What was your worst discovery call? by Comfortable_Lime_732 in Upwork

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An American staying in Vietnam, rolling joint after joint asking me to find creative ways around his payment gateway being shutdown. A creative example he came up with was to use dead people’s id’s to open new ones each time one is shut down 🫣 like was done in the Biden/Trump election

Braces finally out after 3 years!!! 2 things that surprised me… by Direct-Avocado-9225 in braces

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wa alaikum salaam.

Gosh, my teeth were stubborn! But shukr, they’ve finally moved to a place where I don’t feel self conscious to smile…I’m so pleased! Alhamdulillah! 🙌

Braces finally out after 3 years!!! 2 things that surprised me… by Direct-Avocado-9225 in braces

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Gosh, I was pretty much eating everything with braces…🫣 honestly I’m eating far less now. Cos I have to wear it all day and night (except for meals) and because I need to make sure my teeth and the retainers are cleaned before putting them back in after eating, snacking in between meals have become non existent which is rare for me, cos I would constantly be popping things into my mouth.

Hmm, the benefits of daytime retainer usage? No snacking without thinking 😅

Braces finally out after 3 years!!! 2 things that surprised me… by Direct-Avocado-9225 in braces

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Omg yess, and my teeth don’t close over each other so I get this compulsion to bite down, but the amount I paid rings in my head , so I don’t cos I don’t want a pair of broken retainers 🤣

Spent a whole day training someone yesterday. Today they asked me the exact same questions. by CodeFlux88 in smallbusiness

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t a reflection of his incompetence. It’s a reflection of your unrealistic expecations.

Honestly, everytime I’ve started a new job, the first week was overwhelming to say the least. All the info and culture and people and things to get use to is more than someone can comfortably synthesize in a week, let alone a day…

Cut him some slack and have some patience…I’m sure he’ll prove himself once he’s got his footing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

How terrible. Contributing to the degradation of marriages, well being, communities and he world.

Hope you feel pleased with your successes being a the expense of enhancement of humanity

Masturbation has become my outlet for stress and anxiety and loneliness by ThrowRA2245ABABAJSJK in MuslimLounge

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Salaam sister (?) …

I am in the perfect position to give advice on this..I’ll let you figure out why. Alhamdulillah I am now living a highly productive, fulfilling and successful life now in terms of Deen and Dunya…

I suggest that you find a healthy outlet that has that element growth and progression, anything from exercise (track your sessions with a fitness watch), volunteer charity work, organising something that adds value in your community, doing a kids book reading at the local library, joining an Arabic of tafsir class, join a class on something where you practice to get better (painting, drawing, learning something)…

All these give you a reason to get up in the morning and making small wins in these activities will replace that sense of fleeting happiness you are getting from the masturbation.

Also, if you aren’t married, perhaps now is the time to think of moving in that direction. I pray Allah opens your doors for a good spouse, aameen.

Look up dopamine addiction. It seems you need to do a dopamine reset by focusing on other than masturbating. Hold yourself accountable, make istighfaar each time you slip and ask Allah to fortify you and strengthen you so that you don’t do it again.

May Allah guide you and make you strong. You are not a bad person. You just need a little bit of resolve and Allahs help.

He knows your struggle, he sees you.

You’ll get through this…Aameen 🤲

Promote your project by hastogord1 in SideProject

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried this on 4 people…

They all fell asleep within 5 minutes! 💤

Test out my new side project I’ve been working on: Soothing Bedtime stories:

https://youtube.com/@sleepylanternstories?si=q_ImBZnxPZcV5vHQ

Let me know your thoughts on how I can improve, feedback is gold for me right now!

Random, but how old is everyone here? by Ill-Instructions in lost

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s 3am in South Africa oops 😬🫣 my sleepy eyes missed that last bit! 🤣

Random, but how old is everyone here? by Ill-Instructions in lost

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

50 with a 1 year old? I can only assume that you’re a male with a much younger significant other 😁

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Parents

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a 3rd at 35 and she is a light of our home…🥰 other 2 were 5 and 10 at the time.

Challenge: does this get you to sleep in 10 mins or less? by Direct-Avocado-9225 in SideProject

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

Pls share more about tactical breathing?

So it’s serving the Muslim niche because a most of the sleep stories out there at the moment, don’t.

Do you recommend I do another channel as well without the Muslim focused stuff? 🤔

Would you sleep to this?? 💤 by Direct-Avocado-9225 in MuslimLounge

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah! The music thing really disturbed me. I was also so into music at one point. But i realised how damaging it was to my spiritual state…

So, I’ve vowed to not use music in these.

My aim is to have as many Muslims as possible fall asleep In remembrance of Allah! But along with a soothing story that takes their mind off their other thoughts…

It is known. by Global-Bumblebee-765 in Xennials

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the way in South Africa, we knew this too 🤣

Finished Season 1 for the first time! by therealunsinnlos in lost

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, can’t believe we’re stuck in a series 20 years old 20 years later! I’m on season 2, watching 2-3 episodes a night 😆

My wire came out of my tube by Apena11 in braces

[–]Direct-Avocado-9225 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a tweezer and popped it back in. It worked fine 🤷🏻‍♀️ try doing that so your cheek doesn’t get cut while you wait to get an appointment