happiness
Happiness, defined; things that help you find happiness, keep it, and share it with others.
Thoughts on Purpose
I like to preface all of my articles with a brief statement: these thoughts are mine, crafted from my own personal experiences. They may not work for you, but I like sharing them in case they could offer a perspective you might not have previously considered. It may make sense for me and where I am in life today, and tomorrow it may change. We’re all here just trying to figure it all out from the experiences we’ve been given anyway.
By Shannon Easter7 years ago in Motivation
Ok to Not Be Ok, Please Do Not Forget That
Today was a day off. Walking the kids to school gave me chance to sit in my own head and that is not always a good thing. Readers of my previous articles will know what happened a few weeks ago now and today was a bit of a hit.
By Dawn Elizabeth7 years ago in Motivation
How to Express Yourself
Whether it's through painting or screaming your lungs out inside your garage, expressing yourself is important to you, me, and everyone around in this fragile society. It keeps us together in the worst of times and allows us to come apart in the best of times. Expressing yourself is a must for those that are emotionally pent up, confused, frustrated, and/ or feeling hopeless with any issue at any time. It's helped people come to terms with who they are as a person and it's helped them feel as if they're a better person.
By Jacob Harold7 years ago in Motivation
Voice Your Choice
You start pre-kinder then it’s 7th grade and before you know it you’re graduating high school. All our lives we’re expected to live by a timeline. You start school at a certain age and begin college at another but why? Why do we follow this as if it’s the only way we will survive? Life nowadays doesn’t even have meaning. Maybe because I’m becoming an adult or because people are living but not actually living. We live to die but what is all in between matters. It is who you are. Every good deed you did, every mistake you made and all the risks you took, it is all you. So instead of just living to survive, live to feel alive.
By Shaileen7 years ago in Motivation
My First Tattoo
As a child, I thought tattoos were scary. I was (and still am) afraid of needles, as well as the sight of my own blood. My highly traditional parents ingrained into my brain that I could never have a tattoo because people with tattoos were "bad," "scary," or "trouble-makers," and of course as a child you have to agree. You begin to judge people based on what your parents have taught you until you eventually begin to grow into your own mindset.
By Jade C7 years ago in Motivation
Help! I Don’t Think I’m an Adult
Are you required to have a job to be a grown up? When you think of an adult, what do you see? I see someone with a briefcase. I don't know why that's the first image that pops into my head, but society has conditioned us to connect things together, and that's what I connect. It's no secret that society has expectations for what people need to be. A briefcase is linked to a career, which you need to have if you're an adult. I guess I expect someone that is an adult to have a house, a job, a family, and have it all figured out. What if your life isn't stereotypical?
By Amanda Doyle7 years ago in Motivation
Help Me
Day in a day out we ask ourselves, what are the 10 ways to be successful, what are the 5 ways to be beautiful, what are the 7 ways to be a millionaire? Everything is about me, myself and I. Why don't you sometimes try this, what are the 4 steps to help the person next to me live his dream, what are the 7 steps to impact, inspire, and put a smile on the person's face? Statistics shows that 90% of successful people are still not happy; this is because fulfillment comes from helping the one next to you. This is why some rich people tend to give back to society. Generosity is a way of helping others without expecting anything in return. Generosity is not an equation, like I helped you out so he also should hold me down. Not all of us have money or other resources to help others, but our time, love, and assistance to others can mean a lot and can be worth more than money. It doesn't take only money or sophisticated resources to impact, inspire, and put a smile on people's face.
By Andy Akoto7 years ago in Motivation
Happiness
Happiness. Everything we do as humans is influenced by this emotional state. People look for, and act to achieve each person’s individual concept of happiness. I believe it to be the most sincere and fickle of any of emotion I've ever felt. It's influenced by everything and is ever-changing for most of our lives. I could go on about virtue ethics. The idea that an action is good if it maximises happiness, and vice versa. Or I could list the different things which make me happy. Or I could do neither. The best advice I could ever give myself is to hold on to the joy I take from small things. It's the random acts of kindness which have the power to transform someone's mood from foul to fantastic. It's when someone notices that you're unhappy, and you allow yourself to be vulnerable, and you're accepted for your vulnerabilities and your shortcomings.
By Tim Cottrell7 years ago in Motivation
