I woke at noon and saw no reason to get out of bed. It was a Wednesday. I had been drinking wine until 5 a.m. that morning at the publishing industry living room party, my weekly routine. Eventually I shuffled to the kitchen, made a little coffee and sat on the couch. My roommate had…
To love and be loved can mean a lot of things: affection and appreciation, devotion and passion, hope and happily ever afters. Love lives in your heart and feeds your soul. Love makes you feel alive. Related: The Secret to Happiness Is Just Love Feel the love with these romantic quotes for Valentine’s Day: 1. “The…
I first suspected that I had chosen the wrong partner when Pam hurled my BlackBerry across the room, shattering the screen on our metal bed frame. Seconds later—when she crossed to the kitchen, poured and chugged a glass of spiced rum, then smashed the bottle to the ground—she had me convinced. I was in the…
“We’ve been through a lot together and we’ve always had each other’s backs. You stayed friends with me when I had like 10 guinea pigs, and I stayed friends with you when you listened to Creed,” she says, to uproarious laughter. “Jamie, you’re my best friend. You’re like a sister to me. I couldn’t be…
@wendyjlvt via Twenty20 Romance is hard enough when you and your beloved are on the same page. See Romeo and Juliet, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. These famous lovers had their eyes on the same target and yet faced tumultuous, often tragic outcomes. Most…
Marketers are faced with an ever-growing list of responsibilities. From social media marketing to customer experience and advertising, it can be a challenge to stay on top of everything. Luckily for us, there are a plethora of great social media tools on the market to help you succeed in your role and stay productive. Tools…
Strong relationships are essential to business and career success. Whether it’s your boss, colleagues, mentors, clients or customers, or other people in your professional network, it’s important to actively nurture and build these relationships, as they can see you through all stages of success. One challenge of relationship building in the social media era is…
It’s not a competition, of course, nor is it advice to anyone about whether or not to have kids. But we know that, globally, happiness levels are declining. While more and more of the population live prosperously, depression and mental illness are on the rise. Related: The Secret to Happiness Is Just Love The latest studies…
Let me start by saying a couple of things self-care is not. Self-care isn’t: An excuse to continually be unhealthy: A cheat day every once and a while is fine (encouraged even, because balance), but you can’t use “self-care” to justify poor habits Spending excess money on yourself that you don’t have: Debt has never…
@meganmeza via Twenty20 The famous Irish poet Oscar Wilde once said, “The final mystery is oneself.” But how do you unravel the mystery that is you? This can’t happen without self-awareness, and self-awareness won’t happen without reflection. But what does reflection really mean? Reflection is different from introspection. Introspection is simply looking in. Stopping there not only limits your perspective,…