Personal entry

I was listening to Kanye West this weekend. More specifically his My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album.

I remember the first time listening to this confused me so much to a point where I didn't like it as much. Soon I started to understand it more and realized that this album was really good. It started to grow on me ways I didn't expect it to be. I thought it was great. I didn't think id love the album as much as I do now. I think its one of my favorite all time.

The Six Attitudes of High Achievers

Peak Performance Principles

"The Six Attitudes of High Achievers" 

John R. Noe

1.) Make No Small Plans

 Go for big or go home. People who are or want to be successful always take risk. Don't waste your time on things that wont benefit you much. Always go for the best you can. Don't just talk the talk but not walk the walk. If you say something do it. Also make sure it'll help you in some way. For example, by helping you gain abilities or acquiring new skills. Taking risk makes you a better person by showing off confidence and bravery to take the risks they have in their life. They have to make everything big. They are people who are known to be loud just by presence alone. High achievers are risk takers. They go for the best. So if you want to be successful aim to bet the best.








2.) Do What They Fear
Apart from being risk takers, high  achievers also do what their afraid of. They take on their fears head on. Overcoming their fears help them by making them more open in various ways and letting them do more than what they could do before. They cant let anything get in their way so they overcome it. They find ways to get over it. Any fear isn't a fear to them. They see it as something they can use to better themselves. Fear is made to slow us down and to set limits on the human mind and body. So what if we spent our entire life being afraid of the unknown. Humanity wouldn't be as far in any way that it s now. All because of high achievers and them not being afraid of the unknown. They used their fear and turned it into curiosity to help them make new theories to help our future.


 3.) Are Willing To Prepare
Always expect the unexpected. Anything can happen in the flash of a second so always be prepared for any challenges that may come your way. Its always good to be prepared. In any situation it can help you and benefit you in various ways. When you go out on a camping trip you usually prepare for what you expect but it is also good to take things that'll help you in ways you wouldn't expect. Doing research is also a way to prepare yourself. It gives you knowledge on whatever is happening in whatever situation you're in. Taking the time to prepare can really benefit you in various ways. Preparing has many advantages. It gives you knowledge and skills. It can make you seem very organized and professional in a work space. High achievers always prepare to help themselves. So if you want to become successful always prepare for anything.




4.) Are Willing To Risk Failure
High achievers are always risk takers. But there are times were those risks lead them to failure. Now although it may seem bad, failing actually has its benefits. For once it shows you aren't afraid to take risk. You aren't afraid of being knocked down or to get hit by life. It also shows how you cooperate with certain things. Whether it be a personal issue or a physical one you still have to fight for the better. Failing shows your capacity to bounce back from hard times. It also shows how you lead in certain situations. If your a part of a sports team helping get over a loss or bouncing back from bad form, always is difficult. Its up to you to help embrace the loss, fix the issues, and motivate your team to get back together. Failing opens you up to various problem solving ways as well depending on the situation. If you fail a class you maybe need to study more or probably just need more help with understanding the subject. So it is always good to know when this is happening. So don't be afraid of failure. Always keep your head held high and keep your chin up to any challenges that come your way.




5.) Are Teachable
To high achievers the old saying you cant teach an old dog new tricks is certainly wrong. They are always striving to learn new things. They want to expand their knowledge as mush as possible. They want to know about everything. High achievers are usually very curious or analyze everything. This leads to them questioning. The after they make the questions they research and try to find the answers to them. This makes them very knowledgeable and creditable because they have been educated and taught what they know. Now also be being teachable means your open to try things. Risk takers are usually high achievers. So if someone isn't afraid and wants to be taught something new they aren't afraid to go and learn or to ask questions. They also aren't afraid to be taught new methods to change for the better. As well as being open to new. So if you want to achieve don't be afraid to learn.




6.) Have Heart
Never let anyone tell you that you cant do something, or cant believe in anything. If you want to be successful just know people will try to change or influence you in bad ways or for the better. Always keep in mind that there is nothing wrong with change if its for the better. At times what we think is good isn't really the best thing for us. We should stand for our beliefs and morals. We shouldn't let others walk other them. We also shouldn't let them change what we believe in if its bad or if it doesn't feel right to you. Protect what's yours and the things that surround you on a daily basis. Have heart for it. For who you are. Be proud of yourself and know your worth. Know yourself and not let anyone change that. Stand for what you believe in. This can also mean to be kind to those around you. Don't do anything to others that you wouldn't want to happen to you. Be fair and be kind. 




