the positivity corner

Hello, friends! ☺

I wanted to apologize for my sudden inactivity here on this blog. Life hit me like a truck. When it comes to juggling exams, book writing/editing, and other miscellaneous projects, some things tend to get put on the back burner rather easily. I plan to return to weekly entries coming this Saturday once I empty off my plate.

Hi, friends! ☺

I hope everyone had a nice weekend! I know I did. I slept for eleven hours two nights ago, which is crazy. It felt like I slept for days, which is a very nice feeling to have every once in a while. I hope everybody is sleeping okay, especially since most of us are quite busy.

To start off the week on a happy note, please repeat after me. These are some affirmations that hopefully will make you smile.

I am amazing. I am intelligent. I am strong. I am grateful. I am kind. I am beautiful inside and out. I can do this!

Hi, friends! ☺

I hope everyone had a great week this week! My week was a bit difficult. Lots of things stressed me out, I didn't feel the best about myself, and a whole lot of other stuff happened. Even though all of these things threatened to take the joy temporarily out of my life, I'm sitting here behind the screen with a smile on my face as I type this out.

I wanted to start out this entry with a question. What makes you laugh? Is it a funny movie? A funny book? A silly animal on social media? Whatever it is, it's completely valid as long as it neglects to bring out the worst in someone. For example, if someone is mean to someone else and then you laugh about it, that is clearly not funny. That means you are closer to being a bully than someone you would want to be.

Anyway, enough about the negativity. See? It's even trying to make its way into this post, but it's not going to work! Right now, how about we focus on what makes you laugh and how laughing can make you happy. Did you know that laughter reduces stress relief? According to www.helpguide.org, laughter relaxes the whole body, boosts the immune system, triggers the release of endorphins, protects the heart, diffuses anger, and can even help you live longer! Laughter can do such great things to a person--not just on the outside, but on the inside as well.

It seems like laughter truly is the best medicine. It can reverse almost every ounce of negativity there is. Are you sad about something? Find something that will make you laugh! Mad? The same applies. Stressed or anxious? Guess what--the same thing applies to that too! Laughter is such an automatic thing that we seem to forget how much it helps us physically, mentally, and emotionally.

One thing that never fails to make me laugh is watching my bunny hop around the room. One of my favorite things that he does is clean his ears, which sounds weird, but let me explain. This little fluff ball grabs his floppy ear between his paws and brings it to his mouth. It's one of the cutest things in the whole world! Maybe you have a pet that makes you laugh. If you don't, that's completely okay. Not everybody has a pet, and some people are allergic. Either way, adorable animals almost always prove to be one of the best sources of laughter.

After all of this being said, do you believe that you have to laugh to fix your problems?

You shouldn't!

It's okay to feel your emotions as they come and go. Sometimes you're in a positive mood, which is great, but other times, you can be sad, stressed, or even angry. That's okay too! Emotions are a gift. Even though we sometimes might want to have the return receipt, bad emotions are a blessing in disguise. On occasion, you need to feel them. Nobody can possibly be happy all the time!

Happy Monday, friends! ☺

Once again, it's the start of a new week. You might not be looking forward to said week because of school, work, or any other responsibilities that you need to take care of. Let me tell you something:

You are not alone!

As I'm writing this, I'm sitting in the room where my first class of the week is held. Personally, I don't want to be here, but that's life. Life is about doing things we might not want to do, or understand. We'll figure it out, though!

Here are some affirmations for this week. You can read them aloud or in your mind, but the point is that you accept these truthful statements.

I am strong. I am amazing. I am kind. I am beautiful. I will not give up. I can do this. I can get through today!

Hi, friends! ☺

Welcome to my second official entry on my blog, "the positivity corner"! The overwhelming feedback on my first entry (posted last Saturday) makes me so optimistic and filled with joy for the future of this safe space. After a mishap at my university which caused me to have to quit the campus newsletter, I was very unmotivated with my writing. Thanks to you all, my first entry has been shared and reblogged more than five times this week along with over ten likes. That's crazy!

Okay, that's enough about me. In my last entry, I spoke about "Easter eggs", which are little things that pop up unexpectedly in our lives. They can appear anywhere at any time. We might not understand why they're placed in these certain spots, but later on, you might think something along the lines of "Wow! This really made my day!". I enjoyed reading about the "Easter eggs" that you all spotted this week. My mom even texted me after reading my article that she saw geese crossing the road and that was her "Easter egg" of the day.

Today, we'll be diving into a specific "Easter egg" that I like to call creativity. Do any of you have a hobby? I know I do. In my spare time, I love to write stories and create music with my voice and my guitar. Occasionally, I like to draw little cartoon animals. My favorite thing to draw is a bunny modeled after my own who is sitting right next to me as I write this post.

