Tag: personal development
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I’m not going to name names. I was reading someone’s something the other day and I realized how very much this something sounded like all of their other somethings. Call it a beat, a niche, an area of expertise, I just called it tired. It’s the same old saws, the topic spun and respun in…
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2011 was a big improvement over 2010. Given my thoughts on that year, almost anything would be, though. In 2011, I landed my current job. I started writing for Forbes. I was published by Salon, Jezebel and The Atlantic, among others. I drove across America with a stranger. I became an aunt again. I spent New Year’s…
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I don’t believe in the laws of attraction thing, but I do believe that the energy you put out to the world and to others influences what you get back in return and in what manner. But not in the whole you are a magnet and good fortune is a box of paperclips kinda way.…
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“I’m here to talk about ___,” I say with a big smile. “And I see you’ve brought alcohol,” one of the men at the booth remarked, noting the glass of wine in my hand. “Well, you didn’t think I’d just leave it on the counter at my booth, did you? You know who I work…
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“If I don’t become a spy, I’m probably just going to stop.” There are not many people who could utter a line like that and have it make perfect sense in the moment. My friend K is one of those people. What K was getting at was the idea that eventually you have to stop…
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Start as big and as grandiose as possible. Scale back only if absolutely necessary. And define “necessary” very narrowly. It’s the same logic that governs my stylist’s approach to trimming my bangs. “We can always take more off, but we can’t add it back on.” Truth. You can keep cutting and sanding and planing (different…
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What if you didn’t back off? What if you didn’t stop to catch your breath? What if instead of two steps forward and one back, you made it three, hell, even four or five forward? Lurch, stumble, run, whatever. What if, when the going got good, you didn’t stop to consider the hows, whys and…
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I have some things I should be taking care of, but they keep getting backburnered for more urgent tasks – can’t leave the office until I put out this fire, can’t catch up on email until I file this Forbes story, can’t even think about fall until I get July out of the way. These…
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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. Maybe it’s not The Man. Maybe it’s not the system. Or your deadbeat dad. Or the stuck-up bitches you went to high school with. Or the…
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