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5 Tips for Effective Essay Planning

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Post published:May 7, 2019
Post category:Academic

5 TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE ESSAY PLANNING

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Written by Harry Croose

"Write like it matters; and it will."

- Libba Bray - Tweet

Hey all, I hope you are well. Today, we will be talking about the importance of preparing and planning your academic essays. At the time, I am writing this – I have just completed my second year. Over my time at University I have become very adept in time management and planning for essays. Here is 5 tips to help you become better at planning for essays, and in turn it may skyrocket your grades.

1. Write the Assignments due-in dates (a day before they are due)

This one in itself has allowed me to do so much better! Many of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves to do like to write essays quite close to the deadline. But this in turn due to the stress of time, has made our essay writing and content, not our best standard. Setting a mindset to complete the essay as if the day before was the assignment due date. Gives you the necessary breathing room to give you time to proof-read and can cure procrastination, and last-minute essay writing.

This has worked wonders and has made my essays better because it improves your psychological wellbeing – during the writing process.

2. Analysis the question / Assessment Criteria

Analysing the question is a great way of articulating a framework not just for your essay but for your understanding of the actual question.
The assessment criteria with giving you much more specific insight, into what the lecturer wants to be included in your essays.
Try to touch upon all of these points, and perhaps use similar words, to make sure you are hitting each of the points.
So for example, if the essay question was…

‘To what extent is apples awesome in England.’

You can take into consideration ‘to what extent’ meaning you could structure the essay into good and bad representations of apples, and go into if your sources have a particular bias, so on and so forth. ‘Awesome’ what do you as an emrging academic, deem as an awesome representation of apples.
Also what ‘apples’, are you going to foucs on a particular type of apple, or are you going to look at apples in literature, again it dependa on what subject and what your assessment criteria is.
A long story, short with that crazy example, you do have free-realm with how you wirite the essay and create and formulate the ideas. But remember, it will be marked on how it meets the question as well as the assessment criteria.

3. Use Secondary Sources

Secondary sources are incredibly important because it gives the impression that you have read widely to the lecturer. Also including other academics names to assist your argument, makes your own conclusions and own individual theory much more creditable. Also, reading up on these individuals can help you in future essays, by knowing their opinions and quotes. Secondary sources are almost vital to get above a 2:1. However, make sure that these sources are relevant to the narrative of the essay.

4. Quote-filtering

Depending on the question, it is important for you to find relevant quotes and to filter the best ones to use for your essay question and argument. Using indexes is a very good way to filter quotes. If your essay was on apples looking up the keyword ‘apple’ will be a good start! I personally would then recommend writing the quotes with the page numbers in a Microsoft word document, then you are able to paste them into your essay.

5. Ask for help

Self-educating yourself on how to plan essays, whether through blog posts such as this, or YouTube videos, books and other courses – can help you significantly. Also if you are at University, you could ask an academic adviser to help you. Or in fact your own lecturer! Many tend to offer tutorials.

Also, many of your peers may be able to potentially help you and in turrn, you could help them!

Bonus Point. Stay positive, and try your best.

Be positive, anything is possible. Try and enjoy the essay writing process and if possible do not leave the essay writing last minute. 🙂

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7 Steps to Build Confidence (Even if you’re shy)

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Post published:April 25, 2019
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7 Steps to Build Confidence (Even if you're Shy)

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"Confidence comes not from always being right, but not fearing to be wrong ."

- Anonymous - Tweet

Hey, welcome back to my blog – today we will be talking about the vital importance of building confidence. Now to many when we talk about the confidence we see someone who is extrovert, charismatic and is seemingly unmarked by negativity and criticism. However, this image of confidence is merely an illusion. Confidence can be shown externally through the means above but also through many more factors in life. Here are 7 Steps to build confidence.

1. Create Confidence Categories

Confidence to me is how one sees themselves but more particularly honed towards a person’s goals for example in social interactions, (which is the most common perception of what a confident person is). But confidence is so much more than just someone who has master socialising but can also be with someone’s health, finance, career so on and so forth. These Confidence categories are a very important part of raising Self-Awareness as far as confidence is concerned because it can help you identify where you are strong in confidence and where you are less so. These categories can also go into further sub-categories like health can be further broken down into more segments like nutrition and muscle gain fitness. This may bring some further awareness to you – as someone could be easily confident in themselves when it comes to eating healthily and looking after his/her nutrition, but that same person may not be confident in muscle gain fitness.

