isis-of-the-moon
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The girliest things you can try to do on your worst days 𓍯𓂃𓏧♡
• i learned that when i have a clean room, my mindset is better
•saying affirmations can really help, just tell yourself you’re beautiful
• good hygiene even if you might not be having the best day:(
•get yourself a sweet treat, you deserve it babes
•try doing your skincare routine -`♡´-
•having your nails & hair done helps!!
•for my lovers who might not be able to afford hair & nails, i recommend press ons for nails & doing simple natural hairstyles might help or trying to learn how to do your own hair
• I really love doing sanrio face masks when i feel down
• romanticize your life, even the little things could help you feel better
•always remember you are loved by someone even if you might not feel like it
That’s all for now my dolls! 𝜗𝜚⋆₊˚ I just wanted to post something small to help because currently senior year is kicking my butt & I know even I have my bad days recently. Just know each day gets by luvs & you are loved no matter what. mental health always matters.♡
6-MONTH REBRAND: the plan + goals
hi, i’m binatoki. this is my online diary to document my self-rebrand journey. i am going to go on this journey for 159 days. why? because 7 years ago from that date will be the day that my glow-down started. so in 159 days, i want to be better than i was on that day 7 years ago.
daily non-negotiables:
my non-negotiables are daily habits that i am going to do each day. these habits will help me get better physically, emotionally, mentally, & spiritually. these include:
• movement/exercise— 45 minutes minimum, 10k steps
• clean eating (with minimal occasions)— no alcohol, minimal dairy, minimal refined carbs, minimal sugar. high protein, lots of veggies, herbal tea, water, and supplements
• hair, makeup, skincare, hygiene— styling my hair pretty, wearing makeup, smelling my best, and grooming my best daily. i am going to look the best i can each day
• listen to at least 1 video/podcast or read at least 10 pages of self-improvement material
• get closer to God— use the Bible app, pray, and listen to at least 1 service/Christian video
• must document on here daily
weekly “homework”:
each week, i will be giving myself “homework”. my homework is basically 1-3 tasks that will either get me out of my comfort zone (ie become friends with a stranger) or to boost my level-up (like getting my hair done). the start of the week is monday and the end of the week is sunday
monthly goals:
each month i will give myself 1-3 goals within each category: beauty, health/fitness, finances, career/school, and lifestyle/social.
so what are my goals for the next 159 days?
i can’t list every goal on here because i have so many, but here are the more “major” goals that i’ll be working on.
1. lose 50lbs (i need to lose about 85lbs)
2. move on to my third quarter in nursing school with straight A’s
3. have my dream hair (long, thick, blonde, healthy)
4. keeping my skin plump and youthful (face & body)
5. become debt-free (i’m approx $30k in debt)
6. move out and live on my own again
7. make at least $12k a month / quit my current job
again, i have so many other goals (that i will be writing about) but i’m not trying to make this post super long!
lastly, what parts of myself or my lifestyle will i be leaving behind?
i’m leaving behind the part of me that loves playing into the victim mentality. i’m leaving behind the part of me that let’s her insecurities ruin her day, her mood, and her social life. i’m leaving behind the part of me that is tired, “lazy”, comfortable in my discomfort, and who loves to procrastinate and put things off. for the next 159 days, i’m going to focus on me and the present. i’m not going to focus on who i was in the past anymore. i’m not going to dwell on things i can’t control or change.
so now what?
feel free to follow my journey. i will be posting daily and will keep it raw and authentic. i can’t wait to see how much i’ll grow at the end of the 159 days. i’ll talk to you soon.
— binatoki
UMMMM did i just catch you making decisions based on a MAN?? i better not have. stand up girl, thats not it.
The time is now ⋆｡°✩
We all think we have enough time and we're all guilty of it :
" I'll do it tomorrow,"
" I'll start over next week "
"I'll talk to them when im more confident "
But what this really is is your brain making excuses . Don't wait for the perfect moment or for you to be prepared because frankly, you never will .
