Hey guys, it's fiscal year-end at work, which means I'm head-down trying to get through the week with my sanity intact. Let's do this again next Friday, shall we?

Last night I was lucky enough to win an award from my company. It still hasn’t sunk in, but what has is the fact that I have a ton to be thankful for. The way I've been treated at my place of work is proof that the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

You may have heard of impostor syndrome, or maybe you haven’t; but considering that a whopping 70% of people will suffer from the phenomenon at some point in their lives, you’ve probably come across it before. So what is it, and how to do you deal with it?

Lens filters come in a wide variety of different shapes and sizes. You have colour-enhancing filters, polarizing filters, neutral density filters and more. Within each of these categories are a series of subcategories; neutral density filters, for example, decrease the amount of light that enters your lens, without changing the colours that come through (hence the term “neutral”). In a category all its own is the ND1000 filter. It’s one of the strongest neutral density filters available, letting in 1024x less light than the lens normally allows. So why the heck would anyone want to do that?

Earlier this year, I wrote a post talking about the mental healing process I went through to forgive someone for an unnecessary injury caused while training karate. Long story short, someone did something they shouldn’t that left me with seemingly permanent neck pain. For years, I’ve lived with that pain, with no clue what specifically was wrong. This week, that all changed.