Hi, it's Linda from YouTips4U which is my channel on YouTube. Welcome to my blog where I share lots of helpful tips and tricks on health, beauty, skin care and anti-aging, hair, diet, fitness, exercise, natural remedies, and so much more, to help you lead a better quality life and an inspired life.
Congratulations, you made it through another week! 🎉One step at a time we shall make it through the difficult times we face in life together. United in faith and spirit we can face any obstacle cast upon us. If you only take one step each day towards your goal, you are making progress. Everyone has their own timeline, so be proud of how far you've come, and remain hopeful for the path forward. Celebrate yourself this weekend! Celebrate your achievement, hard work, focus, courage, dedication, and strength. Celebrate the fact that despite all the arrows being thrown at you on a daily basis, you persevered and you are grateful. Delight in any progress, no matter how small, and promise yourself that you will continue to slowly and steadily chisel a path forward. I know it's not easy, anything worthwhile never is. There will always be obstacles along the path of life and we cannot always predict what they will be, but by learning how to overcome challenges, we build skills of resistance and knowledge to solve problems in the future. Choose to focus on the good things in your life, the positive forces, the things and people you know you can depend on. When you do, solutions begin to present themselves. Keep the faith my friends, and reward yourself this weekend for making it this far in your ever-unfolding journey.❤️
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For so many people, this year has proven to be very difficult and challenging. Our hearts are sad and our motivation has suffered a tremendous setback. There is so much negativity, uncertainty, and feelings of hopelessness all around us, and it’s very easy to get swept up into feelings of anger, anxiety, sadness, and depression for these are the feelings that humans experience with loss of freedom, loss of choice, isolation, and fear. The important questions is, what can we do? Well….believe it or not, the remedy begins within you! That’s where all change begins, for you are the one that has control and influence over your own life. Rather than spending time focusing on the negative situations all around you, shift your focus on what you do have and what you can enjoy right now, in this moment, and build from there. Spend time thinking about the freedoms you experience every day, the people and things in your life that make a difference and really matter to you. Write them down. Make a list and refer to it when thoughts of negativity begin to surface. Start a journey today towards finding your sense of hope and faith again and you will find your inspiration. You may have to dig deep right now to find your strength, but you will find it, of this I am sure, and when you do, grab it and pull it up like a rope from the depths of your soul, then set it free and allow it to blaze a glorious path for your future. Continue to look forward and remind yourself every day that "this too shall pass." Say those words to yourself outlaid, write them down, pin them where you can see them throughout the day. Right now we are in the worst of storms, but we must remember that out of the rubble of disaster often rises the greatest of opportunities. So be ready, because your day is coming and things will be better than they were before. You will be stronger and smarter and more resilient than you were before. Let those words and thoughts be the light that guides you out of the darkness and despair to be restored once again. I believe we are all being tested right now. We are being challenged to recognize what is sacred to us and what we are willing to fight for. Perhaps we needed a reminder of its value, a warning to pay attention so we don’t lose it. Sometimes in life wake-up calls can be loud and shrill and unpleasant, but very very necessary. It’s time to take action in your life, to put plans into effect to protect your future, and it starts right here, right now, with you pledging to yourself that you will no longer dwell in the house of sadness, negativity, despair, and frustration, but instead you will rise up, dust yourself off, and unleash your abounding spirit. Go forth and research, study, learn, understand, and grow. Do what it takes to identify opportunities to make changes, fix problems, and create your new and exciting destiny. 💖
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I think one of the most positive things that has come out of my experience with having to be in lockdown and working from home is that I have come to embrace not wearing makeup. At first I think many of us loved not having to get ready every morning and put makeup on and do our hair etc. It was a welcomed respite from the normal routine and a chance to give our skin a bit of a rest. However, as the weeks wained on and we remained socially isolated and still working from home, many of my friends started telling me they felt like they were in a rut and have let themselves go. They were sick of looking at themselves looking like they just rolled out of bed and had no drive to change that. I totally understood how they felt and we laughed about it on FaceTime, but then something interesting happened, after a while we kinda got used to seeing ourselves that way and we no longer felt that just because we had no makeup on, we were in a rut or in some kind of hiding. It was kind of a flash back to middle school before you ever wore makeup. We simply got used to seeing ourselves without makeup, and instead of feeling like we were in a rut, we started feeling free! We weren't afraid to be seen without our "face on"as they say. This transformation was part of our evolution of self confidence. In fact, studies have shown that the more insecure a woman is, the more makeup she puts on, but can the actual act of wearing makeup cause you to develop an insecurity that you never had? The answer is yes. There are thousands upon thousands of makeup videos on YouTube showing you products that you think you need in order to look beautiful. They convince you that you need to look a certain way or buy a certain product to look and feel beautiful and confident, but the truth is, you are already beautiful and you always were. You were just covering it up for so long that you forgot what your natural beauty looked like!
