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*312* Why you don’t feel your financial progress even when it’s real

4 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

There is a strange feeling that appears as you begin to organise your financial life: you are doing the right things, yet you do not feel like you are moving forward. It is not about lack of results, but about the inability to recognise them. This id...

#291 🔸 What arguments reveal about you that calm times would never tell you

30 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

  Deep listening, which I wrote about last time, brings you closer to what the other person is experiencing. But there are moments when precisely the opposite of calm listening, namely conflict, can bring you closer to yourself, in ways that...

*279* How to tell if you are actually progressing or just convincing yourself that you are

12 May 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman

After going through periods where progress feels slow and learning not to rely solely on motivation, a more difficult question appears: how do you know if what you are doing is actually working? It is an uncomfortable question because it does not hav...

#250 🔸 The influence of the past on the relational present

2 May 2026 5 minute read 0 comments luciman

Shared vulnerability, which we explored in the previous article, requires courage. But there is something that makes this courage even harder to mobilise for many people: the past. Not the past as a story you tell at dinner, but the past as a set of...

#240 🔸 The subtle understanding of mutual influences in every relationship

25 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments luciman

In searching for the balance between giving and self-protection, we arrived at a reality I consider fundamental: in every relationship, influence flows in both directions, always, whether we are aware of it or not. There is no relationship in which o...

#232 🔸 Understanding the impact of your own emotions on others

19 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

In managing disappointments and unmet expectations, we talked at length about what others do to us. Now it is time to turn that gaze in the other direction, the less comfortable one: what do we do to others, through the emotions we carry and transmit...

#210 🔸 The Impact of unresolved emotions on everyday relationships

5 Apr 2026 4 minute read 2 comments luciman

If last time we looked at how a harmful relationship appears from the outside, today I want to focus on what happens inside us, and how what we haven't resolved from the past shows up, uninvited, in every relationship we live in the present. Unresolv...

#197 🔸 Understanding attachment patterns and their impact on relationships

27 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments luciman

After reflecting on how to create space for honest dialogue, it is time to look beneath communication itself, towards the invisible structure that shapes how we love, withdraw, connect or protect ourselves: our attachment patterns. Attachment is not...

#177 🔸 Discovering authentic joy in ordinary moments

14 Mar 2026 3 minute read 0 comments luciman

There is a natural continuity between the idea of perseverance discussed previously and the theme of authentic joy. Once you learn how to keep going without losing yourself, a subtler question appears: what is left to be lived when you are no longer...

#151 🔸 In search of balance between reason and intuition

23 Feb 2026 3 minute read 2 comments luciman

After you begin to manage your emotions more consciously, another subtle but constant tension appears. It is no longer just about what you feel, but about how you make decisions when the mind and the inner voice seem to pull in different directions....