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Fresh start. Reset. Start again. Do better. Be better. You be better. You get better. Then you fail. Fresh start. Start again. Don't wait for a year to go by to allow yourself to start again. If you're not happy where you are or how you are, allow yourself to identify what could make you happier. Allow yourself to not care about what others think. Allow yourself to love yourself. To be happy with yourself. My new year resolution is to be happy with myself and to love myself. By loving what I'm doing. By being what I am supposed to be. By loving me I can allow myself to love others. By being happy with me, I can be happy around others. My 2021 resolution is all about me, about doing what makes me happy, and about getting the fresh start. The fresh start of a journey of loving myself, and being happy. I felt like I was being influenced by exterior factors, so I started meditation and I found out that I am actually a vegan. I had the thought before, but I never allowed myself to think about it in essence, allways denying myself. I allready knew I love animals and life, I just didn't allow myself to make the connection. I want 2021 to be the year where I stop denying myself. To be the year I listen to myself, even if sometimes the thoughts are crazy. But life isn't supposed to be mundane and predictable and safe. Life is supposed to be about emotions, and experience and about feeling good. As far as I know I only get one chance to ride this body in this life, so my resolution is to make the most of the chance that I've been given and to make it a pleasurable, or at least interesting journey. In my quest of feeling good I realised that I need to improve my body health as well as my mind health. As a resolution I am working everyday to improve both of the aspects I identified problems with. I know I will allways feel better after I go for a run in the park, while listening to my favourite music. I don't even try to set any goals, like distance, or time. I just go for a run for the feeling of it. For the feeling of being alive, and for the knowledge that is also improving my body and my mind. What a beautiful and rewarding activity. I will not make a plan. I will not say "I have to run everyday". Instead I will just listen to my body. I remember a quote from my school that was written on a wall. It said "mens sana in corpore sano", which means healthy mind in a healthy body. So easy to remember. So easy to apply. So easy to understand. Sometimes I like to imagine how happy I will be when I ll get my body where it wants to be, and it's beautiful. I also realised that I like to write. And that I like to think about what to write. I am learning that writing can't be bad or good. Writing is about me. Writing is about making myself feel good about what I'm writing. And I don't need any motivation to do any of those things, because I like to do them, and they make me feel better. And, as I said, my resolution is to feel better. We're living in uncertain times, so let's get better and happier, and maybe things will change for the better.
By Adrian Nitu6 years ago in Motivation
January 1st is Just Another Day. And That’s a Good Thing!
3...2...1...Happy New Year! Ah the New Year, a time of reflexion and goal setting. What a beautiful concept of fresh starts that we’ve created. Do you buy into the whole “New Year, New Me“ schtick? Because I don’t.
By Lauren Wells6 years ago in Motivation
Start Fresh
For 29 years I walked this planet without taking a single second to check in with myself. I filled my days with distractions and exhausted my mind chasing materialism and validation. I lied, cheated and hurt people. I don’t remember doing these things on purpose or from a place of malice, but there was also no attempt to stop. Life was always about my needs and my desires, but last year that all changed.
By Tyler Blackwood6 years ago in Motivation
The road to happiness within myself
The encouraging words of ‘self improvement’, well this is quite a phrase I have struggled with for a long time. The words self improvement goes into how one feels about themselves, for health and appearance reasons. Social media has distorted my form of self-image and what the ideal form of success with identity truely is. I look in the mirror and still see flaws, of course there are good days and bad days but am never truely content with what I see. My weight has fluctuated dramatically and no matter what weight I had reached, whether big or small I have never been content. The first thing I realised was constantly comparing myself to the images I see on Instagram and asking myself why I don’t look that certain way. This is where I went wrong, everyone’s bodies are different and the main take from it is no matter if I had the same diet and exercise of that Instagram model, my body still wouldn’t look the same as theirs. I unfollowed all these influencers that promoted unachievability and had started following the ones who had promoted acceptance and health. My favourite kind were the girls that promoted different body poses to show the Instagram vs reality versions. I have realised that Self -improvement is not trying to reach the same bodies as other girls I ‘admire’ and want to look like but rather what I can improve outside and myself. I no longer strive for the ‘perfect body’ I view on social media and you know what, to me, that is the greatest self-improvement for me. On another note, exercise is a positive approach for me. I used to exercise for weight loss and the weight on the scale to go down. This form of thinking is very negative and enabled me to go down a drastic road of unhappiness. The moment I realised exercise makes me feel good and have better mental health was the day my life and view on myself had changed forever, for the better of course. Whether it’s going on a run outdoors or kayaking I am taking in nature and it barely feels like exercise but rather grounding and calming. The crisp air that surrounds me allows me to appreciate the sights seen and enables me to feel fulfilled. There is so much beauty in the world and sometimes people are too engulfed in the basis of life that no one takes a step back and appreciates the beauty that encapsulates our world. The moment I stopped focusing on silly things for example, that stupid thing that keeps playing in the back of my head but rather thinking “you were brave enough to even take part in that event” unconditional positive said to yourself can greatly improve your mind and how you view yourself. The beauty of being self-reflective has allowed me to know where I can improve, rather than cringe at the silly thing I did, everything that happens in life is a lesson or a gift and realising thing helped my mental health for the greater. Self-identity is a major concept in a persons life, may be even the whole encompass of a person. The realisation that every individual is unique and amazing in their own way makes the world such a beautiful place and knowing that every individual was brought into the world for a reason makes me extremely cheerful and I hope that one day I can make a change for many people’s lives just by a compliment that would boost their day, because at the end of the day making people happy is rewarding for me. That being said, I am still on the road to improving my self-identity but I am grateful for how far I have come reflecting back one to three years and am excited to see what the future holds.
By Sophia Daher6 years ago in Motivation
A growth mindset
I never have believed in New Years resolutions. I believe in new me resolutions which occur after a profound realisation in me has been reached through the painful grip of real life experiences and challenges. Being an introvert holds its own challenges and Covid added more weight to the burden. Though instead of complaining about it I’ve decided to embrace it.
By Allen Steble6 years ago in Motivation
When you don't know where to go, hop on a Train
Dreams, hopes, goals, and visions of the future. We're constantly being fed the old trope of, "follow your dreams." But no one tells us which dream to follow, or how to even begin the process of chasing something as ambiguous as a hope. Visions are vague, at best. And goals mean nothing if you don't actively follow steps to achieve them. But let's face it. When it comes to what you want for your future, everyone else is happy to grant you their blessings, so long as nothing more is required.
By J.C. Winter6 years ago in Motivation
Breathe
Take one deep breath. That is what I tell myself every time a new year rolls around. Each year filled with goals that I must admit to never living up to. For example back in 2018 I said to myself that I would go an entire January without eating any chicken nuggets. After a long and tirelessly battle, I succumbed two days later. The seductive call of McDonald’s chicken nuggets conquered my will power. And alas, that was only the first of many goals I had set for myself that very same year that were doomed to fail in a matter of weeks.
By T.P Allen6 years ago in Motivation
Take control of your mind and body in 2021
Each year on the 31st December when the clock strikes 11:59am and millions of people will countdown to the dawn of a new year. There is hope and excitement of a new start, a promise that the new calendar date means all of our dreams can now come true!
By Fiona Fornasari6 years ago in Motivation
