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Entrepreneur is a word I aspire to, but it’s not how I feel,” she says. “It sounds like someone who’s got their shit together. If this magazine was called
Human Foibles, I’d be perfect. Which is to say: If anyone else out there is struggling to get it all done, I relate.”
But she also can offer a simple coping mechanism, a habit she formed recently that’s helped keep her focused through a year of reinvention. Instead of obsessing over what she hasn’t gotten to, she lists out everything she
has accomplished. “We don’t often take inventory of what we’ve done it’s very much a to-do-list kind of world,” she says. “But once in a while, make an ‘I’ve done this’ list.”