self help
Self help, because you are your greatest asset.
Patterns and the zombie apocalypse.
Earlier this year I discovered a love of all things patterns. I am not talking about polkadots and stripes, but personal patterns and how they shape us, affect our relationships, and our expectations. The interesting thing about patterns is they are set from birth and childhood, hardwired into us for better or worse. But the thing about patterns, like most things in life, with practice (and practice makes perfect, after all!) we CAN learn how to rewire our brains.
By Christina K. Pierce5 years ago in Motivation
Journaling for Success // Prompts for Beginners
Journaling can change the trajectory of where you are headed, and quickly propel you towards your dreams, goals, and ambitions. If you are new to journaling or wanting some fresh inspiration, you are right where you need to be. Take a moment right now to inhale deeply through your nose, and exhale a sigh of presence through your mouth.
By Bri Deckard5 years ago in Motivation
Life with autism
For as long as I can remember and experience, having Asperger's syndrome was a personal challenge that I was facing to accept at certain stages in my life. Beyond learning new things, repeating stuff that I usually say and do in a regular everyday basis, and trying to be as more cognitive and mentally competitive as those that did in a more advanced level, going through those physical and mental experiences, from childhood to adulthood, were as easy but difficult to process. However, having autism and going through everyday life doesn't mean that it would effect my plans to be as successful throughout my current studies in college, a future plan for a career establishment, and enter a doorway to create relationships.
By Victor Christy5 years ago in Motivation
Motivation: The Feel Good Drug
Often times when an idea comes to mind, that poverbial light bulb awakens your creative juice. That one idea that can transform your business or life for the better, you hold on to that one idea and you start to go over with yourself how you can shift that idea into reality. The idea was what provoked the motivational element to kickstart new momentum into you're life. This new lease of life can get you out of bed excited, pumped and ready to tackle the day and make something badass happen. One thing motivation is good at doing is keeping you present in the moment, the past dosen't matter nor the future...you are simply living in the now. And whatever sparked that motivation initially you are going to do you're best to cling on to it cause we all know whether we want to admit or not, the high that motivation will bring you, will simply not last. It's like catching lightning in a bottle, it doesn't happen frequently and it won't always happen twice. You have to be consciously aware that life will throw curve balls at you, twist and turns that may steer you off your destined path for awhile. When you feel like you've garnered some momentum with finally wanting to lose weight and so you make the trip to the gym as much as you can, you are visioning the type of body you want to have and imagine how healthy you'll feel once you lost all that weight but the facts are your flame will burn out eventually after taking a landslide in your journey. Motivation is a temporary feel good drug.
By Mark Smith5 years ago in Motivation
Are You Prepared To Be With Yourself?
Over the past few weeks, life as we know it has taken a plot twist. Between the global quarantines and the fear-based media lies our sanity gasping for air. What if I told you you could escape within yourself, and there was a silver lining? I want to change the way you view this new norm; see it as a blessing and less of a curse.
By Shontel Anestasia5 years ago in Motivation
Right Leg Is Longer Than The Left
Right leg is longer than the left. That’s just one of the many things I’ve learned while doing yoga. Small intimate things that I couldn’t notice before. Like when you’re trying to fix your posture due to the overwhelming pain of sciatica mixed with an unwillingness to become dependent on medication, you learn things about balance. And how paradoxically, due to your body needing to find homeostasis, you can find balance in imbalance. I don’t want to come off too Taoist here. But the path is indeed in the middle, and the middle is everywhere.
By FLVCO5 years ago in Motivation
Staying Mentally Strong
If you grew up playing the board games Life, Risk, or Monopoly, then you know events can change a player's fortunes quickly. If you’ve lived long enough, then you know life is continually changing with a revolving door of obstacles to overcome. Some are merely pebbles to step over, and others are mountains to be climbed. A person with low mental strength will turn the pebbles into mountains and give up trying to win the game. One who is resilient makes the mountain a heap of stones and push toward winning.
By J.L. Canfield5 years ago in Motivation
How to Be Unapologetically You When You're Experiencing Imposter Syndrome
As a child, I was considered “bright for my age” (whatever that means?) – one of those kids that always wins the spelling bee, rarely gets a question wrong on a test, and somehow becomes the teacher’s assistant and has bestowed upon her the job of grading fellow students’ math tests (side note: this is weird, right?). It was like this through all three of the middle schools I attended as well as through high school until I reached university and was quite literally surrounded with what felt like 11,000 replicas of myself. Feeling inadequate went from being a shock to being a daily occurrence.
By Samantha Faust5 years ago in Motivation
