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Put A Smile On Your Dial
One of the easiest, and even one of the most powerful, actions that we can do every day, is to smile. Sounds a bit silly doesn't it, and it's not surprising to think in such a way, because most of us don't really comprehend exactly how a smile can be of any great benefit to either ourselves or others? Sadly, everyday life consumes so many of us, as we plunge ourselves into constantly dealing with a great amount of stress, worry, concern, and anxiety, in a bid to meet our obligations, deadlines, and commitments. With all this pressure swirling through our mind, we often find it difficult to feel a sense of happiness and joy within our heart. All this stress, worry, anxiety, and concern that life seems to heave upon us, begins to develop a dour feeling of unhappiness within us, and even leads many of us into depression. We may experience bursts of satisfaction, happiness, and enjoyment when we are spending time with our friends, enjoying quality time with our family on the weekend, or engaging in one of our hobbies, but in general, we just cannot find that complete happiness, satisfaction, and fulfilment that we are looking for in life. Not surprisingly, over time, this leads us to become extremely frustrated and angry. When we have this constant build up of frustration and anger, that compounds the stress, anxiety, worry, and concern, we become like a volcano ready to erupt. We need an outlet to relieve ourselves of all this suffering and pressure, and unfortunately, many of us use others as that outlet. We criticize them, verbally abuse them, ridicule them, and blow up at them, perhaps just for something little they did, because that seems to give us reason to release all that anger, stress, and frustration. It could be our partner, our parents, our friends, a workmate, even just a stranger on the street or on social media, that bears the brunt of all this anger, stress, and frustration, and as a result, we can often cause emotionally wounding and hurt to these people. We walk around with a constant frown, when what we should be doing is turning that frown upside down.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
I Quit My Job of Six Years to Become a Writer
I will say that I’m not the best at decision making. I’m not saying this was a poor decision, but it was probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. But would I admit that to my friends and family? And risk them saying the dreaded “told you so”? Gosh no! I might be dumb in my decision making, but I’m not dumb enough to give them the satisfactory of being right.
By Kellie Gilman5 years ago in Motivation
Perseverance – A true act of success
Perseverance is responsible for every success you've had thus far in your life. Perseverance is the act of persisting in pursuing a goal despite setbacks or failures. Perseverance will eventually lead to accomplishments, which are the direct result of hard effort and the will to keep pushing until you attain your desired outcomes.
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Motivation
Creativity is an asset!
It's critical to be a creative thinker in all you do as you begin to lay the groundwork for a great career. Even if you aren't an artist or a musician, creativity is crucial to your professional success. Creative individuals are inquisitive, adaptable, tenacious, self-reliant, and daring. These characteristics will aid you in your professional, personal, and academic endeavors.
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Motivation
Such A Difference
Unfortunately, we live in a world in which we are surrounded by negative minded and pessimistic people. So many individuals spend their days whinging and moaning about how life is so unfair, how much their job sucks, how they are constantly a victim of circumstance, how they are always struggling financially, how they don't have such nice assets as others, how their partner has bad habits, and so on. They are constantly in our ear, giving us advice about how we shouldn't do this, and how we shouldn't do that, rather than being focused on their own life. As much as they live their life in hope and faith, they will quite often dismiss any possibilities of anything good coming their way, and at the same token, they will also quash our ambitions, and the ambitions of others, as they don't want to see others succeed and thrive, if they can't do so themselves. They will often criticize and belittle us, they will gossip about us behind our back, and they will always try to act in superiority to us, believing that they know better about everything. They will very rarely, if ever, admit to their mistakes, wrongdoings, and faults also. There's no real polite way of summing up these type of individuals, other than stating that they are toxic! The problem for us is that we can't exactly run and hide from them, because they are nearly always around us, such as in the shops, in our workplace, and sadly, even within our own home. What this means is that we are getting constant exposure to all this negativity and pessimism, as our mind is constantly absorbing what we are hearing. The human mind acts like a magnet. The more it hears this same information over and over, the more it starts to believe it, and relate to it. If we are hearing negativity, then our mindset will adapt to that exact environment, ultimately falling into a negative zone of thinking also. What happens when we operate from a negative mindset? Well, we get angry, we get frustrated, we become bitter, we become resentful, we become ungrateful, we become agitated, we become hurtful, we become sad, we become pessimistic, and we can become depressed. The worst part though is when we make decisions and take action whilst in this negative mindset. Such decisions and actions, more often than not, lead to failure, regret, hardship, adversity, conflict, and even more unhappiness.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
Things you should avoid saying that are detrimental to your success
Quitting a negative habit increases your chances of happiness by allowing you to create room for positive things while also getting rid of whatever is pulling you down. There are certain ideas that are deemed bad, just as there are some behaviors. They may also weigh you down and make it difficult for you to succeed.
By The Breatharian Blogger5 years ago in Motivation
Until......
There is a time for everything. A time for birth, and a time for death. A time to laugh, and a time to cry. A time to keep something, and a time to throw it away. Sound familiar? Unfortunately, too many of us abuse the likes of time though, or we just simply take it for granted. For some strange reason, we adopt this belief that we have an abundance of time, and there will always be that "right time" in the future to make a certain decision, or to do a certain task or action. We sit back and wait for that "right time", continuing to hold off until we find this complete sense of certainty, comfort, and reassurance. Maybe we just hold back until we have no other option but to complete the task at hand? The funny thing is, we then use time as our excuse to justify why we can't undertake a certain task or action immediately, insisting that we are too busy at present, or there is too much going on right now. The act of refraining from making a decision, or proceeding with a task or action, we better know as being procrastination. Perhaps what we don't know is that procrastination is the thief of time, but if not, we do now! How often do we find ourselves in the position where we have a list of tasks to do, be it at work or just some odd jobs around the home, and that one task that is the least enjoyable of the lot, the most difficult, or the one that takes the longest amount of time, we always leave until last? This particular task may be extremely important, and needs our immediate attention, but because it is a task that isn't much fun, or is mundane and arduous, or just consumes so much time, we refrain from doing it until we absolutely have to. It's a classic case of procrastination, and an overwhelming majority of us are guilty of having taken this approach to tasks and actions at some stage of our life.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
STOP! Don't Pull Your Hair Out Over Slow Reads Or Writers' Frustration On Vocal +. Even The Great Authors Of Our Time, Like You, Struggled With Writing When They Were Starting Their Journey. Just Ask The Most Successful Vocal Writer In History.
"A writer writes, always." -Billy Crystal in Throw Momma From The Train So, like everybody else on Vocal or the over 25,000 members of Vocal +, you want to be a writer, or at least parts of you do. You've always had ideas in your head. Maybe, over the years, you've imagined you would write a book. You have written short stories, started a novel, tried your hand at poetry, or even put together a manual for your regular nine to five gig and thought to yourself, "I should have been paid for that." A writer writes, always.
By Jason Morton5 years ago in Motivation
