Past, Present, and Future

Lots of people say that the only way to be truly happy is to live for right now; live in the moment the “right here, right now” sort of thing. The problem is that when you do that you can do things like ruin career potentials, love potentials, and basically set yourself up for failure.

However, if you are always stressing about the future, then life now is so stressful. You are afraid to commit to anything because you aren’t sure about how it will affect your future. Basically, you just sit in a corner curled up in a ball because of all of the anxiety and stress that you are putting on yourself.

And you don’t want to live in the past because then you are depressed and want to kill yourself. NOBODY wants to have that!!!

So what do you do?

Well, have you ever thought of learning from the past, living in the present, but still aware of what the future holds?

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Learn from the past: use mistakes, different scenarios, and people you knew to learn how you should react, what you should or shouldn’t do, and how you should treat other people.

Live in the present: enjoy your friends and family. Take some time to relax and treat yourself to something nice every once in a while. Go to a party or two.

Think of the future: don’t worry about getting good grades but make sure that you are learning and understanding what you are being taught. Don’t take people for granted because they could be the people who determine how much your paycheck is. Think of the consequences of choices like drinking and driving, having sex outside of marriage, and smoking.

Learn from past mistakes, stop and smell the roses, and keep in mind the possibilities the future holds.

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Your True Potential

A lot of people have dreams. A lot of people don’t live their dreams. Why? Because someone they trusted told them that their dreams would never come true. They said that their dreams would never come true because you are inadequate, not smart enough, or just plain average.

Because people are told that their dreams are unattainable, they never even try to make their dreams happen; they just give up and live an average life. Then they spend their whole lives wishing that they could make their dreams come true; when the only reason their dreams aren’t even close to happening is because they listened to people who don’t have the imagination that they do.

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We can’t let people who don’t have an imagination as great as ours get us to give up our dreams. If you have the imagination to dream it, then you have the imagination to make it come true. The one thing that people don’t typically think about when it comes to dreams is that you have to make them happen.

Dreams aren’t handed to you on a silver platter as you lay on your bed killing time on the internet. You have to get out there and make them come true. You are not going to become the best architect if you never go to school and learn about it. You are not going to become the best athlete without working out. You are not going to become the best singer by posting covers on youtube. You have to learn all that you can and put it to practice. Then you have to make people believe that you are the best by proving it.

 http://cowabungalifestyles.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/tapping-into-your-full-potential/

You are the only one who knows what you are capable of; don’t let anybody tell you that your dreams are out of reach. You can make them happen if you work hard enough.

How to be EPIC

How to be epic

Lots of people dream about doing something so epic that their name will be remembered for years after they die, possibly even centuries. Admit it. You are one of those people. I am too. I have dreams that seem unattainable that I really want to come true. We all want to do something epic and be remembered as an epic person.

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Some epic people that we think about are Mozart, Beethoven, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Shakespeare, etc. We will remember these names for many more centuries to come. Why? Because they were epic people.

So the question is - how do we become epic people?

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One way is to stumble upon something that we are somehow ridiculously good at and the planets align perfectly making us the best there has ever been. Next thing you know, generations later, people are still talking about you even though you are six feet under.

OR. You can find something that you are really passionate about, even if you are no good at it. THEN you practice until you can’t get it wrong. While you are practicing, you will want to immerse yourself in your passion. Meaning that if you want to be a talented musician, you listen to ridiculously talented musicians, if you want to be a fast runner, you learn everything you can about ridiculously fast runners and use those facts to help you improve. By doing this you are training your brain to think about what you have to do to be better at your passion.

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How many Olympic athletes do you think just randomly decided they wanted to go to the Olympics and were randomly good enough to go to trials and win gold medals? OR do you think that they decided that they were really passionate about their sport and practiced until they couldn’t move anymore, day after day, week after week, and year after year?

Do you think Mozart and Beethoven pulled out a symphony the first time they touched a piano? Or did they practice their whole lives, from the time they were little, to become as good as they were?

If you want to be an epic person, you have to practice until you can’t get it wrong. You have to work as hard as you can, push yourselves to your limits, and push yourselves past your limits. You have to make your dreams come true.

http://erslan.me/chase-your-dreams/

The Irony of Hate

Something that makes us all feel better, for some sick, twisted reason, is to hate on someone. For some reason that makes us feel better about ourselves even though it shouldn’t.

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However, since we are too busy hating we don’t realize what is really happening when we hate somebody.

http://gnosticgirl.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/hate/

When we hate somebody, we are letting those people take over our minds. They become the only thing that we can think about and our hate for them grows in us like a tumor. Because they start to take over our minds, we hate them even more because we don’t want to think about them.

The other part that we don’t think about is that while they are consuming our minds, we don’t exist in theirs. They don’t care about what we think as long as we are thinking about THEM. That is what they want, to be the center of attention; they don’t care how they get it, they just want it. So while they are taking over your life, they are just becoming more and more popular because you can’t stop talking about them.

The BEST answer to this is to just forget about them- don’t talk to them, don’t listen to them, and don’t give them any attention. Just let go. Forgive and Forget. Once you do this, your life will be so much easier to handle. You will also feel so much happier about yourself and your life.

First step

If you are like most people, you are trying to figure out a way to be noticed, but in a good way not the way that makes people say “oh, you’re THAT person!” Nobody wants to be THAT person!

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To avoid this situation, we all tend to revert to certain stereotypes that we think we can pull off. However, these stereotypes are starting to become dirty, raunchy, and down-right trashy! And most of us have standards that we don’t want to compromise, however, sometimes we are asked to compromise them and we have to make the decision of whether or not we will.

So instead of putting yourself into a situation that you don’t want to be in and trying to decide who you are on the spot, take some time and figure out who you are and how you would react in certain situations before hand.

So here is the deal. We need to take at least one night and stay off of ALL electronics! I know how impossible this is, but if we do this right we will do the impossible. We need to take that time to figure out what to do when put into certain situations. we also need to figure out what we like and why we like it. Do all of this alone because we can’t let other people’s opinions sway your decisions. We should probably do this at least once a week because as amazing and you are, you can’t think of everything in one night. 

Now the most important part of being yourself is CONFIDENCE!!! Without confidence, you are inviting people to walk all over you, insult you, and take advantage of you. So be sure of why you like something or someone and don’t let their negative words get you down!!

http://www.inkhouse.net/good-pr-is-the-careful-balance-of-confidence-and-empathy/