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How Are Your Dreams at the Three-Quarter Mark?

Here at 8womendream, I wrote about my half-year check-in three months ago, as one might imagine, or exactly halfway through the year. I was doing well on some fronts, and committed to making more progress on others. Three more months have passed, and I’m the type who’s inclined to check in with myself at these kinds of “milestones.” Three more months left in 2011. Am I where I want to be?

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8 Best Quotes About Travel from a Travel Junkie

Last updated on November 14th, 2019 at 09:58 pm Mary Oliver once famously said, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” The words still haunt me. More eloquently spoken than myself, Mary Oliver’s answer to her own question is: “When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was…
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1 million dollars

in STARTING OVER MIDLIFE

1 Million Dollars: What It Gets You in Search

Last updated on September 14th, 2024 at 01:14 am As I work on my dream of being financially solvent, I find myself Googling many odd terms. Are you curious about what happens when you type “1 million dollars” into a search engine these days? Spoiler alert: people are still pretty obsessed with imagining what it’s like to have a million…
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Positive Thursday: Being Reliant on Others

Last updated on July 8th, 2022 at 04:54 pmI grew up in a culture where it has been encouraged to “do it yourself” and “work hard to get somewhere.” Personal growth and success have been pushed on my generation and we’ve been bred to understand that we have to do this ourselves. Well, no offense to pop culture and mainstream…
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