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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.
Things Confident People Say
In many ways, confident people can talk without thinking as much because they have confidence. Insecure people don’t have this luxury because they are constantly worried about what others think. Confident people don’t waste their time worried about the opinions of others. We have spent a lot of time thinking about the things confident people say as if they were to give advice to the less confident. Some of the tips below are what they would say, but they are also things confident people do naturally. Confident people are masters at giving advice to others; so, here are the things confident people will recommend to insecure people to do in order to become more confident.
By Morgan E. Westling7 years ago in Motivation
Focus on Love
“There are so many people who love you.Don’t focus on the ones who don’t.” Saw that meme on Facebook the other day. I don’t know who quoted that but it is a powerful revelation. I guess it’s not just me who seemed to want to prove my love to people who couldn’t have cared less. Maybe I’m not the only one who spent time agonizing over an unread text or a nonchalant reply from someone I’d invested so much of my energy and time in to.
By Tera Summers7 years ago in Motivation
Dear Sixteen-Year-Old Me
Dear sixteen-year-old me, I know you think you're just waiting for your life to begin, you keep saying to yourself that first you have to graduate high school, figure out a career path to follow, and somewhere along the way you're going to get married to your amazing boyfriend and live happily ever after.
By Mezmur7 years ago in Motivation
J's Journal
When you get confused sometimes, it is hard to be solid in anything that you are doing. I find myself looking and reaching out to people, activities, and experiences to fill that void and they never work. I feel so overwhelmed sometimes and I know there are others who feel the same way that I do or are going through similar emotions. I want to create this journal, blog, post, however you want to call it so that I can express and release tension I have within myself, allow others to connect with me and to see a way that can change their perspective and/or give them an opportunity to build themselves and their peers to another level. I want everyone to be entertained, enlightened, informed, supported, and peaceful while reading any content that I publish. Below are the topics and the directions I plan to address and speak on throughout this process and journey.
By Jarrod Foster7 years ago in Motivation
Happiness 101: The Right Way to Deal with Stress
I'm the most stressed out person I know. I mean, it's so easy for anyone to constantly worry about the future and forget about the present. "What if I don't get into medical school?" or "What if I'll die alone?" or "What if I get fired tomorrow?": Our minds are always pushing us into a state of doubt and of perpetual worry that literally does not change the outcome. Worrying ruins the journey. The real question we should be asking ourselves is: "Why generate thousands of hypothetical scenarios when we could just transform what's upsetting us into something that uplifts us?"
By Elianor M.A.7 years ago in Motivation
Live Your Life—Unleashed!!!
The image of a leash spoke volumes today. Leashes of leather and steel, of nylon and elastic. Leashes that offer owners a tight rein on their pets, leashes that give the animal the illusion of freedom. Today I want to talk about the "leashing" of one the most basic human traits, passion.
By Rebekah Salmon-Craig7 years ago in Motivation
A Glass of Wine
August, 27 2018, six years ago today, I sat on a plane for the first time, flying from India to Canada. I wasn't scared, I wasn't unhappy for leaving everyone behind; I guess I wasn't excited either! I was just going where my destiny was taking me. Thinking—hundreds of feet above the ground—sitting in a plane about everyone I left behind, just thinking! There were no feelings attached to this thinking. I was looking outside the window trying to see through the clouds the land I was leaving behind. I couldn't see anything just lights in that dark night. I tried to sleep, but I couldn't. I was up all the time, an entire flight from Amritsar, India to Doha in Qatar. I had a connecting flight from there to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt to Toronto. I guess this is how cheap flights work, a lot of halts! I was fine with it. Sitting in a chair for 14 hours would have made my legs jam. It was for the first time for me to see so many people around me who were not Indian. A strange feeling it was, but it didn't bother me, as I said I wasn't excited. But why was that? Why wasn't I excited? Just because of regret, leaving a girl behind, the girl I fell in love with when I was 14, the girl who I studied with since I was nine, the girl with who I use to walk with every day to school and back, the girl to whom I swore to love forever. I don't know till this day why I wasn't excited that time or scared.
By Prateek Kathial7 years ago in Motivation
Smiley Egg
I took this picture over two years ago. As I had recently learned about Vocal and how you use pictures to help tell a story, I thought I would look to past memories and see what I could find and share with the world—at least, to anyone who would watch. At the time of the picture, I was a senior in high school. I had a lot going on: I was wrapping up my last year at a crappy school district, I was thinking about college and my future, as well as worrying about my grandmother, who was sick at the time.
By Evan Ellacott7 years ago in Motivation
