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Set Me Free
“Sometimes what you’re most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free” – Robert Tew I️ find that quote to be quite cliché for obvious reasons, yet it is still one of the most true and intelligent things I️ have ever heard. This quote really connects to my thoughts in making this, and my thoughts on a couple other things.
By Kayleigh Barbosa8 years ago in Motivation
Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
1. Life is not some game where everyone must strive towards perfection in order to win. You do not need to reach those ridiculous standards society has created and you most certainly do not need to refer to those standards as goals to set for yourself. You are rare and extraordinarily beautiful just the way you are, and if society doesn’t accept that you may be under or over the proposed body mass index or have a slightly larger nose or crooked smile or scars or acne or a flat chest, they are the ones who need a change of heart. Don’t change for them, even if that means “losing” in the eyes of society.
By Maia Annalisa8 years ago in Motivation
Oh, the Places We Don't Dare to Go
I sometimes think about how society seems complacent when it comes to education and the workforce while waiting for the water to boil or shampooing my hair. I often wonder if there are others who think about why we let the systemic pressure to conform dictate how we live our lives and, as a result, steal our happiness and fulfillment away from us, as often as I seem to do.
By Camille Martin8 years ago in Motivation
Generating the Feeling of Wealth
I tell you what, this has been my only struggle with Law of Attraction. How do you generate a feeling of wealth when you've only got $4 in you bank account? Yeah, yeah, gratitude, I know. Being grateful for what you have. I don't mean to be a complainer, but I want more. That's just the facts. I had a lot more earlier on in my life, although it never truly came from me. Most of what I had and experienced came from other people. My mom and dad, my friends, my exes, they all loved my company so much that they enjoyed seeing me receive. I was young, vibrant, funny, and attractive. I really was blessed and couldn't see it right in front of my own eyes. I took it all for granted.
By Missy Conley8 years ago in Motivation
How I Learned to Love Myself. Top Story - January 2018.
It wasn’t long ago that I would get invited out with my friends, and I felt that I had nothing to wear that made me... “beautiful.” I would cancel my plans, and instead cry staring into the mirror absolutely disgusted with everything I was. Have you ever been to a Hollywood party? Maybe there’s a better suited question. Have you ever watched an episode of The Hills? Imagine walking into the room of a Teen Vogue summer party feeling like you have UGLY COW written across your forehead, and everyone reads it as they pass you. That was me. That was how I felt. All. The. Time.
By Barbara Spoor8 years ago in Motivation
How to Live a Happy Life
Okay, I know you must be thinking, "life can't always be happy," and yes, to an extent that is true. But if you follow these three simple steps that are really easy, but really hard to put into action, you'll be on your way to leading a happy life. So let's get into it!
By Noorain Moosvi8 years ago in Motivation
How To Be Perfect
I think I was 13 when I finally started noticing the clumpy, black mascara and smudged, sparkly eye shadow my friends would spend an hour putting on before eighth grade homeroom. I was so jealous of them. I didn't have any of my own make up, and all my mom had were several old Cover Girl eyeshadows, a blue eyeliner pencil from 1987, and a goopy, bubblegum colored, CVS brand lipstick. She was a total tom boy growing up (*GASP* how dare I use that phrase), and never got the make up or fashion memo.
By Mattie Woodside8 years ago in Motivation
The "Just Be" Campaign
As I kid I cried and pleaded to get certain things to fit in and my family refused. They wanted my brother and I to be "proper": we wore London Fog coats in the winter and catalogue garments all through the school year that no other kid was wearing because there was no way in hell we were going to run around looking like the hood-rat kids in our neighborhood.
By Kendria White8 years ago in Motivation
5 Ways to Take Control of Your Life
Life is the only "thing" that us living beings truly have. Each have always had it and will continue to possess it until the day that we no longer do. Now that being said, your life is what you make it. Cliché to say, I know, but it's very true. Almost everyone finds it hard to get a firm grasp on the impending struggles that life seems to constantly throw at us each and every day. So much that it begins to feel like a never ending cycle that cannot be broken no matter what we do or how hard we try. We get so stuck looking at life and all of its ups and downs with one point of view or perspective, and because of that we aren't opening up all of the closed doors that await us. Frankly, because of our one perspective, we can't see those doors or even find the strength, courage or knowledge to know that they even exist.
By Mikayla Bailey8 years ago in Motivation
