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I Am My Own Inspiration
I Am My Inspiration For many years I was asked who inspired me and why. I always found that question to be challenging because no one person inspired me. I believe that my inspiration comes from my young self. I am inspired when I look at my past and how far I came. A fews years back I was a lost black girl who did not know herself. I was conflicted within after losing my father. I felt like I no longer had a home or did not belong. I spent years trying to fit in with my peers and my surroundings but I simply did not fit in. I became an outcast.
By Patrice Edwards6 years ago in Motivation
Black In Between The Cracks
“Your skin is not only dark, it shines and it tells your story. Keep dancing, they can’t control you. They watch and they all adore you. If ever you are in doubt, remember what Mama told you.” —Beyonce Knowles, “Brown Skin Girl” (July 2019)
By teva jenkins6 years ago in Motivation
The Boy and The Tree
There once was a young boy whos’ imagination was so astonishing that even he would eventually believe it was real. His family was poor and thus he wasn’t able to experience life in the ways the youth of today does. No bike to ride no toys to play with, no siblings to to share his imagination with, nothing. All this young boy had was a mother, a father, a roof over his head and a small black notbook. His father worked for what seemed like forever so the boy rarely ever seen him. As for his mother, she worked diligently to preserve the home and make sure the boy was clean and had eaten his 3 meals. Since, his mother and father had little money for anything else other then food, water, and the other bills which came with the house. The boy was never given a proper childhood, but the boy understood this and at such a young age he developed his imagination so bright and wonderful that he could escape into another world. A world of his choosing, could do anything, go anywhere, and have anything he imagined! This small black notebook that was empty had began to fill, day after day and page after page a new adventure was captured in his small black notebook. Soon hundreds of pages were full. Cover to Cover the boy had created a new life full of magic and whenever he wanted an escape from his real world all he had to do was open the small black notebook to one of the number of pages, close his eyes and use his imagination to disappear into the world he most enjoyed.
By Sean Whiter 6 years ago in Motivation
lucky little black book
lucky little black book by: the ADHD Accountant - Krid ‘It was a dark and stormy night’ certainly sounds like a dramatic way for me to start my story. My quasi-biographical how-it-happened-to-me tale of overnight fortune. The truth is that it wasn’t a dark and stormy night at all; it was the cumulation of almost 20 years of on and off again sardonic amusement against the gods of speculation. A clever phrase I’ve ripped off of Emily D. Baker, by the way. Though I couldn’t say if she was the first to use it. She mentioned someone named Saltsy?
By ADHD Accountant6 years ago in Motivation
The Seasons of Oneself
There were only two important things in my life last summer. It almost seems silly now that I was so concerned with something that others thought so small, so tiny. But it was so much bigger than that. My whole entire life was in my writing, in the journal that I brought with me everywhere I went. The tiny, little black notebook that held my deepest thoughts.
By Megan Marie6 years ago in Motivation
Huntress
Frozen branches creaked all around me. I sat stock still in my blind out in the windy woods. My eyes only saw in black and white, and were playing tricks on me as the morning started to add light to the sky. Every movement I saw made me feel like I was hallucinating.
By Khaiti Hallstein6 years ago in Motivation
WHO THE HELL LET US GROW UP?
I'm twenty-five years old. I should have my life together...or so I thought. When we were adolescents, if people mentioned adulthood, we automatically assumed the mid-20s equaled life together and easy. Oh, how we were wrong...well for some of us. Some of us were lucky enough to find our place in life and be successful while the rest of us are still trying to decide what we want to be when we grow up.
By Angela Todorov6 years ago in Motivation
Sometimes its cloudy in the Morning
SOMETIME'S IT'S CLOUDY IN THE MORNING BY: KID KID KID Joy comes in the morning, but lately it’s been cloudy. But I wouldn’t want to live in a world without it. Even if I don’t see the sun I know it’s morning so I start going.” You know they need you,” I say to myself, I know I need help and that’s all I know.
By Kid kid kid6 years ago in Motivation
A Contest
“Did you see it?” “See what?” “The flyer on the board.” Maria flicked her head towards the board, it was break and she was more than comfortable. Stretched out collapsed in the blue plastic chair the school was so generous to make sure they had enough. She had her favorite Coffee mug in hand as if it were mittens warming her soul.
By Candace Gomez6 years ago in Motivation
It's Why We Need To Be Driven
It's one thing to be motivated by our goals, but it's an entirely different level of determination when we are driven by them. At the start of journeying towards our goals, many people believe that motivation is the trait that will help us to succeed. After all, if we have both enthusiasm and reason, it should be enough to get us off the couch, and inspire us to take action, right? Absolutely! I cannot deny that motivation is an imperative characteristic that we need to possess if we are striving to achieve our goals, because we need to continually be positive, energized, and proactive, along the journey, but the problem with motivation is that it is a characteristic that can easily be influenced. Motivation is a wavering characteristic, which can come and go, dependant on the circumstances, situations, events, and emotions, that we are experiencing at each moment of time. One moment we may feel on top of the world, inspired and hungry for success, but then we may encounter a setback, or a failure, or maybe several setbacks and failures, which then start to install doubt and fear within our mind. We start questioning if all our time, energy, money, and hard work, are all worth it and equating to what we are working towards. That fear and doubt then starts to play with our motivational levels. Perhaps something unexpected happens in our life, such as the death of a loved one, a marital split, or similar painful experiences. Our mind becomes overwhelmed with what's going on in that aspect of life, which affects our mood and emotions, leaving us to feel negative and upset, to the point we lose our motivation and focus on achieving our goals. When motivation falters, it can easily become a time where we throw the towel in and give up, hence why we can't rely on motivation to achieve success.
By David Stidston6 years ago in Motivation
