My attention span has never been good. I had a hard time concentrating in long classes and lectures and long trainings and work calls would have me zoning out. But in the past 3 years it’s gotten increasingly worse. With the TL;DR culture, tweets in 280 words or less, TikToks in under a minute -…
Continue reading ➞ 6 Things I’m Doing To Improve My Attention Span
We're all perfectionists - there are different degrees - but we all want to be some sort of perfect. We want to look like the girl in the magazine, have a relationship like the one in the movies, excel at our jobs like a millionaire, or be the perfect family member like we see our…
Continue reading ➞ Stop Trying To Impress People Who Don’t Deserve You
Lately I’ve felt very uninspired by social media, and this is coming from a girl whose TikTok obsessed was leading to hours of scrolling. Usually I like social media because I can learn new things, create fun content, and see happy people. And lately that hasn’t really been the case, everything has just been so…
You probably won’t hear a lot of people say this, but I feel kind of lucky that I got my career start in toxic workplaces. I think there are probably more toxic workplaces than there are healthy ones, at least here in the United States. It’s a sad fact, but the culture of the work…
I became a vegetarian in middle school. I dabbled in it for a while, then gave up, then going into my freshman year of high school I tried it again. I have been a "pescatarian" for the past 10+ years. Vegetarians don't eat fish or meat, but they do eat cheese, milk, eggs, etc. As…
Continue reading ➞ Why My Reasons For Being A Vegetarian Have Changed
If you were going to take a stand any year, it had to be 2020. There were so many things that I get I had to take a hard stance on. And I tried to, but at the same time it gives me a lot of anxiety. Because not everyone’s going to agree with you…
If you’ve been here for a while, you’ll know I gave up on resolutions a while ago and started choosing a word for the year - like a mantra. Resolutions have always been unattainable to me and I do better breaking down my seasons into bucket lists to actually get things done. In past years…
I certainly had no idea what 2020 had in store for me. We started the New Year at a funeral actually, my aunt passed away from multiple myeloma around Christmas and it just felt very unexpected to me. Later in January, we celebrated our one year in New Hampshire. I started tracking my moods because…
2020 has been a not-so-great year, but I teamed up with some blogger buddies to bring you some silver linings of this year! Hopefully if we go into the New Year with a bright side mentality, good things will come. Bill — A Silly Place We like Canada and we like trains. Passions have surely…
Hope everyone had a healthy and happy December! Here are some photos from my month!
