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Advice that will put you on the path to success; tips, tricks and nuggets of wisdom from trusted experts and motivational mentors.
Spring Clean Yourself!
Spring is fast approaching with its warmer weather, brighter evenings and lambs frolicking in fields without a care. Spring is the time of year that everyone comes out of their winter hibernation and starts anew, trying to feel like they have their lives together and making sure everything is squeaky clean!
By Leigh Hooper5 years ago in Motivation
Ending Toxic Productivity!
I am done. I cannot stress this enough. I am done! No more working through an unobtainable list of things that I’ve told myself I need to do to somehow validate myself and my time. No more feeling like a failure for missing another HITT session because burpees repress human joy. No more beating myself up for not using my time to the fullest of my productivity.
By John Thacker5 years ago in Motivation
Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Writers Unite!
I walked into my dealership’s auto shop being met with friendly greetings and large smiles. As always, I saw my advisor handed over my car keys and made my way to the waiting area. I picked a seat off to myself where I could remove my mask and enjoy my slightly cold breakfast sandwich and coffee.
By J.J. Walker5 years ago in Motivation
Making It All Click Together
People who think they know me, actually buy my laid back, retro hippie vibe, it's-all-good, everything-just -falls-into-place aura. Little do they know what the woman behind the current is doing to produce that show! My life is a mosaic, a 10,000 piece puzzle that clicks together and seems pretty smooth, and is certainly productive and the trick is ridiculously simple. When your world is just not clicking together the way you would like, there are really simple steps to make that happen - it’s ridiculously simple and quite intuitive - but it took me a long time to realize what I needed to do.
By Rosanna Pittella5 years ago in Motivation
Organized Writers?
With the vast knowledge stored inside a writer's head it's hard to understand why they are so disorganized. I understand it because I am a writer. When a writer opens their eyes in the morning they suck in all the tiny details of the day. Every person we meet could be a potential character. We could express every color we see and every sound we hear. You will often see a writer with a hundred tiny notebooks scribbling away at any given moment. What's in these notebooks you ask? Thoughts for a new story line, characteristics of a person they saw, the feel of the day, or a detailed description of the bark on a tree. How does one keep all these thoughts organized?
By M.A.D5 years ago in Motivation
Are You Actually Focused On What You Do Want?
Today's blog entry once again comes off the back of having watched a short video on Facebook, this time by motivational speaker Rob Dial. It revolved around our thought patterns and what we actually choose to focus on, which ultimately then dictates our mood, our emotions, our behavior, and even our decision making. Now it may seem like this is yet another blog entry about the same old, same old, that I normally speak about, regarding our mindset and positive thinking, which is vitally important as it is let me add, but this message is slightly different. The message that Rob delivered actually got me thinking about my own personal mindset, and what I have been allowing myself to think about, which has ultimately been the contributing factor to why I often feel so stressed, frustrated, depressed, and anxious .The message is all summed up in just question, that being "are you actually focused on what you do want to happen in your life, or what you don't want to happen?" When you actually pause for a moment to think about all the thoughts that run through your head throughout the day, and then marry them up to the emotions you feel, or even the way in which you react to them, quite often it's as a result of negative forward thinking. Now what I mean by that is we have, for so long, allowed our minds to focus on potential outcomes in the future, but the downside to this is that we focus on what we don't want to happen rather than what we do. It's just typical human nature that we always focus on the negatives in life, and we do so because the negatives have the potential to impact on our survival and the way in which we live, but this negative way of thinking is also what often leads us to creating those exact results we don't want.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
Inspired By A Model
When you’re a kid staring aimlessly at the TV set after school, you wonder about all of the amazing things you can be when you grow-up. Your eyes are full of wonder and your imagination runs wild with possibilities. My parents told me I could be anything if I tried hard enough. I watched America’s Next Top Model (ANTM) for hours on end. I wanted to be a model. I thought that I could be just like self-made fashion icon Tyra Banks. It never occurred to me that I was too plus size for the fashion industry until I actually got there. I had always had low-self esteem, but I thought that if I could break the mold on plus-size modeling, I would be a fashion icon before I turned thirty.
By Emmy Savitzky5 years ago in Motivation
Be Your Own Champion
There’s a reason ‘so much to do, so little time’ has become a staple in society. We’re all overwhelmed by the quiet chaos of adulthood, but imagine, if you will, attempting to navigate this with a case of ADHD so textbook you lost interest halfway through the formal diagnosis process. I was the kid who could never sit still, the teenager who tore sheets into tiny squares in an attempt to stay seated, and the university student who recorded every lecture and wrote out each one word for word over the course of two hours a pop just so I could find the handful of notes that mattered. I was the new mother who planned every half hour of every day on a weekly schedule simply to function: when to eat, when to clean, when to sleep. I planned it all.
By Bree Beadman5 years ago in Motivation
Don't do it because you have to
It's a chore, it's a drag, it's the worst thing ever. All of it. Whatever it may be for you. Cleaning, organizing, exercising, budgeting, eating healthy food, keeping track, doing the thing, doing the other thing, the endlessness of it all. It's so overwhelming, it can paralyze us, it can be so much easier to just not. do. anything. And when you feel that way, if you're like me, there's no motivational quote that will pull you out of it, no drive, no will, no desire to just do it even if somewhere in you, you do desire to do it.
By R Sirohi5 years ago in Motivation
Why loving yourself is the hardest easiest thing you'll ever do.
The internets are littered with “love yourself,” get right within, self-care type bullshit. Trust me, loving yourself is as important as necessary, so a good portion of those posts probably contain beneficial stuff. In fact, the supple bosom of the interwebs is where found I found the tender embrace of Brene Brown, Lorin Ken, and The Holistic Psychologist. It’s where I would turn to daily to hear an uplifting word from Marianne Williamson, Deepak, Iyanla, or Abraham Hicks (yes beloved, your girl has been in the work, in the mud, the gym… you get it).
By Miriam Gray5 years ago in Motivation
Think Pink
Imagine having a passion within your heart that drives you daily to search for its meaning, to search for its substance, to search for its fulfillment. However, all that is tangible to you is your mindset. The only thing you have in your grasp is your mindset. The only thing that no one else can control is your mindset unless you hand it over to them. Change your thinking and change your world. In other words, everything else is like finding a treasure with blinders on. You are not able to hear any direction. You are not able to feel your way. However, deep within, you know there is a tugging, there is a fire that won't quit. You know you will not be satisfied until that thirst is quenched. No matter the situations and circumstances you know you gotta keep going. And if you did not know any better, you may get caught up in believing that there is a system in place on purpose that keeps you from consciously awakening to becoming your greatest self. Your mindset is the key to unlock your door of fulfillment and destiny.
By Shirley Gammage5 years ago in Motivation
