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Three Amazing Resolutions to Ensure an Utterly Unproductive 2018!
Friends, many Canadians today suffer from success and the trials that come with achieving success… Therefore, in an effort to begin this brand new year on an unhelpful note, I offer these humble insights for the year to come. I have creatively titled today’s sermon, Three Amazing Resolutions That Will Help You Avoid Success in 2018.
Kelvin BueckertPublished 6 years ago in MotivationPay Yourself First
It's a parents job to help teach and grow their children, so that they are fully prepared for the real world. They spend 18 years sharing wisdom, life lessons, and knowledge on the inner workings of life. And if they are successful then the world gains a smart, mature, young adult to help shape it. Every life lesson is important. Every rule, strict or not, is important. Every word, thought, parenting strategy is important in a child's life. I'm sure there were some lessons that really stuck with you. And I don't mean the basic ones like "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it all" or "make sure to always save your money".
Bryanna BurshnickPublished 6 years ago in MotivationThe Best Self-Help Books for Men to Read Right Now
Everyone needs a little boost of motivation and productivity in life—even men. There are times in life when a man suddenly becomes discouraged to go further in a career, relationship, and life overall. And this can occur from a few incidences or one major situation that completely halted him from having the energy to keep going. Everyone needs that push to continue, and some men definitely need to hear it.
George NekilanPublished 6 years ago in MotivationThe Meaning of Life
Life. What is the meaning of it? Isn’t that the greatest mystery known to mankind? If it’s not, please share all of your enlightening perspectives - because one can never truly know anything for certain. Perhaps the greatest mystery is what lies beyond our planet, our galaxy, our universe, but that's in a completely different realm of things. I mean right at this very second, with the billions of souls on Earth with different beliefs, morals, ways of life, and perspectives on why they think the sun continues to rise every morning and shed beautiful light upon our planet, plenty of people are perfectly content waking up and going about their routines, never venturing outside of their minds to wonder such things. I envy those people. There is a thirst for knowledge that is unquenchable, and always will be for me I think.
Jenna LynnPublished 6 years ago in MotivationHow to Deal with Loneliness
Let's be honest, humanity is a social species. We all thrive off each other, comedians tell us jokes, leaders protect us, and friends take care of us. Yet at times, maybe we feel like we don't have friends or maybe our friends are just not around. Maybe we can't find a date or something and that's okay. It's okay to be lonely. And I'm going to tell you how exactly you can be your own best friend.
Jacob HaroldPublished 6 years ago in MotivationSelf-Love
This is by far one of my favourite subjects and yet I am still learning about it everyday. Despite being of an utter importance – it is a subject that is often overlooked and even more often misunderstood in our society. Self-love. I was familiar with the concept for years, yet it remained just that – a mental concept in my head with no idea on how to apply it in real life. And for some reason finding it out was not high on my priority list. Most likely because nobody told me just how important it is. It was a somehow mysterious thing, one that sounded vain and liberating at the same time and one that some people seemed to just magically have. It was almost like you had to be born with it in order to grasp it. Little did I know at the time – we were all born with it, it is our very essence and birthright. The problem is what happens after we are born – namely being shown and told we are not good enough. By our parents, by our teachers, by other kids and eventually by ourselves as we start to believe it. It has to be said that more often than not the message is not delivered on purpose and most of the time not in a direct manner either. It is more the case of us arriving to that conclusion just by living and observing the world around us. Every time we are told that we need to have good grades in school in order to be rewarded, every time we are compared to other children, every time we are punished for misbehaving – we learn that love comes with some conditions attached. And every time we fail to meet those conditions, we end up feeling not worthy of that love. The examples mentioned above are quite common and hence are something the majority of people can relate to. Then, there are those of us whose stories were far more traumatic and abusive and the consequences more pronounced, but the bottom line is that almost no one reaches adulthood without having had at least one experience that made them feel not good enough.
Eva SmittePublished 6 years ago in MotivationI Hope You Don't Need to Read This
I hope you're not reading this. I hope the Fates have decided to spare your fragile psyche the weight of these truths. I pray this will not prove too much for you. I pray you will be able to bear it.
Nicole KochPublished 6 years ago in MotivationKill Your Inner Critic
The best New Year's Resolution any of us can make is to kill our inner critic. We hold ourselves back and sabotage our best intentions when we allow our thoughts to constantly criticize and belittle us. When I first heard about this idea, I thought to myself, "I don't do that!" Then, I started paying attention to my thoughts. WOW! That was an eye opener! I couldn't believe how awful I was to myself.
Becca WillsonPublished 6 years ago in MotivationLost
Since the year 2001, I have always been able to maintain a job. The first job I landed was for a market research company. I am grateful for this opportunity because it helped build confidence and interpersonal skills over the phone. In December of 2002, I went to work for a theater company doing sales and marketing. For the first few years, I thoroughly enjoyed working with other staff members and collaborating on new marketing ideas for growth in sales. I also had the privilege of seeing productions for free on opening and closing nights.
Janelle OuelletPublished 6 years ago in MotivationVision (Without the Vision Board)
New year, new me. Isn't that the whole thinking behind new years' resolutions? That maybe, at this arbitrary turning over of the calendar, we could do all the things that we said we would do last year and didn't? We could become someone better than who we were before.
Chelsea McBridePublished 6 years ago in MotivationBe Younique
Life is like a cookbook. There are so many choices on what to make. And every choice has a recipe made by someone who's lived before you. There's instructions for chocolate cake, strawberry, vanilla, coconut, cotton candy, ice cream, cheese, coffee, even carrot and fruit cake. There's teeny tiny ones, extravagant ones. Plain or decorated. For every occasion from birthdays to weddings, graduations, and all celebrations. Or just because it's yummy. Whatever the reason, there's options available. Sometimes it feels like you don't have the confidence or desire to make one of these. But there are people saying that this one is great and that one is good, amazing, delicious. But what if you don't WANT to be making ANY of those cakes? What if you decide to create; let's say something completely original. Like... a beef flavored cake. Or hamburger cake. Everyone says that idea is stupid or disgusting or weird. Some may say it's impossible or that it might take a long time to figure out how to make one that's actually tasty. But you decide anyways to not be bound by anyone's rules. You go crazy! Baking all types of mysterious things. It might take 10 times as long than just following someone else's opinion, but you come to realize it's not ABOUT them. This cake is for you and you only. YOU have to think it's wonderful. Because you want to be unique. You want to be different. Not like everyone else who takes the easy way out. So life is like that.
Chasity SosaPublished 6 years ago in Motivation25 & Adulting
Here's the thing. You're in high school wondering what to do after graduation. They tell you to follow your dreams and life will be alright. Well, last night I had a dream that I was exploring abandoned houses and caves with a very handsome stranger who turned out to be my cousin. Let's not follow that dream.
Sasha MarlowePublished 6 years ago in Motivation