Brianne McDonald

Don’t allow anyone else to define what success means for you. Not everyone is interested in starting their own company or working for some powerful corporation. Success is what you make it and you should never let anyone else diminish that.

People and relationships are not prizes at the end of the game; they are not your trophy for your perception of a well-lived life.

1. Your alarm is more like a guideline than a rule; one which you will repeatedly ignore.

8. He informs you that your promotion at work is only because your boss wants to ‘bang you.’ In the words of Ryan Gosling … Who still says bang?

5. In some ways (many ways maybe) you’d really rather not be ‘one of the guys.’

The Language Police Mom

What was it like growing up with a mentally ill mother? In a word?

1. You’re not just the ‘way you are.’ If you don’t like something about yourself, you can change it.

Maybe you hate your job, or your coworkers, or classes have just been really rough. Maybe you just feel a little ‘off’ today and you can’t really explain why. I offer you this playlist in hopes of easing (or heightening) your pain.

4. Your nail polish, if you’re even wearing any, is usually chipping or in varying degrees of chipped.

We fall in love with the idea of a person, of all the things we glimpse in small, rapid moments, and cling to those flashes with a desperation that can carry us on for years.

Mormons, like any other religion, are filled with wonderful, understanding and compassionate people as well as those whom are judgmental, harsh and unkind; the latter of which are far less common in my experience.