Tag Archives: life advice

Taylor Swift Lives Life Likes She’s 80

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comAugust 8, 2011 //

“Live your life like you’re 80 looking back on your teenage years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go to breakfast? As a teenager you’re like no, I want to sleep. As an 80-year-old looking back, you have that breakfast with your dad. It’s just little things like that that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making the choices you won’t regret later.”

—Taylor Swift tells PopSugar the best life advice she ever got. Wow, perhaps this explains how she is so darn composed at the age of 21. I mean, if I was as mature as she was when I hit legal drinking age, I would have taken over the world by now. [PopSugar] Keep reading »

Michelle Williams Says She Has Just Enough

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comJune 1, 2011 //

“I have a house. I have a car. My daughter goes to school. I can buy my friends birthday presents. I can go out to dinner from time to time. I read to my daughter from this book called Just Enough and Not Too Much. It means something.”

—Michelle Williams explains to the Arizona Republic why she’s gone for intense roles in indie movies rather than flashy, big blockbuster roles that would bring in lots of cash. Sure, her “just enough” is probably much more than the average person’s but, man, does she seem to have good perspective on life. [Huffington Post] Keep reading »

100 Things To Do When You Feel Like You’re Losing It

Susannah BreslinSeptember 15, 2010 //

Burned out? Exhausted? Stressed? Whether you’re overwhelmed by work at the office, pulled in all directions by your kids at home, or are still learning the ropes of getting through college, every woman has had one of those days when she’s on the verge of going bonkers. Here are 100 things you can do to help get yourself together if you’re depressed, anxious, or feeling kind of kooky. Keep reading »

The Top 10 Things You Didn’t Learn In School That You Really Need To Know

CrackedJune 26, 2010 //

By the time you’re 30, you’ll be hit with the crushing truth of just how much the grownups didn’t teach you when you were in school. And, while liberals and conservatives haggle over whether public schools need more funding or more lessons on the Ten Commandments, we think all can agree there are some very basic, useful things that we really, really should have been taught in school. Read more …
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Here Are Some More Words Of Wisdom

Wendy AtterberryApril 30, 2010 //

A couple weeks back Susannah shared some words of wisdom she’s gained over the “many years” she’s been alive. Well, I’ve been alive a good many years, too, and I am Dear Wendy after all, so I figured I had a few pearls (OK, maybe a few beads) of wisdom to pass along as well. Check ‘em out after the jump. Keep reading »

Ten Things I’d Love To Tell My Younger Self

DivineCaroline.comMay 25, 2009 //

I’ve learned some valuable things about life, love, and being female over the past half-century. Here is the advice I try to pass on to younger women in my life (family and friends) in the hope that it will save them some precious time:

1. You are at least ten times prettier than you think you are.
That holds true no matter how pretty you already think you are! Don’t believe me? Ask your mother/auntie/grannie if she thought she was pretty when she was twenty. She’ll say no. Then find a photo of her at that age. See what I mean? Keep reading »

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