Creativity doesn't explicitly have to be in the arts. For example, I have a very good friend who plays volleyball. I went to her game on Friday night and the way she played and had so much passion for her sport made my entire week. Every athlete puts their own spin on the sport(s) that they play. That's what makes this person creative and therefore unique from everyone else.

There is so much beauty in everyone's creative mindset. In fact, the mind alone is so intricate and powerful that it is even more amazing than we can imagine. Whether you like to draw, paint, play an instrument, write, play a sport, etc., it is all beautiful and therefore positive, which is what ties creativity into our "Easter egg" topic. The fact that everyone has a unique mind and creative aspect to this world is incredible.

As you read this entry, you might be thinking that you need to get off of the couch and do something active in order for it to be considered creative. Do you really have to do that?

No!

Creativity is different for every person. Most of my creative juices flow while I'm typing on my laptop. It might not seem like much, but it is the absolute world to me. The ability to interact with other people online through my books that I have written and published makes my entire journey worth it.

So, whether you're a very outdoorsy person who loves sports, an artist - or writer - who can take a blank sheet of paper and fill it with color, or anywhere in between, let your creativity flow! You impact more people than you ever know when you share your talents with the world. You might be inching out of your comfort zone, but once you release yourself into the world, you never know how much positivity you can give a person.

If you got this far, thank you so much for reading! I'll see you all in my next post!

P.S.: For anyone wondering what Neo (my bunny) looks like!

Happy Wednesday, friends! ☺

You’ve made it to the third day of the work/school week, which means you’re about halfway done! I know this week has probably been difficult for a lot of you (I know it has been for me), whether you’re a student, an employee, or doing something else with your time. Here are some more affirmations I hope help you get through another hard day.

Please, repeat after me. It can be spoken aloud or in your mind. I am beautiful. I am kind. I am smart. I am talented. I can do it. I’ve got this!

Happy Monday, friends! ☺

It’s the start of a new week, which might not sound so great right now, but I promise you that you will be able to find the good in any situation. Today, I would like for you to practice some affirmations to gain a positive mindset for the journey ahead of you.

Please, repeat after me. It can be spoken aloud or read in your head, but the point is that you reassure yourself of these things.

I am beautiful. I am loved. I am smart. I am talented. I am strong. I can do it. I can defeat the challenge that lies ahead of me!

Have a wonderful week, everyone! Please feel free to like, comment, reblog, and share this post so more people can repeat these affirmations to themselves.

Hi, friends! ☺

Welcome to my blog, where I will be sharing positive things that I experience in my life. Life has been especially difficult lately. Ever since March of 2020, the world has been taken over by COVID-19 and nothing has been the same since. Some of us have been online for school ever since then. Some of us might be going back in-person and don’t know how to handle it. You might be an adult who is finding it hard to socialize with your coworkers. I’m here to tell you that it’s okay!

It’s often hard to find positivity when you have such a busy life. Take me for example. I’m a university student who is taking fifteen credit hours at once, I write books as my hobby/career, and I teach piano students on the side. That sounds like a lot! Does it seem like all of my time has been taken up by all of this chaos?

Yes, it does.

I’ll ask you another rhetorical question: has it?

No!

There is still room in our busy lives for things we find positive in this world. If any of you have watched Disney movies (which I’m pretty sure you have), you probably have noticed that there are little “Easter eggs,” which is where a small “hint” from one movie is in a completely different movie. For example, Rapunzel from Tangled appears in Frozen attending Elsa’s coronation. There are are things in our lives like this! They might not make sense at first, but after a while, you can see why they are put there.

One “Easter egg” that I experienced the other week was on my way to my university. I have a twenty-five-minute commute and I was quite stressed that morning. In the middle of a busy road, traffic stopped, and I was in the front, so I knew exactly why: there was a family of geese crossing the road. Seeing the baby geese following their mother made my day. By the time I reached my university’s campus, I realized why the geese were there at that very moment.

Another “Easter egg” that happened this week was when I was working on homework. I had just finished a quiz for my British Literature class, which is probably the hardest class that I am currently enrolled in. I ended up with a grade that I didn’t like at all. I began to break down because I felt like I wasn’t smart enough to be in such a great university. Then, five minutes later, I received an email from said university with words of encouragement that told me to keep going.

“Easter eggs” pop up all the time in our lives, and they don’t have to be a painted plastic egg hidden in your backyard. Instead, they can be random things in places you least expect. My challenge for you all is to think about this: what can be considered “Easter eggs” in your life? It can be as large or small as you would like. The point is that it brings you joy.