What we do have is the present moment, and nothing else in the future is promised . This may sound a but depressing, but really, it's a good thing because it means we can start right now !
Which means :
☆ You can start working towards that goal right now
☆ You can start eating healthy right now
☆ You can tell that person you love them right now
☆ You can go talk to that friend group right now
☆ You can practice loving yourself right now
By doing this, you are fully embracing life as it is at the present moment instead of waiting . It's a really freeing concept to implement .
Even if you get rejected or it doesn't work out, it's much better than wasting your time wondering what could happen ?
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SHAPING YOUR ALTER EGO:EMBRACING YOUR HIDDEN STRENGTHS
Why an Alter Ego?
Adopting an alter ego offers you a creative pathway for personal growth, allowing you to explore and embody qualities you admire but have not yet dared to live out, effectively overcoming fears and expanding your sense of self. it serves as both a mental strategy for confronting your personal limitations and a practical tool for enhancing resilience, fostering a deeper connection with your potential, and encouraging the realization of an empowered identity.
Discovering Your Alter Ego
Reflect on Your Aspirations: Begin by deeply contemplating the qualities you find admirable in others-those traits you see and think, "I wish that were me." Ask yourself which of these qualities, if adopted, could significantly propel you toward your goals. Imagine the kind of person you would become if you embodied these traits.
Identify Your Challenges: Consider the obstacles that often stand in your way.An alter ego can be designed to navigate these with ease and confidence.
Crafting Her Identity
Name Her: Choose a name that resonates with the energy and essence of this new persona.
Define Her Traits: Is she bold? Creative? Unapologetically ambitious? Outline the characteristics that define her.
Visualize Her Style: How does she dress? How does she carry herself?Visualizing her can help solidify her presence in your mind.
Bringing Her to Life
Choose Her Moments: Identify specific situations where invoking your alter ego could be beneficial. Start small if it feels overwhelming
Act 'As If': Step into her shoes in these moments. Act 'as if you already possess her confidence and capabilities.
Reflect on Your Experiences: Afterward, take time to journal about the experience.What did you learn? How did it feel to see the world through her eyes?
Integrating Her Qualities into Your Life
Gradual Integration: The aim is not to constantly embody your alter ego, but to seamlessly incorporate its strengths into your daily life. It's about slowly blending the qualities of your alter ego with your own, enhancing your personality and capabilities over time.
Celebrate Growth: Recognize and celebrate each instance when you exhibit qualities of your alter ego. These moments mark significant progress in your journey, showing you're moving beyond your comfort zone and embracing personal development.
Your alter ego is more than a figment of your imagination; she's a testament to the unexplored depths of your potential. By inviting her into your life, you're not just pretending to be someone else; you're discovering the powerful, fearless you that's been there all along. Ready to meet her?
TODDLER NEEDS MEDICINE FOR MALNUTRITION AND DEHYDRATION
Baby Ayla was born into starvation, and has struggled with malnutrition all her life. Since birth, she has faced an IOF-imposed blockade on food and the IOF’s deliberate destruction of potable water sources in Gaza. Now it is taking really its toll on her, and she has severe diarrhea.
Ayla is rapidly losing the few fluids she has in her body, and the IOF assault has made food, water, and medicine extremely scarce. For a toddler, this is absolutely life-threatening. If she cannot replenish the bodily fluids she is losing, her fragile kidneys will go into failure!!
Her widowed mother URGENTLY needs funds for medicine and saline solution. This will help replenish the fluids and vitamins that her tiny body needs to survive.
Every moment that Ayla remains sick, she gets closer and closer to kidney failure. She urgently needs your support to survive!!
