Written on March 27, 2010 by soo1029310
Filed Under: Advice, Feeling Awkward about yourself?, Solving a Problem
Similar to my last post, if you’ve had the perfect life, this post will not apply to you. But to the other 99% of the population who have experienced times when nothing about them seems perfect, you will know what I’m talking about.
Let’s face it. We’ve all had our depressing times. Times when nothing seems to be working. You fail a test. You get turned down by someone you like. Whatever. Nobody’s perfect. But the important thing is recovering from these little down-times.
There are several basic ways to get yourself to feel better.
No matter who you are, you have skills. You are different. That cliche that they taught us in elementary school and earlier is real: everyone is different. You might be weird or whatever. You might be a genius at some random subject like astronomy or something. But accept it. It’s a gift. It’s yours. Don’t change to be accepted. I almost did, and I realized that it was a mistake. Be grateful for what you have, and live with it.
Your self-esteem & confidence is what makes you, you. Don’t let anyone steal that =) !
Written on March 22, 2010 by moe2love
Filed Under: Advice
Dear Future
I was taking a look at one of John Chow’s blogs at his website, and struck across an interesting future projection article. I like one of his quotes by the way “The path to success is paved by a string of failures.” That’s a good piece of advice, ask your parent if you don’t believe me.
Remember those time capsule projects that you’ve heard about? There were elementary schools around the US that would place every students document or note in a time capsule and dig it up. Then come 25 years later, they would pull it out at a celebration and you would get to see what you had put about your future when you were age 10. Of course, things turned out quite different then what you may have expected.
Now I would like to offer you the opportunity to build your own “time capsule”. Theres a service called FutureMe.org, where you can write an email to yourself and state the following: What you doin now, How much are you making, where are you living, what are your current plans, etc. Then set yourself to be emailed, say a year from today. Or longer. Chances are you will forget about it, then as soon as you get that email you can wow in amazement if your goals & everything remain the same. Especially if you set yourself to be emailed 5 years from today.
Remember, your future is going to consist of the foundations you lay out for yourself today.
Maybe we should set some sort of future blog post type of service, ha ha.
