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Small Choices That Shape a Meaningful Life

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There are lots of lists out there about clothes women should stop wearing after a certain age or activities that most of us begin to shy away from as we get older (cough*anything after 10pm*cough). But most of these lists either seem super judgy, or made with the assumption that everyone is the same. Listen, […]

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The idea here isn’t perfection or rigid minimalism, rather it’s to avoid being bogged down by things that don’t bring lasting fulfillment.

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