#theres no way i can alter my schedule to make it better. theres no solution for me unless i give up more freetime!! wtf!!

[bugsoda]

hehe hi 👋 it's me :3

for the ask game:

27. What's your favorite book? (or just one you've read a few times?)

26. What are some seemingly childish things you like?

43. Do you have siblings? if so how many?

34. What's your favorite flower?

9. When is your birthday?

19. Do you have a best friend? how long have you

been friends?

50. Wild Card. any question, ask away!

did you listen to the new Hozier album yet?! :3

21. How was your day today?

and

28. How are you, really?

<3

- girl-hobbit 🤎🌿

ow wow ok!!

27. six of crows is so good. so good.

26. i love cartoons, games like 4 square, coloring books, climbing trees, popping bubble wrap, splashing in puddles, doing carwheels. uhhh a lot of things :]

43. i have a sister 2 years older than me and a brother 6 years younger than me :p

34. just wildflowers i guess???? like fields of them <3333

9. october 27 :D its the best birthday

19. sort of? i have two friends ive known since like 2nd grade and we are really close but we’re also close with other people. i guess yes??

50. ok dont hate me but i listened to the first like 5 songs the day it released and then i kept gettinf distracted and forgetting so i havent listened to it in full yet :(( i will though i promise!! ill do it today >:3

21. good! i got a root beer float at school :DD

28. tbh i keep getting really upset about school and its Not Fun. more in tags

[themoneybuff-blog]

Your Career Is a Multimillion-Dollar Investment, So Manage It Wisely

Over the course of a 40-year career, the average American with a bachelors degree can expect to earn about $1.8 million. When viewed by gender, the cumulative earnings shift somewhat, with women taking home $1.4 million over four decades compared to an average of $2.1 million for men, according to estimates by theIndiana Business Research Center at Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business, The substantial gender pay gap aside, when viewed in this way, it becomes far more obvious just how valuable ones career can be. And those figures are just the averages. For those who manage a career as actively and shrewdly as they might an investment portfolio, aggressively working to maximize its potential as a financial asset all along the way, a careers worth of earnings could be worth far, far more. The most important part of thinking of your job as an investment is actually pretty basic: realizing that you dont just have to make an investment, you have to manage it as well, says from Emmet Savage, chief investor at MyWallSt, a learning and investing app. What does that mean exactly? Here are some ways to help make the most of your career arc and the amount of financial gain, growth, and opportunity you realize over the course of a lifetime. Change Your Mindset In many ways, treating your career as a multimillion-dollar investment begins with altering the way you view work in general. For most people, a job is just that. Something they do as a must to pay bills without really thinking about their end goal or ideal outcomes, says 35-year-old Greg Dorban, chief marketing officer for Ledger Bennett. Dorban, however, never viewed work on such simplistic terms. In the space of just five years, he progressed from intern to co-owner of a multinational marketing agency that generates eight-figure revenues, a meteoric rise he attributes to starting out with a much broader view of work than merely making ends meet. Early on Dorban established a North Star for himself the goal of owning a business in short order. This shining beacon guided his subsequent steps, inspiring him to take actions to rise above the day to day hustle of earning a living, including consistently investing in himself and in the training needed to maximize his professional potential. Building the right skills will be the best investment you can make as the payoff positively impacts so many areas of your life, not just your wallet, says Dorban. The underlying message of his story, Dorban adds, is that when considering your career, allow yourself to think bigger than simply bringing home a paycheck to cover the next rent or mortgage payment. Then identify the training, new skills, or specific experiences and growth opportunities needed to reach that higher goal. Maximize the Benefits of Everything You Do The idea of always being on and bringing your professional A-game wherever you go can be off-putting to some, but theres something to be said for recognizing the potential of all situations, including the most ordinary of moments. Erica McCurdy, a certified master coach and managing member of McCurdy Solutions Group, calls this utilizing and maximizing the benefits of everything you do, which she says can accelerate the power of your time and efforts with regard to your career. This includes making sure to introduce yourself to everyone at a meeting and at every place you pause on the way to and from the meeting, says McCurdy. It also means collecting business cards, connecting with each person on LinkedIn, including a personal message, and scheduling coffee meetings with those people who pique your interest. Never forget to send thank you notes to those who helped make the day possible, adds McCurdy. Finish up the day by updating your career and contact log so you dont lose any valuable information. There are countless points along the way where you might come into contact with someone who can open a new door for you or somehow play a pivotal role in moving your career to the next level, so keep your eyes open to the possibilities. Dont Pass Up Free Money Maximizing your earnings over the course of a career also means taking some very practical steps as well with the financial opportunities your career presents. This includes being sure to enroll in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, particularly if the employer matches your contributions, as that match is free money and can add up over the course of a lifetime. The first and best advice I give to new hires is to contribute the maximum to their 401(k), says careers analyst Laura Handrick of FitSmallBusiness.com. Many dont understand the concept of compound interest, so as an HR professional, its important to educate employees. Handrick also suggests that if your company offers financial planning workshops, be sure to attend. This is another opportunity to expand your financial skills at no cost to you. But 401(k) matches are merely one example of the financial opportunities available through your workplace. Take Advantage of Tuition Reimbursement Many companies offer tuition reimbursement programs to help cover the costs of continuing education for employees who want to go back to school and obtain degrees or certifications. Brent Michaels, a registered nurse and creator of the website Debt & Cupcakes, says these offers have financial value on multiple levels. I graduated from nursing school with minimal student loan debt and have been able to work toward my Bachelor of Science in nursing and other certifications without spending a dime, he explained. In addition, as I complete classes, I grow professionally and personally, and the knowledge from these courses helped me secure promotions and business opportunities that would not have been available to me otherwise. Even just earning certifications, says Michaels, allows him to stand out as a motivated employee, which pays off in spades over the long run. and On the Job Training Obtaining an advanced degree or certification isnt the only way to distinguish yourself and maximize career earning potential. Many employers offer on the job training related to specific tasks the organization deems important, said Michaels. Dont pass up this opportunity, either. You may also want to actively search out such opportunities if theyre not openly available. I knew that project management was needed for a promotion I was hoping to obtain in the future, but I had no experience. I intentionally volunteered to work on projects so that I could network with the project managers, he explained. I developed relationships and obtained free project management training. This cost nothing more than my time, and allowed me to secure a promotion a few years later that increased my salary by over 25 percent. Networking Your network is everything; use it to maximize your ROI. Lets face it, you can have the best resume, you can be the best employee out there, but having people of trust who can vouch for you is irreplaceable. Nothing can beat that, begins Peter Koch, creator of the site Seller at Heart, which is focused on how to save and make extra money. Koch is obviously on to something: As many as 85% of jobs are filled via networking,according to a LinkedIn survey. This means that when youre searching for new career opportunities to boost your pay, it really is who you know, continues Koch. If youre able to make good impressions on others in your field and provide value to them, theyll be happy to recommend you next time their company has an opening you could fill. Employers want to build a team of people they trust, and a personal recommendation from a colleague will always carry more weight than an unknown applicant emailing their resume. Need an added reason why networking is so important? Switching jobs is often a better way to increase your salary more significantly, as opposed to waiting for a raise at your current company. In fact, those who leave their employers to take a new job are realizing pay raises that are about one-third larger than those who stay put. As of this past July, wages for job hoppers grew 3.8% from a year earlier, compared with 2.9% for those who opted to stay with their current employer, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Lean Out All of these tips and tactics really lead to what career coach Denise Riebman refers to as leaning out with your career.Ribeman recently gave a keynote speech about building your career capital heres what that means. Its really about doing a skill and knowledge gap analysis and asking where you do you want to go to in your career and investing in yourself to get there, she explains. See who is a couple chapters ahead of you and identify the gaps to get there. And like Koch, Riebman says a critical part of leaning out means actively expanding that professional network, or having what she calls an open network, which will ultimately help you to be more successful professionally and financially over the long term. Traditionally people like to stay in our tribes, among people we know, people we went to school with, said Riebman. The problem is that those people have same ideas and same information as you. Having an open network is about building your career capital. Mia Tayloris an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience. She has worked for some of the nations best-known news organizations, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Read more: https://www.thesimpledollar.com/your-career-is-a-multi-million-dollar-investment/

[samuelfields]

I Quit My Dream Job Because There’s Sadly No Such Thing

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

One of the benefits of financial independence is that you can try out different occupations that pay very little or nothing. I’ve always wanted to be a grade school teacher, but I realized after doing some research you can’t just become a middle school teacher here in San Francisco. Even being a substitute teacher requires many months of training, exams, and screening.

