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How did I get here anyway
How did I get here anyway? My journey to a life on Paris. Am I perfect? Ummm no I am not. Not even close. I’ve done the best that I can though . I was on my own for as long as I can remember. I went away to boarding school at 13. I had no real home after that. Whenever I returned I was given the sofa or sometimes I slept in the closet. There was no room for me. That’s why home is everything to me now. I had to build one. I lost my support when my grandmother died when I was 18. She was my salvation for as long as I could remember. She called me Lady. She saved me from my mother because at that time in our lives she didn’t love me. I don’t think that she could. She was too busy being lost herself. She didn’t have the capacity to love me and my brother. So she chose my brother. My grandmother saved me from my father. He didn’t love me either. Probably because he chose not to acknowledge my existence. He too was trying to find his place in the world. Having children when you’re still a child yourself is never easy. It was easier for them to pretend I wasn’t there at all. Thank heavens for my grandmother. I spent a lot of time with her or alone. I learned to enjoy being with myself. Do not get me wrong. I still love both my parents. My story isn’t much different in that way because that was just how it was back then. My grandmother often said laid by the buzzard and hatched by the sun. That was pretty much all of the people in our neighborhood. That was the 60s. My escape was reading, sewing and art. I was often scolded for day dreaming. Escaping into my mind was necessary. It was a much simpler time but it wasn’t easy for little girls. Not at all.
By Karolyn Denson Landrieux6 years ago in Motivation
How I got myself into reading more
I've never been an avid reader. To be honest, I've never really liked reading. Even in school, I did everything I could to pass the tests without actually reading the book. I would dare to say that I haven't read 65% of the books I should have, or I was expected to.
By Eleanor Annay6 years ago in Motivation
HOW MANY FAILURES IT WILL TAKE TO GET A SUCCESS
Life is a journey where we are traveling through different stages. At some stage of life, everyone has a dream or ambition to achieve something but it is not necessary that every dream that is dreamt must be fulfilled.
By Blake Hunt6 years ago in Motivation
Little Black Book
Gwen was forty-six years old. She came from a poor family, given many things in life, but had been in the service to make a living. She had made a lot of miscalculations and mistakes along the way. She had come close to being arrested during her rebellion. She came from a life of hard knocks and had envisioned a life of helping others. She struggled hard, worked harder, and indebted herself to further her education. She shelled out countless long nights and thousands of dollars for a phycology degree. After getting her degree she excitedly went to work. Her excitement was short-lived. She watched week after a week her clients' problems and day and after she felt as though she was making little to no progress. Feeling their burdens she quickly became overwhelmed.
By Mel Cook6 years ago in Motivation
Moonstone: The Goddess Stone
I remember when I first learned about moonstone. I had been somewhat into crystals and their magical, spiritual uses for about two years when I stumbled upon this particularly powerful crystal. The moonstone has been long regarded as a stone of new beginnings and of feminine power, and as a feminist, this resonated with me, especially as I faced my first Valentine's Day as a single woman in many years. I purchased the crystal from some local witches and immediately headed home to set it in my windowsill to gain power from the moon that night.
By Sydney Hunt6 years ago in Motivation
The Frozen Lich Trading Company: The Lost Black Notebook
A warm beam of spring sunshine danced merrily through the open window between two towering bookcases onto hardwood flooring. Birds were singing their happiness that the long, hard winter had ended. In the corner of the room was a woman seated in front of a large canvas on an easel with a palette of paints on the table next to her where she was also resting her elbow that held up the hand her chin was resting on. Despite the sounds of spring, fresh air, and great lighting Sophie was staring at a blank canvas that was staring back at her.
By Amanda Martin6 years ago in Motivation
Is anxiety holding you back ?
I had been trying to blog for weeks. In my previous blog (some weeks before) I had written about being ready. I was on the edge and more that ready to move on and be the success that life intended for me to be. I ask you what is it then ,that after such fire about getting out there and doing "what I need to do" ,that makes me sit and not move forward. Was it that I just cooled off? Was I just having a moment and got over it all just as quickly as I was set into motion? I readily blamed it on sheer procrastination. Instead of actually doing the work of moving forward with my blogging, or writing my sermon, or doing homework;I would sit and sit and think and think ,but not DO anything productive.I came up with strategies,wrote out plans,talked about it and even began many of my projects but never finishing anything. This sounded to me like the classic symptoms of procrastination or just laziness even.
By Vicki L Webb6 years ago in Motivation
Tips For Success from the World’s Most Influential People
Embrace the Possibility The unknown can be scary for lots of people. We keep away from change as a result of it doubtlessly brings on a brand new set of issues and stress. If you lean into one thing which may appear tough, nevertheless, that change may also carry on nice achievement and happiness.
By JAYESH KUKREJA6 years ago in Motivation
Things to Do If You Don’t Want to Get Back to Work
Take a Time-Restrained Break We all want pure breaks from work. While it'd feel like we simply must plough ahead and push ourselves to complete the work, analysis exhibits that brief breaks can enhance focus, replenish power, and enhance productiveness.
By JAYESH KUKREJA6 years ago in Motivation
Parental Appreciation
I think it's true what they say; that you never truly appreciate the sacrifices that your parents made, until you become a parent yourself. It's not to say that you couldn't appreciate all your parents have done for you, in not being a parent yourself, but becoming a parent yourself definitely puts things into a far greater perspective. As children, we seem to have no understanding of sacrifice whatsoever. The world is all about us, and just having fun. We don't give a thought to the fact our mummy or daddy packs us a healthy lunch to take to school each day. We don't give a thought to how our mummy and daddy spend their time and energy to provide us with clean clothes in our drawer to wear. We don't give a thought to how the food placed on the table in front of us was provided from mummy and/or daddy after having worked hard at their jobs each day, and then coming home to prepare our meals for us. We don't give a thought to the fact that our mummy and daddy work so hard just to keep a roof over our head, and provide us with warm clothing to wear. Our thoughts are only centered around what new toys or what yummy lollies and ice cream mummy and daddy can buy for us. We want to just be happy, have fun, and we live with an expectation that mummy and daddy will always be there to provide for us. By the time we reach our teenage years, even then, our expectations rarely change. The only difference is that we become more defiant, and we demonstrate a worse attitude. In fact, our expectations become greater, as we feel the need to keep up with our friends in having the latest forms of technology at our disposal.
By David Stidston6 years ago in Motivation
