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Chasing perfection is the problem
Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements, even if it leads nowhere? What is something a person can say that makes you immediately roll your eyes? For me, that’s saying “I am such a perfectionist”, within the first few minutes of meeting. (A close second would be someone saying “I’m such an empath.”). It…
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Breaking free from the trap of comparison
Why do we all keep comparing ourselves against impossibly set standards? The other night, I was meeting my friends for drinks. We are all in our early 30s, working different corporate jobs and at somewhat similar stages in life. In typical millennial fashion, we shared work gossip over drinks, took notes on what vitamins we’re…
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From Burnout to Breakthrough, Part 2: A Year of Writing
It has been a year since I started this blog. Last February, I made a promise to myself: write for a year, and if the ideas were still there, keep going. At that time, I was on a career break, unemployed, and struggling with burnout. I was uncertain about my future, recovering from months of…