goals
Understanding your goals to help you achieve them.
My Resolution: To Write More
There's a commonly held belief that you can only be good at maths and sciences or the arts and the humanities. If linear algebra is your jam, then say bye to decently worded emails. Yet, these are simply stereotypes that ignore many of history's greatest artists and scientists. Artists like Leonardo Da Vinci were also ingenious scientists. Robert Morse, the inventor of single wire telegraphs and the Morse Code, was a well-known painter in his time.
By Oliver Huang5 years ago in Motivation
A Good Deed Done
I’m in love with the world but scared of it too. Tell me if any of this is true? To be a doer or a person that makes things happen is it not moral to complete this duty with a full heart? A complete full heart where its hard to lose focus on the projective you're attempting to fulfill. This type of fulfillment is extraordinare.
By Keanna Barry 5 years ago in Motivation
The Year of Opportunity
As the first month of 2021 nears its end I feel confident in knowing that the coming months will open up many new opportunities for the people of the world to reclaim our power and peace of mind as this new decades era of refortifying begins. After a year filled with setbacks and turmoil for our common man we are still able to look back on all the positives that came from our previous quarantine situation. With a new team in the white house and an exciting Super bowl coming our way in just a couple of days, one of my main focuses I plan to stick with this year is remaining grateful in the present moment and making a habit of looking forward to the good things I know that are coming with patience and grace. Last year for me was wild as my team worked tirelessly to put together a 22 song project titled Excelsior (currently available on all streaming platforms) before the end of the year to give the world a taste of hope and happiness after such a stressing year. Now Apollo’s Youth Entertainment and a couple additional hands from the the Universal Alliance will funnel our energy into enjoying the process of creating A.Y.E’s first big budget film titled Outer-Space. This will finally bring the heroes that so many across the globe have become attached to over the years by listening to our music and keeping up with our social media activity into movie theatres and screens across the world. Going in I know it will not be an easy task but after rereading the Alchemist I know that everything in the universe truly does work in favor of each and every one of us. Tirelessly assisting us in realizing our goals and aspirations and aiding us in achieving them, sometimes slowly but always surely present in every outcome we encounter. I spent many years working to prove myself to others or trying to gain attention from those who deserve more time paying attention to improving their own situations before getting invovlved with my own if we truly seek to bring any real value to ourselves or the world around us. So this year I will not worry myself by trying to impress those around me. Instead, I will completely focus on enjoying myself in a way that inspires all around me to do the same. Doing this I truly believe I will attract all the things I desire in good time. Increasing my health in all facets will also be one of my main goals this year, however I will be switching my measuring stick of how I measure my progress. It will no longer be about reaching a certain weight and not even about forming the perfect look, this year I am going to excercise to FEEL the best I possibly can. This will probably mean a few extra yoga sessions than normal which I’m very much looking forward to. I’m excited to see how many body transforms with this new perspective of what it truly means to be healthy. This focus on health stems for me further than just physical health though, I’m currently taking a hiatus from social media to reconnect with whats going on in my immediate community and push myself to make more positive change in a more hands on fashion. This I believe will allow me to build my mental, spiritual and financial health by decreasing the amount of influence I let such sources have on my daily life. So in the meantime if you’re a friend that would like to get into contact with me feel free to call me on my cell or home phone or if you have neither of those email my team at [email protected]. This is a year for us to step out of ruin, wipe off the rubble and see that we have become diamonds because of the hard times we have faced and now we will reflect a light throughout the world that will shift the very fabric of our realities opening up a world where our futures are filled with only blessings and prosperity because now we can see no matter what struggle we face we will always bounce back stronger and more prepared for whatever comes next and my friends, THAT is the human races biggest flex! Stay Shining Young Luminaries!
By Apollo 5 years ago in Motivation
Happy New Year!
When I was a kid, I couldn’t imagine my life after the age of twenty-seven. Back then I had planned out every year of my future up until that age. I remember turning twenty-six and still not being able to envision life after twenty-seven. Scary, right? Year after year, prior to my thirties, I lived this life where I attempted to set goals and to plan every detail of my life. In the mist of this programmed mental cycle something within the roots of that thought process changed.
By Jasmine Darcell5 years ago in Motivation
Hello 2021
I am trying desperately to remember what my fiance and I did for New Years Eve. Has anyone else’s memory completely escaped them in the hellish year that was 2020? Mine has on multiple occasions and I’ve often felt like my IQ has dropped by at least 10 points.
By Justina Deardoff5 years ago in Motivation
My wishes for Me
Dear future me, Hello Me, I hope you are well. I would like to imagine you sitting at your desk, scrolling through this journal on Vocal 12 months from the day I post it, pleased with yourself and the strides you have taken to grow and thrive as a human being. No matter if they are long, confident strides or short, ambling steps, I wish you forward movement all the same.
By Eloise Robertson 5 years ago in Motivation
New Year, New Me
I end every year with by listening to the blues and having a drink. A snack of herring in wine sauce and some fresh baked rolls serves as a good-luck charm. I’ll sit in my living room watching the festivities on TV rather than mingling at a party or being part of those crowds that you see out in the streets. Every year I tell myself that I’ll do something different and the following year will be awesome. It never makes any difference.
