Why Fall Is a Good Time to Begin Pondering the Year Ahead
There’s a point every fall when the year ahead starts feeling close enough to think about, even if you’re nowhere near ready to choose your Word of the Year. After more than twenty years of choosing a Word, I’ve learned that it rarely appears on command simply because...
How to Find Clarity When You Don’t Know What You Want
If you’re trying to find clarity around what comes next, sitting still and thinking harder may not be the answer. Especially if your brain has been chewing on the same question like a dog with a slipper. Sometimes clarity doesn’t arrive because you finally think the...
Optimism Isn’t Fake Positivity. It’s Refusing to Write the Ending Too Soon
Optimism gets a bad reputation when it’s confused with pretending. And honestly, fair enough. No one needs to be told to “look on the bright side” when the plan fell apart, the news was disappointing, the relationship shifted, the opportunity disappeared, or the thing...
You Don’t Need Thicker Skin. You Need Better Boundaries.
Better boundaries may be what you need if you’ve spent years believing the answer is to toughen up. Maybe you’ve told yourself you’re too sensitive, too affected, too easily knocked sideways by someone’s tone, comment, mood, criticism, expectation, or poorly timed...
Make Your Own Luck by Meeting Life Halfway
If you want to make your own luck, you don’t have to become wildly optimistic, ignore reality, or pretend every flat tire is secretly a blessing wrapped in rubber. Please. Some things are just inconvenient, disappointing, expensive, or exhausting, and calling them...
Imposter Syndrome Isn’t Always the Enemy
Imposter syndrome has become one of those phrases we use for almost every flicker of self-doubt. You feel nervous before hitting publish. You hesitate before applying for the job. You wonder if you’re really qualified to speak, lead, teach, write, create, charge, ask,...
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