1. You spend an inordinate amount of time before any moderate-to-big decision worrying -- not about how you feel about it, but how others might perceive it.
2. You have already given up on several goals because you deem yourself "not good enough."
3. You are putting off a move to the city of your dreams because you are too afraid that you won't be able to make new friends or start a new social life.
Have you ever been emotion-shamed before? You know what I'm talking about, has someone ever made you feel bad for being honest, for putting yourself out there and articulating your feelings to them? It's a rare thing to do these days, to really let yourself be raw and vulnerable. We live in an age of posturing. People hide behind their phones, they carefully curate their communication with other people, which makes honest moments few and far between.
1. Spit it into her voicemail, a little slurred and sounding like the shot whiskey you downed for courage. Feel as ashamed as you do walking into work in last night’s clothes. Wake up cringing for days, waiting for her to mention it.
2. Sigh it into her mouth, wedged in between teeth and tongues. Don’t even let your lips move when you say it, ever so lightly, into the air.
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The Jamaican government has come under severe scrutiny after Sandrea Falconer, the minister with responsibility for information told Journalist at a Press Briefing yesterday (Wednesday 21) that the government has sent approximately J$60 million to provide some of its ministers with new high-end vehicles since taking office almost a year ago.
Minister Falconer told Journalist that 20 vehicles were purchased for ministers at a cost of nearly US$694,000.
This one was published in the Observer Bookends way back but I decided to dig it up and post it here.
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Happiness--in your business life and your personal life--is often a matter of subtraction, not addition.
Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things:
1. Blaming.
People make mistakes.
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