One of my daily goals this past month has been to focus on gratitude. It’s a small thing that makes a big difference in your life and making it a daily habit has increased my happiness dramatically. It’s not something I like to admit, but for the first half of my life I was a very negative person. For whatever reason I had a big chip on my shoulder and went through my daily life with a lot of aggression in my heart. There was nothing traumatic that happened to me in my childhood, I had no ...
Personal Development
Goals to Accomplish Roundup:1
It has officially been one month since I've started this blog, and I'm still in it to win it! Since I set that long list of goals to accomplish, I thought it would be a good idea to go ahead and give a run down of what I've been doing to actually achieve these goals. I hate to admit to everyone, including myself, that I'm not nearly as far along with these objectives as I'd hoped. Oh well. Baby steps are better than no steps, right? At least I made some progress, which is what I will focus on ...
Breaking Your New Goals into Bite-sized Chunks
The feeling of overwhelm in society is very real and very intimidating. From social media to our hectic schedules, sometimes everything just feels too much. When those feelings hit, it’s tough to even move forward in our day to day lives, and even tougher to try and focus on any goals we have set for ourselves. I know for a fact that it’s much easier to lose ourselves in a game on our phones or binge a good television show on Netflix or Hulu. However, I think I’ve come up with a hack to get ...
The best growth always starts from within
There was a random post on Instagram a couple of weeks back that spoke to me. “May you have the courage to break the patterns in your life that are no longer serving you.” I believe it was from the account @divine_ethereal_energy, if you don’t follow them then head on over to Instagram to check them out. I’m a sucker for motivational quotes and this account has quite a few good ones in their archives. It’s a bit of a joke with my close family and friends that I am a self-help book junkie. I ...