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The Method I Used to Reclaim 72 Hours a Week (SELF) I’ll be hosting a virtual read-along and book club for Toxic Grit. If you’d like to join us, please fill out this form! There’s something about an article or book finding you the moment you need it. That’s me and this article (and Amanda’s book, which is so good and necessary that I’m hosting an aforementioned club around it). I have a lot more to say about the toxic, narrow lanes of success that we women have largely been pushed through (only to be pitted against each other). I see how these narratives have played out in how I view myself and my work, and how that’s kept me stuck in a hyperaction/crash out cycle for most of my adult life. These are hard things to unlearn, especially when we don’t have an alternate playbook to help us navigate. Toxic Grit is that playbook, and this article has two tactics (the two-do list, naming this travel sprint for what it is and blocking off the week before Thanksgiving for decompression). Let Them Eat Gold (The Humanity Archive) I really hate how history is repeating. I’ve hated it for years at this point, but Jermaine Fowler connects how we are currently living our version of the start of the French Revolution, with heartbreaking precision. I mean, there’s a literal Arc de Trump in his plans. I’ll leave it there. Please just read this piece. ... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to hitha to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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