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How To Get Out Of A Rut: 13 Ways To Stop Feeling Like A Useless Blob And Get Back To Your Creative, Motivated Self (If That Was Ever You)

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It comes on suddenly. For months, I’m obnoxiously giddy about my life and what I get to do for a living. I’m on a roll. No, not just on a roll: I’m on fire! #Unstoppable. Until, one day, I wake up feeling…doomed. Life is relentless. I have to do this till I die? I hate […]

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b-school, business, creativity, self-help-y stuff, self-improvement, success b-school, habits, self-development, writing

It’s tragic that we don’t all write every day.

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Inside our living room credenza, I have a clear plastic tub stuffed with old sh*t. Every few months, I take it out and go through a weekend-long ritual. I shuffle through photographs from the 90s, laugh at the pencil-thin eyebrows, and scan some choice shots of me and my friends from when we still had baby fat on […]

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creativity, nostalgia, overheard, writing creativity, daily writing, habits, writing

Go ahead, hate my stuff (or, why writing is like a big glass of milk).

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I’m not a picky eater. I love most food. But there’s one thing that makes me gag.If it’s on my plate I can’t eat it. If someone at the same table has it, I have to breathe through my mouth — which is good incentive for everyone else not to order it, because who wants […]

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self-loathing, this blog, writing blogging, confidence, criticism, entrepreneurs, personal taste, self-help, writing

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