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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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Nine months after calling off her wedding, she was managing a remote hospital in Darfur, Sudan, that served internally displaced Sudanese refugees. As my family learned in 2016 when we all climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, it is by stretching our limits that we can expand them. It was a huge undertaking.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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Janet has given me pep talks for job interviews and has helped me when I have forgotten my train pass. In September 2016, Hampton aimed to wipe out that painful experience by creating the Sit With Us app. Slowly, zombielike commuters open their eyes, lift their chins and rip out their headphones to return her greeting. Martin bellows.

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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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In a July 2016 profile , The New York Times wrote that President Barack Obama—who wore only blue and gray suits—daydreamed about retiring to Hawaii to “open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white)” with Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and his former chief of staff. The experiment was working!

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. Kim Anthony.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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When the magazine asked Berk to design two show homes for the International Builder Show around the time he moved to LA with his husband, he agreed, having no clue how to draw up construction documents and electrical layouts. In 2016, Berk got a call to audition for Queer Eye and decided to take a chance on expanding his brand awareness.

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