Well, over these past months, I have had the pleasure of regaining my positive relationship with my natural beauty; the beauty I was born with. Now when I want to enhance my natural beauty, I do it very selectively, just like a middle-school-aged girl putting on lip gloss for the first time, or trying a little blush on her cheeks. I'm selective, because I don't want to hide my newly born-again natural beauty that I have just become friends with again after all these years. This amazing realization led me to do this video, How To Look Beautiful With No Makeup, to help inspire you to discover your natural beauty again and to show you that you can feel beautiful, sexy, and confident with a no makeup look. There are a few essentials that you should incorporate everyday to keep your skin healthy and supple and help prevent aging which I discuss in the video, but the rest is just personal preference. I also share with you some great anti-aging tips and tricks that I think you will find helpful to promote beautiful smooth skin, but the important thing to always remember is that beauty comes from inside, self confidence comes from inside and this experience with being in lockdown may just have birthed a whole new beauty trend. A trend where women look within and allow their beauty to radiate out rather than be painted on. True beauty is in the way you treat others and the world. It is in the kindness and sincerity that you share with others and in the compassion you have for yourself. So please watch my video, How To Look Beautiful With No Makeup and then challenge yourself to develop a better relationship with your looks, to develop your self confidence without wearing makeup. Try to practice acting the same way without makeup that you would when you are wearing full makeup. Before you know it, you will feel your inner butterfly emerging from her cocoon. It's a wonderful exercise in personal growth. Too many women look in the mirror and don't like what they see. How did they get there? Children don't know anything about looks, they are just themselves. It's society that starts to dictate and judge what is and isn't beautiful. Don't fall into that trap. All things created under God are beautiful and you are one of them. You are as beautiful as a spring flow or a soaring eagle. You just need to see it.
There's also one additional bonus to not wearing makeup, or minimal makeup, and that is the money you will save! I have not bought one single makeup product this year and I don't feel any need or want to. When I watch YouTube videos now of women piling on makeup, I think they look completely overdone. I think to myself how much nicer they would look with a much lighter hand and soft natural glow. I hope you enjoy my video and I hope it inspires you to embrace your God-given natural beauty to. xoLinda
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If you choose to attach your happiness to someone or something else, especially if you look to social media for acceptance and validation, I guarantee that you will always be chasing it, or unhappy. Your happiness will always be tied to the next thing or partner or "like", and you will be living YOUR life for someone else. YOUR life will depend on being noticed or validated by others, and so your happiness will always be outside of your control. You will be left wanting, waiting, and hoping for it, and even if you received the validation you so desperately deserve because you posted just the right photo to Instagram, or your boss finally gave you a raise, the feelings of acceptance, validation, and happiness, will only be temporary. Unfortunately, you know immediately that your happiness is fleeting because you know you will have to start all over again searching and hoping for something else or someone else to happen, in order to feel happy again. This is because your happiness was never truly yours to begin with. Someone or something had to intervene or occur so you could be happy. If you truly want happiness, the kind that stays with you no matter what happens, that no one can take away, then don't give up power over your own life. Life doesn't wait for you to live it; it moves on and people move on. If you want true happiness, you have to stop searching and start living. Each day is a new opportunity for you to be happy. To live your life, be grateful, and interact with real people. To take action and not stop to take a photo of it. Just live! Live your moments, make your memories, be free! An eagle lives the life of an eagle, not the life of a cat, and it doesn't need validation to soar. Be true to who you are and do what you enjoy, regardless of what others think, or who sees you doing it. Stop placing your joy or your mental health in the hands of others, and always remember that you are the only one that has the power to make you happy.❤️
