Tag: what do you want
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To spend time like money
I had been thinking a good goal for me this year was to be more productive. But that is vague and not really the problem. My real issue is in how I choose to spend my time. You see, I donate a lot of my time to YouTube. I am responsible for so much watch…
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Rethinking house clothes
A festival was happening outside. I could hear the music. Everyone’s joy was even louder. I’d considered joining them. I even got dressed to go. I put on a dress I’d been eager to wear. I did my hair. I was ready to go. And then I just sat on my bed with my laptop…
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Increasing income is not the same as increasing wealth
Boy, am I tired. It has been a while since I have had day off. Even during the holiday period, I picked up a part-time job. I constantly picked up shifts, because as everyone knows more work equals more pay. I was doing whatever I could to increase my income. My thought was, I would…
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No more aspirational purchases
I have a very fancy candle and diffuser set. I bought during a sale. It was a bit of splurge, but I told myself that it would be addition for my new place when I moved. It was such a good deal, I went ahead and bought it, in hopes of having the keys in…
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You can’t take it with you
I started writing this as I was coming back from a funeral. As you might imagine, it was not at all how I had hoped to spend my Christmas eve, but it did provide some perspective as I prepare for the new year. The experience forced to contemplate mortality itself. They say you can’t take…
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Discipline as an act of self-love
In the hopes of getting a head start on the rest of the world who will wait until January, I decided I would start working on my health and fitness goals now. Except I don’t really feel like it. All I really want to do is lie about eating cookies, watching YouTube videos I won’t…
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So, you’re a disappointment
Something has happened which has made you utter to yourself, “Why am I such a disappointment?” Or perhaps, someone has give you that label, a disappointment. If you clicked on this article, I am here to give you some perspective. Maybe you are in fact a disappointment, as according to Merriam Webster, “one who disappoints.”…
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Unless you’re a martial artist…
Unless you’re a martial artist: Stop making your next move dependent on what everyone else is doing. Think to yourself, does it really matter that x is doing y? (Or bluntly, what your ex happens to be doing, for those who need to hear it.) For instance, say all of your friends are already married…
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Just say no was good advice. Let’s bring that back
I am constantly guilty of this: I don’t tell people, “No,” nearly as often as I should. I don’t say what I really want to for fear of what someone else will think. I don’t tell them what I actually want or feel. I agree to do things I don’t really want to do, because…
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Reaching a turning point in these reflections
With the string of reflections I’ve posted and those that are still unpublished, I have noticed a trend: Boy, do I need work on self-confidence. If I were to take these writings to a caricature artist, they’d probably sketch out someone who is hunched over with a rain cloud overhead. That is not how I…
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