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Who Says I'm Not Good Enough? Oh, Right—I Do
It's Sunday morning and so far I'm the only one in my house who's awake. I'm enjoying my coffee and the peace and quiet - or I'm trying to, anyways. The truth is, underneath that early Sunday stillness, there still exists that voice. The one I've been trying to satisfy for as long as I can remember.
By Chrissy Shaw7 years ago in Motivation
Help! I Don’t Think I’m an Adult
Are you required to have a job to be a grown up? When you think of an adult, what do you see? I see someone with a briefcase. I don't know why that's the first image that pops into my head, but society has conditioned us to connect things together, and that's what I connect. It's no secret that society has expectations for what people need to be. A briefcase is linked to a career, which you need to have if you're an adult. I guess I expect someone that is an adult to have a house, a job, a family, and have it all figured out. What if your life isn't stereotypical?
By Amanda Doyle7 years ago in Motivation
My Other World
There is nothing like that feeling of first seeing those waves. The feeling of awe, that longing to stay forever. The sound that soothes your soul. No therapy session can touch what this place does to me. My most difficult days are washed away and left at shore.
By Ashly Arbes7 years ago in Motivation
Help Me
Day in a day out we ask ourselves, what are the 10 ways to be successful, what are the 5 ways to be beautiful, what are the 7 ways to be a millionaire? Everything is about me, myself and I. Why don't you sometimes try this, what are the 4 steps to help the person next to me live his dream, what are the 7 steps to impact, inspire, and put a smile on the person's face? Statistics shows that 90% of successful people are still not happy; this is because fulfillment comes from helping the one next to you. This is why some rich people tend to give back to society. Generosity is a way of helping others without expecting anything in return. Generosity is not an equation, like I helped you out so he also should hold me down. Not all of us have money or other resources to help others, but our time, love, and assistance to others can mean a lot and can be worth more than money. It doesn't take only money or sophisticated resources to impact, inspire, and put a smile on people's face.
By Andy Akoto7 years ago in Motivation
Five Reasons Why You Need to Fail a Lot
It sounds weird when you first read it, but you need to fail a lot and often if you ever want to succeed in anything. Many of the greatest successes are built on hundreds and even thousands of failures that paved the way.
By Justin Monsanto7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 24
Hey guys! Welcome to day twenty-four. I'm kind of sad that we're on our last week. This has actually been a lot of fun and I've really enjoyed talking to all of you. Anyway, I hope you will continue to write and here is a quote to keep you motivated to write by another amazing writer: "Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised." - John Steinbeck
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
Find Your Strength
Where does strength come from? How can we obtain it? I always used to ask myself those questions. Always wondering why I was not strong enough, mentally. It felt like the world was against me, and I was alone, tarnishing away. I didn't have a clue how to become strong, but one day I had enough.
By Courtney Morgan7 years ago in Motivation
Are You a Lost Soul?
Introducing Your Soul I'm sure you've heard the idea that we all have souls. But what does this really mean? Consider the idea that every person is born with an individual life path with each person or aka "soul" comes a unique life with different opportunities and struggles.
By Autumn Leann7 years ago in Motivation
The Fear of Reflection
As a 29-year-old American woman of mixed descent, daughter of a lesbian, who has never met her biological father, my entire life has been about trying to figure out who I am in a society where it’s not easy to be accepted when you’re different from the “norm.” As a child I grew up in a rural Ohio town full of seemingly closed-minded people. I first realized that my family wasn’t like others when I was in elementary school. My older sister and I have the same biological father, who is African-American, and that made us two of the only “darker” kids at our school and in our small town. I never met him because he split from my mom when I was born. Strike one. Our mother, a proud Army veteran who is now very openly gay, married a man who became my adopted father. We didn’t look anything like him, or my Caucasian mother for that matter, and people noticed. Strike two. We didn’t come from great means, and I wore my sisters raggedy hand-me-downs for years. My parents had no idea how to style my kinky, fuzzy hair so I always looked disheveled. Strike three.
By Align and Incline Ash and India7 years ago in Motivation
Black Rose
Emotions are a twisted thing. They come and go whenever they please, usually in some kind of response to a situation. We have names for them: sad, excited, angry, frustrated, etc. But these names don’t do them justice. Emotions are more than words. More than the moment they are. Emotions are the colors of the human mind and spirit. Formed in such a way that you cant tell what it is. Have you ever felt red? Blue? Grey? You have. You just dont know it. Emotions are unpredictable when youre alone. When surrounded by people, its easy to fake it if the moment calls for it. Maybe your response is true. Only you will really know that. But when youre alone, you have no one to mirror. There is no ones else to tell you if you are reacting appropriately. So you dont react at all. You keep a straight face and internalize it all. You dont want to be weird, after all. Even if theres no one looking, you know what you did. When youre alone, what do you feel? Sadness? Loneliness? Isolation? Maybe. But have you ever felt happiness while alone? Not in reaction to a memory, but true, pure happiness? When everything is exactly how you want it to be and there is nothing to worry about? When you trust that everything that has happened so far has all been for a reason? When you believe that everything is going to fall correctly into place? I cant answer that for you, but I can tell you one thing. Happiness is like a black rose. So rare, so twisted, yet so magnificent and beautiful. You dont think about it because youve never seen one, but when you see it with someone else, you want it. You think of all the ways you would care for it. All the ways you would maintain it. Everything you would do to protect it. But its not yours. The question is, will you work for it? Will you try to achieve happiness? What is happiness for you? What will you do when you have it? Will you be satisfied? They say that human greed is like an endless pit. You yearn for something, but once you have it, you want something more. But what comes next? Love? Love for what? A person? A moment? A gift? Loving someone is difficult. Especially when the feelings aren’t reciprocated. You achieve your black rose and begin to pluck the petals. Loves me, loves me not. Loves me, loves me not. But when the last petal is plucked, what happens? Is that really the deciding factor? Of course it is! Unless we get an answer that we dont like. Then we try again. And again. And again. It never crosses our minds that the subject of our affection may be doing exactly what we are doing. However, the possibility that we are not their goal is a crushing reality and confrontation is a sin. So we continue the vicious cycle. Loves me, loves me not. They say that its impossible to love someone without first having self love. Another black rose. But instead of plucking the petals, this is a rose that must be maintained. Cared for. Protected. You must watch for the people attempting to snip it at the bud. But how will you do this? Cut their hands off? No... confrontation is a sin. Move away? Seems like the best answer. So you move, careful not to drop you rose and carefully maintaining it the whole way. Where will you stop? When you get where you want. But what do you want? Only you can answer that.
By Dania Diab7 years ago in Motivation
