Tag: dailyprompt
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Catch me in the Maldives (or how to make a dream vacation a reality)
I don’t have a good reason for this, but I am trying to get to the Maldives. I am not sure when this dream formed or truly the geography of the place, but I know that I want to linger in one of those huts on the water, only worrying about if I want to…
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The life-changing power of an unconventional subway ride
I can only imagine it started like this. She was bored on the train as she headed out late at night. The car was otherwise empty, and her favorite song started to play. She is vibing and decides to film herself. In that moment she became London’s Tube Girl. While I have no intention of…
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A handbag made from grapes? Stella McCartney debuts new leather alternative
As a nonvegan, I never really gave a second thought to the idea of using leather products. Besides the vegan alternatives never really seemed to hold up. I mean, squeaky pleather pants and bags that peeled didn’t hold up to the quality I saw in leather. In a debate of the ethics of using animal…
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Maybe washing your face in the morning isn’t necessary
I must admit to you now: I am not the kind of person who fully cleanses her face in the morning. I am more in the camp of let’s do a full routine at night, including cleanser and all the other steps. Then in the morning, it’s just a little refresh. But because I have…
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Just a reminder: UGG sells more than “UGGs”
As the weather gets colder, I find the shoes I keep coming back to are my UGGs. Let me clarify, not those UGGs. They are waterproof leather boots with the classic sheep lining. I have a black pair and a brown pair that laces up. These are not your early 2000s UGGs. That is the…
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Never enough time
Sometimes I wish I had more hours in the day. Then, then I would be able to get everything done. If only I had 24 hours with no interruptions, my entire to do list with be crushed. And then sometimes a wonderful thing will happen. A meeting will be cancelled, and suddenly I have more…
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Like cogs in a machine
In Radical Candor, Kim Scott writes: “When you treat people like cogs in a machine, you’ll get no more than you demand, and you create an incentive to break the machine.” Page 117 in Radical Candor by Kim Scott Taken from the chapter on relationships, Scott is driving home the point that trust building is…
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Where I’d like to stay in Geneva
I was geo-stalking the city of Geneva on Google Maps. Maybe that is a poor way of describing what I was doing, but essentially, I was zooming in and exploring everything the city had to offer and noticed a little hotel icon. There it was, La Reserve. As I looked at the website for the…
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Breaking a first impression
I have an entire list of things I can’t do. Or rather, I have a list of things I can’t do if I want to uphold a particular image. I want to leave a good impression, even though I haven’t quite defined what that means. All I know is that, I am constantly thinking how…
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Turns out I’m not a magician
This is awkward, but I must admit to you all, and more importantly to myself, that I am not a magician. I had been going through life with a set of hopes and dreams, with this vision of how my life would be radically different in three years. I have just come to the painful…
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