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What Do You Want?
2020 wasn't exactly one of the most memorable years for many individuals worldwide, not at least in a good sense anyway. With the spread of COVID-19, we not only witnessed the disease causing millions of deaths and cases of illness, all around the globe, but the flow on effect also resulted in numerous job losses, economic devastation, travel restrictions, and a real strangulation on our lifestyle. A couple of lessons that 2020 hopefully taught many people though was firstly, we should never take people or the blessings we have in life for granted, and secondly, we should be really careful what we wish for in the future. With these couple of lessons, I am of course firstly referring to the fact that we should ensure we cherish every moment we have with our loved ones, because we just never know what disease, illness, or tragic event, may lay around the corner, and our time with these precious people in our life, can be taken away in the blink of an eye. What I'm mainly referring to though, is employment. So many people constantly whinge and complain about their job, how much they hate it, how much they dislike the company they work for, how they hate the work they do, how they dislike their boss, and how they wish they didn't have to work at all. That wish came true for many people last year, but in typical human fashion, rather than comprehend how blessed and grateful they were to have had a job at all, whilst they were working there, and understanding how they were actually taking the blessing of having a job for granted, they instead shifted their focus to whinging and complaining about the fact they all of a sudden were facing life without an income. It was the government's fault, or it was this, or it was that!
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
A Day Of Rest
I was raised in a family who always acknowledged and respected Sundays as being a day of rest, and a day dedicated to quality family time. For much of my childhood, Sundays were regularly spent getting up and going to church with my parents and my sister, followed by a delicious Sunday roast lunch and an afternoon spent at Grandma and Grandpa's house, before my parents and my sister would return home together for Sunday dinner, whilst watching some wholesome family television shows together. Yep, those were the days. How I miss them so. I don't know whether it was the era itself, or the fact that I was a child, or even a combination of both, but it really felt like the world was so much more relaxed and family orientated back then. Shops and most businesses were all closed, with the only places open being a few petrol stations, corner delicatessens, and fast food outlets. Nowadays, if the shops are closed for just one day at all, such as for a public holiday, people carry on like the the world is going to end. Why have we gone from being a civilization who once viewed Sundays from exactly the same perspective as my parents taught me, being a day of rest and a family day, to becoming just another typical, average day of the week? Why is there all of a sudden this urgent need for clothes shops to be open on a Sunday? Why is there an urgent need to have any non-essential businesses, shops, and services open on a Sunday? The simple answer; money and greed! Corporations and certain business owners are so desperate for the dollars, they couldn't care less about rest days or family days. To them, life is all about profits, profits, and more profits, even if this comes at the expense of denying people the opportunity for family time and a day of rest. Now I'm not going to deny the convenience factor to many non-essential businesses being open on a Sunday, which is especially helpful to those who perhaps work full time Monday to Saturday, or even Monday to Friday, as it allows them that extra day to get shopping done, but why can't shops be open later during the week for flexibility instead?
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
Earn Money Blogging
There are plenty of people out there who have started their own blogs. Many have started them just for fun as a way to keep their friends and anyone else who may want to read updated on their daily lives. Then there are a lot of people out there who seek to have a blog that is more than just a daily rehashing of the things that happened throughout the day. These individuals want to actually make money from their blog. The problem is that these individuals more often than not fail to earn any reasonable amount of money because they either do not know how to make money through their blog, or they try to do way too much on the same blog and are unable to keep up.
By Scott Coleson5 years ago in Motivation
Earn Money Blogging
In our last post on the topic, How to Earn Money Blogging, we dealt with the question: Is blogging for me? I'm sure that you are very well aware of the fact that not everyone is cut out for blogging to earn money because it takes quite a bit of hard work and creativity. If you are reading this, then I would venture to guess that you are seriously considering the jump into blogging and probably wondering what you would blog about.
By Scott Coleson5 years ago in Motivation
When the Hard Work of Perfection is Done...
The most profound personal-growth seminars I lead are those that address our deepest fears or inabilities. What are we afraid of? Are there even "true" fears? Is there any way to overcome fear? Is there any way to find the source of fear?
By Omar Roldan5 years ago in Motivation
Just go with the flow
‘It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so deeply’ they say. And there it comes again the wave taking over all the stability I thought I’d finally caught up with the chaos. I guess you never really know when you’re about to take a plunge for the worst. I thought I was just going to be able to dive in head first in the vast ocean, but here comes the ripple effect. Except, low and behold, it’s a tsunami this time. A watery grave of emotions is rising to shore. I thought I’d finally get to the seaside, pick some seashells and bask in the morning sun, but here strikes a misfortune. That could have been avoided with a little reason and common sense. You’re swimming and swimming against the current now little pisces. Oh, little pisces, don’t be so overly dramatic, he just left you. You’ll recover and enjoy threading water again as the leaves fall and the years pass.
