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SelfInvest – A blog about you, written by someone like you. Tired of fluffy motivational advice? Here you’ll find no magic formulas – just honest reflections, clear ideas, and simple tools for real, lasting growth. I write from experience: the mistakes, the breakthroughs, and the shifts that truly changed me. If you're looking for more focus, sustainable habits, and inner freedom, you're in the right place. 📩 Subscribe and let’s build your best self – together.


#94 🔸 The comparison trap: the psychology of envy

17 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

After reflecting on how beliefs shape our inner world, I realised how often we evaluate ourselves through filters that do not belong to us. One of the strongest of these filters is comparison. Even if it seems harmless or automatic, comparison influe...

#93 🔸 How beliefs are formed and how much power they hold over life

16 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

After finishing the previous article on introspection, one thought stayed with me: we cannot understand what happens within us unless we look at the roots that shape our reactions. Among those roots, beliefs play a central role. They influence how we...

#92 🔸 The role of introspection in mental balance

16 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Sometimes, after closing an article and returning to our usual rhythm, certain ideas continue to echo in the background. That is what happened to me after the previous piece about how perception can subtly distort our reality. It made me reflect on h...

#91 🔸 How our own perceptions manipulate us

15 Jan 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

After diving into repetitive thought patterns, I realised how closely they connect to the way we interpret reality. Sometimes our perceptions don’t just reflect the world, they quietly distort it. And what’s even more interesting is that these distor...

#90 🔸 Repetitive thoughts: hidden patterns of the mind

14 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Sometimes, when you approach emotions like sadness, you quickly notice how certain thoughts start repeating themselves, like an inner echo. That’s what happened to me these days, realising how easily those mental loops form and take control without a...

#89 🔸 Understanding sadness and the art of accepting it

14 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Sometimes, when you review what you wrote the day before, you realise that certain themes remain open. That happened to me now as well, noticing that the discussion about emotional vulnerability naturally leads to another question: what do we do with...

#88 🔸 Why emotional ignorance makes us vulnerable

13 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Starting from the idea that many mechanisms of happiness work quietly in the background, I realised how easily we overlook our own emotions. A kind of inner blindness that we excuse with “no time”, “it doesn't matter”, “it will pass”. In reality, ign...

#87 🔸 Behind happiness: the hidden mechanisms of satisfaction

13 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

Many times, when I think about how anticipating the future can block progress, I notice something recurring: when you live too much in projections, you stop noticing what gives meaning to the present. That thought naturally led me to today’s theme: h...

#86 🔸 How anticipating the future can block our progress

12 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments luciman

Sometimes, when I try to understand why I feel stuck in certain moments of life, I notice a theme connected to the previous article: the emotions we search for without seeing what happens right in front of us. This time, though, I want to look at a d...

#85 🔸 Lost emotions and the search for them in the present

12 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

After reflecting on how the subconscious shapes our choices, I realised there’s another subtle layer at play: the emotions that seemed alive in us once but now feel inaccessible. Not because we don’t want them, but because they were hidden, pushed do...