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The ONE thing I want to change
I want to be a Master of Time. Let me break it down. A few weeks back I wrote about my goals for the new year. It was a hard hitting, tough love, letter to myself to basically get my sh*t together and start to own my time. Because if there is one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that our time and lives are precious and easily taken for granted.
By Keshia MF6 years ago in Motivation
Freeing myself from my past
A few weeks before the end of 2020, I was working my day job when one of my coworkers asked what my New Years Resolution was. I told him, "I'm sick of resolutions. I'm sick of setting goals. There’s no point.” For years I'd hopped on the bandwagon and started each new year with a list of personal demands and the collective battle cry, "This is my year.” Each year, the inevitable failure of these unrealistic resolutions only made me feel worse. I’d never lost the 30 pounds, gone for a run every morning, or even kept my room clean. I'd officially accepted defeat.
By Gracie J Chute6 years ago in Motivation
Reclamation of Power
I close my eyes and exhale, dropping into myself the way one might allow themselves to drift down into dark, soothing waters. The sounds of my kids playing in the next room dull and I feel my body become lighter as though I’ve shed a restricting coat.
By Lindsey Rainwater6 years ago in Motivation
The A Team
Let’s see how far you get this time. You’ll probably quit as soon as you start. Ha! Why bother even trying. Just sit on the couch. It’s all you are good at. Rewatch that season for the 3rd time instead of being productive, it’ll get done later. Ok this time you mean business - march on! Or not. Why are you so fat? Maybe stop eating so much. Life would be easier if you were skinnier. You worked out today? Should have done more after eating that burger. You should play some guitar. You haven’t picked it up in awhile, but that’s probably a good thing since you’re so bad at it.
By downloadgirl6 years ago in Motivation
365 Days
New Years Day and here I sit.....50 pounds overweight, hot flashes every 20 or 30 minutes, a life I'm not sure I want to be living. What resolution should I make this year? Will this year's resolution make it past 24 hours? 48 hours? What is so special about today that it warrants I change something about myself? The truth is there are 365 days when I can make a change, 365 days when I can do something different, 365 days when I can love myself enough to care for myself.
By Rebecca Hallberg 6 years ago in Motivation
5 Ways To Control Self-doubt By Building A Healthy Relationship With Yourself
Self-doubt has the power to hold us back. I spent most of my life doubting myself, my capabilities. I knew I was hard-working and had a vision. I was sure if I worked on a plan and worked hard, and I could live that vision and reach my highest potential.
By SB6 years ago in Motivation
Tuesdays with Morrie Review: Lessons When Death Awaits
I read Tuesdays with Morrie as a 14-year-old. I reread it when I was 16. Then once again, now, when I am 21. This is a book that has stayed with me – I have underlined paragraphs that have settled in my heart, I have done the crime of folding the pages that were too good to be read only once, and I have left a sob mark on the pages that have left me in tears.
By Rochi Zalani6 years ago in Motivation
Becoming Me
This is a story of how I got where I am now, and where I want to be. Where else to start but the beginning? My life could have been worse. For being the one living in it I thought it was pretty shitty. But the start wasn't too bad. My grandmother and her husband came from a traditional, Christian home. My grandfather being one of two kids and my grandmother being one of eight, both had kids of their own when they got married, one of each of the same sex. Grandmother having my mother and my grandfather had my uncle. Both kids were into whatever the popular thing was, which was scary for parents in that era. Drugs, sex, alcohol, rock and roll of the '70s, in their teens. My mother was said to have a mental disability that left her unable to become a "true" adult, they said she was mentally challenged in some way. I never saw that. I was also told that she would run away when she was a teen, being a wild child, and all the stories of how rebellious she was. She had her first kid at 17, she had me at 19. My brother and I were taken away from my mother when I was 2, my grandmother took us in.
By JM 6 years ago in Motivation
The Queen is Going to Bed. Top Story - January 2021.
I am the queen of resolutions. Something about new beginnings and blank slates and doing the impossible just reels me in like no other. It’s not particularly out of character. I’ve had my head stuck far up in the clouds for as long as I can remember. I have to assume that all dreamers are suckers for New Year’s resolutions. I’m guessing that all of the rest of them are just dying for an excuse to dream a little bigger or commit to something unrealistic. Either that, or it truly is just me.
By Megan Gathany6 years ago in Motivation
