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The First Things You Learn After Quitting Your Full-Time Job

The First Things You Learn After Quitting Your Full-Time Job

(Image credit: Imagebase.net) Wow!  I don’t have to go to work again- ever!  This day can be anything I want! An amazing feeling- but also a worrying one. I don’t want to waste it.  What should I do?  I’d better decide fast- I’m wasting time RIGHT NOW.  The question gnaws at me.  Before I know it, I’ve wasted hours with unnecessary guilt and frustration. I should go write, right?  Duh!  That novel won’t finish itself.  But there are a hundred other…

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The Last Dreadful Sunday

The Last Dreadful Sunday

(Image credit: Imagebase.net) For most of my life- a few years excepted- Sundays have been plagued with a gnawing sense of dread. Monday’s coming.  Back to school or work.  Assignments I don’t want to do, meetings to slog through, people I don’t want to deal with. No matter how sunny the weather or what fun activities are planned for the day, I never fully relax with Monday sitting right there, ready to swallow me up in another week.  I feel…

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