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Live Your Life—Unleashed!!!
The image of a leash spoke volumes today. Leashes of leather and steel, of nylon and elastic. Leashes that offer owners a tight rein on their pets, leashes that give the animal the illusion of freedom. Today I want to talk about the "leashing" of one the most basic human traits, passion.
By Rebekah Salmon-Craig7 years ago in Motivation
A Glass of Wine
August, 27 2018, six years ago today, I sat on a plane for the first time, flying from India to Canada. I wasn't scared, I wasn't unhappy for leaving everyone behind; I guess I wasn't excited either! I was just going where my destiny was taking me. Thinking—hundreds of feet above the ground—sitting in a plane about everyone I left behind, just thinking! There were no feelings attached to this thinking. I was looking outside the window trying to see through the clouds the land I was leaving behind. I couldn't see anything just lights in that dark night. I tried to sleep, but I couldn't. I was up all the time, an entire flight from Amritsar, India to Doha in Qatar. I had a connecting flight from there to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt to Toronto. I guess this is how cheap flights work, a lot of halts! I was fine with it. Sitting in a chair for 14 hours would have made my legs jam. It was for the first time for me to see so many people around me who were not Indian. A strange feeling it was, but it didn't bother me, as I said I wasn't excited. But why was that? Why wasn't I excited? Just because of regret, leaving a girl behind, the girl I fell in love with when I was 14, the girl who I studied with since I was nine, the girl with who I use to walk with every day to school and back, the girl to whom I swore to love forever. I don't know till this day why I wasn't excited that time or scared.
By Prateek Kathial7 years ago in Motivation
Smiley Egg
I took this picture over two years ago. As I had recently learned about Vocal and how you use pictures to help tell a story, I thought I would look to past memories and see what I could find and share with the world—at least, to anyone who would watch. At the time of the picture, I was a senior in high school. I had a lot going on: I was wrapping up my last year at a crappy school district, I was thinking about college and my future, as well as worrying about my grandmother, who was sick at the time.
By Evan Ellacott7 years ago in Motivation
Getting to the Gym
Everyone has this moment in their lives. The, "I should probably start going to the gym," moment. For some it may be easy to just say to themselves, "You know what? I'm going to go to the gym today"—and actually follow through with it, but for others, it may be the biggest struggle.
By Spencer Dupuis7 years ago in Motivation
Time to Achieve Those Dreams
If you want something bad enough, you will do anything to achieve it. If you want change, you will do anything for change. When you are tired of living paycheck to paycheck, barely able to survive, then you will do whatever it takes to change that.
By Shauna Campbell7 years ago in Motivation
If I Had Known Then
Dear teenage me, Slow down, sweet child, there is no rush to grow up so fast. You have your entire life to be a boring adult. I wish someone had told me how important these pre-adulthood years were. Well maybe they did, but I knew everything then.
By Aleea Whitmire7 years ago in Motivation
Revival...
A wise human once told me, "A person can die at 30 but be buried at 73," she then waited so what she had said could really sink in. She proceeded to explain that when people become used to routine, days seem to pass you by and yet you continue to wake up, go to the same lousy job working 9 to 5, come home, eat a crappy meal and just sit there while the silence becomes so loud, it eventually makes you have a mental breakdown. She said that people are so unmotivated to make a change, but not for lack of effort. But for FEAR.
By Alma Garcia7 years ago in Motivation
Stress
Stress! Stress is a mental or emotional strain which is caused from extreme pressure or tension. Stressing is the way that your body tells you that enough is enough and it just can't take anymore. Stress puts pressure on you mentally and physically. There are so many different things that can cause stress. The list is endless, and what may be stressful to you may not be stressful to me; everyone is different and everyone handles stress very differently. Some people can be stressed out when there is a major change in their life, like losing a job or starting a new school.
By Shauna Campbell7 years ago in Motivation
Loving
Loving ourselves comes difficulty, much more so than loving others. We as people tend to look past flaws in others and love them as they are, or even embrace flaws as strengths while focusing on the flaws in ourselves and damning ourselves for them. We, as a species, want to give love but have forgotten how to, and I believe it stems from damning ourselves. If we don't love ourselves, we have difficulty understanding how to love others, myself included.
By Hope Talbott7 years ago in Motivation
Coping Skills to Get You Through the Day
No one can say they’ve had the perfect life when, at one point or another, they've felt bad about themselves. Whether it be family issues, bullying, uncertainty about the future, or anything else; we have all been there. You can be your worst critic and your mind can destroy your hope. It’s important to learn and do things that can get you past your lowest lows to make it to see your highest highs. In this post, I’ll share a few things that I have done to keep moral up for myself to make it to my highest highs.
By Michael Jared7 years ago in Motivation
The Truth will Set You Free, but First it Will Pizzazz You Off
Approval and admiration is more sought over than the "truth." The truth hurts at times because think about it, often times being wrong or questioning our outlook on life feels unnatural. For some, it feels like death.
By Deviant Devour7 years ago in Motivation
