Words for teenagers

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Well not only for teenagers I guess:

Northland College principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth.

Always we hear the cry from teenagers, ‘what can we do, where can we go?’

My answer is this: Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons and after you’ve finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facitlities and your parents do not owe you fun.

The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war in sickness and lonely again. In other words grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you!

/phil

About right and wrong

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I no longer try to be right;

I choose to be happy.

Ric Elias

This right and wrong thing bothers me. Is there really an objective right and wrong?

Well maybe for real logic like math there is something like right and wrong. But there is not right and wrong for basically anything else because everything is subjective and everything will be different in different people’s perspectives.

Being right does not serve you well as long as it does not make you happy does it? Being in tune with your own thoughts, having a congruent reality, that is what counts. Everything else are opinions, everything else is worldy stuff that distracts you from your inner, calm happiness.

Being happy is not a question of being right, it is not a question of arguments or logic. It is a natural state, just like confidence, that you live in since your birth. Do not let rationalisation take this natural state from you.

You are not happy because you succeed in the society, you are happy because you are meant to be. You could loose your job, your wife, your car and your house today and still find inner peace and happiness.

Next time when you find yourself arguing with someone about anything, no matter how important or unimportant it may seem, stop and ask yourself: What am I doing here? Is this helping me or the other person in living happy lives?

Cut the useless worldly struggles of proving yourself and instead chose to be happy just for the sake of happiness.

/phil

Polish yourself

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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese proverb

/phil

Inspiration for a better life

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MORE SLEEP

MORE MUSIC

MORE TEA

MORE BOOKS

MORE SUNSETS

MORE CREATING

MORE LONG WALKS

MORE HUGS

MORE DREAMING

MORE ROAD TRIPS

MORE FUN

MORE LOVE

Enjoy your weekend!

/phil

Yes we can

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Richard Bach

Mere ability is not enough, you have to believe in your success. Trust yourself and dig into work with the feeling of ‘I can do that’ rather than ‘This seems hard’.

/phil

Work is an important factor in the equasion

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It’s funny how the harder I work the more successful I become.

Jack Warner

Well he should know a thing or two about success.

But this is a universal truth and not at all limited to succes in terms of society or finances. Be it success in your personal life, say a personal sports goal for example or be it something like a childhood dream you always wanted to fulfil:

The more work you put in, the sooner you’ll see results! At first it seems impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. Go for it!

/phil

Get going

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The first thing you’ll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Edward Murphy

Sometimes you have to fight your own laziness.

You all experienced that feeling when you exactly know what you should be doing right now, but your body is all like ‘Nah man, just relax’.

Force yourself to get started! Just do it!

Chances are there is some thing like that right now. You should go shopping for groceries or make that one call. Maybe you should be studying or cleaning your appartment. Is there? Good, then I say greetings from Germany, get away from this blog and start doing whatever you really don’t want to but really have to do!

/phil

You decide who you are

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This is a big one. In today’s article I want to talk about how to stay focused on goals and how to efficiently make use of your mind. Let’s start with a story.

When I was taking classes for my driver’s license, our instructor told us about the following situation: You drive on a long highway-like alley through the night, everything is dark and there is nothing besides your car, the road and trees beside it every now and then.

Suddenly the road makes a sharp turn and your car starts spinning. Following the glow of your front lights you search for something to hold on, for something to focus on and certainly you will find a positive lock-on on a beautiful tree. What happens then? Right, you will go right-on into the tree, although you wanted to go back on the road.

We have to ask ourselves: Why does our brain work like that? In this case we should have looked on the empty street or even in the vast nothingness in order to prevent a crash so how does this relate to our everyday life? It is simple: Your mind is extremely powerful and controls a lot of what you do. Therefore you have to understand how it works.
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A thought about society

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We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced or values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years.

George Carlin

/phil

I want to be happy

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

/phil