Tag: mindset
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About those overpriced Louis Vuitton lip balms. I bought one.
On my trip to New York, I wandered through the Louis Vuitton store. This was my chance to finally try that obviously overpriced makeup. I gravitated to the lip balms, the LV Baumes. I swatched every shade except for clear. I found they were way more pigmented than I was expecting and may more satisfyingly…
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Taking the day off
These past few days I’ve been resistant to getting started on work. I’ve been struggling to get out of bed. I thought maybe that meant my discipline muscles needed to get activated. I sat there at my work computer, miserable but trying to push through. He said to me, “You know this is what sick…
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Remixing my thoughts
It came back again. All the thoughts about what I should have done differently in that situation. Her words continued to plague me and make me feel worse about the event. It played on repeat. I wanted it to stop. “Why are you so obsessed with me?” The lyrics from the Mariah Carey song also…
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My own race
The 15k never happened. After it was switched to a virtual option, I figured this was my chance to finally do the training. I counted back from the last date to submit my times and built out a training plan that I would definitely stick to because this time would be different. I would run…
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Just a few pushups
I sent the text: I’m on my second round of pushups to deal with these frustrations. It seemed like a healthy choice. Instead of letting my blood pressure rise, I could work off the frustrations and then return to my desk renewed in mind. Of course, I would get physically stronger over the days, but…
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The good thing about tantrums
Years ago, I needed to know how to deal with toddler tantrums. I was at my wit’s end but knew there was some information somewhere out there in the world that would help me. I learned that it was just part of the child’s development, something you get through calmly, and not necessarily an indication…
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To see me
I rushed over as soon as I got the chance. A group of my former coworkers were meeting to exchange stories over coffee. I couldn’t pass up re-uniting and getting updated on the gossip. But as we shared what was new, I found myself giving updates on how I’d been feeling. I weighed how my…
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A wasted trip
It’s snowing outside. I knew full well this would happen and braced myself for the massive storm that was coming our way. Days before I came to New York, I switched my flight to get ahead of the impending snow and wind that threatened to cancel my flight. I figured it would be fine. But…
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It shouldn’t be this hard
It shouldn’t be this hard. I bemoaned, yet again, the same woes. Because it took me longer to do the task, because I was distracted easily, because it was hard to get out of bed, because I can’t just wake up and go, powered and directed just by passion and goals. My struggle was a…
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All I could be doing
I caught myself mid scroll, frantically hoping for another hit a quick video. I find myself way too often searching for video after video to entertain myself. There I am waiting for algorithm to make me laugh or think. When instead… I could be reading a book, getting lost in composing images of the fictional…
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