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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.


#225 🔸 How to cultivate patience towards other's flaws

15 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.04

After talking about how to read the hidden emotions of those around us, a more uncomfortable question arises naturally: what do we do when, even after we have understood where someone's difficult behaviour comes from, it still irritates us? Understan...

#224 🔸 Decoding hidden emotions in intimate and professional relationships

14 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.01

We have just talked about how empathy without boundaries can drain us of energy. But there is an even finer layer to that conversation: what happens when emotions in relationships are neither expressed nor absent, but hidden, camouflaged in behaviour...

#223 🔸 How balanced empathy protects personal energy

13 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

If jealousy showed us how much of our emotional life is governed by the fear of loss, there is another emotional trap, seemingly opposite, that especially sensitive and caring people fall into: empathy without boundaries. The kind that, instead of co...

#222 🔸 Behind jealousy: psychological mechanisms worth understanding

13 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

We have just talked about relationships that support mutual growth, about safety, curiosity and freedom. But there is one emotion that, more than any other, can quietly erode exactly those things without announcing itself: jealousy. Not because it is...

#221 🔸 How to build relationships that support mutual growth

12 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

If honesty, when carried with care, is a form of respect for the other person, a broader question follows naturally: how do we actively build relationships in which both people grow? Not in parallel, not at the expense of one another, but together, i...

#220 🔸 The art of being honest without causing unnecessary hurt

11 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.08

After talking about the courage of expressing your own needs, the other side of the same coin arises naturally: how do you tell the other person the truth without your honesty becoming an instrument of harm? Because there is a real difference between...

#219 🔸 How to communicate your needs without fear of rejection

11 Apr 2026 6 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

Having seen how much of our behaviour is shaped by social forces we barely notice, a question follows that touches directly on our inner life: what do we do with our real needs, the ones we know, the ones we feel, but can't manage to communicate? Bec...

#218 🔸 Understanding the social influences that shape behaviour

10 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

We have just talked about how to maintain deep connections in a world that pushes towards the surface. But beneath this superficial world, something even more subtle is at work: a set of social forces that shape our behaviour day by day, often withou...

#217 🔸 How to maintain deep connections in a superficial world

9 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.09

If appreciation is the fuel that keeps a relationship alive, there remains a question of where and how genuinely deep relationships are still built in a world that seems to have chosen, systematically, superficiality. This is not a rhetorical questio...

#216 🔸 The subtle power of appreciation in strengthening bonds

9 Apr 2026 5 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

Now that we know what relationships that restrict us look like and how to recognise them in time, it is worth turning our gaze towards what actively builds a solid relationship. Not in any grand sense, not through large gestures and solemn declaratio...