2. Write a Goals List

Writing a Goals List, in summary, would be a really good way of not only further affirming your self-awareness of your confidence level but would also give you a clear distinct direction to head in to potentially improve your confidence in certain areas of your life to improve your wellbeing, happiness and success in life.

3. Build foundational habits

Building foundational habits is incredibly important for confidence building. Building habits in areas of personal strengths and weakness, such as budgeting in finance and meditation in personal wellbeing. These habits allow you to have the practise and build momentum in the areas you which to improve in your life.

4. Leap of Faith (Be courageous)

Sometimes, just taking a dive outside your comfort zone, and being courageous is the quickest way to expand your horizons as far as confidence is concerned. After all, before confidence is courage. Confidence is being contented and able in your own comfort zone, courage is the act to expand your comfort zone. This is the most drastic and possibly the scariest but will get you the most results and insights even if you believe you didn’t do well.

5. Self-Education

As you would research for an essay, a way to build confidence in a particular subject whether for academics or for own personal education is to research and self-educate yourself in the areas you want to improve further. This doesn’t have to be for just confidence but can be for all facets of life.

6. Fulfill your needs

Occasionally, we do not feel confident, because of a selfless need to look after others, before ourselves, make sure that you are looking after yourself when it comes to your own basic needs such as personal hygiene, grooming, hydration etc. The lack of fulfilment of these needs like a domino effect will still affect and knock against your confidence levels. Having these established will give you that solid foundation.

7. Ask for help

There is no need to go through this challenge alone. If you have supportive friends and family, perhaps you could ask them to assist you and help you grow in confidence, after all, they know you better. You could also ask some people at University, for example, a Career’s Adviser, Lecturer or Councillor depending on your needs and self-awareness as to where your confidence is limited. There are also apps and local charities that help young people.

Bonus Point. Treat yourself.

Nothing gives you more confidence, then the confidence to treat yourself occasionally whether it be a delicious meal out somewhere with your friends or buying something online that you have always wanted. This can be a great way of self-affirming to yourself and a good way to remind you how awesome you are.

Anyways, until next time, please check out my other blog posts on similar subjects. Also, my courses if they interest you.

Take care and have a lovely evening. Remember that even the shy person is confident int eh idea that they are shy. SO in a sense, shy people are still confident.

Harry,

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How To Not Care What Other People Think

Post author:Harry
Post published:April 18, 2019
Post category:Self-Help Social

HOW TO NOT CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK

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"Someone's Opinion of You - does not have to become your reality."
- Les Brown - Tweet

For many months, now I was caught into a sneaky way of thinking, which held a lot of knocks to my Self-Esteem and confidence, but now am stronger than ever. Back in Business! Here to give YOU another one of my insights.

Today’s topic is something I learnt from my many months of emotional healing and self-reflection. A lot of this I’d discovered was that I was caring too much of the opinions of others. Now be careful now don’t take it literally, this phrase is often used when we are essentially fed up, but that is used in a mental framework of a victim. However, this phrase can also be used in as a way of releasing unnecessarily burdens that either you or others have placed on you.
I am here to give you 5 strategies that helped me get over this wall. One quick point first though, remember that other people’s opinions can still have large benefits. Just remember that their opinions do not define who you are.

1. Focus on yourself and your Needs

There is an annoying stigma in society, that if you are selfless you are great and if you are selfish you are a horrible person. This form of assumption, that allows unkind people to take advantage of you – due to your social complexes on ‘what is right’.

How to solve this would be to solely focus on yourself. I know right so selfish! But you need to fill your own cup first as it were, before you start helping others. I am not saying to go out your way to be unkind to someone (even if they deserve it) but merely to prioritise yourself other everything else, and yes even your family.

The more you invest in yourself today – the more you will be able to help them in the future. In fact, helping yourself first will likely mean you will be in a much better position to help others more so then even if you were too selfless of your own needs and desires.

This topic is such a big one that I have wrote a separate blog post here – How to fulfil your needs.

