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Black Book
Paradise Falls When I first saw the black book in the mail, I didn’t know what I was getting. All I saw was the twenty thousand dollars buried in the coffin. I thought about the dollars pouring over me, but I didn’t know what it would cost. That it would cost me everything. I frantically flipped through the black book pages and I read the rules. Their were Eight rules I had to fallow to keep the money or id lose my life. The first rule is to quit your job. The second rule was to give up your dreams. The third rule was to make new ones for a year. The fourth was to find happiness every day. The fifth was to not tell anyone about the book as it was being written. The sixth rules was to save six people. Seven was to touch a cloud. Eighth was the hardest, I had to make a masterpiece. I thought deeply on this, how I could make a masterpiece. The premise felt impossible and I felt the gravity of the situation immediately like a fissure pulling me in. I knew there was only one thing I could possibly could do to make a masterpiece. I looked over to my laptop in the left corner of the room. As I walked over and grabbed it, it felt heavier like Mjolnir. It was like God putting his hand on my shoulder and showing him the way. I felt stupid trying to win anything. I had never won anything before. I couldn’t help but to at least put my fears and anxiety aside and try to fix my life. By typing this story I would slowly becoming who I wanted to be. Someone I thought I could never be. If I completed this list I could keep all of the money but if I didn’t I could lose it all. I frantically started to work on this Black Book. I already had so many projects so many things I needed to do. My life was a dumpster on fire and it felt that way constantly. I hoped that this would be the end of that. I put my fingers to the keys and I began to play my symphony.
By Rodney Thomasearl6 years ago in Motivation
The Beginning...
Sylvia walked to the edge of the reservoir spillway. The snows were beginning to melt and the first of the Spring rains had started to fall. The water was rushing out of the wide opening into the river so quickly she could have been standing at the edge of a waterfall. She let the sound of the rushing waters wash over her and the cool night seep into her veins, letting it wash away the pain that brought her to this place. She had come here so often over the years; sometimes to gaze at the dark sky dusted so beautifully with stars, or just to cry into the darkness and sometimes to question whether the world would be better off without her in it. Tonight was one of those nights.
By Brittany Swenk6 years ago in Motivation
Content with Mediocrity
Content. If Remus needed a word to sum up his life, content would sufficiently work. Nothing was particularly horrible or great. His life could continue the way it was going and he couldn't complain. There were people worse off than him, but there were also people doing much better.
By Jazlaan Adley6 years ago in Motivation
Success is demanding
Success demands 5 things: Passion, Faith, Hard Work, Patience, Sacrifice To be successful You need to feel, believing and positively and successfully, start reading books about positive thinking and being successful. Every day you need to think and act successful, by doing this you will feel and become successful.
By Daniel Goldraij6 years ago in Motivation
How Not to Get Hit in the Head
“How Not to Get Hit in the Head” By Matthew Gordon “Practice. Practice makes better. Keep your knees bent, if you fall with your knees bent you roll, if you fall with your knees locked you’re a redwood. Timber! That’s skateboarding 101.”
By Shredward Shorten6 years ago in Motivation
Zera
From the beginning of ages the soul has existed. But to what extent? Is there a soul, or simply a mind? Does it begin when the brain sparks its first synapses? Or is it eternal, waiting for the single, glorious moment one specific mind is brought into being? Some may contemplate these complexities, but others, like Zera, need to be explicitly shown.
By Danielle Roske6 years ago in Motivation
A Walk to the River
I walk Wolfgang down to the river every day. I talk to the river, and ask it to teach me, to impart its wisdom. Wolfgang doesn’t care; he’s happy to be walking the trail in any weather, sniffing at all his favorite spots. It’s a time in my life when I’m unemployed, so I need the wisdom the river has to offer, not to mention its lessons of peace and tranquility, to quell the anxiety I face every day. I make a wish for guidance, to give me a sign that something good will happen.
By PJ Rohr6 years ago in Motivation
More Than Black-Eyed Peas
“I woke up today, so I must have a purpose.” My friend told me these words one time. So simple, yet it makes so much sense. I have had several major life transitions. Before each transition, I had one major question: What was the purpose of the years that just passed? What do I have to show for what I have just come through? Sometimes I have no answer. Since then, probably once a week, I reevaluate if I am living life on purpose or living it passively. While many people spend the end of the year making resolutions for the year to come, I tend to reflect on the year that has passed to see how I have lived. There is another habit I have begun at the turn of the year.
By T L Smith6 years ago in Motivation
Wishful Thinking
I lost my job about a month ago. I should’ve known it was coming because my ideas were better than my supervisors, so he felt I was trying to take his job. It also didn’t help that I stood up to my coworkers when they would try to take advantage of me. Call me a perfectionist, I loved the details in my work, but being fired should’ve been a relief for me since I hated my job. There was a calling on my heart, a yearning in my soul to not be sucked into the rat race of life that was completely unfulfilling for me. All the previous generations in my family worked day in and day out and had nothing to show for it. I refused to live like that, but here I was settling into dead end jobs where ego was always at play.
By Devin Reed6 years ago in Motivation