When a friend told me of an assistant tennis coach position at his son’s high school in 2017, I jumped at the opportunity. In my mind, after five years of unemployment, this was a dream job because it combined teaching with my favorite sport.

Further, the job gave me an opportunity to understand the private school system in case my son doesn’t win the SF public school lottery, learn what it’s like to interact with teenagers so I can be better prepared in 12 years, develop relationships with new people, exercise, and be a part of the education community.

Dream Job: Season 1, February through mid-May 2017

The first season of coaching was thrilling because everything was new. I couldn’t believe I was chosen for this position and felt grateful for the opportunity. I have the mindset that every job I get is like winning the lottery.

Despite having to shuttle students back and forth between school and the practice courts as well as matches, I was digging assimilating back into society. It had been two years since I last did some consulting for a couple financial technology companies.

Our team finished with the best record in school history, but we lost in the conference tournament finals to a school 3X our size. It was a bittersweet ending, but one that we were proud of.

Towards the end of the 3-month season, I was glad to be done with coaching because it required way more work than I had expected. My expectation of just showing up to practice and matches to coach was not the reality.

Dream Job: Season 2, February through mid-May 2018

By the time it was necessary to make a decision whether to coach again in 2018, I had finally recovered from the initial shock of being a new dad. Those first six months were brutal, but it progressively got better with each month that went by.

Not returning for a second season would have felt like a waste. We had come so close to winning it all. My CPR training certification and coaching credentials were good for two years before I had to take an update exam. Further, I had already gone through the thorough background check process.

With unfinished business, I decided to give high school coaching one more go.

During the second season, nothing was new or exciting anymore. The constant shuttling back and forth began to wear. Some matches were an hour away, which meant that on two occasions I wasn’t able to get back home before my son went to bed. I felt terrible each time.

It seemed wrong to spend time with other kids instead of my boy given he was still so young.

In addition, I’ve discovered working with teenagers can be difficult. By the time you’re a senior in high school, it’s easy to just check out and not listen to your elders. I get it, but it still bums me out when there is a lack of respect. There was also a fight I had to separate one time on the practice courts.

Given my day usually starts at 6am, I was constantly coming home exhausted. Practice was between 3:30pm – 5:30pm, but I’d have to leave by 3pm and I’d often come back around 6:15pm. In addition to being a dad and working on Financial Samurai, I’m also in charge of managing our wealth, which itself could be a full time job.

Despite the long, full days, I kept telling myself to hang in there. If we won the conference title, gutting it out would be worth it and I’d leave happy.

After several gut-wrenching 4-3 victories in the playoffs, we ended up battling our way to the conference final where we faced our old foe and last year’s conference champion. But this time, we took them down with another 4-3 win!

Champions at last! Unprecedented! And funny enough, I finally got myself a medal.

Time To Leave On Top

Now that we’ve done what has never been done before, it’s time for me to quit. Even though the season is only 3 months long, it feels uncomfortable to spend time with other kids over my own.

Over the two seasons, I developed some fantastic relationships with important members of the community. To be able to have a great relationship with the head coach, who also happens to be the athletic director at a terrific school, is a wonderful asset.

He’s already told me he’d write me a glowing letter of recommendation to become a coach at one of the schools in Honolulu if we go. This alone, makes the grind worth it.

Winning the conference title was definitely one of the proudest moments in his career as the head coach and AD. As the assistant coach, I felt quite proud too.

I further developed good relationships with around eight great parents who regularly came out to the matches to cheer their sons on. Surely if I ever need help with anything they have expertise in, they’d happily agree. After all, I helped their sons achieve something special.

No Such Thing As A Dream Job

Notwithstanding only getting paid $3,500 per season, I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility to do anything and everything for my coaching job. My work ethic has always been to try and provide more value than what was being paid. This way, I figured I’d always be employed or employable during difficult times.

The reality is that I would have preferred not to have been paid at all. After taxes, I didn’t even realize I was getting paid in the beginning and had to question what these random deposits were at random times.

Without a paycheck, I wouldn’t have felt as obligated. It’s that heavy feeling of obligation that took away from the freedom I’d so readily grown accustomed to since 2012.

There is no dream job because you’ve always got to answer to someone, no matter how nice they are. And when you have to answer to someone, you’ve got to alter your behavior.

After being free for so many years, it felt weird not being completely myself during the season. As a coach, I must act seriously and professionally, which is frankly foreign to my personality because I’m often times just an easy-go-lucky type of guy.

Having a dream job reminded me how much we have to change ourselves in order to fit in and grow in the work environment.

Hence, the best solution I’ve come up for next tennis season is to volunteer for 2-3 days a week. After all, we have the possibility of creating a high school tennis dynasty!

In conclusion, the closest thing that comes to a dream job is working for yourself. Financial Samurai is absolutely a blast to run. There is definitely pressure to keep up the writing schedule. However, it’s a self imposed pressure. Having nobody to answer to is priceless.

Related:

How To Make Six Figures A Year At Almost Any Age

When Earning $1 Million A Year Isn’t Enough To Retire Early

How To Be A Rockstar Independent Contractor

Do You Want To Be Rich Or Free?

Readers, do you think there’s such a thing as a dream job? What were some of the things that made a former dream job of yours, not so great at the end? 

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[mcjoelcain]

I Quit My Dream Job Because There’s Sadly No Such Thing

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

One of the benefits of financial independence is that you can try out different occupations that pay very little or nothing. I’ve always wanted to be a grade school teacher, but I realized after doing some research you can’t just become a middle school teacher here in San Francisco. Even being a substitute teacher requires many months of training, exams, and screening.

When a friend told me of an assistant tennis coach position at his son’s high school in 2017, I jumped at the opportunity. In my mind, after five years of unemployment, this was a dream job because it combined teaching with my favorite sport.

Further, the job gave me an opportunity to understand the private school system in case my son doesn’t win the SF public school lottery, learn what it’s like to interact with teenagers so I can be better prepared in 12 years, develop relationships with new people, exercise, and be a part of the education community.

Dream Job: Season 1, February through mid-May 2017

The first season of coaching was thrilling because everything was new. I couldn’t believe I was chosen for this position and felt grateful for the opportunity. I have the mindset that every job I get is like winning the lottery.

Despite having to shuttle students back and forth between school and the practice courts as well as matches, I was digging assimilating back into society. It had been two years since I last did some consulting for a couple financial technology companies.

Our team finished with the best record in school history, but we lost in the conference tournament finals to a school 3X our size. It was a bittersweet ending, but one that we were proud of.

Towards the end of the 3-month season, I was glad to be done with coaching because it required way more work than I had expected. My expectation of just showing up to practice and matches to coach was not the reality.

