A friend once shared something that hit home: “You can’t expect to be happy in a relationship until you’re happy with yourself.”
This truth was hard to swallow.
For years, I searched...
The constant need for validation became an addiction, leaving me perpetually unsatisfied and always wanting more. I found myself seeking approval from men to the extent of it affecting my emotional well-being. Putting their needs above my own became my new normal, and I naively believed it was how things were supposed to be. Breaking free from this cycle required a conscious effort to reconnect with the things that once brought me joy.
Treating procrastination as a symptom of idleness is problematic and harmful. We have to stop stigmatizing procrastination and dig deeper into the underlying, neurological roots of what’s actually causing us to respond — or not — to our responsibilities.
Despite having reached higher levels of educational attainment than any previous generations, American millennials are now, on average, demonstrating weak skills in literacy, numeracy and problem solving,...
