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 Rules of Write Club
What started out as a weekly text exchange between Aide Sierra Davison and I has turned into a full-fledged group, and I couldn’t be more excited! I couldn’t resist being totally cheesy and renaming the endeavor The 60-Day Write Club. It’s kind of like Fight Club … only we don’t beat each other up and…
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That Awkward First Step Toward Progress
I rarely know what I’m doing 48 hours before New Year’s Eve, but ever since 2013, I’ve looked forward to one ritual on New Year’s Day: Going out to brunch and brainstorming goals for the year ahead. I know, I know — what a wild life, right? But honestly, it’s always fun to jot down…
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Let’s Set Some Goals For The Year Ahead
As earnest and treacly sweet as it sounds, Life Between Weekends launched one year ago to make goals happen. We wanted to push ourselves — and anyone else in our position, who often has a huge “I’d like to do that” list and struggles to find the time to conquer any of it — to…
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Give Yourself Permission to Take Time Off
One of the thrilling parts of the holiday season is the thought of taking time off. You imagine yourself completely agenda-less, basking in the glow of an open fire — or hearing the waves crashing on the beach, if you’re a fellow Floridian — but often, there’s one little snag. Work. Sometimes, it’s not even…
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Learning When to Say Yes
For the past few years, I’ve been enchanted by the concept of saying ‘yes’ to life (yup, kind of like that Jim Carrey movie, Yes Man). The idea of taking on any and every opportunity presented, of following your curiosity and seeing where life takes you just seemed all too appealing — and freeing. Sure,…
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You Don’t Need to Dissect Your Failures
Whenever something doesn’t turn out as planned, I typically overanalyze it until I make myself crazy. I intend to learn from the mistakes and move on, but my problem is that I rarely see the mistake, acknowledge it and keep moving forward. I pretend to do that, while inside, a tape recorder plays, looping the…
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Letting Your Goals Lapse
At the beginning of this year, I challenged myself to post three times per week, Monday through Wednesday, no matter what. So far, I’ve stuck to that goal, even if it means staying up well past a respectable bed time or writing some quick, haphazard post just to say I published something. But this week,…
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Carving out time for Friendsgiving
Next week, Americans all over the country will be celebrating Thanksgiving — that time of the year we can all put our differences aside, appreciate all the many things we’ve been blessed with, and eat all sorts of incredible coma-inducing food. This week, though, we here at LBW recommend throwing a Friendsgiving party first . If…
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The Most Powerful Magazine Cover I’ve Seen in Months
By and large, magazines are still sold by their front pages. The face that graces the cover can make or break sales, which is why most of the time, every glossy you see will feature a celebrity striking a power pose. This month, Relevant took a very different — and refreshing — approach. The cover features…
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Goals Check-In
At the beginning of the year, when I launched this blog, I set some wildly ambitious (and, okay, maybe unrealistic) goals for myself, and I encouraged anyone who’s reading to do the same. Yup, I get all rah-rah, “let’s do this!” about benchmarking my future and planning things out. Maybe it has to do with…
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Are You Taking the NaNoWriMo Challenge?
Writing an entire novel in 30 days sounded borderline impossible — or at the very least, completely insane — to me when I first heard someone mention it. And yet, tons of people accomplish that task every November, as part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The goal is to write 50,000 words over…
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Why Don’t We Call Dads “Working Fathers?”
As a writer, I’ve always believed that words are powerful, but I’ve never taken them too seriously. In college, I was the one not-so-subtly rolling my eyes when people complained that first-year students should be called “freshpeople*,” not “freshmen.” There is a point where we become too PC, and we’re so careful about phrasing every…
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