Daily Archives: September 15, 2015

Writing 101: Finding Your Inspiration; Day Seven: Hook ’em With A Quote

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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Maya Angelou

When I got today’s assignment, I thought of the above quote from Ms. Maya Angelou. I thought about it first because part of my blog includes being an advocate for myself and others who have similar struggles to me. In fact advocating for yourself is one of the main objectives of being in recovery.

As I quote Ms. Maya Angelou, it is my desire that I be an inspiration to others like she was to many people around the world. Ms. Maya Angelou is a person I would have loved to meet while she was still here but unfortunately she is no longer with us in person but thankfully she is with us in spirit. I will end with another quote from Ms. Maya Angelou.

All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

Blogging 201; Day Two: Audit Your Brand

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It is day two of Blogging 201 and that means it is time to do my assignment. Todays assignment is to audit my brand. I’m still trying to figure out my brand. Yes, I am aware that I already have a “brand,” but I am looking for the just right “image” to help my “brand.”

In fact I have been thinking a great deal about my brand since I did Blogging 101 in July. If you have been following my blog for a while you know that my focus of this blog is to educate those who don’t have a mental illness to help lessen the stigma and to give others hope that recovery is possible.

If you are a new reader or follower, you will soon realize that my blog is about my journey of recovery with a serious mental illness. I share my life with whatever I am dealing with; the good, the bad and the ugly. As I blog my journey, I hope to be able to inspire people. I hope that inspiration helps lessen the stigma that goes with having a mental illness. Unfortunately, stigma also feeds people to discriminate against those of us who struggle with a mental illness.

Before, I go, as you can tell my brand is basically my recovery with a little education involved. I need to get back to work my ten minute break is over. Have a wonderful day and peace out!!

Daily Prompt: Inside the Bubble

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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Inside the Bubble.” A contagious disease requires you to be put into quarantine for a whole month (don’t worry, you get well by the time you’re free to go!). How would you spend your time in isolation?

As I was looking through past daily prompts, I found this one. I don’t know why but it grabbed my eye. For some reason this is an easy prompt for me to do. Maybe it is because, I have been in the hospital for a month and sometimes longer however it was not due to a contagious disease but mental health reasons.

If allowed, I would have my laptop so I would be able to have access to the hospital’s Wi-Fi. I would want to be able to not only keep everyone up to date on what was going on with me through various social media sites, I would want to be able to blog. Blogging to me is very important to me. Having my laptop would allow me to have access to music. Without music I would not be able to survive. I would also be able to play games on POGO at http://www.pogo.com/ with my laptop so I could help fight the boredom I would be dealing with.

I would also have plenty of books and comic books by my bedside. I would get extremely bored if I didn’t have access to a variety of reading materials. I would have to make sure that there are plenty of Wonder Woman comic books. Of course the books I would be reading would be Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Mysteries because those are the genre’s that most grab my attention and keep my attention.

Another way I would be spending my time in medical isolation is coloring. I would need plenty of colored pencils, a pencil sharpener and my coloring pages and posters I ordered from Stuff 2 Color at: http://www.stuff2color.com/ Coloring would be quite helpful and relaxing. Plus it wouldn’t take much attention to be able to do especially at the beginning of the month long isolation when I would be feeling at my worst.

I would probably be sleeping a lot to get better. I would most likely be going stir crazy as time went on. I would hope that I would be able to have visitors but not sure if I would able to have any because of being contagious.

Well, I need to end this post for now. I need to finish getting ready for work. Have a wonderful day everyone and peace out!!!