“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen Without being told, I know that I’m juggling many things in my life; a career, a toddler, a health challenge, a business, and a home that needs to be cared for daily. All of these are competing for time with my effort to produce creative […]
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“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow There’s something exhilarating (and mildly terrifying) about the idea of building a career in public. It feels like standing on a stage with the spotlight on
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“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.” – Octavia Butler If you want to develop a writing habit, it is quite easier to do it than most people imagine. Before I started the Write Pact writing challenge, I imagined that building a daily writing habit would
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“Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones Career burnout has no textbook manifestation as everyone experiences it in different ways; some with mental collapse and feelings of despair once they open their laptops while some may never have the regular ‘signs’. In my personal experience, it was a years-long
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“Some journeys in life can only be travelled alone.” – Ken Poirot. “Life is stressful!” I can’t count how many times I’ve thought and said those words. It seems like everywhere I turn, I face some kind of demand with its own pressure which I have to deal with. From work to finances, there’s a
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“I’ve worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.” – Penelope Cruz I had intended to write about some other fun stuff I did this past week, but then, this happened, and I knew that I
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