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Finding Your Passion: The Myth of a Dream Job

Finding Your Passion: The Myth of a Dream Job

The problem with finding your passion, or your dream job is that this kind of insidious mentality can actually keep us from critiquing the labor structure that we're existing in.

Our passion and dream job can actually prevent us from pushing for better work-life balance or policies that would improve our work life and our overall health and wellbeing, and critiquing the larger systems of labor that keep us working.

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Choosing Yourself In Love

Choosing Yourself In Love

A partnership may enrich your life, but If romance doesn't fit right now, nothing is wrong with you, and you have a choice either way.

No matter where your relationships fall between those two poles, it's important to remember that this time of your life is formative. Each relationship...

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Embracing Ordinariness

Embracing Ordinariness

An ordinary life isn't something to be ashamed of. Constant comparison is ruining our health and making us live in chronic anxiety.

We're all impacted in both big and small ways by our own social context, so the road and the finish line will look different for everyone. But embraci...

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Know Thyself

Know Thyself

What we might find is that the big questions: 'What matters to me? Who am I going to be in the world?' – have ordinary answers. Maybe it's embracing the pursuit of those answers that leads us to growth and shows us who we can grow into.

To rework your perception of the perfect lif...

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The Perfect Next Place

The Perfect Next Place

One of those reasons is the common trope that moving to a new city to start over will jumpstart an extraordinary life.

This notion can be incredibly disenfranchising for people who don't have the bandwidth or resources to move to a place to see what happens. When you're fe...

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Finding Fulfilment In Your Own Terms

Finding Fulfilment In Your Own Terms

A picture-perfect adulthood isn't realistic. The goal posts will keep moving and we're never without the next best thing we should be doing on the path to growing into our next best selves.

It's a challenge not to feel as though finding yourself has been turned into a comp...

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The Power of Everyday Ordinary Life

The Power of Everyday Ordinary Life

We're going to find ways to embrace our most ordinary selves. That can be as simple as logging off your computer 15 minutes early, calling a friend even if you still have items on your to-do list or being kind to yourself when you fall short of your own expectations.

Being...

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The Race

The Race

There's endless pressure from all sides: our culture, the media, your loved ones all purport the need to chase an extraordinary standard in every aspect of life.

We're urged to travel the world, while simultaneously working our way to professional success – all to get married to the pe...

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You Are Your Job

You Are Your Job

Life has shaped us to do our jobs in a weird, almost comical way.

We are entangled to our jobs, and keep doing it way after our office hours, not because we are scared to lose our job, but because we are so identified with it, and so engulfed in our work that it has becom...

No one loves saying "no"

No one loves saying "no"

Being inundated and exhausted became like a badge of honor at work**, a way to compare to others to convince ourselves that we're doing all we can with the time we have.

All too often, we see this state as something that's happening to us. More priorities at work, do more ...

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Acceptance of the natural cadence of our abilities allows the shifting of attention to higher spiritual and life priorities.

  • Jump: Let go when you have reached your peak accomplishment, perhaps before you are completely ready. You don't necessarily have to quit your...

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