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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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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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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