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Quote of the Day
- Take 20 seconds to think before you act. Suggestion: text someone.
- Take 20 minutes to walk away. Suggestion: get away from the conflict.
- Take 20 hours to talk to other people before you act. Suggestion: utilize your positive energy, share your thoughts, brainstorm and create a new plan.
- Take 20 weeks working your new plan. Suggestion: you have created daily, weekly, and monthly goals to improve your life. Look ahead, not behind.
Take 20
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"Be you. Be yourself. There is no one else in your way. You can make your life great. Just take it one day at a time, even one step. You'll achieve in what you believe in."
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A Peek Into Our Futures
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As teenagers we all have one thing in common, one thing that we all fear, and one thing that is constantly on our minds and that thing is our future. That’s right our futures and the reason why it is constantly on our minds is because this is the time of our lives where we have to make those decisions about what we want to do with our lives after high school. However, as we begin to start thinking about our future we start to fear things as well, for example, will we go to college, will we have a successful job, will we get married, will we have a family, and the biggest question will we be happy?
First off, a word of advice, do not fear your future unless you are not doing all you can do now to ensure a good one. That means if you received a bad grade on a test or on your report card, this is not a surprise, because if you did not go to school with the correct attitude and behavior, go to class, meet with your teacher for extra help and study, then the bad grade is not a surprise. Know this is not the end of the world. You can correct the situation. However, now that you have had this bad experience do what you did not do before. Try a different strategy. Care when you mess up. Your future is in your hands now so you should always try your best at whatever you do, but if you make a mistake learn from it because you are human. Use that mistake as a learning opportunity to make the adjustment, so the next time you will succeed, accomplish your goal, and you will be on your way to a good future.
Another word of advice, even though right now is the age when we should be thinking about what we want our profession to be when we are an adult it does not mean that we have to set it in stone, because we can change our minds about this just like we can change our minds about anything else. For example, who your favorite artist is, favorite book, favorite movie and favorite style. Actually, many high school students are changing their minds daily and college students change their majors regularly after they take a couple of courses in the major. This actually is quite common. Many adults do the same thing, for example, an adult might spend ten years working one profession then one day decide they want to return to college and get a degree in something else. As I said before nothing is set in stone, so remember that no matter what you decide you can always go back and change your mind.
Finally, my last piece of advice is combine your passion with something that you’re good at and then you will have a recipe for success. Many successful people have told me this. My religion teacher said something similar and that was “We are all put on this earth to complete some task and that task is always what we enjoy doing.” These people are all right because take a moment and think about it, you are more likely to succeed at something if you enjoy doing it and if you are good at it. Think of all of the successful people in this world, most if not all of them had to work hard to get where they are today, but most if not all of them enjoyed doing the work that got them there. What I also hope you understand from this is that you should do what you need to do to prepare for your future. This is your life so you should run it. Do not let others force you to do or be anything that you are not happy with.
Overall, I hope you understand that you have nothing to fear about your future. You shape your own future and as long as you do what makes you happy, do your best, and be true to yourself you will definitely be happy and maybe not rich, but almost certainly you will be successful.
Later,
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