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Ken Jouself
I guess it’s sort of a cliché to say, “confidence is key,” but as well as it is a cliché, it’s also very true. Someone told me that other day that people shouldn’t watch or go on social media, so that they do not feel less than another individual or simply insecure. I disagree with this concept. Now, I believe that people with insecurities should take steps to becoming more secure and confident with themselves and if turning off social media helps you, then by all means do that, but I want us to look at the thing we fear will create an insecurity and face that head on. Rebuttal the negativity with positivity. I believe confident comes with knowing yourself enough to see “bad” comments about yourself. To know others are not so fond of you and be okay with that because you love you.
By Vanity Jones8 years ago in Motivation
Best Gifts for Horror Movie Fans in Your Life
The holidays are almost here and that means it's about that time to become stressed and overwhelmed when agonizing over what to get the important people in your life. If they're fans of horror and iconic horror films, use that as a jumping point, and look into some of the best gifts for horror movie fans.
By Joseph Farley8 years ago in Horror
Simple Things You Can Do to Find Happiness
There are times where life literally beats us down and it feels as though the whole world is against us. Days where we just aren't having it and all we want to do is crawl into bed and stay there forever. But life is never against you ... it's never against anyone. We simply have to take whatever life gives us and work with it. You know that saying when life gives you lemons, make lemonade? Well, then start up a lemonade stand, because there are ways to find happiness in life.
By Jacqueline Hanikeh8 years ago in Motivation
Easy Things That Will Magically Transform You Into A Morning Person
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin Being a morning person has been proven to be one of the best ways to boost your health, career, and overall lifestyle. That's part of the reason why morning people seem so sunny, right?
By Rowan Marley8 years ago in Motivation
Simple Ways To Self-Motivate When You Feel You’ve Lost Your Drive
Having trouble staying motivated? We have all struggled with this process time and time again. That's why it's important to find the tips that work the best for you. This is a list of simple ways to self-motivate when you feel you've lost your drive.
By Kelsey Lange8 years ago in Motivation
Movies About Photography Every Photographer Should Watch
Right now, there are more photos being taken every day than there were in the first 100 years of photography. Isn't that mind-blowing? Photography has become a massive part of our culture, and that means the discussion has leaked into other parts of media.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart8 years ago in Photography
Photography Talk for Beginners: Camera Selection, Operation, and Practicing
Obviously, if you want to start a photography business, you’re going to need a camera. Camera Selection So first thing’s first: camera selection! Whether your budget is $200 or $2,000, you can't go wrong with a DSLR. Now, you could start out with a simple point-and-shoot camera, but you eventually want to work your way up to a DSLR, because DSLRs have interchangeable lenses, and the settings can be changed up a LOT more than with a simple point-and-shoot.
By Jasmine Smoot-Leyva8 years ago in Photography
Learning
Throughout life I, as have many others I'm sure, have gone through things I thought I wouldn't make it out of; felt pain, I thought would never end, and had new feelings I've never experienced and didn't know how to deal with. Getting through these difficult times and new experiences have made me who I am now and are what has taught me all the important lessons that will help me get through whatever challenge comes next. There’s a quote, from ‘Looking For Alaska’ by John Green that says, “We can’t know better until knowing better is useless”. I think this is the basic premise of learning from your mistakes, that until you've lived through it and overcome the challenge you don't know that you wish you knew what you know now sooner, but at least you'll know for the next time so you don't have to make the same mistakes twice. I strongly believe that you have to make your own mistakes and go through your own challenges to truly learn the most important lessons in life.
By grace mc8 years ago in Motivation
Chicken Fajita Lettuce Wraps
Fajitas are a favourite of mine and many other people too and these chicken fajita lettuce wraps are a low carb version of this much-loved meal. Me personally, I love myself some carbs, so in this recipe I added some brown rice to each lettuce wrap but to keep it super low carb, if that’s what you're aiming for, then just leave it out.
By Jamie Read8 years ago in Feast
‘You Only Lose What You Cling To’
I was front row in the Shrine Room, eyeball to spectacle lens with the chief nun and her big spongy microphone. The setting could scarcely have been better: a beautiful gold Buddha, scent of the Gods, a lovely warm room full of eager acolytes.
By Michael Scott8 years ago in Wander
Poverty in Guatemala
When it comes to the term poverty, people often view the word as a person or people living in a state of extreme poorness. What most people do not know, however, is that there is an actual poverty line. The poverty line is the threshold, and it shows the minimum level of income that a country sees fit, and anyone that generates under this level of income is a person who is living in poverty. In Guatemala, which is a South American country riddled by poverty, the poverty line is around $3.20, which represents daily income. The surprising thing is that 59% of the Guatemalan population is living below this poverty line. This insurmountable amount of poverty did not happen overnight though, but rather, the problem has been increasing for years. The causes for poverty in Guatemala include civil war, social inequality, and forced labor.
