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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

Success

I want my financial future to be bright and to have no worries when I’m older and ready to retire. I often think I need new clothes, but when I clean out or organize my closet, I realize I have lots of options and everything I need at my fingertips. Clean out your closet and donate unwanted clothes to charity. Have gratitude.

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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. Eventually it felt like work.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Krayman

In that time, I had a front row seat to her process of how she would decide to act in a film – or not. Olympia loved that at the beginning of the movie, the women could be seen as the beloved and well worn Southern female stereotypes – preoccupied with gossip, clothes, hair, flowers, and food.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The news stories focus on completely legitimate reasons for why this is happening, such as staff taking early retirement, fears about Covid and not wanting to return to the office, lack of childcare, and of course, the search for better jobs at higher compensation. She found a better job and goes to therapy each week to process what happened.

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

Here’s your retirement cheque, go build your house, put in a pool, and stay with your girlfriend for the rest of your life,&# then I would probably kill myself. Nice to read about your writing process in-depth. If I imagine someone said to me, “Kevin, thank you very much for your services. This was soooo much less traffic!

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I’d argue that the mere process of getting degree, of getting educated, is an important one and teaches you how to think. Now I can just work the job I want and retire happy&# I’m like, you moron, education never stops! –Deb´s last blog. Do You Write With Conviction? I’m done, no more studying!

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