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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The Worst Thing You Can Do When You’re Anxious (and What to Try Instead)
You’ve heard it a million times before: When your stomach’s in knots, your mouth is dry, and inside you’re about three seconds from completely freaking out, you should calm down. Take deep breaths. Meditate. Do whatever you can to slow down and clear your mind. But, as it turns out, you may just be making…
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3 Self-Help Books That Won’t Make You Gag
Let’s be real: It’s hard not to roll your eyes at the very topic of self-help books. So many of them are treacly at best, filled with the sort of one-size-fits-all advice you grew up seeing on posters in middle school guidance counselors’ offices. After working at Oprah.com for a few years, I felt like…
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What You Need to Know About Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick
If you cringe when people start telling painfully honest truths — if their honesty and their rawness makes you want to change topics, STAT — Glennon Doyle Melton’s latest book, Love Warrior, isn’t for you. But you should probably read it more than anyone. The Momastery blogger has never shied away from getting vulnerable, bearing…
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Little, Invisible Decisions That Can Erode a Relationship
The first time someone suggested deleting an Instagram post because it’d been 10 minutes and only a handful of people had liked it, I scoffed. How could you care that much what other people think of you? Why do you even pay attention to how many likes you’re getting anyway? I wondered. Today, I completely…
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Why We Sometimes Crave Movies That Make Us Cry
Why do we like to watch movies that make us cry? Tearjerkers tap into our empathy, but they’re more than an oxytocin release.
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Making Peace with Being Tall
When you’re a girl who’s 5’11”, people usually have one reaction when they meet you: “Whoa, you’re tall.” It often comes before hello, and is usually followed up with, “Do you play basketball?” Sometimes, they’ll ask if you model, which feels a little less carnival freakshow-ish, since it implies that the person may think you’re…
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How to Stop Doubting Yourself (for Real!)
By Michelle Joy If you’re looking for a motivational self-helpy book that is also humorous and “real,” this is the book for you. If you’re not looking for that, this is still the book for you. Honestly, everyone should read and/or listen to Jen Sincero’s You Are A Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start…
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Kate Hudson’s Squint Test
We’ve all been there: You’ve been running nonstop, constantly feeling three items behind on your to-do list from where you need to be, and the tasks keep piling up. You’re feeling overwhelmed and you just want to break down, but you know you’ve got to power through — at least for the next few minutes,…
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The ‘Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’ Part 2
You know you’re old when you agonize over buying the right dresser — and excitedly await its arrival. I’m not quite at the psyched-to-spend-hours-at-Home-Depot stage, but I fear I’m getting dangerously close. Assembling said dresser became the massive project (along with baking cookies and catching up on The Flash/Arrow) of Winter Storm Jonas weekend, AKA…
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What It Means to ‘Design the Life You Love’
I’m a sucker for a workbook. Give me the chance to write out my feelings, and I will start scribbling incessantly, filling up every line of every fill-in-the-blank until I have to scrunch my words into the margins, letting my sentences curl up the page. They satiate my need to feel productive. Hey, I’m doing…
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The Awesome Insight Hidden in Macklemore’s Album Announcement
About 30 seconds into the video for Macklemore’s YouTube video announcing he and Ryan Lewis’s next album, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, he uttered a line that made me stop and replay the sentence. Twice. It really struck a chord with me, which I was hesitant to admit, because often, once I critically think about…
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Does ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up’ Really Work?
The premise of the KonMari Method, which many know as The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (AKA the No. 1 New York Times best-selling book), is pretty simple: Go through everything you own and keep what ‘sparks joy,’ discard what doesn’t. You’re instructed to start out by hugging items close to your heart, to help…
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