You can learn a lot about yourself through paying attention to what you pay attention to. What do you discount? What do you ignore?
This might not be an easy one, but it’ll be a real one.
Sometimes, you can’t be productive. That is, the things you put effort into don’t produce results. That’s all that productivity boils down to, right?
When a project reaches a stage of difficulty, as it inevitably will, no matter how swimmingly it’s been going so far, it’s important to remember the process.
The thing is, no one will ever give you permission to be okay in your own skin.
You don’t always have to be happy. But you never have to be miserable.
Somewhere along the way, the meaning changed. My name became synonymous with mockery, to the point where hearing it actually hurt.
Here’s something you might not want to hear: nobody owes your their response.
I’ve long been fascinated by the acknowledgement of internalized negativity, by the idea that the authors of the narratives we grow up believing are not necessarily the Pulitzer prize-winners we assume them to be.