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                       For this Friday's post, I wanted to do something fun! Enjoy reading these crazy true facts that are sure to make you smile during your work or study break today... TGIF, and thanks for reading!               Know any more insane or random true facts? Leave a comment!               💮   Olivia

          Lately, I haven't been feeling like myself.           Since about October, when the air became colder and my first winter season away from my alma mater loomed before me, I've been a bit off. I had just started a full time job (ew) in a very soul-sucking industry, discovered I was not anywhere closer to landing an actual writing job, was going on six months being away from my long-distance boyfriend, and generally felt stuck and lost. I found myself becoming a weird kind of depressed I'd never quite felt before.           Each morning when I woke up to go to work, the day immediately started with a stomachache. I found it heard to eat breakfast and drink my coffee, which is normally my favorite part of my morning time, and I would drive to work practically in tears already--I felt like I was driving myself to prison every day, only to spend 8 hours doing nothing but watching the clock and feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and uninspired.           It hasn&#

   Happy New Year!    Just wanted to stop by and update you all on the MAJOR CHANGES coming to The Write Track in 2018. I've started a blogging schedule and will be uploading posts every Monday and Saturday, currently. As I settle into this groove, the uploading may become more frequent, but for right now, I'm pacing myself. I've got so much content to put out this year, and I hope to draw in more readers and subscribers! I want my blog to be a fun and relaxed place where I can share my ideas, and where you can share your thoughts in the comments. For the last six months or so, I've neglected my blog a bit since I started a full time 9-5 office job (snooze), and I apologize for the lack of content...this year, I'm planning to be more disciplined and inspired, and already, the blogging vibes are coming on strong! Get ready for guest bloggers, interviews, video posts, and so much more. Join me in this season of newness and growth and wintery wishes as we ce

Hey all! I know, I know. It's been a whiiile! I just wanted to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas! I'll be back at the end of December with some EXCITING news, so stay tuned to The Write Track by subscribing so you don't miss the next post! Warmest wishes!      ♡  Olivia

⬥⬩⬥       Hi, Reader. If you're anything like me, you overthink heaps of things on a daily basis.        From what to eat, to what errands to run, to just how long it will take to run to the store while the soup is on the stove, to be back in time for it to have come to a perfect boil--only to overthink that choice and then think through the pros and cons of leaving something to cook while you're not home.       Yes, this is kind of a silly example of overthinking, and it isn't quite the kind of overthinking I'm going to talk about in this post. But it's a good example of feeling torn between two options, and knowing full well deep down which is the right one; of how often we spend all of our time thinking about doing something, and either we never do it, or it takes so much thinking for us to do that thing, that our head is spinning once we get to it.       I want to encourage you to try something new this week.        I'm sure there'

⬥⬩⬥        For as long as I can remember, I've heard the adults in my life say, "I can't wait for vacation!"        While this seems innocent enough, and we can all agree that we look forward to beach vacations and road trips to fun and relaxing destinations, this phrase was almost always accompanied by something like: "I cannot WAIT to get away from work," or "I need this trip SO badly," or even "Lately I hate everything, I just need to get away!"        My parents have been saying this for years, and even I have felt like a vacation from life and school and my friends would be time well spent.        But what if I told you that this mindset, where you hate what you do and feel like you have to escape from the everyday, is one you created for yourself a long time ago? What if I said you are actually (yes, really!) completely in control of your life and how you feel about it?        Well, you so, so are. You have a

❖❖❖       There's not too much to explain here!        Everyone's got their slew of must-haves during a regular work day... whether it's your thermos of black coffee that gets you through every meeting, your favorite watch that saves you an eyeball from the teacher every time you're caught looking at the clock, or a snack at your desk for when the 3pm slump rolls around.        For me, there are 10 things I know I couldn't sit at my desk for a day of at-home work without. Check them out!        1. My laptop              This one's kind of a given... since I currently work from home as a freelance writer, I pretty much NEED my computer to function. I've got a ton of emails to answer each day, and it's where all my important saved documents and notes are for work and internships. Lately, my laptop is equipped with my iTunes playlist at the ready, a word document always open and blank, and about a hundred tabs open on my browser with