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What Is My Purpose in Life?

Everyone has a purpose in life. For most of our younger years we are still figuring this open-ended question out. Not everyone has answers and there’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all answer. We need to look deep in ourselves, deep into our personalities, our likes and wants in life, our dreams that make us happy.

What is your personality type? Are you quiet, loud, emotional, kind, angry, sarcastic, etc. I know all types of people of all different types of personalities and yes, personality plays a big role in your purpose in life. My personality type changes day to day. I can be sweet and caring versus sarcastic and rebellious. It’s a part of us we need to consider.

What are your likes and dislikes? What is it that you love to do? My likes are reading, writing and researching. I love helping people. I always have, and always will. This is why I started this blog. I want to help people be the best version of themselves possible.

What are your dreams in life? Dreams are very important to figuring out questions like what is my purpose in life? My dream is to get a P.h.D in psychology so that I can one day help people in more ways than this. Look deep within and ask yourself, what is my dream?

If you put these three questions together, you can get a pretty good sense of what your purpose in life is. My purpose in life is to be kind and gentle, helping people overcome challenges while learning and growing myself. Start looking deep within yourself and you will find the answers you’re looking for. Comments are welcome! Tell me your answers to these three questions.

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The Relationship Between Freedom and Discipline

People see freedom without discipline as unruly, chaotic, disastrous, and to be honest it is. The definition of discipline is to train or develop by instruction and exercise especially in self-control. Without discipline, how would we learn the skills we have to live life as a society? How would we learn to follow rules and laws? How would we be able to make healthy and reasonable decisions that are going to benefit us and people around us?

The answer is simple: we wouldn’t know how to.

Freedom without discipline is like writing a story with no sentence structure. It doesn’t add up, it doesn’t compute. There would be chaos on the streets, no laws (or laws broken), and no one to enforce the laws. Our society would crumble.

Freedom requires discipline! With discipline, our society thrives. With discipline we learn, and we grow not just as a community but as our individual selves.

A friend once explained to me that there is competition in this world. There are people lower than us on the personal growth scale and people above us, as well. All of this is possible with discipline. You look at someone who has a better job (that enjoys it!), a car, a house. You look at other people in their 40s living at home with their parents lazy and unwilling to move up in life. Where are you on that scale??

If you told me that you are well up on your way to being higher on the scale or that you’re already there, this is because you had discipline to gain those freedoms! Freedom comes with responsibility and with responsibility comes… yes! Discipline! See, you’re understanding this now.

It is time we teach our children (and adults that still act like children willingly) discipline. Otherwise, they will never become an important adult high up on that scale. Everyone needs discipline. Just like everyone needs freedom. You can’t have freedom without discipline.

I have recently started waking up at 4:30 in the morning and I have figured out that has helped me a lot more than sleeping in till 7:30. When I wake up, I have a routine that I have started and one of the things that is included is eating protein for breakfast. Another thing I do is I work out for 10 to 15 minutes when I first wake up and all of that will give you more energy. Now waking up at 4:30 in the morning isn’t for everyone, but it is great to start your day off with a little bit of exercise, nothing enough to wear you out, and a great breakfast. Now one of the freedoms that I have from the discipline of waking up in the morning is being able to get that energy to keep being disciplined in the day. The freedom of being able to get up is knowing that I have control over three hours before I have to go to work. I can decide what I want to do and when I want to do it as long as it’s within that three hours' time. When I sleep and I find it to where I oversleep, and it makes me exhausted and especially having that energy when I wake up super early is what I consider my freedom.

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Relationships and Stress VS Healthy Relationships

Relationships and stress… where do I begin? Do you ever ask yourself; do I really need to keep talking to this person? Or will they ever leave me alone?! Then this is the article for you!

Relationships: let’s define what I mean by this. Family, friends, lovers, partners, coworkers, anyone who you connect with. The thing that most people forget is We have the power to break ties! A person is sucking out your energy for the thousandth time. Cut the ties. You’ve tried and tried to get away from them? Cut the ties. You might be thinking, well it’s not that easy! You have the mindset of someone who will stay stuck in the never-ending cycle of exhaustion.

It doesn’t matter if they’re family or even acquaintances! I’ve just cut so many people that have been dragging me down and I feel great! You’re going to ask yourself constantly did I do the right thing? That question is going to bug you constantly if you let it. Don’t let it get to you. You need to take care of yourself! (This is coming from a person who used to always people-please and it hurt me in multiple ways!)

People keep thinking they have to take up responsibilities that are not theirs to take and let’s be honest, it kills our energy, makes us stress. If you love someone who is bad for you, who are you hurting by loving them? You’re hurting yourself! Be kind to yourself and better chances will arrive. Take care of yourself and know also that you are not alone! Together, we got this!

Now on to healthy relationships:

We come across people who are deadly to our mental health, as stated above. What about those people who inspire us to grow and to be the best version of ourselves? We need these people in our lives! The ones who always encourage you, see through you when you’re “faking it to make it”, and the ones who help us stand up when we fall, they give us the motivation and courage to get up and try again! (I know you’re thinking of someone now! Give them a shout out in the comments and share this post with them!)

These are the people we as a whole can thrive with as a society! Not just as a society, even. But as a person. We grow based on social influence. When we’re babies, we learn to walk, and talk based on that social influence. Our personalities are reflective of that social influence! Keep those people close to you and never let go!

Building relationships that have been destroyed in the past take forever to regrow. Trust me, it happened between my mom and me. That’s why before you knock someone down or build someone up, look at how they respect you as a person and make sure you walk in their shoes for a day! Only then will you know who is for you and who is not. Everyone is different. That’s why everyone deserves a chance. It’s up to you to give that chance. But it’s also up to you to put your foot down. Only you can decide! Together, we got this!