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Keep going Babe
Hi! My names Morgan. I’m a 28 year old hairstylist and I’m here to tell you. Struggle happens. And it’s not biased. It happens to everyone. I’m just here to tell you it’s okay and it does get better. I know more need to hear that. I just wanted to showcase my story to show you with hard work and determination. Anything really is possible. Growing up. Things were kinda rough. We had stuff but not the nicest but we were fine. We had a roof, we had food, we had family. As I got older, I realized part of my family wasn’t completely about my best interest. Essentially didn’t want me doing better than them and I had to get away from that. So here I was, my boyfriend, myself, our 2 year old daughter, and our dog. We needed to get out on our own so we could have a good life and make an even better one for our daughter. We thought we were going to be homeless for a little bit but someone stepped in to help us out before we finally found our own house. I thought I could finally breathe. I could laugh at myself now for ever thinking that. Financial issues hit. Big ones. Business was slow at work so my paychecks weren’t what I was used to. Then all the end of the year bills started piling in. I was drowning. Didn’t have enough money for anything. Bank account always overdrawn. It’s really hard. Especially with a little one. Everything makes you feel guilty. So I talked to my boss. She helped me make up a plan on what I need to do. I’ve been busting my butt getting more clients at work. I picked up side jobs here and there. And yes. You might be tired. But a good nights sleep is all you need. Just do it. You can relax later. It gets easier. Especially when you see your own growth. (In this case, more money) I’m definitely not out of the woods yet but I can see the light. And I’m okay with being tired. It happens. It’s not a bad problem to have. But just a few short months ago I just wanted to quit and give up on everything thinking I’ll never get out of this. Get your head out of there girl. You don’t belong there. Truly believe you can do it and I promise you can. Nothing is bad forever. You are never not going to have problems in life. Literally never. You just have to decide which problems your okay with having. To me. Being tired isn’t that big of a deal. I can relax when I go to sleep. Not getting a lot of time to go out isn’t a big deal. I’ll get days off and extra money later if I push myself now. “Live like nobody does now, so you can live like everybody does later” best quote I ever read in a book. Grind, hustle, be your own friend if you have to. You’ll feel so much better about yourself in the long run.
By Morgan Baxter6 years ago in Motivation
Awakening the Soul
Self Love 2 Awaken your Soul Hello my beautiful souls! I hope that each and everyone of you are doing well this week. I thought I would write a weekly blog on self love improvement. Something I think that everyone can use now and again to remind us of all the beauty and love that we have inside us, that can unlock beautiful new beginnings, and adventures once we discover them. It can help us grow and share wonderful new insight for everyone else around us to experience as well. It’s a bit like an energy boost. It’s better than any social event you might attend. The love and joy other people will see in you is just the beginning of this journey that you will be discovering. When love and joy are present it’s like a contagious effect on others as well. They will want to know how your life is so wonderful all the time. Before your know it they will be trying to mimic what you have with you too. There’s no bigger complement when someone wants to follow in your footsteps. Self love is all about discovering your true inner self. You will find that once you start discovering it you will like the new you better than the old one. Life is but a journey that we take in this short time we have here on earth. It’s better to enjoy the process by knowing the inner self more deeply. I would like to take you on a journey with me of awakening your true inner self. First, I would like you to practice something very simple with me for this next week, and see how you feel after doing it. Start every morning for the next seven days, when you wake up, in bed by raising your arms above your head, then stretch your arms and legs. Next put your hands down by your sides. Before you sit up lay there and begin to practice deep breathing for 60 seconds through your nose only. Second take a very deep breath in through your nose and hold it for 30 seconds, then breath out deeply through your mouth. Then, rub your hands together and place them at center of chest in a prayer pose. Take a deep breath in and as you exhale create a vibration with the OM sound. Next lay there for 30 seconds and notice how much better you feel. Then as you begin to get out of bed, keep only positive thought in your mind. As you begin to get out in your busy day. begin to acknowledge people in a positive way. Greet them with a smile and positive words. Try to remain this way throughout your day. Try to practice deep breathing throughout your day even if you are sitting at your desk. driving, or walking around. You can also practice on your lunch time or if you get up to use the restroom during the day. Use any opportunity to throughout your day to breath and clear the energy from events or situations during the day. This helps balance your energy. Then before you go to bed do the same ritual as you did in the morning. Begin to notice how much better you feel. Each day will become better than the next. You will not only feel better but you will breath, sleep, and live better, the new you is just waiting for you to give it a nudge and show the world what you have to offer it. Until next week.
