12 Things This Year Taught Me About Showing Up
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12 Things This Year Taught Me About Showing Up

I've been dreaming about this since 2019. For years, I told people I wanted to start a blog. I created a website. And then I let it sit there while I convinced myself it wasn't ready. Perfectionism is a beautiful cage. Then I took a career sabbatical and made myself a promise: I would stop abandoning passion projects and actually build the life I wanted. In Nepal, tired of my own bullshit, I pressed publish. That was a year ago today. Here's what showing up has taught me.

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Reclaiming My Attention (And Maybe My Life)
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Reclaiming My Attention (And Maybe My Life)

I knew exactly where my lack of focus was coming from: "Hello, my name is Ashlee, and I'm addicted to my phone." What started as staying informed turned into chasing dopamine hits through endless scrolling. I'd pick up my phone for one thing and end up on TikTok twenty minutes later, wondering how I even got there. My bedtime routine was a battlefield, over an hour of scrolling before I could fall asleep, blue light winning the nightly war to get rest. Then I removed my phone from my bedroom entirely. The first night? I slept through the entire night for the first time in months. Thirty days later, I've finished three books, don't touch my phone for two hours after waking, and I'm learning what it feels like to be present in my own life again. This is what happens when you decide you want something different and you're willing to do something different to get it.

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