Category: Becoming
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Clocking In: Why the Early Shift?
Because I remember what it’s like to be pulled, but unsure of the direction. I still feel like that now. I have walked into a series of helping roles, jumping headfirst into connecting, facilitating, teaching, and burnout. The Early Shift is for those becoming. A space is for the ones just starting—Or starting over.Or starting…
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Goodbye Grandma
Marking the passing of a wonderful woman. I am named after her. I still live in the blessings of her prayer.
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(Self) Love in the Time of Corona Pt.1
Hustle if you can. Rest if you can. But grow you must. Learn you must. Try to remember to be kind to yourself, sure, but apply pressure. A light choke.
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Marie Kondo that Vision Board!
You’re likely stuck in the house. Time is melting away, and you’re clinging like hell to the remnants of your sanity. Order has gone, and the police are trapped in the sewers. A charismatic villain is occupying your living room. Nope, that’s Batman! If you’re not in a Christian Bale film, you’re likely social distancing,…
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#Throwback Thursday Deliberate Action
Life is a generous teacher; giving you multiple opportunities to to learn lessons and retake tests.
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TIRED of Being Broke: No Money, Mo Problems!
I get it. I’m a quasi-recent grad. I’m young. I “should” be broke. It’s expected. I devoted my first few years after graduation to service, and the non profit sector is so named for a reason. Got it. BUT I’m still broke. Still proportionately the same amount of broke.
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Lessons in Adulting: Imposter Syndrome
When you’re a baby, no one shames you for not speaking English. Or any language besides cooing and burbling. {Actually no one should shame anyone for not speaking English, but that’s neither here not there! Heck you, xenophobes!} So why is it that once you you pass through the invisible doorway to presumed adulthood, are…
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#LFTU Deliberate Action
The mode is the number you see most. Maybe there are some universal lessons that keep appearing and throwing off your average!
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Ars Nova
Sometimes I forget that I asked for these responsibilities. Sometimes I’m almost ungrateful to have so many gifts and so many doors before me. Sometimes I’m so short-sighted, so foolhardy that I ache for fewer paths, fewer talents, a simpler life. Then it hits me. That no one else could bear this, could hold this…
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Inherent to Success
I stand in my own way. Block the gates to my own success; the Minotaur in my own maze. I everyday ready myself, gird my loins, to flank the vanguard and do battle with an over sized cyclops while I spin a web, weave excuses longer than “The Iliad”. But a passion, an emptiness, an…
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