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The Secret Gift Behind Your Pain
Your pain will be your advantage. People are motivated by two things in life, pain or pleasure. Whatever is going on in your life... it'll fade. It's the natural timing that happens with everything. The environment changes, politics change, seasons change, people change. This all happens automatically.
By Aceadia7 years ago in Motivation
The Killer Power of... Kindness?
Much of the music I hear these days isn’t very wise or inspirational; it seems to centre around the same subjects, which are often selfish, immoral or disrespectful. If I’m listening to music, I want to hear a melody (and a beat) that encourages/inspires/excites/soothes me. Cue Frozen’s "Let It Go"…
By Kel Hynds7 years ago in Motivation
Recipe for Living a Healthy and Stress-Reduced Life
Staying healthy is like baking a perfect cookie. All you need are the right ingredients. What tends to happen with health, though, is, all too often, people tackle getting healthy by doing too much at once. That never works!
By Steven Walker7 years ago in Motivation
Giving Life the Bitch Stare
One of the things I can’t stand is how life has a way of slapping you in the face and then leaving you with the red mark and agonizing pain. Lately, life has been slapping me in the face, and I am not sure why. In my opinion, life slaps me in the face when I set my mind on something and it doesn’t work out or when I swear to start my day off positive and BAM! Something annoying and unnecessary happens. When these different things happen, I want to give life the bitch stare; I want to look at my life and say, "Come on now, give me a break because you’re doing the most and I am at my breaking point." I often have these moments because I realize that I am not in a position in my life that I want to be in, and for some reason, life keeps on going no matter what. I want to give life the bitch stare when it takes a toll on people that are close to me, mainly when their life moments affect my life moments. For example, my husband is going through a lot right now, and if anyone hears his story, you would honestly think that life is purposely screwing him over. My husband and I are a team, so we are going to get through these things together, but damn can we get a break for just a moment? Today I found myself just sitting inside the house all day because it was just way too hot to go outside. A part of me wanted to take the risk and go out with the kids anyway, but instead of doing that I stayed in the house and thought to myself, "Why is my life so dull right now?" This moment made me want to give life the bitch stare because I wanted to be closer to my family, which ended up leading me to the state of Georgia at the beginning of summer; so, of course, it was going to be crazy hot outside. Life has been kicking my ass so bad lately because I don’t have any control of it and I am not sure when I finally will. I want to scream at my life and tell it, "Please be patient." Finally, I want to scrunch up my face, roll my eyes, and roll my neck as I give my life the final bitch stare, hoping that it takes the hint and straightens itself out.
By Maelyn Jeffers7 years ago in Motivation
10 Things I Wish I Knew at 20 Years Old
I'm writing this story because tomorrow I will be 29 years old and I will be at the point of no return, where it will be my last year being in the 20s. How do people feel when they're at their 20s? Rebellion? Freedom? Away from parents after they hound at us with knowledge and a lot of care (ex. Yelling at things that we shouldn't do or life advice and stories that we must take action on for our path to choose). For me, I was the kind of person where I let the nature of my emotions and the circumstances flow through as time went by. With that said, here are 10 things I wish I knew when I was at 20 years old.Note: You can watch my content video while reading this story. It's best to hear it as you read along.
By Ryan Wariki7 years ago in Motivation
How to Manifest an Abundant Life
Today, I wanted to share some of my ideas on how to create or manifest an abundant life for yourself, because, from my own experience, this is not something we are taught in school, or even encouraged to do, and we always want more money, but it's not something that is something we necessarily believe is possible and so, therefore, we don't try.
By Osana Lindsay7 years ago in Motivation
It's Time to Kick Insecurity's Ass
There have been countless times during my life when I dressed up in an outfit I loved, but changed it into something else because it wasn't really "me" or it was too "out of my comfort zone." But a few weeks ago, I started to think, "Why am I letting insecurity keeping me from doing what I want? Why do I care so much?"
By Kiomi7 years ago in Motivation
Financial Insecurity with Students and Self-Worth
It has come to my attention that a lot of students deal with financial insecurities, and it has influenced their day to day lives. Meanwhile, this is a time in their life where they should be experiencing life itself and accepting what they consider a “failure”as a lesson and using it as a tool to mold their future to what they would want it to be and support each other.
By Isabella Theresa7 years ago in Motivation
Finding My Self-Worth
The last six months or so have been one hell of a whirlwind journey for me. For some reason the universe decided to send me a wake up call of sorts. It wasn't until six months ago that I realized that I had fallen out of love with myself years ago. I hated the way I looked. I didn't believe people when they would compliment me or say good things about me. I always just thought that I was being humble once it came to that.
By Alix Nicole7 years ago in Motivation
The Virgin Vibe
This the point in my story where I'm leaning over the railing. No, I'm not going to jump! Quite the opposite really. It has been months since my old life came to a quick and sudden death. I was fabulously successful at letting it all go, and I mean all. I won't say it wasn't painful, even agonizing in the beginning. I won't say I didn't have a choice. I did. I could have stayed and lived exactly as I was, because, well, honestly, that's the easy thing to do. I knew what I risked, being homeless, broke, even hungry. I made my choice, and all those fears came true. I thought I would bounce right back. Start a new life in a new town and come out on top. I once was good at that.
By The Rajah Milla7 years ago in Motivation