Dream Job: Season 2, February through mid-May 2018

By the time it was necessary to make a decision whether to coach again in 2018, I had finally recovered from the initial shock of being a new dad. Those first six months were brutal, but it progressively got better with each month that went by.

Not returning for a second season would have felt like a waste. We had come so close to winning it all. My CPR training certification and coaching credentials were good for two years before I had to take an update exam. Further, I had already gone through the thorough background check process.

With unfinished business, I decided to give high school coaching one more go.

During the second season, nothing was new or exciting anymore. The constant shuttling back and forth began to wear. Some matches were an hour away, which meant that on two occasions I wasn’t able to get back home before my son went to bed. I felt terrible each time.

It seemed wrong to spend time with other kids instead of my boy given he was still so young.

In addition, I’ve discovered working with teenagers can be difficult. By the time you’re a senior in high school, it’s easy to just check out and not listen to your elders. I get it, but it still bums me out when there is a lack of respect. There was also a fight I had to separate one time on the practice courts.

Given my day usually starts at 6am, I was constantly coming home exhausted. Practice was between 3:30pm – 5:30pm, but I’d have to leave by 3pm and I’d often come back around 6:15pm. In addition to being a dad and working on Financial Samurai, I’m also in charge of managing our wealth, which itself could be a full time job.

Despite the long, full days, I kept telling myself to hang in there. If we won the conference title, gutting it out would be worth it and I’d leave happy.

After several gut-wrenching 4-3 victories in the playoffs, we ended up battling our way to the conference final where we faced our old foe and last year’s conference champion. But this time, we took them down with another 4-3 win!

Champions at last! Unprecedented! And funny enough, I finally got myself a medal.

Time To Leave On Top

Now that we’ve done what has never been done before, it’s time for me to quit. Even though the season is only 3 months long, it feels uncomfortable to spend time with other kids over my own.

Over the two seasons, I developed some fantastic relationships with important members of the community. To be able to have a great relationship with the head coach, who also happens to be the athletic director at a terrific school, is a wonderful asset.

He’s already told me he’d write me a glowing letter of recommendation to become a coach at one of the schools in Honolulu if we go. This alone, makes the grind worth it.

Winning the conference title was definitely one of the proudest moments in his career as the head coach and AD. As the assistant coach, I felt quite proud too.

I further developed good relationships with around eight great parents who regularly came out to the matches to cheer their sons on. Surely if I ever need help with anything they have expertise in, they’d happily agree. After all, I helped their sons achieve something special.

No Such Thing As A Dream Job

Notwithstanding only getting paid $3,500 per season, I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility to do anything and everything for my coaching job. My work ethic has always been to try and provide more value than what was being paid. This way, I figured I’d always be employed or employable during difficult times.

The reality is that I would have preferred not to have been paid at all. After taxes, I didn’t even realize I was getting paid in the beginning and had to question what these random deposits were at random times.

Without a paycheck, I wouldn’t have felt as obligated. It’s that heavy feeling of obligation that took away from the freedom I’d so readily grown accustomed to since 2012.

There is no dream job because you’ve always got to answer to someone, no matter how nice they are. And when you have to answer to someone, you’ve got to alter your behavior.

After being free for so many years, it felt weird not being completely myself during the season. As a coach, I must act seriously and professionally, which is frankly foreign to my personality because I’m often times just an easy-go-lucky type of guy.

Having a dream job reminded me how much we have to change ourselves in order to fit in and grow in the work environment.

Hence, the best solution I’ve come up for next tennis season is to volunteer for 2-3 days a week. After all, we have the possibility of creating a high school tennis dynasty!

In conclusion, the closest thing that comes to a dream job is working for yourself. Financial Samurai is absolutely a blast to run. There is definitely pressure to keep up the writing schedule. However, it’s a self imposed pressure. Having nobody to answer to is priceless.

Related:

How To Make Six Figures A Year At Almost Any Age

When Earning $1 Million A Year Isn’t Enough To Retire Early

How To Be A Rockstar Independent Contractor

Do You Want To Be Rich Or Free?

Readers, do you think there’s such a thing as a dream job? What were some of the things that made a former dream job of yours, not so great at the end? 

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[ronaldmrashid]

I Quit My Dream Job Because There’s Sadly No Such Thing

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

One of the benefits of financial independence is that you can try out different occupations that pay very little or nothing. I’ve always wanted to be a grade school teacher, but I realized after doing some research you can’t just become a middle school teacher here in San Francisco. Even being a substitute teacher requires many months of training, exams, and screening.

When a friend told me of an assistant tennis coach position at his son’s high school in 2017, I jumped at the opportunity. In my mind, after five years of unemployment, this was a dream job because it combined teaching with my favorite sport.

Further, the job gave me an opportunity to understand the private school system in case my son doesn’t win the SF public school lottery, learn what it’s like to interact with teenagers so I can be better prepared in 12 years, develop relationships with new people, exercise, and be a part of the education community.

Dream Job: Season 1, February through mid-May 2017

The first season of coaching was thrilling because everything was new. I couldn’t believe I was chosen for this position and felt grateful for the opportunity. I have the mindset that every job I get is like winning the lottery.

Despite having to shuttle students back and forth between school and the practice courts as well as matches, I was digging assimilating back into society. It had been two years since I last did some consulting for a couple financial technology companies.

Our team finished with the best record in school history, but we lost in the conference tournament finals to a school 3X our size. It was a bittersweet ending, but one that we were proud of.

Towards the end of the 3-month season, I was glad to be done with coaching because it required way more work than I had expected. My expectation of just showing up to practice and matches to coach was not the reality.

Dream Job: Season 2, February through mid-May 2018

By the time it was necessary to make a decision whether to coach again in 2018, I had finally recovered from the initial shock of being a new dad. Those first six months were brutal, but it progressively got better with each month that went by.

Not returning for a second season would have felt like a waste. We had come so close to winning it all. My CPR training certification and coaching credentials were good for two years before I had to take an update exam. Further, I had already gone through the thorough background check process.

With unfinished business, I decided to give high school coaching one more go.

During the second season, nothing was new or exciting anymore. The constant shuttling back and forth began to wear. Some matches were an hour away, which meant that on two occasions I wasn’t able to get back home before my son went to bed. I felt terrible each time.

It seemed wrong to spend time with other kids instead of my boy given he was still so young.

In addition, I’ve discovered working with teenagers can be difficult. By the time you’re a senior in high school, it’s easy to just check out and not listen to your elders. I get it, but it still bums me out when there is a lack of respect. There was also a fight I had to separate one time on the practice courts.

Given my day usually starts at 6am, I was constantly coming home exhausted. Practice was between 3:30pm – 5:30pm, but I’d have to leave by 3pm and I’d often come back around 6:15pm. In addition to being a dad and working on Financial Samurai, I’m also in charge of managing our wealth, which itself could be a full time job.

Despite the long, full days, I kept telling myself to hang in there. If we won the conference title, gutting it out would be worth it and I’d leave happy.

After several gut-wrenching 4-3 victories in the playoffs, we ended up battling our way to the conference final where we faced our old foe and last year’s conference champion. But this time, we took them down with another 4-3 win!

Champions at last! Unprecedented! And funny enough, I finally got myself a medal.

Time To Leave On Top

Now that we’ve done what has never been done before, it’s time for me to quit. Even though the season is only 3 months long, it feels uncomfortable to spend time with other kids over my own.

Over the two seasons, I developed some fantastic relationships with important members of the community. To be able to have a great relationship with the head coach, who also happens to be the athletic director at a terrific school, is a wonderful asset.

