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Living Life Poetically: Empty
The poem, “Empty,” is part of what I’m calling my “Series of Unfortunate Poetry.” This poem was written in 2013. I had just completed my Masters, and I was jobless with looming student loan debt. Nothing seemed to be working out in my life despite all the efforts I had…
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Motivation Part 3: Top 3 Ways to Get Past Wanting to Do Something to Actually Doing It
We’ve now gotten almost halfway through the Motivation Staircase. In Part 1, we defined what Motivation means; and in Part 2, we used that understanding to move from “I won’t do it,’ to I can’t do it,’ to ‘I want to do it.’ The question now is how. Knowing how…
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