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it’s time to level up!
Needed this.
Perfect timing
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You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself.
Unknown (via wnq-anonymous)
Source: wnq-anonymous.com
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oh snap
mike-peace
REBLOG.
FOREVER.
This is an actual Therapist Recommended method for dealing with a runaway “inner critic” and this comic is perfect ❤️
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More seeds of wisdom from Shonda Rhimes*:
- No one who succeeds is merely lucky.
- Lucky implies you didn’t do anything. Lucky implies something was given to you. Lucky implies that you were handed something you did not earn, that you did not work hard for.
- You have to be okay with being better than everyone else.
- You being awesome and acknowledging you are awesome doesn’t mean you are full of yourself and it doesn’t mean that you think you’re better than anyone else.
- “It’s not bragging if you can back it up” quoting Muhammad Ali.
- Wonder Woman didn’t wave someone off when they told her she was baddass and neither should you!
- Don’t apologize for being awesome.
- Learn how to take a compliment because when you negate someone’s compliment, you are telling them they are wrong. You’re telling them they wasted their time. You are questioning their taste and judgement. You are insulting them.
- Smile, say thank you, and shut up.
- Don’t be lucky. Be hard working, be special, be proud of you.
- Strive for badassery.
- We are like mirrors. What you are gets reflected back to you. What you see in yourself, you may see in others, and what others see in you, they may see in themselves.
*these are not exact quotes, in some places I’m paraphrasing and changing things out of order.
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yoooooo
Here’s some more:
- You interrupted me, I’m not finished talking
- You’re making me uncomfortable
- Leave me alone
- Don’t talk to me like that
1. You repeated my idea 2. You’re in my space 4. No, I won’t do that for you 5. I am aware of that
I only have one addition.
1. I don’t assume I know more about your work than you; I’d appreciate the same respect.
1. That’s disrespectful and I won’t be spoken to like that. 2. I’m not here for you.
starplatinumispure
1. I am speaking from knowledge and you are speaking from assumptions
2. Your anger is inappropriate and I will not tolerate your yelling/disrespect/tone
3. Your feelings on this topic are irrelevant
Reblogging for additional commentary/suggestions. :)
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Gas yourself up. Build yourself up. Compliment yourself often. Just love yourself without apologizing for it.
Source: bossbitchtips
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I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.
Joshua Graham (via godmaking)
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There’s a certain audacity required to write. There’s an audacity in believing that the story in your head, which is an extrapolation of something held as a deeper truth, might be interesting or important to anyone but you. There’s an audacity in believing that you can accurately transfer that story-truth into words on a page, and that those strung-together words will also be something beautiful. From where does this audacity arise? How do you develop a belief in yourself so strong that it can see you through to the end of a poem or the conclusion of a novel?
Adding this quote (bolding mine) from a bit later, because SO MUCH YES:
Why should parents have to embark on a literary research project and discard their televisions in order to create diversity in their children’s lives, to show their children that the world values people who look or talk or dream like they do? The audacity to write is harder to muster when you don’t believe you are valued.
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fleshbra
When the whole world’s telling you you’re shit, one website telling you you’re wonderful isn’t at risk of tipping the scales unjustly in the opposite direction, ya dig?
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou (via makelvenotwar)
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Stand Like This for 2 Minutes Per Day from http://jamesclear.com/body-language-how-to-be-confident
recovery-in-pink
No, for real, though—this is a thing. Not sure about the science behind it, but it makes me feel fancy and powerful regardless. I highly recommend it.
There actually is legit science behind this. In fact, here’s an entire TED Talk about the science behind it, and the confidence-related chemicals that your brain produces JUST BY YOU STANDING LIKE THIS.
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You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.
Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride (via dreaming-naked)
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The only ‘black privilege’ i agree to acknowledge is the fact that I’m most likely gonna look 20 for another 10-15 years
beyoncesupremacy
I see no lies
tsunime
Boop
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Anonymous asked: *Rolls around the floor* I feel like my writing sucks and no matter how much I write and edit it doesn’t get better. Do you have any tips on how to be confident in your writing?
*Throws around pillows so you don’t bang into the furniture*
Here are my steps.
Why do you care what people think? Are you hooked up to their leash? You know anklebiters ate up your personality. Try to remember how it felt to just make up your own steps and let anklebiters chew up, spit out someone else. Fall in love with yourself.
Anklebiters, Paramore.