"You alone have the power to have, do or be anything you want"- BuddhaBlog

This is the last day of 2013, this is the last December 31, 2013 that you will ever get in your entire life, what are you doing to make a difference? what are you doing to make this day memorable? what are you doing?

I keep reading posts on twitter and Instagram about how people are annoyed about the "new year new me bullshit" and i'm getting tired of it. Why can't people set goals and have a purpose? I wish people would just worry about themselves. Having a new years resolution and setting goals isn't bullshit; it's beautiful.

So what if each year you know a person who sets a goal and then doesn't do anything about it.. how about instead of criticizing them you help them reach that goal.

A lot of the resolutions I keep reading and hearing about are:

Be a better person
Lose weight
Love myself more
Make money

All I have to say to the people who set resolutions and goals is "good for you". Having a purpose is something to be proud of! If you want to lose weight, push yourself to do it. It takes hard work to accomplish goals. You have to step out of your comfort zone and find that inner motivation and inspiration to do anything you set your mind to.

And it starts by ridding yourself of the negative people that doubt you.
They only bring you down

This is the last day of 2013 and you'll never get it back. For a lot of the world, tomorrow starts as a new beginning, but what about today? Tomorrow isn't promised to anyone.

If I get blessed with another day I wake up and I seize it. I wake up smiling and I know that I have to make the best of it. Forget about the negative people who are only bringing you down because they don't know what their purpose is. Have a goal and do everything you can you achieve it, we're all capable of greatness.

And each day I get blessed with, I'm working on loving myself. My resolution is to love me.

"Negative minds create negative people and it rubs off like the plague, stray away from the plague and spread love"


Happy New Year

"You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself". -Buddha 

I have so many plans and goals ahead of me. I have so many desires and ambitions and i just want to put them all into action right now. I want to create a path that i travel upon where i help people and along the way i help myself. I need to see the world to be able to change it.

I am only 21 years old, but since I was around 16 i have been planning all of the things i want to do with my life and places i want to visit. Your goals can't just be said, they need to have a plan of action in how your going to get there. I used to follow this path of society of doing and being what everyone else wanted, but i finally put that to a stop and i have been walking my own path creating a life i'm proud to live.

You must walk to the beat of your own drum and instead of following, we must lead. I can say all of the places i want to go and state all of the impacts i want to make, but none of that really matters until i do it. 

Joining the Peace Corp has been on my mind lately; this is an organizing built to help people in developing countries. You give up 2 years of your life to people in need. This sounds like an amazing experience and i would be perfect for it because that's all i want to do in this life; help others. I just need to stop saying it and start doing it. I need a college degree so that motivates me 10x more to keep pushing myself to my highest potential. I will join the Peace Corp, now its just a matter of 'when'. 

If theres something you want to do, comment with that idea and i'll help you get there

"Actions speak louder than words. Words are beautiful and tell a story, but action puts you on that path to greatness" -BuddhaBlog

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?" -Buddha

Today is about action. If you want to do something; go and do it, like Buddha said what good will your words do if you don't take action upon them?

Words are beautiful to me, I'm better at writing than I am at speaking but I also need to learn how to put my words into action. Lately I have been stressing about class and softball, but I'm honestly being lazy so when I begin to get overwhelmed the only thing to blame is myself. But I woke up this morning and read that quote by Buddha and I had a reality check with myself. I can speak all I want about motivation and a better life, but I need to put that into action within myself and my life. I want all of you to get up, smile and do something with your life, but at the same time I have to also.

I like today, I feel empowered and I'm ready to face whatever obstacle is thrown at me. This week is actually a hard busy week for me, I'm in my final year of college and softball is beginning and I have deadlines to meet. Usually I would be a mess, crying to my mom and boyfriend all the time. But honestly writing this blog and reaching out to other people is helping me stay positive and inspired to do great things with my life.

Today is about action, I'm taking the action to better myself and not be so lazy, what about you? What quote inspired you to take action and what are you doing to change your life for the better?

"Action takes believing in whatever you want to accomplish, it takes the mind, body and soul and if you put your all into something, results will occur"
-BuddhaBlog

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” -Buddha 

Today I woke up feeling blessed, happy and thankful to be alive. This life is so 
limited and people don't realize that time will eventually run out. One of my 
boyfriends friends died last night, he just didn't wake up from his sleep. 19 
years old and he was taken in the middle of the night without anyone expecting 
it. I met him only one time while I was visiting Tennessee and the fact that 
he's gone and so many people are hurting makes me feel so much for his friends 
and family, noone wants to lose anyone close to them. I'm 21 years old and the 
hardest thing I've had to face was losing my grandmother 2 years ago. Seeing my 
mother cry for weeks hurt me so bad because one day that's going to be me. 
People don't realize that tomorrow is guaranteed to noone and I wish so much 
that I cherished the time with my grandma more. 

