Tag: self help
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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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I knew it wasn’t my scene as soon as I drew back the tent flap and saw a dozen spandex-clad people jogging through a circuit that involved turning two somersaults in the middle and then bounding to your feet to skip three turns of double-dutch. That’s what I get for being five minutes late, I…
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Imagine 25 people (strangers, even) all staring at you while they throw out words and terms to describe their perceptions of you and then more words and terms for areas you need to work on. And you just have to sit there and absorb it. That was my Sunday. It was challenging. Not because I…
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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 other day, I was trying to explain to a friend why a recent concert left me disappointed. The crowd was great (save for the tall girls standing directly in front me of me – the pains of being a short live music fan, I suppose), the performer in question actually sounded better live than…
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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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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. Photo by metal1944 For all of our big talk about doing things on our own terms, defining and measuring our success by benchmarks other than the…
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I’ve been visiting my family for the last few days and I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity. My father and I were discussing deadlines (this pseudo vacation happens to be full of them) of the physical vs. intellectual variety and the usefulness of putting conditions on work that normally requires creativity and inspiration to…
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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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