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my ten

  1. my birthday’s coming up.
  2. I went to the coffee place yesterday and the barista remembered my name
  3. said barista is very cute
  4. my sister and I are having a sherlock marathon on right now (it’s my favourite show!)
  5. I’m going to the book store tomorrow to buy more books
  6. my exams are over
  7. my favourite wip just updated
  8. I pre-ordered Chris Colfer’s book
  9. I had a lovely day today
  10. tomorrow will be lovely too

Submitted by: anonymous 

Dec 5

10 Reasons To Never Give Up1. As long as you are alive, anything is possible. The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive (and healthy and free) you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed.
2. Be realistic. The chance of mastering something the first time you do it is almost non-existent. Everything takes time to learn and you will make mistakes. Learn from them.
3. You are strong. You are stronger than you think. One little setback is not enough to stop you from achieving your goals. Neither are 10 or 100 or 1000 setbacks.
4. Prove yourself. You don’t want to be known as someone that is weak and gives up. Go out there and prove yourself to the world and to yourself. You CAN and WILL achieve what you set out to do. The only time you fail is when you give up.
5. Believe in your dreams. Don’t sell yourself short. In life there are going to be many people who will try to bring you down and tell you what you want to achieve is not possible.
6. Your family and friends. Let the people you love and who mean the world to you be your inspiration to persist and persevere. Maybe you need to try a different angle, study more or practice more but don’t give up!
7. There are people worse-off. Right now there are many people who are in a worse situation and environment than you are. Are you thinking about giving up running 5 miles a week? Think about the people who are unable to even walk and how much they would give to be able to run 5 miles every day.
8. You deserve to be happy. Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise. You deserve to be happy and you deserve to have success. Keep that mindset and never give up until you reach your destination!
9. Inspire others. Be an inspiration to others by refusing to give up. Who knows what someone else can achieve because you never gave up and in turn inspired them not to give up.
10. You are so close. Often when you feel like you want to give up you are so close to making a huge breakthrough. You are just a heartbeat away from success.

10 Reasons To Never Give Up

1. As long as you are alive, anything is possible. 
The only valid excuse you have to give up is if you are dead. As long as you are alive (and healthy and free) you have the choice to keep trying until you finally succeed.

2. Be realistic. The chance of mastering something the first time you do it is almost non-existent. Everything takes time to learn and you will make mistakes. Learn from them.

3. You are strong. You are stronger than you think. One little setback is not enough to stop you from achieving your goals. Neither are 10 or 100 or 1000 setbacks.

4. Prove yourself. You don’t want to be known as someone that is weak and gives up. Go out there and prove yourself to the world and to yourself. You CAN and WILL achieve what you set out to do. The only time you fail is when you give up.

5. Believe in your dreams. Don’t sell yourself short. In life there are going to be many people who will try to bring you down and tell you what you want to achieve is not possible.

6. Your family and friends. Let the people you love and who mean the world to you be your inspiration to persist and persevere. Maybe you need to try a different angle, study more or practice more but don’t give up!

7. There are people worse-off. Right now there are many people who are in a worse situation and environment than you are. Are you thinking about giving up running 5 miles a week? Think about the people who are unable to even walk and how much they would give to be able to run 5 miles every day.

8. You deserve to be happy. Don’t ever let anybody tell you otherwise. You deserve to be happy and you deserve to have success. Keep that mindset and never give up until you reach your destination!

9. Inspire others. Be an inspiration to others by refusing to give up. Who knows what someone else can achieve because you never gave up and in turn inspired them not to give up.

10. You are so close. Often when you feel like you want to give up you are so close to making a huge breakthrough. You are just a heartbeat away from success.

(Source: mindbodygreen.com)

10 Reasons I Have to Smile:

  1. I’m excited for Thanksgiving!
  2. Curt Mega.
  3. My sister comes home from Washington DC in a couple of weeks. I haven’t seen her since September and I miss her so much.
  4. My sister also called me her inspiration on her blog that she’s been keeping. I almost cried—in a good way.
  5. My family decided to support a little boy from Zimbabwe and I feel like I have a new little brother.
  6. Chocolate pie.
  7. I’m seeing friends this week! And we’re having pizza!
  8. I finally got around to plugging my iPod into the computer and now I have a lot of new music to listen to!
  9. The cute barista smiled at me last Monday and it still makes me smile just thinking about it.
  10. Making old school Scooby-Doo references with my brother.

Submitted by: alainaisatheaternerd

10 things that make me happy :D

1. My friends

2. I’ll be leaving for college soon

3. College apps are almost done :D

4. I’m not a loner in any of my classes this year

5. Getting a higher score on a test than my native Spanish speaking friend in Spanish class hehehe

6. Helping others and seeing how grateful they are for it

7. Knowing that my tutoring isn’t sucky

8. Seeing my friends who graduated last year on campus and talking to them through video chat

9. Receiving mail and/or emails

10. Tom Felton

submitted by: thepinkbackpack

5 things I can do for others

  • Leave nice messages
  • Clean up w/o Jamie asking
  • Give random compliments to complete strangers
  • Try not to be so selfish
  • Smile. They say when people see others are smiling, they are inclined to do so as well.

Submitted by: rose-scented-kisses

I absolutely love this project and hope that more people submit!

Thank you! And I hope more people do too!

xx Robyn

My Ten

  1. Its finally the weekend
  2. I finished writing my story today
  3. My best friend sent me a care package
  4. I’ve been through some tough times, but I’m slowly starting to learn to love myself again.
  5. I created an awesome playlist that I can listen to when I get sad
  6. My favorite show was on yesterday
  7. My cousin’s coming to visit soon
  8. A random guy hit on me 
  9. He said he liked my smile
  10. I like my smile too.

Submitted by: morning-rain

Ten Things That Make Me Happy

1. I’m alive.

2. The world gets better. Everything always gets better. :)

3. In 2014 (according to Back to the Future), we’ll all have hover-boards!

4. Somewhere out there, there’s a little puppy just learning to walk (gotta love a puppy).

5. Knowing that someone loves you. Someone will always love you. You may not know them, or really know WHY they love you, but you just know they do. 

6. No matter how dark life may seem, without darkness, light wouldn’t shine so bright. :) So, the good times will always come after the bad times. It’ll get better.

7. Winter is almost here and that means hot cocoa and snow! Snow is gorgeous!

8. I’m happy someone made this Smile Project thing. Writing this has filled me with happy thoughts even. 

9. Oh! Tomorrow night there’s this meteor shower at midnight and it’s suppose to be big. That makes me really happy.

10. People reading this makes me happy. It’s good to know that there’s people out there who can still read. :)

submitted by: dmcxwtf