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10 Reasons Yoga Makes Your Life Better

This guest post was written by Doniree Walker, a 20-something blogger, wanderluster, yogini, and advocate for mindfulness, self-awareness, and living with intention. I had the pleasure of spending a fabulous week at SXSW with Doni in March of this year. If I had to describe Doniree in two words it would be yoga foodie. I’d […]

10 Reasons You Should Have a Hobby Outside of Work

This is the 12th post in December’s Top Tens in 2010 Series. This guest post was written by Sydney Owen, skydiver, social mediaite and an all around awesomesauce chica. I meet Sydney in person at SXSW in 2009, but she’s one of those people you feel like you’ve always known. After spending a few days running […]

Sometimes you wanna go…

You know the Cheers song… “sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name.” Have you ever felt the opposite? Have you ever wished you had a person who didn’t know your story that you could just soundboard off of? I tend to be a person who compartmentalizes my life. When I was in college […]

V is for Vacation

Stress, quarterlife crisis, balance, career, family … how do we handle everything that we are trying to juggle in our lives? One word … vacation. Vacation can be a 2 hour picnic in the park or a 2 day roadtrip. Even if you don’t have the time (or finances) to take a 7 day cruise […]

R is for Relationships :: ABCs of Life in Your 20s

One of my favorite parts of running this ABC series has been choosing the guest writers for each post. When I decided to have R be for Relationship, I knew I wanted someone who could write about all aspects of relationships – family, friends, work, as well as dating. The first definition of the term […]

How Much is on Your Plate?

I’ve noticed that sometimes my life seems to resemble a sitcom, in the aspect that a reoccurring theme continues to present itself. You know how on TV shows, each episode tends to have 1 theme, that all of the characters get to deal with in their own particular way? Sometimes in my life, I continue […]

Present Company ONLY: aka are spouses invited to your company gatherings?

Does anyone else find it strange that I am about to go to my company Thanksgiving party that spouses are not invited to? Not that I have a spouse Even though I have no spouse it still bothers me that spouses can’t come to a company party that employees are expected to show up to. […]

Juggling Act

Photo Credit: lynnmwillis I have been doing a lot of thinking and discussing our generation’s desire for a work/life balance. I am on a constant search for the right balance of business and personal life. In this moment I have decided maybe it isn’t balance we should be working to achieve. I think we need […]