2. Establish Strong Independent Boundaries

Establish concrete boundaries in different areas of your life. Whether that be in the realms of love, relationships, friendships, money, emotions, psychology and so on. This mind does not necessarily come from a lack of confidence or self-esteem. I believe that a lack of secure boundaries in these sections of oneself can be one of many reasons that a lack of confidence/ self-esteem continues to manifest in your life.

How does this relate to how to not care what other people think? Well, people with what are considered to be weaker boundaries have an obsession of the need to be validated by others. (Hence you care what people think). Therefore, they require external environments to control their boundaries, which if you put it like that sounds ridiculous!

In human biology, we have a need to be in a pack of people, so we naturally have homeostasis of what the supposed conformed boundaries are. But remember that sometimes our human nature struggles to differentiate the difference between thriving and surviving in these instances. I want you to be thriving! So don’t use this as an excuse for you to be thriving! This brings be to my next point.

3. Change Your Environment

Life is too short. To guilt-trip yourself into staying in an environment that does not vibe with you. Remember the previous point you want to thrive! If that means moving friend groups, distancing yourself from toxicity, and moving towards an environment that you want. Then do it. Yes, it will take a leap of faith, to make such a drastic change.

If you can’t just change your environment, perhaps you are in a job, or in a position where you don’t want to be. Then I would suggest you change your environment in small stages. Whether it be spending less time with someone or retreating to nature to relieve stress. All of these steps will say to your mind, that you are the top priority, and will undo the extreme selflessness programming and will help you care less of what over people think.

4. Find Your Life Purpose

One thing that will not ground you more, on not caring what people think is to have a Life Purpose. A Life Purpose is either a big goal or a massive change that you want to make in your life, which is aligned with your personal values and needs. This is like your destination. This will allow you to make your own heading if you will to reach this said goal and make this aligned into reality. This could be starting a blog, write a book, start a YouTube Channel, to Rule the World!
If you have your own goal then you will DO things that will benefit YOU.

If you are interested in finding your life purpose then read my post; How to Find Your Life Purpose

5. Build Confidence and Self-Esteem

Building sufficient confidence and Self-Esteem is so important. This is the bedrock of success and happiness. If you perceive yourself to not have very good confidence and self-esteem. Firstly, you are confident and do have Self-Esteem – let me explain before you go jumping to conclusions. It is just that you have been convinced that you don’t by your external environments justified by your past experiences.

I have a deep belief, that we all have great levels of confidence and self-esteem. You know that memory-player in the back of your mind reaffirming what you believe to be – that is what is controlling your confidence and self-esteem.
This here is an important insight, “your THOUGHTS are not the same as FACT.” Just because you say, ‘you’re stupid’, ‘you’re not good enough’ does not mean it is true. In fact, all it is is a bad radio station and all you need to do is change the frequency. Which you can do easily! Let’s go backwards your confidence – comes from emotions, and your emotions come from thoughts. This is a very vital insight into your own mental psychology, that I hope you find very helpful. If you have the strong confidence in yourself – you will find that naturally your boundaries will be stronger and will be more protected from status-quo thinking, following the herd and victim mentalities which make you vulnerable to the effects on other people’s opinions. I have many blog other posts on Confidence and Self-Esteem so please use the search on the blog-menu and type in ‘confidence’. To find lots of posts, resources and mini-courses to help you.

Bonus Point. Start a Self-Reflection Practise

To give you some suggestions that really benefited me through this obstacle. I want to recommend for you to start self-reflecting. Whether it be through…

– Journaling
– Reading Self-Help Books
– Reading Fiction Books
– Meditation
– Write your own story.

This will allow you to get what you read in theory, into practice. I want YOU, yes I am looking at you! To have a successful and happy and prosperous life!

Until the Next Blog Post! Take Care and Look after yourself!!

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The World Needs More Heroes

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Post published:April 9, 2019
Post category:Self-Help

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE HEROES

SELF – HELP

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Written by Harry Croose

"Hating on someone, or something is only giving power to that thing. It becomes a bigger problem in your mind. It's okay to dislike something, but never hate it - you only lose your power and time."

- Harry Croose - Tweet

Hello reader,

I hope you are well as always! Today, I would like to ramble on a bit about the importance of ‘heroes’, but I don’t mean the kind like Batman or Superman.
I’m talking about the hero that is hiding within us, in the corner of our eye or behind your shadow. The hero that lives within us all, that we choose to ignore.

