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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.


#435 🔸 Why you keep arguing about the same thing and what that argument is actually trying to say

5 Sep 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.08

  Negotiating individual freedom in a relationship, which I wrote about last time, requires clear and repeated conversations. But there is one type of conversation couples have most often and that is least effective: the repetitive argument. Same sub...

#434 🔸 How to stay yourself in a relationship without destroying what you have built together

5 Sep 2026 2 minute read 2 comments luciman $0.04

  The transition from infatuation to conscious love, which I wrote about last time, raises an inevitable practical question that few couples address directly: how do you negotiate individual freedom inside a we? Not a philosophical question. One with...

#433 🔸 What happens to love after the euphoria passes and why that is actually the beginning

4 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.01

  The projections we place on our partner, which I wrote about last time, are most active at the start of a relationship, when we see them through the filter of everything we hope they will be. And this transition, from the infatuation that blinds us...

#432 🔸 Why you argue with your partner about things that have nothing to do with them

3 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

  The healthy space in a relationship, which I wrote about last time, asks us to remain distinct individuals. But there is a mechanism that sabotages this distinction without our noticing: projection. The way our unhealed wounds attach themselves to...

#431 🔸 Why relationships that breathe are more durable than those in which two people melt into each other

3 Sep 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman $0.10

Being your own best friend, which I wrote about last time, brings us directly to a related theme: how you remain yourself in the presence of the other. And perhaps there is no more practical and more alive question in any couple relationship than thi...

#430 🔸 How not to feel abandoned by yourself in the moments when there is nobody else

2 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.02

  Integrating rejections as lessons in inner reorientation, which I wrote about last time, requires a resource that does not come from outside: the capacity to be alongside yourself when you are alone. Not chosen and comfortable solitude, but absolut...

#429 🔸 What rejection is really telling you about yourself and how to stop letting it dictate your choices

1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.04

  The courage to start over without guarantees, which I wrote about last time, runs inevitably into one of the most difficult inner obstacles: the memory of rejections. Those moments when you risked something, showed yourself, and received a no, expl...

#428 🔸 Why the most courageous beginnings are those without any guarantee they will work

1 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.05

  Catching self-sabotage in the act, which I wrote about last time, means choosing differently even when old patterns pull in the opposite direction. But there is a specific moment when that different choice is harder than in any other circumstance:...

#427 🔸 How to catch self-sabotage in the act before the damage is already done

31 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.03

  The mind turned into a welcoming space, which I wrote about last time, makes something specific and practical possible: noticing what is happening inside you before acting from that place. And there is no more concrete application of that capacity...

#426 🔸 Why your mind judges you more harshly than any external judge and how to change that

30 Aug 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman $0.12

  Dignity in the face of injustice, which I wrote about last time, means not letting what comes from outside destroy you. But there is a more persistent tribunal than any external circumstance, one that operates non-stop, without breaks and without r...