goals
Understanding your goals to help you achieve them.
A Life’s Helping Hand
Through it all I’ve learned with my life growing and changing so vastly day to day, that in reality we all chase dreams and we all struggle to achieve in times through life. So instead of trying to find the one thing that makes or breaks my abilities. I’ve decided overall the biggest things I am able to do is be me. With being me I personally have had a life with struggle and hardship and mistakes that lead to progress and betterment. However in that I have had some of the hardest struggles to become who I am today and with that comes wisdom and knowledge. As well as understanding to life that goes on. I feel that, that could be of help to anyone, even if just to help motivate or inspire them. To smile to laugh, to buckle down and get through the dirt and the grime that comes out our way as we continue through this journey. So sharing could help someone else to. Sharing my accomplishment and my downfalls. Sharing my rights and my wrongs as I maneuver this life. And I hope that I can motivate others to better love themselves and what comes into their life as they grow as well. So to this I start my journey here on vocal. A view unique but a message that can run as far as the largest sea. So join me?
By Xander’s View5 years ago in Motivation
New Year, 2021
The end of 2020 brought no better news than the beginning. COVID-19 changed the lives of people around the globe. I myself, still have trouble figuring out what I just went through this last year. I was fortunate enough to keep my job, although I did lose income. I lost my vehicle and had to put payments on hold I was hoping to get resolved.
By Shasta Scott5 years ago in Motivation
2021's Rough Embrace
Pain has never been my master, but for the last eleven years she has been my most intimate and unforgiving teacher. It’s taken me a long time to learn to live on her leash, and even longer to learn how to loosen it. While 2020 was a year of set back after set back, and seeming nightmare after nightmare, it gave me the chance to make peace with failure.
By Stephanie Traceski5 years ago in Motivation
5 Practical New Years Resolutions I Never Thought I’d Make
2020 was a knockout year. Really. I figure we’re all going to be in the history books our grandkids bring home from school. I have this visual of my grey-haired self pulling old dusty masks out from a drawer, explaining what it was like to live through COVID, and then showing masked selfies, pictures of the infamous “six feet apart please” stickers, and the occasional riot. It was also my second year of marriage, the year I (unknowingly) gained twenty pounds from fast food delivered by whatever service was offering promotions, and the year we adopted our second fur baby. My wife’s grandfather passed away early in the year from the virus, a week before it was even announced. I cut my hair into a bowl-cut, shaved my wife’s head, and decided I was joining the “no bra” movement. We moved into our new house and have found a way to keep ourselves occupied throughout all of this insanity, but through the good and bad of 2020, I have a few things I’d like to do differently this year. Especially since this virus doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.
By Ashleylx5 years ago in Motivation
Hello, 2021
Dear 2020, you were a hell of a year for everyone. You were a hot mess so to speak. I think I would like to speak for everyone, that we are glad that you are gone. I know that there was a lot of good things that happened for some people. For me, I ended up having a beautiful baby boy. However for others, many lives was taken due to the covid virus worldwide. I know this is about starting a new beginning due to a new year. Just a quick thought, 2020 has made us be thankful for everything that we have due to losing things. We begin to realize to be thankful for things around us as well. It has made us think of things we don’t really want to think of, such suicide, running away, learning who true friends are, etc. So with respect 2020, goodbye!
By Samantha Straith5 years ago in Motivation
New year's resolution
The new year marks the beginning. It is the promise of things to come. January 1st holds the hope and wishes of the upcoming year. This year, I would like to accomplish several things. The biggest thing would be to lose weight. I would also like to maintain a cleaner house. I am hoping to get a job as well. Spending more quality time doing activities with my children is on my list to do this year. Hopefully, I am able to accomplish my resolutions in 2021.
By Amanda Mueller5 years ago in Motivation
Dear Me in 2021
Dear Self, Version 2021 Even before this challenge came across your in-box, you have been working on You since the beginning of December. After years of putting others' needs first, you had finally had enough. You had finally hit rock bottom. The epiphany hit like a tidal wave in the form of a lifelong friend's surprise visit. This friend knocked on your door and you froze. You looked around your house trying to see it from another's perspective having long since stopped seeing the faults yourself. Laundry, dishes, clutter all uncharacteristically left neglected. This wasn't you! As you finally answered the door still in your pajamas at 11:00 a.m, you hugged them and made some flimsy excuses. They looked at you with kind, nonjudgmental eyes and suggested that you get dressed, get out of the house, and that the two of us go for a drive on this beautifully sunny day. We drove to a convenience store to pick up picnic items and drinks and set off for a park.
By Lisa Brasher5 years ago in Motivation
I'm Not Scared
“Happy New Year!!” Those three words were spoken differently this year, some said it happily, excited to begin a new presidency. Others said it with fear, what if the vaccine doesn’t work, what if we lose thousands more before life becomes normal again. Some didn’t even say it at all, vowing to not say it until life was somewhat normal again. Personally, I brought in my New Year arguing with my roommate over why being unemployed was far better than losing your relatives to COVID-19. It was a drunken argument that left a bitter taste in my mouth, one that brought in my New Year with a new resolution. First of course, get a new roommate that has more compassion towards others, and second to improve myself. I’m not just talking about the typical new year, new me, but rather a deeper more literal approach to it.
By Rose M. 5 years ago in Motivation
7.00: Wake up
I wrote my first real to-do list on January 1st. It's on an A5 size sheet of old notepad paper, the kind with tiny squares that make your eyes hurt instead of lines, and the edge of it is ragged where it ripped as I tore the page out of the book. The writing on it shrinks down the further down the page you get because I started to run out of room, and there are at least three swear words on the page. I'm weirdly proud of it.
By Typethreewriter5 years ago in Motivation
Creating a New Me
2020 was hard on everyone. I want to be optimistic about 2021 by creating a new me. To do this, I am going to get to my goal weight and become more productive on writing. My goal weight is to be 180 lbs from 316 lbs. I will reassess my weight goals at that point to see if I want to be smaller.
By Brenda Kirkland5 years ago in Motivation
