Jim Rohn's article titled "A Good Life Contains These Six Essentials" is very minimalist in style. It is all about your feelings and how you go about living. Three of his essentials that really stood out to me were Good Friends, Spirituality, and Don't Miss Anything. I like these because I have struggled with finding good friends that stick by me, and when I had them, even if they left, I knew it was a better life than not having good friends. I miss having good friends, even if they were bad for me. I like spirituality because God is a very important part of my everyday life. I enjoyed Don't Miss Anything because I do tend to have some major FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), and hate to miss out on any cool sounding opportunities or adventures.
Jim Rohn was born in the mid 1900s on an Idaho family farm. He was a famous business philosopher who was also an amazing author for books and video games. He loved self help everything and helping others.
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Zig Ziglar had some really great points in his talk about attitude. I liked his point on how your attitude could make or break a situation. Coincidentally, this morning's daily encouragement was "Whether its a good day, or a bad day, depends on your attitude." I realized this is true today when I was invited to a lunch that I didn't feel wanted at, but by the end I was having a good time. Another thing was his story about the woman. She reminds me of a coworker. You just need to fix your attitude. The Zig-man himself!
Dale Carnegie was a smart man. Doing small jobs may seem like a waste of our precious time and energy, but doing the little things do always make the big things easier. Some small things in my life right now that I have to do are to clean my room over the course of this coming week, sleep enough amidst both jobs and school, and not forgetting to read my daily encouragements. I know the last one may seem trivial as something I need to do, but doing that every morning will make my days go just a bit more smoothly, as well as sleep.
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer. He created famous self-improvement courses. He died when he was 67 due to Hodgkin's disease that was complicated even more by uremia. He lived a good life that was filled with writing and public speaking. He was all about improving oneself as much as you possibly can and always working toward a better you. This is inspiring because I know that I can always be improving myself, even when I'm messing up. (I found my information from Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia. (Professional, right?)) Love vs. Hate. This is an intense battle in this world. from the diagram, I chose two words on the Love side that I can see in my own life. I also chose two words from the Hate side that I can see in my life that I want to improve upon and change.
My Love Words: 1. Passion 2. Perseverance I chose these words because I see them in myself. I am always passionate about things I care about (ie. books, God, the power of reading, mental illness, lgbt pride, etc.) and I swear I could (rant) talk about each thing for hours on end. I am a person that perseveres. I know this because of how much I have been through in my short 17 years, and where I am now, and how much I've improved despite endless pain and hardships. My Hate Words: 1. Fear 2. Obsession I chose these two words because I know they are both things I need to work on getting rid of in my own life. I chose fear because I know I fear what others are thinking of me and what I'm doing wrong and what I will mess up in the future, even though I know for a fact that the phrase "Do not be afraid" is written in the Bible exactly 365 times. One for each day of the year. I know I need to improve it because God tells me not to lie in fear. I chose obsession because I know I am obsessed with many things (my phone, appearance, food, and suffering) that it is clouding my brain and making it impossible to think and concentrate. However, this weekend I surrendered everything to God so I know He will help me release these obsessions. Les Brown's talk on Why People Fail hits a lot of great points. One personal short-term goal I have is to work hard to keep up good grades even when the senioritis is hitting hard. I know I'm almost finished with the race that is high school, and I need to finish strong. One does not slow down at the end of the race, they speed up. I need to speed up. I need to work hard until my final day of high school. Another personal goal I have is more long-term. This goal is to gain strong relationships with the Christ followers that surround me. I have no Christ-like friends at school, and that needs to change. However, if it doesn't, I have college to reach this goal as well.
Les Brown hit hard on some good points during his talk. A few that really stood out to me are as follows. "What we do and accomplish in life is only the tip of the iceberg of what we could achieve". This is an amazing quote because of the intense truth of it. Another quote I love in this talk is "I don't want you to think about how you're going to achieve these goals. The how is none of your business." This gets to me because I believe everyone has a goal that they give up on because they don't know how to achieve it. This shows we can't give up because we don't know how, because the how will be revealed to us. Coach John Wooden has a "Pyramid of Success". His top three words in this pyramid are Faith, Patience, and Competitive Greatness. These words have many meanings to many people. Faith, to me, means having faith in God and praying and believing His Will will be done. This is important because we cannot expect to live this life alone. We all need something to feel at peace with existence, mine is God. Patience means that you can not resolve to get something done or to do something and expect to perfect it overnight. You need to be patient and not be short tempered. This is important because if we aren't patient we will never do anything amazing because amazing things take time. Competitive greatness means you need to compete with yourself to become great. Challenge yourself. If you don't, you will never improve. Personal improvement is very important.
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My favorite part of Christmas break is our Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning traditions. On Christmas Eve, we wake up early and open one present- our new Christmas jammies. Then we put them in the washer and dryer, while we go to my cousin's house for the Christmas party. We go to their church service at 4pm and then go home. Once we are home we put on our Christmas Jammies and order Chinese (my dad's favorite) for my Dad's birthday and we watch a Christmas movie, usually Polar Express. Then, the next morning, my little brother wakes up, grabs his stocking and comes into my room and wakes me up. We sit on my bed and go through our stockings together, then we open our dog, Riley's stocking with her. Then we wake up the parents and go do our "Santa Presents", then open our family presents during breakfast. Christmas is my favorite because I love hanging out with my family. "If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much in life we would accomplish." -Joel Brown Mr. Brown has an interesting theory, and I think he is definitely on to something. If we were to stop doubting our dreams, and start doubting our fears, we would have an entirely new outlook on life and everyone would be more courageous. I very much connect with this quote because I've recently found myself struggling and doubting my dreams. This term I plan to stop doubting if my personal curriculum will still be enough for Grand Valley State University, and start doubting my fears that my credits won't properly suffice. I even have confirmation that my acceptance will not be effected by my curriculum. So why do i doubt my dreams? It is time to doubt my fears.
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Who Am I?My name is Julia Cann. I am a senior in high school, and I will be attending Grand Valley State University in the fall of 2017. |