Tag Archives: motivation

Speed Date #1 and Leaps Forward

The last seven days has been another one of those periods where it feels like long-gestating projects are making big leaps into being. It’s exciting, but it’s also a little dizzying, as I try to keep track of it all. Book My Letter to Fear (Essays on life, love and the search for Prince Charming)

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Find Courage

I was texting with a friend last night, and I was struck by the realization that something vital had been left off of my new year’s resolution list. It turns out that among the career goals, I had inadvertently left off “Find Courage.” I don’t actually think of myself as a timid or fearful person

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The Shock of Yes

Are you ever struck momentarily speechless when someone actually says “yes” to you? Are you ever gearing up for all the possible arguments in your brain and find yourself blindsided when the person you were going to argue against agrees with you instead?

This Week on Dating in LA

I had a week full of “remaking my life” fervor. Even though there are more than 100 things on my list, I’ve really started to make progress (and I finally changed the damn time on the clock in the bathroom). If you were also overcome with things that needed to be fixed or done, here

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Remaking Your Life (Part 2)

The blogs from last week had an interesting impact on me. On Friday, in the midst of a “why can’t anything work the way I want it to” tantrum, I began a list of literally everything in my life that I saw as broken or undone. I kept the notebook with me over the weekend,

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This Week on Dating in LA

It was another busy travel week, but I managed to squeeze in thoughts on how to remake a life (namely my own) and released the first sizzle reel for the original series based on this blog. Here’s what you may have missed: Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths ‘Dating in LA and Other Urban

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This Week on Dating in LA

It was another busy travel week, but I managed to squeeze in thoughts on how to remake a life (namely my own) and released the first sizzle reel for the original series based on this blog. Here’s what you may have missed: Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths ‘Dating in LA and Other Urban

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This Week on Dating in LA

Road trips, writing and brainstorming filled my week. If your week was similarly busy, here is what you missed: Dating in LA and Other Urban Myths Holidays Are Right Around the Corner A plea for people to focus on one holiday at a time– for instance, let’s enjoy the ones in this month rather than

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This Week on Dating in LA

This week has been a week on the go. If you’re just checking in, this is what I’ve been writing: What Inspires You? Do you see something, or do something, that acts as a consistent source of inspiration? Words to Live By I found a banner out in the world that made me laugh (and

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