Every year, on my newsletter, I write a reflection on joy during December. This year, I decided to shake it up with a fun Q&A instead. Enjoy! What was the best advice you have ever received? This year, the best advice I’ve heard was “Bet on yourself.” It wasn’t actually said to me. It was given […]
What a fun ride last month was: my first post-pandemic trip abroad, the pre-order launch of the Sunday Night Journal, rest, new discoveries, and of course, the Write Away retreat. Here are six lessons I learned from that experience: 1. Choose the right partners. During Write Away, I work with two amazing women who are also phenomenal […]
I’m no longer interested in meeting the man of my dreams. (Maybe it’s because I married him. 😄 As I’m writing this, we’re actually celebrating our wedding anniversary.) Instead, I’m excited to meet the woman in them. Who is she? She is the future version of me, someone who has made all those images pasted in […]
“I was so much braver when I was younger. Why can’t I be brave like that now?” We know the answer to that. As we get older, we feel we have more to lose. We know that some decisions don’t lead to the results we wanted or hoped for. We’ve been hurt and we no longer […]
Here are eight tiny tweaks you can make in your life this month to make it easier, better, lighter: 1. The life-changing magic of gratitude comes not from making the list of five things you appreciate. Rather, it’s about FEELING grateful after noticing and acknowledging all the good that’s already in your life. 2. Make a tiny change […]
“Filipino workers are the most stressed in Southeast Asia,” a news website screeched in alarm. According to a Gallup poll, 50% said that they felt stressed “a lot of the day” compared to our neighbors in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. I wondered: How did we get from being one of the happiest people in […]
