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I was done...
Maybe you’ve seen me around at a mall shopping with my son Donovan. If you have, you’d probably never guess I was battling cervical cancer or that I was a single mom with no baby daddy support. Maybe you could take a look at me or my Instagram @xnauli and calculate that I have it all together and my life couldn’t possibly be hard. But that’s just it. I think you can agree that life can be hard and life isn’t always Instagram pretty. The only difference is made between the one who goes harder and the one who goes softer.
By Stephanie N7 years ago in Motivation
The Strong Woman’s Burden
I hear so many women speak about the burden that the expectation of strength brings to their lives. When am I allowed to be weak? When am I allowed not to have all the answers or solutions? When will I be allowed to name my pain and be given the space and room to heal? While I am broken and shattered by this world, I am still expected to carry the load of the daily functions, whether it be family, work, school, society, etc., there is an expectation that I still show up. At some point we must accept our humanity. While being superhuman would be nice, the reality is that we’re just as fragile as any other living thing, and we also require nurturing, and emotional, physical, and spiritual nourishment. From my own personal experience strength sometimes happens, not because I choose it, but because there is no other choice. There is also an element of fear that abounds when I think about weakness. Even though it is quite natural and human to have moments of weakness, there is a fear that arises at the pain that vulnerability can bring. If I open myself up, will there be supports to help me heal, or will someone just pour salt in the wound.
By Kanisha Moye7 years ago in Motivation
6 Keys to Success in Business and Life
In this article, Carol Lavin Bernick, former executive chairman of beauty conglomerate Alberto Culver and now CEO of Polished Nickel Capital Management, offers her perspective on what it really means to be successful. She gives six tips to enable you to be ready for both the good times and the difficult situations, highlighting the importance of loving what you are doing in both business and life.
By David Wyld7 years ago in Motivation
A Feel Oh, So Fecal (I)
As an aspiring writer, painter, director, musician, game designer, and beautician, I have technically achieved each of these titles by accomplishing each occupations' outcome. I wrote a novel, directed some short films, produced a dozen or so albums, made a functional game once, and I bleached and dyed my own hair. Yet, my total lack of fiscal gain via any of these vocations relegates me to the designated "aspirant" rather the title alone. In my mind, at least. Which leads me to the conclusion: the issue is solely my mindset, and I am, otherwise, successfully an Artist.
By Vinny J7 years ago in Motivation
New Year Resolutions
Every. Single. Year It's the same old story. 31st December comes and we are all making these amazing goals for the next year. Lose weight, get a job, get a dog (this should always be on a list), work out 5 times a week. You get the theme. January kicks in and for about five days, for the most part, you keep the new year resolutions and then suddenly you stop doing dry January because there was a huge night out that could not be missed.
By Kate Lowe7 years ago in Motivation
I'm playing a long game of Influence. How do I know if my influence is making a difference?
The worst kind of waste is the discarded actions we do not recognize as worthy. We have the capacity to learn from most experiences we participate in. This is a question I have been asked over the years many times by those seeking to plan out their influence strategies. As we begin working with people there's a need to meet the person where they are and feel what is being shared is meaningful. We all seek to help in different capacities and there's no shortage of opportunities to challenge us when we are actively participating in life. As long as you are encouraging the subject's best self and your own, creating good memories with people around you, and assisting people by sharing your knowledge, nothing that you do can be wasteful. Inspire the best in each other as you learn, teach, and have adventures. Service is a performance art and we offer it to each other daily. You can remain silent and have someone be grateful you made sure they were not alone.
By Joseph Crown7 years ago in Motivation
Limitations of consciousness: Exploring Attentional Blink
As you shift your attention from one thing of interest to another, a gap in attention called attentional blink occurs in your awareness of the world. It lasts for about half a second, so we barely notice it. The shocking, interesting, or emotionally stimulating event is the more likely we will lose peripheral awareness of anything else outside that event for longer. This phenomenon occurs because our brain has limited attentional resources. If you have ever tried to focus on multiple things at once, and you know you have if you are an active citizen of our modern society. You likely discovered you could not completely hold full attention to all the multi-tasked tasks. You might even have noticed that some things could not be consciously tracked well as you were multitasking and simply slipped right past you unnoticed. This cognitive factor is not often trained by most and yet plays a part in every action we do in society. Everything from following a magic trick, being convinced, hypnotized, and is actionable as we go through the tasks of our day. Just think about driving on a rainy day and talking on the phone or walking across the street as you text on your phone. Sometimes the attentional blink can cost us our life.
By Joseph Crown7 years ago in Motivation
Manifesting Your 2020 Goals
Twenty-Twenty is here, and as per usual, most people flock to the saying of, "New Year, New Me" tune! It's cliche, and so it sounds good. However, reality is, that's not how you get to crush your goals. Talking East and walking West has never gotten anyone anywhere in life. You literally have to to walk the talk not just follow a trendy saying. So with that, I want to share with you four mindful yet practical ways in which you can set your 2020 on fire to be your absolute best year yet. And, to do that, there's both some inner and outer work that must be done first. Let's begin!
By Warden Of Wellness7 years ago in Motivation
A Thing Or Two About New Year Resolution
It starts with a "why?" It was about a fortnight before the New Year of 2012. I was studying to be a personal trainer at the time. During one of the classes, I had my waist and hip measured for a class assignment. When my classmate, who were assigned to do my measurement, told me that my waistline was about 42 inches, I was in total shock as I thought I was reasonably fit and my waistline could not be more than 36 inches. It was really disappointing to be told that this number would put me in the "obese" category.
By Life Of Brian7 years ago in Motivation
Do Embarrassing Situations Make People Change Their Life?
People sometimes do some weird thing that they even think is weird. There are some moment in all of our lives called embarrassing moments. You too surely did something that you weren’t supposed to do but you did it accidentally. Let share one of our friend situation in the PhD class. He need to submit his dissertation. He didn’t prepare the dissertation from the start of semester so it was last minute effort to make a good looking dissertation. The bad think that happened that day that professor and students all the classes free. So the professor started check some of the dissertation. We it came the turn to check his dissertation the professor run a plagiarism check and it was 50% copied. So the professor started reading. After a few chapter somehow our friend ended up explain fairy tales and comics in the dissertation. He himself didn’t know how he ended up here. Many people make this kind of mistake in there dissertation. We highly recommend taking Professional Dissertation Help and save yourself from this kind of humiliation. The questions arises that do embarrassing situation make people change their life?
By Amy Abbott7 years ago in Motivation
HAVING LUPUS, IS NOT A VACATION. PERIOD
“OMG, you’re at home all day, must be fun! Right? Why do you complain, I wish I had the same life as you!” This statement I have been hearing and listening to past many many years of my life from people who do NOT know me fully, and even sometimes from my friends.
By Fatema Siddiki7 years ago in Motivation
What's Your 2020?
Do you have it all figure out for the New Year 2020?, to be honest I thought I did; but the truth is I don't, and I realize it's okay. I wanted to do so much this year, and I know the year just beginning, but I just couldn't wait to get started, then it hit me, start what? I did not have a clue and I still don't. I guess my New Year's Resolution was inside my head, or just a dream I have not waken up from. New Year's 2020, got me thinking; I should just be happy that I survive another year, and I will be able to figure it out one day at a time, so my New Year's Resolution is I don't have any because I AM MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION!
By Trust God7 years ago in Motivation
