Essays

  • Happy Monday! And Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and mom-like figures out there!! Thank you for all that you do. 🙂  It’s also a new week, which means it’s time for your next Monday motivation newsletter. Read on below for some steps to a happier Monday, a short story and a roundup of positive thoughts to get your week…

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  • How’s the weather where you are?  Is it warm?  Is it sunny?  If so, can you please send me pictures to remind me what it’s like?? For me, I’ve reached the point in my calendar I call ‘I can’t wait until ___ season.’(Otherwise known as “spring”) I can’t wait until it’s consistently warm in a few weeks and I can leave my apartment…

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  • Happy Monday! And Happy May! It’s a new week, which means it’s time for your next Monday motivation newsletter. Read on below for some steps to a happier Monday, a short story and a roundup of positive thoughts to get your week started. Three Steps to a Happier Monday Each newsletter starts with three prompts to inspire gratitude and simple intention…

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  • Do you have a favorite group fitness class or workout? For me, it’s a workout called The Bar Method.  In fact, looking up Bar Method studio locations was one of the first things I did when I moved to Chicago almost six (!) years ago. I had started doing the workout in college while I was home interning in the summers. During those summer…

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  • Happy Monday! It’s a new week, which means it’s time for your next Monday motivation newsletter. Read on below for some steps to a happier Monday, a short story and a roundup of positive thoughts to get your week started. Three Steps to a Happier Monday Each newsletter starts with three prompts to inspire gratitude and simple intention setting. Take a…

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  • Do you typically plan out your weeks? I’ve been thinking about planning recently because I 1) started using a new planner for Q2 and 2) finished Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. I really liked Four Thousand Weeks. It was proactive and fresh. The concept of the book (4,000 weeks = how many weeks you live if you live to…

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  • Happy Monday! And Happy Easter and Chag Sameach to all who celebrate!  It’s also a new week, which means it’s time for your next Monday motivation newsletter. Read on below for some steps to a happier Monday, a short story and a roundup of positive thoughts to get your week started. Three Steps to a Happier Monday Each newsletter starts with three…

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  • Hello 28! The fact that my birthday falls on a Monday (my favorite day of the week) this year feels like a great omen for the 365 days ahead. Yay!  I tend to get a little sentimental and introspective around birthdays. This year, the thought loop I keep having is how turning 28 means that 10 years ago, I was a freshly minted…

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  • Happy Monday! It’s a new week, which means it’s time for your next Monday motivation newsletter. Read on below for some steps to a happier Monday, a short story and a roundup of positive thoughts to get your week started. Three Steps to a Happier Monday Each newsletter starts with three prompts to inspire gratitude and simple intention setting. Take a…

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  • Notes from March

    As one of the items on my 22 in 2022 List, I’m writing a quick “recap” each month. It’s a fun exercise – especially if you need a pick-me-up on a Monday morning – and helps me reflect on all the things that happen (the big and the small) over the span of a few weeks. Read on below for my 10 things…

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  • Happy Monday! It’s a new week, which means it’s time for your next Monday motivation newsletter. Read on below for some steps to a happier Monday, a short story and a roundup of positive thoughts to get your week started. Three Steps to a Happier Monday Each newsletter starts with three prompts to inspire gratitude and simple intention setting. Take a…

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  • Do you have a genre of books or shows you designate as your go-to “comfort content?” For me, any content about organization falls into that category. Seriously, reading about someone’s system for organizing their closest or seeing a space magically transform will without fail pique my attention and draw me in.  Luckily, one of the advantages of this comfort is…

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