Current: $49,333 USD
New temp goal: $50,133 USD
🚨Need to raise: $800 USD
Las Posas Mexico
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what april taught me ꪆৎ ˚⋅𓂃
you cannot emotionally punish someone for a standard that you created in your head
people will lie. people will hurt you. all you can do is to keep moving on in good conscience, knowing that you did your part
how you treat yourself is a reflection of your self-respect
TRUST. YOUR. GUT. you need to come in clutch for you.
neutral self-talk is better than negative self-talk. small steps, baby steps
an apology is not a quick fix
acceptance is also not something that is owed, to apologies given
if someone demands that you pick a side – between them or another party – i think it's rather obvious which side you pick.
TRUST THAT GUT OF YOURS i can't make this more clear!!!
the people who are right for you will make it known.
after honouring your feelings... sometimes you really just need to say "it is what it is" and move on instead of harbouring that grief and anger for ages
rejection is always redirection but it'll only feel like it once your mindset changes!! :')
water water water water water water
everything gets easier and more pleasant after 10 mins, you just need to push through the first 10
Distance yourself from the people that you don't want to become
I looove black cats!!! 🐈⬛ They're so cuteeee and funny! 🖤
“M” in May stands for miracles, money, motivation, magic, memories
me in my room 24/7
I would like to offer my condolences to all Christians on the passing of Pope Francis. Pope Francis died two days ago, and there was a huge media hype about his death. Pope Francis was a supporter of the Palestinian cause, supported Gaza, and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. He was deeply concerned about the people dying daily, as well as about children. He is Christian, and we are Muslims, but he made no distinction because he was a humanitarian. Many of us died, but there was never as much media hype as when Pope Francis died. There were days when 500 or 600 people died here every day, and today at least 50 people are dying every day. No one spoke about them. They were wronged and died unjustly. The elderly, children, women, and young people died unjustly under the Zionist machine of destruction and genocide. Enough of your silence. Let one of you speak. Stop the war on us. Bring us food and water. There is no healthy water to drink. We drink salty water, and there is not enough food. We go to bed hungry and wake up hungry. The prices of available food are very high. We want to live a normal life, just like all of you. Don't ignore us. Here's a donation link for me and my family to provide us with food and water until the crossing opens and we can leave Gaza safely. Your donation means a lot to me and helps me a lot, so I'm asking you to donate.
Please donate here.
don’t care, never cared, will never care
start romanticising your reading
TLDR: choose your read, curate your space, and engage with the text
About three years ago, I was in the biggest reading slump. It was so bad that it had gotten to the point where I couldn't even read one sentence without picking up my phone to doom-scroll. At that point, I genuinely thought I could never ever get into reading again.
However, when I started romanticising my reading, I was able to finish a whole book in just one week. By romanticising my reading, it was no longer a chore, instead, it felt like an enjoyable experience where I could get lost in the emotions of the story.
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"How do you even romanticise reading?"
