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You Aren't Drowning, You're Learning
I've been there. I've been there lots of times, and it isn't fun. You have, too. You know what it's like to be doing everything you absolutely can and being just short of being enough. Like you are standing in an empty room with nothing but four walls and being asked to build a world with your bare hands. You're screaming for help in a world where the population is one. You're sitting in your car grasping the steering wheel wondering if it'd be easier to drive off a cliff. It feels like your God put in his two-week notice six months ago. Maybe it feels like you're running a race that's designed in a circle that goes round and round, and there is no prize at the finish line. Maybe not literally, but it feels like it.
By Cassie Campbell6 years ago in Motivation
How to Find Your Life Purpose in 31 Days or Less...
“Life Purpose is where you are doing what you love, passionately, every single day of your life, and you’re getting paid to do it too.” Kellie Wynn 2017 We all need a purpose. We - and yes, I do mean all of us, no matter who you are - need to feel we have a reason to live. And without sounding a little egotistical, we also want to leave a little of ourselves behind when we pass over into the great unknown. We want our lives to mean something, and we want to give ourselves to others to help improve their lives. Can you just imagine what our world would be like if we all lived like this? So how do you live this life of purpose? It’s quite simple - Find out what you love to do and live it every, single, day of your life. But how do I find out what I love if I haven’t got a clue what it is? Good question my friend. And one I am going to help you answer throughout this daily series of Life Purpose Lessons – one for every day of January. It’s not enough that you figure out what it is you love to do. You’re going to come up against some serious negative hurdles which could stop you living your purpose. I’m going to teach you to navigate around some of the pitfalls you may come up against, and I’ll help you deal with self-sabotage. Because, the greatest enemy in all of this, who will strike you down and deny you success, is in fact - you! Why should you follow your life purpose? In a nutshell – if you don’t, you are going to be as miserable as hell. You will feel empty, incomplete and like you are living a lie. When you open the vessel inside you and acknowledge your passion, you’ll never be able to pop it back in a box and forget about it. It will keep knocking - driving you mad - until you acknowledge that it is a part of who you are. Every one of us was born with a purpose. Something that makes our soul sing with joy when we are in the throes of doing it. But – and this is a big but – not everyone finds their life purpose or looks for it or even lives by it. Which honestly breaks my heart. Why? “Because, how can you be genuinely happy if you’re not listening to what your body, mind, and soul are screaming at you to do?”
By Kellie Wynn6 years ago in Motivation
Achievements
What are you most proud of this year? It's a hard question to answer, for many reasons. Maybe you think that you've achieved SO much in 2017 that it's hard to pinpoint what your biggest achievement is. Everything you've done is just so good. Well done, you.
By BA Queen6 years ago in Motivation
My New Year's Resolutions for 2018
Alright, so it's that time of year where people make their resolutions for the New Year. We all say we're going to do this, we're going to do that, but then we never do half of the things we said we were going to do. I'm one of those people, but I still like to make that list so at least I know I'm working toward something at some point.
By Alix Nicole6 years ago in Motivation
Sketching Is More Than Just a Pencil
When you’re feeling unsure about life, what do you do to feel better? Unemployment, sickness, unwelcome drama, people, or just everything can weigh you down. I have been there, and I am still there. It can cause such sadness that getting up can be excruciating. But... it must be done.
By Ava S.6 years ago in Motivation
Keeping Sane In a World That Is Insane
How do you even begin? It seems as if everything you have is falling apart, or just not fitting into your lifestyle. Society loves to play its daily role in our lives: "Dress like this, and the guys will adore you!" "With opinions like that, you will never have friends." "I need to gain weight because the world loves thick girls now." How can you even be yourself if you don't have a support system?
By Brianna Moore6 years ago in Motivation
What I Learned While Taking a Bachata Lesson
On Friday night I was bored as ever. Just moving to my mom’s small hometown almost three years ago, I met quite a few new people but all of them were much older than I, and they were more of my mom’s friends. With no real friends of my own, as all of my best friends lived out of state, I decided I needed a new adventure, solely of my own choosing. Mom and her friends had tickets to a semi-formal gala for some club or charity she and my family had supported. Faced with having to find a dress or pantsuit and strappy shoes to throw on, it just didn’t feel right. Did I really want to spend my night sitting and listening to people talk about things I had no idea of or cared to be bothered with? I had grown tired of settling for a Friday night at home but I didn’t want to end up at a nightclub or bar either.
By Ali Lucas6 years ago in Motivation
Job Success
Affirming to ourselves that we’ve gotten something done is good. It gives us something concrete to say to ourselves. We’re competent because we actually have proof via getting something accomplished. You can’t refute what you have proof of. It’s a positive feeling to know that one is competent and capable. I think that’s part of why we like having jobs, other than getting paid. Hopefully we also have jobs that are satisfying and fulfilling to us; careers.
By Alexandra F6 years ago in Motivation
New Year - New Pressure?
For as long as I have been an adult I have hated..... okay maybe that's a harsh word..... disliked with a passion the whole new years eve saga!That one day of the year that everyone is expected to jump on the "new beginnings" bandwagon .... forecast exactly what they will get, be, change about their whole life for the year ahead..... just because the calendar says it's the 1st of January coming up.I can just about predict what will happen on the day I wake up let alone a 12 month forecast! Who woke up one day and said "I know let's put a ridiculous amount of pressure on ourselves by deciding right this moment what I am going to change and everything I am expecting from myself for the next 12 months" Post Christmas is a hugely stressful time for so many people, not everyone loves it, people struggle financially, emotionally, they miss people no longer here and whilst Christmas is a beautiful time of year for many it can still be equally emotionally battering at the same time. Yet whilst most people are getting their head back into that routine of "normality" that they had before December craziness hit, there are constant conversations of New year resolutions, people talking about how 2018 will be their year! how it will be a better, happier, healthier, more prosperous year .... apparently that time between Christmas and New year everyone turns into mystic Meg!I have no idea how January will be for me and mine, I won't be making any promises to myself to be anything more than the best I can be on that very day, there will be no year long resolutions or false hope for things that no one knows about or could predict. My only hope for the year ahead is that whatever it deals me I will deal with, and that I will appreciate every single day. And you know something ? That is just enough ! I am enough! and if some days that doesn't quite happen , I won't be battering myself with guilt over broken resolutions, Instead i'll accept that it's just life and i'm just human! Time to take the pressure off ourselves and just live maybe?
By Wendy Pitts6 years ago in Motivation