Tag: 2023
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An Anti-Burnout Holiday Season
Burnout (phrasal verb of ‘burn’): A state of complete mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion; to ruin one’s health or become completely exhausted through overwork. Holiday burnout is difficult to avoid when your brain is racing a half marathon every minute. Work deadlines, internship due dates, final exams— the list of commitments is endless. Focus on…
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Happy To Be Here
Happiness is not defined by how many friends you have, how many digits are in your back account, or how organized your future is. A crucial ingredient in the nourishing recipe for happiness is being excited. It is being excited for your iced dirty chai in the mornings. It is being excited about watching a…
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Little Things That Aren’t So Little
I am a strong advocate for the little gestures. Open the door open for strangers, chase the kid’s soccer ball down the pavement and kick it back to him, pay compliments, try to be larger than you are— even when it’s easier to ignore your instinct. I find that the best people in life follow…
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The Known As I Know It
The summer of unknowns, otherwise referred to as the dreaded summer before senior year of college. Three months brewing a deja vu comparable to that of the summer before my senior year of high school. Gradually, I’ve pulled back the curtain to reveal that I am not afraid of the unknown. Nor have I ever…
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The Dreaded “Adulting” Summer
“So, what are you doing this summer?” The dreaded question of the season. How can I be convincing that I know what I’m doing? What volunteer work am I serving? What internship am I taking on? Am I traveling? Am I doing enough? What can I say to make me seem the most put together?…
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Dear Freshman Year Shaudeh…
Turn back the clock to the fall of 2020: a covid freshman in the dorms in San Diego. If only freshman year Shaudeh knew her world would turn upside down in the next two years. I am living the moments that my younger self dreamed of, and my older self will cherish forever. I am…
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Manifesting My 2023 Vision
What you think, you evolve. What you feel, you emanate. What you imagine, you transpire. Believe you have attained it and you will receive it. That is the core of the law of attraction. In 2023, I will attract better because I understand that it all starts within. The better I become, the better I…
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Level Up
Get ready to level up mentally, emotionally, spiritually, energetically. It is all coming. Do not underestimate how much can change in the last few months of 2022… it is time to get serious about your goals. If your life just got a little more challenging, you are climbing up to the next level, Stay consistent,…
Much love, Shaudeh Farjami 