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Welcome to “The Lies I Tell Myself to Justify Living the Wrong Life!” The title of each blog post represents a lie that I will bust through, in the hopes that if you’re using that story in your mind, you can exchange it for greener pastures. 
Today’s Lie: Your Dreams Are Unrealistic
Tweet Who out there HASN’T been told, at some point, that your dreams and ideas are “unrealistic”? Whether we are talking about the kind of dreams you have when you go to sleep, or the ones you fantasize about during the day, have you noticed that if you tell most people your ideas they simply write them off as unrealistic? As if the very fact you have dared to dream is against the grain of society and you better stop doing that right now or you’ll go cross-eyed! For many of us, we learn to keep...
read moreI Have to Rush
Tweet You ever catch yourself running down the street at break-neck speed? You ever graze someone running past them, or, full-on smack into them, and not even apologize because “you’re in a rush” and everyone else should understand? I have frequently caught myself RACING (usually in comfortable shoes, at least) to make a subway, run errands, meet a friend, get to an appointment….almost inevitably, instead of setting a “rushing world record” or tying myself for first place in the “fastest dash to the...
read moreIt’s Bad To Be Sad
Tweet Media and medicine would have us believe that a state of sadness is to be avoided at all costs. If tears and emotion hit you, please, stay indoors, do not attempt to operate heavy machinery, and be on the lookout for mood swings and thoughts of suicide…..Not to be confused with the side effects of the medication prescribed by your doctor or therapist, who you felt the need to see in an effort to rid yourself of your sad emotions, which could result in blindness, loss of intelligence, inability to fold origami, piles of dirty...
read moreToday’s Lie: The Secret to Getting and Keeping a Man
Tweet With the launch of “Ready for Love”, everyone on TV with a talk-show seems ga-ga over relationship gurus. There is no shortage of opinions on “HOW TO GET A MAN” and then, once you snag him, “HOW TO KEEP A MAN.” (Notice how nobody ever spends loads of time talking about how to get and keep a woman? Or, for that matter, telling a man how to dress, perfume, and behave on a date, at least in public?) I heard some fun tips, like, “Don’t give a man an ultimatum, give him a man-matum,”...
read moreYou Were Born to Work
Tweet Though you probably know today’s lie is full of bull, many of you reading this know full well that you are working for a living, and not doing much playing. You have come to believe there is a “time and a place” for fun, and it definitely doesn’t belong at work, in most cases. You spend most of your day doing stuff for other people – chores at home, deadline-critical projects at the office….you do errands at night, maybe work a second job because you need to in this economy, and if someone, like me,...
read moreToday’s Lie: Your Thoughts Have No Power
Tweet We carry on in our lives believing we are powerless to the events that happen in our day, week, and life. We believe we are innocent victims to the circumstances that befall us, and we see victories as good luck. Because we see things as “good luck” and “bad luck” we are then led into being jealous of someone else’s good luck, wondering why it is that it happens to that person, over and over, and not to us. Our thoughts carry immense power, and if we fail to recognize that, we then believe good and...
read moreToday’s Lie: A Trick Will Make You Happy
Tweet Magazines would have us believe that happiness is about “tricks,” and “secrets.” We talk to friends and quest for this elusive way we can find our happy place. Is it in a vacation? But then we return home…. Is it a new job or relationship?….But then the old issues causing us to be unhappy appear again. Surely, we think, we can find happiness at the spa, a nice massage or facial?…..and then we go back to the routine of our life and are re-acquainted with our unhappiness all over...
read moreToday’s Lie: I Need to Keep My Crappy Job For the Health Benefits
Tweet For those of you in a job you hate, how many times have you said, “I need the job for the benefits,” or something like that? This is such a fun and ironic lie that needs to be BullBusted! The story goes something like this: “I need to get, or keep, a shitty job I hate, in which I’ll never be promoted or get the salary I deserve, because it gives me health benefits. If I don’t have health benefits, I can’t afford my medical bills. If I can’t afford my medical bills, I can’t...
read moreToday’s Lie: It’s Bad to Fail
Tweet We spend a great deal of our lives trying to avoid failure. It’s been bred into us. Bad grades at school = failure. Not getting a job = failure. Sucking at something you’re supposed to be good at = failure. The “oh shit, I better not fail at -” list is infinitely long. Do a mental check right now, I’m sure you can think of 5 things you try to avoid failing at in 60 seconds. We judge failure as some all-too-real monster that follows us every day. Because we fear the failure monster, we run from it by...
read moreToday’s Lie: I Have to Hide My True Self
Tweet I find it frustrating that we often get so caught up in what other people think, and trying to be accepted, that we give up our truest selves in the process. We find many more reasons to hide in life, than we do to stand out in our truest ways. How we treat dogs is the perfect example of this sabotaging and suffocating process. In a city like New York, when you live in an apartment building, you never know how people will react to a dog. Because you want to keep your dog, and ideally not get sued, or kicked out of this building that...
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