MOTIVATIONAL VIDEOS.

So much love for these videos. This subject has come up a lot lately and it's so so so true. The friends I have now are a lot different from the ones I had a few years ago. And it's for the better. Have people there to build yourself up; not tear you down. 

"Surround yourself with greatness. The people you surround yourself with are important. If you surround yourself with people who build you up, who make you grow, will challenge you to be better-you're going to be great. On the other hand if you surround yourself with people who just tear you down, who tell you all the reasons why it's not going to work, who tell you you're not good enough, I call people like that, "the little man". If you surround yourself with people who are the "little man" then soon you will become the "little man". If they listen to their friends, if they listen to the world that was currently available to them, they would've never become successful because what they created was not possible. Where your heart and your passion can create something; create a new reality that didn't exist before. So you want to do things because it's the right thing to do; because you were meant to do it. Because you feel it. And that comes from your heart. Not because it makes logical sense to do it. You can always come up with an excuse for why you can't do something, and you can say "I'm going to wait for the conditions to be perfect before I go out." The conditions are never perfect. If you wait for the conditions to be perfect, to make your dream a reality, then you're going to be sitting on your dream for the rest of your life. If you want something, go get it."

The rest of the video is below

Faith

i'm going to be blunt right now. basically, i'm going to get right to the point because i feel like people don't enjoy reading super long posts.

i'm swearing into the air force tomorrow and slightly freaking out.

i have a lot of mixed emotions about the whole thing. i really want to get out of utah and go meet new people that i've never met, make new friends in new places, and do something i've never done before. the air force seems perfect, right?

i'm so excited. actually beyond excited to leave this place. i've never lived outside of utah and it's going to be really interesting, but i'm super sad to be leaving what i already have. i'm for sure getting outside of my comfort zone lol. the thing is that i'm going to be leaving for a while and i won't see my family, friends, or the mountains for a long time(legit a granola lady). plus, there are people i really want to know more, but a month seems like such a short time to get to know someone. i literally almost broke down in tears when i was talking about it with my friends because they started crying and i started crying and it was all a big mess haha.

i know this is good for me, though.

i had an experience happen to me in april where i realized that you can never let people hold you back from what you really want to do. of course i'll miss A LOT of people. some i won't see for a few years, actually.

oh yeah...i keep telling people that i'm leaving for 6 months, but i'm actually going to be gone for a year. ha ha ha at my life.

i also keep trying to detach myself from people. i purposely won't hang out with people or say that i have something going on...or i'll make something come up, so i'm not lying to them when i say i can't hang out.

i realized that it's probably a really selfish thing to do. i'll be fine if i'm sad for a few days. i need to be around people and make them remember all the good times we had you know? this blog is literally my journal. it's basically a bunch of mixed thoughts going in multiple posts. anyways....

xx

hailey