Tag: goals
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What 100 Coffee Chats Taught Me About How To Live My Life In My Early 20s
4 motivational takeaways Photo by Sam Lion: https://www.pexels.com/photo/positive-asian-women-chatting-and-enjoying-hot-drinks-on-street-5709253/ At 22 years old, I worked in Washington DC for the federal government under the Obama administration, and nothing made me feel more powerful. Surrounded by smart, dedicated people full of career-related purpose, I felt empowered to live out my dreams. Anything was possible. Sadly, I worked […]
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What’s New With Me: 3 Life Updates
1. I’m going back to the workforce. I want to secure my financial future. Holding down a predictable income stream will relieve the pressure of feeling like my creative endeavors have to pay off overnight. I won’t be stopping there. Landing a job will only give me a foundation from which to build, and rest […]
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A Sign Post in my Writing Journey
(Photo by Patrick Robert Doyle on Unsplash) No catchy titles, no attention-grabbing intro. Just sharing what’s on my spirit. Here’s the thing. I notice my evolution on WordPress in my short 10 months on the platform. I love WordPress for the intentions that brought me here: to find my voice, to house my thoughts in one place, to […]
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My Biggest Achievements of 2021 So Far
(Photo by Pexels) I got a new laptop! I’m so incredibly excited because it symbolizes the start of something new. My old laptop lasted me well over 8 years and counting, and while it still functions with the basics, the screen glitches when I open it up, and that made me nervous. If you’re like […]
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2 Additional Lessons From My 6-Day Writing Challenge
Photo from Pexels Hello WordPress Friends! I am pleased to share that I hammered out a piece and submitted it for publication all in one day today. This draft had been sitting in my folder for months on end. For whatever reason, I could not get it finalized despite spending a little bit of time […]
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4 Lessons From My 6-Day Writing Challenge
Photo by Pexels Inspired by Youtuber Chimdi Ihezie, I chose to embark on a 6-day Writing Challenge this week following last month’s 30-day Writing Challenge where I fell short. Six consecutive days of writing and publishing felt so much more palatable, realistic, and motivating, than the original 30 days I had set out to tackle. […]
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Updates, Newsletter-Style
Featured Image from Pexels Hey WordPress fam, Happy Tuesday. I can’t believe it’s the 9th of November ~in the yEaR oF oUr Lord~ 2021. Life is truly experienced one moment at a time. Before you know it, it’s almost mid-November! This time last year, the world found out that Joe Biden had been elected as […]
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Love Letter to Tia Mowry
When I was 11 years old, I remember watching TV in my parents’ bedroom. I would sit on the foot of the bed eating Cheez-Its, waiting for Sister, Sister episodes to air on the Disney Channel. This week, I watched Tia Mowry’s Youtube video titled, “How I Envision My Future,” and let me manifest this […]
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Speak your goals into existence
In this lifetime, I would like to: Write three books and have them published, sold, and enjoyed by the masses Make a living off my writing House my work in different publications Run a community-based, grass-roots yoga studio Turn my stories into a movie adaptation with a large enough budget to qualify for nominations and […]
Melissa Chanthalangsy 