I've been at this blogging thing for awhile. I thought I had it down pretty well by now. Well, turns out I've been doing it wrong... at least by my new standards. To date, I've put blogging in a box and placed so many restrictions on myself when it came to this outlet. I put …
Continue reading Get Honest Project: I’ve Been Doing This Wrong…
The last couple of weeks have been c r a z y and I feel like I've been running in circles just trying to get everything done. I've been struggling with sleeping well as of late (more on that in a future post), so I've just been trying to get through the days doing what …
Have you ever had a really good idea? You know, the kind that makes you feel all excited and motivated to make things happen? The kind that just brightens your entire your day and makes you think completely positively? Yeah, those are the best. However, I for one always seem to think I'm going to …
This post has been a long time coming, and of course, as I've written it's become something totally different than I'd originally imagined. And I'm excited about that. The unknown hasn't been looking so scary lately; in fact, it's been looking like somewhere I want to be more often. After all, they say that there's …
I wish I could say that I was a wiz when it comes to money, along with any and all financial decisions. The truth is, I'm still working all of that out, but I do know a thing or two about what it means to invest in something. Now, granted, I've never invested a large …
This happens to all of us: you're sitting in a comfortable chair, on your phone, and then some kind of YouTube or social media vortex draws you in and when you look up, it's suddenly been three hours and it's dark outside. Yeah... not the best way to spend our time, is it? I know …
Picture this: a beautiful painting is hanging on a wall. The colors are just right and the scene is idyllic. It's an eye-catcher as soon as you walk into the room. But the frame is all wrong. It's too bulky and cumbersome. It weighs the painting down and overshadows its beauty. In order to maximize …
Continue reading I. Reframing My Mindset: Reading Can Be Bad
Blacksmiths. Shoe smiths. Wordsmiths? I first heard that term in my undergrad senior seminar. My professor put it so eloquently that I wouldn’t do it justice in a recreation, but that one word really stuck with me. Wordsmith. We cultivate words to create something beautiful. We’re experts in wordcraft, composing exposition just so that it …
Last year, my mom asked me where I would like to go for a trip after my college graduation. How do you choose with the whole world to pick from? After plenty of recommendations and discussions with a travel agent (who actually knows what they're doing), I chose Riviera Maya, Mexico. It sounded perfect; there …
When I was younger, I felt the imminent desire to have an "enemy" who I could compete with. Whether it was gymnastics, or school, or writing, or just in my social world, there had to be a bad guy. This would mean, essentially, that I could be the hero. I justified this mentality by telling …
