“No Salt”
The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget. You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months
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It is through work that challenged me and required continuous freshness that I began to occupy not the past but this, right now. My advertising career had not been challenging. Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here. And this, here, this line, that comma. That’s what freed me from the past. The present kidnapped
... See moreAugusten Burroughs • This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
a good life clearly isn’t about giving up all hope of influencing reality. It’s about taking bold action, creating things, and making an impact – just without the background agenda of achieving full control. Resonance depends on reciprocity: you do things – you have to launch the business, organize the campaign, set off on the wilderness trek, send
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In fact, intellectualizing the gap is an exercise in avoiding discomfort. We’re trying to find the answer without actually exploring the pain. What? You’re not organized? Here are five tools you can use to know where to put everything and find it when you need it. Need to lose weight? Eat less calories and exercise. Want to make more money? Try my
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