10 Quotes to Keep You Going This Week

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The main ingredient to success is failure."

-Albert Einstein

"I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

-Helen Keller

"When you think you can't...just know you can. Life is hard for a reason. One day you'll see how strong you are. I can see it from here."

"Once you believe yourself, you'll always be a winner." 

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"You're off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way."

-Dr. Seuss

"It always seems impossible until is done."

-Nelson Mandela

"Something fabulous is out there taking shape, emerging, peeking, calling your name."

"Take a deep breath. Relax and remember how special and important you are. Remember that when you believe in yourself, there is no way that you can lose."

Semester Over

Now it's time to relax. This past semester was really hard for me and because I was struggling with so many things, I felt like a total failure. Of course now when the semester is over, I look back and realized that, "Hey, I'm not crazy, I survived this shit." I really wasn't sure I was going to make it out of there okay but I guess I did.

I'm still in a place where I'm punishing myself with lack of sleep or sleeping through the days and losing valuable time when the kids are at school and I can actually get work done but I'm working on it. It's a lot better than the things I was punishing myself for during the semester. I had a lot of moments last semester where I blamed myself for a lot of things that I had or have no control over and that was wrong. That isn't healthy at all. I need to learn to stop blaming myself for these things. The thing is, I only begin to blame and punish myself during the most stressful parts of the semester which for last semester was from spring break until the day I moved out of my residence hall.

My summer courses begin this week so I'm going to take that opportunity to balance my self-care with my school work. This past spring, self-care and school work just crashed and everything went downhill. It's so important to take care of yourself. I had to have on of my dear professors remind me of this a few weeks ago. Work is important and reaching your goals is important but you can't make it if you're not taking care of yourself. I know that everyone is different but I think that you should take some time out from working your ass off and spend maybe an hour or so doing something just for you. It could be something spiritual, crafty, sporty, whatever your heart desires that just relaxes you and keeps you from going crazy. Sometimes you need to open up and let it all out in addition to doing something that relaxes you. I'm working on this and hopefully, I will take my own advice in upcoming semesters. I'd like to avoid another downward spiral just because I decided not to take care of myself in the way that I should have.


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Stress

Hi. I know I could post a lot more.

I've been really stressed lately. I recently cut out one of the things that usually keep me sane so that I could better focus on my work. I didn't realize that it was keeping my sane so obviously now, I'm kind of losing it a lot and it took me a while to realize why.

I'm staying strong though. There's only a few weeks left of this semester and I know I can make it through. I'm not giving up. I know how hard things can get. I know that I will survive. I can't feel invisible forever.

We can't feel invisible forever. We're strong. We're going to make it. Things will get better.

Talk to someone. I can't stress the importance of telling someone who listens and values you about what's troubling you. Even if you just have to write it down. One of the things I find most frustrating is feeling like no one is listening to you or no one is there for you. It makes you feel like you're not important. The truth is, you are very important. You matter so much. Sometimes people are so wrapped up in their own stress that they can't see beyond that and that doesn't necessarily reflect upon their feelings toward you. You're not invisible at all.

If you're feeling stressed from all the things that life is throwing at you right now, take a break, take a deep breath and do something JUST FOR YOU for an hour. Make sure you're taking care of YOU because you're important.

make the most of all the stress?

stress: physical or emotional tension; emphasis; pressure.

People always say that "dealing with stress makes you stonger." It may be true that stress makes us stronger but why does it have to be so hard to handle sometimes. When it makes us feel like there is a mountain on our backs and we feel like giving up because we can't see the point anymore, we need to keep going. We can't give up. I think there just may be a reason for all of our stress problems. I think we go under so much stress so that we can appreciate it more when our lives are going "normal" and things are going "smoothly." Apparently, everything is a lesson and the "stress lesson" teaches us that we can get out of those dark days and that there are better days are ahead. I'd still like to know why is has to be so hard but I understand that it can show us strong and powerful we can be.

"It Always Rains the Hardest on the People Who Deserve the Sun"

Clearly, a lot of stress and hard times means that we're special. Overcoming it and finding a way to smile makes us more powerful that we've ever known ourselves to be before. We can get through the dark days. It's possible. We just have to know that we can never give up hope!


These are somethings I look to when I'm stressed:

and MUSIC =]

It may be silly but they do relax me a lot and I love them.
listen to Faith by Jordin Sparks

"when the sky is darkest, you can see the stars. when you fall the hardest, you find how strong you are. Close your eyes rest a while, it's been a long long day. So come on baby baby, have a little faith."

-Jordin Sparks