Tag: inspiration
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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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Happy Valentimes Day!
Love your self. Black, white, alone, in a relationship, sorta short, freckly or what have you.
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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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FebYOUary Lesson #2: Don’t Hide!
Here goes something new. I’ll admit I was a little uncomfortable reacquainting myself with a camera. Knowing it would capture my new adult body a little less forgivingly. Knowing that I’m still writing and rewriting my definition of sexy on an etch-a-sketch. Heck it!
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20-Something: Young Adults Seem Stuck
I’ve got a bad case of the twenty-somethings. Specifically the late twenties. There’s fire burning under my butt 🔥🍑, yet it’s too hot to feel. This book called out to me. Maybe Robin Marantz Henig has the answers. Maybe no one does. Read more…
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TV Bae: Shonda Rhimes/Year of No
She’s old, and likes to lie. But in reading her humorous and heartfelt journey to self-fulfillment, I was inspired and reassured. If Shonda Rhimes, the inventor of Thursday nights can struggle and shine, so can I.
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Tally Taught Me
A trip to the state capital has proven to be much more impactful than the 5th grade field trip version.
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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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Thug-olutions: New Year, Essentially the Same Me
I’m a thug [read emotionally intelligent and proactively self aware individual]. Thugs don’t make resolutions. They are everyday attempting to review and renew in order to rise from their ashes and reveal and shiny new self [see also Phoenix]. Thugs don’t wait until January 1st. CLEARLY they wait until The 5th! In my defense, I…
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The Upside(s) of Unemployment
Never in six million light years did I think this day would come. But alas, at the end of every tunnel is … no more tunnel. Here I am, about to end my jobless dry-spell and I almost wish it wasn’t over. Let me set the scene… For the last few months I’ve been couch…
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