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The road to success is always under construction; share your equations for success — and learn some new ones.
Taking the next step
Nothing is impossible. Your goals are dependent on your actions. And it’s not your actions that determine your outcome, not entirely, because at the end I believe it all comes down to your belief that you can make it, it comes down to your will power to succeed no matter what.
By Omz The Root6 years ago in Motivation
Late 20s
To quote the venerable Mr. Bueller “life moves pretty fast...” this may seem trite to some but to those of us on the verge of 30, it’s a warning. It’s a call to action and it’s a scary one. Especially if we haven’t quite figured it all out like Ferris Bueller had in highschool.
By Sean Mac6 years ago in Motivation
When the road becomes unclear.
It was the bleakest March I had ever experienced in all my 26 years. Everything was crumbling around me and I was suffocating, for I could not seem to catch a break. Nothing seemed to stick or pan out for me the way I wanted, needed, or expected it to, no matter how hard I tried or how persistent I was. Never have I felt so helpless and hopeless. Never was I on the verge of losing it, losing all hope than I was in that month. It was as if I was in a maze losing my bearings as I searched for a way out, only to hit dead end after dead end with no exit in sight. Which didn’t make any sense, given that I was following the rule of business, or what seemed like the rule of business. For it was told to me, almost on the regular in the many, many, many, interviews I had gone to. That rule being The Law of Averages, which I understood that law to mean the more opportunities I give myself the more chances I have at succeeding. I guess I was the exception to that rule, for it did not seem to apply to me no matter how many times I applied it to my job search.I had, for the longest time then been so set on my intention of finding another full-time job, a regular job, that I didn’t really give myself the break I guess to self-reflect and ask myself if what I was looking for is really what I liked, loved or, wanted to do. I hadn’t given myself the chance to ask if the industries or jobs I was applying to really interested me. I was just on a mission and had been since Mid-February to do what was indirectly implied and expected of me, find a 9-5 form of employment, and become a robot who lived a mundane, routine, life. And as soon as I came to that realization, as soon as I paused and began to ask myself these questions, it was like a huge boulder-like weight was lifted off my shoulders and I could breathe again.
By Susita H.6 years ago in Motivation
I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Okay here we go. I'm turning 20 this June and all the feelings started creeping in on me way too soon, the bad ones of course. Now I know i'm supposed to be thrilled and on my way planning out some cool ass life-changing party, be prepared to get drunk get laid typa thing but confusion somehow got the best of me. I'm stuck in between 19 and 20 as you can already tell, it feels STRESSFUL like you know shit's bout to go serious but you don't know where to start and how to deal with it, within this period you will come into realization that you have no choice but to be independent someday and in order to reach there you gotta start looking for jobs by working your ass off for uncertainty first. "You will get somewhere if you just keep trying" well sure okay cool yet the thing is life is way much crueler then you think, have you ever felt like no matter how hard you tried to escape the situation all the hard work you put in somehow just ended up in vain? It's like you starved yourself long enough til you're bout to die just for a decent dinner which turned out to be a disaster because the greens in your salad you ordered are withered, the chicken breast is overcooked and the caesar sauce is way too salty. You had a bad day thanks to the shitty salad and everything you want is to surrender and let go but can you? Deep down you know you're not gonna lose faith in this whole "salad-seeking adventure" bc you are not raised to be a coward and more over - you know you can't live without it and you most definitely are going to regret without trying, even tho the uncertainty of ever finding a decent and the right one is racking up like a god damn mountain before your eyes, there's just no room for giving up. This idea freaks me out, am I ever going to pull it? Will I even make it til the end? God only knows, if you're feeling the same way, i feel sorry to tell you this, i don't think i can help you bc i myself don't even have an answer yet, the only way i could make you feel less shitty is writing this down and letting you know that it's totally cool to go thru this chaotic phase, you are not alone as long as i'm still alive. Let's get back to the subject, there's a myth called "The curse of nine" in ancient Chinese culture, it basically indicates that you will encounter unusual bad luck whenever the last number of a certain time period you are in ends up with the number nine, which means you will be especially unlucky at 9, 19, 29, 39 so on so forth. It sounds crazy to me at first but as i grow older it kinda makes sense in a creepy way, 2019 has been the craziest year to me so far and the whole "19 situation" is even tougher then i could ever imagine, all kinds of feelings like fear, depression, euphoria suddenly hit in all at once and caught me off guard like a tsunami, the only thing i could do is to find my way out like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away" and forget about the rescue chopper that's never going to come if i don't want to starve to death and die alone for being stuck on the top of the building. The journey is not going to be easy, there's no guarantee that the tsunami will never hit again but i know deep down that once you conquer your fear and make it out alive, you will be stronger then you ever were, you will be prepared and you will feel the excitement flowing into your body from head to toe instead of fear the next time it hits.
By cringysam6 years ago in Motivation
The Eighth Stand
“Don’t forget to keep your legs straight on that front-tuck step out Bell!” coach Jenn yelled from across the blue spring floor. It was a brisk winter, back in 2015. I belonged to Champions United Gymnastics Academy where I was a JOGA Level 4. Our first competition of the season at TNT Gymnastics. I was warming up my second tumbling pass. A front-tuck step out, cartwheel, round-off back handspring step out. I hear Jenn’s voice in the back of my head, reminding me of what I must correct as I ran and hurdled into the tumbling pass. “Keep those legs straight Bella, keep them straight.” I punch into the front-tuck preparing for the step out, my first leg coming down as straight as ever, almost too straight. Gravity pulled me back down to the hard blue floor, my first leg coming down completely locked, and POP. Before my right leg had the chance to come down, it was already too late. One minute I was rotating through the air trying to perfect my pass, and the next I find myself lying down in the middle of the mat in the fetal position, holding my left knee to my chest. I didn’t know it then, but this was just the very beginning of my 5-year fight.
By Bella Cinelli6 years ago in Motivation
Making It Happen: Bianca Valle. Top Story - April 2020.
Making It Happen is all about highlighting those who are breaking the mold and defying boundaries. Creators, entrepreneurs, innovators, dreamers—this is all about celebrating the people who bring joy to your life with their accents, spices, music, dancing, and all your favorite questions (pero like what?)
By Daniela Bao6 years ago in Motivation
Yoga for Assholes
This is "Queenie" - She is the mascot for my yoga business, Queen of Hearts Yoga. The night before we found her, sitting peacefully by herself at the front steps near my local coffee shop (great manifesting btw) I had been brainstorming with my housemates about what to call my yoga business. There was certainly no shortage of ideas being thrown around, and Queen of Hearts Yoga was an apt title, but given my inherent streak of rascality, the gang jokingly concluded, that if I were to open an authentic studio, then I would have to call it 'Yoga for Assholes'
By Alison Nankivell6 years ago in Motivation
I'm 27, I left college at 19, I'm a freelancer, I met Medium and I'm happy
Life is a paradigm that sometimes causes various aspects to be influenced, in the life of each human being during their journey from childhood, until reaching adulthood. The time has finally come to write about what many say when they achieve success in their lives.
By Casimiro Filipe 6 years ago in Motivation
Metaphorical Thinking
In his book “moonwalking with Einstein” Joshua Foer, a journalist, sets out to become the world memory champion and on that journey, he explains how our brains store memories. In the process, he stumbles onto one of the most important ways that our brains function, association, and metaphor.
By Charles Leon6 years ago in Motivation
