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Growing, Growing, Growing
Enjoy! Growing, Growing, Growing... As human beings we are all given the privilege to grow. I don’t mean this in a physical sense but more so in a spiritual sense. I think everyone has to grow and create the person that they desire to be. We all have to overcome obstacles, different people, and getting lost in the world we live in to truly figure out who we are and determine our sole purpose.
TatePublished 6 years ago in MotivationSelf-Care: Good for You, Good for Me, Good for Us!
Self-care, one of the easiest things we can do for ourselves, but yet it seems like we never have time to do it, or at least just don't seem to want to do it. Like any university student, I feel that! But hear me out, self-care isn't just pedicures and eating healthy, heck no!
dRAKE therealnigPublished 6 years ago in MotivationA Letter of Gratefulness (2017)
As I get older, I start to feel like materialistic things do not impress me anymore. I am not saying that a new nice dress wouldn't make me happy, but a handwritten letter from a friend or a call from an old lost relative is definitely what makes life worth living for me. I saw a lot of my friends on online sites expressing their grief by posting a picture of their loved ones who recently passed away. Although I understand that everyone deals with grief in a different way, I do not understand why they feel the need to put this on a website such as Facebook or Twitter when we all know that getting likes and retweets will not take our pain away.
Brandy CooperPublished 6 years ago in MotivationWhat My Dirty Laundry Taught Me About Life
Two years ago I had dirty laundry piling up in real life and in my personal life. 4 Life Lessons That My Dirty Laundry Taught Me
Courtney RallsPublished 6 years ago in MotivationWhy I Decided to Just Be Happy
There have been a multitude of things in my life that have made me truly happy. Anything ranging from my friends, to my family, to beautiful experiences I've had, to opportunities that were given to me. I love going to summer concerts, and weekend visits to my best friends. One of my favorite places in the whole world is the coffee shop. It makes me so happy to just sit there any enjoy the atmosphere and the good coffee. I love trying new food and drinking wine. I love doing things that are exciting and new and that I know are going to make me happy!
Bryanna BurshnickPublished 6 years ago in MotivationPassion or a Lucrative Being
At some point in our lives we all want to fit in. For whatever scientific reason that I could care less about, we have the desire to not stick out like a sore thumb. Unless of course we become famous through some socially accepted and appropriate avenue. We all grow up taught to reach for some goal, our education is centralized as practically the reason for our existence. Nothing is more important than school and everything else is a hobby or a phase. As much as I dislike the school system but love education, this article isn’t about that, it’s about asking the question where and who the hell am I and why.
L. R. Anthony’sPublished 6 years ago in Motivation- Top Story - January 2018
6 Surprising Life Lessons Everyone Can Learn From Scottish Dancers
Scottish Highland Dancers like myself spend years being reminded to point their toes, correct their positioning, and jump higher off the ground, but these technical corrections are only the surface of the things I learned through dance. When I was younger, I used to laugh when my teacher would tell me winning a medal was "just the icing on the cake" at a competition. Now, as a young adult, I find myself examining my personal qualities and being surprised by how many of them were a result of my years of lessons, training workshops, and competitions. This list is only a handful of those characteristics and lessons-learned, and I believe everyone, Highland Dancer or not, can relate to what I learned from my years of practicing and competitions.
Abby (1999)Published 6 years ago in Motivation 3 Tips to Finding Your Motivation
Is it just me, or has anyone started a new health routine with the intentions of never looking back? Only to be met with the sad disappointment about two weeks later, when your strict willpower slowly wears away with every small slip-up, eventually bringing you back to where you were before you started this health routine? I've done this COUNTLESS amounts of times. Eventually, it gets really frustrating. You wish you could just find the momentum to keep you going.
Hyacinth SmithPublished 6 years ago in MotivationGoals to Set for Yourself to Live a Better Life
Rich or poor, celeb or average Joe, there are steps everyone needs to take to improve themselves and their lives. No matter who you are or how much money you have, you should always work hard to improve all areas of your life. Personal growth is a major and rewarding part of living a life of fulfillment, which is why you constantly need to come up with goals to set for yourself.
Evelyn StarrPublished 6 years ago in MotivationTaking Care of Your Mental Health
Mental Health: What is it? How do you take care of it? You probably hear it everywhere nowadays: "take care of your mental health." It seems like all of a sudden your mental health is all anyone can talk about. But what does it really mean to take care of your mental health? It's not as if high school health class taught us how to be mentally healthy like they did with how we should stay physically active. Here are a few tips to stay mentally healthy and care of yourself, especially when you're swamped with work.
Les RPublished 6 years ago in MotivationToo Old to Say Whatever, Too Young to Stay in One Place
Remember when you were 12 years old? Really think about it. 12 years old. The biggest stress day-to-day was hoping your crush with the J-Bieb haircut would pop up on your MSN and rushing home so you didn't miss your favourite rerun on Disney Channel. Remember those days? Where you didn't have to figure your life out because you had time. You knew your next step: high school and then university. Didn't know what you would study, just knew that you would. You thought that everything would fall exactly into place and by 22, you would be the successful adult fashionista you see in movies running the world.
Kait TayPublished 6 years ago in MotivationOn Creativity
To be creative is quite literally the "use of the imagination or original ideas to create something," and in a time where many feel at a loss for both, creativity is needed more than ever. That isn't to say, however, that creativity is dead or dying; it has simply taken a backseat in a modern life that demands so much of each of us. We can't be blamed entirely; when it feels as if the weight of the world is on our shoulders, we tend to think logically rather than creatively, and strive to solve the problem alone. This is where we begin to go wrong.
Ella MaePublished 6 years ago in Motivation