He’s already told me he’d write me a glowing letter of recommendation to become a coach at one of the schools in Honolulu if we go. This alone, makes the grind worth it.

Winning the conference title was definitely one of the proudest moments in his career as the head coach and AD. As the assistant coach, I felt quite proud too.

I further developed good relationships with around eight great parents who regularly came out to the matches to cheer their sons on. Surely if I ever need help with anything they have expertise in, they’d happily agree. After all, I helped their sons achieve something special.

No Such Thing As A Dream Job

Notwithstanding only getting paid $3,500 per season, I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility to do anything and everything for my coaching job. My work ethic has always been to try and provide more value than what was being paid. This way, I figured I’d always be employed or employable during difficult times.

The reality is that I would have preferred not to have been paid at all. After taxes, I didn’t even realize I was getting paid in the beginning and had to question what these random deposits were at random times.

Without a paycheck, I wouldn’t have felt as obligated. It’s that heavy feeling of obligation that took away from the freedom I’d so readily grown accustomed to since 2012.

There is no dream job because you’ve always got to answer to someone, no matter how nice they are. And when you have to answer to someone, you’ve got to alter your behavior.

After being free for so many years, it felt weird not being completely myself during the season. As a coach, I must act seriously and professionally, which is frankly foreign to my personality because I’m often times just an easy-go-lucky type of guy.

Having a dream job reminded me how much we have to change ourselves in order to fit in and grow in the work environment.

Hence, the best solution I’ve come up for next tennis season is to volunteer for 2-3 days a week. After all, we have the possibility of creating a high school tennis dynasty!

In conclusion, the closest thing that comes to a dream job is working for yourself. Financial Samurai is absolutely a blast to run. There is definitely pressure to keep up the writing schedule. However, it’s a self imposed pressure. Having nobody to answer to is priceless.

Related:

How To Make Six Figures A Year At Almost Any Age

When Earning $1 Million A Year Isn’t Enough To Retire Early

How To Be A Rockstar Independent Contractor

Do You Want To Be Rich Or Free?

Readers, do you think there’s such a thing as a dream job? What were some of the things that made a former dream job of yours, not so great at the end? 

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[oovitus]

Weekend Reading, 6.24.18

A friend of mine told me that he recently went to a conference where all of the attendees seemed to be talking about perfectionism, in spite of that fact that it wasn’t the conference theme. They were discussing it as people who had been susceptible to impossible standards in the past, but now counted themselves lucky to have let perfectionism go.

As we were talking, it occurred to me that I haven’t thought about perfectionism in a long time, though it had a hold on me for years. Even after I stopped trying to do everything “right,” perfectionism (and to some extent, being “Type A”) was a big part of my identity. I called myself a “recovering perfectionist,” which was truthful, but in retrospect I think it was also my way of continuing to identify with perfectionism and communicate it to others. I didn’t want to be subject to oppressive standards anymore, but I hadn’t yet figured out who I was without them.

In the end, perfectionism exited my life out of necessity; I untangled from it because I didn’t have a choice. Living with bouts of depression and anxiety in the last few years has meant letting go of a lot of my self-imposed notions of what constitutes productivity, success, or a day well spent.

A common experience of depression, I think, is that small, routine asks can suddenly seem insurmountable: doing laundry, cleaning up, running errands. This would have sounded unbelievable to me at one point in my life, when these kinds of to-dos were just afterthoughts, but now I know what it’s like to struggle with the everyday.

I’m thinking back to an afternoon two summers ago that illustrates this perfectly: my anxiety had been particularly bad, and I’d been paralyzed by procrastination all day. By dinnertime I was genuinely proud of myself for having gotten out of the house to pick up groceries and mail a package. This was a radically different measure of productivity than I was used to, and it didn’t matter: I was relieved to have done something, anything.

I’m in a different place now, capable of fuller days, but my perspective remains valuably altered by that experience. I don’t wake up with a fixed agenda anymore. I don’t plan on doing more than I know I can handle. If I notice that tasks remain undone everyday on my modest to-do list, I take it as a sign that I need to plan on doing less, rather than wondering why I can’t do more.

I’ve learned that my capacity for doing and my tendency to get overwhelmed ebb and flow. Sometimes they shift for reasons that I can identify, like how I’m feeling physically or whether something has made me anxious. Sometimes they change suddenly and for no apparent reason. I don’t try to bully myself out of feeling overwhelmed; rather, I ask what would make me feel calmer and more steady.

I often remind myself of a mantra that my friend Maria gave herself when her MS symptoms started keeping her from the pace and routines that had become customary: “better than before.” The origin of this mantra was an ongoing struggle to keep tidy the home she shared with her young son. As Maria’s “functional self” receded, she noticed the presence of another self, who “though less physically versatile, was stronger than I ever could have imagined from the perspective of the one who functioned’ throughout the day. She began to show me things my functional self simply missed.”

One of those things, she goes on to say,

was to be able to notice when I was completely out of energy to exert myself. This might be when something was halfway wiped, or not wiped at all, but I had somehow managed to put some things away. She would know to say that’s enough for now. And she was very clever about what would satisfy my functional self, who would never have been satisfied with that’s enough. It sobered that functional self to learn when the diagnosis of MS finally came that the “forcing” she had habituated herself to was the worst thing to do if she wanted to preserve her physical abilities.  But as the saying goes, it’s really true that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. So my deeper wiser identity came up with something even more ingenious than this looming threat:

Better Than It Was.

Or, (depending on the context): Cleaner Than It Was.

These two statements became my mottos. And they still are. They allowed me to learn to pace myself while still satisfying that Functional Self that I was making what she considered progress through the daily requirements of life, even if many of them were slowed to a crawl or a downright standstill.  Better Than It Was.

Maria’s story is uniquely her own, and my own sense of high functionality has shifted for reasons that are uniquely mine. But her clever motto has given me great comfort since I first read about it on her blog. So, too, does this quote from Melody Beattie: “Our best yesterday was good enough; our best today is plenty good too.”

The best thing about letting go of perfectionism is developing a capacity to recognize that “our best” can look very different from moment to moment. There’s no longer an immovable standard of output. I wish that I’d been able to pry my ego away from productivity and being busy on my own, rather than being forced to reckon with a dramatic shift in my capacities, but in the end, it doesn’t matter how I got here. What matters is that I’m learning to be grateful for what I can do, rather than fixating on what I haven’t, or can’t.

Throughout all of this, I’ve had the tremendous luxury of being able to adjust my schedule and responsibilities in a way that allowed me to create a dynamic “new normal.” Not every person has the space to do this, depending on his or her professional and personal circumstances. I recognize and respect the many men and women who go through periods of depression and anxiety while also keeping up with fixed schedules. And of course I worry sometimes about my DI year: now that I’m learning how to take gentle care in the moments when I need to, what will it be like to temporarily lose control of my schedule and workload?

I don’t have an answer, but to some degree I suspect that I don’t need one. My routine next year will be a challenge, but so long as I can do my best without succumbing to the influence of perfectionism, I know I’ll be OK. Much as I’ve made my schedule more realistic, letting go of perfectionism has been an inside job. It resides in recognizing how futile perfectionism is, how it discourages me needlessly while keeping me from recognizing the good that I can do, and maybe have done (another observation that’s prompted by Beattie).

Here’s to a week—and a month, and a summer, and a year—of doing my best and trusting that my best is enough. I wish the same for you, too. And here’s the weekly roundup of links.

Recipes

I would never think to put fruit in a tabbouleh, but I love Katie’s creative mixture of blueberries, parsley, mint, and quinoa—I’d actually love to try it as a savory breakfast dish!

