Friday, May 2, 2014

Habits



Seven Highly Effective Habits for Teens

1.         Be proactive, take responsibility for your life.
2.         Begin with the end in mind, define your missions and goals in life.
3.         Put first thing first, prioritize, and do the most imp thing first.
4.         Think win win, have, “everyone can win attitude”.
5.         Seek first to understand, then to be understood, listen to people sincerely.
6.         Synergize, work together to achieve more.
7.         Sharpen the saw, review yourself regularly.

Seven Habits of Highly Defective Teens

1.         React; blame others for your ills.
2.         Begin with no end in mind, no plan.
3.         Put first thing last.
4.         Think win lose, see life a vicious competition.
5.         Seek first to talk then pretend to listen.
6.         Don’t cooperate.
7.         Wear yourself out.

Good Habits.

Exercise regularly
Planning ahead
Showing respect for others

Bad Habits

Thinking negatively
Feeling inferior
Blaming others

Habit Don’t Matter

Taking shower at night
Eating yoghurt with a fork
Reading magazine from back to front

Habits Can Help You

Get control of your life
Improve your relation with friends
Make smarter decisions.
Get along with your parents.
Overcome addiction.
Define your values (what matter you most)
Get more done in less time
Increase your self confidence.
Be happy
Find balance between school, work, friends and everything else

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Convoluted Patriotism



Sometimes it is wise to slow down before you speed up.  This gives you ample opportunity to look at the course ahead and decide on where you will require additional resources to overcome unforeseen obstacles.

In the nation of Ethiopia the people can’t stand erect to salute the flag of dictatorship because their ribs are stretched against their parched skin, forcing them to stoop as they walk.  In Pakistan and other developing countries, the brutality of the police and the corruption of the officials and the selective screaming of the media make college graduates go astray.  The children in the new Indonesia, who pick up the pieces of their future from the charred remains of a burnt revolution, have very little hope for tomorrow.  The drought in Rwanda and the practice of infanticide in China cast chilled breaths of despondency on Gods people.  

The new generation in America has so little to offer that we call them “Generation X”, a nomenclature deserving of their choice in music, disgust for authority, rebellion against decency, and appearance and language that would openly mock the founders of America.

I would rather be a downtrodden member of a free community than a kind without hope.  John Maxwell says, “if there is hope in the future, there is power in the present”. Let us take the power, amplify the surge of human ingenuity, propel it with enthusiasm, and we will have an unstoppable force that will free us from what is called,” stinking thinking”.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in the limitless terms of abundance.