What Are Your Life Goals?

Do you have a action plan or idea of the important things you want to achieve?

Laura Annabelle
Jul 27, 2017 · 8 min read

Hello, Laura speaking here. I’m here today to talk about me. To talk about all my achievements, progress and future plans. To start, I wanna first talk about my achievements inside of my mental health recovery. Lately as of yesterday, I’ve been thinking about all my achievements which I felt nothing but proud, happiness, strength, confidence, inner peace and self love for myself in that moment.

To me, I’ve come to a point with my mental health recovery where I’m more than able to achieve anything I set my mind to in which also that I couldn’t do ever before. For example, during the episodes I had with my depression, I wasn’t able to do much of anything and further into my relapse episode, I lost my voice, literately. And by that, I mean, my voice box works, but from experiencing the numbness and paralyzed inside mentally, took away my ability to speak. It’s like when you lose your ability to walk, you start appreciate and be grateful for the ability to walk later on in the healing/recovery process.

And then when it comes to mental illness, and having your voice taken away from you not only for your experiences with numbness and paralyzed, but also from the stigma surrounding mental illness; can really make you feel more grateful once you get your voice back to not take it for granted anymore as well as everything else that you used to take for granted. For example, we all take water for granted, without even thinking enough of all those who used to and those who still aren’t as lucky as we are to have everything that we have including clean, fresh water accessible everywhere, except for like the desserts.

To me, these are some important things to remember and not take for granted. Regardless of whether we are grateful for many things, they can easily be taken away from us. Which is why it’s so important to be appreciative of all that we have and all that we have within ourselves to give ourselves the best life and live to the absolute fullest!

Now back to me, I am a lot of things and with all my hard work with my mental health recovery, I’m here to say that its helped me focus more on the positives and less on the negatives. It’s the things we learn from the bad that help us become stronger and wiser in the end. We must do that and all else to continue bettering/improving ourselves for a better today and tomorrow.

So if you want a better future, stop dwelling and fixating on the past and what you may believe may happen in the future and start working towards the kind of future that you want. If you don’t, clearly you don’t want it badly enough to put in the necessary work to earn the things yet the life you want.

So if you want a better future, stop dwelling and fixating on the past and what you may believe may happen in the future and start working towards the kind of future that you want. If you don’t, clearly you don’t want it badly enough to put in the necessary work to earn the things yet the life you want.

So many of us make the mistake and more than once, where we say we want something from someone or a better life yet we find ourselves dwelling and fixating on the past. Doing so, we aren’t doing what is necessary to make it a reality like quoted in the movie, Tomorrowland!


Let’s imagine: if you glimpse the future, you were frightened by the future, what would you do with that information? You would go to politicians, captains of industry: how would you convince them with data, facts. Good luck. Any facts they won’t challenge, they keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. But what if there was a way of skipping the middle man and putting the critical news right in everyone’s head.

The probability of widespread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop was to show it. To scare people straight. What reasonable human being would be galvanize by the potential destruction of everything they’ve ever known or loved. To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom?

They gobbled it up in a chocolate eclair. They didn’t fear their demise, they repackaged it. It can be enjoyed as video games, tv shows, books, movies, the entire world, whole-heartedly embraced the apocalypse. But sprinted towards with gleeful abandon. Meanwhile your earth was crumbling all around you. Civil ten years epidemics of obesity and starvation, explain that one?

Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, the algae glooms, all around you, the calamine canaries are dead and you won’t take the hint.

In every moment there is a possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it, you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality.

So you dwell on this whole terrible future, you resign yourselves to it. One reason because that future doesn’t ask anything of you today. So yes you saw the iceberg, you were on the Titanic, but you all just steered for it full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink. You gave up. It’s not the monitor’s fault, that’s yours.

At first when you watch the movie, if you have, you feel emotion that he doesn’t believe what is clearly a sign of hope, isn’t good enough and points out all these problems we have as a whole society. But when you watch it again and really think about it, yeah the little speech Cassie Newton & Frank Walker made was convincing enough for me, though the big speech David Nix made, was very well true of our society in all reality!

Think about the speech again, and apply them to your own problems, I know I have! And I’ve been working on them since day one of my recovery: April 25th, 2015!

And back on the things that make me who I am. I am many things and a few things to add here are: mental health advocate, yet really a life advocate, a women unleashing her true powers with her passion & purpose. I’m also a better person because of all my hard work with my mental health recovery which I am so proud of myself for achieving! I’ve earned this vacation so much with my achievements of my mental health recovery and physical work from my new job working at Walmart!

Another thing here to mention is my advocacy and passion for mental health. I’m more than just passionate but also get psyched for psychology enough that I dream and intend on pursing in college hopefully in either January or September 2018! Psychology just makes me happy with all my progress, achievements and all else that I’ve accomplished that has lead me to feeling this way about PSYCHOLOGY!

It’s time to go out and achieve the impossible! Achieve all that you want in your life. Get to be yourself. Get the girl. Get the career. Get the life!

It’s all yours, now go get it; you deserve it all! Don’t think otherwise by anyone else.

We all come to our own conclusions and beliefs that some things are not realistic or even possible either. But in all reality: in order to achieve the impossible, one must believe it is possible.

Just like how you need to believe in yourself to achieve whatever you want!

With all that I’ve always wanted to become, I’m finally there! And it feels more than amazing and more than I even expected it to be. On top of that, I never expected my life to be this way but I’m glad it turned out the way it did!

And same goes with all the things and circumstances and all that I’ve been through to get to this stage in my life!

Who I Want To Be

  • Radio Rebel

Dad: Principal Morrino called. The Dance party fiasco was a mistake. She wants to expel Radio Rebel as soon as she finds out who Radio Rebel is.

Tara: Well as long as she doesn’t know it’s me. We shouldn’t have a problem.

Dad: I can’t take that chance though can I?

Tara: what do you mean?

Dad: I may run SlamFM. But I’m your stepfather first. And it’s unfortunate but this has gone too far.

Tara: Yes, it has. It’s too far to stop now. Look, this is bigger than Slam or Morrino or even me. I can’t turn my back on the thousands of people that really feel like they have a voice. And I’m not going back to that shy invisible little girl who’s afraid to even speak. Look, I know it’s risky, but I’m not going to back down.

Dad: Look, I think that’s the most I’ve heard Tara say at one time.

At times you’ll hear people say things like “be strong” or “be happy” yet a lot of times we find we can’t do tut ourselves!

But when I comes to being vulnerable, it completely sucks and takes a lot of gut and and involves being brave to be comfortable talking about your own mental struggles. Yet the one main reason why it is so hard to do that alone, is the stigma surrounding mental illness. What people will think when we come forward with it to the public. We are too scared in doing that so we end up keeping it to ourselves only making it worse! Because we are so afraid that we do that to save ourselves from the pain and being overall hurt in result.

I’m not the kind of person you think I am. For example, there’s this dream, any dream that I believe in and want to pursue someday. And it been years in believing it will become reality one day and it finally happens. But realizing how long it took to get to that day, I decide to just throw it away. I’m not that kind of person!

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Laura Annabelle

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I'm just someone who believes that she is extra-ordinary, is trying to figure out her life while living with many mental illnesses! #staystrong

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