self help
Self help, because you are your greatest asset.
Making 2019 Your BEST Year Yet
How often do we maintain our New Year's Resolutions? For most, we can endure the change for a few weeks, maybe a month, before slipping back into our old habits. But why is this? Why would committing to something that is beneficial to us be a burden instead of a priority?
By Kristin Wilson7 years ago in Motivation
Learning to Love Myself
Before this year I had spent most of my life craving and begging for validation and acceptance from my relationships with others. My decisions based upon the reactions I wanted from those around me and my heart constantly searching for a person to come around and validate that I was worthy of attention and admiration. Each relationship I held with a death grip, afraid to lose that sense of self-worth that I had defined based upon the affirmations that they spoke. When they were drained by my constant need of reassurance and broke away from me, I was left with this sense of feeling worthless and broken. On to the next, I searched for another person to complete in me what was broken, learning nothing from the time before.
By ThisCouldGetPersonal: Ask Kat7 years ago in Motivation
Oh Look a Squirrel
I wasn’t going to write anything tonight or for the next few, days but I have some thoughts I need to get down. I’m not one for New Years. I don’t need a party or a bar or a club, in fact I’ll probably be asleep by 10 PM tonight, which is my norm. However, I understand that New Years night and day are important for many.
By Vincent Graziano7 years ago in Motivation
The Power of Habit. Top Story - January 2019.
December is an interesting month for most of the modern world as people get together with their families, eat a surplus amount of food, and exchange gifts or perform other religious acts. This holiday is quickly followed by an entire week of shopping deals, in which people are likely to participate considering they are still in the "money-spending mood."
By Justin Gignac7 years ago in Motivation
Thoughts of a Strong 22-Year-Old Woman
I never dreamed life would be so hard. As a child, you think adults have it easy. You can’t wait to be one. I will forever reassure children being an adult is no fun. The only fun part is you don’t have any rules from your parents. However, I promise you will want those silly rules back.
By Madison Stant7 years ago in Motivation
Inner Purpose Journal (January '18)
(1/1/18) A good day. My purpose becomes more and more clear each day. The plan is there, the assistance is there, I just have to play my part. Do what I'm supposed to do. Love God. Love people. There is a lot I was put on this earth to create; it's game time now. The lights are on, it's time to perform. Continue to Learn. Continue to Grow.
By Balance Period7 years ago in Motivation
Dear Universe
"Dear God" comes from one of my favorite books, The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Another story of the underdog woman, who rises strong within herself, finds love, and reunites with her long lost sister and children. A story that sings pain and fairytale like triumphedness. I find that a lot of my mentors find that I am not yet all that I could be in this life. I find that I am pushing myself to be greatness and achieve a sort of grand, unrealistic homeostasis. I wanted the relationship, the scholarship, the fantastic grades, the spiritual apex, the "Queen of the World," the justice for my people, a story where a woman like myself could rise grand out of the shadows with perfection and a strength unlike anything ever seen.
By SAYHERNAME Morgan Sankofa7 years ago in Motivation
Breath
12/21/2018—I've lived in Pennsylvania for three months now after living in Central Illinois and Greater Buffalo area in New York the past several years. I was accustomed to the bitter winds and blizzard-like conditions that those states offered in abundance. So while one evening, on a warm December day in Pennsylvania, I sat on my balcony and checked the temperature on my smartphone, it flashed 60 degrees Fahrenheit across the screen, and I thought to myself, "This is unusually warm. I can't believe it's almost Christmas and it's this warm outside!" I then decided to take a break from my busy day of cleaning and allowed myself to take in the sight of the distant tree-covered hills, and the busy sounds of passing cars on a nearby highway.
By RMcKittrick7 years ago in Motivation
The Struggle Is Real
Falling into a pit of utter failure while eating your last box of rice and beans can feel a bit like you will never get out. Some days it may be struggle to get out of bed because you feel like you are going to get nowhere or that you just can’t do it. Getting sucked into your negative thoughts as if they are a vacuum piling the dirt and dust of your life, all into one spot. Stagnate and stuck like it’s never going to go away.
By Salina Lehn7 years ago in Motivation
Who Am I?
Everyone wonders who they are at some point of time or another. Some get the answers they're searching for, while others keep searching for years and years until they finally either die or give up and move on. Who you are and who you're supposed to be are two completely different things. Maybe you're supposed to be the perfect child and follow in the footsteps of your parents or grandparents. That doesn't mean that's who you are. In order to find out who you are, you must journey that path alone. The people you meet along the way will help you discover the answers you so desperately seek, but that's all they can do.
By Keri Gordon7 years ago in Motivation
