As today is 1 year since I started this blog time to do some summaries!
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Here’s My Top 10 Inspirational stories (you’ll find full stories in Inspirational Stories section):
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10. Simon Cowell – man who drove back to his parents being broke and using his last money ($5.26) for taxi and is now a millionaire
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9. Ed Sheeran – man who was bullied yet wanted to become big so much that he went on a tour having no money and had to sleep in parks from time to time and is now known all over the world
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8. Walt Disney – man who struggled to make ends meet yet fought for his dreams and later became a legend
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7. Steven Spielberg – man who got rejected from school of cinematic arts but didn’t give up on his dream
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6. Tony Robbins – man with horrible, abusive childhood who was strong enough to keep going despite diseases or being chased out of the house with a knife by his mother and now is a king of a bilion-dollar empire
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5. J.K. Rowling – woman who battled with depression and contemplated suicide yet now is best-selling living author with a fortune over 650mln GBP (she had over 1 billion but donated a lot to charities)
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4. Keanu Reeves – man who kept losing his loved ones one after another yet never lost a positive attitude and still is a good human being
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3. Dwayne „The Rock” Johnson – man whose family couldn’t make it financially, had to steal and in the end got evicted from an Island yet he now is one of top-grossing actor in all of Hollywood
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2. Chris Gardner – man who couldn’t make ends meet, was homeless yet now is not only a millionaire but his story was so inspiring that it became a well-known movie „Persuit of Happyness”
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1. Steve Jobs – man who never finished high school and started his big empire in his parents’ garage
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Successful people also go through difficult obstacles so never give up! 😊
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Author: smileysociety
Independence Day
Today is Independence Day in Poland. 🇵🇱 We gained (or actually re-gained) independence exactly 101 years ago! 🤗
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What is independence to you? Not only as a country but as a person?
For me it is freedom to do whatever I want, to say what I think, to act as I feel, to choose what my heart tells me to. It is simply the freedom to build my life as I want it. 😊
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I am so happy and so grateful 🙏to live in such times (even though political situation is getting worse and worse in Poland now again) and to be able to just be me, not dependent on anyone else.
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I can’t imagine living in times when women didn’t have their right to vote or to work even 🤯. I can’t imagine being forced to marry someone that somebody chose for me, I can’t imagine not being able to dress how I like or to attend some public events next to men. Yet some women still don’t have that. 😞 Yet there are still countries that don’t have their independence. There are still people who don’t have their freedom. And I feel so sorry for them. 😢
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So if you’re reading it, be grateful for the freedom you have. Be grateful for the times and country you live in. Not all are so lucky.
I do hope it will change one day though. 🙏
Never look back
Never look back. What happened, happened.
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If it was a good thing then good for you but if something bad happened then just let it be 🤷🏼♀️. Or better yet – learn from it. Do you know what trully changed my mindset? What changed it all for me? Learning to look different at failures – in bad times instead of asking yourself „Why is this happening to me?” ask yourself „What is this trying to teach me?”. This makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE. It did for me.
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You can’t change past. Don’t overthink about it then. You don’t have any impact on that now.
What you can do is learn. Learn from your mistakes, from your decisions, from your choices. Next time you’ll do better! 🤗
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So tell me, what did life teach you lately? What mistake did you make?
Confidence!
You know what’s sexy?
Confidence!
And the more confident you are (= you see more good values and less bad ones in yourself) the happier you are! 🤗
So here’s an excercise to become more confident:
Think of 3 things you like about yourself (even better to ask somebody else to tell you what they like about you), write them down on a piece of paper and put that paper next to a mirror. Read it out loud in the morning while looking at your reflection, look at it while brushing your teeth, just get that inside your head! 😁
Then after a week write down 3 other things you like about yourself.
Keep repeating until you trully love yourself! 😊😘
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Here’s that one day when you can be someone else but remember tomorrow, when you go back to being yourself, that you’re perfect just the way you are! 🤗😘
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Don’t buy time to spend it anyways
You know what I find really surprising and odd? We keep inventing those facilities, those machines that are supposed to get us more time yet we keep lacking it. We now have washing machines that do laundry for us yet we’re still in a hurry. We’ve got dishwashers that get dishes clean for us which normally took plenty time yet we still don’t have enough time for anything. We even got diet caterings (which I got addicted to this month) thanks to whom we don’t have to cook or do grocery shopping.
We keep buying more time in order to keep loosing it doing something else.
Aren’t you tired of that rat race? Of constantly being in rush? Of running from one place to another with your tongue out? I sure am.
We live in great times when we have somany machines doing stuff for us, we live in times when we should have so much more time than our ancestors who had to do everything manually yet we still don’t have it. Many years ago people started escaping from nature into the city to find a better life yet now we run away from city into nature to catch a breath. Does it apply to you?
This needs to STOP.
We all need to slow down. And the easiest way is to start appreciating here & now. Don’t rush from one task to another, don’t take anything for granted and learn to make time. That’s right, sometimes it is not about having time but making time. If you have those machines running and doing laundry, dishes or dinner for you don’t use that time to get soaked into more work, use it with your loved ones, with your family, reading a good book or simply connecting to nature.
Of course it is convenient and helpful to use that extra time (while you have that laundry or anything else done for you by a machine) to do something else but don’t overuse it.
It is all about that healthy balance to be able to divide your time this way to both have some work done but also to have propper rest and to spend your free time nicely. I am a workaholic and tend to put loads of work/project on me but I never work past 9pm or on weekends. This is my time to rest, to reload, to connect with family, friends and nature or to travel around the world and enjoy its charm 🙂
Happy food
Eat Yourself Happy With These 8 Endorphin-Releasing Foods!
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Feeling down? Want to make yourself feel better? Here are some foods that will encourage your brain’s endorphin (happy hormones) release 😊: ·Chocolate 🍫
·Strawberries 🍓
·Animal proteins 🥩🥚
·Oranges 🍊
·Spicy foods 🌶
· Grapes 🍇
· Nuts and seeds 🌰
·Ginseng 🍠
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Go and check if you have any of those in the kitchen and simply be happy! 😊
