self help
Self help, because you are your greatest asset.
Find Your Strength
Where does strength come from? How can we obtain it? I always used to ask myself those questions. Always wondering why I was not strong enough, mentally. It felt like the world was against me, and I was alone, tarnishing away. I didn't have a clue how to become strong, but one day I had enough.
By Courtney Morgan7 years ago in Motivation
The Fear of Reflection
As a 29-year-old American woman of mixed descent, daughter of a lesbian, who has never met her biological father, my entire life has been about trying to figure out who I am in a society where it’s not easy to be accepted when you’re different from the “norm.” As a child I grew up in a rural Ohio town full of seemingly closed-minded people. I first realized that my family wasn’t like others when I was in elementary school. My older sister and I have the same biological father, who is African-American, and that made us two of the only “darker” kids at our school and in our small town. I never met him because he split from my mom when I was born. Strike one. Our mother, a proud Army veteran who is now very openly gay, married a man who became my adopted father. We didn’t look anything like him, or my Caucasian mother for that matter, and people noticed. Strike two. We didn’t come from great means, and I wore my sisters raggedy hand-me-downs for years. My parents had no idea how to style my kinky, fuzzy hair so I always looked disheveled. Strike three.
By Align and Incline Ash and India7 years ago in Motivation
Black Rose
Emotions are a twisted thing. They come and go whenever they please, usually in some kind of response to a situation. We have names for them: sad, excited, angry, frustrated, etc. But these names don’t do them justice. Emotions are more than words. More than the moment they are. Emotions are the colors of the human mind and spirit. Formed in such a way that you cant tell what it is. Have you ever felt red? Blue? Grey? You have. You just dont know it. Emotions are unpredictable when youre alone. When surrounded by people, its easy to fake it if the moment calls for it. Maybe your response is true. Only you will really know that. But when youre alone, you have no one to mirror. There is no ones else to tell you if you are reacting appropriately. So you dont react at all. You keep a straight face and internalize it all. You dont want to be weird, after all. Even if theres no one looking, you know what you did. When youre alone, what do you feel? Sadness? Loneliness? Isolation? Maybe. But have you ever felt happiness while alone? Not in reaction to a memory, but true, pure happiness? When everything is exactly how you want it to be and there is nothing to worry about? When you trust that everything that has happened so far has all been for a reason? When you believe that everything is going to fall correctly into place? I cant answer that for you, but I can tell you one thing. Happiness is like a black rose. So rare, so twisted, yet so magnificent and beautiful. You dont think about it because youve never seen one, but when you see it with someone else, you want it. You think of all the ways you would care for it. All the ways you would maintain it. Everything you would do to protect it. But its not yours. The question is, will you work for it? Will you try to achieve happiness? What is happiness for you? What will you do when you have it? Will you be satisfied? They say that human greed is like an endless pit. You yearn for something, but once you have it, you want something more. But what comes next? Love? Love for what? A person? A moment? A gift? Loving someone is difficult. Especially when the feelings aren’t reciprocated. You achieve your black rose and begin to pluck the petals. Loves me, loves me not. Loves me, loves me not. But when the last petal is plucked, what happens? Is that really the deciding factor? Of course it is! Unless we get an answer that we dont like. Then we try again. And again. And again. It never crosses our minds that the subject of our affection may be doing exactly what we are doing. However, the possibility that we are not their goal is a crushing reality and confrontation is a sin. So we continue the vicious cycle. Loves me, loves me not. They say that its impossible to love someone without first having self love. Another black rose. But instead of plucking the petals, this is a rose that must be maintained. Cared for. Protected. You must watch for the people attempting to snip it at the bud. But how will you do this? Cut their hands off? No... confrontation is a sin. Move away? Seems like the best answer. So you move, careful not to drop you rose and carefully maintaining it the whole way. Where will you stop? When you get where you want. But what do you want? Only you can answer that.