A very different kind of quinoa salad, but no less delicious: a curried mixture with red cabbage, raisins, and pumpkin seeds from Melanie of Veggie Jam.

Two recipes for summer entertaining caught my eye this past week. The first is these show-stopping chipotle cauliflower nachos from my friend Jeanine of Love & Lemons.

Number two is this platter of green summer rolls with mango miso sauce from Anya of Lazy Cat Kitchen. The sauce alone is calling to me, but I also love all of the tender green veggies here (asparagus, zucchini, broccolini).

Finally, a summery vegan pasta salad with creamy avocado dressing—perfect timing, as pasta salad’s been on my mind lately (and I may just have a recipe coming soon!).

Reads

1. This article is about a month old, but it’s very on-topic for today’s post: why you should stop being so hard on yourself, via The New York Times.

2. Ed Yong’s new article on the threat of imminent global pandemics frightened me (and the blurb under the title didn’t help), but it’s an important topic, and I’m glad that it’s being written about. Yong notes the medical supply shortages that are becoming increasingly problematic in the US; hopefully greater awareness might somehow inspire solutions.

3. Reporting on the termination of a major NIH study of alcohol, heart attack, and stroke, which was shut down when conflicts of interest were identified. It’s an important examination of the ethics of funding and scientific research.

4. Dispatches from the Gulf of California, where the vaquita—now the world’s rarest marine mammal—is on the brink of extinction.

5. I was so full of appreciation and respect when I read my friend Karen’s latest post on numbers and body acceptance.

Like Karen, I went through a long period of asking to be blind weighed at the doctor’s office and not owning a scale. That time served a purpose, but nowadays I can be aware of the number without identifying with it, which I’m grateful for. I’ve had a bunch of doctor’s appointments in the last month, and getting weighed has been the last thing on my mind: feeling more at home in my body has been my only point of focus.

Karen opens up about her own recent experience with the scale and the annual physical, then reflects on why she’s committed to being transparent about what “balance” looks like for her. It’s great to witness her journey unfolding.

On that inspiring note, happy Sunday—and from a celebratory NYC, happy pride! I’ll be circling back this week with my first fruit-filled dessert of the summer.

xo

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The 10 New Year’s Resolutions That Is guaranteed under Your Good Time Yet

The best part about the New Year is that its a clean slate. Theres a sense of consolation in leaving the past behind, feeling encouraged to let bad habits end with 2016, and growing motivated to stimulate positive changes in 2017.

The reason why New Years resolutions can actually wield, is because theres something about a fresh start that not only drives us to be better, but us that its possible to erase our slate clean and change our ways.

The mentality behind a New Year equates a fresh start is improbably powerful and incite. Theres a reasons for January is the busiest month of the year at your local gym. Parties are most likely take action and put in effort towards achieving their goals when something external has represented a new beginning.

The good happen you can do is attain specific New Years solutions, rather than merely make a mental note that youd like to effort more frequently or spend more time with their own families. Here are 10 New Years Resolutions that will guarantee the very best year hitherto in 2017 TAGEND

1. Put your phone down during lifes important moments

Millennials are missing out on whats all around them due to a decision to observe life through a small screen. How can you amply experience a special moment if youre on your phone documenting it via Snapchat and Instagram the entire era? Justin Wells of Westwind Recovery points out that social media craving is a major problem TAGEND

Rather than taking in a special minute, millennials appear compelled to continually document almost every aspect of “peoples lives”, which vastly belittles the happiness of any specific momentous occasion.

If you read to put down the phone during memorable moments, youll take up and enjoy whats happening so much more. When youre on vacation at a impressive mountain resort, take it all in and keep the phone in your inn area for a few hours while you go out investigating with only your eyes. When youre out with acquaintances, experience their fellowship by putting the phone down. In general, the very best year hitherto will be 2017 if you can burst your addiction to your smartphone.

2. Pursue your infatuation

One of the most important goals to have is to work towards a busines that involves you expending your offering and haunting your ardour. A great point to have for 2017 that will help you work towards your nightmare chore is to start a passion activity. A fervour project can help you stay focused on your fury, pattern your skills and use your gift in order to exclude you on track and to maintain you motivated.

3. Get your finances in order

Getting your coin in order can lead to fiscal democracy, which is integral to a happy and healthy life. You must be specific with your fiscal destinations, though. Rather than telling yourself you want to save more fund in 2017, you must instead lay out specific expensive wonts that you want to cut down on, and have a point in judgment as to how much of each paycheck you want to put into a savings account.

Getting your commerces in order too intends paying your proposals on time, controlling your credit card balances, and attending about your ascribe. In a recent Capital One credit confidence study, over 70 percent of the 2,300 respondents conserved a creed that having good ascribe is the gateway to the American Dream.

If you want to improve your credit, and youre dedicated to this New Years Resolution, then compensate all of your bills on time. That symbolizes reconciling your telephone invoice, energy, cable, vehicle pays and other proposals their due date. Late pays could show up as negative activity on your ascribe profile, and too many delinquencies could significantly lower your recognition score.

4. Find someone to be accountable to at the gym

Every year, billions of parties have get fit or lose weight at the top of their New Years resolves inventory. What you need in order to achieve this resolution, though, is a specific schedule that will actually cultivate. You requirement external accountability. You necessary someone to answer to, a person who has hinders track of you and someone who motivates you.

A personal coach, for example, is person you will be accountable to. This is someone you wont nullify on. When I have a civilizing seminar booked at Steve Nash, I know that its not something I can duck out of it even if I dont feel like running. Im to my tutor. Unlike the working group fitness class, when you book a one-on-one seminar with your manager, you cant exactly get by with gathering a no-show. If you have one specific weight loss decide for 2017, it should be to

5. Meal prep and watch your alcohol and medicine intake

If weight loss is one of your New Years resolvings, exert alone wont cut it, but dont start some silly diet in 2017. Instead, meal prep. Its best available way to ensure you wont ingest nonsense. The reasonablenes we chew undesirable fast food is because we suddenly recognise were starving and we have nothing prepared. Meal prep changes all that, and its a great dres to get into come 2017.

If you want to watch your weight, though, youll have to watch your alcohol intake too. And observing your alcohol consumption is a great New Years resolving in general not just for the sake of saving calories. Just as smoking Marijuana has some health benefits, some might “re saying that” a glass of red wine has health benefits too. Sure it does, but all in moderation. A glass of red wine every now and then wont hurt you, and neither will the curious joint. Binge boozing and all day stoner seminars, though, will. As long as youre mindful of what foods and substances youre putting into your form, youre on the right path.

6. Plan one solo errand each year

Even if its just a weekend away to a nearby ski hostel, solo excursions are fundamental to personal rise. You need duration away, by yourself, on your mountaintop to re-charge, get imaginative and get inspired. If you can, strategy an extended trip-up somewhere by yourself in 2017, and use that valued time to focus on your misses and needs.

7. Get out of your comfort zone and take advantage of opportunities

Be more social, learn new sciences, listen meet-ups and stop secreting out at home. Many of us feel that were safer when nobody can see us and thats why we stay in so much. Nonetheless, getting out of the members of this house( and therefore getting out of your consolation zone) more often will truly pay off. Opportunities can get you everywhere, but they wont fall into your lap. Youll have to get outside, congregate new people and ordeal more of life in order to run into beneficial, life-altering opportunities.

8. Be less of a couch potato

Prolonged sedentary periods are bad for your well-being and bad for your health. In 2017, try to watch less TV and be more active instead. Instead of pressing that continue watching button on Netflix, go to the gym instead. Find excuses to be active whenever you can. If a friend invites you out for dinner to catch up, propose going for a saunter together and catching up that room instead. Youll feel right at the end of each and every day if you were active that day.