By Zoe Vinacco8 years ago in The Swamp
The Return of the Tell-Tale Heart...
I planned so carefully… so how can I be mad? How can you say that I’m mad when I am in perfect health with a steady hold on reality? Would a madman wait for seven nights, carefully planning? I think not. So when I say the old man’s heart was beating, haunting me, it must be so. Yet, here I am, sitting in a home for mad-men with shackles around my wrists. What was I to do though, let the beating of the old man’s dead heart slowly drive me mad? I cared for the old man but his eye… his vulture eye still haunts me to this very day. The psychiatrists try to compel me to admit I am mad, and that the beating was my own heart out of fear, but no! I do not believe such lies! The eye was a villain and the beating was its idea of revenge. But how I strategically cut the body up and hid it beneath the floor boards is something a madman would not do. Yet, I still sit here. I have daily meetings with psychiatrists who continuously just tell me I am mad. As I sit here and recall the events of my most recent appointment, I can hear the beating, like I do most days, faintly in the back of my head. As I walked into the office the chill hit me, and it reminded me of the tiring ways I waited outside the door of the old man’s room. The appointment went on calmly and I talked cheerfully, much like I did with the police the night I killed the man. Then it happened, he was there. I never thought it to be possible, but there was the old man with his vulture eye, and it was staring directly at me. At this point some might think I am off my rocker, but no! Would a madman kill so strategically?
By Zoe Vinacco8 years ago in Horror
I Don't Know What To Eat...
Ah, the female dilemma. Now before anyone jumps down my throat about this: if you are female and know what you want to eat every time someone asks you, then I applaud you for that. You are steps ahead of many individuals and you need to hold onto that decision-making ability. You are truly gifted as a member of the gender.
By Samantha Reid8 years ago in Viva
Cherry Poppins & the Grinch Who Stole My Virginity
Virginity: The state or condition of being pure, fresh, or unused. Great definition — not sure how I’d like to describe the pinnacle moment of losing my virginity now that it technically meant I was contaminated, burnt out, blown, depleted, and worn. I was now nothing more but an expended hand-me-down. I lost my virginity, and that makes me damaged goods all of a sudden? I prefer to think of myself as an antique. You know, like a time-honored, skilled veteran. Screw Webster and his dumb dictionary. How typical, doesn’t even know me and already trying to judge me. What gives him the right to appraise me anyhow? Damaged goods, my foot! No one has the right to judge us, nor define us. We define ourselves, and most of the time we are our biggest critics. We know who we are better than anyone else, why do we go out of our way to prove to others that which we already know? I know I’m not damaged goods, but perhaps I felt that way because I lost my virginity pre-maturely and not in the most pleasant of ways. The easiest way of dealing with things is to turn the other way, to bury the memories far away, so as never to deal with them again. The problem is when things are buried alive, they haunt you for eternity. No matter how much time passed, those demons plagued me in some way or another, without me even knowing it, subconsciously. They made their way into every relationship I had, skewed my reality, and took over the reigns of my mind, leaving me powerless in my own skin.
By Erika Potap8 years ago in Filthy
'Doctor Who': Reacquaint Yourself With A Few Classic Characters Before They Appear In This Year's Christmas Special
Whovians are now just weeks away from the premiere of this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, 'Twice Upon A Time'. The special is sure to be memorable for a number of reasons. It will be a multi-Doctor adventure, and The Twelfth Doctor will regenerate into the Thirteenth Doctor, the first female incarnation of the character, to be played by Jodie Whittaker.
By Kristy Anderson8 years ago in Futurism
7 Worst Songs of 2017
As 2017 quickly draws to a close, its time to toughen up and dissect the best and the worst of what the musical world had to offer these past 12 months. While the majority of people seemed to detest 2016 as a whole, the music we were gifted wasn't actually as bad as one would think. However some of the worst trends to saturate popular music in 2016 have only seemed to worsen, growing larger and more inescapable every year. It just seems that recently pop music has lost its "pop," leading to more and more mediocre instrumentals and lyrical themes to spread like generic wildfire. It is with this in mind where we shall begin to take a look at some of the worst songs to come out in 2017, however we shall first set some ground rules. First off, as with any musical or cultural commentary, this list is entirely subjective. I have my own theories and ideas as to what makes music "objectively" bad (as if there were such a thing), and these biases can be greater understood by reading some of the other works I've done on popular music. Second, this list won't be exploring the worst deep cut off of the album that your cousin's German neighbor put together using a 4-year old version of FL Studio in his basement, rather this list will be focusing on songs that are either by well known and successful bands or artists, or songs that were simply successful themselves. With this in mind, let us begin this list with:
By Matt Knight8 years ago in Beat
