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Wasting Time
Our family are precious, our job is precious, our income is precious, our house is precious, our friends are precious, our health is precious, our possessions are precious, but apart from being granted with the blessing of life itself, the most precious blessing we have in life, is time. Time provides us with fond memories of our past, but it also provides us the opportunity to make more memories in the future. The value of time is worth more than any amount of money in the world, as without time, money would be worthless. The problem is, most people overlook the importance and value of time, instead focusing on other less important factors of life, such as money, their job, and Netflix. We can always obtain more money, we will always have plenty more opportunities to find another job or a different line of work, and we will always have ample television and movies to watch, but what we don't have the opportunity to get more of, is time. In fact, as each second, each minute, and each hour, ticks by, we bid farewell to another moment of time, that we cannot get back. On reflection, one of the biggest regrets I have, is not valuing the time I had in the past. I think of all the opportunities I missed, that I could have spent more time with my parents, whilst they were actually still alive. I think of all those wonderful moments of fun, laughter, and enjoyment, with my friends, where I was too caught up with living in the moment, rather than truly appreciating such moments of time. I think about all the time I flittered away on non-productive activities, where I could have been better designing my future. Time wasted!
By David Stidston6 years ago in Motivation
Floating slowly up
Each day is a new experience. Yet we as humans treat them sometimes as though each day is the same. We follow time, we do the same things over and over relentlessly. Rise, do our morning routine, which is usually the same things everyday, at the same time, with the same people. We go to work at the same job and do the same work for the same pay sometimes for years at end.
By Lee Naylor6 years ago in Motivation
The Payoff of Positivity and Living Your Best Life
I didn’t believe it. Although it was right in front of me, my mind didn’t want to accept that my writing could earn me more than praise from friends and family. The Universe is smiling on you, I thought. It was the best answer. I still had doubts about pursuing a career in writing at my age. I had been submitting things here and there, but nothing seemed to get many reads or returns. Of course, I was still working on a novel. I had hoped I could make some income writing for websites while I worked on it. Now it looked as though that idea was going to pay off. Not only would it pay off, but it was going to be enough to give me a few more months avoiding a return to corporate life.
By Tom Stasio6 years ago in Motivation
Justice Is Served
“Such dark and brooding good looks, I’d say!” exclaimed my Aunt Margaret Martin as she swooned over a loaf of gingerbread before slathering it with spiked marmalade. “It’s a pity that I decided to share it with our neighbor Mrs. Elton,” she continued, her voice adopting a more abrasive tone. “At least that means that there won’t be enough for you, Miss Elizabeth, so you’d better find some form of gainful employment.”
By Jessica A. Volz6 years ago in Motivation
Having a Morning and Bedtime Routine Changed My Life
I am by no stretch of the imagination a morning person; waking up and getting going was always the hardest part of my day. I would wake up groggy and felt like I was on autopilot for the first few hours of the day. Going to bed was no better as I would go from staring at my computer or phone screen all evening straight to bed without letting my brain rest. I found myself tossing and turning for a while before I was finally able to go to sleep. It was a vicious cycle that I felt trapped in until I heard of multiple fitness gurus share this secret: Having a morning and bedtime routine will vastly improve your quality of life.
By Your Pursuit of Wellness6 years ago in Motivation
Doing It All
Alice Johnson has recently been reaching new goals. In 2020 she became a shoe designer. Her first shoe design was Truthkickz. Previously, she had a successful career as an entertainer and former model. She has been modeling again which was unexpected to her. She always loved to model and absolutely adored fashion. She again had the chance to model. Who better to take the first picture wearing TruthKickz? She decided to also take the opportunity to capture pictures for her upcoming projects. She has more planned and has embarked on a new career.
By LaBree Johnson6 years ago in Motivation
Unexpectedly Extraordinary
Since I was about 7 years old I’ve always been a big dreamer. Starting off aspiring to one day be a firefighter, a Nurse, a Psychologist, a Teacher, a Singer, a Rapper, a Videographer and the list goes on. I’d sit for hours writing in my little black, poorly constructed, book of how extraordinary my life would be once I turned twenty two years old. If only I knew that at twenty eight years old I would still be writing in that same little black book about dreams I would never aspire to be. I would only grow to be a basic human making minimum wage at a local internet company in a retirement state of no excitement. I’d play lotteries but I’d never win; I’d fantasize of having basic necessities that others around me achieve effortlessly. I would be denied at every advance to be better. I would invest and lose, I would even participate in “helping” my local community; when to be honest, I was the one in the community that needed help the most. I would even be so basic so ordinary that I would get a chance to pocket a $20,000 donation that was misplaced into my personal account, and no one knew, that my heart and my basic, so ordinary, mind would return every penny to its rightful owner. Of course they would be so thankful that I would get so much praise from the community for simply doing the right thing. They would say that I am truly “unexpectedly extraordinary” and that I am “wealthy” in ways money couldn’t amount to.But what does that even mean? How am I wealthy but still dust bowl broke? Well once I get home and prepare for my next ordinary day, I sit and open my poorly constructed little black book and I read over all of the dreams I had aspired to be and I would ultimately agree that turning in that unexpected fortune definitely made me “unexpectedly extraordinary”; but not in the way the community saw. It made me unexpectedly extraordinary in a sense that I was exactly where I started when I was only seven, doing the right thing. Believing that the good I put out into the world would be returned. In a sense of “good karma”. How naive could I be? Did I really get a blessing of someone else’s mishap and turn around to reject that blessing? I began to hyperventilate, realizing that my life was mediocre so unnecessary that even if given the opportunity to advance with twenty thousand dollars, it just wasn’t in the “little black book for me”. Even if I wrote in my little black book an elaborate plan to take back what wasn’t mines to begin with, would it even be worth it? Would I get caught? As I thought about conjuring up this extraordinary plan to steal from a nonprofit organization I began to second guess and my weak heart and mind turned against me. Was it unexpectedly extraordinary that I returned what wasn’t mines? Was it unexpectedly extraordinary that I regretted returning it? Was it unexpectedly extraordinary that I wrote up a plan in a little black book to steal twenty thousand dollars from a community that needed it most? Or was it just unexpectedly extraordinary that I turned something so small, into such a big deal that I questioned my own worth and my own honor, nobility, respect, decency, lofty bearing, lowliness, self-respect, elevated deportment, lordliness, and dignity? Or was it really just unexpectedly extraordinary that the only thing I could consider during this entire mishap is my own misfortunes?
By Laura Featherston 6 years ago in Motivation
Feeling Lost
Ever feel lost in the world? Feel left out in all that you are invited to do? She felt that way, alone even when the company was around. We can get lost in our thoughts every now and again but are we able to pull our self out? She managed to slowly be able to pull herself out of the hole she fell in. The year didn’t go as planned but does it ever? She gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and her oldest became a big brother. With all that’s going on, shouldn’t she be happy? This wasn’t how she planned it, this wasn’t supposed to happen to her. Then she woke up from the dream, she had been living in the fantasy in the back of her head.
By MICHELLE SMITH6 years ago in Motivation
