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Dec 7, 2022

An Alternative to “Finding Your Purpose”

My purpose is to tell you to stop searching so hard for yours 😐 — If another article even mentions that it’ll help me find my “life purpose,” I might throw up. And then I’ll go read it three times. Because of course I will. I spend way too much time thinking about purpose, meaning, and how I should endeavor to spend my short time…

Purpose

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An Alternative to “Finding Your Purpose”
An Alternative to “Finding Your Purpose”
Purpose

9 min read


Aug 18, 2022

Your Tomorrow Looks Like Your Today

When I started my freelance business, I had one goal: To create a career I didn’t need a weekend away from. It was a goal made with the best of intentions. I was so tired of living for the weekend, of counting down the hours until I could walk out…

Life Lessons

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Your Tomorrow Looks Like Your Today
Your Tomorrow Looks Like Your Today
Life Lessons

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Aug 11, 2022

What’s Your Good Enough?

As I write this, I’m thinking of all the things in this house that are screaming at me. The dishwasher cries to be emptied. There’s a package on the doorstep. …

Life Lessons

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What’s Your Good Enough?
What’s Your Good Enough?
Life Lessons

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May 17, 2021

All the Things I’ve Done Since Getting Vaccinated

Extravert summer, here I come — I recently hit my two-weeks-after-full-vaccination date. My blood is pulsing with my own anti-covid mafia. Here’s how I’ve wielded this new power. 1. Bought sneakers. IN PERSON. Somehow, going out in slippers isn’t socially acceptable yet…? Even after all of this?? 2. Drove out of town to celebrate my sister’s graduation at her house Forty minutes into the trip, our home alarm went off. My husband pulled off…

Vaccines

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All the Things I’ve Done Since Getting Vaccinated
All the Things I’ve Done Since Getting Vaccinated
Vaccines

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May 7, 2021

Reflections on 13 Lonely Months

Thoughts I’ve recorded while waiting for my body to build an antibody militia — For the past few weeks, I’ve awoken each morning at 6:15 from a dream. It’s never quite the same dream, but it always follows a predictable narrative: I’m walking through an airport, or a bus station, or I’m wandering through a city on foot. I have a tote bag over…

Covid-19

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Reflections on 13 Lonely Months
Reflections on 13 Lonely Months
Covid-19

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Apr 8, 2021

How to Commit to a Journal

For those who have piles of empty notebooks — It took me forever to figure out how to keep a journal. How to be one of those people who is a journaler. The thing is, it’s not about willpower. It’s about finding the parts of journaling that work best with your lifestyle and desired goals. In this video, I…

Writing

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How to Commit to a Journal
How to Commit to a Journal
Writing

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Mar 18, 2021

The 3 Kinds of Journaling

(No, you don’t have to force yourself to keep a diary) — My brain is made of paper. My thoughts are bound in black leather, and my emotions are processed in gel pens. (Black ink for the normal stuff, ✨sparkly ink✨ for the really tough stuff). My journal is my second brain. It’s the place where I’m able to process thoughts, record…

Self Improvement

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The 3 Kinds of Journaling
The 3 Kinds of Journaling
Self Improvement

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Mar 12, 2021

Stop Setting the Wrong Goals

3 Reasons why your goals keep failing — I’ve made a lot of stupid misguided goals in recent years. Some notable highlights: ❏ “Make $100K in my business” (…without even really liking the work I was doing) ❏ “Grow a following as a professional artist” (…even though I rarely did art in my free time) ❏ “Get conversational…

Goals

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Stop Setting the Wrong Goals
Stop Setting the Wrong Goals
Goals

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Mar 4, 2021

How to Survive Quarantine Fatigue

We’ve exhausted the Zoom calls, the sourdough starters, the puzzles, and Animal Crossing. We’ve gotten our pandemic puppies and eaten our weight in takeout. And here we are, a full year of pandemic pandemonium later, theoretically on a home stretch to a “new normal” that seems to keep getting further…

Quarantine

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How to Survive Quarantine Fatigue
How to Survive Quarantine Fatigue
Quarantine

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Sep 3, 2020

I Tried to “Fail Fast”—Unfortunately, It Worked

3 Tough Lessons for Content Creators — I knew it wouldn’t be easy… But I wasn’t ready for this slap in the face. A few months ago, I set out on a YouTube content experiment (a fancy way to say I’m makin’ videos now). …

Content Marketing

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I Tried to “Fail Fast”—Unfortunately, It Worked
I Tried to “Fail Fast”—Unfortunately, It Worked
Content Marketing

5 min read

Jessie Lewis

Jessie Lewis

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Writer, artist, mom. Subscribe to my personal newsletter, The Jumble, for more on creative living → https://jessielewis.substack.com/

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