Why do we choose to ignore it? You may ask.

Well the answer is because of fear and social constructs, I have lived a short life so far me being relatively young in age and yet I feel much older in experience and wisdom.
I do not want to live a life where I haven’t tried to live the life that I want. To be hero is to go against the current of society while being true to yourself. We ignore this path because we are scared of being social outcasts, scared of being alone.

But I’ve found that if you repress what you truly feel is right it will only destroy you.
Then you become part of ‘the herd’ – the majority of people who are not happy where the work, not happy in their relationships, not happy financially; not happy in life.
I speak in absolutes here not to say everyone is unhappy as there are many shades of grey. I say this to show you that the majority of people are not happy because they didn’t take the action to carve their own path in this world. They settled with being told what to do, being told what was right without listening to their internal compass.

You must become a hero to yourself, before anyone else. Once you are ready to give you will be able to provide and inspire tens, thousands to millions of people if you let it so.

A hard pill to swallow is that you and you alone are responsible for everything that happens in your life. It is easy to take responsibility for the good things that happen to you like a good grade on a test, or a job promotion. But it is much more difficult to take responsibility for the bad things you have done in your life.

Do yourself a favour and forgive yourself or those that you think has wronged you and move on towards your future.

You need to have the vision and believe in yourself to walk the path of a hero. Some days it will be ‘a walk in the park’ other days you will want to give up and cry.
But wipe away the tears and remember why you went on the path in the first place, what drives you through. What have you come here to be? Who are you?

Maybe you don’t know yet, but if you take action one day you will. Once you find your path it will not be something you see, it will be something you feel. An instinct saying resonates with you as time begins to slow around you. You take a deep breath and just be…

A hero is not someone with special power or abilities that make them special. What makes a true hero in my eyes at least is someone who can accept themselves for who they are flaws and all. Who can take something they have created and share it with the world impacting the world in a positive way.

We are all stories in the end, make it a good one. Don’t be there regretting trying to scavenge for the sands of time that’s already passed. Don’t live empty, die full.

Live full, die empty.

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4 Steps to Dealing with Haters

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Post published:April 2, 2019
Post category:Academic Career Financial Health Personal Reviews Self-Help Social

4 STEPS TO DEALING WITH HATERS

Academic, Career, Financial, Health, Personal, Reviews, Self-Help, Social

Written by Harry Croose

"Hating on someone, or something is only giving power to that thing. It becomes a bigger problem in your mind. It's okay to dislike something, but never hate it - you only lose your power and time."

- Harry Croose - Tweet

1. Accepting that Haters are everywhere.

Basically, if you are a hater why are you here. To plot your revenge, to comment under one of my blog posts or YouTube Videos because I upset you; or are you here to eat my chocolate cheesecake because the last one is definitely crossing the line. Also hyperlinks can be very useful.

2. Understand why they Hate

There was a time where I actually paid attention to these individuals who sit down in life and have nothing better to do than complain and shout at you for doing ‘the wrong thing’ or ‘that you are weird’ . Well here is a reality check for those of you that are haters of my work, look at yourself. What are you doing and contributing to the world? You can’t say anything to me or too anyone at that if you are not following your own path and are merely following the masses, because you are still scared that you might fail.

3. Re-frame the situation.

I don’t hate you if you are a hater, I respect that you have an opinion; but to waste your precious time on this earth which as you read this (by the way I appreciate) you will loses this seconds forever. Instead of complaining or being a victim 100% of the time, harness your energy to things that could actually change your life.

Direct your energy away from your haters and invest it into yourself
Understand that it isn’t about you, it is about them.

4. Maintain distance to your haters.

There was a time where I was a hater of people who seemed to have it better than me, but when I started to stop comparing myself to others. I felt so much more free and had a tenfold more time and energy to make the impact I want to make on the world. I am not giving up not now, I will never give up. I am not stopping just because my crush no longer likes me, I am not stopping because I haven’t got 50 likes on YouTube or 1000 subscribers I am going to keep pushing ahead; we must together keep pushing forward that is the only way we will truly reach the land we were promised off when we were read a bedtime story with a nice cup of hot chocolate.

Dreams can come true, and no matter where you are in life or how far you think your behind; you can make it.
I believe in you.
Lovers always Win.

