Featured Post

Preparing for Drum Corps- Colorguard Edition

Image
          With the past and upcoming tryouts for the 2019 drum corps season in motion, I thought this post would be a great one that most of my friends could relate to. Preparing pre tour for drum corps is essential for a better experience with your corps, in my opinion, not everyone thinks so, but I bet you will after this post.                     When I say preparing I mean very specific things, not just raising money or gathering items for tour, or even the infamous packing for tour. What I mean is preparing your body, preparing your skills and most importantly preparing your mind. One of the top reasons members leave within the first few weeks of tour, besides injuries, is mental stability. And that is totally okay, never feel like if that has happened to you that it was the wrong decision because you need to take care of your body and ...
Post a Comment

Personal Growth

Personal Growth; activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employ-ability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations.

If you want to feel set free, if you want to feel unrestrained, if you want to feel peace and calmness about everything in your life, you have to grow. If you keep living your life as it is, still feeling the way you do, and not changing anything, then that is insane. That is literally the textbook definition of insanity. Change something, grow something, change yourself, grow yourself.

I have actually caught myself doing this a lot recently, and I will by no means have anyone call me insane. So here are somethings I am doing to personally grow as a human being and stay sane.


1. FINISHING THINGS I'VE STARTED
     Whether this be a book, a Netflix show, or a project. I am finishing it. I have a whole list. It may even take me a year to complete it all as I have 2 and a half jobs. Working at finishing these things is the goal, because as long as I am working towards the end and keeping my brain working, then it is growing. Also, keeping your brain busy, specifically if you have a tendency to overthink situations, can help your mind stay focused on whats important in your life and keep your mind away from what will never even matter in 10 years.

TIP: Write your own list of unfinished projects, then write a list of at least 5 things that are important in your life. This means things that could effect you being successful in the future. We do not want to focus on things that are like band aids, meaning they only hurt(effect) us for like five seconds once they are ripped off.

2. GETTING RID OF THE PEOPLE THAT CAUSE ME STRESS AND NEGATIVITY
     If you are already feeling constrained by your life and emotions, why are you going to let people make it worse? If they really cared about you or were really your friends, they would help build you up and understand your problems and adversaries. I have gone through my contacts, Instagram followers, snap chat people and Facebook friends. If they have caused me any stress or negativity or post things I do not like to see, I unfriend them. It really is a lot more simple than you think. Trust me, following 50 people you enjoy seeing everyday is a lot better than trying to follow 50,000 random people. 


 3. EXERCISING
     If you know me personally, then you know I have been doing this one for quite a while. I use to be so religious about it, and then I sort of fell off when I moved to Kentucky. Moving to a completely new state takes a lot of adjustments and I think I am finally getting back on track and can finally be "religious" about working out again. It really is good for the mind, body, and soul. Working out does not even have to include going to the gym. You could do home workouts, yoga, running or anything that gets the blood pumping. It relieves stress, and again keeps your mind moving and growing.

TIP: If you are new to working out, start running, or even walking. Do it at least 4 times a week. Once you establish a routine, and you are committed to it on the days you have set forth, start branching out and experimenting with different ways of exercising till you find one that works for you and your life.

4. BREATHING
     I am very guilty of this. I never stop and breath. I never stop and think. I jump to conclusions and I over think EVERYTHING. I overthink things that would make no absolute sense if I listed them. When you are taking in a lot of new information or stressful information or information you really do not want to hear at that time, it is so so so important to stop and breath. The mind is a powerful thing and if not used correctly, can cause irreversible damage.

TIP: Try some breathing and meditation for at least 5 minuets a day. There are plenty of free apps for phones and watches that can even remind when each day to do your meditation. I am implementing this everyday, first thing when I wake up.

5. LOVING MORE
I am taking the time to love more. If someone does something irritating to me, or says something rude, or cuts me off while I am going down the road, I am working towards being positive and loving that person. I am also working on loving myself more. There are plenty of things going on in my life that make this very challenging, but I now that by loving people and loving my self no matter what, can make me grow tremendously as a person. Love is the most powerful thing we can do when it comes to staying healthy and growing.

TIP: Write down types of people you hate. Now go tell those people you love them, that you are there for them, that whatever they are trying to overcome can be overcome with love.



"Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would"

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

VoxBox Review from Influenster!

Image
Hey Guys and Gals, Today I wanted to make a post/review of something I recently have joined in on doing and wanted to give my thoughts on if it was real or worth it.  Recently I joined the influenster app. if you do not know what that is, I will explain briefly. Basically, what it is, is an online platform in the form of an app where you compile all of your followings from almost any social media app or website you can think of. Your goal is to get a high impact score, because with a high impact score comes the opportunity to review full sized products for influenster. Companies send products as advertisements to influenster and influenster chooses social media users to review those products, good or bad. Now, if you are thinking I do not have many followers, so I couldn't possible get on board, well neither did I / Do i. I think within all of my social medias added together I only have barley over 1000 followers. They key here is to participate in the reviews on the app from...
Read more

Being an Introvert

I have come to the realization that being an introvert does not mean you have to stay that way. With that being said, I do not think that you can ever fully become an extrovert if you were born an introvert, and here is why.... This past weekend I experience a couple of first in my life. Being a 20 year old college student, this may surprise you. I have never been to a party, and I also have never been to a bar/club (this one may not be so surprising since I am under 21). I experienced both of said things this past weekend. When I was first talked into going to these two things I was very adamant that I was not going to have a good time and that I would be miserable. I had already made my mind up. There was going to be partying and alcohol and as an introvert both of those things were a no go on my list of things Id love to spend my weekend doing. But I did need to learn how to have fun. Just because there's a party, does not mean you have to drink at it, and hopefully...
Read more

Becoming More Positive

Becoming More Positive This post is sort of an add on series to my last post "Personal Growth". If you have not read that one, I suggest reading that one first. Becoming more positive about life, especially when it doesn't seem to be in your favor is part of personally growing. When you have finally mastered being able to be positive about every aspect in your life, then that's growth on growth on growth in itself. We all know I am a psychology freak, so I am assuming some were soon enough expecting another psychology post, well here it is. Today I am citing on the words of psychologist Shawn Anchor who did a ted talk on "The Happy Secrete to Better Work". In this video he talks mainly of how to retrain your brain to think happy and be happy. He states that 90% of our happiness is how our brain processes things. So basically, lets say I gave someone, a lucky penny, it has a little dirt and grime on it because its an old penny, but in my mind its st...
Read more