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Work/love balance: The new work/life balance struggle
When I began to hear the phrase “work/life balance” thrown around, I figured it didn’t apply to me. It was my older coworkers with family who mostly used it. Work/life balance meant “time with the kids...
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Looking foolish along the way
Eating crow: humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position Eat humble pie: to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error I’m not sure either of...
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A schedule monger no longer
When I was in high school and college, I did not doodle fruitlessly as so many other students did. Well, I did that too, but I what I really loved was making schedules of my to-do lists. Take your...
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Allowing the Writer Within to Shine Through
It just hit me: I’m a writer. It seems pretty silly that I’ve been blogging here at WorkLoveLife for eight months now, and I’ve only just realized that I’m a writer. This is not unique to me, I know....
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News Flash: Sex is a Distraction
When things ended with Date #4, I made a promise to myself: I wouldn’t get into another relationship for six months. It was clear that I couldn’t handle being in a relationship without losing my...
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Living Like Your Life Depends On It
Too often I hear people saying that my generation takes things for granted, that we act entitled and expect more than we’ve earned from life. And like all youth before us, we believe ourselves...
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Taking a Year To Be
I sat next to my mom on the beach and considered how similar we were in regards to career drive and ambition. It was Mother’s Day, and I was five days post-surgery. We were sitting on the seawall...
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Screw Resolutions – Give Your Year a Theme
Every year after Christmas, people sit down and review the past year. They look ahead and come up with an improbable list of to-do items for the coming year. You’re going to run four times a week, not...
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2010: The Year of Organization
As I lay on the couch, piecing together my idea for a post on themes versus resolutions, I went through the various themes I’d had in previous years, out loud to my boyfriend. “’07 was well, just...
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