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” -Buddha 

I wrote that in the beginning and I wrote it again because it's true, if you 
want peace you must create it from within because on the outside there's 
negativity, hate, terror, massacres, mistrust, and many more things that disrupt 
your peace. Take control of your life, you need to LIVE. Tell someone you love 
them today and mean it. I know I did <3 

If a quote inspired you through a hard time, comment and tell me your story

"Realize that time will eventually run out, take control of your life and make 
the time count" -BuddhaBlog

"You yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

In this life before you find love in another, you must find love within yourself. You have to learn to love who you truly are before you love another.

Take the story of the sun and the moon for an example. "tell me the story of how the sun loved the moon so much she died every night to let him breath". The story is about the sun who is a woman and the moon which is a man, without the sun there would be no moon so when the day is about to end, she dies so the moon can live. They depend on each other and together create this never ending love story. The sun already knows who she is and so does the moon, they both give light to the world so the love they have is romantic and true. They loved one another, but before that they loved themselves.

There are so many misconceptions of love in this world, and young men and woman create an ideal world of love and fairy tales in their minds because of that. But the truth is, you'll never know what love truly is until you experience it. It doesn't take going out there and searching forever, it doesn't take loads of makeup to find it, it happens by accident and it turns out to be beautiful.

I used to never think i would fall in love and live happily ever after. It goes through everyone's mind, the question of "is there really someone out there for everyone?" i absolutely believe that there is another half to each of us. The sun and the moon happened by accident and they showed that they would live and breath for the one they loved. Most people dont believe in love, maybe from a bad experience or because it hasnt happened to them yet but i know in my heart that all of you will find love, everyone deserves to feel butterflies.

I found love by accident and its been our own kind of love story ever since, he is my best friend, my number one fan and my main source of motivation, and of course he gives me butterflies each and every day. We have a long distance relationship at the moment, but anything is possible when you're in love with you're best friend. Fights may happen, and it'll be hard at times but love overcomes it all.

Start reading quotes each morning and continue to follow me and we can inspire each other. Comment with a quote you started you're day with that made a difference and a story about how it motivated you and I'll feature you in a post. If you have a love story you want to share with me or you need advice comment also and i'll help in any way possible.


"Anyone can wake up and go with the motions of life, you must wake up and create the life you want to live".
-BuddhaBlog

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on
the present moment"- Buddha

Have you ever just woken up on the wrong side of the bed? How about everyday of
you're life. You go to sleep unmotivated, you wake up uninspired. You feel like
time just keeps passing you by and you're not making the most of it. How about
together we change that, together we start waking up knowing that there is no
wrong side of the bed. It starts with today and it starts from within.

There were a few times in my life where I felt like I wasn't making a
difference. And one day I woke up and realized that I wanted to be the
difference. Motivation can come from anything. Quotes are what really help me, I
start each day by reading a new quote that's going to put a smile on my face and
help get my day started right. Today I woke up and read this quote by Orison
Swett Marden and he said "don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize
common occasions and make them great." Those words are so real and true because
we should never wait for something special to happen, we need to make the most
of the things that do occur in our lives and go out there and make them
incredible. I used to let people control my happiness, we can't let that happen
because then we become a puppet in the hands of others who only want to bring us
down. If you want to be happy, do the things that bring a smile to your face and
it'll become contagious to the ones around you. 

I want to help, my goal in this life is to change lives because I realized
recently how this life works. You aren't guaranteed a tomorrow, so why not enjoy
today. I want to inspire you to inspire others while bringing out the you that
you've always wanted to be. Whether you need inspiration to write, sing, build
or teach as well as the motivation as an athlete to reach your goals and better
yourself. It doesn't matter who you are or where you came from, the only thing
that matters is where you're willing to go.

Start reading quotes each morning and continue to follow me and we can inspire
each other. Comment with a quote you started you're day with that made a
difference and a story about how it motivated you and I'll feature you in a
post.

"Never limit yourself, always strive for greatness and believe that you can make
a difference"
-buddhablog