are considering a portfolio career, you might have a lot of questions. Where should I begin? Should I launch all careers at once or introduce each one by one? Which one should be first? In this post I share my experience of launching the first block of my portfolio career – becoming a yoga teacher and share what I learnt along the way.
Is portfolio career the answer to realising your full potential?
How growing life expectancy will completely change our lives Realising creative potential is paramount to overall life satisfaction. Most of us struggle to pursue all our passions and feel limited by the 9-5 jobs that eats up most of the productive hours. In addition, with life longevity growing every year, those in 20s and 30sContinue reading “Is portfolio career the answer to realising your full potential?”
On falling in love with cities
Falling in love with a city is just like the beginning of a romantic relationship. You can’t get enough of it, wanting to know everything about it. You want to experience all the new and exciting things and have butterflies in your stomach. This is how I fell in love with Seoul.
Feel the fear and do it anyway
A brave person is not the one that is not afraid. A brave person is the one that is afraid but does it anyway. my mom Let’s talk about fear. Fear is a word often associated with obviously scary things. Like the fear of death, losing a loved one or the fear of snakes orContinue reading “Feel the fear and do it anyway”
It’s not ok to not be ok
It’s not ok to be unhappy. Despite what they say. If you haven’t laughed in months, it’s not ok. If most days you wake up and you wish you didn’t, it’s not ok. If to fall asleep, relax or have a good time you need to smoke, drink or eat something sweet, that might alsoContinue reading “It’s not ok to not be ok”
10 days of silence & the art of living
When was the last time you caught yourself thinking that you seemingly have it all: family, career, decent health, friends, yet something is just off, and you are not happy? You are not alone. According to Buddha’s teaching, human suffering is universal. It is an innate characteristic of existence. Everybody goes through hard times, regardlessContinue reading “10 days of silence & the art of living”
Designing a happy life: where to begin
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christoper Morley And so it began. I made a leap, a leap way outside my comfort zone and it’s happening. I quit my corporate job, drove all of my stuff in a small van to my sister’s basement in Paris.Continue reading “Designing a happy life: where to begin”
Irish weather and 4 noble truths
I love Irish weather. ‘What?’ – you’ll say. Yes, that’s right. For those of you who have no idea what the weather in Ireland is like – it changes a lot. Throughout the day. Some refer to it as being ‘bipolar’, some say it resembles the mood of a pregnant woman and some say, ‘thereContinue reading “Irish weather and 4 noble truths”
What if I fail? Yes, but what if you fly?
When you are about to make an important decision, there is always a moment of hesitation right before you sign on the dotted line. Don’t pull back. You have come all this way after having given it serious thought. Don’t look back. Continue on your path courageously, like a one-horned rhinoceros. Haemin Sunim Big decisionsContinue reading “What if I fail? Yes, but what if you fly?”
City is a message
In his article Cities and Ambition Paul Graham describes how each city has its own message. He very accurately describes the concept that I have lived for years yet struggled to put in words. The key notion is that each city (at least each remarkable city) has its own message. New York screams – makeContinue reading “City is a message”
Life experiment: hypotheses
In my previous post I’ve explained why I want to run an experiment on my life. I’ve divided my life in 3 main buckets: what do I want to have, what do I want to do and who do I want to be. In the business world, the first step of planning an experiment isContinue reading “Life experiment: hypotheses”
Life experiment: life buckets & the why
“If you quit & leave everything behind now, you still have a chance to live a happy life.” Unknown In my previous post, Introduction to life experiment, I made a parallel between my experiment and what businesses do when they innovate. They run experiments to test whether something is worth investing in. I have aContinue reading “Life experiment: life buckets & the why”
Life experiment in search for a meaningful life
This year was meant to be the year of being a chef. You know, there are cooks, who can make a decent meal by following the recipe. And there are chefs. Chefs understand the rules and know how to break them. They get into the flow and create something unthinkable and something beautiful. That isContinue reading “Life experiment in search for a meaningful life”
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