goals
Understanding your goals to help you achieve them.
Out With The Old In With The New
Prepare yourself to see ‘New Year New Me’ posts all over social media. I will be honest and say I used to follow this quote almost every year. I felt as though following that quote would almost bring a sudden fresh start to all my issues, in my mind it contributed to confidence and change, as the year progressed at times this wasn’t always the case. I have learnt that you can focus on yourself, manage relationships, live a healthy lifestyle and much more, all in stages. In my adult years, I can say, sometimes giving yourself additional pressure to achieve goals within a year may not be realistic. You can have goals for yourself and manage them wisely as you go along. So, as the new decade approaches, I don’t fancy the ‘New Year New Me’ routine but will step into 2020 as I am. I will nevertheless embrace the freshness added to my years and continue to be happy.
By Chantelle C6 years ago in Motivation
Ten Years of Beginning the Writing Journey
2020 is just around the corner. With it comes the inundation of posts about the past decade, the journeys people have been on, and the excitement of things to come. Since deciding to restart my blog coincided happily with the New Year, I figured I might as well hop onto that metaphorical train as well, and look back at the last ten years in my writing life.
By Elias Veren6 years ago in Motivation
The Vocal Challenge 2020. Top Story - December 2019.
January is closing in and the New Year's resolutions are beginning to pile in by the million. But, honestly, how many times have we promised ourselves that we'll cut out drinking or snacking only to then scrap the goal mid-January time? How many promises have we broken to not only ourselves, but also to our friends and families, as well? It's not usually the greatest of starts, is it? But that's alright – because, annoyingly, we're all guilty of doing it.
By Jord Tury6 years ago in Motivation
Why Being “The Popular Girl” or “Pretty Girl” is a lonely place.
I used to want to be one of those girls who every guy would flock over when she entered a room. I wanted to be and feel beautiful. I wanted to be that girl with the amazing hair, great smile, beautiful eyes and fabulous style. Then. I. Became. Her.
By Carime Paige6 years ago in Motivation
Keeping That Positive Mindset
Lately, it seems that I’m always fighting hard to stay positive and focused on important goals I’m trying to accomplish. And, it should not be a struggle to maintain a positive mindset when you know in your heart that positive thinking usually creates positive results. It never fails for negative thoughts to pop into my mind after speaking to someone with a negative thought process, daily. It’s easy now to understand why some people often use the term “energy drainers” when it comes to socializing too long with cynics and negative-thinking people. Sometimes, these cynics seemed to be determined to dash the hopes and dreams of others, for whatever reasons.
By Nathonia Smith6 years ago in Motivation
Better Brainstorming!
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
By Charles Leon6 years ago in Motivation
7 French Fries
I recently started Keto (haven’t we all). I know, I know. This isn’t super exciting. I’m just going to be real. I am a 307-pound, mommy of one, and this shit is hard. Today for example, my son has his best friend is over, and they wanted McDonalds. Me too. Don’t we all. It’s raining here, and they’ve been cooped up inside all day and McDonald’s has a PlayPlace. We get to McDonald’s and I’m sticking with the Keto so I order a Quarter Pounder, no buns, no condiments and order the kids their happy meals and some extra fries per their request. Let me tell you I.WANT. FRIES. Like, I really want fries, they aren’t in my mouth, but I can sure taste them.
By Julie HM6 years ago in Motivation
2020 Goal Setting
It’s not just a new year, it’s a new decade. You better have some frickin good resolutions. 2019 was the first year that I actually came through with most of my New Year’s resolutions. Before that, I lasted until like the 2nd week of January.. max.
By Carmen Reynolds6 years ago in Motivation
Being a Female on a Skateboard
It all started with the interest of watching extremely sexy, young men riding skateboards at my local skatepark. I rarely saw girls riding skateboards, maybe rollarblades or bikes with training wheels. The skatepark is mainly run by boys. I only knew a few boys who’d let me ride their boards for fun. The enjoyment of riding a plank with four wheels really gave me the desire to learn and do more. So I did. Through my coming of ages, I learnt to ride around on streets, getting comfortable with the speed and balance but facing the skatepark raiding with men was the bigger fear. It’s hard to be confident and ride without thinking what the guys would think. It took me about a year to drop in on a quarter pipe. I practiced over night where no one was around. I was able to ride the park casually but obviously without doing any tricks or using the ramps and quarter pipes. But it was a progress. I studied videos and pro skaters such as Tommy Flynn, Tyson Peterson, Kadar, Jake Phelps, etc, doing tricks, skating transition and skating on the streets. Through this I felt more confident to learn tricks I knew names of. I ran into a young handsome man, just one year older than me with a unique and funny personality at my local skatepark. He skates incredibly insane. I was in awe. We clicked and started dating. He began helping me and teaching me to do multiple tricks such as 50-50, 5-0, grind, rock n roll, rock to fakie, switch, ollie, 180, etc, within few months.Young kids started coming to both of us, asking for help on how to do this and that. That’s when I knew, I can skate. A girl that skates. I started skating at different skateparks and meeting new skaters. Eventually, girls who mainly go to the skatepark and watch the boys skate started noticing me. They told me that I inspired them to start skating at the skatepark because I could do it. And while dating my skater boyfriend, many other male skaters noticed me at the skatepark, found me on socials and began texting me. However, I’m glad to be with my current boyfriend because he liked me when I was weak and didn’t know much about skating. He taught me and brought me to who I am today. I guess the coin flipped. It was once a girl watching sexy, young men skate, now it’s sexy, young men watching a sexy, fabulous, hard working, young woman, me, skate quite fine. But I’ve realised my passion for skateboarding is much bigger than that. I feel at home when I’m at the skatepark, knowing handsome friends, being able to skate in front of them comfortably and understanding that women can skate if they jump out of their comfort zones and enjoy the sport without fear of who is watching.
By Bella Palu6 years ago in Motivation
Becoming Who We Are
Let me start by telling you that I have always been told exactly who I have to be and who I was suppose to become. I grew up in a strict home with a single mother and five other siblings. My mother always held really strong standards for me, like she only expected me to get A's in school and anything less was worthless and embarrassing. All I heard growing was how I was going to be a great nurse, doctor, or lawyer and simply someone with some sort of college degree. Well, that was simply all that I didn't want to become.
By Lydia Cruz6 years ago in Motivation
