Shauna Niequist seemed to have it all. She had a successful career, a loving family, and wanted for nothing. But, despite how good her life looked on the outside, she was exhausted and deeply unhappy. She spent her entire adult life working longer, pushing harder, and striving to meet the expectations set by the world around her… or, rather, the expectations she thought had been…
In The Book of Joy, Archbishop Desmond Tutu says this about overcoming fear: Fear and anxiety are mechanisms that have helped us to survive. You know, if you did not feel fear when you saw a lion over there… in next to no time there would be no you. [Without fear], we would be fearless, but we’d also be very stupid, and we would not…
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Gary Chapman is a marriage counselor who, over years of helping couples work toward healthier relationships, has found that one consistent problem in unhappy relationships is miscommunication. Not just failing to talk to each other, but failing to express love in the same language. If one partner expects to be loved through quality time but the other expects gifts, neither are going to feel fully…
Each year is an opportunity to start new. Every day for the next 12 months, each of us will face the same choice: Stick with our comfortable, familiar, bad habits, or break and build new, healthy habits that may be uncomfortable at first, but eventually will push us to be the best versions of ourselves. Habits are tricky things. We often build them when we…
Gabourey Sidibe was told by three different psychics on three different occasions that she would someday become famous. They didn’t know how, when, or why, only that she would someday be a household name, even famous enough to meet Oprah. There was something in her eyes, they said, something about the confidence with which she carried herself, that would someday make her a superstar. As…
I love having things organized, so Fabulous fit quite perfectly into my life. I wasn’t really looking for anything in particular when I was browsing through the Google play store, but then Fabulous popped up as an “editors pick.” So I decided to click on the app and after reading the description, I figured I should give it a try and downloaded it. As someone…
Today we are thrilled to announce the launch of the Fabulous app across iOS devices! We’re taking the next big step in our mission to help people around the world flip bad habits into sticky and effective new life routines. Since launching in the Play Store in 2014, all we’ve heard was when were we going to launch on iPhone. Over the past few years,…
Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and author of the bestseller, Start Where You Are. Her creativity is inspired by the magical mysteries of nature, the quiet stories that lace through everyday life, and the bold colors of her native India. — I grew up writing – creating my own stories, poems, and chapter books. I had a dream of being a fiction writer…
Did you know you can change your life in just five minutes? If it sounds too good to be true, think again. We are the sum of our smallest behaviors, and becoming the best versions of ourselves starts with changing those small behaviors in ways that suit our needs while also helping us build good habits that stick. When we want to make positive changes…