In fact, get off the couch and make a point of getting outside every evening at least for half an hour. You should commit to spend time in nature every single daylight, because studies have demonstrated that they that investing time in quality is linked to gaiety, higher self-esteem, and a decrease in sadnes and anxiety. Its important to spend time away from Tv screens and laptop screens, because too much screen-time is fantastically bad for your well-being.

9. Tidy up and rework your dwelling

The New York Times Bestseller, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing bright notebook that explains why straightening up and redecorating invigorates a healthier overall mindset. It can even medication anxiety problems and help us find more tighten, as though a weight has been lifted. If you take the time to read that work, tidy up your infinite, and get more organized, the positive effects of this wont proceed unnoticed.

10. Practice gratitude and positivity

Theres a famed quote by Maltbie D. Babcock that summing-up it up wonderfully: Better to fail count while mentioning your backings than lose your favors weighing your bothers. So instead of focusing on what the hell are you dont have, center your force on grateful towards what you have. Youll construct yourself miserable equating yourself to others or focusing on the negative all the time. Just as easy as it is for you to complain about whats going wrong, its evenly easy to celebrate whats disappearing right. The option is yours, and the positive mindset instead of the negative one will guarantee the very best time ever. As soon as you learn how to be more grateful, your whole life could change not just your year.

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Weekend Reading, 6.24.18

A friend of mine told me that he recently went to a conference where all of the attendees seemed to be talking about perfectionism, in spite of that fact that it wasn’t the conference theme. They were discussing it as people who had been susceptible to impossible standards in the past, but now counted themselves lucky to have let perfectionism go.

As we were talking, it occurred to me that I haven’t thought about perfectionism in a long time, though it had a hold on me for years. Even after I stopped trying to do everything “right,” perfectionism (and to some extent, being “Type A”) was a big part of my identity. I called myself a “recovering perfectionist,” which was truthful, but in retrospect I think it was also my way of continuing to identify with perfectionism and communicate it to others. I didn’t want to be subject to oppressive standards anymore, but I hadn’t yet figured out who I was without them.

In the end, perfectionism exited my life out of necessity; I untangled from it because I didn’t have a choice. Living with bouts of depression and anxiety in the last few years has meant letting go of a lot of my self-imposed notions of what constitutes productivity, success, or a day well spent.

A common experience of depression, I think, is that small, routine asks can suddenly seem insurmountable: doing laundry, cleaning up, running errands. This would have sounded unbelievable to me at one point in my life, when these kinds of to-dos were just afterthoughts, but now I know what it’s like to struggle with the everyday.

I’m thinking back to an afternoon two summers ago that illustrates this perfectly: my anxiety had been particularly bad, and I’d been paralyzed by procrastination all day. By dinnertime I was genuinely proud of myself for having gotten out of the house to pick up groceries and mail a package. This was a radically different measure of productivity than I was used to, and it didn’t matter: I was relieved to have done something, anything.

I’m in a different place now, capable of fuller days, but my perspective remains valuably altered by that experience. I don’t wake up with a fixed agenda anymore. I don’t plan on doing more than I know I can handle. If I notice that tasks remain undone everyday on my modest to-do list, I take it as a sign that I need to plan on doing less, rather than wondering why I can’t do more.

I’ve learned that my capacity for doing and my tendency to get overwhelmed ebb and flow. Sometimes they shift for reasons that I can identify, like how I’m feeling physically or whether something has made me anxious. Sometimes they change suddenly and for no apparent reason. I don’t try to bully myself out of feeling overwhelmed; rather, I ask what would make me feel calmer and more steady.

I often remind myself of a mantra that my friend Maria gave herself when her MS symptoms started keeping her from the pace and routines that had become customary: “better than before.” The origin of this mantra was an ongoing struggle to keep tidy the home she shared with her young son. As Maria’s “functional self” receded, she noticed the presence of another self, who “though less physically versatile, was stronger than I ever could have imagined from the perspective of the one who functioned’ throughout the day. She began to show me things my functional self simply missed.”

One of those things, she goes on to say,

was to be able to notice when I was completely out of energy to exert myself. This might be when something was halfway wiped, or not wiped at all, but I had somehow managed to put some things away. She would know to say that’s enough for now. And she was very clever about what would satisfy my functional self, who would never have been satisfied with that’s enough. It sobered that functional self to learn when the diagnosis of MS finally came that the “forcing” she had habituated herself to was the worst thing to do if she wanted to preserve her physical abilities.  But as the saying goes, it’s really true that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. So my deeper wiser identity came up with something even more ingenious than this looming threat:

Better Than It Was.

Or, (depending on the context): Cleaner Than It Was.

These two statements became my mottos. And they still are. They allowed me to learn to pace myself while still satisfying that Functional Self that I was making what she considered progress through the daily requirements of life, even if many of them were slowed to a crawl or a downright standstill.  Better Than It Was.

Maria’s story is uniquely her own, and my own sense of high functionality has shifted for reasons that are uniquely mine. But her clever motto has given me great comfort since I first read about it on her blog. So, too, does this quote from Melody Beattie: “Our best yesterday was good enough; our best today is plenty good too.”

The best thing about letting go of perfectionism is developing a capacity to recognize that “our best” can look very different from moment to moment. There’s no longer an immovable standard of output. I wish that I’d been able to pry my ego away from productivity and being busy on my own, rather than being forced to reckon with a dramatic shift in my capacities, but in the end, it doesn’t matter how I got here. What matters is that I’m learning to be grateful for what I can do, rather than fixating on what I haven’t, or can’t.

Throughout all of this, I’ve had the tremendous luxury of being able to adjust my schedule and responsibilities in a way that allowed me to create a dynamic “new normal.” Not every person has the space to do this, depending on his or her professional and personal circumstances. I recognize and respect the many men and women who go through periods of depression and anxiety while also keeping up with fixed schedules. And of course I worry sometimes about my DI year: now that I’m learning how to take gentle care in the moments when I need to, what will it be like to temporarily lose control of my schedule and workload?

I don’t have an answer, but to some degree I suspect that I don’t need one. My routine next year will be a challenge, but so long as I can do my best without succumbing to the influence of perfectionism, I know I’ll be OK. Much as I’ve made my schedule more realistic, letting go of perfectionism has been an inside job. It resides in recognizing how futile perfectionism is, how it discourages me needlessly while keeping me from recognizing the good that I can do, and maybe have done (another observation that’s prompted by Beattie).

Here’s to a week—and a month, and a summer, and a year—of doing my best and trusting that my best is enough. I wish the same for you, too. And here’s the weekly roundup of links.

Recipes

I would never think to put fruit in a tabbouleh, but I love Katie’s creative mixture of blueberries, parsley, mint, and quinoa—I’d actually love to try it as a savory breakfast dish!

A very different kind of quinoa salad, but no less delicious: a curried mixture with red cabbage, raisins, and pumpkin seeds from Melanie of Veggie Jam.

Two recipes for summer entertaining caught my eye this past week. The first is these show-stopping chipotle cauliflower nachos from my friend Jeanine of Love & Lemons.

Number two is this platter of green summer rolls with mango miso sauce from Anya of Lazy Cat Kitchen. The sauce alone is calling to me, but I also love all of the tender green veggies here (asparagus, zucchini, broccolini).

Finally, a summery vegan pasta salad with creamy avocado dressing—perfect timing, as pasta salad’s been on my mind lately (and I may just have a recipe coming soon!).

