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You Are a Bad Little Beauty
It was March 2013. I was a single mother of a 3 year-old and 4 month old. I had just gotten us a little, income based apartment. The first home I had provided to my daughter, and now son on my own. My husband, the father of my children, had left me two months after we were married.
By Bad Little Beauty7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 18
Hello everyone! Welcome to day eighteen! I'm currently sick as a dog and trying not to die (I might be slightly overreacting). But it gives me time to sit at home and write while I'm trying and failing to breathe through my nose. Hope everyone else is feeling better than I am! Anyway, the quote of the day is: "The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has no peace until then." - William Faulkner
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
Without Struggle There's No Growth
When looking around the world the media portrays conflict as this heart wrenching, diabolical Goliath that only seeks to twist and bend life into submission. Conflict is brutality and the worst of human beings. It is the loss and destruction of pieces of humanity that we hold sacred. Innocence, pleasure, happiness and comfort are lost within conflict with nothing to gain except...experience?
By Steven Altman7 years ago in Motivation
Ask and You Shall Receive
It's not out of the ordinary for so many of us to feel stuck at various points in our lives. To feel like we are alone and that no one wants to help us. For several years I felt like that and a lot of my life I spent solving things all on my own.
By Eric Burdon7 years ago in Motivation
What Is Holding You Back?
How often do you say "I should" to yourself? I was contemplating this concept as I was teaching this to a client who constantly focuses on their flaws instead of their strengths. But really don't we all do this? I should be cleaning right now. I should be a CEO by now. I should have a larger savings. I should be as good of a mom as Amy. Should, should, should. Such a self deprecating concept. And worse more comparative. How in one word can be admonish ourselves while comparing our status to ideals and thus begin us on a spiraling path of worry and anxiety.
By Hannah Craig7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 17
Hey everyone! Welcome to day 17! If it's your first time reading one of my posts, welcome and go back and read the other sixteen! Just kidding... no, I'm not. Anyway, welcome to day seventeen and I hope everyone is following along and writing along. Here is my positive writing quote for the day: "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
How Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life
I know that when someone drops a title like "How Jiu Jitsu Saved My Life," people are expecting a badass story about choking guys out that tried to attack me and how I fought them off with complete ease. That's not what this story is about. This is how BJJ saved me from myself. I'm going to to drone on a little bit here but I want you (the reader) to bear with me because it is very relevant to the point I am trying to make.
By James Gough7 years ago in Motivation
Hello, World
Things always happens for a reason. They is no greatness without hard work. There is no winning without effort. There is no change without sacrifice. And as long as life passes by most people discover that. Some younger, others older, some even go through life without really understanding what this idea of pushing yourself to a goal means.
By Rodrigo Gomes7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 16
Hey everyone! Welcome to Day 16! Hope everyone is still writing along. I'm writing as my two-year-old naps so... let's get started before she wakes up. The quote for today is one of my personal favorites: "This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard." - Neil Gaiman
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
The Choice
The sun shone through the tree standing strong in front of me as the fresh morning winds danced; a glowing ball of light, a crown of multi-colored rays gleamed as an aura encompassing the God of the sky. Looking so near to me, feeling as if I reached out just far enough, I could touch the lights. I tilted my head back, exhaling a gentle breath of smoke, leaves of yellow stretched out into the backdrop of the luminous skies; their colors illuminating presence of pure magic.
By ~Ray~ Quintas7 years ago in Motivation
