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Hi, I'm Isabella!

Isabella

I started this blog, ReachingSelf to document my personal growth journey through research & personal experimentation.

ReachingSelf is for the passionately curious.

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  • Anyone can become great, but not many will.
  • There are people who say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and then there are people that state that that’s not true - you can experience traumatization, ptsd, etc. ⠀ The truth is that it depends. ⠀ It’s entirely based on how the person takes it. ⠀ A set of studies looked at people that suffered serious adversity and survived. They found three different types of people - those that were permanently dispirited, those who went back to normal, and those who used experience to make them stronger. ⠀ What this tells us is that you can make what happens to you to happen for you if you let it. You can make what doesn’t kill you make you stronger, but you can also have it do nothing for you or you can let it make you weaker. It not just about the cards you were dealt with, it’s about what you do with them. ⠀ What doesn’t kill doesn’t just automatically make you stronger just because you survived. But it can. Whether it does or it doesn’t lies on you.
  • Just keep going. Keep moving forward. Keep climbing. Never stop. You will get to where you believe you’ll be. 🧗🏻‍♀️
  • If you could choose to have one superpower, what would it be? ⠀ It’s an easy answer for me. A learning superpower. I’m not too sure what the specifics would be, but you could get crazy with it. ⠀ Think about it: If you could learn anything, you could do pretty much anything most people desire to do. ⠀ You could learn how to make money, you could learn how to be popular, make friends and find love. ⠀ You could learn to develop discipline and take action to achieve anything you want. ⠀ You could learn about the body and health to become super strong, healthy and fit. ⠀ You could learn how to build machines and technology that would make you be able to do pretty much anything a super hero could do. ⠀ You could learn the solution to a major world problem. ⠀ Instead of saving people from one big bad villain, you’d be saving people from problems that affect millions like cancer and poverty. ⠀ The crazy thing is that this power is available to us. Sure it’s not a super power in which we’re able to just scan a whole bookshelf and absorb all the information or be able to learn a superhuman speed. But we do have the power to learn nearly anything. Many of us just never use it because we’re too busy working hard. Or we think that the people that accomplish these great feats are just super geniuses. The only difference is that they are constant learners. They know the power and value of learning and education. ⠀ Learning is so underrated. All this talk of hustle and grind and working hard is prevalent all over social media. This is a bit silly to me when we could be working smarter instead of harder. This is the value of learning and education. ⠀ It allows us to accomplish things faster and better and not only that, it allows us to grow and advance rather than continue to stagnate with outdated and limited knowledge. Knowledge is becoming more valuable than money. Education and learning are what can make us become great and attain power in our lives.
  • No matter what, there is always a reason 😊
  • (Part 2) When you can't smile on the outside, you really feel it on the inside. Because I couldn't show happiness, I didn't feel happy. I didn't feel like myself. It's a horrible feeling to not be able to smile, laugh or positively respond to someone. Nobody ever thinks of smiling as a privilege. I just wanted my face back. I just wanted to be able to smile again. ⠀ Thankfully, slowly & gradually my face started to recover, little by little, day by day. It took about a month to be fully recovered. I was so happy & grateful that I got my face & smile back. ⠀ My face is still not the same since recovering from Bell’s Palsy. Although I t’s very minor & barely noticeable & it’s possible that I was like this before & never noticed until after, my lips are a little crooked & one of my eyes shuts tighter than the other. ⠀ But what matters is that I have my smile. I can smile freely & express my joy outwardly to myself or to others around me. ⠀ Losing my smile was a powerful lesson that taught me the power of smiling. ⠀ Physically, it happened out of nowhere & the cause of it is up for speculation but I strongly believe that it was because I was in a very dark place in my life. I was extremely depressed over a recent breakup. I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t smiling inside so my body followed. ⠀ Now I'm happy & find plenty of reasons to smile every single day. Now I feel free. Now I never take my smile for granted. ⠀ Enjoy the simple & little things in life. Always enjoy & be grateful for what you have right now because you never know if the next day you wake up & it's gone. I was blessed because it was only temporary for me. For some people, it lasts months... years & some don't even fully recover. Remember, there is ALWAYS a reason a reason to be happy. There is ALWAYS a reason to smile. No matter what’s going on or what life throws at you. Get back up every time with a smile on your face. Go out & find those reasons. I did & still am. Smiling is so powerful & it’s free. You don’t have to wait for someone to smile at you to smile at them. You don’t have to wait until something happens or you do something to be happy. It is always available to you no matter what. :)