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Elise's avatar

They cannot destroy the things they don't know about 👀

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Gabrielle's avatar

THIS

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Nyla Wright's avatar

Exactly!!

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Martina's avatar

love this and wholeheartedly agree with you!!

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Gabrielle's avatar

ty for reading angel 🪽💝

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Naili Woelper's avatar

Hi Gabrielle, Thanks for sharing, I completely relate with your thoughts. Last year, I started grad school and in the process of starting this big thing I had to delete a LOT of distractions in my life including social medias. I just deleted facebook, and instagram off my phone simply because I didn't have the time to entertain anything. Since deleting those platforms in summer 2024, my world and orbit has gotten SO small- and I feel less of the pull to share my whole life with everyone in the world. lol! I had no idea how caught up I was in the premature gratification of sharing. A conclusion I've had this last quarter (since becoming better at grad school and managing assignments, time, and personal life), is that a LOT of life is about the grind and discipline. What makes us who we are is what we do 90% of the time, not what we say or who we say we are. Anyways, I digress, thanks again for a piece of your mind!

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Gabrielle's avatar

congrats on embarking on your grad school journey! i hope your studies are going well 🫶🏽 i love what you said: that what makes us who we are is what we do 90% of the time - i need to read that every single morning lol. i myself get caught up on everything i want to be/do that i neglect the act of actually doing something to get closer to that goal/that higher version of myself. i appreciate your perspective and im glad someone could relate to what i was feeling! good luck with grad school and thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter 🫂

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Fiona's avatar

I needed to read this

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Charity Nnaji's avatar

Now I wish I had read this earlier before announcing something that I had just started working on. Now I feel stuck and I know that those that care will be expecting a result soon.

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Gabrielle's avatar

give yourself grace & keep it pushing!! now you know for next time 🫶🏽 protect your goals & fall in love with the journey 🫂

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Aramissss's avatar

This is such an intelligent take, and so incredibly helpful.

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Gabrielle's avatar

tysm for reading 🫂

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Sjasmin Butt's avatar

So true🩷 I've been working with just that for the past 5 months, learning to fall in love with the process✨️🩷

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Gabrielle's avatar

love that ✨✨

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Azul's avatar

Damn girl

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Azul's avatar

At first I was like heeell it’s not gonna happen I love sharing cause it motivates me, but goood what you’re proposing it makes so much sense

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Gabrielle's avatar

thank you for acknowledging my perspective 🫶🏽

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Michela's avatar

I really appreciated all the psychological reflections and wow this is so true! thank you for sharing ❤️

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Gabrielle's avatar

tysm for reading!! 🫂

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Benjamin's avatar

Fire

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daniel okeya's avatar

Training for a marathon rn also! What’s ur TikTok?

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Arianna M's avatar

I was just saying to myself that I have to stop announcing what I’m going to do this summer to people or my career. I didn’t have the full words as to why, but not I kinda do.

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unsolicited thoughts's avatar

It was very profound

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chioma opara's avatar

I am the type of person to share her goal before i even start it, even thougj i dont tell people i say it in my mind and i love the feeling of the dopamine rush but when i comes to start it or finish it i dont want to at all. So reading this has definitely opened my eyes.

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Nataly Velez's avatar

i absolutely love this! i recently shared a big goal with some people and ever since then i wish i could take it back because i feel it’s not working out, but from that i learned to just keep things to myself because you never know who’s plotting against you!

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