I recently finished reading The Time Management Solution: 21 Proven Tactics to Increase Your Productivity, Reduce Your Stress, And Improve Your Work Life Balance by Damon Zahariades (that was a mouthful). I’m a huge fan of self improvement and productivity books, and this book didn’t disappoint. I knew of time blocking and to do list apps, but this book really opened my eyes to the myriad possibilities of time management. Here are 21 tactics for time management that will transform your life.

Garden City is one of my favorite Christian books of all time. John Mark Comer just has a way of words, and I’m fully convinced now that God has put me on this Earth for a reason. That we all have a calling in life, and until we find it and are fully committed to it and practicing it and living it, we will never be happy.

Work is important. We were made to work the earth. Everyone has a job they need to be doing during their time here on this earth, and sometimes it takes years to find it. A lot of people don’t end up working in a field that they majored in. Their paths diverge and they end up in a completely different place that they thought they would end up in.

How do you find the career you’re meant for and that’s meant for you? I’ve had many conversations with people about this, and at the end of the day, I think that a cursory opinion or two based on mental heuristics isn’t enough for me to make a life-changing decision on what I should pursue in my career. I’ve also been on the other side of the decision where I’ve given advice to people who were struggling to find the career they enjoy and want to do for the rest of their life.

So I’ve come up with a framework for helping people decide what career to go into, what their calling in life is. It’s based on these six principles:

Past. Presence. Personality. Practice. Purpose. Power.

I turned 33 recently, and I feel I’ve grown so much since my 20’s. From obsessing over grades and internships and jobs, fantasizing over crushes, crying over relationships that didn’t work out, figuring myself out to learning to love myself has been a long journey in and of itself. And one of the most important things that I’ve gained throughout those years was a love for God, which has helped me love myself. Here are some life lessons I’ve learned along the way.