Category: Pep Talks
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Maybe it’s because family has been on my mind this week. Or maybe it’s because my mother just celebrated a birthday a couple of days ago and my father will celebrate one in less than a month. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been reading about other people’s less than idyllic upbringings and feeling pretty flippin’…
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I don’t read or follow anyone who’s big in the personal development/motivation/entrepreneurship/social media spheres. Don’t read their blogs, couldn’t name their books, aren’t intrigued by their ideas and interested in subscribing to their newsletters, don’t follow ’em on Twitter, have only the vaguest idea of what TED is about (People giving speeches about how to…
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The other night, I found myself standing in the condiment aisle of the supermarket debating about whether to buy the regular peanut butter or the natural, organic stuff. I wanted the former, but knew I should stick with the latter. It’s 10:00 PM, they’re playing The %^$#@& Fray over the PA system and I’m standing…
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I’m sick of passion and exhortations to discover it, embrace it, follow it, stay true to it, etc. Maybe it’s because I’ve been watching a lot of Top Chef lately (pairs well with rebounding from food poisoning) and have heard contestant after contestant blather about being passionate about food, or maybe it’s because the internet…
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New York Magazine runs a regular feature on the food diary of a celebrity/public figure/whoever they can round up. Last week’s happened to be Mika Brzezinski, co-host of Morning Joe. I can’t remember where I stumbled upon a link to the rundown of her recent eating habits, but after reading it, I felt compelled to…
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Nope. The title isn’t a typo. So, I haven’t been in the best mood lately. Just scuff your foot in the dirt bummed out more or less. Heave a big sigh and throw your bag on the chair instead of hanging it up because the world is mean, so why should you bother with niceties?…
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Gen Y has no gut instinct. Or so I declared late last night (N.B. When in the throes of insomnia, I sometimes throw out bold declarations and unfiltered non sequiturs on Twitter). On the whole, we’ve never made developing our intuition and using it as a guide in decision-making much of a priority. And why…
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The very first interview I did for GenMeh turned out to be oddly prophetic. The Board of Love girls were pretty pithy, but their advice about the need to seek out and assemble support systems for various facets of your life is indisputably solid. We’re social creatures and even the most ambitious, motivated and fiercely…
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Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of time-based talk floating around – people anxious that others are getting the jump on them, that they should have done more and done it earlier, lamentations about growing older, etc. The clock is ticking after all. Of course, this fretting over age-related accomplishments saddens me. It’s both exhausting…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Recently, I had cause to be in a room full of women (ranging in age from early 20s to 50s) discussing their career trajectories. And as…
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