Category: From My Vantage Point
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How to Cope With a Job you Hate
Before I landed the job I now have, I remember praying and asking God to grant me this opportunity. I remember feeling like this job would change my life, like all the things I was dreaming of would become a reality if I just got this job. I knew I would do my absolute best;…
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Five Things I Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
When the pandemic began, I was completely enthralled, knee-deep in breastfeeding and being a new mom with all the bells, whistles, and stress that came along with it. COVID-19 was very scary. I started worrying about what the pandemic meant for my family and my premature newborn, who had to visit the hospital every two…
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How to Use Checklists to Improve Productivity (With Template)
When I first started my current job, I had trouble completing tasks, not because I couldn’t do them, but because I kept forgetting them. It got to a point where I forgot to do an important task that was were detrimental to my employer. I vowed that day that I would never allow that to…
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Advice From My 25-Year-Old Self
I was feeling nostalgic recently, so I began scrolling through my old photos and found this photo: I remember the exact day this was taken; I remember how I felt – I got the new pair of shoes I was longing for… it was a black embossed patent leather Mary Jane, with 4-inch heels… it…
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Colourism In Jamaica
I am a proud Jamaican; I love my country, its people, culture, and resilience. We have so much going on for us. There is the natural beauty in our landscape, white sand beaches, our language, and the way we treat visitors and our fellow Jamaicans. Conversely, like most countries, we have our challenges; Crime (a…
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Be Inspired: Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
To say that I love Maya Angelou is an understatement. She was the epitome of a strong woman. She knew herself and was unapologetic about who she was or what she believed in. Her poems inspire me not to be bewildered by my circumstances, but to rise above them and be the best person I…
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Is it Ever Okay to Objectify a Woman?
The term objectifies, defined by Dictionary.com, means ‘to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense’. To objectify a person means to reduce them to mere objects, often objects of sex and/or physical gratification. From my vantage point, there are varying degrees of objectification; there is misogynist objectification, male chauvinist objectification,…
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Live Every Day As If It Is Your Last
There are so many things that go wrong daily, so many people who lose their lives, so many people who discover they have a terminal illness every day… conversely, there are people who take advantage of their blessings every day, people who make it their goal in life to destroy someone, break someone or take…
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Never Apologize For Who You Are!
I am peculiar. I am particular about what I do, and with whom I do it. I don’t leave things to chance; I plan the hell out of everything; I don’t practice lying. I don’t pretend to be someone I am not. I don’t do things the way everyone else does it. I am reserved,…
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Thank You!!
It has been a year since I started this blog and it has gotten better and better every month. Even though I haven’t added any new posts, I am grateful for your interest, comments, likes and follows. I know that there are many options; I am very grateful that you choose me (even if it…
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Women of the East
There are so many things that I have achieved and want to achieve – I want to own a business, travel the world and earn a Ph.D., etc. My dreams are very possible. If I work hard and make the right financial decisions, I can accomplish them. I know I can because I have seen…
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Be Inspired: Fearful Women by Carolyn Kizer
I consider myself to be a feminist, a mild feminist, if that even exists. I hate seeing women being mistreated, undervalued, or even underestimated. I want us to rise above our issues and show ‘them’ just who we are… We are resilient creatures, who take hits every day, from almost every angle/ every aspect of…
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Inconvenient Love
Valentine’s Day recently passed, its arrival and sudden departure, got me thinking about love, what it means to love, to be loved and what it really means to give yourself completely to another person. It also got me thinking about what Carrie said when she was breaking up with Aleksandr, – “I am someone who…
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Reflection: 2013 – The Year That Was
We are on the eve of a new year, as we get prepared to say goodbye to 2013 and say hello to 2014. Let’s pause and look back at the year that was the very difficult 2013. As they say, the number thirteen is not a lucky number, and the year was not a lucky…
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‘Tis Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!
It is officially December, so that means no work for some days, fruit cake, Christmas decorations, merry making, wine drinking and family loving! I love this season. It is by far the best season of the year. I am not a serial merry maker; you know, like those people who start playing carols from October…
Simply Marvia 