Finding motivation in yourself is hard. We make dreams and goals of who we want to be and sometimes it can be hard to remind ourselves of those dreams. It is important to have people in our lives who can remind us of that and help to motivate us. How can we do that for others? It may seem like a hopeless task but I have narrowed it down to three points. Help them find passion in the small things When I was in junior high/high school my mom found it hard to motivate me to do homework so I could succeed. We tried everything from to-do lists to rewarding…
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How to Create a Love of Learning
I hope that you have been enjoying this month’s topic about learning. I realize that I am not writing a long post today and that is probably because I have started writing my posts for July. I decided to do something that I have never done before for that month so this post will be shorter but I do have important information that I have compiled. I hope you enjoy. I have been in school for a long time. I have many ups, and many downs. Throughout that whole time, I have loved the idea of learning. I sometimes wonder if there are others who love learning as much as…
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Why I Don’t Call Myself Depressed Anymore
Links in this post are not apart of the affiliate program but are links to more information if you would like to research the topic further. I am not getting paid to put these links in, they are just for your benefit. Depression is hard. I am pretty sure I said that last week but it is true. Depression is something that affects many people differently and can be difficult to deal with. For one person with severe depression, it could be hard to eat, get out of bed, and even live life normally. For someone who has mild depression it could be easier. But even easier is still hard.…
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The Best Way to Be an Authentic Leader
I have a ton of weaknesses. The thing is that I don’t want anyone to see those weaknesses so I try to hide them away and make sure that no one sees them. It’s the best way to make people think that your perfect, that you are the type of person that they can trust. The thing about this is that it is stupid. Everyone has weaknesses and no one is perfect, so when it comes to being a leader in any type of way, the best way to be the best leader you can, authenticity and all, is to be genuine and lead with your heart. This is hard…
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How to Be Authentic
As people, we are afraid of what people think. When we live our day to day lives we might wonder if someone may be judging us or if they think that we are doing something weird or wrong. But we are not the only ones who are worried about this, Rebekah has thought the same thing. “I feel like I am shy at first and I’m worried about people pretending to be my friends because I think people are being my friends because they don’t want to hurt my feelings,” Rebekah shared with me. She has been deaf since birth so she knows what it is like for people to…
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What Everyone Ought to Know About Second Chances
Back in my junior high years, there was a program called ZAP which means “zeros aren’t permitted”. When the program was first introduced, the school showed a video. This video gave off the impression to a, at the time, a 12-year-old girl that if you got any zeros in school that you would go to prison. This terrified me. I have never been a good student and I thought that something so little as a zero on an assignment meaning that I would go to prison was just something that was too realistic for me. Thankfully, going to prison over a zero was not a thing but back then I…