By Jennifer Gross5 years ago in Motivation
My Five Agreements of life- Breaking Old Agreements
Before I get started let me tell you I'm the one who has gone through the best and the worst of life. In fact, now I feel there is no phase in life which we can call the worst phase, every phase of life is a lesson to you. With my full experience and mistakes that I have done, I write my five agreements of my life for the year 2021.
By Zeeshan Mushtaq Lone5 years ago in Motivation
What I learned from 2020
So it's that time of year again, when we reflect on the previous year and set goals for ourselves for the upcoming one. Let's just say I had a lot to think about with this. First off my 2020 was actually pretty good all things considered, I know a lot of people had to face many hardships last year, and I had my own that I had to endure, but on a scale of 1 to 10, it was a solid 9, maybe even better than that. Now I don't say this to brag or to denote all the people that had suffered during the pandemic. I just say it to help tell this story and because it was my experience. In 2020 not only did I start talking to and dating the love of my life, but we got to spend a lot of precious time together. Time I don't know that I would've had if I had been working all these months during covid. And that being said comes goal #1: To simply be better. Let me explain, in all the time I have spent with this amazing man I have learned a lot about myself, just from being stuck inside for almost a full year, but we also got to talk, a lot, and it was really eyeopening. And one humongous thing I learned, even though I pride myself on being a good person, he's an even better one, and it just reminds me that no matter what, I can still work to be even better of a person than I am now. Thanks, babe!
By Eliza Vargas5 years ago in Motivation
Hello Self Care, Bye Self Destruction
After a year of sulking, denial, despair, depression and a copious amount of wine and seltzer’s I am bull dozing full force into 2021 with a conscious and focused effort on my mental wellness. I am going to manifest positivity, stability, independence and consistency. How will I accomplish this, you ask? I couldn’t seem to find it at the bottom of a bottle or in my many attempts at a flailing relationship in 2020. So I’m going to dig deep into myself, expose all the wounds, worries and insecurities and examine them, tend to them and allow them to heal. The new me, not a different me, but a stronger and unbroken me, is going to practice self-care, follow my passion and for a dash of healthy, practice moderation in all things I enjoy. I am going to be 35 this year and throughout my life I thought I had experienced the worst of the hard knocks and heart aches and chocked each up to a life lesson that I have learned from. But it’s so easy to get lost in the moment and let negativity and toxicity envelope you, you forget that you can’t control what happens to you in life but you can control how you react to every situation. And that’s life, a domino effect of situations and events. And let me tell you, 2020 is what kicked me right in the ass to realize that. I had self-destructed completely. A 5 year relationship ended with a boom, I up rooted my kids over night to my sister’s house and instantly lost my independence. I had no car, no job, and I blamed everyone else for it. There was nothing but broken pieces that surrounded me and I lived in it, breathed it and eventually became it. I detached myself emotionally from the people who loved me and who were there for me and became obsessed with what I had lost. Until something changed in me. It was New Year’s Eve, just minutes away from 2021, the clock was ticking towards midnight. I was sitting with my younger sister in the backyard, looking up into the sky, I was wrapped in a blanket and crying, and she looked at me and said, “I’m not trying to be mean, but when are you going to stop being like this?, I miss the happy you”. And her words resonated right through me. I had that ah ha moment. I was so stuck on what I had lost, , the loss of my routine and what I thought I needed to feel alive, wasn’t that at all, I was holding on to an intangible past. Then I started writing that night. Writing anything and everything on my mind, my thoughts, poems, stories, what I would say to him. It was a release. Writing has always been my passion. And I had stopped because I had lost myself in my self-assembled trench of darkness and exchanged the therapeutic effects of writing for a real bad wine head ache in the mornings. I feel free and light when I put pen to paper, and through writing, I felt a weight lifting little by little, day by day. I started practicing acts of self-care. Started listening to positive thinking pod casts, even downloaded one of those inspirational quote apps, there’s an app for everything. I have started therapy, opened up about my feelings to my sister and mom and I stopped hiding under all the debris of what ifs and if I would haves... Not to forget, I cut back on drinking, comfort sweets and binge watching Netflix, everything in moderation they say. A glass of red wine is good for the heart but a bottle everyday will probably give you cirrhosis of the liver and it cuts out the problem of drunk texts to your ex. That’s like a double resolution. I learned through therapy that the trauma of a break up or anything that changes your life dramatically, can flood your mind with only the good memories, it’s your brain trying to protect you, but it equates to loss and grief causing sadness, anxiety and depression. And that’s ok and its normal, but only you have the power to defeat it and purge it. Process it, cry, write, shop, take a boxing class and let it go. There is a reason I left that relationship and a reason why I was able to endure the emotional roller coaster and moments of madness and questionable decisions that brought me to this point in my life. Once I could grasp that concept, it helped to clear the fog that kept me in such a dark place and allowed me to see clearly. I was free to embark on a new journey the one I have always searched for. It was right in front of me now, a new life to build from scratch, however I want, I am the curator. My goal for 2021 is to practice self-care through my passions, writing and spending quality time with my kids and doing what I enjoy, keeping a positive mind set, and living in the moment, otherwise I’m cheating myself and my kids out of the most important memories of life, which is found in every second. So say a positive mantra in the morning, go get your hair and nails did, go out with the girls, don’t get too drunk, remember moderation, do something that challenges you and make no apologies for being you, we are all human and were made to make mistakes, we were crafted to be perfectly imperfect
By Monica Nissing5 years ago in Motivation