step #1 - choosing your read
pick something short and easy to read - a short story, a poetry collection, a graphic novel, an old favourite or comfort read
judge a book by its cover and pick something with a cover-art that interests you
pick something that matches your mood/feeling, here are some of my recommendations: want something gothic and eerie, filled with old secrets? We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson want something bittersweet and nostalgic with heartache? Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi want something empowering and thought-provoking? And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou want something whimsical and soft, filled with dreamy illustrations? Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden, illustrated by Brenna Thummler
step #2 - curate your space
replace your main lights for ambient lighting - fairy lights, candles, salt lamps, mushroom lamps, warm coloured LEDs
turn on some background music to build atmosphere for your book - 90s jazz for classic books, orchestral music for fantasy books
have a drink or snack that you love - I recommend an iced mocha or matcha for summers, and hot chocolate or green tea for winters
sit somewhere comfortable or somewhere that builds atmosphere - I have my bed next to my window which means it's comfortable when I read and I can also hear the crickets during summer nights
step #3 - engage with the text
use coloured pens or markers to highlight or underline your favourite quotes, and you can even assign different colours to different emotions
stick custom bookmarks or themed stickers to mark meaningful chapters or sections
start a collection jar with paper notes of your favourite quotes that you can read at the end of the year - you can write down the page, chapter, and book so you can always go back to where these quotes came from
jot down your current thoughts and feelings about certain chapters and sections so you can revisit the book in the future to see how your thoughts and interpretations have evolved over time - I like to date these annotations so I know exactly when I wrote my annotations
Remember that progress is still progress, even if it's small 🧸
spring and summer me is the prettiest
dealing with the blues : how to manage negative emotions and more ૮꒰◞ ˕ ◟ ྀི꒱ა rotting vs resting
i know how upsetting life can be sometimes. you want to get better but something happens and life just keeps pushing you down, and you fall further and further into a rut. and because of that, you start to feel even worse. "why am i not doing as good as the others?" , "why am i so xyz?" , "why am i not like her?" etc etc. cmon my love. this isn't the time to compare yourself to others and feel even worse but to slowly dig up the soil, and find out what is actually going on. ♡ just take a day off, babe seriously. sometimes you just need to let yourself be upset and be unproductive yk? there is nooo shame in being unproductive as hell for a day or two. take your time and have a good break. now talking about breaks, we have a problem. are you really resting or rotting? RESTING makes you feel good, happy and energised ROTTING makes you feel guilty, unproductive, sluggish a lot of the times, instead of resting and recharging our minds, we are feeding our minds with lots and lots of brainrot, indulging in bad habits in the name of "resting", avoiding important work etc which in return make us feel even worse! well, resting isn't supposed to do that, right? resting is supposed to recharge you, get you ready to fight again. so next time you choose to 'rest', be mindful. do not indulge in things that you know will make you feel worse. doomscrolling is not resting. stalking your friends is not self care. intentionally avoiding important work is not self care. binge watching series by wrecking your sleep schedule and then feel guilty abt being on your phone all day is not self care. self care and resting is doing things you love which will nourish your mind and distract you for a little while, so that you can take a step back and just be aive for a bit.
an example of a day off could be smth like this ( just an example, please remember that everyone's life is different and so is yours. adjust accordingly ) : ʚɞ do not set any alarm, let yourself wake up naturally and when you do, pick up that book you have been meaning to read for a long time. ʚɞ have breakfast ʚɞ do 1 thing you really love and which makes you super happy (dancing, singing, acting etc) ʚɞ talk to someone or write abt how you are feeling ʚɞ try to create smth. a quick diy project, a lil sketch, crochet, a new dance move, a song cover, a poem, a video, photography etc ʚɞ do 1 imp work which you have been putting off (homework, stdy for a test etc) ʚɞ delete instagram for a bit and surround yourself with positivity. use tumblr, youtube, pinterest instead. ʚɞ go outside, even for just 5 minutes. ʚɞ maybe call up your friend/s and play smth ʚɞ take cute pics of urself ʚɞ maybe post smth cute on tumblr wink wink ʚɞ have a cute night ritual and then go to bed. ₊⊹ monitor what you have been consuming lately what you feed your mind and body actually matters (lol what a shocker). so tell me, have you been eating well? sleeping well? surrounding yourself with positivity? or have you been consuming content which further degrades your mental and physical health? try to replace unhealthy junk with healthy stuff. fix your fyp, choose "not interested" for posts which no longer resonate with you. declutter and reorganise. i really, really suggest trying a quick digital detox for a day. ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ talk to someone who you feel safe with. you can even text me, ill try my best to respond <3 please talk to someone when you feel upset, communicate bbgs, communicate! even if it is hard and uncomfortable. if you feel like you have no one to talk to, talk to a stuffed animal or a tree or yourself. let those thoughts and feelings out, don't hold them inside your body. release them. observe them. try to understand them. but never let negative emotions become a part of you. they come and go, like any other emotion. you will be just fine. even when it feels like it is the end of the world love you always,
@deardiarywrites
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