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.

  • I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Quote from Meghan Markle’s Grad Speech

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    I’ve never really followed the royals, beyond the awareness that my day job requires, but I haven’t been able to get Meghan Markle’s speech to the graduating class at Immaculate Heart High School out of my head. This year has been challenging on all fronts, and I’ve been trying to take more time to listen,…

    Quotes from Meghan Markle's video speech to Immaculate Heart High School
  • Is the Rachel Hollis Start Today Journal Right for You?

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    I’m a sucker for planners. And journals. And prompts that get me to dissect my feelings and goals and move forward, which is why the second I heard the latest collection of Rachel Hollis Start Today Journals and Priority Planners were out, I had to scope them out. My review of the Priority Planner has…

    Rachel Hollis Start Today Journal Review
  • You Don’t Have to Feel Guilty for Being Happy Right Now

    The coronavirus has upended our lives, and with so many people struggling—with COVID itself, and/or job losses, mounting debt, loneliness, and so on—it’s easy to feel in a constant state of worry. (In fact, in some ways, we’re living in an age of “Everyday Scaries,” as opposed to the Sunday Scaries, where people feel a…

    How to Deal with Guilt When You're Happy - Photo: Lidya Nada/Unsplash
  • How to Take Back the Weekend When Every Day Feels the Same

    Three months ago, most people’s water cooler talk on Fridays involved the same question: “What are you up to this weekend?” The question itself hasn’t changed, but now, Zoom, Slack and Google Hangouts have replaced the office water cooler (though, for the record, when was the last time you and your coworkers actually gathered around…

    This Salvador Dali-inspired street art in FL reminds me of the "What is time?" talk these days
  • What Makes a Great Storyteller, According to Brené Brown

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    Leave it to Brené Brown to turn research on vulnerability into a must-watch video. Her TEDxTalk on the topic is one of the idea-sharing platform’s most viewed of all time, and over the years, she’s written several data-based New York Times bestsellers. What could be a totally dry topic is thrilling by her pen, so…

    How to be a great storyteller, according to Brene Brown
  • 6 Resources for Kids (and Parents) Who Are Social Distancing at Home

    This isn’t a mommy blog. I’ve never taught homeschool. But, right now, I’m muddling through figuring out how to teach and entertain while working, and I know I’m not the only one. As we hunker down to try to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, many companies—and fellow parents—have shared free resources to help kids from…

    Social distancing activities for kids
  • Is ‘Cancel Culture’ Giving Us an Excuse to…Escape Our Own Shame?

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    While reading the New Yorker this morning (yup, I do read things beyond what’s coming in the next FabFitFun box and the ingredients in Popeyes cajun sauce sometimes), I came across an interesting quote: “We’re in the midst of this cancel culture: ‘This person is gay, this person didn’t fight in the military, this person…

  • Review: How to Get the Most Out of Rachel Hollis’s Priority Planner

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    Update (September 28, 2020): Target has just released the Q3 edition of Rachel Hollis’s Priority Planner and Start Today Journals, featuring designs inspired by Austin, TX (the previous editions featured LA and Mexico City). The jackets are all new, but the content remains the same, so my review stands. If you’re curious about her Start…

    A look at the daily pages section of the Priority Planner
  • Starting A ‘Present Over Perfect’ Revolution

    Maybe you can relate to my struggle right now: Lately, it seems like words wash over me more than I absorb them. My mind feels fractured; even when I think I’m fully present, I find that any lull makes me want to reach for my phone, check that notification, or think up how I’ll respond…

    Starting a 'Present Over Perfect' study session with me - Photo: Averie Woodard/Unsplash
  • The Best Time of Day to Make a Major Decision

    Often, whenever I have to make a huge decision, I put it off. I want to give myself as much time as possible to weigh the pros and cons, visualizing every outcome. And, to be very honest, the more complicated the decision is (Should I accept a new job? How should I handle this difficult…

    The Best Time of Day to Make a Decision
  • Why Criticism Leaches Off Us So Much Longer Than We’d Like

    You’ve heard that it takes 6 compliments to offset a single piece of criticism, and any time you screw up, you can’t help but play that tape—or that awful thing someone said—over and over again. Why is that, exactly? Blame the Negativity Effect. Also known as the Negativity Bias, it’s the research-backed theory that negative…

    Negativity bias
  • Outtakes: Leanne Ford on Being the Boss Vs. “Bossy”

    Hey guys! I’m starting a recurring column called “Outtakes,” where I highlight a snippet from an interview I’ve given that’s really resonated with me. All too often, there are awesome anecdotes an expert or celeb says that just don’t fit the story I’m working on. Rather than be the only one who hears those words,…

    Leanne Ford by Reid Rolls for House Beautiful
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