Tweet “What do you want to be when you grow up?” What a loaded question. I hear it now, and it twists me up. I’m flooded with pages and faces and classes and just plain old life. This question implies that you know what “growing up” means. It insinuates that you will eventually be different
Growing Up and Creative Problem Solving
Filed Under: Chapter 2, Emily J., Next Step Chronicles, Quarter Life Questions Tagged With: 20 something, discovering you, happiness, individuality, job search, life advice, life after college
Learning How to Say No, While Still Getting What You Want
Tweet By Erica Moss This post is part of BrandKit’s Next Step Chronicles Guest Blogging series. If’ you’re interested in blogging for BrandKit let us know! In high school, it was really easy to fall into the trap of becoming the “yes man” or “yes woman.” The fear of missing out on even the most mundane
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Giving Thanks, Without the Turkey
Tweet Being grateful, recalling all of the blessings in one’s life, is so often disregarded. I know I’ve taken way too many things in life for granted, especially the little things. The food I eat every night, the warm bed I sleep in — even the air conditioning in the blazing summertime. What we see
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I’m Just A Girl Looking For My Tiffany’s
Tweet Breakfast at Tiffany’s has always been one of my favorite Audrey Hepburn films. Holly Golightly is such an intriguing character, and I love the sights of 1960s New York City. My favorite part of the whole movie is the beginning when Holly Golightly and her new neighbor Paul Varjak meet. Paul asks Holly if
Filed Under: Emily S., Next Step Chronicles, Quarter Life Questions Tagged With: 20 something, going home, home, individuality, life after college, personal story
My IDEA-L
Tweet Thinking about “what would make life perfect right now” is a place I go often. It’s not that I’m unhappy with life as it is; I’m just looking forward to future endeavors in my life. I have my whole life to do all these cool and amazing things, find where I belong in this
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The Office Superbowl Party
Tweet Beyond my cubicle, I hear joyus exclamations and smell an overwhelming delicious scent. It’s two o’clock on a Friday, the witching hour among a 9 to 5 working drone. Our 3-person department rarely receives a formal invite to office parties. Once the food is ordered, everyone else has gorged themselves, and there always seems
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Hope In The Next Step
Tweet Has it really been sixteen weeks already? It doesn’t seem like that long, but it looks like my time writing for Next Step Chronicles is at an end. I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve had to say, and maybe, if I’m lucky, I’ve given some advice that’s helped one or two of you. As
Filed Under: Next Step Chronicles, Quarter Life Questions, Robert Tagged With: 20 something, advice, blogging, finding my dream job, job search, life after college
Core Value Confusion
Tweet Have you ever had conflict among the things you value most in life? Values that have their own personalities and their own agendas, and begin to take you out of the equation. Recently, I’ve been running into this issue. While I value relationships with friends and family, it’s been conflicting with my value of
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Inspiration Comes From Within
Tweet It’s possible to draw inspiration from all sorts of places. Maybe there’s some powerful quote that keeps you going. Maybe your favorite song pumps you up. Maybe you’re even one of those people who can gain motivation from a poster with a nice picture and a comforting phrase. For me, however, inspiration is something
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Are You an Over-booker?
Tweet I’m an over-booker. I always have been, probably always will be. I pack my days, weeks, months, seasons and years with a ton of activities. I can’t help myself… there’s this fear of missing out on something really awesome or really inspiring! I’ve personally decided to change the title “over-booker” to something a little
Filed Under: Next Step Chronicles, Quarter Life Questions, Sarah Tagged With: ambition, feeling overwhelmed, life advice, motivation, over-booking, queen of everything
