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The Many Reasons Why I Am Thankful
I AM THANKFUL FOR MY CHILDREN My children are the reasons why my life is worth living. They give me the strength that I need to push forward and make it through the day. I am thankful for the many kisses and hugs that they give and the many times that they tell me they love me. My children are my everything and if it weren't for them, I don't know where I would be. I am thankful that I've been blessed to be the mom of such wonderful children.
By Lanique Ruffin6 years ago in Motivation
ELLE 2.0✨
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre "There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
By LENE - Erislene Brito6 years ago in Motivation
Thankful Thoughts
This pandemic has, amongst the darkness provided a light; a break; a pause in the chaos. It has given us all a moment in time to think. How often do we really just stop to think? I have come to the conclusion that it is not as often as we would like to believe.
By Jess Averbeck6 years ago in Motivation
Quest to Success:
Before we start, let's take a moment to clear your mind, relax, and refresh your thoughts. How many of us desire wealth and success? How many of us seek for a better lifestyle for our body, mind and soul? How many of us are willing to do whatever it takes to live a better lifestyle for our body, mind and soul in order to achieve wealth and success? These are all relative questions you should be asking yourself everyday if you're serious about your quest to success.
By Benjamin Cristinziani JR.6 years ago in Motivation
The Broke College Grad Diaries
Welcome back to another chapter in The Broke College Grad Diaries! It’s finally turkey week and though COVID-19 has made things a little different this year, we should still take the time to talk about the things we’re most thankful for! Following the theme of thanksgiving, I wanted to discuss gratitude today because it’s been important to my healing process, kept me semi-sane through quarantine, and helped me love life again – so if you’re going through some tough times, I hope my story inspires you. Also, if you haven’t read my article about gratitude and how it can positively benefit not just individuals, but our communities as well, then I’ll link that here.
By Derek Evers6 years ago in Motivation
Book Review: Silence The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
It reminds us that beauty is all around us, yet we do not pay attention rather visually or sound. To hear the beauty is through silence. Yet, if we don't have silence, we can't hear the beauty around us. The noise that we hear in our day to day lives drowns out the beauty around us. In my opinion, this may not be true for all people, but the majority of us live to survive, not living to live. We can not hear beauty, the call of life, or the call of love. As humans, we do not have the time to listen to this during our daily lives in tunnel vision. The easiest thing to hear is all the negative, what you could have done differently, focusing more on our past mistakes or life lessons versus focusing on the present and making our future moves worth something to be proud about.
By Nia on Air6 years ago in Motivation
How I Plan to Emotionally Survive Another Lockdown
As the number of infections continues to grow rapidly, another possible lockdown moves into the focus of political discussion. The first one made me reconnect with nature again. It was an urgently needed reconnection as I wasn’t pleased — to say the least — with the way my final year at university was about to start
By Julian Drach6 years ago in Motivation
A blessing in disguise
I’m not sure if this year has gone for you like it has for so many I know. Covid hits, Kobe dies, everything goes on lockdown, jobs are lost, lives are lost, hope is lost. For a large part of the year it felt this way to me. After having my first child in late February, and immediately facing a disappearing partner, covid fears and restrictions, post-partum, and sleep deprivation, I was pretty sure I was headed into the book of revelations. This is where it ends. It literally could not get worse for me and mine, or so I thought.
By Krista Phillips6 years ago in Motivation
Why Do We Do It?
What job do you want to do when you grow up? How often were we asked that question throughout our childhood? From a young age, we were brought up and educated to believe that once you left you left secondary school, you would then progress to university, and then once you earned a degree, you would find a job. Life was always painted out to be perfect, mapped out beautifully that we would find the job of our dreams, we would buy our own house, we would get married, we would have a family, and we would live happily ever after. A few years into adulthood, we soon realize that life is nothing at all like how our parents and teachers hinted it would be. It's bad enough that we suffer through relationship break ups, and we seriously struggle to make a life for ourselves financially, in our early adulthood, but the worst part to it all is, the job we have is far from enjoyable and satisfying, as we were educated to believe it would be. So here we are, finding ourselves trudging off to this crappy job that we hate, five days of the week, with only the weekend left to enjoy. Then, as the years pass by, we do find that partner we end up marrying, before starting a family with them, and all of a sudden, the weekends we once enjoyed going out with our friends, becomes about sitting at home changing dirty nappies, listening to temper tantrums, and attending children's birthday parties. Don't get me wrong, raising a family is one of the greatest blessings in life, and spending time with them forms some of the most wonderful memories, but it's a far cry from the freedom we once had in our late teens, and early twenties, going out clubbing with our friends, and leaving the worries of the world behind us, to drown in the alcohol. It's certainly a change in lifestyle, but it's not the weekend that's our issue, as we still enjoy that time with our family, it's our life during the week that sucks!
By David Stidston6 years ago in Motivation