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The Power of Imagination

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Post published:February 26, 2019
Post category:Self-Help

THE POWER OF IMAGINATION

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"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams our forever."

- Walt Disney - Tweet

Imagination is such a vital skill as without Imagination the many giants that are world has ever known such as the Roman Empire, The construction of America, the many artists and musicians with their paintings and music compositions.

Without imagination every little child wouldn’t be able to be immersed in stories, thus how we deem entertainment would be very primitive only showing in a basic biological provenance. Without we would not be able to evolve and adapt our environment and thus create the reality we see today. All scientific discoveries such as Gravity, as well as technological advances such as the printing press and then much more recently in our history technology. Imagination is the essential power of the Universe, the power to see things before they truly happen if viewed from that perspective you could say that imagination can be the prominent predictor of how successful someone will be; however nothing is set in stone.

Main constructs of today like money, politics and education would all be lost to time if we din’t have the facilities in our mind, body and soul to imagine these complex constructs. Every construct I agree has a very simple foundation, but if we could not build upon it or have the initiative and creativity to expand our ideas we would still be in the ages of long ago. We would be long gone to time and maybe even instinct.

We are only here because of the unity we all have, the connection that we all have to each other as a human race I know in recent times some groups are still in conflict but at the end of the day we still have a connection positive or negative and in a way we all need each other, friend to enemy or lover to lover. Without the conflict to disagree imagination can not be sparked. I see imagination like a spinning tornado but rather than destroying the environment it constructs and in a way gives the world a new lease of life.

This is why we need awesome people like you. people who are incredibly brave and courageous to follow their heart to follow their dreams to go out there and change the world, to shape the world by how you envisioned it, but before I leave you remember that we are all mortal and that legacy is significant and a great purpose to strive for but love for our families, our friends, our enemies, is the most important thing of all. Live life by the guidance of love, and your imagination will take you to extraordinary heights.

I wish you well!!!!!

I will speak to you soon!!!

Harry, 🙂

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How to deal with Toxic Relationships

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Post published:February 20, 2019
Post category:Self-Help Social

HOW TO DEAL WITH TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

Written by Harry Croose

"Hating on someone, or something is only giving power to that thing. It becomes a bigger problem in your mind. It's okay to dislike something, but never hate it - you only lose your power and time."

- Harry Croose - Tweet

There was a time where I was a hater of people who seemed to have it better than me, but when I started to stop comparing myself to others. I felt so much more free and had a tenfold more time and energy to make the impact I want to make on the world. I am not giving up not now, I will never give up. I am not stopping just because my crush no longer likes me, I am not stopping because I haven’t got 50 likes on YouTube or 1000 subscribers I am going to keep pushing ahead; we must together keep pushing forward that is the only way we will truly reach the land we were promised off when we were read a bedtime story with a nice cup of hot chocolate.

1. Distance yourself from Toxic People.

Distance yourself from that person or group of people as much as possible. If they are a family member, a close friend or a co-worker, then this is most likely a lot tougher to do rather than someone like an acquaintance or even a stranger. It’s important to realise the effect that they have on you, and how they drain or even change your personality to something you are not.

Many people call them energy vampires or even master manipulators who are able to change your personality instantly just by their presence. I’d strongly advise in order to truly break this image, is to talk to them consciously with this idea in mind that they are changing in you in some way; you might be able to either dispel this effect entirely or at least build resistance to their blows grounding yourself in the now. Taking a hold on your personal power and strength is also a recommended path to take as these encounters can be quite strenuous, to say the least.

2. The Power of Perception

Universal Truths like ‘Life is too short’ and ‘the power of gratitude’ and how these problems are probably so insignificant to the Universe might help with these feelings of fear or toxicity when confronting them.

Now I know I write as if these people are infected like we are in the zombie apocalypse but the majority of this toxicity will probably be your own perception of them and not necessarily them.
But sometimes maybe you will come across someone who is vindictive in their ways and wants to do give themselves the upper hand without any look to the consequences to their actions.

3. Attempt Reconcile

Many people would pull the card and would say to retreat and not get involved with them as much as possible.
However I would say that you should depending on the person resolve the issue, either by just chatting to them especially if this said person is a beloved family member that you of course care for, the only way I find that you can truly resolve an issue is through no what you do necessarily but what drives the very actions we take every day.

