self-eficacy

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

if you've been looking for inspiration or motivation, this is it. This is going to be me telling you what you need to hear. This is the truth. Here it is:
  • if you believe you can, you can
  • you decide how to respond to every day 
  • you are capable 
  • you are more than capable
because:
  • you are enough 
  • you are loved
  • you are open to what's to come
  • you are hopeful 
  • you will not let yourself become a black-hole of negativity 
  • you will choose happiness every morning
Life can be beautiful, or it could be boring and monotonic. The fabulous thing about life is that you are living it, and your life is YOURS and you are able to change, no matter how old, no matter how young. Leave what you have been pre-conditioned to believe behind, form your own healthy coping mechanisms, walk in your garden, or outside, or stare out of your window up at the sky and think, wow! This is the sky. This is this day. I get to look out of my window today and look at this sky, isn't it beautiful. Isn't this beautiful? Won't the sky still be beautiful no matter the amount of money in your bank account or the brand of jeans you're wearing? Whether you are young or old? The sky will always be there, being beautiful and you can choose to open your eyes to see that beauty today and for every new day to come. 

The sky's beauty and the beauty in nature, in everything around you has always been silently waiting for you to notice it, so that it can begin to carve an appreciation for the small beautiful things into your heart and make every day a little brighter. 

Do you know that people will be attracted to your positive life-outlook, you have the power to inspire change in others, change for the better. A better world starts with a self-aware, self-evaluating individual who is able to think independently and form their own life path, regardless of circumstance or what others believe is possible for you. Only you get to say what is possible for you. Show them that anything is possible for you. The sky is the limit. 

talking hands

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

I have always been fascinated with people's hands, and the way they carry themselves. I think that hands are the most personal part of ourselves, at times also the most expressive. If you make it a habit, you can without much effort tell a lot about a person's state of being, or state of mind by watching what they do with their hands. People often say it is the eyes that are the window to the soul but the hands I believe are the indicators of emotion, the moment to moment states of existence.  

Strangers are the most complex group of individuals, they are my favourite. People have absolute control over what they project out into the world, little things for others to pick up on, somehow painting a picture of the essence of this person. Some people are extremely hard to read or examine because they do not share much with the rest of us, they "keep to themselves" and I urge you to not overlook people such as these as they are often overlooked or categorized as boring or uninteresting, but these are the people who are watching you and already have you figured out. They would have lots to say, if you would only ask.  


on putting it out there

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

days are given meaning from the things that we choose to do with them, essentially how we spend our time. I feel as though many people these days live as though they are going to have a million days and a million more after that.

This is not true. Our days are finite. Limited.

So, quickly- what is your dream? What do you wish you were? What kind of a world do you wish this world could be? A lot of people's replies would have something to do with being kinder.

But this is the simple truth. To be kinder you should just be. Be kind. Just let yourself be kind. It comes naturally to us.

We have constructed these huge walls and barriers between us and others. We live in physical and emotional separation. I wish we could all be a little kinder. I wish we could live in a kinder world. I know that a revolution of kindness starts with no one other than me.

I choose kindness. I choose to mindfully and actively participate in every day of my life and live this life out with as much kindness in my heart as I possibly can. See the best in people. Be an encourager. Talk about what you love. What moves you. Put yourself out there. Put kindness out there. Kindness will always find its way back to you. Kindness works in strange ways.


on finding ceramic chips in public spaces

Thursday, July 30, 2015

like fishing for sea shells on the beach
free treasures for me to find
I pick this up
as it catches my eye
it's had a life which had crushed it
into shards of its former self
here one lies
beautiful in its incompleteness
its lack of wholeness
in its fragmentedness
I imagine what it was

I delight in this find
it is a gift from yesterday
it was waiting for me
to discover it
and name it beautiful
and display it on my dressing table
to remind me of all the goodness in this world
and that you will find the beauty
if your eyes are open. 

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