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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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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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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