4. Unconditional Love

Act through authentic unconditional love to the people that you care for and even to those that you hate, because what resists persists.

I would know cause I already have many regrets, and the core rooted reason was that I didn’t follow my heart. You also must be careful not to be too hasty or brutal to the other person even they seem to deserve it because you never know when the tables might turn and they might be your only call for help one day; besides people change and yes even you. Of course, there are a few exceptions but change is the law of the Universe and no matter how someone tries to stay the same you can’t run forever.

5. Develop your Spiritual Awareness

As I write this I can think of many ‘toxic relationships’ that dissolved merely just being present with myself, and even through meditation, just because my energies were on a different frequency to either those on a lower vibration or my lower frequency thoughts subsided. This is not to say that anyone is lower than anyone else but there mindset is there is the only difference. Looking at this from more of a spiritual angle rather than a rational one to me personally allows the problem to be solved easier.

But let me make this clear it does not mean lower your boundaries and let them walk over you, I am only suggesting quieting the complaining voice we all have and try to resolve this issue through compassion and kindness. Then if that doesn’t work then try distancing yourself from that person rather than argue and break the relationship tie completely because you never know when they might change and because you left you door open just a crack, you may if you please rekindle that relationship whether it be a family member, a friend or an ex-lover.

Let go of all things bad and embrace all the good things about them and appreciate that we are all different and none of us are perfect. None of us can be truly right or wrong, toxic or non-toxic, we can only try to be our best, and your best if tapped into the potential is only infinity itself.

You deserve love, compassion and a sense of belonging and you should accept nothing less. You are a hero in the making you only just have to believe and you are already halfway there!!!

Anything is possible! 🙂

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Self-Image

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Post published:February 15, 2019
Post category:Self-Help

SELF-IMAGE

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Written by Harry Croose

"A strong positive Self-Image is the best possible preparation for success in life ."

- Dr. Joyce Brothers - Tweet

I find it is the simplest truths that we overlook and this one is easily done. Especially in are fast paced world where we feel swept up of our feet all the time whether doing that homework project that is due in the next day or are working coming in tired.
Yet how many of us takes the time to look into the mirror and realise our true potential. This question can be answered in many ways but the majority I bet don’t do this. Although I am not perfect I still have many days and moments along my journey where I forget to look after myself to the length I should.

Prioritising something like a project or work over my own well-being. Well I have the argument to say that you can and in may cases have to make sacrifices to move forward, I do not believe in self-sacrificing your time and effort if your endeavours aren’t going to give you a long-term effort or reward.

How you see yourself is the most important thing of all when it comes to self-image and not letting other opinions cloud your identity.
For example, your job does not necessarily correlate to your identity, but merely your past decisions for accepting this job in the first place.
The challenge may be reclaiming your true self-image or trying too hard to preserve an old one; like a caterpillar at a certain stage in its life it renews itself by cocooning to be reborn again, and in many aspects of our life we must do the same to grow and develop. A Universal truth is that we are all unique and beautiful in our own way the challenge is in this life is to see it. 🙂

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‘Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall’ (Self-Reflection)

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Post published:February 8, 2019
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'MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL' (SELF-REFLECTION)

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"Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous."

- Confucius - Tweet

The Beauty of the Mirror

On our journies, we have faced much in the path of the promises given to us and the desires and goals we wish to reach. But has any of you considered to stop for a moment and reflect on things?

I admit I struggle sometimes with this, and I forget to at times, but it is of a great benefit that we do this and give times to ourselves to just think and do nothing else. Staring into your mirror of in your reflection upon the local river you walk by every day.

But for those of you who don’t quite know the importance of self-reflection or in particular those who haven’t heard that phrase since the end of term History Exam that you forgot to revise for and frantically tried to revise before in registration.

No, just me okay, well Self-Reflection to me is the ability to look back on things you have done in the past and looking at thing form a perspective of learning, understanding and openness, so you are able to gain some insight into how you can improve the let go or even let go of the past if the memory is haunting you. This skill can be one of healing as well as one of knowledge to change one’s future. If one uses this skill to its full capacity it will feel like magic.

I have self-reflected at many times in my life, most of them were at low points and it has given me the inspiration and confidence in myself to change my situation as it allowed me to change my perspective on the negative and thus I focused on the positive, even if it was very small.

