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Be brave. Do it scared. Refer to the sections “Scary, Scary, Scary” (page 12), “Defending Your Weakness” (page 16), “Fear Is Boring” (page 19), “The Fear You Need and the Fear You Don’t Need” (page 22), and “The Road Trip” (page 24) in Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

The school I attended for fourth and fifth grade has recently been starting to be demolished after sitting there unused for at least six years now. It's sad and exciting all at the same time. Seeing the school I attended for fourth and fifth grade being demolished made me think about how part of my history is gone, and it had me reflecting on what I did those years at that school. I posted not too long ago about being an over-achiever and a people-pleaser—definitely not two traits you’d associate with a “bad” kid—and I put bad in quotes because most people who do bad things are just that—people who do bad things, not bad people, especially when we’re talking about nine- and ten-year-olds. I was always your typical good kid—did what I was told (At least at school—I misbehaved at home. Ask my mom.(-: ) and was most afraid of getting in trouble. I don’t know what happened in fifth grade, but I went from a perfect disciplinary record to something like five recess detentions and an aft

*Edited Original Image by Pete Linforth  from Pixabay I’ve been talking a lot about Kate Northrup and for good reason. Her latest book Do Less gives people permission to stop doing everything to prove their worth, and as an over-achiever and people-pleaser like the title of this post suggests, I needed this book and that permission. I started my dive into the work around this book back in March when Kate made freebies available for her course Make Time for Business. It revolved around those same principles, at least from what I could tell from the freebies. She talks about time being linear and circular, people either operating in twenty-four-hour cycles or roughly twenty-eight-day cycles (menstrual cycle and the lunar cycle), and how we should align our tasks with these cycles and our energy. She makes the excellent point that the moon affects tides and water, and humans are 80% water, so it’s not far-fetched to think that the moon affects humans—the first case for using cycles to

The dream team Source: https://is4-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music122/v4/b2/37/b1/b237b16a-8b92-2159-4ce5-5fa647e996c2/source/1200x630bb.jpg Never would I ever have thought I’d be watching reality TV much less about rich socialite women, yet here I am four seasons into the Real Housewives of New York (RHONY) and one or two seasons into the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH). Since I’ve watched much more RHONY than RHOBH, I’m going to rank the RHONY from the seasons I’ve finished, seasons eight through eleven. I’ve been thinking about doing this post but also hesitant because regardless of the way these women act on television, they are still complex people, and it’s simply not nice to judge people, especially when you only know televised snippets of their lives. But let this be in good fun. Instead of ranking the women per se, I’m more ranking their behavior I’ve observed, and I’m going to go from worst to best. Luann de Lesseps: *Cue vomit noise* Luann’s behavior on this show