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Finding My Voice In 2021
I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to begin writing as a career. It is what I have always wanted to do and due to present circumstances, it's a necessity that I find a way to work from home. I started with reading blogs and watching YouTube videos by professional writers to get an idea of what it would look like to be a freelance writer. In doing so, I began to realize that what I had thought was a pipe dream may actually be possible for me.
By Holly Rae6 years ago in Motivation
New year resolutions
The start of the new year begins with new opportunities waiting to be taken advantage of, but this pressure to change or improve can actually backfire and send us spiraling into the deep throes of failure. Why do we feel pressured to achieve a goal just because it's a new year? Tomorrow is a new day, yet if you don't achieve a goal tomorrow, the disappointment doesn't seem to compare to the letdown of failing a New year's resolution. Why the pressure? Improving oneself sometimes takes decades of constant work so how can we expect ourselves and each other to change in a year?
By Mercy Petz6 years ago in Motivation
Dear New Year
Dearest Liz, In this New Year, you will get to express yourself creatively like you never have before! Little did you know that all of these outside circumstances like the pandemic and the protests, along with all of the resulting unrest in 2020 would act as a changing agent inside of you...
By Liz Jones6 years ago in Motivation
Twenty Twenty Won.
As much buzz as we can get these days, from (at least) Zoom with your coworkers, FaceTimes with foreign friends or non scheduled meeting with your ex at the grocery store (of course with your makeupless face)... Seems like all of it starts with these seven little words, perfectly packed into "So what are your plans for this year?" question that, well, at least some have the answer to.
By A.B.6 years ago in Motivation
Bitters and Honey
As I pulled up to a stop sign, just miles past my childhood home, I caught a glimpse of my feet. Overcome by both horror and amusement, I sighed. “Happy 2021” I grumble-giggled to myself. I was on my way to a dental consultation, in slippers.
By Allegra Louise6 years ago in Motivation
Rise to Resolution.
Dear Self, As I scrolled along these challenges this one took my eye. I think a true resolution only can come from a story in your life per say. Something you deeply want to change about you. Some can be with how you may look or a silly thing as a diet change. Mine comes from a much darker place and I hope that with this challenge weather I place first or don't place at all. I hope that a message can get out through my story. My name is David and I used to have a very strong addiction to pills. An addiction that overtook my life without me even realizing it. I had a great job at the point in time this happened, I worked for Bridgestone Tires and was on my way up in life in getting married and starting to finally branch out and make a path through life when I fell into the downward spiral that was pills. I started talking them just to get by and forget the day, forget the pain. Escape for a moment from the tough world I was about to walk through. During my job with Bridgestone it started effecting my job performance to the point that I got sick and had to finally leave the company which in turn lead to the collapse of my relationship. I was ashamed and broken but even that couldn't break the habbit that was pills. The escape as I said before that was that high. To just get away. So I moved back home with my mother to get back on my feet. I found a less decent job that I disliked and ultimately as you can probably guess couldn't handle. The pills had taken over my life. I spent everyday thinking of how or when my next fix would be. How I would get it at any cost. What went from a little habit soon was turning my world around. The pills started taking precedence over everything in my life to the point that I pushed my own mother away, I lied. I stole from her. I damaged the most trusted relationship one should have over a pill and I felt I was the victim. If she had just given me the money.. Had just taken me where I wanted. To just give in so I could have that high. One night, I had had enough of it all and decided I would instead steal what I couldn't buy. It was one bikeride away down into town in the middle of the night for pure bliss. This bliss turned into nothing but a nightmare when on the way home from getting my score, I was run down by an SUV. Be it they didn't see me or I just didn't care if I was seen. They ran me down. I lay there as they took my money. My pills. My phone. Everything I had just to be rolled into a ditch left for dead. If it wasn't for a passerby that saw my broken bike in the road who knows what fate I would have had. I was picked up 15 minutes from home where I was bleeding out and rushed to the ER. All for a rush. A high. I was clinically declared dead in the ER at one point but was revived as we got into the hospital. I only remember flashes and voices and then darkness. I was rushed in where I had emergency surgery to close my wounds and repair what was a completely crushed right leg that had been ran over. During the many blood transfusions, I was again declared dead once again for 5 minutes until being somehow pulled back to life. I woke in the hospital after that with a tube in my throat and tubes feeding me through my stomach and only a reminder of that night by the reflector mirror that had hit the back of my head and broke off from the SUV that hit me. I struggled to come to grips to what happened but after 6 months of recovery in