Reads

1. This article is about a month old, but it’s very on-topic for today’s post: why you should stop being so hard on yourself, via The New York Times.

2. Ed Yong’s new article on the threat of imminent global pandemics frightened me (and the blurb under the title didn’t help), but it’s an important topic, and I’m glad that it’s being written about. Yong notes the medical supply shortages that are becoming increasingly problematic in the US; hopefully greater awareness might somehow inspire solutions.

3. Reporting on the termination of a major NIH study of alcohol, heart attack, and stroke, which was shut down when conflicts of interest were identified. It’s an important examination of the ethics of funding and scientific research.

4. Dispatches from the Gulf of California, where the vaquita—now the world’s rarest marine mammal—is on the brink of extinction.

5. I was so full of appreciation and respect when I read my friend Karen’s latest post on numbers and body acceptance.

Like Karen, I went through a long period of asking to be blind weighed at the doctor’s office and not owning a scale. That time served a purpose, but nowadays I can be aware of the number without identifying with it, which I’m grateful for. I’ve had a bunch of doctor’s appointments in the last month, and getting weighed has been the last thing on my mind: feeling more at home in my body has been my only point of focus.

Karen opens up about her own recent experience with the scale and the annual physical, then reflects on why she’s committed to being transparent about what “balance” looks like for her. It’s great to witness her journey unfolding.

On that inspiring note, happy Sunday—and from a celebratory NYC, happy pride! I’ll be circling back this week with my first fruit-filled dessert of the summer.

xo

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The 10 New Year’s Resolutions That Is guaranteed under Your Good Time Yet

The best part about the New Year is that its a clean slate. Theres a sense of consolation in leaving the past behind, feeling encouraged to let bad habits end with 2016, and growing motivated to stimulate positive changes in 2017.

The reason why New Years resolutions can actually wield, is because theres something about a fresh start that not only drives us to be better, but us that its possible to erase our slate clean and change our ways.

The mentality behind a New Year equates a fresh start is improbably powerful and incite. Theres a reasons for January is the busiest month of the year at your local gym. Parties are most likely take action and put in effort towards achieving their goals when something external has represented a new beginning.

The good happen you can do is attain specific New Years solutions, rather than merely make a mental note that youd like to effort more frequently or spend more time with their own families. Here are 10 New Years Resolutions that will guarantee the very best year hitherto in 2017 TAGEND

1. Put your phone down during lifes important moments

Millennials are missing out on whats all around them due to a decision to observe life through a small screen. How can you amply experience a special moment if youre on your phone documenting it via Snapchat and Instagram the entire era? Justin Wells of Westwind Recovery points out that social media craving is a major problem TAGEND

Rather than taking in a special minute, millennials appear compelled to continually document almost every aspect of “peoples lives”, which vastly belittles the happiness of any specific momentous occasion.

If you read to put down the phone during memorable moments, youll take up and enjoy whats happening so much more. When youre on vacation at a impressive mountain resort, take it all in and keep the phone in your inn area for a few hours while you go out investigating with only your eyes. When youre out with acquaintances, experience their fellowship by putting the phone down. In general, the very best year hitherto will be 2017 if you can burst your addiction to your smartphone.

2. Pursue your infatuation

One of the most important goals to have is to work towards a busines that involves you expending your offering and haunting your ardour. A great point to have for 2017 that will help you work towards your nightmare chore is to start a passion activity. A fervour project can help you stay focused on your fury, pattern your skills and use your gift in order to exclude you on track and to maintain you motivated.

3. Get your finances in order

Getting your coin in order can lead to fiscal democracy, which is integral to a happy and healthy life. You must be specific with your fiscal destinations, though. Rather than telling yourself you want to save more fund in 2017, you must instead lay out specific expensive wonts that you want to cut down on, and have a point in judgment as to how much of each paycheck you want to put into a savings account.

Getting your commerces in order too intends paying your proposals on time, controlling your credit card balances, and attending about your ascribe. In a recent Capital One credit confidence study, over 70 percent of the 2,300 respondents conserved a creed that having good ascribe is the gateway to the American Dream.

If you want to improve your credit, and youre dedicated to this New Years Resolution, then compensate all of your bills on time. That symbolizes reconciling your telephone invoice, energy, cable, vehicle pays and other proposals their due date. Late pays could show up as negative activity on your ascribe profile, and too many delinquencies could significantly lower your recognition score.

4. Find someone to be accountable to at the gym

Every year, billions of parties have get fit or lose weight at the top of their New Years resolves inventory. What you need in order to achieve this resolution, though, is a specific schedule that will actually cultivate. You requirement external accountability. You necessary someone to answer to, a person who has hinders track of you and someone who motivates you.

A personal coach, for example, is person you will be accountable to. This is someone you wont nullify on. When I have a civilizing seminar booked at Steve Nash, I know that its not something I can duck out of it even if I dont feel like running. Im to my tutor. Unlike the working group fitness class, when you book a one-on-one seminar with your manager, you cant exactly get by with gathering a no-show. If you have one specific weight loss decide for 2017, it should be to

5. Meal prep and watch your alcohol and medicine intake

If weight loss is one of your New Years resolvings, exert alone wont cut it, but dont start some silly diet in 2017. Instead, meal prep. Its best available way to ensure you wont ingest nonsense. The reasonablenes we chew undesirable fast food is because we suddenly recognise were starving and we have nothing prepared. Meal prep changes all that, and its a great dres to get into come 2017.

If you want to watch your weight, though, youll have to watch your alcohol intake too. And observing your alcohol consumption is a great New Years resolving in general not just for the sake of saving calories. Just as smoking Marijuana has some health benefits, some might “re saying that” a glass of red wine has health benefits too. Sure it does, but all in moderation. A glass of red wine every now and then wont hurt you, and neither will the curious joint. Binge boozing and all day stoner seminars, though, will. As long as youre mindful of what foods and substances youre putting into your form, youre on the right path.

6. Plan one solo errand each year

Even if its just a weekend away to a nearby ski hostel, solo excursions are fundamental to personal rise. You need duration away, by yourself, on your mountaintop to re-charge, get imaginative and get inspired. If you can, strategy an extended trip-up somewhere by yourself in 2017, and use that valued time to focus on your misses and needs.

7. Get out of your comfort zone and take advantage of opportunities

Be more social, learn new sciences, listen meet-ups and stop secreting out at home. Many of us feel that were safer when nobody can see us and thats why we stay in so much. Nonetheless, getting out of the members of this house( and therefore getting out of your consolation zone) more often will truly pay off. Opportunities can get you everywhere, but they wont fall into your lap. Youll have to get outside, congregate new people and ordeal more of life in order to run into beneficial, life-altering opportunities.

8. Be less of a couch potato

Prolonged sedentary periods are bad for your well-being and bad for your health. In 2017, try to watch less TV and be more active instead. Instead of pressing that continue watching button on Netflix, go to the gym instead. Find excuses to be active whenever you can. If a friend invites you out for dinner to catch up, propose going for a saunter together and catching up that room instead. Youll feel right at the end of each and every day if you were active that day.

In fact, get off the couch and make a point of getting outside every evening at least for half an hour. You should commit to spend time in nature every single daylight, because studies have demonstrated that they that investing time in quality is linked to gaiety, higher self-esteem, and a decrease in sadnes and anxiety. Its important to spend time away from Tv screens and laptop screens, because too much screen-time is fantastically bad for your well-being.

9. Tidy up and rework your dwelling

The New York Times Bestseller, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing bright notebook that explains why straightening up and redecorating invigorates a healthier overall mindset. It can even medication anxiety problems and help us find more tighten, as though a weight has been lifted. If you take the time to read that work, tidy up your infinite, and get more organized, the positive effects of this wont proceed unnoticed.

