Mind over Matter

  Bedtime: NOT LATE ENOUGH! Image Source      Growing up every kid has one enemy that ends up being their best friend in the future: sleep. Sleep is something that every adults overlooks as a kid, part of being a kid is hating bed time, and as a kid I made it my personal mission to find a way to stay up somehow after my parents made me go to bed. And while i was successful at staying up at night, I was failing the ability to wake up in time for school. From a young age this habit slowly carried into my teenage years and has slowly crept into my adult years as well causing me to lookback on past experiences and understand the importance of building good habits from a young age. As I get older I learn the benefits of adequate sleep as a child and I can't help but wonder what would be different about me If I just got a little more sleep while I was developing. Any successful person knows that one of the most important if not the most important activity is sleep, sleep i...

  Image source Intentions in Media As scrolling through social media and checking out different headlines has become the new norm for my daily routine I find that every post online  whether its on the News app or its a story from my favorite clothing line, every post has 1 common factor.  They all want to be clicked, watched or read. While the idea that social media feeds off attention, clicks and views is not new to me, As i got older I began to understand that every advertisement and every post had different purposes. It wasn't long before I understood that most online media is posted for some kind of influence/gain. Advertisements use science to play on our dopamine receptors, News headlines are supposed to freak you out so you click on them. Almost everything on the internet is designed and posted for some kind of influence on the user. And while this has been the case for many years now, The recent advancements in media has aided and continued the expansion of the ne...

  Elementary-University. Image Source Since I was in 5th grade the Idea of getting an education was drilled into my head by my parents and older sister who pursued early College credits throughout her years in high school. While this mentality helped me succeed through grade school I never fully understood what the importance of College was until I entered Highschool. I flew through my Elementary and Junior High years as an honor roll student who never gave much effort to school, But it wasn't until high school that I started to realize that after High School I am free to do what I want with life. This raised the Million dollar question of what my future career choice would be and while I was never fully sure, I knew I wanted to be successful in any field I chose. This question is the foundation to the rest of my life, My future career decides how I get to live my life and with the way the world is today, I understand that it as it is made to reward those who work harder than the r...

  What it was & What it is   Image Source      Hashtags are one of the most popular concurrent social media terms to date, The evolution of the Hashtag or pound sign depending on the name you grew up hearing. Originally the hashtag carried many uses, Some say that the hashtag closely resemble a set of stripes on a soldiers sleeve and others know it for the use of the symbol before a number to give that number a "tag", For example (" Item #5 on the list"). But the Hashtag began to gain traction in the early 2010s, and took social media by storm. Once a simple symbol, it was transformed into a highway for people to find topics of interest through the use of  popular social media sites. Twitter was the first platform to adopt the symbol and quickly integrate it into its day to day use, turning the idea into a viable marketing tactic. Popular sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and even YouTube shortly took after Twitter by beginning to introduce ...