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  What I Have Learnt from Gen Z Being a Millennial Every generation thinks the next one is a little too much. Too loud. Too sensitive. Too casual. Too impatient. Too rebellious. And maybe every younger generation looks at the older one and quietly wonders: Why did you tolerate so much? I am a millennial, and the more I observe Gen Z, the more I realise something uncomfortable. We spent a lot of our lives trying to adjust. They are spending theirs asking why they should. And perhaps that is one of the biggest differences between us. Before I talk about what I have learnt from them, let me explain briefly who we are talking about. Millennials are generally the generation born roughly between the early 1980s and mid-1990s. Gen Z came after us, roughly from the late 1990s to the early 2010s. We grew up in two very different worlds. Millennials still remember a childhood before smartphones, social media, instant messaging and constant internet access. Gen Z practically grew up with tech...

  Micro-Habits Over Extreme Routines: Small Steps Still Count Have you ever watched someone’s “perfect morning routine” and felt tired before the video even ended? Wake up at 5 a.m. Drink warm lemon water. Meditate for thirty minutes. Exercise for an hour. Take a cold shower. Read twenty pages. Prepare a healthy breakfast. Write in a gratitude journal. All this before the rest of the family wakes up! Such routines may work beautifully for some people. But for many of us—especially women already balancing children, work, household responsibilities and everyone else’s needs—they can become one more standard we feel guilty for not meeting. We are not always lacking discipline. Sometimes, we are simply exhausted. When Self-Improvement Becomes Another Pressure We begin a new routine with excitement. We buy a planner, download an app and promise ourselves that this time we will remain consistent. For two or three days, we follow everything perfectly. Then real life happens. A child falls...