10. Practice gratitude and positivity

Theres a famed quote by Maltbie D. Babcock that summing-up it up wonderfully: Better to fail count while mentioning your backings than lose your favors weighing your bothers. So instead of focusing on what the hell are you dont have, center your force on grateful towards what you have. Youll construct yourself miserable equating yourself to others or focusing on the negative all the time. Just as easy as it is for you to complain about whats going wrong, its evenly easy to celebrate whats disappearing right. The option is yours, and the positive mindset instead of the negative one will guarantee the very best time ever. As soon as you learn how to be more grateful, your whole life could change not just your year.

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The 10 New Year’s Resolutions That Is guaranteed under Your Good Time Yet

The best part about the New Year is that its a clean slate. Theres a sense of consolation in leaving the past behind, feeling encouraged to let bad habits end with 2016, and growing motivated to stimulate positive changes in 2017.

The reason why New Years resolutions can actually wield, is because theres something about a fresh start that not only drives us to be better, but us that its possible to erase our slate clean and change our ways.

The mentality behind a New Year equates a fresh start is improbably powerful and incite. Theres a reasons for January is the busiest month of the year at your local gym. Parties are most likely take action and put in effort towards achieving their goals when something external has represented a new beginning.

The good happen you can do is attain specific New Years solutions, rather than merely make a mental note that youd like to effort more frequently or spend more time with their own families. Here are 10 New Years Resolutions that will guarantee the very best year hitherto in 2017 TAGEND

1. Put your phone down during lifes important moments

Millennials are missing out on whats all around them due to a decision to observe life through a small screen. How can you amply experience a special moment if youre on your phone documenting it via Snapchat and Instagram the entire era? Justin Wells of Westwind Recovery points out that social media craving is a major problem TAGEND

Rather than taking in a special minute, millennials appear compelled to continually document almost every aspect of “peoples lives”, which vastly belittles the happiness of any specific momentous occasion.

If you read to put down the phone during memorable moments, youll take up and enjoy whats happening so much more. When youre on vacation at a impressive mountain resort, take it all in and keep the phone in your inn area for a few hours while you go out investigating with only your eyes. When youre out with acquaintances, experience their fellowship by putting the phone down. In general, the very best year hitherto will be 2017 if you can burst your addiction to your smartphone.

2. Pursue your infatuation

One of the most important goals to have is to work towards a busines that involves you expending your offering and haunting your ardour. A great point to have for 2017 that will help you work towards your nightmare chore is to start a passion activity. A fervour project can help you stay focused on your fury, pattern your skills and use your gift in order to exclude you on track and to maintain you motivated.

3. Get your finances in order

Getting your coin in order can lead to fiscal democracy, which is integral to a happy and healthy life. You must be specific with your fiscal destinations, though. Rather than telling yourself you want to save more fund in 2017, you must instead lay out specific expensive wonts that you want to cut down on, and have a point in judgment as to how much of each paycheck you want to put into a savings account.

Getting your commerces in order too intends paying your proposals on time, controlling your credit card balances, and attending about your ascribe. In a recent Capital One credit confidence study, over 70 percent of the 2,300 respondents conserved a creed that having good ascribe is the gateway to the American Dream.

If you want to improve your credit, and youre dedicated to this New Years Resolution, then compensate all of your bills on time. That symbolizes reconciling your telephone invoice, energy, cable, vehicle pays and other proposals their due date. Late pays could show up as negative activity on your ascribe profile, and too many delinquencies could significantly lower your recognition score.

4. Find someone to be accountable to at the gym

Every year, billions of parties have get fit or lose weight at the top of their New Years resolves inventory. What you need in order to achieve this resolution, though, is a specific schedule that will actually cultivate. You requirement external accountability. You necessary someone to answer to, a person who has hinders track of you and someone who motivates you.

A personal coach, for example, is person you will be accountable to. This is someone you wont nullify on. When I have a civilizing seminar booked at Steve Nash, I know that its not something I can duck out of it even if I dont feel like running. Im to my tutor. Unlike the working group fitness class, when you book a one-on-one seminar with your manager, you cant exactly get by with gathering a no-show. If you have one specific weight loss decide for 2017, it should be to

5. Meal prep and watch your alcohol and medicine intake

If weight loss is one of your New Years resolvings, exert alone wont cut it, but dont start some silly diet in 2017. Instead, meal prep. Its best available way to ensure you wont ingest nonsense. The reasonablenes we chew undesirable fast food is because we suddenly recognise were starving and we have nothing prepared. Meal prep changes all that, and its a great dres to get into come 2017.

If you want to watch your weight, though, youll have to watch your alcohol intake too. And observing your alcohol consumption is a great New Years resolving in general not just for the sake of saving calories. Just as smoking Marijuana has some health benefits, some might “re saying that” a glass of red wine has health benefits too. Sure it does, but all in moderation. A glass of red wine every now and then wont hurt you, and neither will the curious joint. Binge boozing and all day stoner seminars, though, will. As long as youre mindful of what foods and substances youre putting into your form, youre on the right path.

6. Plan one solo errand each year

Even if its just a weekend away to a nearby ski hostel, solo excursions are fundamental to personal rise. You need duration away, by yourself, on your mountaintop to re-charge, get imaginative and get inspired. If you can, strategy an extended trip-up somewhere by yourself in 2017, and use that valued time to focus on your misses and needs.

7. Get out of your comfort zone and take advantage of opportunities

Be more social, learn new sciences, listen meet-ups and stop secreting out at home. Many of us feel that were safer when nobody can see us and thats why we stay in so much. Nonetheless, getting out of the members of this house( and therefore getting out of your consolation zone) more often will truly pay off. Opportunities can get you everywhere, but they wont fall into your lap. Youll have to get outside, congregate new people and ordeal more of life in order to run into beneficial, life-altering opportunities.

8. Be less of a couch potato

Prolonged sedentary periods are bad for your well-being and bad for your health. In 2017, try to watch less TV and be more active instead. Instead of pressing that continue watching button on Netflix, go to the gym instead. Find excuses to be active whenever you can. If a friend invites you out for dinner to catch up, propose going for a saunter together and catching up that room instead. Youll feel right at the end of each and every day if you were active that day.

In fact, get off the couch and make a point of getting outside every evening at least for half an hour. You should commit to spend time in nature every single daylight, because studies have demonstrated that they that investing time in quality is linked to gaiety, higher self-esteem, and a decrease in sadnes and anxiety. Its important to spend time away from Tv screens and laptop screens, because too much screen-time is fantastically bad for your well-being.

9. Tidy up and rework your dwelling

The New York Times Bestseller, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing bright notebook that explains why straightening up and redecorating invigorates a healthier overall mindset. It can even medication anxiety problems and help us find more tighten, as though a weight has been lifted. If you take the time to read that work, tidy up your infinite, and get more organized, the positive effects of this wont proceed unnoticed.

10. Practice gratitude and positivity

Theres a famed quote by Maltbie D. Babcock that summing-up it up wonderfully: Better to fail count while mentioning your backings than lose your favors weighing your bothers. So instead of focusing on what the hell are you dont have, center your force on grateful towards what you have. Youll construct yourself miserable equating yourself to others or focusing on the negative all the time. Just as easy as it is for you to complain about whats going wrong, its evenly easy to celebrate whats disappearing right. The option is yours, and the positive mindset instead of the negative one will guarantee the very best time ever. As soon as you learn how to be more grateful, your whole life could change not just your year.

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