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5 Resolutions I made for a better 2021
Well, last year proved to be the year we didn't expect, nor did we want it. But here we are, in 2021, just about alive and hoping for a better year. Most of us I think have made resolutions to make this the best year yet, so here are 5 resolutions I made, to try and improve myself. Maybe this will give you some ideas on what to accomplish this year.
By Lily-Belle Stella Matten6 years ago in Motivation
Anchors
Since 2015 I have been choosing a word to help me be reminded of resolutions, without actually setting any really detailed plans to get myself overwhelmed. My word for 2021 is Compliance. It has become an anchor in this unsure and stormy world, which was always that way, but as we can all agree, our ships have sailed on calmer waters with fewer leaks and many more crewmates.
By Carole Anzolletti6 years ago in Motivation
Skid Row
Skid Row: a run-down part of a town frequented by vagrants, alcoholics, and drug addicts. At the end of last year I was driving back home and decided to drive through DTLA, specifically Skid Row. As I passed from Million dollar highrises and shiny cars the landscape quickly changed and you truly felt like you had entered a third world country, right in the heart of the city. Men in business suits were quickly replaced by people in dirty clothes staggering across the street with an old beat up shopping cart for of treasures found in the city trash cans. Upon each turn I made there were tents that covered the sidewalks as far as the eye could see. I reached a corner where there was a huge set of three tents. This is where it all began. I said to myself, I can do more, I can maybe give some of these people a little joy with very little effort. I drove home that day and raided my closets, the weather had started to get cold here in Los Angeles and I knew that I had jackets, that were like new and could go to use for someone else. I had my wife go through her stuff as well as our 5 year old, who grows out of stuff almost weekly. With a car full of bags of clothes I went back to DTLA on a mission, I was going to make a difference no matter what. I met miss Stephanie who is the boss on this corner, she makes sure people get supplies that they need while at the same time making sure that people don't grab stuff just to grab it, there is a way down there and it starts with her. I went home after this and posted on a local site asking my neighborhood to do the same and go through their closets and thin out their stuff, all for a good cause, I hit send and waited. Within only a few hours I was being hit up by all walks of life letting me know that they had bags of clothes, boxes of shoes and even some hand knitted hats. Since this initial post I have made six different trips down there and we are not even out of Jan. I write all of this to show that you can do such a small little act and it can have such an amazing impact. The photo is of a man simply referred to as "The General" and he is Miss Stephanie's right hand man and keeps and eye on the people's coming and goings on the block as well as protects those in need. A quiet man, with a big heart, hawk like focus and as he told me, he might be 65 but he is not afraid to kick a young man's ass if need be...
By Chad Cork6 years ago in Motivation
10 Quotes To Encourage Us To Enjoy & Embrace The Journey
For most of us, there are goals in which we so desperately long to achieve in life. We know full well that achieving these goals will provide us with immense happiness, satisfaction, and accomplishment. Even just the thought of succeeding in reaching that goal often excites us and brings a little smirk to our face. We want that glory so much, and we want it now. As much as we want it now though, we also are fully aware that life doesn't work like that. We know that it will either take a miracle to achieve, or it will take forever to achieve, and this deflates us. To go from where we are now, to reaching the destination, which is our goal, is indeed a journey in itself. There's a lot that needs to take place before we can taste that success, and it's always a lot of the mundane, unenjoyable, strenuous, uncomfortable, and challenging, crap that stands in our way. The worst part is, it's very rarely just a few weeks, or even a few months, of this, it's quite often many years, definitely where the genuine life transforming goals are concerned anyway. It's a type of journey I'd compare with flying overseas for a holiday, just on a much longer scaled timeframe. Say the destination is Hawaii for me, for example. I'd have to drive to the airport, lug my suitcase a few hundred meters to the terminal, check the bag in, go through the security screening, wait for about an hour in the terminal staring at my phone, finally board the plane, then wait another 20 minutes for everyone else to board and the security demonstration to finish, then it's up in the air for 90 minutes just to get to Sydney, depart the plane, wait another 15 minutes for my bag to come out on the carousel, make my way to the train station, board the train to the international terminal, wait there for another handful of hours, go through the luggage check in and security stuff again, wait more in the terminal, board another plane, spend another 20 minutes on the tarmac waiting to depart, then spend the next 11 hours on the flight with my legs squashed and cramped, land in Honolulu, wait another 30 minutes at the arrivals/customs hall, collect my luggage, catch a shuttle bus to the hotel, and finally, the destination is reached. Urgh, I'm tired from just writing all of that.
By David Stidston6 years ago in Motivation
Fresh Reverse Start
Too many a times have I made resolutions for a better me, only to see them crumble within the first few days of the year. Lol, just pitiful. As I was thinking about my new wellness resolutions, my mind drifted. I thought about setting myself up to drive again. I thought about my first car, an '88 Honda Accord. The car appealed to me because I was the only one who knew how to drive it. You see, the gears were shifted by one, so Drive was Reverse, Reverse was Neutral, etc. It then hit me to think in Reverse, not what i will do, but what i won't do. I'm sure this time it will stick. I mean, why not?
By Abbadon6 years ago in Motivation
A Healthier 2021 To Me
We all love and strive for a new year to start for many different reasons. Some might want the new year for new beginnings and new challenges they want to bring to themselves. Others want the new year to come to be able to move on from whatever it is that they are wanting to forget in the past year. But many of us, want the new year to start for new challenges and new goals that we have for ourselves. After the year that we all have had, I’m sure that there are many of you that can agree with me that this year is a good year to start new challenges and set new goals for ourselves to have healthier decisions and a better lifestyle.
By Andrea Minjarez6 years ago in Motivation
How to Turn Your Goals into Reality? Power of Intention
All of us have different objectives in our lives. How we spend our life or what we have to do? I think only 2 to 3% of the whole population does not aim in their lives. These objectives, which help us to live a better and useful life, are goals.
By Rizwan Khan6 years ago in Motivation
Come With Me.... Top Story - January 2021.
Way down deep in a little cozy corner of my mind, is a place of rest, a homey, reflection of myself. The highlight reel of moments gone but ever stamped in the rolodex of joyful times. A journey well past the melodic discovery of my favorite band in 2020, Glass Animals. Their song “Tangerine,” a unique blend of sounds parallel with the upbeat lyrical story of a couple falling out of love... Brilliant!
By Thee CrazyFaceUno6 years ago in Motivation