By Roxanne Casey6 years ago in Motivation
Sadness is an essential key to happiness.
Life is regularly, irregular, and although that is a contradiction in itself – it is one thing you can always count on. No one person is happy all the time, and if the world was constantly one big ball of happiness, fuck it would be boring.
By Brooke Lewis6 years ago in Motivation
5 Benefits of Taking an Extended Time Off
There are multiple benefits to taking time off to travel, discover new ambitions, or enhance your own sense of being in order to prepare for the next stages of your life. The concept of taking an extended time off from school or work has become progressively more popular and more widely acceptable in the past five to ten years. Increasingly, many new high school graduates, college students, and professionals are allowing themselves time between significant life changes for multiple various reasons. Recent studies show that there are many benefits to deferring important pivotal transitions in life. This usually occurs between two major life events such as after high school graduation and before college, between undergraduate school and graduate school, or after an extensive work project has been completed. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a full year; it can be three to six months or just a semester, depending on the situation and resources available. Many people these days can attest that simply stepping back from your current life path is a great way to refocus your energy and drive towards your overall self-development, career goals or professional paths.
By Mia Morales6 years ago in Motivation
Why is it so easy to stop feeling motivated ?
The main reason for losing motivation will be distractions. Distractions will arise every day, it may be something as simple as a friend asking you to go out to the pub. Now for most people that’s not a problem, but if you have goals to achieve and targets to meet then going to the boozer in your free time isn’t going to help you. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go out and have fun, just make sure you’re grinding whenever you have the chance.
By JCxlli6 years ago in Motivation
Merry Tuesday!
Merry Tuesday! I went for a “run” this morning and, much like my memory, it was short and slow. I have been nursing a shoulder injury and my dreams of training for a spring half marathon have been crushed by the sledge hammer of reality. It is a stunning day, sunny, crisp, a Tuesday, and incidentally it is December 25th.
By Heather Down6 years ago in Motivation
Creativity Is Not What You Think It Is
Often times in my life I have found people staring, gobsmacked, at a simple idea I have come up with and begun executing in my spare time. This is not because my idea was groundbreaking, nor because my execution of it was beyond the limits of mere creative mortals, but rather it is usually because they saw me doing the exact same thing with a wildly different idea last week. The fact that I finished that one and am now onto the next is for some odd reason, a foreign concept to them. This slack jawed observation is usually followed by a question that is rather curiously formed as a statement, because they assume they already know the answer. Of course as is true in most of life; they don't. The statement invariably goes something like this:
By Chalk TV6 years ago in Motivation
Rediscovering the Power of Saying "NO"
Think back to when you were a child - and I'm talking about a young child. There was likely a time when your favorite world in the entire English language was "no." Why do you think that is? Saying no made you feel strong and independent, and as if you were required to simply follow the instructions of others.
By The Couch Poet6 years ago in Motivation
6 Fighting Moves Against the Quater-life Crisis Blues
The dreaded quarter-life crisis. That point in your early twenties usually right after you graduate college where life becomes so unclear and murky. There is so much pressure to figure out your passion and career. Figure out how you are going to support yourself, find your significant other (if you want one), Start a family (if you want one), and try and figure out the rest of your life. It can be very overwhelming especially if you have dreams and they do not seem to be going where you want them to.
By Sarah Beattie6 years ago in Motivation
Am I Still EDB??
The year was 1984. Calling this a super productive year, would be without question an arguable statement... The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins, 38–9, to win Super Bowl XVIII in Tampa, Florida. TED (conference) founded. Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, announces his retirement. Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, a day before his 45th birthday. The Edmonton Oilers win The Stanley Cup, beating the defending champion New York Islanders by 4 games to 1. The Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers in 7 games to capture their 15th NBA Championship. Jeopardy! begins its syndicated version, with present-day host Alex Trebek. Republican President Ronald Reagan defeats Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia. Future U.S. Secretary of State and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry gets elected as the Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and was in office until 2013, when he resigned to become the Secretary of State, succeeding Hillary Clinton. White supremacist and Order leader Robert Jay Mathews is killed in a gun battle and fire during an FBI siege on Whidbey Island. And with all that going on around the world, smack in the middle east end of these states united sits a young baby full of opportunity.
By Erik DeSean Barrett6 years ago in Motivation
