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Month: June 2013

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19 Jun 2013

NYC Eats

NYC: Good Eats at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg

Readers, I’ve been a bit MIA in the past few weeks. A lot’s been going on – I had some big projects to finish up at work, and I moved to a new apartment for the third time in the…

NYC: Sushi Yasaka

Yaki Salmon Avocado Donburi at Sushi Yasaka is seriously one of the best things in the UWS I don’t usually travel more than 2 miles in Manhattan to eat at the same restaurant twice, but I do it for Sushi…

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Two months ago, I was officially diagnosed with AD

😘 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡! 😘

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but this is something that's taken me a LONG time to understand and internalize. You do not need to be good at everything to be enough.

"Imposter Syndrome" is such a hot topic especially for women in tech. We work in such a fast pace environment so it's common to feel unsure about what you're doing. We're all learning and improvising as we go, so just feeling unsure of what you're doing does not make you a fraud or imposter.

🤫 BTW, here's a secret that I've learned after working at Google for 10 years: most people are just making it up as they go along too!

𝗦𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸?
A defining moment for me in my career was when I took a personality test at work called Insights for Discovery. If you've never done this activity before, it's very much like the Enneagram or Myers Briggs (I'm a 7w8 and ENFP in case you're wondering).

Here's how Insights is different -- instead of assigning you into one box like the other tests, it gives you a breakout of how you score in all 4 colors.

Here's mine:

💛 Sunshine Yellow - 44.5%
❤️ Fiery Red - 33.1%
💙 Cool Blue - 15.3%
💚 Earth Green - 7.1%

This makes me a "Motivator", can you tell? 😉

When I saw this breakout in a pie chart, something in me clicked. It helped me visualize that I can ONLY be 100%. That's it. No more.

If I wanted to be more "Blue", it means I have to give up some of my "Yellow". I am who I am because of this, and I wouldn't want to change it for the world.

So stop comparing yourself to someone else who might be stronger in one area than you. Instead, focus on owning your own strength. Embrace it. It's what makes you, YOU.

Stop feeling bad about what you're lacking and surround yourself with others who complement your skillset.

So let me repeat it, in case no one told you today, you are perfect the way you are, and you are enough. 😘

Are you a personality quiz nerd like me? Please tell me what you are in the comments below! ♥️

🤑 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐈 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 🤑

We're a few weeks away from finishing our second home renovation project and I keep thanking my lucky stars that I discovered @thehavenly and @marlene_at_havenly last year! 🙏

I bought my first design package on impulse at 1am (ADHD brain lol) when I was busy browsing Pinterest for home office ideas. Traditional interior decorators cost around $150/hr so the ~$100 I paid for my Full Design package seemed like a no brainer!

Honestly, it sounded too good to be true. But, I figured, what's the worse that can happen? Needless to say, Havenly has far exceeded my expectations and this is my top recommendation for anyone who's struggling to pull a cohesive looking space together.

I'm working on a blog post to share my tips for using Havenly for your home renovations. Do you have any questions for me? Comment below, I'm more than happy to answer and share more!

To get $50 off your first Havenly package, you can use my referral link: https://havenly.com/referral/tde9b43e10 (Full transparency, this is an affiliate link, so I'll get some Havenly credit from it. Win-win! 🎉)

🌊 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡, 𝐬𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭? 🌊

I've been pretty transparent here and on my blog about my personal struggles with mental health over the last few years. I'm usually such a positive person so when I'm hit with these negative emotions, I don't know how to deal.

Today, I wanted to share a book with you that I found inspirational in case it's helpful for you as you work through your feelings. In 𝗠𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, Psychiatrist Dr. Viktor Frankl describes his experience in the Nazi concentration camps and his personal lessons for spiritual survival. (I know, heavy topic 😳.)

He describes 2 mindsets of prisoners in the camp:

1) those who lost their hold on life because everything became so pointless
2) others who gave themselves purpose by being helpful and a source of light to those around them

"People forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself...we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed.

Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.

One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners."

This passage really spoke out to me because I often find myself spiraling into a mindset of hopelessness and negative emotions, as a result, I want to vegetate and literally become a potato. 🥔

In this book, Dr. Frankl reminds me that there's another way to be. People can give themselves purpose by helping others, this was key to survival. People made jokes to help lighten the mood for others. People shared what little they had with others.

It's a reminder that in these dark times, the best way to get through it is by sticking together and to be light to those around us.🕯️

As always, thank you for letting me share. I want to let you know that if you're feeling down right now, you're not alone.

DM me if you ever need anything, happy to talk about your feels or make dumb jokes and chat about how life's a beach. ♥️

🍚𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞

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