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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An Awesome Take on Failure
I’ve been a huge fan of Erin Motz’s “Bad Yogi” brand (and lifestyle) for years—and not just because she was my college roommate. Her yoga videos on YouTube challenge and recenter me, but the best part is that they make you feel completely at ease, no matter what skill level you’re at. She released a 90-second…
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The Most Influential Book I’ve Ever Read
The entire time I read The Grapes of Wrath, it felt more like I was slogging through it. I re-read certain passages over and over, because my eyes glazed over the text and I realized I’d skimmed an entire page without comprehending a word. The book’s structure — Describe the landscape in one chapter, move…
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Trying A Different Life on For Size
When I used to get stressed, I’d mindlessly search, refine results and scroll Indeed, Mediabistro and other job-search sites. It wasn’t because I was unhappy and desperately wanted a new gig; there was just something oddly soothing about looking at the search results, reading different job descriptions, and imagining what the day-to-day work would be…
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Tuesday Takeaway: Liz Gilbert and the Sh*t Sandwich
‘Big Magic’ author Liz Gilbert challenges us all: “The question is not, ‘What do I love?’ The question is, ‘What do I love so much that I don’t mind eating the sh*t sandwich that comes along with doing that thing?'”
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The Trigger That Leads to More Arguments (And How to Stop It)
Okay, so I’ve already gushed about how much I’ve loved Brene Brown’s Rising Strong. There have been several parts I want to re-read, discuss and work through, just because I think they’re so helpful to everyday life, but there’s one theme in the book that’s been reverberating through my life every single day since I’ve read…
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What to Remember When You Feel Like a Failure
Sometimes we all fall short of the mark. We shoot for a huge, life-altering goal, we map out every detail, we jot down benchmarks to get us there…and we come nowhere close to it. We want to disappear, to push it out of our heads and forget we ever even tried, to magically prevent people…
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Why People Aren’t Always As Supportive As You’d Hope
A week ago, I picked up a copy of Brene Brown’s Rising Strong, and just about every chapter has a “Daaaang, Brene” moment. As in, “Daaaang, Brene, that insight cut me to my core,” or “Daaang, Brene, I’ve never looked at it that way.” I’m not one to dog-ear or underline parts of books (I’m all…
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Why Mean Girls Exist
Years after its release, people are still quoting Mean Girls, and not just because the one-liners are off-the-charts amazing (though, let’s be honest, they are). Recently, I was told that the most powerful comedy is the kind that’s used to skewer underlying truths in our everyday lies and point out the absurdities within them. That’s…
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Keeping a Balanced Life with Google Keep
I’ve got a confession for you. Sometimes, when I am spending time with my wife or hanging out with friends, something happens to me. It’s subtle at first, like a quiet whisper, and I’ll try to ignore it. Then, like a symphony that crescendos to a fortissimo, it captures my attention firmly in its grasp. A…
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A New Mantra for the Overstressed
As a new school year kicks into gear and the lazy days of summer start to slip away, it’s easy to go from feeling refreshed and ready to take on new projects to obsessively worrying (read: panicking) about doing it all. That’s always been me, and it was especially true during my junior and senior…
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4 New Fall Books I Can’t Wait to Read
Beyond football season, sweater weather and pumpkin spice everything, fall is also a huge time for new book releases. Hundreds of titles come out during these months, and out of the ones I’ve seen, here are the ones I can’t wait to read:
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The One Thing You Must Stop Doing During Vacation
Thirty-four percent of millennials work every single day of their vacations. Yup, that’s one out of every three people, and what’s just as awful is that they return to work feeling even less productive than before they left, according to a June 2015 study by Alamo Rent A Car. It makes sense, in a warped way:…
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