happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Chase What Brings You Joy
Chase What Brings You Joy I pondered for some time on what truly brings me joy. I think this is a question that everybody should be asked at least once in their lives because this topic is something that can really open one’s eyes about themselves. The answer to it could be extremely helpful for those who are uncertain of what to do in their life. I feel like there is a time in all of our lives where we are met with uncertainty. One of those times for me was when I graduated high school. I had to ask myself this question as a teenager going into my freshman year of college. I went to college fresh out of high school so I didn’t take much time to really think about what I wanted to do in my life.
By Keenan Mitchell5 years ago in Motivation
I Create Me
I would not say that I am a passionate person, at least not in a visible way. I am not competitive, or argumentative, I do not like to debate with others. My passion comes from inside, an emotional, mental, and spiritual drive to create things, and to understand why others have that same desire.
By Vicki Goodman5 years ago in Motivation
Upcycling My Way Out Of This Mess
The abridged version of this story is that I want to turn my craft projects into profits by upcycling various materials into one-of-a-kind treasures to sell. After all, millions are successful at this! Simple. Easy. Or in my case, not so much.
By Annie Alexander5 years ago in Motivation
7 Steps to Release Your Emotions
Having emotions is a natural part of life and something we should be grateful for. Having emotional baggage is another thing. We've all experienced pain and trauma in the past, and when that pain and trauma follow us around, we run up an emotional debt that we can't pay back. This is our emotional baggage, the heavy burden of our past experiences.
By Tim Yin5 years ago in Motivation
My evolution as an herbalist.
There are so many people in the world who are highly spiritual and don't even know it. They have never heard of special concepts, gurus, places of power or practices - and yet they have all this in them by nature, because they intuitively know what is necessary for their happiness and fulfilment.
By Ola Gaber5 years ago in Motivation
Fashion Designer Andy Jones
When I first started to sew and using scissors I had only previously dabbled use those tools in Home Economics. My creations starting out was to say bluntly “tragic”haha. This was September 2007 when I attended Fashion school at MC College in Edmonton located in Canada. I was an eighteen-year-old boy with platinum blonde in my hair, savings account ready for fashion school, and Madonna’s “Confessions of a Dance Floor” Album as the soundtrack to my life. I remember my first day when I picked up my first pair of professional scissors haha. I was doing all of the “vogue models” poses with them in the mirror. I was being a fashion clown haha because I felt in over my head. Unlike all of my peers at that time my sewing was not to their couture caliber, and their usage of professional sewing scissors and machines had already been developed. But what I had that they did not was a real passion for fashion and creating garments. However, passion aside, my fashion design ambitions would not have their way, because my sewing and usage of scissors was not up to par in 2007. My first skirt design after being thrown into the recycle bin is probably now been recycled into something more useful than what I had made haha. I look back on what my teachers said to me 14 years ago and I completely agree now. They said, “Andrew you need to find your voice as a fashion designer and be honest with yourself!” Despite that, I let this failure be a seed, a driving force, a way to grow, and “find my voice” as a designer and happiness. As fate would have it, my drive to put my nose to the grindstone and cut up and destroy muslin samples would be my discipline to get my skills up to par. By the end of my fashion program, I was standing at the end of the runway ready to show my first collection ready to show in September 2008.
By Andy Jones (Andrew McDonald)5 years ago in Motivation
Creating in Limbo. Top Story - June 2021.
As I'm writing this I'm currently in another lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, so far this is the 4th one in the past year. In 2020 we were in lockdown for 8 consecutive months with various restrictions put on us such as a curfew, traveling no further than 5kms from home. Basically the harshest lockdowns other than Italy.
By Olivia 5 years ago in Motivation
Dance Til You Drop
LGBTQIA Pride, at the heart of it, has always been a celebration of love and acceptance. We honor the legacy that the late Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and the still living Miss Major, have left behind. Without the efforts of these three women and countless other black and brown queer and transgender people, we would not have the rights that we have today. Our very existence is radical and worthy of celebrating, and what better way to celebrate than by dancing and partying throughout the entire month of June?
By Ebony Davis5 years ago in Motivation
Enjoy Every Moment
The world of a collage is a timepiece, energy capsule, and matter of the heart. With each cut, material, and placement is a measured element, handcrafted for enjoyment and exploration. As an artist and meditation teacher, as well as a world explorer, the key to life is truly finding how to enjoy every moment. Overcoming challenges and the mundane, as well as synthesizing something from nothing is best created from a state of joy.
By Krystina Steffen5 years ago in Motivation