the hospital I started to have a revelation. That I had truly destroyed every aspect in my life and the ones around me and I had almost been killed all for my own selfish habit that was pills. I eventually did get better, the scars healed, although I am left with some scars that are reminders of what could have been. The one thing I do hold into deep appreciation is the fact that, the one person I hurt the most. The one person I thought hated me, was the one person that stood by my side, changed my tubes when I was home recovering and fixed up my wounds. My dearest mother. I will never be sorry enough for everything I did to her and I still try to repay it to this day. Even before the accident I had been getting into trouble, going to jail and it was her that payed to help me out that ultimately lead to that accident. After the accident, and I was back up on my feet I was mad at world, mad at everything still playing a victim. Soon after though, I finally came to terms that it was all my own wrong doings, my selfish behaviors that lead to all of this and the only true person that stood by my side was her. With all this said, my new years Resolution is that I plan to share the happiness I have now in life with anyone who needs that lifting hand. Or feels worthless. Hopeless. Defeated. You can overcome addiction. You can achieve true self worth if you just believe in yourself and hold close those who are dear to you especially in these days that we currently live in. We all forget sometimes the little things we take for granted. Just being kind, lending a hand, helping someone else you may think is going through addiction even can be a great inspiration and maybe just maybe will save the next lost boy from going through what I did. It took literally dying and going through hell to realize my life was worth more than a pill. Something so simple. So small. Can destroy everything. So I say to myself in this resolution. Keep strong. Keep being clean and share my story with whoever I can. I now run an anti bullying page on Facebook for anyone dealing with bullying and hate that could even end up to drug addiction. This year I will strive to be a leader to others and take care of those I love. Never take life for granted. Take time to step back and see the joy in life because it truly can be over in a moment. I hope with this story and resolution others can maybe find some strength to keep up the fight in the world that we live in now. That there is hope. Stay away from drugs, keep healthy and headstrong. Stop the hate. The bullying. There is only ONE race in this world. Human. In closing, self, let's keep up the progress and work hard and honest. God bless everyone.
By David Lasowitz6 years ago in Motivation
New Year, New Goal Setting Strategies
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill I think anyone can agree that it’s quite simple to do the physical act of creating a goal. What might not always be the easiest is staying motivated to achieve those goals. Maybe it’s because you have difficulty focusing, or perhaps it’s because you don’t honestly believe you are capable of accomplishing what you have in mind.
By Jericha6 years ago in Motivation
To My Dearest 2021...
Hello 2021. How’s it going! Nice to meet you. I’m sorry to say, but I’m here to utterly destroy you. 2020 was obviously a tumultuous year for everyone on such a multitudinous level it can’t truly be described by even the most verbose of bards, scholars nor bloggers. For myself, it was genuinely one of the most difficult years of my life... Even beyond the global catastrophes that littered the landscape.
By C.S. Meigs6 years ago in Motivation
How I Came To Manifest Positivity And How You Can Do the Same!
As a citizen and a black woman I was pretty uneasy during most of this year, with ‘dat rona’ and Donald Trump as president. I was terrified. Unfortunately, I was also dealing with a lot of mental pain outside of the stress from the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protest. I learned a lot about myself this year as well, I learned that I’m a pretty toxic individual with severe anxiety issues. By toxic, I mean I’m emotionally abusive to those I care about. I developed it through childhood (My Narcissistic Family). At times, I have been dismissive toward people's feelings, made fun of others insecurities and, I even gaslighted a few individuals as well. Additionally, I had a lot of anxiety attacks this year and it wasn’t because of the corona virus per say.
By Tamirah McGill6 years ago in Motivation
A Letter To My 2021 Self
Dear Keli, It’s another new year. I sincerely hope 2021 will reach a higher bar than 2020 did. At this moment it’s not worth reviewing what you already know about 2020. What’s important is that you lived through the chaos it brought. I am grateful 2020 is now in the rear-view mirror. Instead of rehashing what brought you stress and uncertainty, I want to remind you to focus on creating an excellent, challenging, rewarding, and successful 2021. I’ve got ideas that will make this year shine brighter than any other. I intend to make some big changes that will ensure you live in health, happiness, and abundance this year and every year to come.
By Keli Maire6 years ago in Motivation
We're All Going To Learn Today... How 1 Resolution Can Change Everything
Cheska, grab a pen, I'm gonna need you to transcribe a little memo in the hope that . In triplicate... 2020 was catastrophically boring, oxymoron or not, and I fear if we don't have some sort of plan in place, if we don't remember who we were before the COVID show, we may never find our way back!I’ve always been my own worst everything.
By Francesca Crespo aka The Industry Momma6 years ago in Motivation
