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The Secret To Making The Most of Your Mornings. Top Story - January 2021. Created with: Lull.
The past few new years, my resolution has remained the same: to have a more productive morning. I’ve had this idea in my head of what the perfect day looks like for me, and it always begins with an early morning. It is well known there exists a relationship between waking up before sunrise and success. It seems that the most successful individuals understand the importance of getting a head start to their day, which is what led me to find my perfect mattress.
By raeann5 years ago in Motivation
Groceries
A note of truth was heard, Listened to, Cared for, Nurtured. The Truth-Wielder drew their sword, brandished its molten edges in the glimmering luminance of the flickering firelight. Then, the steel came flashing red, searing through the thick, stagnant air, piercing through flesh and bone, burning the frothing, jeering, stench of falsehoods that had wrapped snaking, slimy fingers around the townsfolk’s hearts. Soon, the tavern floor was a mottled carpet of writhing bodies, the air permeated by moans, blackened by the myths that slunk out through the shadows.
By Téa5 years ago in Motivation
Generous Dealings
Generosity can take many forms but I believe that it rarely becomes tangible. It sometimes appears as if, in my socioeconomic world, there are more calamities and thorns then miracles and roses. Being given anything for free, can at times feel perverse, because everything has a price. Admittedly, I also believe the Universe does reward persons of genuine heart and culture for their efforts, especially in furthering positive thoughts.
By Y. A. G.5 years ago in Motivation
The Little Black Book
THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK By Eric Andrist Wednesday, July 11th My birthday. Today I’m turning 59, the last year of my youth. Oh sure, you might say that being in your 50’s isn’t really being young anymore, but it’s certainly not 60. 60 is when you officially become old enough to say you went to Bingo and won a new crockpot without raising an eyebrow.
By Eric Andrist5 years ago in Motivation
New year, new me? News to me.
I wanted to have some serious fight and grit to me rolling into 2021, but I am still waiting to find it for myself. On the 14th day of December 2020, I was fired from what used to be my dream job. Not so much a dream job, but more of a dream paycheck kind of job. I was earning enough to handle the house, new car and then some, but I was as unhappy as I could be. I have always dreamt of being a career person, doing big things, making things happen for myself and others who supported me. But having a small college experience and the resume of a person that displays signs of a personality disorder, I am finding out the hard way that being a career person might not have been my true mental focus. My mental focus as I tell myself is to have financial success. If anyone out there tells you differently they are already rich and their chase for success is over so they are seeking love or friendships or some other kind of reward that is not money driven. I just want to earn enough to pay for what I need to live, and retire comfortably.
By HEATHER CLARIDGE5 years ago in Motivation
Why Later?
Time goes by and all they heard were my silent cries. I lost my youth from dying inside. Let me tell you its not poetic or heroic. Its the raw truth of what i'm going through. To be a person... not just any person but a person who personally does not fit in well with others. A person scared of not being under the covers. A person who spent their life hiding. Hiding away so she may not face defeat all too soon. The point of it was to never but realistically speaking i still did and it was not a fun time. Nor ideal for me or anybody else to go and live through. The proper commotions file as a bunch located in one streak. Know what i mean? The issues concerning our hearts twist and pull at our peace making it hard to live at ease.
By Keanna Barry 5 years ago in Motivation
Hope During Adversity
No parent ever wants to hear the words “your son has terminal cancer “, but that is exactly what my sister and brother-in-law heard on September 24, 2018. My sister announced her son, Noah Christopher Reeves, was diagnosed with Grade IV Glioblastoma multiforme at just seventeen years old. After our family breakdown, I got to work.
By Rhiannon Brown Reeves5 years ago in Motivation
Kindness is a Superpower
Kindness is a superpower. I fully believe that. Kindness has the power to change the world, to transform lives, to make things better for everyone. So why is it underrated? Why is it seen as a weakness? Why is it easier for people to be cruel or nasty, to hide behind vitriolic words and criticism than to share a kind word?
By Sophie Jackson5 years ago in Motivation
Does Gratitude Journaling Feel Forced? Here's What You Could do Instead
A few years back, I was in a pretty bad slump. Everything in my life had been falling apart. Not for months, not even years, but decades. It was like a never-ending tunnel, and after waiting so long for the light, one loses hope. It was at such a time, when I was deep in despair and helplessness, that I came across the concept of gratitude journaling.
By Parag5 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
ATM
At this very moment, my brain is exhausted, and my legs are aching from working all night. My toes are cute though…snow white against this chocolate skin…Ooooweee…Any who! Right now due to every ache that I feel, tear that I cry and sense of exhaustion, I can barely focus to even write this let alone every laundry list of things I need to do to reach my goal is just an ATM (At The Moment) feeling.
By Queen M5 years ago in Motivation
