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Reschooling Tool #13: Break Down Projects into Next Actions
I’ve been blogging less frequently than usual lately, both because of the holidays, and because of the craziness that is my last two weeks in the Bay Area. I just about started hyperventilating today...
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Reschooling Tool #15: Make SMART Resolutions
Every January 1, I deliberate about whether to make official New Year’s Resolutions, since I’m the type of person who makes resolutions all 365 days of the year. Stop biting your fingernails,...
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As someone with perfectionist tendencies, I’ve often been bothered when things don’t go as I want them to. Whether there’s unexpected traffic slowing me down or I cut myself while chopping vegetables,...
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Reschooling Tool #17: Use Tips for a Better Life as Touchstones
Because I devote much of my energy to figuring out how to lead a happier and more fulfilling life, I love lists of advice for doing so. Like the Five Buddhist Precepts, I keep them in the back of my...
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Reschooling Tool #18: Personal Firsts As a Sign of Progress
“So how’s everything going?” As you can imagine, I get this question a lot these days after making such big changes in my life over the last eight months. Last summer, I left my full-time job and moved...
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Reschooling Tool #19: Touch the Past and Let it Go
I spent last evening sitting on the living room floor of my childhood home, letting go of hundreds of pages of old letters. This is something that I never thought I could do. For most of my life, I...
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Reschooling Tool #20: Ritual Bonfire
I’ve decided that there’s no better way to say goodbye to your past than to commit it to the flames. Ancient cultures like the Celts used bonfires for purification and consecration, and it turns out...
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Reschooling Tool #21: Turn Breakdowns Into Breakthroughs
At the moment, I’m feeling truly annoyed at myself. I haven’t posted to the blog for over three weeks, so now that I’m sitting down to do so, I have a lot to say. It’s going to take a long time. It...
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Reschooling Tool #22: Stop Should-ing
Why, hello, stranger. Today I realized that it has been five weeks since I wrote a blog post. Five. Even though my intensive reschooling period ended in June, I have intended to keep blogging at least...
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Reschooling Tool #23: Vision Collage
As much as I’ve intended to blog regularly, life has gotten in the way since last November. One of the main obstacles is that I’ve been doing writing and other communications for a living, and I don’t...
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