5 life-changing keys to overcoming your fear. What is stopping you from getting what you want in life? Your friends? Your family? A sense that failure – or success – might change your life and that feeling uncomfortable? A sense that the people around you might disapprove of you aiming for what you want, of you succeeding or failing. Essentially it boils down to fear. The big roadblock, sometimes the massive wall in the middle of road that keeps you from getting what you want. How to overcome it? 1. This is good for fear that can seem overwhelming at first. A solution is to take small steps instead. So, identify your fear. 2. Getting to the stage where you really feel that you need to stop waiting – or need stop reading one personal development book after another – and take action can take some time. Take 5 minutes. Lack of motivation can get you stuck while contemplating how much your life sucks.
Writing down all the wonderful things you will gain in your life by overcoming this fear can be powerful. 3. The same applies here. 4. 5. 5 Ways To Reduce Your Self-Loathing. Disclaimer: As someone who has indulged in some pretty horrific displays of self-loathing in the recent past, the following advice has my name written all over it. Possibly, it has your name written all over it. What follows is not a holier-than-thou critique, but a much-needed dose of tough love.
This is a safe place, self-loathing friend. Read on. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 11 Books You Should Read If You’re A Woman In Your 20s. According to Love Twenty, women in their twenties are supposed to read diet books and novels about shopping. I disagree. Here are my suggestions for novels you should read if you’re a woman in your twenties. 1.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899) This classic novel about female sexuality and personal exploration during the turn of the century is one of the first novels to explore casual sex on the part of a woman — a married woman. 2. By Sarah Hall (2007) You should read at least one dystopian novel in your twenties, if only for the reminder that everything could go to shit in a matter of years. 3. By Gillian Flynn (2012) This book is a journey into the musings of a female psychopath. 4. By Jill Grimes (2008) As the only practical book on my list, Seductive Delusions exposes common misconceptions and fallacies about STDs. 5. By Margaret Mitchell (1936) Written about the Civil War from a Southerner’s point of view, Gone with the Wind is a beautiful love story. 6.
By Toni Morrison (1970) 7. 8. 19 Things You Should Do Before The Summer Is Over. 1. Go to the beach, duh! Beaches and summer go together like fashion and anorexia; you really can’t have one without the other. Spend a day frolicking in the ocean and laying in the sand with a mindless book. (I suggest Most Talkative, Andy Cohen’s light and ultimately forgettable memoir, if only for the embarrassing “I’m gay in the 80s!” Photos.) Let the sun delete five years off of your life and leave feeling like a baked clam who just took five muscle relaxers. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
5 Things Women Should Stop Being Afraid Of. 1. Bugs Bugs suck. They look like scary little aliens who want to kill us and eat our remains, and they’re dirty/gross. But they’re everywhere, and there’s nothing we can do about it. I think it’s been scientifically proven that if bugs stopped existing, people would stop existing, so suck it up and deal. It’s time to realize that you have all the power in the Women vs. Bug battle. 2. There is no such thing as a “normal” vagina, trust. 3. Straight guys are interesting, they’re funny, and often times they’re far more complex than they seem. 4. You are going to get old. 5. “When am I gonna find a man? 21 Ways You Should Take Advantage Of Your 20s. 1. Don’t feel the need to respond to every text message, phone call, and email the second it reaches you.
Once upon a time, it took longer than a minute to reach someone. People used stamps and envelopes; they had answering machines they didn’t check for hours, sometimes days. No one will die if you don’t immediately respond to every message you receive. 2. Ask for what’s owed to you. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. All information provided in this article is for reference purposes only. How To Get Over Yourself In 7 Easy Steps. 1. Realize that your problems are everyone’s problems. It’s easy to work yourself into an insane kind of paranoia/depression about the current state of affairs. You have a lot of debt, jobs are really hard to find, you’re not getting paid enough, you might have to move in with your parents, you feel lied to by every authority figure to ever come into your life from the age of five. Guess what, though? 2. We have this strange tendency to believe that those around us think about us/what we’re doing/who we’re sleeping with/what we ate for breakfast far, far more than they actually do. 3.
