Category: Fulfillment
These posts are designed to help you make each day more meaningful, be it through career advice, ways to find your passion, break out of a creative rut or find a hobby that inspires you.
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Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Long Game’ Makes a Compelling Case for a ‘Minorly Fulfilling Career’
Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Long Game’ features hundreds of great notes on fiction writing (280, to be exact), but one—on finding “minorly fulfilling” work to support you—really stood out to me.
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My Life Was My Career, So I Rebuilt it Around People—And Hobbies
Committing to hobbies and showing up for others, no matter how awkward, helped me defeat the Sunday Scaries and develop an identity outside of my ambition.
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LH Agenda, Reviewed: Is This the World’s Chicest Planner?
The LH Agenda is the prettiest planner we’ve come across (seriously, we’ve never gotten so many compliments). But it’s truly HELPFUL too. Here’s what makes the undated planner stand out.
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Let’s Plan Your 2026 Goals with 3 Easy Questions
Need help with your 2026 goals planning? Searching for ideas and inspo to truly conquer the year ahead. Start with these three questions.
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There’s Comfort in Shouting into the Void (AKA Why I Haven’t Gotten on Substack)
Dissecting my strange desire to be seen and anonymous at the same time. Have you ever felt this way too?
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Joanna Gaines & the Inevitable Awkwardness of Building Community
Why is it so hard to build community? I’ll explore what holds us back, as well as Joanna Gaines’s ideas from ‘Magnolia Journal.’
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The 10 Best Planners & Agendas of 2026, Reviewed (with Photos)
After testing the best planners & agendas (dated and undated, time-blocked and freeform), these are the 11 best organizers for 2025.
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Brené Brown’s ‘Strong Ground’ and the Underrated Art of Mind Wandering
Brené Brown makes a strong case for letting your mind wander—and tackle a side project—as a way to be more productive. Science backs it too!
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The Simple Philosophy I’m Trying to Sear into My Barnacled Heart
The world feels dangerously divisive right now, but these insights from Liz Plank and Jacques Masiko, are giving me hope—and a way forward.
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Which Giada De Laurentiis Cookbook Is the Best? Her Top 5, Compared
Giada De Laurentiis has written 11 cookbooks, but which one is the best? And where should you begin, if you want to master her takes on easy, healthy Italian meals? Here’s my review and ranking of the top five.
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The Taylor Swift ‘New Heights’ Quote You Need to Internalize (No, Really)
Some of Taylor Swift’s best ‘New Heights’ quotes from her podcast appearance serve as crucial advice for dealing with criticism and hate.
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The One Question You Should Ask Everyone at Your Dinner Table Tonight
Jamie Kern Lima’s book ‘Worthy’ shares a powerful anecdote about the question Spanx founder Sara Blakely was asked every night at dinner—and how it shaped her to become the risk-taking entrepreneur (and billionaire) she is today.
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