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The end of the year is upon us and that means it's time to reflect. You can start by taking a moment to think back to last New Year's Day 2019. Think honestly about all the things you set out to accomplish during the year, and evaluate how far you've come towards your goals. For many of you this will be an exercise in appreciating your successes or how far you've come towards your goals. For others, it may be about evaluating your failures, where things went wrong, and hopefully, what you learned from them. Those who have experienced failure are just as fortunate as those who have achieved success. In fact, many who have had successes in life will admit that it was their failures that led them to success, because they learned from their failures through the process of refection and trying again, and it is that process that leads to success. The effort that is born out of failure carries with it an increase in the odds of succeeding with future attempts. So just because you failed at something doesn't mean that it is the END. Failure is never the end, it is merely the beginning of the success process. It is an attempt in learning. An attempt to accomplish something that simply resulted in the need for more effort or greater understanding so that you can come back stronger and wiser when you try again. So let's begin our reflection today for the new year is upon us. Let's celebrate our attempts for 2019; then let's make a list of new attempts for 2020!❤️
It's a new Year and that means a new you, and I want to help you stay motivated and keep those resolutions. In this past Monday's motivational post on my YouTube Channel, I inspired viewers to welcome Mondays with open arms as an opportunity for fresh possibilities. To make a list of tasks they desired to complete during the coming week to help them stay focused on achieving their goals. Here is that post below as well as Friday's follow up post, which is a check in to see how everyone did. If you would like more motivation and inspiration in your life, then I would love to help cheer you on and help you stay motivated to be the best you can be. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel and each day visit my Community Tab where you will find a daily posting to help bring inspiration, motivation, and joy into your life. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/user/YouTips4U/community
Post to YouTips4U Community MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2019 Welcome to Monday! It’s a new week full of hope and fresh possibilities! Let’s embrace it together!ðŸ‘I’ll help keep you inspired and motivated with my daily motivational posts, and you take enthusiastic steps each day towards accomplishing your goals. Is it a deal?
I actually love Mondays!😃 I’m always excited to hit the ground running on Monday morning with my list of things I want to accomplish for the week. I highly recommend making a list. My list helps me stay focused, and I love the feeling of completion I get from crossing tasks off as I complete them. Give it a try this week and see!
So are you ready to have a great week? Then let’s do it! We can check back on Friday and share how we did!
Have an amazing Monday and a fabulous week!❤️
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Happy Friday! I’m checking in to see how you did with your goals this week! Remember our plan from Monday? We were going to make a list of things we wanted to accomplish this week and then check back in today to see how we did. I’ll share with you how I did this week and you can let me know below in the comments how you did! I hope I was able to help you stay motivated.
I am very pleased with my accomplishments this week. I got almost all my goals completed except for one; I wanted to highlight my hair! Each day something came up preventing me from having the chunk of time needed to do it, so I had to keep putting it off. I hope to do it later today, and then I can celebrate my successes for the week!
Remember....Friday is not over yet! So if there was something on your list that you wanted to do this week, but haven’t gotten around to doing it, it’s not too late! There is still time, so get moving! Wishing you a wonderful weekend!😃
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On your mark everyone! It's almost time to step into a new and wonderful year! I'd like something that I do every year to help jump start my new year and achieve my goals using the momentum of the "January effect".The January effect is a common phenomenon in the financial markets whereby a seasonal increase in stock prices occurs during the month of January. It's an optimistic and euphoric time marked by large increases in stock buying as new capital is optimistically invested by people looking forward to a good and prosperous year. This powerful, joyous contagion seems to be everywhere in January; in the media, the gym, businesses and relationships, and it can help you in your goal setting and achieving!
To take advantage of this effect, each new year's eve I like to spend a little time reflecting on the past year; giving thanks for all that I am grateful for, and all that I have learned, experienced, and accomplished in 2018.
Next, I make a list of things that I would like to accomplish in the new year. In addition to writing them down, which can serve as an excellent reminder for you, it can be very beneficial to visualize yourself doing and/or accomplishing each goal. Spend some time today and tomorrow reflecting and setting your goals. Write them down so you can refer to them often. Be sure to include some smaller goals on your way to each big goal so you can celebrate your progress. Then spring into action and use the momentum of the January effect to help you make it happen! Bring on 2019!
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