goals
Understanding your goals to help you achieve them.
The New Year
It's that time of the year again! I have mixed feelings every time the year comes to an end. It's exciting if you have had a crappy year because most of us are looking for redemption, so we pump ourselves up for the new year thinking this year will solve all our problems. Am I right? Or is this just me?
By Not Important5 years ago in Motivation
Failure
There is the phrase that explains that failure is only good if you learn from your mistakes. To this I must disagree. Failure is good if you get up again. There is no way to not learn something from failure. We have this false illusion that we are in control. Therefore it can actually put you into a worse state if you follow the first way of looking at failure. I can see you sitting there pondering whether... "Did I learn from my mistake this time"? There then comes the battle with your ego and you regret that you did or didn't do something. I know what this is like as I've been there. Thankfully, there is no way not to learn something from failure. My good friend Paul recently opened my eyes to this even more. He has recently thrown in the towel on his business. Over the past few years he started his own company making creative marshmallows and crafting them after the wonderful experience of having S'mores when camping. His company was called Stuff'n Mallows. He told me that when he was interviewed by large companies, the first thing they wanted to know was how many times the entrepreneur had failed. This life is a process of getting up and climbing another mountain. I really go back to the bubble analogy. When I was a child I would sit there and examine bubbles. I would look at them and try to determine when they would pop. I would look into their creamy outline and see the colors swish around. What I noticed was that when the surface became perfectly clear that was the moment in which they popped. Only when they were void of color did this happen. I think in many ways this is a metaphor for life. We're always climbing another mountain in the motivation and delight of becoming a little more pure. Awakening happens when our bubble pops. Struggles will still occur, mountains will still have to be climbed, but our perspective on how we view the next path will not be centered around effort. In this form, the life process becomes effortless. Perhaps we're all bubbles. You could say that we're "slow dancing in a burning room" as John Mayer has told us. It puts a romantic edge to the process of life, but I'm going with bubbles today. So go examine a bubble for yourself. Let me know what you think. Color is the spice of life itself. It can tell so much about us. Sound is color, I feel. It's that realization that the presence of those difficulties and hoops and swings is what makes the juice worth the squeeze. I'm imagining watermelon juice, but you can choose lemon or orange if you so desire. The world is your oyster.
By Sound And The Messenger5 years ago in Motivation
Volunteers
Throughout history, there is a subject that has not received the amount of attention that it deserves. The subject that I am speaking of is the word "Volunteers." As the years have passed with names reaching out from the past and to the future to prompt us of those who have gone before us, the word volunteer should be included with these names. The reason that I mention this is for the fact that all the options seem to fade into the background when it comes to this subject.
By Shelly Bartley5 years ago in Motivation
At Least I Did It
"Thank you for your patronage," I said, as I walked out the door. Wow! Two dollars tip? That’s nice, I charge $15 but she gave me $17 just for the little work I did that took less than 35 minutes. She was my first cleaning business client, I did not even think anyone was gonna call me, nonetheless, she did. As I walked towards the big dumpster, I started tearing up; how I earn $17 from doing something I love, something which started as an idea and is now a reality. I felt fulfilled and accomplished. Then I said to myself, "Divine, you did it!" Even if this was the only customer I will ever have from this cleaning business, I am fulfilled, my idea did not die as a thought or a plan but it came to reality.
By Divine Moses5 years ago in Motivation
Why I Don't Make New Year's Resolutions
It’s that time of year again. Your social media friends are all claiming “New Year, New Me!” And we all know, most of them aren’t going to change a single thing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure a lot of them had all these good intentions. The problem lies in that a new year doesn’t actually mean you have any real motivation to make all these changes and improvements. That’s exactly why I don’t make resolutions. A new year just is not enough to motivate me to actually make the changes I want to see in myself.
By Myriah 5 years ago in Motivation
New Year. New Me. New Attitude
I usually make New Year’s resolutions. I did not do that this year. Last year opened my eyes to a lot of things. My circle of friends got smaller. I was reminded that I am the only one who is in control of my life. I cannot rely on anyone else to make me happy. I did a lot of thinking last year and I reminded myself that there are things that are never going to change. There are people who will really never care about anyone else except themselves. Those are the people who are manipulative and will do whatever they have to do to make themselves look good and other people look bad. I do not want to associate with people like that. That is not who I am. People did a lot of damage to me last year, and I have spent the past few months trying to get out of a major slump. I am not back to 100 percent yet, but I am definitely doing better than I was 3 or 4 months ago.
By Pamela Dirr5 years ago in Motivation
A Fresher Perspective on New Year's Resolutions
I want to change the conversation around resolutions. I want to change the annoying perception of how meaningless the phrase of “new year, new me” has come to be. The truth is, this fad had spread like wildfire over the last couple years on social media until it finally lost its grandeur.
By Paulina Pachel5 years ago in Motivation
In the New Year, a Mindful Inventory
The first days of January are spammed with social media posts of stuff like the “2000-something best nine” Instagram pictures, quotes that compile the lessons we learned from the year’s experiences, and so on. But it often takes a lot of guts to actually sit down and reflect about what worked and what didn’t: the actions that either helped us move forward or sunk us to the ground, the thoughts that influenced our outlook on life, the relationships we maintained, and the toxic circumstances we kept coming back to. As 2018 came to an end, I pictured all of the important moments I lived throughout it as different boxes stacked inside a basement, boxes I would examine as if performing an inventory. Some of these boxes I’ve decided to keep, and some I’m throwing out for good.
By Maria Paula Serrano5 years ago in Motivation
No Resolutions for the New Year
New year, new you, new expectations of who you should be. With each year, it is so tempting to make resolutions and promises to yourself of the person you want to become in the coming year. There is a glow of optimism, and maybe a little nervousness. Fitness, career, personal... there is always an area that could be better. We are human.
By 'Toto' (Aleksina Teto)5 years ago in Motivation
#NewYearNewMe
Ever since hashtags became "a thing" I've noticed that it's a good way to stay current with news, trends, and just about anything you want to find on social media websites. I used to think that they were irrelevant and pointless, but I've changed my mind over these past few years. They can be used for connecting with similar people, searching for information, or browsing food photos at 2 AM on Instagram. So, when I noticed the #NewYearNewMe hashtag across multiple social media websites, I started browsing.
By Amanda Jones6 years ago in Motivation