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 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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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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