By Jessica Bertrand5 years ago in Motivation
LITTLE BLACK BOOK
- How did you get to be where you are? You smiled widely as the intense look filled with anticipation was awaiting your response. You knew this was the day as special as the day you had lived a while back, asking once the same question. The day stood so fresh in your memory it was like no time passed at all.
By Oksana Z.5 years ago in Motivation
It Hurts Me To Share This
The only place I want to be is right here-right now. This is it. This is all I need. I don’t have to write my thoughts down onto a sheet of paper. I don’t have to share them with other people. Half the time? The materials which I encounter on the regular aren’t even individual’s personal thoughts: they are either mimicking or interpreting what other people already said. Famous, historically significant people who’s shocking breakthrough led to some sort of immaculate discovery for humanity’s sake, or otherwise, became so significant that it garnered the traction of other people who didn’t know how to think for themselves and much less why!? of what benefit could it possibly be for a single person to develop their own thoughts? and especially because everything has already allegedly been done before! Well? Ha! I just engulfed another bite of my sandwich! I just breathed another breath! and you know what I’m going to share next don’t you?! THAT has NEVER been done before! Thinking for oneself is the ultimate gift of true-liberation and I am only apologetic because I did no due diligence to relay this message towards the younger generations sooner! Before, ultimately our human species gets confined and robbed thoroughly of their individual freedoms and mainly due to the desire for the attraction towards power, greed and consumption in the external, perceptive universe through many a divine stratagems (such as visibility through notoriety and recognition), an individual must come to the place of love and acceptance for SELF! if that goes missing? And yes! I get it: I am by definition a hypocrite for even sharing this. I feel sincerely nervous that my computer and internet alone are picking up on different, and significant human features and elements in order to further their mechanistic cause. You get that? A Star Trek future seems unrealistic to most people still and others refuse to stand up against the futility of the cause: “Resistance is futile.” But you see? being the messenger is a far more important role for me to take as like I mentioned earlier, the guilt from not having shared this information towards our youth sooner will be far worse if I do nothing about it. So THINK! think independently! think and grow rich! think and create that which you wish to have in this lifetime. BE conscious, present, here and now! THIS is all there is! THIS is it!! meaning? whatever else comes to us during our life-time? is a gift! a blessing! a fulfillment on an impractical and undeniably improbable likelihood! because nothing in this life is guaranteed: not your car, not your house, not your health and wellbeing? not even your life in the very next moment. The fact that you have made it to this point? means that YOU were CHOSEN! and you were NOT selected to be enslaved by any chains that might bind you. Consider your world. Consider the constructs of its’ boundaries and think of your limitless potential simply for being chosen to exist as a human being. Does your world and your limitlessness add up? or does it seem rather restrictive? And like I stated earlier: I did not want to type and share this information into a computer chip, but I owe humanity a gigantic favor and these are the blessings I must communicate for the lost and troubled souls who have learned salvation through the physical subjugation of restriction. May you live and exist expansively freely.
By Dickson Flacc5 years ago in Motivation
Choose Your Circle Wisely
As we continue to get older, we also start to become wiser, well at least most of us anyway. Naturally, as we continue to gain experience in all the ups and downs that life delivers us, that experience helps us to learn, grow, and develop, as a person. Some use it to their advantage to better themselves, others use it to become more bitter towards others, and towards life itself instead. One thing I have learned personally, especially over the past decade or so, is how one cannot rely upon others in life, for anything. I'm talking about support, care, trust, compassion, moral support, financial help, encouragement, loyalty, true friendship, and true love. It's been especially evident to me over these past couple of months, as I have had to deal with what has undoubtedly been the most difficult and painful period of my life, and yet no one has been there to support me, comfort me, help me, or uplift me. Now don't take me the wrong way here, because I refuse to play the victim of circumstance, nor am I in any way looking for sympathy, because today's message isn't about seeking attention whatsoever. Today's message is about increasing awareness about having to deal with adversity on our own, and how we need to prepare for that, whilst it's also about not putting faith in others except ourselves, and ensuring that the people we spend our time with, are actually beneficial to us. When I talk of being beneficial to us, I don't mean that we need to be seeking and spending more time with people who are a convenience to us, and whom we use just to get our own way in life. I mean we need to be spending time with people who are beneficial to us because they are goals driven individuals, they are positive minded, they are encouraging, they are morally supportive, they want to see us succeed, they are motivational, they are compassionate, they are genuinely caring, they are generous, and they are inspirational. It's these type people we should want to be more like, so we can in turn inherit the same characteristics, whilst remaining goals driven and positive ourselves.
By David Stidston5 years ago in Motivation
