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Happy Friday Strikers! I hope the end of the month is coming to accomplishing some of your goals or at least kicking off your year to a great start! So, The word "SELFISH" has this negative stigma and it's like this "BAD" thing or characteristic to have. However, I believe that everything has its pros and cons. Yes, of course, being so selfish that you forget about what is important or even come to a disconnect with society as a whole isn't what I'm really talking about here. What I'm trying to say is, it's okay to be selfish for yourself.  If you ever need to seclude yourself from others because you're focusing on yourself, then do that.  If you need to use all your time to plan, pursue and develop goals that will lead you to a happier version of yourself, it's okay. If being away from social media to not get distracted or not compare yourself to other people who are achieving their goals and so on. DO that. This is sounding...

Hey Strikers!  Happy Friday everyone, I hope your week was a good one and are getting ready to relax for the weekend. Lately, I’ve been posting on Monday’s but I recently launched a podcast last week and thought it would be even better if I switched my days around. To quickly summarize the concept of my podcast, let’s just say it’s mostly focused on personal growth as I do here but a little different. The name of my podcast is “Let’s Grow w/ Sidney Andino”; I’ll leave a link below in this post for you to check it out if you’re interested in learning more about it!    Now that that’s all out of the way, I wanted to talk about goals. Not just any goals but monthly goals. I feel like a lot of the time I was in high school, (almost 8 years ago, boy where does the time go?!) teachers always asked me what my goals were a year from now, 5 years and even 10 years. Like, I hardly even know my age half the time! Well anyway, I found that setting goals closer to a reacha...

Happy Monday Strikers! It's 2020 and it's my first post this year! Unfortunately, I had the flu for a week, therefore procrastinating posting sooner. Today I wanted to talk about how to become an entrepreneur and how it's changed me. Q: How to become an Entrepreneur?       So, there's not this straight, cookie-cutter path to becoming an entrepreneur. It generally depends on what you want to do, what problem are you solving and what you're passionate about. It's not like I grew up totally in love with marketing on social media my whole life. In fact, I was always passionate about painting and art in general. I dreamt of becoming an artist.      Social Media Marketing wasn't even something I was aware of until (I'm going to give my boyfriend most of the credit here) my partner introduced the idea to me and even explained how I could use my creativity to help clients with their businesses.       What I'm basically trying to say i...

Happy Last Monday of the decade Strikers! Let me just start by saying that although it wasn't my most consistent year with trying to do a lot this year, I'm glad I listened to my friends and started this blog. With that being said let's get into the last topic of 2019.     So, as you can see from the quote on the left today's topic is mainly focused on perspective. If you train your mind to stop thinking you've lost something, someone or even an opportunity and instead thought of it as winning or learning then; you'll be able to handle and overcome anything.      When you win, things obviously play out in your favor and you're overjoyed most of the time.  Those by far the best feelings for sure.       However, what about when things don't go your way or as you planned?        For starters, understand that things don't and won't always go as planned. Life throws unexpected things at us and we have t...

Merry Monday, Strikers!         It's the day before Christmas Eve and I'm hoping you all are getting all the final gifts wrapped, and getting all your loved ones situated for the Christmas visits. It's that time of the year when we celebrate with others and embrace what is to come.        That being said something that should be top of mind as we are ending 2019 and the decade for that matter is Consistency. I'm sure you've all heard that phrase "Consistency is key"  and you've maybe, like myself,  rolled your eyes after hearing it a few times until you finally understand why people say it. So, why is consistency such a good thing right? Well, now that I'm a self- proclaimed "blogger", trying to be "YouTuber",  an entrepreneur and to top it all off, pursuing bodybuilding; it all literally makes sense. Now, I said it makes sense but I didn't say it's EASY. Let me share what this 25-year-old has learned so...

Welcome back, Strikers! I hope you all are getting ready for the holidays that are still to come and looking forward to some time with family and friends. Today's topic has been pretty heavy on my mind lately and I wanted to share it with you guys.  That being said I hope this turns out to be a good read for you all and gives you some perspective. I've recently been in a few conversations where people are constantly saying they "Can't" do something because of someone or because they've lost confidence and so on. You know, believe me when I say, I can relate to these other individuals to some degree in the sense where I may have these moments from time to time. However, I think we all forget that we only have one opportunity to make of it what we please. We get caught up in what everyone else wants for us so much so that we stop thinking about what we truly want to achieve. When I say the word "achieve" it can literally be as simple as fin...

Hey Strikers!   I hope you all had an amazing holiday with loved ones and friends! Glad to have you back, so today I wanted to kind of touch base on a few things that I hear or have heard about entrepreneurship and then what I've learned in my journey.   Here goes,... 1.  ||   "Planning is a waste of time"    || Let's be honest here, yes, things don't always go as planned and life will always throw you curveballs but that's a generalization and it cant happen to all of us. Even if you're not an entrepreneur. However, just like everything else in life, there are a few basic key points of information we need to make decisions and move the needle forward.  So if you're thinking about starting a retail shop,  e-commerce or anything really you need some kind of guideline. It doesn't have to be detailed but it still needs some thought process, like what are you wanting to pursue, what is your target market and what is the proble...