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Success = Celebrating the Little Victories
If you're like me, you're hard on yourself about everything. You feel like the world depends on you, and that it's completely your fault if you make the smallest mistake. I have listened to countless podcasts on how to remain motivated, build and maintain healthy relationships, and how to allow yourself some failures. You name it, I've listened to it.
By Jordan Ziemba6 years ago in Motivation
Benefits of Writing
Writing is an amazing discovery. Being able to use words to create a story, to communicate, and when creating stories or just writing you can use your imagination. Everyone writes as we write letters, blog posts, facebook posts, papers for school, text messages, etc. Writing is all around us and there are some people who writes for a passion, for their lifetime, and some for money. Whatever the case maybe there are benefits to writing and I want to share with you the benefits I discover since I started writing to constantly writing.
By Dwaylon Bledsoe6 years ago in Motivation
Self Diagnosis and Treatment for Unproductivitus.
Unproductivitus is a common disorder that can develop in adults from any race, gender, culture or economic status. It develops from a deficiency in organization and motivation coupled with a daunting amount of things to do. The onset of Unproductivitus generally comes after an individual has left an environment of instituted structure and routine. Post high school or college graduates therefore tend to be the most susceptible to contracting Unproductivitus. However, cases also have a tendency to develop in people working high stress jobs that they do not enjoy.
By Sara Cooney6 years ago in Motivation
Chaos.
Start writing..And one day you just wake up and you feel better. Not 100%, but you feel more yourself than you have all year.. more than you have the past few years. And that's the funny thing about getting comfortable in all the chaos.. you dont even know that it's wrong or how bad you're feeling until it's gotten way out of control but then you're too scared to leave it behind because you dont know who you are or who you will be without it. And usually chaos will still be chaos when you try to leave, and chaos will try to pull you back in and chaos will try to hurt you and itll probably get to its worst point and you will feel like you've hit your absolute lowest..especially when nobody believes that there is so much chaos in your life or when they choose to believe that you are in fact, the chaos. Itll be so lonely but keep going. One day you'll wake up and tell chaos to fuck off and you'll keep telling it to leave you alone and each time you do you'll be a little bit stronger. The storms it brings each time..the storms you've had to shelter your children from, will seem less and less because you've already gotten through the hurricane and the storm attempts really just seem pathetic. You'll look outside and shrug your shoulders at another rainy day and go about your business and show your children that there is still so much sunshine and warmth in their lives.. and you do this until the rain gets tired and stops, and you realize you really dont need the validation of others "believing you". Then that day comes.. you realized it's been a year and yes.. you wake up happy. And your friends and family who have held you and have tried for years to keep gluing back all your broken pieces, the ones you've pushed away because " it's not that bad, I can change the chaos, I can make it peace". The ones who have cried with you and wiped your tears because you felt so defeated. The ones who have talked you off the ledge, the ones who were there for the worst moments of your life.. they look at you and say "you look happy". Those are words you havent heard in a long time.. and you say "I feel happy" and for once you mean it. It's okay not to be 100% but knowing chaos doesnt have a place in your life or heart anymore.. looking at your children and seeing them smile and sharing moments of laughter with them without feeling the need to fake it to stop them from seeing pain is probably the best feeling you can have. The feeling of peace within yourself, the feeling of being free, the feeling of love in ways that weren't in the plan. I say alot "this isn't the life I planned for myself, I'm scared of doing it alone. I'm scared I wont be enough for them" and fail to realize that life has put me through what I needed to go through and life put me exactly where i needed to be. I'm finding who I am, and I'm NOT perfect.. I too have made storms where storms didnt need to be.. I have said things that should have been kept to myself because chaos shouldnt have been able to bring me out of character, that's on me and I own up to not being a perfect person but I try my best everyday to be who I need and want to be. I am enough because I love them and they know I love them, I'm enough because despite not being perfect they don't know the difference.. to them I am. To them I'm mom and mom is always there, "even when we dont understand why things are changing and it seems scary, mom is there to hold us."
By Jolene Babin6 years ago in Motivation
Just Keep Digging
Have you ever took a look in the mirror and didn’t recognize the reflection staring back at you? I have. Her eyes were filled with disgust and shame. The feeling of regret made the hairs on my arm reluctantly stand. I got goosebumps. How could she look at me with such a piercing stare? How could the one person whose love I crave, regurgitate at the sight of me?
By Jasmine Cates6 years ago in Motivation
Intangible Blockers
Is writers block real? Or is it just not being able to focus on the main point. I honestly believe the society we have created for our selves does not allow for pure mentorship. I often find people are not waiting to listen they are waiting for there turn to talk. When looking for advice, people will give you information that perceives themselves as favorable. Regardless if it works or not. So where do we find our role models? Find mentorship? When guidance is needed, where do we get I from? If you have not found “yourself” where do you find you? When trying to learn boundaries, where do you study? When learning your worth, where does it get appraised? Anyone one else about these questions? If not you have probably had a good laugh and have stopped reading around this point. If you have had theses questions you may be getting impatient, the answer is. The answer is you. All these things come from you. It is impossible to seek a role model when you already know the role model your looking for. To elaborate. If you see someone chewing with their mouth open, you may love it. You may hate it. If you have not had one good or reliable role model it is okay to observe different mannerisms/behaviours. From that observation pick out what you like and do not like. Once you know what you like and do not like. Think about the different ways this can apply to you. If you cannot fathom how it could be applied to you. Research that activity. If you see someone using chop sticks, do the homework. Figure out the first steps, proper etiquette, foods it works with, etc. This observation and application technique is really useful. It should not be the only self learning/growing tool to be used. Mix and match your self growth tools.
By Janessa Kara6 years ago in Motivation
Resilience is a Skill
Resilience is not just for surviving the worst day of your life, it’s for thriving every day of your life. Rick Hanson Global pandemic, social justice activism, the global climate crisis. If there ever was a year to challenge our resilience, 2020 wins.
By Steve Gillett6 years ago in Motivation
How Indians Can Teach You to Be Frugal
The ‘frugality’ lifestyle, along with its first cousin ‘minimalism’, have been around long enough that we have tried and tested (whether successfully or not) most of their ‘hacks’. But frugality is an art, not a science, and as such, has unlimited potential.
By Priyanka Mashelkar6 years ago in Motivation