We’ve all had moments where we felt like a tub of margarine trying on a pair of pants in an American Apparel, or caught a glimpse of our sweaty, blotchy faces in the bathroom mirror at a bar mid-dance session, and thought, “Oh, god, I look like a melting wax statue of my former self.” 4. 5. 6. 7. On (Literally) Cleaning Out My Closet. My parents’ house has always been a repository for things, a sort of free storage space. My brother and I would leave our stuff there during our “in between” stages of life; when we were in college, or traveling, or out of college and living in apartments too small to actually fit things in. Clothes we haven’t worn for years but might later, old furniture, physics notes from high school that could come in handy someday, art prints our exes left us, Polaroids. Stuff. Just stuff you accumulate along the way and never get around to throwing out.
But: my mother recently got this flash of inspiration to do some renovating or vague home-improvement thing and informed me I can’t keep my stuff there anymore. Basically, what I can take to New York with me is what I can expect to keep. Turns out, not much. This sounds easy, but it isn’t. Do I really need to keep anything, though? But a part of me does want to start over. The more stuff I put in the “discard” pile, the easier it becomes. 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity. A Checklist For Summertime. 1. “Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis or reliable then my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice… now.” LOL. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Excerpts from "How to be Perfect" by Ron Padgett | The Writers Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Wednesday May 30, 2012 Listen Download E-mail Share Excerpts from "How to be Perfect" by Ron Padgett Get some sleep. Excerpts from "How to be Perfect" by Ron Padgett, from How to be Perfect. © Coffee House Press, 2007.
It was on this day in 1849 that Henry David Thoreau (books by this author) self-published A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, his first book. Thoreau had always been the introverted and studious one, while John was gregarious and fun-loving. Thoreau said: "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. And, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
" It's the birthday of Harlem poet Countee Cullen (books by this author) , mostly likely born in New York City or Lexington, Kentucky, in 1903. Cullen was popular in the late '20s, and married the daughter of W.E.B. Ralph Waldo Emerson mom.me. 40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken. Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. 30 Best Quotes in Pictures of the Week - May 05th to May 12th, 2012. 1. ”Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…..” – Albert Einstein 2. ”When you can’t smoke” – Rory Sutherland 3. ”Death does not concern us…” – Epicurus 4. ”I think it’s better to have ideas.” – Chris Rock 5. ”You gotta be able to smile…” 6. ”Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle…” – Buddha 7. 8. ”Some things are best left unsaid.” – Red 9. ”However vast the darkness we must supply our own light” -Stanley Kubrick 10. ”It Takes Courage…” – E.E.Cummings 11. ”The world has enough for everyone’s need…” Mahatma Gandhi 12. ”I’m a f*cking unicorn, and f*ck anybody who say I’m not”-Tyler, The Creator 13. ”It is the mark of an educated mind…” – Aristotle 14. ”The two most important days in your life…” – Mark Twain 15. ”Be humble, for you are made of earth, be noble, for you are made of stars” – Serbian proverb 16. 17. ”Mutual Weirdness” – Dr. 18. ”There is only one god…” – Syrio Forel 19. ”The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows” – Rocky Balboa 23. 25. 26. 28.
25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions. 405 Flares Facebook 137 Twitter 5 Google+ 194 StumbleUpon 1 Pin It Share 68 68 405 Flares × A question that makes you think is worth asking… At the cusp of a new day, week, month, or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future. We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story. This process of self reflection helps us maintain a conscious awareness of where we’ve been and where we intend to go. It is pertinent to the organization and preservation of our dreams, goals and desires.
Remember, these questions have no right or wrong answers. Because asking the right questions is the answer. Here’s a sample of 25 recent thought questions posted on the site: Few extra questions Thank you for visiting, we hope you find our site, enjoyable, informative and educational. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It - StumbleUpon. "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
"My political ideal is democracy. 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself - StumbleUpon.