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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What ‘Pinch of Yum’ Can Teach You About Running a Successful Blog
If you’re interested in running any kind of blog, you have to check out Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro. Though the sites are very food-focused, the business/marketing/life-leveling-up lessons the sites share can apply well beyond people who like to Instagram (and write about) their lunch. (Guilty, as you all know.) We’re still working…
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Sometimes Things Don’t Turn Out The Way You Hope
…They wind up even better. Last week, I was challenged to put the “Make A Face A Cake” story on Delish.com to the test, just in time for Prince George’s birthday. Kim’s instructions were flawless; the design itself was easy to tackle, but as you’ll see, the end result was less Prince George, more ‘any…
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Katy Perry: Creative? Why You Can’t Sell Yourself Short
Just because you’re creative doesn’t mean you can’t think strategically. That’s something Katy Perry proves with every hit single, every sold-out tour, and every buzzed-about fragrance launch. In her recent cover story on Forbes, the “California Gurls” singer discussed how she views herself as an entrepreneur, explaining how she doesn’t just write about whatever’s on…
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How to Write an Out-of-Office Message That Will Let You Truly Unplug
Going on vacation doesn’t count as much of a getaway if people keep emailing, texting and sending smoke signals your way. (Who can understand smoke signals, anyway?!) An out-of-office autoreply on your email, and a voicemail message indicating the dates you’ll be out can be crucial for getting people off your back — and avoiding…
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8 Things You Can Do to Push Yourself Out of Your Comfort Zone
It’s all too easy to get caught in routines, especially when it comes to the school/work/weekday grind. The repetition makes our lives easier, but it can also make waking up each morning just a little more “meh.” Sometimes you just need to wildly disrupt the same old, same old to truly feel alive and regain…
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Christina Tosi’s Secret to a Fun-Filled, Fulfilling Life
If you’ve ever seen MasterChef judge and Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi’s colorful layer cakes, scrolled her Instagram or skimmed her cookbooks, you know that there’s an element of fun in everything she does. It’s an indelible part of her character, and of the #MilkBarLife she ‘grams about. When I interviewed her for Delish, I loved…
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Working for (More Than) the Weekend
Two numbers: 5 & 2. 5 > 2… Every time. In many ways, this simple equation became the genesis for why Candace and I created LBW. I’ll let you in on a little secret that you already know: there are way more weekday days than weekend days. Every week, Scout’s honor! And if this equation has anything…
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Are You ‘Future-Tripping’ Too Much?
At the risk of sounding all “Celebrities, they’re just like us!”-ish, while reading singer Joy Williams’ interview in the latest issue of Relevant magazine, a term she used stopped me mid-sentence, because it felt all too relatable: future-tripping. It’s obsessing over what your life would be like if you made this choice instead of that…
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The Test That Determines Whether You’re Lying to Yourself
When you ask someone how they’re doing — and they actually take a second to reply with more than the perfunctory, “well” or “fine” — two responses are all too common: “I’m so busy” and “I just don’t have enough time.” The latter is usually followed up by a quick mention of the thing they’d…
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You Need to Stop Defining Yourself So Narrowly
It wasn’t until I started stretching that definition of who I was that the little upsets of day-to-day life started feeling a little less personal, and a lot more, “well, let’s roll up our sleeves and deal with this.”
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Your Guide to Staying Sane During a Long Flight
Nate and I are planning a trip to Australia this August, and I’m so excited I can barely contain my squeals of joy. (Seriously. I think I might explode one day in a burst of high-pitched shrieks.) The one thing I’m not so excited about? Nearly an entire day of my life spent on a plane.…
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How to Make Your Ideas Contagious
When you think of books you can devour in one flight, thrillers and other edge-of-your-seat pageturners immediately come to mind. Not necessarily research-driven nonfiction. But when I started reading Jonah Berger’s Contagious two years ago on a flight to Tennessee, I couldn’t put it down. Even when we reached our destination. It’s that compelling. The…
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