Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Having Enthusiasm in life is probably one of the hardest things, i think, for someone to do. Your probably not enthused to have gotten a bad grade on a test, or are too enthused to be going bald. When you are enthused, others will be too. You cant help but to get enthused when you are around others that are. For instance, take a look at school. When comparing classes you like, versus the classes you dislike, do you see a pattern in that the classes where the teacher is enthused and loves what he is teaching are the classes that you enjoy most? Who likes to be in classes with the monotone teacher that seems to just be saying words that go in one ear and out the other? Well, not very many people.
So new goal, be more enthused about life, and hopefully you will start to see a difference in your perspective on things!
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Day 15, Making Excuses
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top
Unknown
Have you ever found yourself making up some lame excuse to someone for some reason? Say your car breaks down, so your late for a meeting. When you get to your meeting, you immediately come up with a million and one excuses as to your car breaking down, that towing took forever, that you had paperwork to fill out, ect. I will say that i am pretty bad when it comes to this. If something doesn't go my way, I find myself with an immediate response/excuse as to why it happened. But, what should be happening is like i said before about choices, it was your choice for not taking good enough care of the car, or when the rattle started, to take it in immediately.
From now on, i am going to try my hardest to stop making up excuses. I am going to take full responsibility of my life, and from now on, be in total control.
Unknown
Have you ever found yourself making up some lame excuse to someone for some reason? Say your car breaks down, so your late for a meeting. When you get to your meeting, you immediately come up with a million and one excuses as to your car breaking down, that towing took forever, that you had paperwork to fill out, ect. I will say that i am pretty bad when it comes to this. If something doesn't go my way, I find myself with an immediate response/excuse as to why it happened. But, what should be happening is like i said before about choices, it was your choice for not taking good enough care of the car, or when the rattle started, to take it in immediately.
From now on, i am going to try my hardest to stop making up excuses. I am going to take full responsibility of my life, and from now on, be in total control.
Day 12, The Power Of Choice
It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.
Unknown
As we go through life, the majority of how our life goes is not by chance. Yes, some of it is by chance, but almost all of it is by choice. Whether it be your choice, or someone else's choice that affected you, it was by choice none the less. I have decided, that where i am today, was my choice. My entire life, I have made choices so that i could be where I am. I am in college. How did i get here? By choosing to do good in high school, take tests, and make the leap of faith in getting a higher education. You can literally dissect every part of your life, and when looking in depth at it, it was by some choice at some time somewhere, that it is the way that it is.
"Life is like a box of chocolates." But it is which one you choose to eat that determines if you like chocolates.
When you find yourself saying "i have to," like i have to go to work, or i have to go to school, your really saying I choose to. I am choosing to go to school, to church, to sleep in, what ever it may be, you are making a choice. So from now on, I am going to look at what i am saying, and when i find myself saying things like, "i have to go to work," i am going to re-phrase it and say, "i am choosing to go to work, because work equals money, and money equals paying bills, and paying bills equals a happy jake."
Unknown
As we go through life, the majority of how our life goes is not by chance. Yes, some of it is by chance, but almost all of it is by choice. Whether it be your choice, or someone else's choice that affected you, it was by choice none the less. I have decided, that where i am today, was my choice. My entire life, I have made choices so that i could be where I am. I am in college. How did i get here? By choosing to do good in high school, take tests, and make the leap of faith in getting a higher education. You can literally dissect every part of your life, and when looking in depth at it, it was by some choice at some time somewhere, that it is the way that it is.
"Life is like a box of chocolates." But it is which one you choose to eat that determines if you like chocolates.
When you find yourself saying "i have to," like i have to go to work, or i have to go to school, your really saying I choose to. I am choosing to go to school, to church, to sleep in, what ever it may be, you are making a choice. So from now on, I am going to look at what i am saying, and when i find myself saying things like, "i have to go to work," i am going to re-phrase it and say, "i am choosing to go to work, because work equals money, and money equals paying bills, and paying bills equals a happy jake."
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Day 11, Specific Purpose
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; character fixes our destiny.
Tyron Edwards
Everyone has a purpose in life. What is it? well it is different for everyone. What I imagine my life being like in 20 years is this:
I am going to be a teacher. But not just a teacher, but an innovator. I am going to be changing the face of education. I will be find the ultimate way for all students to learn. Also, I will be a farmer. I will be changing the face of agriculture. I will be running for senate, and hopefully becoming the US secretary of agriculture.
I guess you can say that i am a dreamer. But you have to start somewhere. But i WILL accomplish all of them. Life is about achieving the un-acheivable, doing the un-doable, becoming greater than the greatest.
Tyron Edwards
Everyone has a purpose in life. What is it? well it is different for everyone. What I imagine my life being like in 20 years is this:
I am going to be a teacher. But not just a teacher, but an innovator. I am going to be changing the face of education. I will be find the ultimate way for all students to learn. Also, I will be a farmer. I will be changing the face of agriculture. I will be running for senate, and hopefully becoming the US secretary of agriculture.
I guess you can say that i am a dreamer. But you have to start somewhere. But i WILL accomplish all of them. Life is about achieving the un-acheivable, doing the un-doable, becoming greater than the greatest.
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