Life…what’s it all about?

Well I for one do not know. Or at least I don’t know what it’s ALL about. What I do know is that life is meant to be a journey that we embark on individually in order to find our place in this world. By our place in this world I mean getting to the point in life where we feel complete. That completeness comes from personal growth, acceptance, and understanding of who you were 10 years ago, compared to who you are now.

That journey can and may be anywhere from living a very quiet and simple life, to living a very loud and adventurous life. It can be a journey of pleasing others to learning how to please yourself. A journey of putting up with everything and thinking your potential is limited, to standing up for yourself and allowing your potential to be released. Whatever the case may be, life is meant to be fulfilling.

However, not everyone lives a fulfilling life, or is able to identify what a fulfilling life means or looks like. This may and can be due to various reasons. Regardless of what those reasons may be, I personally believe that when we don’t choose or allow ourselves to live very fulfilling live, it is a life taken for granted. It’s taken for granted because we have become accustomed to the habit of limiting ourselves to so many possibilities. [Read more…]

You know that famous question, “what’s your biggest fear?” Well, the other day I caught myself running through everything that I fear in my life. Why? Well to simply put it, I’ve been having a really hard time with accomplishing a lot of tasks and goals lately, which has been bringing to light one of my biggest fears.

One of my biggest fears is failure. Failure to myself, to others, and even failing to achieve a goal. Pretty much anything that has to do with failure I am deathly afraid of. I know what you’re thinking, everybody has failed, or will fail at some point and time in their life. I am completely aware of this, but for me personally, failure is the most devastating thing I personally could ever experience.

To better help you understand this fear, I will provide a brief history as to why and how I actually developed this fear. When I was younger I always felt the pressure to succeed. Whether it was in school, at home, with friends, or with goals set by myself or others, I always felt the pressure to successfully accomplish whatever task was placed before me. That pressure is something that I have been dealing with since I was about 10 years old, and as the years have gone by it’s been weighing heavier and heavier on me. [Read more…]

Hi guys!

So lately I’ve had a lot of creative ideas flowing through this big head of mines. By creative ideas I mean a lot of projects that I really want to start and see take off sometime in the near future. When moments like these come into my life I feel so unstoppable!

I feel super confident, secure in my skin, strong, and as if I can literally do anything I put my mind too (just like my parents always said)! Having that internal the strength is honestly one of the best feelings ever, and if I could feel this way all the time, I’d be the happiest person in the world.

And let me be clear it’s not really the feeling itself that creates such excitement within me. It’s more so the possibility, and living truthfully through my fantasy as if it were my reality, that creates this undeniable excitement within me.

I bet you’re wondering what all these creative ideas are that have been floating around in my head. Honestly, there’s way too many ideas. There are so many ideas that I don’t even think I can list them all, let alone list my top ten. Of course, these are only ideas at the moment so they aren’t developed, but some of them have undergone the development process.

Who knows, my life is so fluid right now that I may just surprise you all one day and release some of these secret creative project ideas. Only time will tell though. But that’s not what I’m here to talk to you all about. I want to talk to you all about the creative process of getting in touch with your creative side. [Read more…]

 

Hello again! Hopefully you read part one of this post. If not, you can read that here! This post is a piggy pack off of part one in 5 tips to help you learn how to be in control of your life.

I bet you’re probably wondering why I decided to write such a post. Well, while I would like to say that I just woke up one day and had the idea to write such a post, that’s just not true. In fact, the inspiration for writing part one and two of this topic came from an interaction I had with a co-worker. The interaction wasn’t all bad but it did open my eyes to the type of person they were. They were the type of person who likes to be in control.

While being in control isn’t a bad thing, I personally believe it’s a very unhealthy behavior to exhibit when you want to be in control of others. Which is exactly what my co-worker wanted to do. They wanted to be in control of the situation, my role in the situation, and the end result of the entire situation. However, life just doesn’t play out like that all the time. Things happen organically and we need to allow those organic moments to unfold the way they are intended to. Not try to grasp control the minute we are uncomfortable or unsure about the potential end result of an organic situation.

That’s not to say that there are not moments and situations in our life where we do need to take the initiative to take control, because there most certainly are. However, when particularly speaking in terms of your life and your integrity as a human/individual, don’t ever try to give that power of control to anybody else. I promise it will not work in your favor in the end. [Read more…]

 

It’s important to know yourself inside and out. Why? Well, knowing yourself inside and out means that know yourself better than anybody else possibly could. This includes your significant other (though they should know you fairly well), your best friend, and even your family members.

If you have not already done the following then you need to get on board with this now. Get into the habit of spending quality time with yourself. What I mean by this is make sure that you take some much-needed time throughout the day (and your life) to really explore your personality, hobbies, and interests. It’s important to really know yourself because when we are secure and confident in who we are, no one can waver our self-love and self-control.

It’s such a silly thing to think that we couldn’t possibly know ourselves as well as we like to think we do. However, the honest truth is a lot of people do not know themselves as well as they think they do. This could mainly be because they aren’t taking the time to really explore the little things that make them who they are. [Read more…]