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The Big and Small Ways You Can Use the Greatest Challenges to Your Advantage
If we’re lucky enough to age, we will at some point face challenges so great it will draw us to our knees. If we’re lucky. The unlucky ones don’t make it that far. When we are younger, we are so mired in privilege that we are angry at life when we’re thrown death, disease, rejection…
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The Answer to More Happiness and Less Anxiety
There was a special event on the Ten Percent Happier app entitled, “The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness.” I found the four minute videos on co-founder Dan Harris’s journey to learn from Dalai Lama so engaging it stopped me from my normal multitasking. I was enthralled by it. On the second to the last day,…
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Welcome 2023!
It’s that time of year when the gyms are full and every store knocks down their price on weights, blenders and diet books. I never realized how dangerous New Year’s Resolutions could be until I stopped making one. The end of one year often brings attention to things we’ve been stuffing under drawers and burying…
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Meaningful Books for Your Holiday Gift List
‘Tis the season of holiday decor, long lines and road rage. Sort of joking. Every year, I vow to ease into the holiday season by breaking tradition – Secret Santa gift exchanges, giving my kids experiences instead of gifts and forgiving myself for Christmas cards gone bad. {A few years ago during a particularly chaotic…
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Is it Wrong to Follow Your Passion? The Controversy About Following Your Passion
I’ve been hearing it from a few famous people like Ted Talker Terri Trespicio and one of my favorite authors Elizabeth Gilbert. Because I write about following your passion on the regular, I spent time considering their argument. And here’s where I think a lot of people getting passion and purpose wrong. MYTH: Passion has…
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You Are the Chosen One
You know what keeps me up at night? The state of the world. I think about how age has opened me up raw to the ways we sabotage ourselves to the greatest detriment of our well-being. Not just at an individual level, but at a global one. Imagine how many ways we humans destroy everything…
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4 Horrifying Outcomes of Not Pursuing Your Purpose
Many of us were brought up to believe that money was either a) the root of all evil b) it was a necessary evil. As a result, our true purpose was buried underneath grown-up words like, “obligation” and “responsibility.” We had to undertake the role of being an adult which has no room for joy…