This blog post has been my way to share with you guys some things that i consider important in relation to happiness and self improvement. I have enjoyed sharing with you all and i could not even begin to tell you how much blogging has helped me. I have found that blogging and sharing some of my deepest thoughts with you all has de-stressed me in ways i couldn’t even begin to explain. The more i talk about self improvement, the more real it becomes in my life. I have made so many steps in these short months that are leading me to a better mindset.

Taking my own advice is something i have always struggled with, but i decided to make the journey with all of my followers and i couldn’t be happier. This experience will help me in the future to understand that not all things in life are positive, but it is how we handle situations that define us. I believe i can use my advice in professional situations by becoming more patient and having a healthier mindset when it comes to stressful situations. If i could include/improve anything within this site i would love to be able to chat one on one with each of my followers. I am very interested to know your stories and i would love to watch you all grow.

I think the promotion of my blogs on twitter has been extremely effective on getting the  word out about my blogs through social media. My most popular week was the week of September 17th when i posted about mindfulness. The post received 17 views and 20 visitors.  Mindfulness was my first post about self improvement and i think the content was extremely important. You cannot want to get better if you don’t have the mind for it, So i think it is truly the first step towards self improvement.

Always choose to see the beauty in the world.

For this blog post I want to share with you guys some things i consider to be extremely important in the journey towards self improvement. I will be talking about the work enviroment and how it can affect your overall happiness in life. Now, i know we don’t go to work everyday because we want to (well at least most of us don’t) but that shouldn’t stop us from being happy. Our jobs are a HUGE part of our lives. For most of us we spend at least 5 days, roughly 40 hrs a week there. Thats a huge chunk of our time.

For all of us college kids i know our jobs probably aren’t our permanent goals for life and we go to work everyday just to afford bills, but that doesn’t mean we have to hate every second of it. For most of my college career i was extremely unhappy at a job i worked at. It was a very high-paced, hectic enviroment that caused me an intense amount of stress. I  made the decision to push through and continue working at this place for years until i realized how much tension and anxiety it gave me. I didn’t value my job and i didn’t take pride in it. I dreaded going to work everyday and it took a toll on my overall happiness.

So my advice to you all is to find joy in your everyday encounters. Work is not always going to be a fun place to be, but it doesn’t have to be a place that sucks the positivity out of you. Use the glass door  app to see what real life people have to say about local jobs before you pledge yourself to one. Surround yourself around people you enjoy and clientele that will teach you things. Value what you do for a living and you will find more value in yourself. Put yourself first in life and focus on what makes you happy.

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All over the news and social media we see negative things happening all around us. We are surround by dark, ugly settings which can change our outlook on life. The media chooses to portray all of the messed up things happening in this the world. What we don’t see, is all of the beauties this life has to offer us. If we simply open our eyes and choose to see the positives of this life we can create our own happiness.

I, too have been at fault of only seeing the negatives. I get so wrapped up in the news and drama that I forget there’s so much pure beauty I have been ignoring. We need to stop focusing on the craziness in the world (I promise you it will still be there when you decide to go back to it) and focus more on the things that make us happy. For me, nature is my safe place. I absolutely l love all of the natural hiking trails and hidden water holes Mother Nature has to offer. Being outside in a beautiful atmosphere brings me and intense amount of joy that I can’t get anywhere else.

When I was a little girl I used to have this beautiful cave behind my house. When your little everything just seems so big, so I would go out there with my brothers and just be in awe at how magical this cave was. I think back to how simple my life was then and how much I just enjoyed staring at that beautiful cave. Life doesn’t always have to be consumed with the news and the craziness of the world, sometimes you can just take a trip by yourself and enjoy the beauties of life. Soak in it and let it change the way you view the world.