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8 Things You Should Know About Life
1. You learn from failure. As you go through the trials and tribulations of life, you'll always find yourself staring in the face of hard decisions, and when you're faced with these decisions, what would you do? Lie down and die? No, that's not an option. You'd fight back and you may lose but that's the beauty of failure, you learn from it. Mistakes only pave the way to success
By Kameron Brazzle7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 22
Hey Y'all and welcome to day twenty-two! Thanks for bearing with me through that double feature yesterday. Just a lot of craziness this week and no possible way to control it. Hope you had fun with it yesterday! Here's the quote of the day: "Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed." - Ray Bradbury (Yeah, I really like him, can you tell?)
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
Dear Body: You Are Worthy, and You Are More Than Enough
You will have less than perfect days, but it’s okay because guess what? It’s normal! You're only human, and you are not REQUIRED to be perfect and at 100 percent all the time. Being 100 percent okay all the time is exhausting. It’s okay to have your moments, but don’t stay in those moments, those lows, for too long. Because you have so ,so much to be grateful for and a lot to celebrate.
By Vi Let7 years ago in Motivation
The List: How to Be a Success
Do you recognise this list? Go to preschool – play nicely Go to primary school – do what teacher tells you Go to secondary school so you can go to college/sixth-form Go to college/sixth-form so you can go to university Do well at university so you can get a good job Get promoted Start a serious long-term relationship Get promoted Get married Get promoted Buy a house Get promoted Have children Some more promotions Set children on above path Retire
By Lirael Lightwood7 years ago in Motivation
Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time, there was a lady that died from breaking her own heart. She was asleep for a long while in the after, dreaming about the very life she left behind her. She dreamt of her life, as if she was reliving every moment again. She relived all of her youth, and boy was it exciting. She smiled, and laughed. She ran, and played. She made friends and even had to fight once or twice. She had darker moments from her youth creep into her dream and threaten to turn it to a nightmare. But she held onto her child like consciousness in her death sleep. And was always able to forgive and move on with grace.
By Christina Marie Martin7 years ago in Motivation
What Can We Learn from Viagra
It was the year 1989. The scientists at Pfizer started to develop a breakthrough medicine for the high blood pressure and chest pain. It was supposed to cure chest pain associated with coronary heart disease. Eventually, the magic substance was created—Sildenafil.
By Toni Koraza7 years ago in Motivation
Take a Risk
We wake up, shower, go to work, come home eat dinner, pay our bills, (if we aren’t too tired we work out) and go to bed. Repeat the next day, and the next day until it becomes automatic, practically mechanical. There’s hardly anytime to do the things we enjoy anymore because there’s so much stress about the bills or you are working long hours and are just plain tired. We get so used to having to do the same thing daily that we fall into a rut and eventually become unhappy with our lives. You’ve been there, I’ve been there. It’s not fun. I was in that rut about two years ago. My husband and I were living in New York and working long hours, sometimes two jobs at once and we were miserable. It was a routine, we got up went to work cane home and went to bed. We both knew this was not living and we needed a change we were just scared to take the leap. Actually, correction - I was scared to take the leap. His idea was to move to Florida. Neither of us had been since we were kids who visited Disney so this would be a big change for us. His mom and sister had just moved down there a year ago and it sparked his curiosity of what life would be like. I, on the other hand, hadn’t dreamed of leaving New York. This was my home. My whole family was here and the idea of living nearly 1,000 miles away gave me anxiety. We had a house already, good jobs, a dog and tons of friends. I thought life was pretty good. It took about 4 months before I started to consider moving. Work was getting more demanding, it was cold and the snow would soon follow, going out with friends came to a lull and the bills just increased. I was at my wits end after a rough day and skidding on black ice when I cracked and told my husband let’s do it! Let’s move! At first he didn’t take me seriously, but the more we talked about it the more I realized maybe it’s what we both needed. That was February of 2016. That July we put the house for sale and by October it sold. It was happening I was moving to Florida. I watched as the real estate agent put the sold sign up in front of our house and all I could think was well we can’t back out now. We had a month before we needed to be out of the house for the new owners. We hosted a farewell party at our house the weekend before we moved. We had 30 of our friends show up for a wonderful night filled with laughs, pictures, stories...and goodbyes. The day we were moving my mom and sister spent the afternoon at our house. We did a few last minute things, ate lunch at my favorite restaurant and took tons of pictures. Our train to the airport was supposed to arrive at 6 PM. We got to the train station which was down the road from our house at 5:30 PM and just took in the last view of our neighborhood one last time. The train pulled in at 6 on the dot and I hugged my mom and sister as tight as I could when I said goodbye. We all cried and with tears in my eyes off we went to the airport. We were on the train for 45 minutes, making stops at different stations, picking up groups of different people. I observed them as they each boarded the train. Each group was out having a great night with their friends and significant others laughing and enjoying themselves while I sat there thinking how my life was going to change drastically. We finally arrived at the airport and the nerves started setting in. Were we making a mistake? What if we don’t find jobs? What if we don’t like Florida? Will we be happier? What if what if what if! I grabbed some Dunkin’ Donuts ice coffee and calmed myself down at the gate. I started to change my though process from worrying to thinking of all the possibilities. My husband and I boarded the plane took some selfies and told ourselves there was no going back. As we took off, I saw New York City from my window seat. I watched as all the colors of the city lights danced acrosss the ocean surrounding it. And then the lights gradually became smaller and smaller intil outside faded to black. I thought goodbye home and I silently cried in my seat.
By Gina Marie Ambrogio7 years ago in Motivation
Loving Yourself 101
I’ve had a very hard time coming to love myself. I’m an insecure person, I don’t have much confidence in me. No reason, I just do. I’m pretty sure a lot can relate, especially if you’re a teenager. I’ve realized this in the past few years 'til now, I was always a negative person. I would jump to conclusions, think of the worst and never be happy with the choices I made. I always thought "nothing good isgoing to happen for me" or "I’m alwaysgonna stay unhappy." I would fill my head with these thoughts and just lock myself into my own little world. Eventually I decided that I wanted to open up that lock. I stepped outside and I took it in—the more you learn to love yourself each day, it’s amazing how your life can get better in an instant. I felt better. I felt amazing. I learned to throw away all those negative thoughts in my head and replace them with positive and happy thoughts. I feel like in your mid to late teens especially, majority of us are going through this phase where we’re hiding from ourselves when in reality, we don’t even know who we are. We don’t know what we feel, we don't know what we want. Life, to me, is all about self discovery. Life gives you the chance to find yourself, who you are and what you’re meant to do. I love keeping the mindset that we have the ability to change for the better by loving ourselves and taking care of ourselves. It’s not selfish to love yourself. It’s important to love who you are, no matter who you think you are and who people say you are. No matter how many mistakes you’ve made in your life, you are perfect in your own way and no one can tell you otherwise. I certainly learned that the hard way. Loving yourself is having a deep appreciation for who you are, you accept every part of yourself; the imperfections, the embarrassments, the things you may sometimes fail at and all the great qualities along with that. For some people, they may not love themselves until they lose weight, 'til they get the job they want, or have the perfect boyfriend, etc. We tend to put conditions on our love but we don't realize that we don’t have to. We can love ourselves just the way we are. Who cares what people think?
By H S7 years ago in Motivation
Starting over at 28
Starting over at 28 There comes a point in everyone's life when you tend to see the things in your life you should have completed. For some it's college and others it's a career or family, but for me it was all of those things. I had stopped and looked at my life and realized that I was at the end of the road I had started down and needed to change direction.
By Tony Campbell7 years ago in Motivation
