The Best is Yet to Come by Dr. Leahcim Semaj

08/23/2026

There is something rather strange about success. You spend years trying to get somewhere. Working. Saving. Building. Sacrificing. Sometimes worrying yourself half to death. You tell yourself that when you finally get the house, the promotion, the money, the recognition, the right relationship - whatever your particular prize happens to be - you will relax. Then you get there. And, almost before you have had time to enjoy it, the finish line moves

There is something rather strange about success. You spend years trying to get somewhere. Working. Saving. Building. Sacrificing. Sometimes worrying yourself half to death. You tell yourself that when you finally get the house, the promotion, the money, the recognition, the right relationship - what...

08/22/2026

All Prayers Are Answered

“When the solution you seek doesn’t arrive how or when you expect… remember: Delay is not denial, and silence is not absence.”

We have all whispered a prayer—sometimes in a moment of desperate need, sometimes in quiet gratitude. But what happens after the asking? When we don't hear back in thunderous revelation or divine intervention, we often wonder: Was I heard? Did it work?

Here is a truth that takes spiritual maturity to grasp:
All prayers are answered.
But not always in the way we want… or when we want… or even in ways we recognize.

Dr. Leahcim SemajPsychologist | Author | Speaker | Management Consultant | Spiritual Guide | Social Philosopher All Prayers Are Answered “When the solution you seek do…

08/22/2026

How much is enough? And when do we finally know that we have enough?

I turned 75 a few days ago. And I have noticed something. Seventy-five does something to the questions you ask yourself. I don't know whether it happens suddenly or whether it has been creeping up on me for the past few years. But I find myself less interested in How much can I get? and increasingly interested in a much simpler question: How much is enough?

By Dr. Leahcim SemajPsychologist | Author | Social PhilosopherThe Semaj MindSpa — Where Mind, Spirit, and Science Meet How much is enough? And when do we finally know that we have enough? I turned …

08/21/2026

At 75, I care about fewer things - but I care much more deeply about the things that remain.

A few days ago, I wrote about The 10 Things I No Longer Care About at Age 75. I wrote about approval. Impressing people. Winning every argument. Being misunderstood. Relationships whose season has ended. Comparison. Trying to control what I cannot control. In other words, some of the baggage I am learning to put down. But there is another side to that story. Getting older isn't only about caring less. It is also about caring better.

At 75, I care about fewer things - but I care much more deeply about the things that remain. A few days ago, I wrote about The 10 Things I No Longer Care About at Age 75. I wrote about approval. Impressing people. Winning every argument. Being misunderstood. Relationships whose season has ended. Com...

08/20/2026

I turned 75 a few days ago. That sentence still feels slightly strange to write. Seventy-five. Three quarters of a century. Seventy-five cycles 'round the sun. Long enough to have been certain about quite a few things - and long enough to discover that some of those certainties were nonsense.

08/19/2026

The phrase "There are times when ‘DOING NOTHING’ is the best COURSE OF ACTION" encapsulates a profound life lesson about patience, restraint, and wisdom. Here’s an expanded explanation and the life lessons it conveys:

08/19/2026

There was a time when I believed that the harder I worked, the more I would accomplish - that productivity meant pushing, grinding, hustling. But with age and awareness, I've come to understand a deeper truth, one echoed in nature, in spiritual traditions, and in the quiet wisdom of patient observation: effortlessness is power. I now live by the Law of Least Effort.

There was a time when I believed that the harder I worked, the more I would accomplish - that productivity meant pushing, grinding, hustling. But with age and awareness, I've come to understand a deeper truth, one echoed in nature, in spiritual traditions, and in the quiet wisdom of patient observat...

08/19/2026

“The 10 Things I No Longer Care About at Age 75”

Dr. Leahcim SemajPsychologist | Author | Social PhilosopherThe Semaj MindSpa — Where Mind, Spirit, and Science Meet…...

I turned 75 on August 17. Three quarters of a century. When you say it that way, it sounds like a very long time. And it is. Long enough to have been right about some things, spectacularly wrong about others, to have loved and lost, succeeded and failed, changed my mind, disappointed people, been di...

08/16/2026

There is a contradiction I have noticed over the years, and I am not sure we talk about it enough. Some of the most intelligent, educated and accomplished people I have known are not particularly happy. Not miserable necessarily. Not clinically depressed. Just... not happy. They have done well by almost every conventional measure. Degrees on the wall. A respectable career. A business. A nice home. A reasonably healthy bank account. Recognition. Status. The children are doing well. People look at their lives and say, “You have done well for yourself.” And they have. Yet something appears to have gone missing somewhere between achievement and arrival. They learned how to succeed. Nobody necessarily taught them how to enjoy succeeding. That may be one of the quieter psychological traps of intelligence.

There is a contradiction I have noticed over the years, and I am not sure we talk about it enough. Some of the most intelligent, educated and accomplished people I have known are not particularly happy. Not miserable necessarily. Not clinically depressed. Just... not happy. They have done well by al...

08/16/2026

There is a particular kind of goodbye that happens at airports across the Caribbean. A woman stands at the barrier, her partner's suitcase already checked, and she watches him walk toward a gate that leads to months, not hours, of absence. She will go home to a house that suddenly feels larger than it did that morning. Children across our region grow up knowing this rhythm — a parent present in photographs and phone calls, sometimes for years at a stretch, while the family carries on in their physical absence.

There is a particular kind of goodbye that happens at airports across the Caribbean. A woman stands at the barrier, her partner's suitcase already checked, and she watches him walk toward a gate that leads to months, not hours, of absence. She will go home to a house that suddenly feels larger than....