Archive - Building a Real Life with Emily Adair

The importance of some show

Long-term planning is pretty overrated when there’s no interim payoff

Jul 22, 2023 •

May 2023

Deciding between the real thing and the right thing

Are you doing what you must, or betraying yourself along the way?

May 28, 2023 •

April 2023

Let’s switch it up and be petulant AF

Daydreaming is good, but so is saying all the things you keep silent in a day

Apr 9, 2023 •

It’s okay to be messy and break things

Especially if you know they’re not for you

Apr 1, 2023 •

February 2023

Did you forget how to daydream?

They’re not just childhood fancies — they’re how we get our hope back

Feb 16, 2023 •

January 2023

Work-life balance and other bullshit

What do we do when work-life balance just isn’t logical?

Jan 27, 2023 •

🥂Welcome to my internet house party

I'll be your host, let me show you around

Jan 12, 2023 •

November 2022

I'm Emily. This is a storytelling platform about changing the way we think, talk to ourselves, live in the world, and build a life worth living.

Nov 1, 2022 •

September 2022

What if this was easy?

What a kid can teach you about all the productivity lies you tell yourself A few years ago, I came across a mental practice that saved my sanity, my…

Sep 24, 2022 •

May 2022

The year we should have had

It might be time for us all to have the year we should have had. We've been living with the pandemic and its consequences for years. We've had a hot vax…

May 26, 2022 •

April 2022

Finding grace in the troll bombing

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on startups that got way more attention than I expected. Little ol’ me over here, writing to my ~100 subscribers…

Apr 10, 2022 •

March 2022

How we value failure

When startups fail, we give them more money; when entrepreneurs fail, their lives are over (This is the second article in a series about what I learned…

Mar 12, 2022 •

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