Just dance

I seriously love to dance. I’ve taken many dance classes over the years: Tap, jazz, hip hop — you name it. I’ve been to many rock concerts and EDM shows where I danced my heart out. And there was a moment in my 20s when I went clubbing every weekend. (Poker Face was the big...

Work shouldn’t feel like work. Or should it?

“My work doesn’t feel like work.” Has anyone ever said that to you? They may have even followed it up with something like “If your work feels like work to you, you have the wrong job.” I’ve never felt this way in my life. Sure, I’ve come a long way and some of the work...

Self-doubt, get the f*ck out of here

I’m plagued by self-doubt, especially when it comes to my career and creative projects. I start things left and right, and they rarely get finished. Novels (finished one, yet never put it on Amazon or anything). Blogs (surprise, surprise, this is not the first one I’ve started). Business ideas. You get the idea. I’m so...

When your kids ask if you followed your dreams—what will you say?

About a month after I started this blog, something life-changing happened. I got pregnant. Yep. I have a 2-month-old son now, and I find that I have to be more intentional than ever. Right after my baby was born, life was all about him. Feeding him, rocking him, changing him. Taking pictures of him. Feeding...

That thing that comes so naturally to you? Yeah, do more of that

We often don’t recognize our talents because they’re so obvious to us. This is a theory that I’ve heard a few times over the past year, in podcasts and articles. And it’s stuck with me, because I think it might be true. For some people, they know early on that they’re good at something. Parents,...

You are your own worst critic

How do you feel about your life? For me, if I’m being honest about it, I’ve been pretty hard on myself lately—especially when it comes to my career. Being a freelancer, I either feel like I’m doing too much, not doing enough, not doing enough of the right jobs, not making enough money, etc. Basically:...

Things not going your way? Surrender

I had a breakthrough today. You know that part in “Office Space” when Peter gets hypnotized? And then for the rest of the movie, he just no longer cares about anything? He plays hooky to go fishing, and when he returns to the office nothing bothers him. He’s in a state of blissed-out oblivion, unable...

Just eat

I read a statistic that disturbed me recently: One third of Americans can’t get through a meal without looking at their mobile devices. (From a study done by Nutrisystem). I’m skeptical of studies like this (they only surveyed 2,000 people, not too many). But it doesn’t matter how accurate this particular study is. What got...

Don’t stay in the “I suck”

We all have those moments when we think, “I don’t know what I’m doing. I suck. I’m the worst.” And it’s okay to feel that way. As long as you don’t stay there. On WTF with Marc Maron, actor Bradley Whitford talked about what it’s like being on set when the director stops to talk...

Using obsession for good

I have “Nerd brain.” As Chris Hardwick described on the Armchair Expert podcast, Nerd Brain is an obsessive brain. It doesn’t matter what you are obsessing over, whether it’s Star Wars or your exercise routine. All it means is that you have an ability to laser focus on one thing. His point, then, is that...