Final Reflection
In the end if eel that these things can really help with becoming more successful in life. All of these things can make you a much better person. I do some of these things myself and I achieve those things I really strive for. So I do truly believe that these can really benefit you. If anybody really wants to become successful they will follow and live by these things. We all want to be successful. We can all achieve success so if we want to we just have to avoid small plans and go big every time, do what you fear, prepare, aren't afraid to loose or fail, be able to be taught, and have heart for that you love. Give your all and you can become successful.
  

9 Ways to be Happy and Make Something in Your Life



9 Ways to be Happy and Make Something of your Life

Gordon B. Hinckley

1.) Be Grateful

We take various things on a daily basis for granted. Starting off with waking up healthy every morning. We have to be thankful for our life and even though some tragedies may cause us to lose sight of things we should remain humble and grateful for what we have. We are spoiled as children and think that life is great. Our parents buy us things that others wish to have but we don't think of it like that. Our parents give us everything and we just take if for granted never really giving it any real value. We hardly never stop to think of what our lives what be made of if our parents weren't there. We would be lost with no home, hungry, and not safe. So always be thankful for your parents and those around you as well for what you have. Kids starve and are homeless and you just sit at home all day while they cry themselves to be sleep due to their poor living conditions. People will come and go so enjoy and be happy with every single moment you spend with someone because they can be gone tomorrow. Always be grateful for your life and what you have. Stop worrying for what you don't have and be grateful for what you do. Be grateful for everything you have.

" Whatever life throws at me Ill take it and be grateful for it as well"

-Tom Felton



I will be grateful for my friends and family. I will always cherish each and every moment I spend with them and thank them for being by my side. I will be thankful for who I am and what I grew up to be. I will be humble for the things I have and the meals I eat. I will cherish every minute of my life and be thankful that I am alive. I will be grateful.


2.) Be Smart
In life to become successful in no matter what career you choose to be in you will always need to be smart. I say this because in every industry or in any job you get you will have to use your knowledge in one way or another. For example, a chemist has to be smart in knowing the periodic table of elements and multiple compounds and mixtures there is in chemistry meanwhile, a surgeon has to have knowledge on the human anatomy and know where organs in the body are located. Both require your intelligence to achieve its own individual task. Now this can be associated to everyday situations as well. Being smart needs for you to be logical at times. If your friends are pressuring you to do something you don't want to or something you know is not morally correct then you should choose the right and use logic to realize that maybe they really aren't your friends and try to make new ones. Logic is a part of being smart because when you use logic it is using what is the most rightful thing to do. When someone falls you help them get up because it is the right thing to do. Being smart makes decision making a lot easier in life. Being smart actually makes life a lot more simpler as well! With knowledge and skill the world is much more understandable and things are a lot easier and simpler. Being smart gives you a much better chance of becoming successful or of achieving your goals in life.
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
-Albert Einstein
 
I will be smart and achieve all goals I set out to achieve all I can. I will learn and cherish the new skills I learn in life. I will become smarter everyday and push my intelligence to limits far beyond imaginable. I will be grateful for the knowledge and intelligence I obtain.


3.) Be Involved in Good Works
When was the last time you gave back to the community or just simply did something that made you feel better? One way to make yourself a happier person is to be involved with good works. Some examples are doing community services like picking up trash or by going to feed the homeless at the homeless shelters. There is various ways you can do good works not just by volunteering in community services. One way is to wash the dishes or do other chores around your house to help it stay clean because after all you do live their. Also it would be a relief to your parents who work several hours to help you in life.it is good to be involved with the community. You can join clubs to help grow and better the community around you. You feel a lot better morally that you do these things. Knowing you make the community safer and more cleaner for future generations is always great. Giving back to the community is always great. You can make someone's day when you do these good works. So go ahead and volunteer at your local community service group or simply help around to make your environment safer and better to live in. So always remember to be involved with good works and the community around you. In the end you will be more happier. 
"Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together"
-Paul Ryan



I will be a better individual to my community by cleaning and looking after it. I will give back to my community whenever they need it and whenever they aren't I will still offer my hand. I will better my community and the environment around me.