By Dania Diab7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 23
Hello! Happy day twenty-three! I hope all your journals are getting packed and your minds are getting filled with your discovery of yourself... I think that sentence made sense. I at least hope you're having fun with this. I am having a blast. I'm also learning a lot, and that's the whole point, right? Here's the quote of the day: "I hope someday to write something worth plagiarizing." - Unknown
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 22
Hey Y'all and welcome to day twenty-two! Thanks for bearing with me through that double feature yesterday. Just a lot of craziness this week and no possible way to control it. Hope you had fun with it yesterday! Here's the quote of the day: "Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed." - Ray Bradbury (Yeah, I really like him, can you tell?)
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 21
Happy day 21 and day 20! Since I pretty much already did my greeting today, I'll keep it short and sweet. Thank you all again for following along. I hope you're all still writing along. I can't believe I've made it this far, blah, blah, blah. Here's another quote for today: "If I waited 'til I felt like writing, I'd never write at all." - Anne Tyler
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
Manifesting Your Best Life
Stop dreaming about a better life and start living it! Manifesting Your Best Life is going to show you that “Living your best life” isn’t just some cute meme on social media–it can be your way of life! The 21 nugget-of-wisdom chapters in this self-help book are for people who want to start living their best life, but don’t know where to begin. It will give you the skills to take you from dreaming about your best life, to making it your reality!
By Amanda Rose7 years ago in Motivation
Opportunities
For me, opportunities are like biometric lockers. That’s may sound strange but I’ll explain why. First of all, the definition of opportunity is: A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. And that’s when things start to connect. I see clear similarities between biometric lockers and opportunities: both lead you to something—a locker lead you to another room or environment and an opportunity lead you to a change, an improvement. Another aspect is that on both cases you, and only you can make it happen. Only your hand can open the door, only you can clear the way to go to another environment and with opportunities only you can seize it, only you can take the chance offered to you and make something great. To prove that I’ll show you a business example of the impact of an opportunity.
By Rodrigo Gomes7 years ago in Motivation
10 Top Motivational Speakers for Success in Life
Are you looking for some sort of inspiration, or inspired thinking, that can help you get recharged about your life or career? If so, it is to the world's many motivational speakers for success that you should turn. After all, there are some famous and renowned speakers and writers who are able to spur you to take action, even in the face of great obstacles, just through their words.
By Madeline Zenk7 years ago in Motivation
30 Journal Entries to Self Discovery - Day 19
Welcome to day nineteen ya'll! I can't believe I'm nineteen days in. I honestly can't believe I actually made it this far and haven't quit yet. I'm pretty proud of myself. I hope you guys are proud of yourselves too! And even if you're just following along to mock me, I'm happy you are. Thanks for the views. The quote of the day: "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon." - Robert Cormier
By Michelle Schultz7 years ago in Motivation
How To Make More Money
Do you want to know how to get ANYTHING you want? Do you seek riches and wish to live a life of abundance? You can have anything you desire and it all starts with a thought. (This article has the power to change your life. As the information within it has changed my life.) A thought becomes a want, a want becomes a wish, a wish becomes desire, and once you desire something enough you can convince your subconscious mind that you already have that desire. You are a piece of the great creator, and you are a powerful being. Your mind is an extremely powerful energy source, and the thoughts within your mind are pure energy. It is a known law that energy will attract likewise energy. Therefore, the dominating thoughts in your mind will attract similar energy and your thoughts will begin to become physical reality. It sounds crazy but it actually works! It takes very minimal effort to use this to your advantage. All you must do is use positive affirmations to influence your subconscious mind and watch what you think about very carefully. The more you practice this act of using your thoughts to your advantage the better you become at it, and eventually you will realise your full potential and be able to create a lavish life. Your thoughts will become reality. This goes for negative thoughts as well, a negative thought will manifest in your mind just as easily as a positive thought. Think of your mind like a garden. If you ignore the garden it will wither and weeds will very soon start to sprout, but if you nourish the garden like you will nourish your mind with positive thoughts then it will begin to grow into abundance.
By Aidan Siperke7 years ago in Motivation
