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Burnout happens when you avoid being honest with yourself that you are human, for too long
There are different ways to define, measure and build resilience. The most common approach is to look at how “fast one gets back up” when one has fallen, failed, or burnt. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines resilience as the ability to become strong, healthy or successful again after something bad happens; the ability of something to return to its original shape after it has been pulled, stretched, bent, etc.; an ability to recover from or adjust daily to misfortune or change.
By Anna Kopacz5 years ago in Motivation
In Productivity, What Are Sprints?
Productivity, like most every discipline, has its own terminology. And that terminology is constantly changing and evolving. Like my Cobol professor used to say, “They changed the names to confuse the innocent and protect the guilty.”
By Darryl Brooks5 years ago in Motivation
Self Love
There have been numerous accounts where someone has pointed fingers at me, talked about me, laughed at me, or even just made fun of the way that I looked to THEM. I have always wondered what it was about me that someone didn't like or why at school or in public I would be the laughing stock of the day? Was it because of my skin color? How about the texture of my hair? or maybe it was because of my weight! And for so many years I have always felt like I had to do something about the way that I looked and my approach to my everyday life when being around or involved with others. I would always cry myself to sleep, miss out on school, get nervous when I am in public, and even tried fasting before....completely insane choices I made just to feel like I fit in with everyone else. I think that the biggest issue when it comes to loving yourself a certain way or finding that confidence for yourself is 'society'! Society is filled with cruel, angry, insecure monsters that don't feel good about themselves, so they tend to take it out on someone else and make that person feel like they are worthless, useless, ugly, fat, or just don't fit in with the world! Because of other people I never went out publicly, because of other people I never dressed up for me, because of other people I never do my hair often, because of other people I am sad inside, because of other people I do not love my body, and because of other people I do not love my skin! I have allowed so many people talk me down from feeling wonderful and it hurts me to know that because of them I let myself go completely. It took me 9 years (I am now 19) to bottle up all of that and stop crying just because of some comments that someone made about me because of their insecurities! I didn't know what 'self love' was all about until I met my fiance... he makes me feel so beautiful, he makes me feel like I am the only woman that he sees, he makes me feel glamorous, and he makes me feel like I don't have to prove this world anything at all and I absolutely love him for that. I love him for showing me that all it takes 'is' love and devotion to what you want to do and if it leads you somewhere it will lead you where you need to be! So what I am saying is that don't ever allow someone to make you feel like you have to hate yourself, don't allow anyone to make you feel like you aren't worth it, that you can never be beautiful in your own body because at the end of the day...they aren't happy with themselves! Continue wearing that dress that you want to wear, continue making up your face, continue wearing heels, and continue loving you for who you are not for what someone wants you to be! Self love starts with 'you' and you can do what you want to do, so f*$k what someone says about you because you are beautiful inside and out...never let anyone break your confidence because of what they're going through! Do this and you can be all you want and more, and remember God loves you for you and I love you for you too. Thank You so much for taking the time out to read my story I have held this in for a long time now trying to find the right words to say, and I finally did it! Please like and comment what you think I would really appreciate it <3!
By Kitanna Covington5 years ago in Motivation
3 Highly Effective Tips To Crush Your Next Writing Project
Having great writing skills is a blessing in disguise. But this blessing comes at a cost. And, it is not god-given. Every popular writer you see was average in their initial days. And, the writing skills they has got today was because they never gave up on it.
By Abhi Thakur5 years ago in Motivation
We Get In Our Feelings Sometimes
Sometimes, we can really get in our feelings. And the thing is, people misunderstand that. They think, oh he/she is being mean, but they don’t know why. When people say that, its not personal. But people take it out of context. It could mean any number of things. A loved one passed away many years ago and we still dwell on what happened to that person.
By Nerissha Hunt5 years ago in Motivation
On Writing
It is in the ordinary of everyday housework that words decide to tumble into my head. Doing laundry, sweeping the floor, and making the bed are all good conduits for imagination, but none of these chores inspire my inner-writer quite like doing the dishes. Maybe it's the hot water that clears away the fog or the soap bubbles sparkling in the air like fairies. Then again maybe it's the repetitive nature of grabbing, rinsing, washing, rinsing, and drying, that allows the two hemispheres of my brain (logic and creativity) to communicate with each other effortlessly. Either way, for a long time, my solution for writer's block has simply been to do the dishes.
By Emily Flanagan 5 years ago in Motivation
The Faith and Confidence correlation
I think that our inner beliefs in the unknown, what we are willing to risk emotionally and energetically and what we have been shown as pattens from the outside ( external world) will be a consequence of our actions guides our steps as who we are in the world.
By SAYHERNAME Morgan Sankofa5 years ago in Motivation
Career Choice
A common belief that has been created by society is that work is simply not meant to be enjoyed, and that it is nothing more than a legal means of generating money, in order to survive. Think about how many times you hear your friends complain about how much they hate their job, or the number of times your workmates whinge about how much the manager, the working conditions, the customers, and the company sucks. Perhaps you only need to go as far as your own words and opinions about your job, and realize how much you also dislike it, and how much you actually whinge and complain about it yourself? Well, if it is in any way comforting, you're certainly in the overwhelming majority of people globally, who also hate their job. Studies have revealed that nearly 9 out of every 10 people dislike or hate their job. That's a pretty damning statistic, made even worse by the fact that for nearly a third of our life, between the age of 18 and 65, we find ourselves at our job, or running our business. When you consider that another third of that time is spent sleeping, that leaves us with just one third of our life, over those 45 years, to be potentially doing activities we actually enjoy. Even within that final third, there are still the basic tasks that consume our time, such as cooking, eating, showering, and cleaning, further reducing any time that we can be doing the things in life we really enjoy, such as traveling, spending time with our family, socializing with our friends, and engaging in our hobbies. Now let's be honest, in those 45 years though, despite those brief periods of doing the things we love, work is always there enveloping in this bubble of unhappiness, because it is such a dominant aspect of our life. We may love and value our sleep, we may enjoy and relish in the time outside of work, but there still lies that 33% of time that we are unhappy, and that's well and truly enough to drag our whole attitude down.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
