Dreamer

Feeling like a dreamer today, since that is basically all I have been doing lately, dreaming about my future house, future job, future life, it is a lot better then actually thinking about school and job applications. So here are some quotes that I am loving on dreaming.

Enjoy!

“Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.”

                   

“Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through” – Cinderella

“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.”

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.“

"Only Their Holes Taste The Same"

Today in class we were talking about creativity, and how it is such a powerful tool in today's business world. Our teacher showed us a video from the Behance Conference, where Ji Lee, the Creative Director of Google's Creative lab, talked about his creative project the single handedly propelled him into the position he is today. In the video Ji Lee talks about how he had all this creativity but could not be inspired to produce it, in today's corporate america. He mentioned how all of the ads, did the same thing, and came up with the same old tag lines and slogans, and how it is so hard to get creativity out in today's world. 

He then goes on to talk about his creative project, the bubble project, in which he simply placed plain, blank, white speech bubbles onto ads around New York City and let people's creativity flow. The feedback he found was remarkable.

It is amazing the power that you can acquire simply by giving people a creative platform on which to perform. Everyday people think of creative ideas, and witty things to say, yet theses everyday people don't have an outlet to put their creativity to use for the greater good of a company, or society. If more people like Ji Lee where given an outlet for their creativity who knows what great stuff could come out of it. 

I guess the point is, if you are creative, find an outlet for that, even if it turns out that you have to create that outlet for yourself. Or a word to the wise in terms of business, give more people and creative platform of which you can reap the benefits.

Here is the video:

http://the99percent.com/videos/6231/Ji-Lee-The-Transformative-Power-of-Personal-Projects

xoxo

Heather

Cleaning Playlist

Me and my roommate have guests coming into town for the weekend, so of course I have to do the thing I dread most in the world, CLEAN.

I obviously am looking for ways to make it as painless as possible which includes eating candy, opening my blinds, and rocking out to an amazing customized mix. Now the playlist is a little random today, but its the songs I am loving at the moment, and I must say it is doing a great job at making the cleaning less painful, so here it goes:

Someone Like You - Adele

Pretty Girl Rock - Keri Hilson

Jar of Hearts - Christina Peri

Freaking Perfect - Pink

King of Anything - Sara Bareilles 

We R Who We R - Kesha

So if you're in the same boat as I am, having to do something you dread, or just feeling like rocking out to some completely random but all equally awesome songs, then enjoy!

and of course, a quote: "Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy"

“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.”

I woke up this Sunday morning in good ole' State College, Pennsylvania, where I walked outside to a gorgeous winter morning, the sun bright, the wind at a minimum, and the quietness of a college town still asleep. My friend Jules took me to her favorite coffee shop, where I was forced to try the most delicious Chai Latte I have ever had.

As I sat there at this little round-top coffee table, across from one of my best friends, that unfortunately I don't get to see very often ( at least to our standards), sipping on my delicious latte, looking out the window, I couldn't help but feel an overwhelming since of contentment.

Contentment has been somewhat of a stranger to me lately, with all the wanting that is going on in my life, the want to find a job, to figure out where I am going to be come May, to figure out where my parents are going to be, to just feel that sense of security. Yet on this Sunday morning, here it was, resonating with me like an old friend, and it kept popping up throughout the day. Again I felt it as a I sat with three of my best friends, laughing, and reminiscing about the night before, and then again as a I laid on Jules bed, just listening to some Adele, and Ben Folds.

As I sat there realizing what a blessing it is to feel contentment, to feel completely at peace where you are at the moment, I started to wonder why  I didn't feel like this more often? What I realized was that nothing had really changed, those wants that I had were still there, I hadn't in my dreams miraculously landed my dream job, with the perfect salary, in the perfect place, where all my friend lived within a 30-minute drive. Instead though I become content with what I had, I became thankful for the time with my friends. Instead of looking at how crazy life is going to be after college, I started to be grateful for how blessed I am while in college, how amazing it is to be able to live in the same town as most of your friends, or at least a short drive away, to have complete freedom to do exactly what you want to do, and the only thing asked of you? to learn. How amazing is that?

Anyway I guess my point is exactly what the quote says contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. And boy do I have a lot....

xoxo

Heather

"Friends are people who know you, but love you anyways"

"Friends are people who know you, but love you anyways"

I love this quote for so many reasons, but just recently I really started to really understand its meaning. As we get older, we lose friends and we gain friends, and you start to realize the people in your life that are going be there forever, and the ones that aren't. To truly know someones flaws, to know them in and out, I think is one of the most incredible things, and to still know all that makes them bad, and all the makes them good and still love them is fascinating. It all comes down to knowing someones heart, knowing when they mean well, and when they don't, knowing what drives them to do the things they do. I have friends that are late, disorganized, sometimes selfish, maybe a little bratty at times, and sometimes just downright mean, but at the end of the day I love them for who they are, flaws and all, because those same people are kind hearted, intelligent, caring, and a ton of fun to be around.

In life nothing is perfect, and always you have to take the good with the bad. And when making friends who truly knows the logic that makes one friend a friend for life and another just a fleeting memory. You can hate one person for being bratty, but then love another for that same reason. Lots of times my friends will catch me saying yeah well I don't like them, they are selfish, to which they reply don't you always say so and so is selfish yet you love them, to which I reply, well yeah but that's different. But why? Why are bad traits different depending on who has them?

I guess it all comes back to what I said about knowing someones heart, knowing someone in and out. Rarely when you take the time to get to know someone in and out, do you totally despise that person, unless of course they do something horrid to you, in which case it is not necessarily who they are that you hate, but what they did.

So it  is something to be valued to not only get the opportunity to know someone in and out, but to let that person know you. So, I guess the point is to value the people that you call friends, that love you regardless of your hair mole, over-emotional antics, and sometimes flare for the dramatic, and maybe take a little more time getting to know other people, that maybe one day you will be able to call friends.

xoxo

Heather

“Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.”

I could not agree with this quote more “Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.”  For truly it is exactly what I do to myself.This is the busiest week of the school year for me. Finals week. With three exams, two papers, and one final portfolio due, not to mention job interviews, resumes, and cover letters, oh and of course, work and planning for Italy, so you would think I would be in the library right? Wrong. Instead I am procrastinating; researching blogs, looking up quotes, checking out Facebook, even doing some baking (but I mean really, how could I study without a snack?)

Well I believe not writing a blog post, is up there with ways to not procrastinate so I should probably get on that....

Happy Finals Week!
xoxo

Heather

“a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"

It is said “a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." So here goes my first step...This is something I have been meaning to do for a long time. I truly love writing and if you know me, you know I defiantly have a lot to say so finally I have started my own blog. This won't be a normal blog, but then again what is a normal blog? Mostly this blog is centered on quotes and how they relate to what is going on at the moment. I love quotes, always have. It truly amazes me that something that someone said so long ago, was so full of wisdom and knowledge, that we still remember it today. Everything I go through in life I find a quote for, a little bit of wisdom to put everything in perspective. So here I go...I hope you enjoy. Feel free to give me any tips, Lord knows I need all the help I can get. : ) Enjoy!

xoxo

 Heather