Seeing yourself in the mirror clearly and vulnerable in who you are is a magical and beautiful thing but can also be the most terrifying thing for someone so locked and lost within themselves. But like eating healthy food for the first time in years it is only detoxifying the smudges on your reflection to reveal who you truly are.

Of course, there is a simpler definition of self-reflection which is just reviewing what one has already done, but I don’t like saying that this is self-reflecting as it instantly suggests an element of judgement is required and one cannot grow if they are critically judged.

Of course, a little bit of constructed criticism is okay but many people especially towards ourselves are too harsh and may deconstruct old walls and build new walls that will block and make it harder for becoming open and vulnerable.

As vulnerability is flexible and is in a state that is easier to change and is the key to your soul. If not vulnerable you will get occasional insights but will not be able to use this ability to a deeper level, like being lost in the maze of your mind.

The question is how are you going to find your way out?

Hope you are well!
Have an awesome day!

Harry 🙂

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The Long Road

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Post published:February 1, 2019
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THE LONG ROAD

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Written by Harry Croose

"All you need is the plan, the road to map and the courage to press on your destination."

- Earl Nightingale - Tweet

Sometimes life can be tough, but I find it a lot easier to monomaniacally focus on the tasks ahead of me rather than continuously look behind at things that have already passed. It is time to follow our own path and create our own trail the one that we always have wanted to make. These reader is one of those moments that not even the darkest days, the blackest hours can touch the light of the opportunity of the present moment. You are a light in this world, you may not believe that yet, but we are here to help the world and do you know how my friends…

By being awesome! In our own way being authentic to he ware and kicking ass. Just because you think you are too young for no-one to listen to you or that you are too old and are not with the crowd is not an excuse that is valid to let the awesomeness in you be wasted. We have got to get out there get on that road and drive up it with the music blaring rather than going to every service station and playing it safe.

NOTE: I am not saying actually doing this while driving this is one of those really big metaphor things, where the road is ‘the road of our lives.’ Seriously do that on the road these days you’ll get really messed up.

I don’t even know how to drive yet, but I can still drive up people up the wall with my character! I am reckless and I want to explore the world and always have. When I am in my twenties it is my ambition to travel the world!!! It is going to be amazing!!! I can taste the fresh air of the journey already, but I know I have a responsibility to share my perspective of the world and work my socks off.

I want to ask you some questions, What is your plan? What are you ambitions in life? You don’t need to tell me but if you would like someone to talk too about your goals drop me a message on Facebook. I will of course try and help you or be there as a listener for an another ambitious person wanting to make a difference to the world in a positive way! Cause we so can, and I know it will be tough and there will be pit-stops on the way, but you know what we are going to be one day at the top of the mountain looking down on all the things we have conquered and there will be the feeling of nostalgia and a really strong sense of achievement.

We have to have the mindset of that we are going to win that is incredibly vital to our successes ladies and gentlemen of course success is subjective to different people but the only one that truly matters is your opinion of your achievements. Otherwise what is the point you got to get what you want so take the stabilisers of your bike and go and get what you want you deserve it you spend so much time working hard but for what?

5 TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE ESSAY PLANNING

1. Write the Assignments due-in dates (a day before they are due)

2. Analysis the question / Assessment Criteria

3. Use Secondary Sources

4. Quote-filtering

5. Ask for help

Bonus Point. Stay positive, and try your best.

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1. Create Confidence Categories

2. Write a Goals List

3. Build foundational habits

4. Leap of Faith (Be courageous)

5. Self-Education

6. Fulfill your needs

7. Ask for help

Bonus Point. Treat yourself.

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HOW TO NOT CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK

1. Focus on yourself and your Needs

2. Establish Strong Independent Boundaries

3. Change Your Environment

4. Find Your Life Purpose

5. Build Confidence and Self-Esteem

Bonus Point. Start a Self-Reflection Practise

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1. Accepting that Haters are everywhere.

2. Understand why they Hate

3. Re-frame the situation.

4. Maintain distance to your haters.

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HOW TO DEAL WITH TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

1. Distance yourself from Toxic People.

2. The Power of Perception

3. Attempt Reconcile

4. Unconditional Love

5. Develop your Spiritual Awareness

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