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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How Keeping a ‘Worry Journal’ Can Help You Feel Less Anxious
Anxiety has always trailed me, like a shadow stitched to my feet a la Peter Pan. I can remember panicking as a five-year-old, pulling my nap mat over me and imagining what it’d be like to cease thought, to die, like a spider I’d just seen get smashed. (What a conversation my mom had to…
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BLUF: The 4 Letters That Changed the Way I Write Emails
While everybody’s focused on how Gen Z ends their emails, these days, I’m much more focused on the beginning. One of the first things I learned after landing at PureWow is their strategic approach to crafting emails, both internally and externally, and it all comes down to four letters: BLUF. Standing for “Bottom Line Up…
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The One Takeaway That’s Resonated Most After Taking Marie Kondo’s KonMari Consultant Training
Becoming a KonMari Consultant—aka a professional organizer certified in Marie Kondo‘s signature decluttering method—involves a lot more than asking “Does it spark joy?” Or even shelling out $2,750 and attending the three-day course. Or reading her books (and the course’s 79-page workbook). You have to put in the work, logging consultations and “tidying festivals” that…
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22 Questions to Answer Before You Die (Yeah, We’re Going There)
If you want people to leave you alone, tell them you’re reading a book about death—and not of the true crime variety. Dealing with our own mortality can be so unsettling, but does it need to be? We spend so much time obsessing over the details of our weddings, 16th birthdays, major anniversaries and other…
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12 Ways People Are Rising Up to Help Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can make you feel powerless. Unmoored. Frustrated. Losing your faith in humanity. I get it, because I am there right now. And while I know how cliché it’s become to return to that old Mister Rogers quote (“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,…
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The 2022 Anti-Goal Challenge: “Renewal by Subtraction”
We’re nearly a month into 2022, and a little over a week past “Quitter’s Day,” the infamous date when most people ditch their New Year’s resolutions, so it seems like the perfect time to roll out a request—nay, a challenge—for you in the 11 months ahead: Find something to eliminate from your life. Consider it…
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How to Stop Ruminating on Things That Don’t Serve You
We all have that feedback loop: It comes in quiet moments, when we’re alone, when we suddenly start replaying some painful scenario, as if breaking it down one more time will help us understand it better—or finally move past it. Maybe you’re rehearsing it, as if talking to a friend about the experience. Maybe you’re…
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Forget Resolutions: Set 2025 Off Right with a ‘TOP’ Assessment
If you’re hung up on your 2025 resolutions & goals, try the TOP assessment. These 3 questions will help you home in on what you really want.
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The Thrill of the (Thanksgiving Turkey) Hunt
Every November, it’s turkey-hunting season for my father. He prefers shopping carts to shot guns, but he hunts all the same. “The meat manager at Publix says they’re going to have the biggest birds ever this year,” my father announces. Whether we’re cooking for six or sixty, he abides by one mantra: The larger the…
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Review: Are The Home Edit’s Planners Worth It?
I have an unhealthy obsession with planners. I always have one on hand (sometimes two), and I’m constantly trying new versions to see which ones can help me manage my, uh, somewhat chaotic life. From Rachel Hollis’s goal-tracking Priority Planner to the wellness-driven Silk & Sonder planner, I feel like I’ve tried them all. Then,…
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Why We Decided to Invest in a Short-Term Rental (aka Airbnb)
If there was one resounding lesson from graduating during the Great Recession, it was this: Always have a side hustle. Throughout college, I had been completely, obsessively focused on journalism, gaining as much experience as I could to (hopefully) land a job in a fiercely competitive field. Combine the recession with a changing industry (ahem,…
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Looking to Launch an Airbnb? 3 Things to Check Before Making an Offer
With mortgages rates the lowest they’ve been in more than a decade, it seems like everyone’s got their eye on real estate (myself included). Nate and I have talked about buying a rental to serve as an Airbnb for the past few years, and over the past few months, we’ve finally committed seriously to the…
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