Vocal
defeating the, "who cares?"
1. All or Nothing My first Vocal goal would be to challenge myself by submitting a story to every challenge- no matter how much I have come to loathe poem challenges. I find when it comes to poems I clam up. I try to figure out some abstractly written message full of flowery prose, perhaps something that does makes not a bit of sense, but it ends up being more up-front than I originally thought. I figured it would be good to push myself to write more in order to accomplish my ultimate goal of winning a challenge on Vocal.
By Esmoore Shurpit3 years ago in Motivation
Better Than Before
A few days into the new year, I, along with other Vocal writers, received an email from Vocal summing up my 2023 on the platform. The email also mentioned it was the best year yet for Vocal. While it may have been Vocal’s best year to date, it certainly wasn’t my best year on Vocal.
By R.S. Sillanpaa3 years ago in Motivation
Choose your business partner wisely and ruthlessly, or risk losing it all
Much has been written about this, yet we repeatedly make the same mistake: choosing the wrong partner for our business venture. Today, I'll share my own experience. A few years ago, I welcomed a financial professional from Wall Street to my team. I did so because I lacked financial expertise and needed complementary skills for my sales and marketing capabilities. While I had the right idea, my execution was poor. I was "seduced" by his Wall Street title, financial market knowledge, and ease in discussing multimillion-dollar transactions. Due to my insecurity and lack of due diligence, he bulldozed himself into the team. Unfortunately, my inability to see his "baggage" narcissism, arrogance, ego, and lack of integrity, led me to welcome a negative influence into my life. In short, by bringing him into my team, I gained financial skills but also introduced intolerable characteristics that damaged the entire team and, ultimately, the clients of my women empowerment and environmental practice.
By Andrea Zanon3 years ago in Motivation
A Heartwarming Gesture
Once, amidst the hurried sirens tearing through the air, a sudden announcement echoed from the trauma center's microphone at a government hospital. "Attention, please. The attendants of the patient in Emergency Bed Number Three, kindly proceed to the gate immediately."
By RAJEEV VERMA3 years ago in Motivation
Changes to Make in 2024
Just like that, 2023 is over and done with. Thank goodness! I feel 2023 has truly been full of challenges, obstacles, goals, and accomplishments. We have been through the whole ride on a rollercoaster that I was ready to jump off of! This year, we will make 2024 worth our dreams and hustle.
By Tiffany C3 years ago in Motivation
Fighting My Own Demons
As the words resolutions and goals dance across my social media page, I can feel the pressure increase in my chest with every post I scroll by. Something akin to a herd of elephants tap dancing on my spinal cord renders me temporarily paralyzed both mentally and physically. "What is it that I really hope to accomplish in the year 2024 as a creator"?, I ask myself. Every year I aspire to write more, challenge my creativity more, and somehow end up with a finished product before the year ends. Unfortunately, every year prior to joining vocal, I would start strong and somewhere along the lines I would begin to fall off with consistency. Vocal provided me with something I couldn't seem to set for myself, DEADLINES. When I'm made aware that I don't have an infinite time to get something accomplished, I have more discipline to buckle down and execute the task. Plus, when you know you've paid for a subscription, you get a little extra push to actually utilize it. My first aspiration for 2024 as a vocal creator, is experimentation.
By ImperfectlyPerfect3 years ago in Motivation
Simply Me.. Top Story - February 2024. Content Warning.
I'll start this off by saying that if I had to choose a word for this next year on Vocal, it would be Discovery. Vocal has been my breakthrough for my writing. What I mean by that, is I have enjoyed writing since I can remember. As a child, and into my teens I loved writing poems and song lyrics, and eventually started writing fictional love stories. But then I became an adult, and that life hit me like a freight train. Writing fell on the back burner for many years, even though I still had a desire deep down to continue it. I always let life get in the way though. And then, in my early 30's I ran across the Vocal platform. A spark lit back up in me, just a small one though. Because unfortunately at the time I was stuck in an unhealthy addiction which consumed my time and energy. So I signed up for the yearly subscription, and started to write. And boy did I write, for several months in fact. But sadly a year down the road I looked at my progress, and all I had to show for it were a bunch of unfinished drafts. I was going through so much I didn't really have the ability or attention span to commit myself to what I so badly wanted to do. With that being said, and before I can talk about my goals and aspirations for this new year on Vocal, I need to give you a bit more insight into my past.
By Tressa Rose3 years ago in Motivation
The Triangle for Progress To Success. Content Warning.
Achievement is an immediate consequence of applying the right standards to your expert life and your own life. The inquiry are the right standards to apply to make progress? Throughout the long stretches of examining, four essential standards of progress keep on surfacing from the antiquated essayists. I call these four standards the triangle of accomplishment.
By Artical Media3 years ago in Motivation
