Tag: motivation
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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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“4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication”
This one is going to seem like a no-brainer. It’s not.
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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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A Week Without Netflix
Urban Dictionary defines “fasting” as the following: Fasting (v.) – A cleaning way of de-toxing your body of unwanted stuff. I need to detox. Clear out my Star Trek cache and sweat out a lot of backed up episodes of U.K. crime shows. Gotta get ot the unhealthy stuff… at least Monday – Thursday.
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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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