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The Meaning of Life
2020. Wow. What a year so far. The year of the unpredictable, the unexpected. For many of us, this has been the year of the rug being pulled out from under our feet, the year of ‘can you wake me up when this has all blown over?’, the year of subconsciously building our mental resilience… It's also been the year of hangovers on a Tuesday, video calls over the internet, searching high and low for hope and learning what PPE stands for and how to wear it properly. The year of trying to stick to the rules whilst doing our best to navigate a way through a world turned upside down. 2020 has been a *shocker* of a year for many, not to mention all the sad stories of people who are no longer with us due to COVID-19.
By Max6 years ago in Motivation
5 Ways To Start Living Intentionally Today
Build a Timeless Capsule Wardrobe When you dress for the day, you want to find the perfect outfit with a minimum of effort. A capsule wardrobe, in which each piece works with any of the others you have, is an excellent way to cut down on closet complexity, while encouraging you to choose sustainable pieces that will last a lifetime. Everyone has a slightly different idea of what a capsule wardrobe should include, so you’ll want to match your choices to your personality, but almost every closet needs classic items like white leather sneakers, a camel coat, and tailored blue jeans.
By Mikkie Mills6 years ago in Motivation
How to be fully satisfied of your results? - What helped me?
Hi folks, I am Vito, I come from Italy and I am 18. I am probably going to write some rare stuff, describing my plans for the future and what helped me in reaching precise goals. Pay serious attention to what I mention, because it means a lot to me.
By Vito Difino6 years ago in Motivation
How To Reinvent Yourself
In everyone’s life, there comes a point when you feel stuck, and it is just like being a prisoner of your own quagmire. You feel that no matter what you do, nothing will ever change for the better and you will be stuck in a hopeless tangle. This situation can be dealt by reinventing yourself.
By Yogyata Gupta6 years ago in Motivation
‘What If’: How To Eliminate The Emotional Doubts You Have in Your Life
We doubt ourselves a lot in life. The most common question that we ask ourselves is ‘What if’, and name it what that ‘What if’ might be. Things that could be you’re doubting differs from person to person, but that ‘What if’ stays on your mind every time you are doing what obligates you.
By Agnes Laurens6 years ago in Motivation
Looking Positive For The Future
Looking Positive For The Future During this Covid-19 Pandemic it's been very tough times for most of us and nothing has been easy about what's going on. Unfortunately, I'm one of them in the statistics that is unemployed in the UK because of Covid-19 and not only that I'm in the high risk category as well, so been shielding so I don't catch this awful disease.
By Richard Mabe6 years ago in Motivation
The Road to Contentment
One can never attempt to be profound. I suppose that’s an ironic thing to say as someone who uses ‘one’ in every sentence so I can to try to seem more profound but I suppose after writing it a thousand times this truth has finally come to me. Revelations are like the wind; when they come we feel as if all of creation is animate again, as if we have just discovered something so profound that it could never leave us. And yet, inevitably, someday it does, and sadness and confusion close in upon our light once again. I’ve spent my entire life attempting to fight this cycle but what I’m finally realizing after it’s swallowed me up and spit me out a million different times is that this cycle is a revelation itself, a revelation that sadness and stasis can’t take away. Change is inevitable but it’s more than that; we have to forgive ourselves for our own feelings. Sometimes we feel sad when we’re supposed to feel happy. When we have everything people below us wish to have: a roof over our heads, loving families, food in our stomachs. Sometimes when we’re supposed to feel safe we feel as if we’re in danger, when we’re supposed to feel angry we feel forgiving, and when we’re supposed to feel calm we feel enraged. And it’s all okay; the truth is we don’t have control over ourselves, even though we do. We are the actors upon our own minds; the forces which shape our every move and yet, though we may be the most powerful of these forces, we are never the only ones. There will always be actors outside of ourselves; our social environment, our family, the weather. Each of these things is like us, constantly changing and as much as we try to reinforce our own agency against these forces, at the end of the day we will always change with them. We will move gracefully or we will move clumsily but nonetheless, we will be moved. How then can we hold ourselves together against the roiling currents of life? The answer to this is another cliche but it doesn’t matter: we can reinforce ourselves against inevitable change by remembering our values. By selecting a few things from the composite entities of existence that matter to us, for the largest portion of our waking hours. These could be passion projects, duties to the ones we love, or moral values we intend never to erode. By clinging to these things and allowing others which feel less important to fall away, we can remember ourselves. When we wake up and feel smothered by an impenetrable blanket of sadness and self doubt we can remember that we are a person who finds it important to be clean, and take a shower. When we barely have the motivation to move we can remember that we are a person who finds it important to be with our grandmother on her birthday, to watch the waves crash against the shore, or sketch the dappled light which trickles through forest leaves. Life is hard, and even when you believe it will become less so, it often remains just as hard as it used to be. In order to survive in this weary world we need to remember why we’ve survived so long. For those of who can struggle with suicide it can often be hard to articulate to others just how difficult life can feel, whether our lives take the shape of something our elders would describe difficult or not. It doesn't matter what they think! What right does a parent have to tell a child the sandbox isn’t coarse and dirty when they haven’t stepped foot in it for decades? Or lecture a student on the ease of education after they’ve been away from it for longer than the person they’re lecturing has been alive? None of us can ever truly perceive one another’s perceptions, because how can a woman on the second floor understand the view from the fifth? They are simply unable to and that’s okay. Forgive yourself for all those things the people around you say aren’t hard enough to make you feel the way you do.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta6 years ago in Motivation