4.) Be Clean
There are many ways to make yourself happy be being clean. Being clean can be applied to various situations. You can choose to have a clean environment at home or at work. Having an organized work space or being organized at home can really help making you feel happier and makes life easier. You can also choose to be a clean minded person. What we think shows out characteristics on the inside. If we think of bad things we change as to when were positive and thinking of the right. Being clean is being pure. You can do this using various methods as avoiding things you know aren't right. You can choose to be a better person everyday be being clean and keeping that environment around you clean. So always remember to choose the right and be clean.
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet"
-Mahatma Gandhi



5.) Be True
One way to make yourself a happier person is by being true to your self. Now a days people focus too much on being whatever others tell them to be. They worry about how they dress or music they like. Just anything that people do can worry someone because they want to impress others. But in reality no one really looks out for that. Everyone is more busy focusing on themselves and the things they need to get done. They also get obsessed with becoming unique. They want to be so apart from everyone else they forget who they truly are. They're many ways to forget to being true to yourself. Either by changing for those around you or by changing to be unique. So no matter who or what always remember to stay true to yourself. As well as those around you. Never change because you are perfect the way you are.
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows"
-Buddha



6.) Be Positive
Another way to be happier and a better person is to be positive. Don't be a pessimist and ruin things for others. Enjoy every moment of life. There is no need to be down and shady about everything. Its always great to experience new things in life and to gain new abilities. Being positive also improves your mood and attitude about things. Being positive makes you a better person the inside and out. Don't be that annoying person that complains about everything they do. It is better if you look at what your doing and the good that comes with it. Being positive helps you with choosing the right. Whenever you are under pressure to do wrong being positive helps your judgment and your decision making. Also being positive can help by making everyone around you happier because whenever there is positivity it spreads around like oxygen in the air. So whenever your being positive, you help bring up everybody's moral.

7.) Be Humble
Always be humble and grateful for what you have. Some people forget where they come from and forget to be humble. Others are spoiled and never learn how to show their gratitude towards the things in their life. So it is vital for our happiness that we show our humbleness. We must always remember our true roots and become much happier individuals on the outside and on the inside. Being humble can open you in so many ways. You see life in a much better viewpoint. Some choose to be selfish and never stop to be grateful towards what they have in life. They become greedy and forget what they were in the past. So they never acknowledge the things they went to and act better than others. They must be reminded to never be ungrateful for what they have. Choose the right and be humble to make the world a happier place.



8.) Be Still.
Sometimes in this chaotic world that never stops spinning we should take the time to be at peace. Meditation is a great way to be at peace with themselves. It gives us time to think and find calmness. Its good to always take some time to yourself. To reflect on the things going on around you or the things that are happening to you. You get to just be you. So by being still you create a more peaceful you. You calm yourself and allow yourself to think properly. Going out for a nice walk alone to just hear the calming breeze or walking alone at the beach hearing the waves crash can also be ways you can do this. Some of the greatest intellectuals took a lot of time to be still and think about the life. still allows you to relax and take a break when you feel tired. After a long week of hard work its nice to go out and be at one with yourself and being worry free. You can make yourself happier by being still.









9.) Be Prayerful  



Final Reflection
In the end these simple things can make a very big impact in your life. This can change your life to either make it good or bad. Ultimately its up to whomever to take it upon themselves to change their lives. But as for me I want to be happier and a better role model for my community. I want to be known for the good I can bring to it. I want to make others happy as well. I just want for everyone to get along with one another. I will use this to guide me to be happier and more successful in life.




The 9 Ways concluding words by Gordon B. Hinckley
"There they are, nine Bes's which, if observed, will bring handsome dividends to any young man or woman. They will add sparkle to your days and peace to your nights. They will save you from heartache and pain. They will bring purpose into your life and give direction to your energies.
They will bring you friends of your own kind. They will protect you from associations that would pull you down and deflect you from your course.
This is a time to be happy. This is a time to feel joy and make friends and enjoy the best this life has to offer. What I have tried to put forth ... are simply a few suggestions, gained from many years of living, to help you do just that. The world will tell that certain kinds of things will bring you happiness - things such as popularity and possessions and satisfying your baser desires.
If today you find yourself only drifting as a leaf in a stream, get hold of yourself and determine you will do better.
At railroad grade crossings, signs of warning were once common. Two cross arms were embezzled with the words, "Stop, Look. Listen." They meant that a train could be roaring down the tracks and you had better be alert.
I was riding a train in the Midwest years ago. I looked out the window to my left. A road ran parallel to the tracks. A car with a boy and a girl was speeding down the road a little faster than the train. The car moved ahead until I can no longer see it. Suddenly, the locomotive whistle sounded and the train screeched to a halt as the brakes gripped the wheels. We looked out the window on to the other side. There was a mangled car. Police cars soon converged, followed by the ambulance. The boy and girl were both dead. The road they were traveling crossed the tracks. They did not stop, look, or listen. It all happened in an instant.


The better way to Be is the way of these nine Be's. 


The years will inevitably pass, and pass quickly. Today is your day of resolution. Promise yourself to make something good of (your) precious life."