Briana Blair – BrianaDragon Creations

It’s a hard road, but I believe that it’s better to live for your dreams than to live the way people tell you to. Every time I try to do what people think I should do, which is basically to give up on my dreams and do whatever will make…

It’s unfortunately fairly common these days for people to have a lot of bad experiences. We take these experiences and they shape how we see future events. Sometimes that can be good, we learn from past mistakes and negative occurrences and try to do better in the future. However, there…

  I can never stress enough how important it is to be your own person. I know, we’ve been taught for ages that standing out is bad, and that what you should want is to fit in and be part of the crowd. The truth is, that’s not the way…

In a recent post I said that the change of the world starts with the choices that we make every day. This is more true than most people ever realize. There are very few of us who don’t want the world to be a better place, but there are also…

As you work toward your better life, you are likely to experience some setbacks. It’s possible that you may find yourself falling back into your old ways. If this happens, just know that it’s not the end of the world. When you’re working to make yourself better, sometimes the bad…

For the most part, people respond to the situations they experience without any thought. We have knee-jerk reactions to the things that happen to us, and we tend to be completely unaware of the effect that they have on our lives. We all need to be mindful of the way…

There are ways you can control your thoughts of suicide Deep depression and thoughts of suicide can happen to anyone. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to change these thoughts and continue with your life. Having been suicidal on more than one occasion in my late teens and twenties,…

One of the things that I have put a lot of focus into during all of my personal and spiritual growth is calm. Not just the finding peace sort of thing, but staying calm in the face of adversity or challenging situations. Recently I was trying to help someone with…

Another step to attaining a better life is learning to accept and move on. You can spend your whole life blaming people and events for ruining your life, but if you do that, what kind of life are you going to live? You need to accept that there are things…

A thought occurred to me while I was sitting here playing a game online. All too often, we live lives that a contradiction to how we want to live. Our actions are in direct opposition to the things we say we want. Whether it be society or some other force…

I saw a quote today. “Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.” I’m not sure about the source of the quote unfortunately, but it got me to thinking, and really, almost to crying. It makes me think of my…

Since helping other people and the world is what I’ve decided to dedicate my life to, I suppose it’s only natural that I’ve questioned the ethics of what I’m doing. Trying to change people from what they currently are into something else is a slippery slope. It can be a…

Reading deeper into the passage that line is from, to my understanding, implies that as we come to know more we become more miserable because we gain a greater understanding of people’s faults, failures and our utter inability to do anything about much of anything. It also offers that knowledge…

I keep going back and doing pieces for the Beautiful Like You Project, because it’s so important to me that people understand that they need to love themselves as they are. It’s not just about looks either. Yes, you should love how you look, but you should also love who…